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Here in just one morning. on friday more than 1,200 refugees from libya landed in a single day. >> weve experienced this reality everywhere in the world. every time you have a war, you have civilians trying to escape. >> more than 30,000 migrants and refugees have landed here in just the last three months. >> this is russian roulette. you really dont know at this point if you can reach the other side of the mediterranean. its terribly risky. >> reporter: look at what happened last sunday. one of...

One of the overloaded boats hit the rocks off the coast. italian rescue workers struggled to save hundreds of people, but not all made it. italian villagers held a funeral service for three passengers from that doomed boat. no one even knows their names. in the past few months the un estimates hundreds of boat people died attempting this journey across the mediterranean. faceless victims of a dangerous voyage who never got a funeral. ivan watson, cnn, lampedusa, italy. other international news...

about bin laden? then, remember japan. >> this is a ticking time bomb. >> ill ask him if the japanese government has learned from its mistakes. how bad in libya? 30,000 refugees crammed into leaking boats. a terrifying trip toll safety. some have made it. many have not. more on the way. body parts scattered across the street. thats how witnesses describe the gruesome scene in northwest pakistan after the taliban followed through on its promise to exact revenge for osama bin ladens ...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello. youre in the cnn newsroom this saturday, may 14th, im fredricka whitfield. saving two of louisianas biggest cities at the sacrifice of flooding homes and farmland. thats what will likely happen as the u.s. army corps of engineers opens the morganza spillway beginning an hour from now. while opening the gaelts would slowly divert floodwaters from baton rouge and new orleans, areas in yellow could get up to 20 feet of water, in green up to 1...

presidency in the republican party primary. >> ron paul is running for president again. if he had won the last time, guess what he wouldnt have done about bin laden? then, remember japan. >> this is a ticking time bomb. >> ill ask him if the japanese government has learned from its mistakes. how bad in libya? 30,000 refugees crammed into leaking boats. a terrifying trip toll safety. some have made it. many have not. more on the way. body parts scattered across the street. thats how...

Floods this entire area here. this basin atchafalaya basin. thats a hard word to say. move forward over the next couple of days. >> jon: severe weather on the way for the poor folks still recovering from tornadoes. >> there is north carolina and alabama seeing all of that severe weather. they have more of that on the way tonight. good news is temperatures are going to drop. feeling like mid summer. you have a rough night ahead. we could see a few tornadoes again across that same area. jon? >> jo...

1937 is the last time we have seen the river this high. desperate times calls for de desperate measures. closer to the boot hill of massachusett mismissouri, there is more water heading that way. checking on news across country, arkansas rescue workers have found a group of missing boy scouts. six boy scouts and two leaders were camping in a remote area have o of a national forest. they were camping near a fatal area that killed 20 people. they are fine now. a california company is recalling...

Hours. its now about 6:00 in the evening here. so far, as best we know, there has not been any funerals taking place. this may be perhaps a security issue, but we have not seen any funeral images broadcast on state television. to some extent, lack of a publicized funeral may be fueling skepticism about what happened last night. shannon? >> shannon: interesting developments. david lee miller on the scene. thank you so much. more than a million people gathered in vatican city today to witness a ...

Governments emergency resources. its been seen firsthand by alabama senator richard shelby. he tour the damage and just returns to washington and joins us live to talk about what he saw. senator, thank you for coming in. >> thank you. >> shannon: our thoughts and players are with the people devastated down there in alabama. i know you called this something like a war zone. have you ever seen anything like this before? >> i have never seen anything that destructive. i have seen a lot of tornadoes...

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