here now is a look at the struggles to keep the city of misurata alive. >> simply arriving in misuratahe first hurdle for aid organizations such as this one. entering the harbor is risky business, because gaddafi's troops have littered it with mines. there are only a few hospitals left in the city. soldiers, as well as civilians, are treated here. there are 20 german doctors, and they can only provide the most basic care. this is a surgeon who has returned from misurata to the organization's office in berlin. she says doctors in misurata are working around the clock and that there nearly exhausted. she says there is a critical storage of hospital staff, because most of them were guest workers who have fled. supplies of medicines and anesthetics are low. she shows photographs of our recent delivery, some 50 tons provided. but that is hardly enough for a country fighting a bloody civil war. the humanitarian situation in libya has become progressively worses the conflict wears on. there is not enough food, drinking water, or fuel. european nations have pledged money to ease the shortages,

i spoke to her a short time ago on the phone from misurata.marie, you have actually seen evidence of basically systematic rapes by gadhafi forces of civilians in misurata. what have you seen, what have you heard? >> reporter: i thought it could an urban myth. there's no phones, everybody has been literally, virtually incarcerated in their homes, but i watched one of these videos and turned my stomach. there's no way to describe the disgust i felt. it was four young women, probably about 16, into the early 20s, stripped in front of their parents and two little children. and then taken into a separate room by about 20 soldiers in uniform, and raped horrifically. at one point, one of them screams for allah god, and one it was four young women, probably about 16, into the early 20s, stripped in front of their parents and two little children. and then taken into a separate room by about 20 soldiers in uniform, and raped horrifically. at one point, one of them screams for allah god, and one screams back "our god is gadhafi" and then they raped these

>> reporter: entered this house -- about a thousand rapes across misurata over a two-month period.s raped the young women first. other members of the unit raped the young women in the house. they were standing guard, ordered to stand guard up on the roof. and their next order was to come down stairs and rape two young women. >> why would they being doing this? we've seen this in the congo where rape has become a weapon of war and it's an attempt to destroy society. what is the purpose here? >> reporter: it's very much a weapon of war is the way to put it, anderson. it's a weapon particularly in this very, very conservative society. this is -- it's not just the islamic faith, it's a conservative traditional society. women who have been raped, sad to say, are unmarriageable. women who are married and raped bring shame on the family. so terrorizing and undermining the effectiveness of your enemy forces, that's a weapon of war and it's a war crime. >> is there treatment for any of these young girls? are they able to even come forward? >>women who have been raped are not -- i was not ab

colonel qaddafi says any ship now leaving or entering misurata is a target. smoke rises from the almost daily salvos of missiles and shells that hit the port area. so to make a run for it is to be either brave or foolish. or both. and yet to our astonishment, the skipper of this turkish freighter did just that. even as they're hit by incoming shells and mortars. close in at the dockside, it's lethal. >> we need to get over here! we need to get out of here. shelling the port happens daily. two people killed in this attack alone. several more seriously hurt. (screaming) but consider, too, the reason why this ship is coming in the first place. a thousand migrant workers still here, still trapped in somebody else's war. and desperate to go home. they, too, are being shelled. >> we don't have anything, we are dying here, this bombardment, the smoke is killing us. now everybody's sick here now. no medicine. no anything. we are dying here. please, world, if you are hearing me, help us. >> reporter: and this nigerian man was shelled in that camp and could indeed be d

it is in misurata were some of the heavy fighting has taken place. our correspondent is there.e has been granted rare access to probe gaddafi soldiers seized by rebels. >> scanning the new front lines south of the besieged city of misurata. rebel forces have only just seized the area. this is all gaddafi weaponry. >> this is ammunition. >> it is not just westerners left behind. today we have been given rare access to a school turned detention center where captured gaddafi troops are being held. inside refined the guards relaxing. -- inside, we find the guards relaxing. inside the school library, more than 100 prisoners. their identities are hidden to protect their families from possible retaliations. zero local muslim cleric is in charge. the prison is already interrogated by rebel military officials. they now spend their days on mattresses in the classrooms. -- a local muslim cleric is in charge. this soldier says he was wounded during the battle for misurata. >> how have you been treated as a prisoner? >> very well. it is as though i am with my family. we were told we were co

