enough flour, cooking oil and rice to last for two months, it's basic things like diapers for children, they've run out of, but by and large, i'd say they've managed the situation remarkably well given the fact that they're surrounded on three sides by gadhafi's forces who are randomly shelling the city on a daily basis. candy? >> can you tell, ben, from what you know or from what you've seen -- and this may be beyond the scope of what you saw there. are there gadhafi forces inside the city? is this a block by block battle? or are gadhafi's forces trying to get into the city. >> they occupy parts of the city. it's a sprawling metropolis that goes on for a while. what we're told by the fighters, their focus is to try to cut off the port. once the port is cut off, no