and as nic robertson has been reporting, this all happened. it seems to be in response to that coalition and the allied forces. of course, the u.s. being one of them, firing on libya today and also french aircraft in the area in place. britain sending in aircraft as well. france also helping out in this. and they will all join the coalition forces in the air at least. president obama, the u.s. president, has said no ground forces. he's not promising that now. let's listen in a little bit to the firing and the unrest in tripoli. for those of you who are just tuning in, i want to welcome our viewers from around the world. you're watching cnn's breaking news coverage of the unrest in libya. what you're hearing, firing going on in tripoli right now. cnn's nic robertson covering that part of the story for us. he is in tripoli. he's our senior international correspondent. nic is getting in place so he can speak to us. there you can see him in the corner of your screen. and as soon as nic is available to speak to us, we will get him live, if we can.

nic robertson will join us in a moment from tripoli. also, elyse laughette, our state department correspondent. she's been to this compound, our matthew chance joins us from london as well as retired generous general russell eun array. general, you have been in these situations before. as you and i have talked here on cnn, moammar gadhafi is not the focus of this mission in terms of hitting him. it is, according to the allied forces, according to the u.s. president barack obama an others, it is is to keep the people of libya safe. they're there for the safety of the people. does this change anything now that moammar gadhafi's compound has been stuck? >> i don't think so. i think the commanding control was always on the list, the intent to hit it. not him directly. i would suspect when we went into this we have a no target, no shoot list, restricted fire zone which designates mosques, buildings such as hospitals and his headquarters was on that no target list. but remember last night and early tonight you saw air defense weapons from tha

cnn's nic robertson covering that part of the story for us.is in tripoli, our senior international correspondent, getting in place so we can speak to him. you see him in a corner of your screen. as soon as nic is available to speak to us, we will get him live. if you can, nic, jump in when ever you're ready. i'm not sure if his camera can hear us. if so, weighed love to see the pictures we saw before and have nic talk over them. >> reporter: heavy anti-aircraft gunfire. as i was reporting to you just a little earlier, the gunfire came after we heard several loud explosions here. it is in the city, now, about 2:35 in the morning heavy anti-aircraft gunfire seems to be subsiding at the moment. it has come, quite literally within the last 10 minutes, it was very quiet in the city. we had sporadic gunfire, then a couple loud explosions, followed by that heavy anti-aircraft gunfire which subsided for the moment. this is what we're hearing in the city at the moment. >> nic robertson as the skies of tripoli were lighting up last night with gunfire. >

this is from the camera where nic robertson is.ic robertson, continue, please. . >> reporter: yeah, hearing the loud gunfire and explosions here in the city. this gunfire seems to have followed on from several loud explosions which could have been missile explosions. don, what i'm going to do is get myself to where that camera is if you can just give me about one minute. >> nic, you go ahead and get into camera position and we're going to let our viewers listen as you get ready. we will be very transparent. this is all breaking now. nic robertson in tripoli, he is joining us by telephone, but he's going to get himself in camera position. what you're looking at though is tripoli, and it is believed to be gunfire happening in tripoli and possibly mortar fire. and as nic robertson has been reporting, this all happened, it seems to be no response to that coalition, the allied forces, of course, the u.s. being one of them firing on libya today and also french aircraft in the air in place. britain sending in aircraft as well, france also

if i were nic robertson and i would be pretty pitted. he said we went because we didn't want the government editing video. secretary gates says they are moving corpses. all you can do as generjennifer, show the context and say hamas has led us here or gadhafi has led us here. the subtext is fox trashing cnn. cnn is doing well with the story and i can't help there's a connection there. >> should robertson slammed harrigan. >> then it becomes personal and ugly. he can have his reporting to stand on its own. people can make that judgment, who's doing better reporting. >> my hat is off to these guys in the field like richard engle and the detention that they are working under and to have -- i can understand nick having his credibility challenged by a representative of another network did pit him off. >> they used to criticize richard engle. go out there yourself. sit in the studio and say he's not doing enough. >> i don't thing nik helped his cause. >> he was angry. never seen him show so much anger. >> he clearly lost his temper and many of

