BREAKING: CNN Reporter And Crew Held Hostage

Hey, ladies and gentlemen, this is Carmine Sabia for Explain America, and a CNN news crew has been held hostage overseas

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It really helps us out. Guys, Clarissa Ward is really a great journalist

I have admired her work for years. You know, I don't know her politics

She doesn't talk about her politics. What she does is she goes into war zones

literal war zones to report. And you always see bombs exploding near her

I mean, she's tough. And this time, this time she had to face something

absolutely horrible. She was covering the Sudan. She was in Darfur. There's a vicious civil war

going on right now in the Sudan if you don't know. And there are millions of people that are facing

famine, people dying every day. It's absolutely horrible. Ms. Ward was over there with her crew

when a militia group took her and her crew hostage. Now, she said she begged for her life

She was telling them, you know, I have three small boys at home, and they told her not to worry, that they're human beings, they don't want to hurt her

But, as she revealed, this particular militia thought they were spies, and their lives were definitely in danger

Now they since been released and Miss Ward actually went on to explain and really kind of get into detail over her howling experience What I do want to say before I show you this video because it is worth watching is that journalists that are out in the field not those of us that sit behind a desk

but journalists that are out in the field that go to war zones, hurricanes, earthquakes

things like that that cover the really hard stuff. They're really good at their jobs

and they risk their lives, and they deserve our respect. Not talking about the people like me

who give our opinions from behind the desk, in the safety of a studio

I'm not talking about the people you may not like on certain networks because they're opinion people

I'm talking about hardcore journalists doing the job of actual journalism. Clarissa Ward is one of the best and somebody I admire a great deal

I want you to listen to her story here and then let me know what you think in the comments

It was absolutely a stressful ordeal. All of us, I think, were very much fixated on our families back home

and how stressful this must be for them. And it weighs on you, not having information

not knowing when you might be able to get out, when you might be able to cuddle your kids again

As the only woman, I was very mindful of restricting my food and water intake

because there was no private place where I could relieve myself. At the end of the day, we got out after two days

We came back home. We're safe and we're with our families. And as journalists, it is so cringe-inducing, honestly, Richard

to become the story. But we felt it was really important to share our experience because it does touch on the broader themes and challenges of covering this conflict

but also of the complexity of the situation in Darfur, the difficulty of getting aid in, the difficulty of human rights organizations getting in and getting the stories out of the people of Darfur that deserve to be told and that the world needs to hear

Thank you