. >>> in libya, seven people were reported killed in fighting in misurata with dozens wounded. meantime, nato denied a state television report that libyan armed forces struck a nato warship during a shelling exchange. >>> state police in maine are trying to identify the body of a young boy found near the maine-new hampshire border over the weekend. they said they were exploring a possible military connection and released a photograph of the boy's shoes, black sneakers with pictures of a character from the film "cars."

three days ago, he returned from misurata. >> it was one month of war.unfire, shells landed, street battles. it was bad. worse than before in brega. gaddafi's forces had destroyed the whole city. in the massacre. >> in the beginning, he and his friends bought weapons on the black market. we're on our way to a rebel camp for some 500 fighters are being trained. they're all volunteers to the teachers, engineers, lawyers, armed with weapons captured from gaddafi's forces. all of them know they did not stand a chance without foreign assistance and the support of nato-led aircraft. >> it the west wants to help us win, give us weapons. when we have defeated the dauphin, we will return the weapons and agree fully sated by it -- we will -- one we had defeated gaddafi, we will retain the -- return the weapons. >> will gaddafi give up? can the rebels when? there are no obvious answers. three weeks ago, mohammed's brother-in-law was killed. now muhamed help secure the two children his brother-in-law left behind. >> my cousin and my brother-in- law died on the same

government forces today shelling the port of misurata. their fellow citizens.n international aid ship sent to evacuate refugees was docked there. they say al qaeda could try to get its hands on weapons from that war-torn country. david lee miller is streaming live from tripoli for us right now. david? >> reporter: jon, tripoli is 120 miles from misurata and it is difficult to get information here from authorities. in fact they are denying recent reports that the port had been mined. they wouldn't comment on those reports. there is information coming from the ground now as a humanitarian ship was docked, the red star 1, moammar qaddafi forces shelled the port of misurata. the shelling reportedly killed four people, a man, a woman, and two children. some of the aid from that ship was delivered to misurata and some 800 people were able to board, many of them migrant workers and injured libyans an journalists that would like to leave the city. they are now reportedly enroute to the rebel stronghold of benghazi. recently 12,000 people have fled the city of misurata

it comes after an intense bombardment of a town west of the rebel-held city of misurata yesterday. world affairs correspondent hanson does this report. -- sent us this report. >> moving forward on the misurata front line. anti-aircraft guns being used against gaddafi's are me. -- army. behind them, revels provided covering fire to the four-wheel drive vehicles, as they withdraw from another assault. it is like this every day, firing when they see movement, then falling back to what has become a fixed front line. it is a good defensive line but not strong enough to go on the offensive very much further from here for now. the arrival of british apache helicopters and their french tigers could be enough to make the difference with the offensive punch it may carry. a soldier who defected from gaddafi's forces early in the campaign provides court in its to nato of tanks and alter larry -- artillery. >> uses the tanks are so well camouflaged, that look like removing trees. they're very few trained soldiers in this citizen army. mohammed is a truckdriver. another mahomet is a mechanic. an

second youngest son and three grandchildren but not stop qaddafi's forces on the rebel held city of misurata today killing len people. nato's deadly attack is proof it is targeting qaddafi. >> they have shifted the focus from support from rebel to attacking the center. they are hoping capitol healing was damaged after a moll tol cocktail was put in the shore. the other threw the cock tale inside . and wed the - on and we charge 45 and no tax. and i think that you know it is probably undercutting people. >> they have about 12 patients. >> a 28 year old san jose and a pedestrian was killed. this is the scene where the damage is. the driver was attempting to leave the scene of an accident when she lost control of the fire. they struck a pedestrian and drove up to the house. the suspect put the car in reverse . backed away and flooded again. >> the suspect hit a blocked car around nine:45 . police were able to stop thempt and 25 tourist off of alcatraz. all visitors were evacuated as a precaution . after further investigation alkatraz confirmed there was no fire. >> we should have gotten our mon

. >> misurata has been under siege for two months. >> alan: a rate hike is on the way for 120,000 anthem blue cross policy holders. tomorrow the hikes will average almost 15%. the the government calls the increase unreasonable. a first time a regulator has done that. anthem blue cross-claims last month the state regulator approved the rate hike. >> the drug enforcement agency says unused prescription drugs inure cabinet can be just as dangerous as illegal drugs. the dea sponsored a drug takepack bram. >> drop them in the bin. >> reporter: a first for many. >> dry stuff in there and liquid ointment, sprays, in the far box. >> reporter: people all of the bay area are trashing their stash of drugs, prescription drugs that are unused or expired. >> i held them at home in a plastic bag for a long time. >> reporter: for one day only the drug enforcement administration is putting up special containers in cities for drug takeback day part of a national push to get rid of drugs that end up in the wrong very young hands. >> the majority of the individuals receive their prescription drugs from thei