nic robertson and fran townsend are again with me. we get to the discussion, let me play a lile ound from homeland secretary janet napolitano toda nine years later, as she talks about the changing threat we're facing. >> now the old view that if we fight terrorists aoad we won't have to fight them here is just that. it's an old view. it is abundantly clear that we have to fight terrorists abroad. we have to fig them at home. we have to fight them period. >> fran, we did, when this first started out, we fought them ovee there. either they were royed and scattered or we've created more of them. any thoughts on that? >> i'm not so sure that it's an either/or. i frankly think what we're seeing is cade cal qaeda has ad to many things we put in place to protect ourselves. we got greater security, init tell generals, law enforcement against those who would do us harm.o what do you do? you try to recruit people inside thunited states and who had ability to travel across our borders. you look at things like times square, nidal hasan at ft. hoo

we want to bring in at this point, nic robertson who is in -- it's richard roth. to the united nations and richard roth in new york. you know we're waiting on something from moammar gadhafi, in the hotel where the journalists are, nic robertson included from tripoli. while we wait for that lets get the very latest from you as to what the u.n. security council is doing at this point in and around, for example, a no-fly zone for libya. >> reporter: yes, having been a reporter in libya and receiving word that colonel gadhafi might speak. you never know. could be one hour or minutes or you're taken somebody else the situation is different, no-fly zone actually brought up for the first time behind closed doors with the full security council. one of many options discussed in informal consultations by the 15 nations. it's inching along as an idea. secretary of state hillary clinton of the united states being quoted in an interview as saying this no-no-fly zone or any other action has to be coming from the international community, from the united nations, not just the uni

nic robertson, cnn, london. >> and a reminder. cnn's nic robertson and fran townsend, former homeland security adviser under president bush, will join me for the entire hour to discussde how bi laden's message has turned viral. but first, the question now, whether the u.s. in some way is elevating the status of anwar al awlaki, the new bin laden, and whether the death sentence hanging overis his head has actuallylp helped him raise mon and recruit new terrorists. >> i think that many authorities in yemen believe that we elevate him further if we actually do kill h. >> the potential making of a martyr. when we come b k. you can make it in just 14 minutes. mmmh, orange chicken. great. i didn't feel like ing out anyway. announcer ] wanchai ferry. restaurant quality chinese in your grocer's freezer. we get double miles on every purchase. echo! so wearned a trip to the grand canyon twice as fast. uh-oh. we get double miles every time we use our card. i'll take these. no matter what we're buying. plus the damages. and since double miles

>> and cnn's senior international correspondent nic robertson amid the chaos and in the line of fire as egyptians and libyans line up against their governments. the stories behind the stories you saw right here on cnn. it's going to happen this hour. i'm don lemon. you're in the cnn "newsroom." >>> the most powerful tornado to hit st. louis in more than four decades of view from a surveillance camera inside st. louis airport at the moment it hit. people just barely getting to cover as the gusts go through the hallway there. the tornado's winds reached 166 miles per hour, or more. >> get down! >> as you can imagine, panic inside the terminal as a tornado bared down. the airport is operating at a very limited capacity, only a handful of incoming flights. a live report from the airport just seconds away here at cnn. the airport wasn't the obviously spot to take a pounding. nine communities, impacted. 750 homes damaged. some of them blasted to splinters. incredibly, no reports of deaths or serious injuries. people had a 34-minute warning ahead of that tornado. the national weather servic

nic robertson is in tripoli. he's joining us by telephone but he's going to get himself in camera position. what you're looking at is tripoli, and it's believed to be gunfire happening in tripoli and also possible mortar fire, and as nic robertson has been reporting, this all happened, it seems to be, in response to the coalition and allied forces, of course, the u.s. being one of them, firing on libya today and also french aircraft in the area in place. britain sending in aircraft as well. france also helping out in this. and they will all join the coalition forces in the air at least. president obama, the u.s. president has said no ground forces. he's not promising that now. let's listen in a little bit to the firing and the unrest in tripoli. [ gunfire ] >> for those of you just tuning in, i want to welcome our viewers in from around the world. you're watching cnn's breaking news coverage, the unrest in libya. what you're hearing, firing going on in tripoli right now. cnn's nic robertson covering that part of

