a huge humanitarian challenge remaining from the quake and tsunami. figures from the government. 7600 dead . 11700ing and half million people still in the shelters and the evacuations and finally as the nuclear situation begins to perhaps stabilize, the government and they have had criticism of this, the government can shift the attention to the humanitarian challenge . it is huge. that gross day by day. john: thank you, greg from osaka, japan. new pictures come in the news room. look at this is dash cam video showing a car heading in the disaster . the driver had no other options as the water covers the entire stretch of road and the driver did surverify. he said he was afraid to leave
importantly the radar and command control and also antiaircraft missiles. but what remains and what we are hearing over the past 10-20 minutes is machine guns and heavy machine guns and antiaircraft guns. there is a forest of those among the supporters in the army of qaddafi and that you may lin to it not yust hours but days until they are disarmed or defeated. they are shooting no where and it is nervous and chaos and this is to assert present. put yourself in the shoes, they feel there may be possibility of insurgentses from emerging from inside of tripoli. there is nervousness in the headquarters of qaddafi and receiving the missiles from the outside and fearing enemy on the inside as well. john: i wondered if his top military leaders seeing the force that is arrayed against
the air cover and start the counterattack from benghazi from cert to tripoli. john: thank you. we are watching live from tripoli as events unfold. we heard antiaircraft guns and large explosions and possibly cruise missiles . we ll keep an eye on it for you. back with more coverage in a moment. my doctor put me on an aspin regimen to help protect my life. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. check with your doctor because it can happen to anybody. premier of the packed bag. you know when to hold em. and how to fold em.
behind the white clouds . you can hear it. it is like a thunderstorm now . four different points of antiaircraft tracer fire. and more loud explosion and we don t know what is hitting or what is fired at. if it is cruise missiles the antiaircraft fire is pointless. but there s more of it and you can hear the thunder, that is 300 yards away from me and we are in a section. john: that s what itb looked like less than 10 minutes ago. we are six hours in the bombardment of libya by u.s. and coalition forces . 114 cruise missiles are launched in libya. but steve, our reporter had
launched the invasion of iraq. that is similar to what qaddafi has. take a listen to vice admiral gortny. this is a integrated missile defense system much like the one that iraq had and surrounding baghdad. built on older soviet technology. but still, good capability. a good capability but the pentagon sources tell us that they don t expect it will take more than a few days to take out the air forces. we ll see the fighter jets and u.s. planes over lib yampt they will not put them in the sky until confirmation from global hawk surveillance site to suggest that sa 85 air defense systems that qaddafi has has been degraded. john: thank you, we ll take you back to libya live where