25.12.2016 - 11:48 [ CNN ]

CNN NEWSROOM: Aired December 21, 2016 – 09:30 ET

ORTIZ: .. And I can tell you also, as I was looking at the previews, notes about the girls tweeting, it is impossible. I‘ve been there. You know, there‘s no Internet. I mean, especially in east Aleppo, there‘s no electricity for more than 85 days over there and 3G only very few people have. I was with people with the United Nations and I was with people from BBC and everywhere and you cannot send a tweet when you‘re in the front lines. I was —

COSTELLO: So how was — how was Bana able to tweet then, do you think?

ORTIZ: It — I don‘t think — I‘m so sorry to tell you this, but I was in Aleppo. I don‘t think she was in Aleppo.