on the highway nearby, raeda's husband samer is facing another exhausting new lebanese ritual; hunting for gas. >> all our plans are based on the availability of fuel. look at this, this is the station for filling fuel. the line is about 30 cars. >> reporter: for weeks now, lebanon's fuel pumps have been running on almost empty. the country doesn't have an official public transport system, and the unofficial system is made up of cars and minivans, which need fuel too. if you want to get around, live your daily life, get to work? your only option is to sit in the sweltering heat, and wait. and the government has scrapped fuel subsidies, making scarce fuel increasingly unaffordable too. as tensions rise, fights are breaking out at gas stations across the country, and many have closed altogether. he says he's been waiting here for four hours to fill up today. because samer and raeda work in different areas, they can't share a car, so she has to endure the same process. and when she gets to work, she's just stepping from a personal crisis into a public one. raeda is the head pharmacist at