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Tripoli safely. thanks, we're very glad about that. unfortunately, there are american citizens who were not able to make it out. we had a number of problems today with our flight. basically the security circumstances in tripoli radically deteriorated after friday prayers, and it was impossible i think for we think up to 90 citizens who are trying to reach our u.s. government charter at the air base to join us, so we still think that there are -- well, at least 90, possibly more, american citizens who are hoping to get out of tripoli. >> because i are heard numbers, as many as 6,000 u.s. citize...

Immediately. it can be in conjunction with nato. i was talking to somebody in tripoli today. he was saying that military units there, one base in particular, that they want some kind of signal from the united states and other countries so that they can be reassured that if they stay on their base and done get involved that they will be protected, that they won't be attacked. and we should send the signals to the libyan military and ask them not to get involved in this. >> it looks, though, like the statements coming out of the european leadership are stronger than the statements coming out of ...

>> right. i really don't know the answer to that question. we don't have a complete registration system of all the american citizens in any country because of course it's a voluntary registration system. so we have been tracking just the numbers of people who are looking for help on the way out. so we do know, the president says we're organizing this flight that we had about 110 people in tripoli who are looking for a way out. as i mentioned earlier, about 90 were not able to make it out on our flight. so i really don't know. the need could be much greater if the security situation continues t...

Americans have gotten out of the country, at least some americans, still many other americans left in libya right now. let's go to our white house correspondent dan lothian. a few hundred americans are out, dan, but there are several thousands still stuck in libya. what's the white house saying today? >> reporter: that's right, wolf, and as you point out there was concern here at the white house as to what language, what tone was coming from the administration because of concern for the americans who were still on the ground. a lot of americans are out of there, so that's why you're seeing the...

When he gave a speech and he threatened. to hear him say he's going to come house to house and door to door if we don't stop, if libyan people don't stop rising up against him, i mean, those aren't empty threats. and when you have african mercenaries in the country and people hired to kill to do that. you can't take that lightly. and i think that the world -- libyans know what this this regime is capable of. but i think for the first time the world is actually seeing it. >> reporter: really amazing to hear that amid all that fear about having to flee your house and reports of massacres, that s...