richard much is a former assistant secretary of state and former ambassador to sir yea and saab rain.e spoke to me earlier from washington and explained what americans think of decisions taken by the obama administration when dealing wii the situation in libya? >> with some uncertainty. i think there is confusion in the mind of the public. there is confusion in our congress. the administration, the president has said that within a matter of days, a few days, he will hand any leadership role over to others. who the others are is not clear as of now. the situation as far as the public can tell on the ground is unclear, just how well the rebels are doing and who are the rebels. the one thing is that there is a great distrust of colonel gaddafi and his intentions both towards his own people and towards the world in general, his opponents at this critical time. >> do you think the u.s. has become involved in an operation overseas without perhaps having an agreed identifiable end game or perhaps a clear strategy for delivery of perhaps protecting the libyan people that is so talks about? >>

a silver colored saab crashed down an embankment west of san mateo last night. chp closed the stretch of 92 for about two hours. the driver was the only person in the vehicle and investigators say he was not seriously injured. >> kristen: neighbors are clearing up from a tornado. it was strong of you to pick up roof tiles. about 60 miles north of sacramento. no one was hurt. five homes had roof damage. one headed into the bathtub. >> it wasn't like a bang, two cars crashing but it was loud, then we heard nothing. when i came outside all the neighbors were pointing at my roof. >> kristen: national weather service categorized as minor as tornados go. >> eric: state regulators will consider a proposed fine against pg&e for failing to provide the requested documents on the safety of all its gas pipelines. a california public utilities commission will consider fining the utility as much as one million dollars a day for not turning over the documents. on the deadline, pg&e reportedly lacked pressure test records for a third of its lines and instead of providing altern

more than 100 tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from american and british ships and saab submarines. in tripoli, moammar gadhafi's forces answered today's u.n. mandated no-fly zone with antiaircraft gunfire. libyan state tv claimed 48 people were in today's attacks. but that report is not verified. nbc bay area's brian moore shows us how washington is responding to this latest international crisis. >> reporter: french jets punished libyan armed forces on saturday as moammar gadhafi defied u.n. orders to cease his attacks on civilians. hours later, u.s. military ships followed up with a barrage of missiles. >> over 110 tom a tomahawk missiles struck more than 20 defense systems and other air defense facilities ashore. >> reporter: speaking from the capital of brazil, president obama said gadhafi had a chance to back down, but didn't. >> i want the american people to know that the use of force is not our first choice. and it's not a choice that i make lightly. but we cannot stand idly by when a tyrant tells his people that there will be no mercy. >> reporter: western forces own the sk

the silver saab crashed on an embankment around 7:45. highway nip 2 was closed to -- highway 92 was closed to traffic, and it has since reopened. there was only one person in the car, and the chp says the driver's injuries are not severe. >> all of the rain caused another mudslide. the latest is blocking conference drive south of fell ton. that's only five miles from monday's slide that cutoff people in scotts valley, and they are still pinned in. lisa amin gulezian is there live with the latest. lisa? >> all of the rain is making it impossible to clean up the slides in scots veil and the slide in mount herman is also causing problems tonight. no one in mount herman was surprised to find this today. >> it has been raining pretty hard. it is kwan sis -- it was consistent. i thought it was going to go. >> and it did. a mountain of mud went on to conference drive. it brought down power lines and even part of a fence. contractors have the hillside stabilized and they expect to have the roads cleared by friday. >> pretty intense rain. the soi

publishedded several books and articled for magazines as well as working a job as a car salesman for saab. the experience of writing about dresden and what happened to him was tremendously difficult for vonnegut. it took him about 20 years to be able to publish the book "slaughterhouse five." jane, his wife, had, you know, encouraged him to write it. she worked as his editor on the book. she asked questions and got clarity on issues and helped him to retrieve a lot of those memories that he had repressed. payoff the family -- because of the family situation with the addition of more children and the success that have coming with the publishing of "slaughterhouse five," his marriage with jane was, was rocky. just, his daughter edie had mentioned about a month ago that that, that experience and the publishing of the book and all that fame brought to vonnegut contributed to their marriage dissolving. and at that time vonnegut had met the photographer, jill cremens and, eventually, married jill cremens, and she was, you know, his second wife and was the only other person he was married to dur

what kind of ruler is he and we all know and we a know of the secret saab bat and how brutal they were and how oppressive they were and we also know of his grandiosity as a shah and emperor. what else can be said about him. we also know he was a good friend of america in terms of presidents including jimmy carter. right before they overthrew him. >> absolutely. he was the friend of every president from f.d.r. to jimmy carter. he had closer ties with some like eisenhower and nixon. he was a modernizing authoritarian weak vacillating. >> rose: so even at the height of his power he was weak and vacillating. it wasn't just here in the end when he was sic as well as when he was faced a three that he couldn't comprehend? >> well, that's the complication of his character. no mosaddegh era he is exactly that weak and vacillating character we see in '78. when he feels empowered, as he does in 1974, he has no problem making decisions. it's the kind of authoritarian personality, weak and vacillating when they feel weak and overriding and bullish when they feel strong. the shah had exactly these t

. -- for saab. the extent about what happened to him was tremendously difficult for vonnegut. it took him about 20 years to be able to publish the book, "slaughterhouse-five." jane, his wife, had encouraged him to write it. she worked as his editor on the book. she asked questions and got clarity on issues that helped him to retrieve a lot of those memories that he had repressed. because of the family situation with the addition of more children, and the success that was coming with the publishing of "slaughterhouse-five," his marriage with jane was rocky. his daughter, edith, had mentioned about a month ago that that experience and the publishing of the book, and all that seen brought to vonnegut contributed to their marriage dissolving. and at that time, vonnegut had met the photographer, jill crimmins. and eventually married jill crimmins. she was his second wife, and was the only other person he was married to during his lifetime. we will move over here to what we call the political activity exhibit. and vonnegut continued to talk about his interest in finding peaceful sol

published several books and articles for magazines as well as as working a job as a car saleman for saab. the experience of writing about dresden and what happened to him was tremendously difficult for vonnegut. it took him about 20 years to be able to publish the book, "slaughterhouse five." jane, his wife, had, you know, encouraged him to write it. she worked as his editor on the book. she asked questions and got clarity on issues and helped him to retrieve a lot of those memories that he had repressed. because of the family situation with the addition of more children and the success that was coming with the publishing of "slaughterhouse five," his marriage with jane was rocky. just, his daughter, edie, had mentioned about a month ago that that experience and the publishing of the book and all that fame brought to vonnegut contributed to their marriage dissolving. and at that time vonnegut had met the photographer, jill cremins and eventually married her. and she was, you know, his second wife and was the only other person he was married to during his lifetime. i'll move you over here