with the gadhafi regime. that flight is going to be perhaps two, three hours to istanbul, another american ally, turkey, that has also been evacuating thousands of its own citizens. turkey, for instance, has more than 20,000 turkish nationals, most of them working in construction, in libya. we know that there are tens of thousands of chinese citizens that work there, many of them in construction as well, and we re expecting a vessel with 2,000 chinese evacuees to arrive at this very same harbor later tonight. it s just giving you a sign of the turmoil there and the chaos and the fact that people are really trying to flee enmass. i do have to say, the descriptions we ve gotten regarding tripoli airport, just horrendous with libyan police firing guns in the air, beating desperate passengers with clubs to try to control them and beat