we'll talk with nic robertson about it.adhafi regime has told multiple conflicting stories about that woman. not surprising, of course, they have a record of telling lies. they first denied that opposition even existed on gadhafi. they blamed it on hallucinogenic drugs. >> we have trouble coming up with proof of any civilian casualties that we have been responsible for. but we do have a lot of intelligence reporting about gadhafi taking the bodies of people he's killed and putting them at the sites we've attacked. we've been extremely careful in this military effort. >> of course, it's not our job to just take the u.s. defense secretary at his word. we have found that whenever the libyans take correspondents out claiming to show civilian casualties, they never seem to find them. all our camera crew ever saw was bombed out military equipment. and at a staged funeral, nic robertson discovered he couldn't find any grieving family members, and the coffins were not necessarily what they seemed. >> reporter: it was an occasion fu

nick robertson, cnn, london. >> a reminder nickan robertson d former homeland security adviser under president bush will join me to discuss how bin laden's message turned viral, but the question now, whether the u.s. in some way is elevating the status of the new bin laden and whether the death sentence hanging over his head has actually helped him raise money and recruit new terrorists. >> i think many authorities in yemen believed that we elevate him further if we actually do kill him. >> the potential making of a martyr, when we come back. which gels to help remove waste and reduce cholesterol. metamucil. ask more of youriber. why does it say box tops for education on your soup? oh, it's a program that raises money for schools. that'great, but this is a can. yes it is. you can't have a box top on a can. yes we can. but a can isn't a box. we know. i don't think you do. [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. we get double miles on every purcarse. so we earned an l.a. getaway twice as fast. we get double miles every time we use our card. no matter what we're buying.

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rundy robertson was her supervisor. show told us time and time again, i trusted him because he was my boss. i respected him. he was the person who was put in charge of me. you just weren't feeling well that day. and he offered to drive you home. >> yeah. >> reporter: and you thought he was a nice enough person to make that offer, i guess. >> yeah. he's my boss. i thought it was all right. >> reporter: she says robertson asked to use her bathroom. and when he came out, she says he raped her. she's represented by attorney adam miller. >> i find it unbelievable because bp and their subcontractors had relationships with all local law enforcement. they had the opportunity and the ability to clearly check all of these people that they were hiring and bringing in to ensure the safety of the public. >> reporter: if anyone had checked robertson's background, they would have found a lengthy criminal history. and he was still on probation for a felony. instead, he was made a supervisor. we're in pass guolla, mississippi, here to t

robertson joins me now live from alexandria. what does the shoot iing does tt effect the protesters? >> reporter: we saw in the crowds there, there were children, young babes in arms being carried by families. they're simply not deterred by it. it seems that they, as they keep telling us, are going to keep pushing ahead with those demands regardless. anderson? >> we're going to have more from nic robertson over the next hour and half of our live coverage from cairo and from all points around egypt. back to isha in atlanta. >>> well, egyptian president hosni mubarak presents western nations with a dilemma, b.e.t. political and moral. on the one hand, he's seen as an essential ally in the fight against terrorism and derl-palestinian peace process. on the other his autocratic rule is seen as contradicting democratic principles. michael holmes takes a closer look at the man who has ruled egypt with an iron hand for the past three decades. >> reporter: to understand hosni mubarak, you have to start here with his predecessor, anwar sa

we'll go live to cnn's nic robertson in a mom. first nato members just agreed to take over the full scope of the military mission in libya. cnn's paula newton is in brussels. paula. >> reporter: fredricka, this is a significant step for nato. we've done the arms embargo and started take take over on the no-fly zone, this is the crucial stuff, the stuff that can get confusing and murky on the ground about how best to protect civilians. there was a very contentious and heated week in nato. finally some agreement. listen to nato secretary-general. >> this is a very significant state which proves nato's capability to take decisive action. in the past week we have put together a complete package of operations in support of united nations resolution. by sea and by air, we already enforcing the arms embargo and no-fly zone. and with today's decision we're going beyond. >> reporter: the united states will now be able to pull back, as president obama had envisioned. that means a lot of the planes in the next few days that the united states

but -- [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ] >> we lost our signal with nic robertson.en we're able reestablish that we'll continue our conversation. but for now, at least six explosion there is in tripoli. and as you just heard, nic explaining, he believes it's the government, their anti-missile defense systems that are under way. and let's listen in right now. seemingly gunfire there, gunshot there is. >> reporter: in the sky here from three or four different places, fredricka. we can hear the anti-aircraft guns firing. we can hear the anti-aircraft guns firing in the distance. we're seeing the tracer fire, light up the sky. coming from two or three different directions here. this is tripoli's air defenses, trying to take down coalition aircraft. that they fly over the city. on previous nights, we've heard the jet fighters flying over the city. that's what gadhafi's gunners are trying to do right now, bring down the fighter jets. and we've heard six loud explosions a few minutes ago, fredricka. >> nic robertson, thanks so much. keep us posted on that. all of this taki

