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It's good to see you, and i'm glad we're meeting like this and not on the battlefield. next stop, kaesong, the north korean city closest to the dmz. what is it like to be so close to south korea but you're not able to go? >> translator: it hurts. and you've been asking about south korea a lot. it's a place i want to go. >> we are so close to seoul, south korea. thriving economy, modern skyline. do you ever ask yourself why you don't have that here? >> translator: we have pyongyang. it's been built with our own power, our own technology, our own independent economy. how can seoul compete with t...

Are simply wasting rounds. that was an rpg that just went off. it does nothing against an airplane. right now, they're just firing for the cameras or anything else. using up valuable ammunition they need on the front lines >> [gunfire] >> right now gadhafi's forces are within 5 kilometers of ras lanuf possibly retaking the first rebel town on the front lines. you can see the massive artillery barrage that came in for nearly 45 minutes that softened this town up and now the troops are marching forward. now, right now, you can see probably the very steady hands of mal james, our photographer who...

Stop sherrod from driving back woods roads to meet every black family in the area. >> i was canvassing and bank accounting, knocking on this door, and three or four pretty girls came to the door. they started talking about this girl, their sister, that was prettier than either one of them. i said, prettier than either one of them? lord, i want to see this girl. so they said, they got a picture. i said, i want to see the picture of your sister. and i pointed it out, and i said, i'm going to marry that girl. >> reporter: he did marry shirley. it was a love story. in a land of hate. phone threats...

That we were undertaking to fight. >> reporter: across the south, white officials were using every trick in the book to keep civil rights activists in check. to keep black voters from turning out. that helped set the stage for a violent confrontation as demonstrators began to gather here at the courthouse in downtown newton on a day that became known as "bloody saturday." >> i saw some whites coming out of the hardware store with ax handles. and they approached us and started beating us with the ax handles. they beat us down into the ground. >> my aunt joe, a little pettitte woman, she put her...

You're not paid to do this and your guys are not paid -- >> we're not paid. we don't even get paid for our organization. >> reporter: so people are donating lots of supplies and lots of money to buy those supplies. but in order to actually get it distributed, it's counting on the goodwill of people like you to do it. >> absolutely, absolutely. which i go back to, like i said, showing results is the key thing. that's what's missing. that's the element that's missing. >> reporter: driving back, i couldn't help but think of so much food and yet hundreds of thousands of haitian children are malnou...