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Militias are roaming the streets we are told by the refugees coming across the border between tunisia and libya. so, it is a different place we are in. but, perhaps, more dangerous phase. >>shepard: one of the disturbing things that a change in this uprising from previous uprisings and you have reported it, when people come out of the country whatever videos or pictures or documentation of their truth, they are all taken away. than --. >>jonathan: the refugees have met many check points on the w...

Which is perhaps about 100 miles from tripoli to the border, from the capital to the border are and they say at each of those check points, theyre asking to take out their cell phones and systemically the memory cards are removed. which means any video they might have recorded, and weve seen people recording everything that goes on around them, so what the regime is clear i doing is trying to tidy up its aim thinks, evidence that might be used against the regime in a possible war crimes court la...

Best interests to flee their country? >> reporter: well, we saw more people coming across today and the stories that theyre coming with are quite dramatic. theyre talking about what sounds like a raging war on the streets, theyre talking about demonstrators being shot at, large groups of police shooting at groups of demonstrators. what theyre also telling us is a mass exodus thats going on. thousands of people crowding the airport, trying to get out of the country. so much so that some of them g...

They dare not come out of their houses and go out on the streets. so there is an appearance of calm, but it be lies reality that this is a calm being thrust upon a people who are too scared to go out of their houses. people say that theyre fleeing because they are fearing something -- kind of dissimilarity to what ben is experiencing. people in tripoli fearing that the anti-government forces will come into tripoli and attack gadhafis loyalists and there will be essentially in their mind as blood...

What are you hearing? >> caller: were getting mixed reports from people leaving tripoli. the highway between tripoli and the border. some people are telling us there are groups of armed men on the side of the road with green arm bands. showing theyre pro-gadhafi. the vehicles are being stopped and checked. some people turned back. they couldnt get to the border because of all the fighting. other people told us the drive was one of the quickest they had made. they were waved right through the che...

But the government here has frozen the internet. phone lines dont reach outside the country. you need to have a satellite telephone and sharing that information right now with an audience beyond libyas borders is extremely, extremely difficult. tried to get this videotape to you is what were in the midst of trying to accomplish. >> that would be great. well check in with you again. glad youre on the ground. glad you could tell the story. you know, and i was watching yesterday in al jazeera engli...

We saw a long, rambling speech from moammar gadhafi today where he insists hell stay and fight and urnled his supporters to go tackle the protesters. with me now is nbcs richard engel. at this point, are we seeing clashes between gadhafi supporters and the protesters who have been out on the street? >> we are not seeing them in eastern libya. im sure there may be some here, but they have dropped that loyalty. this entire area from the egyptian border roughly to the center of the country is no lo...

Right now. communications are extremely difficult out of libya. there are some journalists that are heading into this country and more are arriving over the next several days, so there is more media presence here. the local arabic language television stations are watching this. theres a split screen between the ongoing speech and demonstrations. the libyans are certainly aware of this. i spoke today when you talk about defections, i saw hundreds of soldiers who had defected and were joining side...

Not by the military but plain clothed policemen and ordinary policemen. there are a lot of military insulations, bases, sub ministries in that part of town. since the 28th of january, obviously a lot of tanks, a lot of armor have been deployed in that area to secure how close they can get because last i heard there were about 20 check points. tahrir square and the presidents palace and some of the check points people simply could not get through. >> it is interesting how they guard this man part...

Familiar with those locations, but the proximity of our property has not put us next to that. there is a significant military presence around our facilities and weve obviously experienced no check points as weve traveled through the area. >> all right, edwin, safety to you and your folks, cannot be easy times for you. thank you, very, very much. >> a pleasure, thank you. >> all right, do want to look into other developments, too, regarding the protesters. we were getting word early this morning ...