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nic robertson is there and he is going to tell us what he is seeing.s this the same you are seeing before or more sustaineded? >> what we are hearing here, michael and frederica -- >> [ inaudible ] into the sky there. this does appear to have been in response to a missile strike of some kind on the ground here, probably two strikes is what we think. we certainly heard two [ inaudible ] one came right in the middle of all that anti-aircraft gunfire and you could actually feel, where we were, could you feel some of the percussion, reverberation coming from a quite heavy explosion sort of in the distance under the trees where our camera is pointed right now, michael. >> yeah, nic, give us a sense of the geography, where you are, what's and you are, what might have been a target. >> [ inaudible ] precisely what might have been the target here. looking in the general direction toward one of the palaces that's used by moammar gadhafi, one of the largest palace complex and that sounds to us as if that was [ inaudible ] explosion came from. this is the same pl

robertson said recently. i have never used manner, and i don't intend to, he said, but it's just one of those things that, well, i think this war on drugs just hasn't succeeded. the reason robertson is for legalizing marijuana is that it has created a prison problem in america that is well beyond what most americans imagine. he is right. here are the numbers. the total number of americans under correctional supervision, prison, parole, et cetera, is 7.1 million. more than the entire state of massachusetts. no other country comes even close to our rates of incarceration. we have 760 prisoners per 100,000 people. most european countries have one-seventh that number per capita, so it's adjusted for population. even those on the high end of the global spectrum -- brazil, poland -- have only one-quarter of the number we do. if you say this is 134 kind of enduring aspect of america's wild west culture, you would be wrong. in 1980 our rates of incarceration were a quarter what they are now. what changed was the war

fred pleitgen is in place of nic robertson.er i talked to nic robertson about his time in libya, how the story is being seen here in the u.s. during one of his visits back here to the cnn headquarters in atlanta. we have with us a rare visit from nic robertson, senior international correspondent. a lot of people recognize him from our international work. you've been watching some of the coverage here in the u.s., reading the papers as well. are people getting the right, is it possible even to get a good sense of what's happening in libya given the view you've gotten out? >> if you read and look at everything you've got a good overall picture. if you're there on the ground you feel it differently and see it slightly differently because you're living it and breathing it, it's every minute of the day. i think perhaps the thing that people forget about libya is how big it is, 6 million people, about maybe 1.5 million in the eastern country, 4.5 million in the west where gadhafi is. if there were a wide, it would be barbaric, tribal

and now, cnn's senior international correspondent nic robertson talking about life there on the ground in libya, and the disturbing images he has witnessed. nic getting a little built of a break away from libya, here in atlanta, and cnn headquarters. he will be joining me live in studio coming up. >>> but first, this a developing story and tragic story, an os r oscar-nominated photojournalist has died in misrata. cnn confirmed this death within the past hour. for more on the story, i want to go to barbara starr standing by at the pentagon. barbara, all of our condolences out to his family. and tell us who he is, and what he was doing there. >> well, brooke, this is a lovely man. this is tim heatherington, a 41-year-old oscar-nominated photojournalist and filmmaker. tim is very well known to many of us here at cnn, but perhaps best known within the u.s. military community for his collaboration with sebastian younger on the oscar-nominated documentary "retrepo" and the two of them lived for months in the toughest combat in afghanistan and made a documentary film about a unit. it would tu

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nic robertson also with us. he's joining us from london. nic, is there any way in which to surmise whether this might have been a cooperation, this arrest as a result of a cooperative effort of british forces, u.s. forces, pakistani intelligence forces? >> i think if it is going to be a cooperation of any, it's likely to be american and pakistani. u.s. intelligence operatives really have the preponderance of electronic eavesdropping in the sort of northwest frontier province, the border area between pakistan and afghanistan. and we've seen that exhibited in a number of occasions, recently, where we know that european intelligence agencies have had tip-offs about their nationals being in that border region and those tip-offs have come from u.s. intelligence sources. and we're told, again, that that cooperation between these different intelligence agencies have been critical. now, it's been difficult in the past to get this effective cooperation with pakistani authorities when it sort of comes to the moment of arrest. pakistan is very, very s

