Asp. using a db object inside of a db string?

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OK. ive made this whole application. im now at the point where ive finished the comments on news articles.

but i want to show how many comments there are on that article on the mian page.

this is waht i have…

 
<%
set RS = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
RS.Open "SELECT TOP 3 * FROM updates ORDER BY item_when DESC", Conn
If Not(RS.EOF) then 
RS.MoveFirst()
 %>
<div class="asset"><strong><span class="newstitle"><%= RS("item_title")%></span></strong><br><br><strong><%= RS("item_when")%> - by </strong><%= RS("item_user")%><br><br><%= RS("item_body")%> <br><br>
  <a href="community/news_comment.asp?storyid=<%= RS("id")%>">Comments</a>(<% commstoryid = RS("id")
  set countrecs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
  countrecs.Open "SELECT from comments where storyid=" & commstoryid & "", Conn, 1, 1
  Response.Write "" & countrecs.recordcount & ""
  countrecs.close%>)</div> 
' then the rest of the code.

ive tried…

 ...
 countrecs.Open "SELECT from comments where storyid=" & RS("id") & "", Conn, 1, 1

but it didnt work.

any help?
-Naaman