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Colonel gadhafi say dont believe the dogs in the media, im still here. andrew? meanwhile, in the eastern part of libya, electricity is still on and gas stations remain open. but the internet has been down for three days and the phone service is poor. ben wedeman has crossed into libya. he witnessed an exodus of egyptian workers crossing back into egypt across an unguarded border. >> reporter: well, the eastern part of the country does appear to be in full control of the anti-gadhafi forces. we...

There are some signs of normal life, gas stations are open. stores are open. we saw some what looked like kebab shops functioning. theres a fair amount of traffic on the road, although i was told that was mostly egyptians leaving the country. we drove by one ammunition dump that was on fire blasting the whole time as we were driving by. the situation clearly in this area is better than in tripoli where you have the population in open revolt against the gadhafi. here it appears that the ante gadh...

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Funerals held for more than 100 protesters killed a day earlier. after more than three decades in power, yemens autocratic leader, president saleh, has accepted a tentative deal to step down. >> reporter: we had major air strikes here in a tripoli area last night, one seemed to hit an ammunition dump. the libyan government has not confirmed that yet, however there was one big explosion in that case and there were several smaller secondary explosions that we heard as well. these air strikes went ...

Took place. we went inside a large army base which is also an ammunition dump. we spoke to the guards at the gate at that ammunition dump, and they said that four or five bombs were dropped by a russian-made suyoz jet. we did hear some secondary explosions. afterwards, of course, anti-aircraft batteries in the area, which are really anti-aircraft guns mounted on the back of pickup trucks, started to blast away in the air, but by then the airplanes had already left. now, of course, libyan state t...

Been down for three days. what we saw is theres an exodus of egyptian workers leaving the country. there are about 2 million to 3 million here, and today alone 15,000 of those egyptians crossed back into their country. one thing we did see is we drove into the eastern part of libya, is we saw an ammunition dump on fire. and it was just sort of exploding constantly as we drove by throwing projectiles into the air. we were told that with the fire set by elements of egyptian of the libyan army. i w...