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Months ago, this was basically a spontaneous camp. the tents were mostly made out of bed sheets attached to sticks. people were trying to get shade there. now what you see is shelters, makeshift shelters, made out of some of the plastic parts that have been distributed by aid organizations, by the united nations. that is another one of the success esther claiming to the armies of 1.5 million homeless people. and also you can see that people have been scavenging, as we have spoken, to residents o...

Act is a wall made of bed sheets. you can just walk into anybodys house. cnn, port-au-prince, haiti. time for your top of the hour reset. im tony harris. it is noon at the u.s. capital where democrats consider a procedural move to pass health care reform without another house vote. it is 11:00 in north dakota where the red river is rising. it is 9:00 in california where thousands of teachers learn they may be the next victims of a states deepening budget crisis. lets do this, lets get started....

The only thing separating you from a violent act is a wall made of bed sheets. and what we should also remember and remind people about is that there some are 300,000 people who still have not received the bare minimum amount of shelter. kyra? >> sara, what are women doing to protect themselves? >> we talked to that young lady there. she basically told us that she does not go out at certain times. when the light starts to get low. shes very careful as to who she talks to. shes really always watc...

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We continue to follow a developing story out of the afghan capital siege of an international hotel there. an eyewitness is now telling cnn he has heard more explosions at the intercontinental hotel in kabul. government officials said earlier they had retaken control of the hotel. they say six people were killed, including a foreigner, and more than 100 others were rescued. >> just look at the image there. you see people. you see this fire that took place there in the building, and people used be...

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Bloodest since operation protective edge started. 84 palestinians were killed, 60 in one east gaza neighborhood alone, women, children, whole families, we visited that neighborhood, this is what we saw. >> this is all just gut wrenching to say, i mean utter just destruction, everythings been destroyed, what used to be homes, peoples bed sheets are there, im seeing clothing, shoes, this is probably the living room or kitchen. we saw the shelling, we heard the air strikes, we watched it from this ...