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They need. but their other problem, their other big problem, they say, is once they get here, they have nowhere else to go. it's not safe for them to go back into the towns. it's not safe for them, they say, to go back to their homes. they still fear the army. so for all the people that are beginning to flood back across, there seems to be no hope, no help for them, at least in the very short term here on the kyrgyzstan side of the border. nick robertson, cnn, on the kygyz-uzbec border. today is the eve of the 65th birthday of nobel peace prize winner and key opposition leader, an sun-su-chi...

Uzbeks. hundreds of thousands of refugees are stranded by fear at the border with uzbekistan. >> this tiny hole is becoming the new lifeline for the displaced people here inside kyrgyzstan. the food's coming across the border, over the bridge and into the van here. but it's only the beginning. the u.n. says some 400,000 people were displaced in kyrgyzstan, some 100,000 fled across the border. that means 300,000 still here. the problem is, in this particular village, they say they're getting no aid at all from the international community. the only help they say they're getting is coming across ...

Every day, we bring you something called "the big i," a big idea that helps to solve serious problems in the world. this is a really big problem, a power problem. one out of every four people on the planet, 1.6 billion people, don't have electricity. they light their lives by directly burning fuels, mostly kerosene, but also diesel, wood, coal, et cetera. that's not great for pollution, it's not great for efficiency, either. on average, and here's the thing, they spend about 5% of their income on these fuel sources. overall, burning these types of fuel produces 190 million tons of carbon dioxi...

Power problem there where you are because your picture is really dark. >> no, it's still just dark here. >> wow. that's how dark it is here the next day. talk about how close you got to the twister. i mean, were you right in the middle of it at points or no? >> no, we weren't in the middle of it. i heard of some reports that some other people being a lot closer than we were. it was probably 100 yards from us at one point. >> that's a little too close for comfort, i should think. what goes through your mind, kris, when you're 100 yards from a twister that's going to be about three-quarters of a...

And here at the beach is gone. i can show you debris lines and i'll show you boats tossed, as well in our location and some problems going on in that. what most people are waiting for and the people who waited out at theables on the beach are waiting for water and power. as you mentioned at the top of the show, 6 million without power. fpl has the biggest army of people that the u.s. has ever seen. 30,000 people ready to tackle the power problem. they have no idea when to tell people that the power might be back on in many communities because they don't know the extent of the problem yet. we'v...