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in the fight for control of libya, rebels claim they've taken over the airport in misurata. in the west, seizing weapons and ammunition. pro-qaddafi forces have used the air force base to attack the city. meanwhile in syria, new amateur video is believed to show army tanks moving a city which is a hot bed of antigovernment protests. the army has reportedly been firing shells into residential neighborhoods there. back in this country, evangelist billy graham is in a hospital in ashville, north carolina, near his home. he's being treated for pneumonia. graham, who is 92, is said to be resting comfortably. and coming up next here on the cbs evening news, it's her job to protect americans from terrorism. so what keeps her up at night? and later, getting america back to work. a company that's training laid off autoworkers for a new career. >> couric: among the evidence u.s. navy seals retrieved from osama bin laden's compound in pakistan is a handwritten journal. now u.s. officials say bin laden wrote in that journal about attacking new targets in the united states, including sma

they will keep fighting for control of benghazi and misurata. >>> to afghanistan, the major assault from insurgents appears to be over in kandahar. it was once a stronghold for the taliban, which wants to reclaim control. the taliban fighters attacked at least eight locations and couldn't get into any of the government buildings. nato -- three of five suicide car bombers were stopped before the bombs could detonate. >>> back here at home, five more names were added to the vietnam memorial ball wall and they will be engraved the next few days. army specialist savatere was shot and paralyzed. his death in 2009 was ruled -- ruled to be a result of the injury. after, he worked to get access for the disabled. >>> the rough rider honor flight brought the fifth and final group of world war, i veterans to washington. rough rider is one of the organizations that brings members of the greatest generation to visit the world war ii memorial and other d.c. sites. 125 vets were here this weekend with the group and they're heading back home tonight. >>> the governor of louisiana released the birth cert

most of misurata will probably have to be completely destroyed and rebuilt and the rebels are trying to organize. there are some advisors on the ground now that are giving them tactical advice. but going back to the global war on terrorism and what this all means, even the mission here in libya has been impacteded i think directly by the events of the last ten years. the united states and nato-- but particularly president obama-- didn't want to go in big into libya partly because it had gotten burned in iraq. the idea was if you go in and you take charge in the occupation and take charge in the topple of a regime then you're stuck with rebuilding it. and that's cost a tremendous amount of money and peres teng. we're still dealing with it in iraq and afghanistan and it was because of that feeling of being gun-shy that the united states opted for a much more conciliatory approach with its nato resolution here where we'll give the rebels some air support some political cover, but they're going to have to do it themselves. so this is a new model for war. iraq was all in and to try and ma

city of misurata. their objective is not to save civilians it's to break up the country and to turn it into another somalia another afghanistan a failed state that they can take advantage of and manipulate and take all the resources the biggest companies corporations or africa all happened to be in libya libya was pushing for the african union to unite under its wing and it was the financial backbone of africa until these but this bombing started libyan banks were amongst the biggest investors across the world in fact the first step of this war was to take libya's money by freezing its billions of dollars of assets in north america and europe they were ready set up. an oil corporation in eastern libya based in benghazi a national bank based in benghazi they want this conflict to last they're no rush to end this war they are keeping a strategic stalemate between benghazi and tripoli they are doing this to make them both depended on the united states the e.u. and nato as the arbitrators of libya who will

today's qaddafi's forces shelled misurata and violence against at least two western embassies in tripoli has been reported. mabdee clark has the latest now from benghazi, libya. >> reporter: the libyan government has now given journalists two tours of the scene of the bombing. and today showed what it said for the bodies of the victims. this they said was qaddafi's son, saif al arab. the corpses wrapped in green shrouds were said to include a friend and one of the three grandchildren reportedly killed. looking at this destruction, it's hard to believe that anyone could have escaped. but libyan officials say qaddafi and his wife made it out unharmed. the regime is playing this for maximum effect. >> the western nato crusader aggression against the libyan nation continues and proves again that it has no moral foundation, no legal foundation and no political foundation. >> reporter: but britain's prime minister insisted qaddafi was not the target of the air strike. >> and it is about preventing the loss of civilian life by targeting qaddafi's war-making machines. >> reporter: there were sce

