of gunfire and artillery pierce the darkness. kandahar is the birthplace of the taliban. they are intent on taking it back. and the government knows it cannot afford to lose it. by day an eerie calm holds. the u.n. says more than 10,000 people are now displaced in this city. on the outskirts of town we find 30 families camped out in an abandoned construction site. he's saying that none of these children have fathers, all of their fathers have been killed in the fighting. 35-year-old rubina fled with her two daughters to escape fighting after her husband was shot dead. but still, it gets closer and closer. "last night i didn't sleep all night," she says. "and the fear was in my heart." in the short time we are there more families arrive.