up by gadhafi s forces and then gang rapedn this way. such a disturbing story. and i know that perhaps one of the best known alleged rape victims in this case, you spoke with her extensively and in fact had a full interview with her. what is she saying about this? reporter: she s saying that she s happy to have her freedom. she got out of libya into tunisia but felt that was too close. she s in qatar and that s where she told me she really begins to feel free, that she can actually breathe again, that she can enjoy some of the things in her life. but i asked her very specifically about what she went through and how she managed to what she wanted to happen to those people who brutally attacked her when raping her. translator: i was telling myself to defy them, these
reporter: open floodgates, thousands hit by floodwaters so new orleans stays dry. the alternative, city officials say, would have been worse than katrina. water is pouring through 15 of 125 floodgates at morganza, louisiana right now, a quarter of the gates will eventually be opened. downstream, water from the spillway is already overrunning some homes. as many as 25,000 could go under water in the next few weeks. president obama is welcoming jordan king abdallah to the white house. the conversation is expected to center on the arab uprising. so thursday, the president is expected to layout detailed u.s. viewpoints and a vision on events that are reshaping the middle east. lawyers for imf chief dominique strauss-kahn says their client has an alibi. lunch with another person at the same time that police say he was attacking a hotel housekeeper. lawyers say his launch part they are will come forward to vouch for his whereabouts. strauss-kahn is jailed at new york s rike
i m a student. i should do this. i m here to help people. just for helping people. reporter: this is the first stop for the flood of humanity that s been streaming across the border into tunisia. a transit center of sorts across the road over here is a virtual tent city of thousands of tents. and many of these people are likely to spend days and nights waiting there until the governments or until aid organizations find some way to transport them back home. ivan watson, cnn, near the tunisian border with libya. coming up, slavery in the modern world. it s been around for thousands of years. some human rights groups say it s worse than ever before. stay with us for more on that. not funny. act my age? -why? -why? -why? i love the sun. past sun goddess. every line has a story.
it s been their toughest battle yet against government forces. after gaining control of the town late saturday, they were driven out sunday morning. their inexperience and disorganization becoming blaringly apparent. the people keep streaming is across the border here from libya into tunisia. more than 100,000 people have fled in the last two weeks and more keep coming. they re met by tunisian volunteers who hand out food and hand out water, and this is important because these refugees are hungry, thirsty, and frightened. many of them tell us they haven t had any access to food and water for days and they ve been charged exorbitant charges for transport to try to flee libya. as you heard some of the heaviest fighting today was in the town of misratah. more than 40,000 people were killed. a witness described what
united states and al-qaeda combined, but this is the reality world in which colonel gadhafi appears to live right now. there is also violence in several cities right now. the pro ga [broken speech] here on the border we still have a growing refugee crisis. now 85,000 people have crossed here from libya into tunisia. bill: jonathan hunt has seen most of that over the last 24 hours and we apologize for the breakup on that but if you know where jonathan is reporting from you can understand why it s so difficult to get him to report. he is literally in a desert on the border between libya and tunisia. meanwhile gadhafi forces loyal tom have taken control of the key oil port in the heart of the opposition controlled area, progovernment forces pushing rebels out of that facility in the eastern whatever of half of the country. it is difficult for us to