Libya Border News Today

Tunisia, as well as libya, temperatures are unseasonably cool. temperatures, 10 degrees and notice temperatures in the single digits in parts of spain, too. i also want to show you how its affecting the refugees. right around tunisia and libya border, theyre outside with cool temperatures. certainly, this is a shock to the system because temperatures are running 10 degrees below average across this region. charles, back to you. >> jennifer delgado, thank you very much. a quick look at stock ma...

From the libya border. >> heather, the violence that is convulsing libya is creating a growing refugee problem if not a crisis here in tunisia. were on the border between tunisia and libya and even at this late hour, after 11:00 p.m., the refugees continue to stream across that border. the regional transport minister tells us that in the last four days, something like 36,000 people have come here seeking the relative safety of tunisia. the government here is struggling to cope. it has set up a c...

>> colonel gadhafi is clearly increasingly isolated, but equally clearly seems increasingly determined to push his country toward outright civil war. were hearing reports from tripoli that hes offering a weapons and vehicles to anyone who will go out into the votes and do his fighting for him. young men are apparently taking up that offer by the dozens, if not hundreds and they are in the streets opening fire indiscriminately, we hear, on otherwise peaceful protesters. the violence has spread we...

They were stopped. they were checked. they were searched. they said it was a very scary situation for them. they talked about gun battles and fighting and war over the last few days. somebody else talked about the hundreds of policemen stopping some cars randomly and not others. its very hard to get a clear picture of what is clearer, its a very fluid and dynamic situation on that highway, john. >> excellent point to make from nic robertson. a volatile situation. nic is in tunisia. lets check in...

In a more rambling than usual radio speech, libyas moammar gadhafi accused al qaeda of fomenting the uprising against his rule. its all osama bin ladens fault. opposition forces vowing to march on tripoli tomorrow while gadhafi loyalists mass inside the city. this as new estimates of nearly 2,000 dead, although its hard to determine with no foreign media present. nbcs stephanie gosk is on the egypt/libya border and joins us by phone. stephanie, lets talk about what we know is happening. it seems...

Youll see the potential for tribes to rise against the government and to organize militias to come against the government. this may play out in a pro tracted manner. there are report thats gadhafi may try and torch and blow up some of the oilfields. that hasnt manifested itself yet, but everyone recognizes that is a potential. that will probably turn more people against him, more quickly, but it does seem its going to hold on so there will be a fight eventually it seems, a fight for the capital ...