margaret, thanks for coming and sharing your story about your husband, you and jeff, and we wish you nothing but the best. thank you, thank you, everybody. now to the crisis in east africa which recently finally got the world s attention. the u.n. says more than 11 million people are in urgent need of help because of the drought and the famine there, and thousands have already died. today a u.n. plane delivered ten tons of desperately needed food, medicine and other supplies to somalia where an estimated 3.7 million people are facing starvation and where relief efforts are being hampered because of the continuing civil war. as a result of the fighting though, thousands of somalis are fleeing to neighboring countries of kenya, ethiopia and refugee cqs(s in those countries are now overflowing.se countries are now a live report now from a refugee camp in kenya near the border in somalia. rohit, tell us what you re witnessing today as more and
bit again. martha: eric as always, thank you. you can catcher i can s show at 9:00 arpbg:00pm. bill: the u.s. stepping up pressure on leader gadhafi. hillary clinton is in europe right now urging european diplomats to join the u.s. in getting tough every sanctions against that country s regime. fierce fighting unfolding east of treupz, tha tripoli, that s l city. what whaoeree starting to see is a civil war . if the military stays behind qaddafi to a degree he still has power. the rebels seem they gain more power by the day. remember we started in tunisia about a month ago. it spread over here to egypt, and cairo and sandwiched in between is the giant north african country of libya. here is the capitol city libya.
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dramatically, rather significant. the director of national intelligence says the 7,000 fighters there represents 27 to 30. that puts it on a scale that is largerer than afghanistan prior to 9/11. this is sitting central to the middle east bordering our neighbors. the huh manitarian humanitarian catastrophe. what is the eend game here? where does it result if the united states does not take a fresh look and if the united states does not become more involve in some manner? the fact of the matter is that the status quo which is what we have right now with the continuing civil war and the