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David. when i was there, a ship had just arrived from misrata filled with refugees and the wounded, and i went to the hospital there in misrata and i saw a lot of young men who were dead and dying and gravely wounded. this is a pretty bloody situation, and it has the earmarks of being a stalemate. now, we hope that gadhafi will crumble from within, but hope is not a strategy, and its pretty obvious to me that we need -- even though i was glad to see the predator now in the fight, its pretty obvi...

Civilians, all in grave condition. 27-year-old dr. nabil misrati. >> we amputated both limbs one above, one below the knee. ill show it to you. amputation below the knee and amputation above the knee. okay? other limbs were also crushed. amputation of the ring and little finger and left side amputation of the whole hand. >> this case wounded while cooking doesnt want his face to appear on television because his mother doesnt know how badly he was hurt. misrata is surround by gadhafis forces on t...

Tiny fraction of the tens of thousands of people who are desperate to get out of misrata. a city that president barack obama himself has said is under a medieval siege. much of misrata is without electricity. checkpoints have been set up on almost every street. theres a pervasive fear of infiltration by pro-gadhafi agents. >> he was in the floor of house. bowel injury. >> reporter: at this clinic near the port, all the wounded are civilians. >> its crushed. >> reporter: the doctors here struggle...

Own nic robertson. they finally let you out of the hotel and let you see some stuff. what did you see today? >> we went to a town that was rebel-controlled when we first got here about four weeks ago now the government defeated the rebels that this is a town that the government has gone to huge lengths to eradicate and completely demolished the center of the city there. the rebels have been using it as a medical clinic to treat the wounded and wubded government shoulders. what we found is that t...

Cracks developed quickly. investigators will be looking at the question. at this point according to the ntsb, the kind of joint where the problem appears to have developed gets only a visual inspection. something more may be eventually called for. well see. what everyone is remembering is the 1988 aloha flight where a large portion of the fuselage peeled away and a flight attendant was killed. that was a watershed moment in the field of aircraft aging and metal fatigue. suzanne? >> thank you, je...

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Gadhafis barracks in tripoli. they say that is the only way of dealing with this because there is no compromise as far as the people ive been speaking to here who are both ordinary civilians and rebel fighters. they say there is no compromise with colonel gadhafi and they believe some kind of bombing on the outskirts of benghazi and taking out a few tanks, they say that wont work. one rebel leader we just spoke to says there has to be around-the-clock bombing and everybody else says you have to ...

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The cease fire was announced here, the sound of explosions coming across. fighters talking to us about the heavy casualties taking place inside. we saw a number of ambulances going in, we saw one coming out with a wounded fighter. and about an hour after that cease fire was declared, we saw a stream of fighters and ambulances barreling down the highway telling us about the intense and heavy fighting. one ambulance worker saying that they were not even able to reach the dead or the wounded to eit...