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>> reporter: this tiny hole in the razor wire border with uzbekistan is becoming the new lifeline for the displaced people here in kyrgyzstan. the foods coming across the border over this bridge. and into the van here. but its only the beginning. the u.n. says some 400,000 people were displaced in kyrgyzstan, some 100,000 fled across the border. that means 300,000 still here. the problem is, in this particular village, they say theyre getting no aid at all from the international community. the o...

And so they believe the stimulus is working, just not fast enough to get those jobs back. other problem, of course, as the president tries to talk about jobs again, all everyone else seems to be talking about is oil. >> speaking about oil, the testimony yesterday, the congressional testimony where tony hayward from bp was there, these congressional hearings are weird. a lot of grandstanding. but one of the weirdest things ive heard in a long time was what texas representative joe barton says abo...

Closest proximity to anyone there. so to me, if i was not getting any damage or any problem with what i was breathing, i dont think anybody else would either. >> jeff, thanks very much for joining us, jeff cantrell. burning that oil using the booms they supply. thanks for being with us, jeff. world cup time. world cup fever is still with us. if you are a watcher, what a day today was. so close. that sums it up for the u.s. team in its match against slow veen yachlt were going live to pedro pin...

All right. im ali velshi? lafitte, louisiana. were in a mobile studio, our big bus, and the reason im on it is because weve got a storm cell moving through here. lightning got heavy. we dont mind the rain, it doesnt bother my hair much. but we moved inside the bus for a little while until the storm cell passes over us. thats what happens around here. and, in fact, weather is an interesting issue, because it does hamper some of the efforts to try and collect this oil. i to talk to you a little bi...

Never seen fires like this in my life. theyre bigger, theyre taller. they burn hot. how do you deal with that smoke? your guys are around that smoke all the time, the workers. i know there are epa people on site and say the workers appear to be safe from inhaling toxic fumes. hard to imagine with all that smoke out there. >> well, when i was out there, one of the hygienist -- the industrial hygienists shadowed me all day long. he had me hooked up with all types of monitoring equipment and it was...

They need. but their other problem, their other big problem, they say, is once they get here, they have nowhere else to go. its not safe for them to go back into the towns. its not safe for them, they say, to go back to their homes. they still fear the army. so for all the people that are beginning to flood back across, there seems to be no hope, no help for them, at least in the very short term here on the kyrgyzstan side of the border. nick robertson, cnn, on the kygyz-uzbec border. today is...

Uzbeks. hundreds of thousands of refugees are stranded by fear at the border with uzbekistan. >> this tiny hole is becoming the new lifeline for the displaced people here inside kyrgyzstan. the foods coming across the border, over the bridge and into the van here. but its only the beginning. the u.n. says some 400,000 people were displaced in kyrgyzstan, some 100,000 fled across the border. that means 300,000 still here. the problem is, in this particular village, they say theyre getting no aid ...

Every day, we bring you something called "the big i," a big idea that helps to solve serious problems in the world. this is a really big problem, a power problem. one out of every four people on the planet, 1.6 billion people, dont have electricity. they light their lives by directly burning fuels, mostly kerosene, but also diesel, wood, coal, et cetera. thats not great for pollution, its not great for efficiency, either. on average, and heres the thing, they spend about 5% of their income on th...

Power problem there where you are because your picture is really dark. >> no, its still just dark here. >> wow. thats how dark it is here the next day. talk about how close you got to the twister. i mean, were you right in the middle of it at points or no? >> no, we werent in the middle of it. i heard of some reports that some other people being a lot closer than we were. it was probably 100 yards from us at one point. >> thats a little too close for comfort, i should think. what goes through yo...

And here at the beach is gone. i can show you debris lines and ill show you boats tossed, as well in our location and some problems going on in that. what most people are waiting for and the people who waited out at theables on the beach are waiting for water and power. as you mentioned at the top of the show, 6 million without power. fpl has the biggest army of people that the u.s. has ever seen. 30,000 people ready to tackle the power problem. they have no idea when to tell people that the pow...