[ horns honking ] [ yelling ] reporter: a human tide just trying to cling to life. on foot, in cars, on donkey carts. any way, just out. they are just hitting us, hitting and hitting, he says. and when they leave, where do they come to? well, one of the united nations schools that has been opened to shelter that displaced people. i just talked to united nations official, he has no time to speak on camera, but he said this is a critical situation. overflowing, but a safe haven for now at least. at gaza s main hospital, no more space for the wounded, no choice except transfer the bleeding and the dying to other clinics.
out. a man we asked he said to us that through the night he heard the houses all around his own being pounded by apache helicopters, being pounded by tanks, being pounded by strikes from the f-16s. but this morning at first light was the first time he dared to venture out. i talked to another man fleeing with 40 members of his extended family but said to me he said my mother said that she would stay behind. she said save yourselves. i will stay in the house. i will die here. another man down at the morgue, you didn t have to understand arabic to understand his pain. he said that he had seen a missile sloom inam into his motd brother. it s a human tide fleeing from eastern gaza right now, christi and victor. karl, you watched more than a few of these rescue efforts and you mentioned there are wounded beneath this rubble two hours may not be enough time to rescue
being bombed but as they walk we re hearing explosions all around. israeli tanks, artillery and planes pounded eastern gaza throughout the night. but hamas militants were fighting back. reporter: a human tide just trying to cling to life. on foot, in cars, on donkey carts. any way, just out. they re just hitting us, hitting and hitting he says. and when they leave, where do they come to? well, one of the united nations schools that has been opened to shelter the displaced people. i just talked to united
warring sides but what we have seen this morning is precisely that. we need to give a voice to the civilians, they are talking to us. at first light today across there in eastern gaza where you see that plume of smoke going on, that neighborhood is partly on fire as we speak. it was pounded overnight by israeli artillery, by tanks, by air strikes. civilians could not get out, so first light comes, and what we are met with coming down the streets, walking for four, five and six miles is a human tide, a human tide trying to cling to life, few of them brought any possessions, all they were wearing was the clothes on their backs. those were the lucky ones because behind in those neighborhoods people still buried under the rubble, some dead, some wounded. it was only during that brief cease-fire window that paramedics and ambulance crews could get in there and start to pull them out.
they want to establish that as you know. that is a new level. that s beyond trying to wage attacks that garners attention for the cause. that s what the policy has led us to. we have pulled out of the middle east. thank you both. the irs scandal with reports that more possible evidence may have been destroyed. that s just ahead. plus, a new twist in the government s effort to strip the team name from the washington redskins. see how uncle sam may now be getting a big assist from some in the mainstream media. you will not believe what they are going to do. texas has decided it has had enough with the surge of illegal immigrants crossing the border. see how that state is now trying to turn back the human tide. sfx: car unlock beep.