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00:00 In just several hours, French rescue workers transformed this vast lot in Derna into a
00:07 field hospital, complete with a maternity ward and a surgical team.
00:12 By the time the sun rises, they welcome their first patient.
00:15 "I'll see you again in two days.
00:18 You come back to redo the bondage and we'll see if the cough has gotten any better."
00:22 "I left home to go pick up some documents.
00:27 When the water started to rise, at least three meters, I was carried away by the current
00:32 and lost sight of my friend."
00:37 Elsewhere in the city, teams from Russia, Algeria and Jordan combed through the rubble
00:42 of damaged buildings, searching for survivors.
00:46 Libya's division between rival governments has made it hard to coordinate relief efforts.
00:51 The UN-recognized government is based in Tripoli in the west, Derna is in the east, controlled
00:56 by military strongman Khalifa Haftar.
00:59 But help has come from all over the country.
01:02 "As a Libyan, when I pull out bodies, I swear, I cry, I can't handle it.
01:09 These young men have come all the way from Tripoli, 1,500 kilometers away."
01:15 The UN says the humanitarian situation in Derna remains grim, with some 30,000 people
01:20 left homeless.
01:22 They must decide whether to stay, risking hunger and waterborne disease, or leave the
01:27 city and travel through areas where unexploded landmines may have been shifted by the floods.