nic robertson is there. you've heard gun shots there and there were signs of tear gas and other indicators of real problems there in alexandria. >> reporter: the problems that are emerging are very much like ben describes in cairo. here the army only present in very small numbers in the center of the city and a very weak position, not prepared to take on the crowds, not willing to even stand up and stop them when they climb on their trucks, when they climb on trucks to celebrate. we have heard gun shots, we've seen just below the balcony here, someone being pulled off by a small mob. a lot of the people have gone off the streets now, but there are still small nods of men walking around the city not observing the curfew. if you look at the group of men, one of them will be holding or two of them will be holding sticks in their hands and there is that real anxiety here as well about a lack of police force, police stations destroyed, no police force in evidence. and as you go around the city, neighborhood watch

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nic robertson is on the scene for us. something the president said raised an eyebrow, at least with me. he was asked in a follow-up question, how long will the u.s. remain in charge? when will the transition to others take place? he said several days. he said, days not weeks. then he emphasized several days. i don't know whoo he means by several days. earlier in the day i had been hearing the days, not weeks was already obsolete, given the complexity of this operation. the u.s. was going to remain in charge not just for a few more days but perhaps for weeks right now. so we need some clarification. was the president giving the final definitive word? had he been formally finally briefed by his military commanders that there was no way this transition could take place over a few days, it's going to take a few weeks? those are questions we'll have to work on to see if when the president says it will take days, not weeks, then he said several days for the transition to take place, whether he was up to speed on what's going on

senior international correspondent nic robertson is in tripoli. arwa damon is in eastern libya. our senior white house correspondent ed henry traveling with president obama in south america right now and atika shubert in london and here in the u.s., barbara starr joins us from los angeles and retired general wesley clark will offer his analysis, as well. >> let's get straight to nic robertson standing by in tripoli in the thick of wit the gadhafi loyalists. earlier you were talking about loud blasts of anti-aircraft fire. what's the situation right now in tripoli? >> reporter: it's quite quiet. eerily quiet. we are hearing a few cars driving by on the road. the occasional sound of ma shun gun fire but short and sporadic. we heard several loud explosions followed by intense bursts of heavy anti-aircraf gun fire. and then a couple more explosions. and then those heavy bursts of gun fire again. we can't tell -- not able to tell what exactly caused the very large blasts but they did sound very similar to cruise missiles in their sort of size, sound and feel that the explosions had b

we heard nic robertson describe a frightening picture there. what are your sources saying about what's going on in that country? >> you know, yemen has been a top priority. huge concern across two administrations now. when i was in the white house, i had responsibility on the counterterrorism issue. john brennan, president obama's homeland security and counterterrorism advisor is struggling with this issue now and referred, the vice president of yemen referred to john in his interview with nic robertson. the united states put tremendous amount of capability and resources there to try to help stabilize the situation. there is no question we have every form of human intelligence, technical intelligence. we are trying to target and help the remaining yemeni government target al qaeda. what we hear from nic's report and others, we are losing that. yemen is losing its ability to control key provinces, key regions of their own country. in yemen, al qaeda and the arabian peninsula, the main al qaeda affiliate there is the strongest of the affiliates.

nic robertson was there.n us to talk about just how fast this country is unraveling, and what it is like to watch a city spiral out of control. in less than ten minutes, personal finance expert suze orman will be answering your money questions. so two ways to send your questions. post them on my facebook.com/suzannecnn. or tweet them #suzannemalveaux. alison, we always love good news. want to hear good news from you. what do we know about foreclosures? in 2011 the number of foreclosures went down. there are 1.9 million homes foreclosed on in 2011. that's a big improvement. there were 3 million homes foreclosed on in each of those years. so you're able to see the improvement. the level that we're at right now, we're at levels from 2007. all right. here comes the bad news. the biggest reason why we're seeing the number of foreclosures fall is because of the robo signing scandal back in 2010. the there are still processing delays, so banks are taking their time, they're making sure they go through the paperwork

