of osh. we're landing a plan where we will try to reach the refugees that have crossed the border and that's the focus now to reach those refugees as soon as possible and provide basic supplies to them so they can cope with the daily needs in the kphopling days. >> warner: are there enough resources to do what needs to be done? >> well, the needs are enormous. a single organization like the international red cross can't cope with those needs. there will be a need for a greater, larger, wider humanitarian effort. so i think we're just seeing the beginning of that effort now. >> warner: just briefly, what about the political situation on the ground? in other words, the kyrgyz and uzbek governments, are they making it easy for you to operate? >> we had a presence in kyrgyzstan before this round of violence. we were able to deploy rapidly in kyrgyzstan. in uzbekistan we're negotiating access to the places where the refugees are but we're confident within 24 hours we should be able to get there. >

he has been reporting from osh for the past four days.clifford leevee, thank you very much for talking with us. first of all, what is the situation there now? >> the situation is relatively stable. we're not seeing the kind of violence that erupted here about a week ago. that spread rapidly to many of the minority uzbek neighborhoods leading to a lot of death and destruction. things have calmed a lot since then. that's on the one hand. on the other hand, immersions have hardened, and the uzbek neighborhoods that were attacked have essentially been caded now. what you're developing is a kind of system of ethnic enclaves which is a bad sign for this country's future. >> woodruff: when you say "barricaded" what do you mean? >> reporter: what's happened is in these ethnic uzbek neighborhoods, they have essentially set up roadblocks, cars that were destroyed in the attack, or buser or tankers, and they're block off the roads and preventing anyone to come in that wants to come in and essentially that often means the national guard authorities.

a state of emergency was imposed in osh, kyrgyzstan's second- largest city. tv broadcasts in neighboring russia showed smoldering buildings and cars after armed gangs of kyrgyz men stormed uzbek neighborhoods. in addition to the bloodshed in osh, smaller-scale violence also broke out in bishkek, the country's capital. the violence came two months after an uprising brought a new government to power. in a televised address, the interim president said troublemakers were trying to undermine an upcoming constitutional vote. >> ( translated ): this situation causes deep concern. it is being fueled by different forces, including those who are interested in destabilizing the situation in kyrgyzstan and those who want to disrupt the upcoming referendum. >> sreenivasan: the government also dispatched troops to quell the violence. kyrgyzstan is home to the u.s. air transit base at manas, critical to ongoing operations in afghanistan. state department spokesman p.j. crowley spoke in washington. >> we have done our own checking, and report no american injuries or casualti

the military in krygyzstan tried to regain control of osh after days of ethnic killing. the death toll grew to 189. at least 1900 others have been wounded but other estimates range far higher. most of the victims were minority uzbeks, and thousands tried to flee but they've been denied entry into uzbekistan and huddling in makeshift camps along the border. the head of a bankrupt u.s. mortgage lender has been indied d.c. unitedded for allegedly a huge fraud against. tarp. he was the chief executive of t.b.w.. he and coconspirators carried out a scheme, part of a failed teempt save their company and a major bank. >> court documents allege mr. farkas and others carried out a massive fraud that resulted in losses of more than $1.9 billion and contributed to the failure of t.b.w., along with colonial bank. one of the 50 largest banks in the united states in 2009. the alleged is stunning in its scale and complexity. >> investigators alerted the u.s. treasury before the money was paid out. the government sponsored mortgage lenders fannie mae and freddie mac will no longer be tr