Theres a real battle going on on the beach here. Must be more than 100 migrants trying to get to the water. Theyre letting off firecrackers to try and keep the police away from them, but the police are moving in. Theyre trying to stop them from getting to the water. Lets go ahead and see what we can see. You can see the smugglers here. Some of them have sticks. Theyre trying to protect the migrants as they head towards the sea. We have more footage of that beach at the time. Lets take a look at that. Our correspondent there told us that people move from the dark sand from Dark Sand Dunes ran across beach dragging an inflatable boat. Police tried to stop but didnt when on boardFrench Maritime boats lots of people trying to get on board, French Maritime boats were nearby, circling. Ijust want to point out that our correspondent who was there at that time didnt know, of course, what was about to happen and didnt know that at that moment, there would later than be deaths on that boat. A sh
to try to bust up these gangs that are really preying and making a fast buck off human tragedy. this particular boat set sail from egypt. the migrants were loaded bit by bit on one fishing vessel and after a few days they were transferred to another fishing vessel. none of these boats sea worthy. they are rust buckets and then finally they were rescued by the italian navy. they are back on dry land now. now being given medical checks and in the process of identification carol. karl, i know you have talked to some of these migrants. what are they telling you? reporter: harrowing tales of why they left home and how they managed to get here. the price of their passage really has been getting beaten on the way and robbed on the way and being exposed to all kinds of violence especially from those human trafficking gangs. i talked to a syrian man.
killed by the same storm system that began thursday in the midwest and then headed east. in mississippi, a powerful tornado crushing the town of leaksville last night. one woman killed there. the national weather service receiving reports of 95 tornadoes on friday alone. i m marianne rafferty. now, back to geraldo at large. for your latest headlines, log on to fox news .com. geraldo: back live. because i m so impressed by her courage i want to go right now to sarah lynch, this 24-year-old free lance reporter who actually went and is right now behind qaddafi s lines in the besieged city of misurata libya. here is her report on how she got here. rebel fighters boarded a fishing vessel on thursday to begin the trip. packed with humanitarian aid and piles of weapons, the boat set sail with more than 30 men on board.
the storm s began in oklahoma four days ago where a double tornado was caught on camera by a storm chaser. the system then went through kansas, mississippi, alabama and georgia, killing 17 people along the way. and yet another twister was seen turning along a highway in jackson, mississippi. the force of that storm causing transformers to explode. i m marianne rafferty. now, back to geraldo at large. geraldo: back live. because i m so impressed by her courage i want to go right now to sarah lynch, this 24-year-old free lance reporter who actually went and is right now behind qaddafi s lines in the besieged city of misurata libya. here is her report on how she got here. rebel fighters boarded a fishing vessel on thursday to begin the trip. packed with humanitarian aid and piles of weapons, the boat set sail with more than 30 men on board.
its citizens, it was strategically boxing gadhafi ç. as of 1:49 p.m. eastern, when the plane had taken off and the boat set sail, gadhafi no longer had the option of retaliating against america or retaliating against those evacuated american citizens in response to sanctions announcement. what the u.s. government wants him to do is stop attacking his own people. they don t want to give him the option of attacking american citizens instead. this is what the u.s. thinks they can do to make it happen. also, the u.n. said he should be referred to the international criminal court for crimes against humanity. libya s own delegation to the u.n., look at this, called for a moment of silence to honor the revolution, then after the moment of silence announced it was resigning. in washington at the libyan ambassador s residence, the staff lowered the flag of gadhafi era libya and replaced