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>> you know, it's interesting, nic robertson, after our colleague, nic robertson, after the christmas attempted plane bombing from the underwear bomber, went in the uk and had a test by a scientist with a capful, a pen cap filled with the same explosive used in these bombs, petn. these bombs were much larger than the tests nic had the scientists run and it blew a hole in metal twice the thickness of a jet fuselage. i think we have to presume, based on that and the statements of john brennan today with candy crowley, that there is no question that this t 1200atq0v10 >> i've been a republican 25 years. it's the party i'm most comfortable. i reach to it as the liberty wing of the party. and even if i ran as a democrat, i don't think i would have have had much traction challenging nancy pelosi. it's only as a republican i can challenge her on the issues on which she's most vulnerable. >> so you're actually left pelosi on many. irs, even though you're republican, you're for legalizing marijuana. she won't say how she's voting on prop 19. you've criticized her for not making the repeal of "

represented and where we go from here, i want to bring in cnn's international correspondent nic robertson. nic, this was a huge development. why was awlaki such a threat and a priority for the snus. >> he was an intellectual. he was smart. he was well educated. he knew how to sort of manipulate his audience and the

nic robertson, amazing work.ining us live. >>> you want to know what it's like, going up against irene? you showed us. we have some of the best cnn ireports,ireports, and pretty amazing pictures. we appreciate them, and we will show you more just ahead. >>> we are checki ing stories making news later. the white house briefing at 12:30 eastern is expected to cover damages of hurricane irene. and then senator from oklahoma will endorse governor from texas rick perry for president. and then michael jackson's doctor conrad murray has a court date at 12:00 p.m. eastern. and first we will check in with gary tuchman in flooded brattleboro, vermont. >> well, kyra, the landlocked canadian border town of vermont is suffering from the tropical storm that came through yesterday. take a look at the art studio, heavily damaged because of a raging rapid that used to be a creek. we will have the story at the top of the hour. >>> and i'm jason carroll at penn station, the nation's largest transit system was shutdown over the week

i believe we now have nic robertson in tripoli. the question here, nic is this the first and final offer? his son would succeed him. the question is it a first and final offer or is this the beginning perhaps of the a sign that the regime wants to negotiate? >> reporter: it's not clear if this is sort of a first and final or if there's more to come. i think what we are seeing is that we're seeing a recognition from moammar gadhafi is his place in leading the country is over and that he needs to move aside. from the sources we're talking to, i do get a sense that he is thinking about his legacy here in the country and how that is going to be remembered seems to be an indication that he really is psychologically preparing to move aside. the way the regime sees this, and i found talking to this source very interesting, that the regime clearly views that gadhafi will not go under the point of the gun. they believe they still have the support of the majority of the country and the majority of the people in the country and that they can

nic robertson as well. ben wedeman as well. be careful. stay safe. >>> ahead, startling new development in japan at the crippled nuclear plant. they are now dumping millions of gallons of radioactive water into the pacific ocean. why plant officials say it's the best choice and why experts say it's the only choice. >>> plus a happy ending. a lucky dog who survived the tsunami and was plucked from debris in the ocean. it happened friday. we showed you the rescue friday. tonight the dog's been reunited with its family. >>> also isha is following some other stories. >> southwest airlines canceled dozens more flights as it rushed to complete safety inspections on a big portion of its boeing 737 fleet. inspections triggered when a near the fuselage of a 737 forced an emergency landing. now, the federal aviation administration is taking action. coming up, i'll have more on the steps being taken to make sure all 737s in service are safe. that story and much more when we come back. i'm not having a heart attack. it's my back. it works great for pa

michael ware and nic robertson, cnn's senior international correspondent.ve me your mini analysis of the speech tonight. >> well, you know, i think it did what it was supposed to. i thought it was a good speech in content. there's been a lot of focus on the pullout in 2011. there was a huge caveat which is the withdrawal is going to be conditions based. the transfer of authority to afghan police and army will be conditioned based. right now only one of the 34 provinces in afghanistan is actually under the complete control of the afghan military and police. that number could be two by 2011, it could be ten. who knows. i think the idea that the united states is going to start withdrawing in significant number this 2011, actually it wasn't even in had the speech, even though some people have fastened on that as a fact. there was a big conditionality that was in the speech. >> larry: michael ware, is it going to make a big difference? >> well, depends how they are used, larry. put it this way. as it stands right now, the taliban war machine hasn't even been den

nic robertson, thank you. reza sayah, thank you, as well. >>> coming up, the nuclear crisis appears to be going from bad to worse as workers struggle to keep radioactive water out of the ocean. new questions about the people in charge. are government officials and tepco, the private company which runs this plant, are tepco officials telling the truth, the whole truth right now? we're keeping them honest, next. isha sesay also following other stories tonight. isha? >>> news that some will find shocking. after battering and drowning a trainer a little more than a year ago at sea world, the killer whale is returning to public performances wednesday. when we come back, i'll tell you how the company is justifying the move. that story and much more just ahead. ♪ [ male announcer ] how could a luminous protein in jellyfish, impact life expectancy in the u.s., real estate in hong kong, and the optics industry in germany? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex global economy. it's just one reason