in the battle for libya rebels today say they are full control of the western port city of misurata.ay there are no plans to advance on tripoli. as mandy clark tells us rebels in benghazi are measuring the cost of war. >> reporter: this was the scene on libya's eastern front near the town of brega as rebels continue to take on qaddafi's better trained and armed forces. when the fighting died down we found one rebel who told us his story. he was a businessman until recently. now he's on the front lines. we had visited aman at his home a week ago in the rebel stronghold of benghazi and got an up close look of the impact of this war on the home front. his mother made tea and his wife who is four months pregnant didn't try to hide her fears. "it's a terrible feeling. and i'm afraid all the time. but he has to go fight," she says. nearly every family here has someone at the front. aman's brother who is a biologist had a close call in the early days of the protests in benghazi. this x-ray shows where a bullet fired by qaddafi's forces lodged in his face. >> reporter: despite that experienc

the strike, coming after gadhafi's forces unleashed a massive attack on the besieged rebel city of misurata killed at least 32 and wounded dozens. a nato spokesman says the alliance is increasingly targeting facilities linked to gadhafi's regime with government advances stalled on the battle field. in st. louis, missouri residents are surveying the damage after the area's most powerful tornado in 44 years swept through the city. the tornado, packing winds up to 200 miles an hour, tore through lambert st. louis international airport shattering glass at the main terminal and even blowing off part of a concourse roof. the twister also destroying homes in nearby towns. miraculously, no one was killed or seriously hurt. but flooding continued to threaten the region. the president and first lady host the white house's 133rd easter egg roll. >> i hope all of you had a wonderful easter. i hope everybody is having a great time. welcome to the white house. opening the south lawn to children and their families in a tradition that dates back to 1878. it's the largest annual public event at the white ho

in libya rebels are said to over again control of the besieged city of misurata with help from nato warships an air strikes a top libyan official opposition officials in washington with talks with the u.s. administration on more support and possible recognition but british anti-war activists kate hudson thinks the coalition policy is making a mockery of international. when the u.n. security council voted to take action against libya it was designed as they said to protect civilians and now it seems that with the escalation of the air attacks they are hitting as it seems more and more civilian targets we've heard from a u.n. agency expressing concern to the security council that civilians are suffering in a number of ways shortages of food and so on as a result of the airstrikes this again raises the question of international law it's not legal to intervene within civil wars and i think inviting. those leaders to washington for talks shows that obama is disregarding that aspect of international peace trampling upon the very legal structure that our states have built up over decades it is a re

rebels in libya say they are now in control of the airport in misurata.e war has ver reached a stalemate. the government controls the capital of tripoli and almost all of the west and rebels are in charge of ben ghazi and other towns in the oil producing east. >>> quaddafi made one of his first public appearances since a nato air strike killed one of his sons,. >>> some residents wanted to keep this there as a memorial but the government finally desided it was too risky with the threat of aftershocks. after two nt mos a large crane lifted the boat off a building. >>> many people expected earthquakes to hit rome because of an old prophesy. diana has details. >> two earthquakes minutes apart rocked southern spain on wednesday, topping church towers killing at least ten and injure is dozens more. it fulfilled an eerie prediction that a large earthquake would strike on may 11, twefs. many shops were closed and school attendance was low. this woman slept in her car are last night until it got too cold. according to internet rumor it was rafaelly bendandie who

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. >>> libyan government forces destroiing four large fuel tanks in the rebel held city of misurata.t is the last western city still in rebel control and has been under siege for more than two months. coalition aircraft continued bombing targets and continued enforcing a u.n. no fly zone. i'm marianne rafferty. now, back to "geraldo at large". for all the latest h headlines, go to fox news .com. >> geraldo: the best information we have and this information is brand new, just within hours, is that osama bin laden escaped during the phoney cease fire last week. was always a rouse. they never intended to surrender. it was during that cease fire that osama bin laden we are told made it over the white mountains into prablg sta pakid living under the protection in deep secrecy of a tribal leader in the city o in pack pakistan. >> geraldo: that was nearly ten years ago and osama bin laden never strayed very far are from where america lost sight of him in torah borah in december of 2001. hear how seal team 6 finally took down the world's most wanted war criminal. >> good evening. tonight, i

