a local airport in tunisia. ivan watson is there covering that aspect of the story. this is a huge u.s. military humanitarian effort to aid those who fled libya, and this starts with two e-150 military planes that are carrying, we are told, about 4,000 blankets, 40 rolls of sheeting, and 9,600 water cans. you can imagine what is taking place on the border is people flee the crisis in labia to tunisia, now u.s. aid arriving at that critical airport to try to help those people who are suffering. well, almost 2 million children in south africa have been orphaned by aids, left without a parent or mentor. this week s cnn hero is redefining the word family through the internet. in 2003, my husband and i
at least three government officials have resigned since then. the country has a temporary prime minister, 84 years young, says he ll serve until elections in july. and street protests, you can see, continue there, to demand the suspension of tunisia s constitution. protesters still not happy. they want an assembly formed to lay out tunisia s transition to democracy. not over yet. next we saw egypt. what is the update with egypt? a lot still going on in egypt. a lot of uncertainty going on in egypt. but it does appear that things may be going the way of protesters. the prime minister tapped by mubarak to lead the country after he was forced out, remember, it was an old crony of his. he s quit. the military has appointed a new prime minister. he went out actually into tahrir square, spoke to the protesters, and said he was of the people. he said he would quit if he didn t live up to what they wanted. no definite date yet set for a referendum on constitutional
it s been an amazing couple of months. uprising, a revolution that s taking place in the arab world. the unrest started in tunisia, quickly spread to 16 other countries in north africa, as well as the middle east. so, where do things stand now? well, we thought we would ask our own michael holmes to get us up to speed, because a lot of moving parts over the last couple of weeks. that map s fascinating, isn t it. just how widespread it is. i know you covered libya with nic, but while that s going on, all these other things haven t stopped. they re still going on. let s take a look at tunisia which inspired all these other revolts. a very busy week there. first, the prime minister there quit on sunday after a weekend of bloody protests. now, he s the guy that took over after tunisia s president of 27 years was forced out. he fled the country. remember, it seems like so long ago, he went to saudi arabia.
this out of the middle east, zawiy zawiyah. we are getting reports that 15 people have been killed and 200 wounded according to a doctor at a local hospital there. he says there is a river of blood at the hospital where these injured are being treated, that there was attacks that happened earlier in the morning that people started arriving just hours ago and they believe that these attacks came from armed terrorists elements. the doctor and says many there are in critical condition, wounds to the head as well as the chest and that that hospital is now running out of medical supplies, a situation he describes as dire and very, very bad. a lot of people trying to get out of libya. they have fled to tunisia where we are following another breaking news story. a c-130 from the united states, a u.s. flag, just landed at the