was by want to begin with our senior international correspondent nic robertson now join joining us from this former home of this 23 yaer-year-old nigerian national. >> reporter: police have been at the premise here in the central of london since the early morning. we know also that british prime minister has said that the terror threat that is posed here and any danger to the public is something that the government here takes very seriously and they've been investigating. the police at a number of other premises. if you look at this building behind me it is a very grand building in the center of london. apartments here, to give you some idea of how much it costs to live here, apartments in this building costs between about 2 and $4 million. so this man, if, in fact, this is where he was living and this is believed to be his last address, last known address in london, believed to have had a basement, lower ground floor apartment in this building. clearly, he would appear to be a man with some financial means. it is not a cheap place to live in right here. the other addresses that the pol

nic robertson joins us now from london with more on the story.ic, thank you so much for joining us. even you, i think, were surprised by some of the reporting, what you uncovered once you started on to this story. >> yeah. it's story? >> yeah, it is surprising, because these -- the libyan government and this group fought a really intense war and even though the libyan government doesn't like to accept it, back in the 1990s, a lot of the prisoners in this group were murdered inside jail. so, there has been a huge trust deficit there, if you will, this group was trying to kill moammar gadhafi, trying to kill his son. so the very fact they would get together and talk about it and then come up with something that is so radically different to all these groups aligned and close to al qaeda in the past is huge. some of these guys involved in writing this document are really respected on the insides of al qaeda and the taliban. these guys have clout and weight. so what they say really carries for something. >> so the question is, will this make a differe

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one of his sons still at large is sending e-mails to our nick robertson. nick just got another one a few minutes ago and he joins us shortly. in the meantime, heavy fighting today in tripoli. take a look. >> this is from the capital's eastern neighborhoods, not far from the airport. the field in opposition hands but still taking heavy shell, from loyalist fighters nearby, some of it just within the last-mile-per-hour or two. the two side exchanging artillery throughout the day. opposition commanders say they've been trying to direct fire to minimize civilian casualties but it hasn't been easy because gadhafi forces are so intertwined amongst the local population. our arwa damon is there. we'll talk to her. >>> in southern tripoli, similar distaken for civilian lives. reports all day of loyalists gunmen out in the streets taking pot shots at people. now to the east, new video of the damage that loyalist fighters are leaving behind as they retreat. these are the oil facilities in brega still burning nearly a week after they fled. before they did they fired s

conflict in libbia the latest in libya and the coalition air strikes that are still taking place, nic robertson is reporting anti-aircraft fire, and other gun fire being heard in libya. no indication what they're shooting at. those strikes, the air strikes that we have seem are aimed at stopping the libyan leader, moammar gadhafi, from attacking his own people and abide by the united nations-approved cease-fire. just listen to this. >> one hour, the pentagon has scheduled a briefing on this operation dubbed operation odyssey dawn. meantime, the coalition is growing larger. qatar is growing the effort. the first arab nation to announce its participation. french officials say the gulf nation is offering four fighter planes. italy, spain, and canada are also taking part in the military portions of this coalition. this plan. american, french and british forces launched the operation about 24 hours ago. >>> multiple air and missile strikes have hit libyan military targets. u.s. joint chiefs of staff admiral mike mullen said most of libyan air defense systems have been taken out and libyan ground for

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nic robertson on the scene for us in tripoli.ent of the united states who's on a trip to latin america. i can't tell you how courageous our journalists especially nic robertson, arwa damon in different parts of libya right now. i got to tell you as viewers know, this young man and young woman, i say young deliberately, they have guts. >> well, they do. i've worked here for a little over ten years and seen nic robertson frreport from all places. i've never seen him as excited when he was talking about the clowns at the f word network manufacturing some bogus story about him and his crew being used as human shields. enough is enough i guess and they managed to get under his skin pretty good. shame on them. president obama's in chile today, the second stop on a three-nation five-day trip to south and central america. it's the first time in the region since he took office. but it comes at a time when this country is suddenly involved in another hostile military action. these air strikes in libya. the possible meltdown of nuclear reac