the goal was to protect the nearby rebel held port of misurata.ity in western libya under the control of the rebels. nato says all fighting ships of the libyan navy have been sunk order severely damaged and they have forced quaddafi to go into hiding. >>> an armored vehicle taking american government employees to the u.s. consultatetete in pakistan. >>> in china, an explosion at the factory that makes ipaded killed at least two people and injured 16 othe others today. the same factory that made workers sign a no suicide pact. as for the business of i condition pad and apple, analysts are mixed about how it will impact the stock. apple stock took a dive after the explosion but ended down just under 1%. >>> a team of nasa and russian scientists thinks that an earthquake in japan has revealed clues about predicting earthquakes. it it works it could save a lot of lives. not all scientists agree with the findings according to california watch. more on all this from abc 7's heather ishimaru. >> reporter: the march 11 earthquake in japan was a magnitude

. >> we also have significant developments in misurata where the rebels claim now to have the airportvil defense base there, what is the significance of that? >> well, i tell you, three times in the last 24 hours, the chief government spokesman has denied that they've taken the airport, the rebels have taken the airport. and they denied that the government has lost control of the city, even claiming they have the harbor. this we know not to be true. the fact he denied it rather implies that the loss of the airport, the western advance of the rebels, is seriously troubling to the people here in tripoli and so it should be. >> in a situation like this where you're in tripoli, you have these government minders, and you have no choice if you want to go out to attorney areas they're a nuisance in many ways, they can get in the way of reporting. but at the same time, they're valuable sources, because their mood, their spirits tend to reflect the mood of their bosses. what is your sense, are your minders, are they a bit nervous? >> there are. i have to be careful here, because these people a

in libya, government forces destroying four large field tanks in the rebel held city of misurata. rebels saying it could create critical fuel shortages making it difficult to defend the city. the last city in rebel control has been under siege for two months. coalition aircraft continue bombing government military targets and enforcing a no-fly zone. a special honor for the navy's newest destroyer. thousands gathered in maine for the uss michael murphy. named after navy seal killed in afghanistan. the mother celebrated by breaking champagne bottle on the unfinished ship. he died trying to save his team in 2005. he was awarded a posthumous medal of honor. back to 9/11 as it happened. first a special message from our troops on this mother's day. >> sergeant matt graham serving here at afghanistan. i want to say happy mother's day to my wife son i can't. you are a great mother to our son aden. and i love you very much. happy mother's day. >> well, it was a gorgeous day. the president arrived just as usual for an event, two tiered event, a reading snreent a small classroom and a crowd

the recent report of rapes in misurata by the gaddafi forces should make us all angry. the reason to recognize the t.n.c., we'll call it that, you could free up the $33 billion assets frozen up of gaddafi and a lot more. i would legitimate them as the voice of the libyan people. clearly gaddafi is not the voice. and i think it would have a significant impact on the morale of the brave fighters who are doing a pretty good job for a disorganized and untrained group. >> chris: let me turn to g-8 summit which this week pledged tens of millions of dollars to egypt and tunisia to help with democratic reform and economic stability. some of your republican colleagues in congress say at a time when this nation faces a dealt crisis we can -- debt crisis we can't be sending millions of dollars to the middle east. >> we can do things like debt relief, matching grant, stimulation business and job opportunity. i understand that we have to be very careful because there is a strong antispending sentiment out there. but i think we also have to do a better job of convincing american peop

it is just tragic and difficult to estimate what gaddafi is doing to people in places like misurata and elsewhere. a great many people in america, myself included, watch that with great frustration and want to help, want to be more helpful. we want to make sure that the group we work with can effectively use whatever assistance we might give them. i am certainly open to that possibility. host: last call for our guest, adam schiff, republican line c. caller: i know that when the russians occupied afghanistan, they were wearing miniskirts in kabul, with an educated as doctors -- women educated as doctors. brzezinski said it take over the whole ground level, that you are using the taliban to fight the russians. the dominant ideology in afghanistan -- 1000 years before they modernized -- well, they were kind of on a their way before it is a lot of our policies have created blowback, and the bhuttos in pakistan, we were talking about a very modern political family that are dead now. it seems to me that it lot of our military policies have hindered and not helped -- host: we got the point. re