he's also linked to the disappearance of american teen natalie holloway in aruba. the peruvian victim was killed last year in a hotel room. her father was expected at today's hearing. >>> president obama discusses the road ahead for the u.s. in afghanistan. he's holding a videoconference with afghan president hammond car syne. president obama is deciding the size and scope of u.s. troop withdrawal in afghanistan. that is scheduled to begin next month. >>> nato's involvement in the war in libya just got extended by three months. for days nato warplanes have been battling gadhafi's compound in tripoli, but yesterday gadhafi told state television he would not surrender. >>> in syria, the violence between the government and protesters is setting off a humanitarian crisis. tens of thousands of refugees are flooding out of syria's border towns, that is according to several witnesses. 120 refugees were reportedly allowed into neighboring turkey. while 100 more stood at the border fence chanting and waving the syrian flag. >>> the ash cloud from a chilean volcano has reach

he was arrested twice before, but never charged in the disappearance of natalie holloway when she wasaduation trip in aruba back in 2005. her body has never been found. >> of stories are investigating what caused a goodyear blimp to crashed and burst into flames in central germany. the crash happened on sunday. three passengers jumped out of a window to survive. the pilot died. the sudden loss of weight causes the balloon to thrust into the air and in a burst into flames. >> nato forces bombarded an area near gaddafi's compounds. in the eastern part of the country near misrata, rebel forces have been fighting for four days. they had to halt their advance due to a lack of supplies. syrian tanks are pushing towards the border with turkey. the government has been expanding its crackdown where they say 120 troops were killed by protesters. activists say more than 1400 syrians have died and more than 10,000 detained since the popular uprising began in mid march. >> much more ahead on the kron 4 morning news. on the other side of this great, full weather in a traffic report. we have a coupl

. >>> and joran van der sloot, the man suspected in the disappearance of natalie holloway, but this timeesident obama picked to be the next u.s. ambassador to afghanistan is being grilled on capitol hill. a confirmation hearing take place for career diplomat ryan crocker. >>> "daily show" host jon stewart good friends with anthony weiner. or maybe you heard. it turns out weiner-gate has hurt stewart on many levels. check out the mock news conference last night. >> that's not good. [ laughter ] >> i'm probably going to need to go to the hospital. >>> there's definitely no rest for the weiner in today's "political buzz." each of our brilliant political observers gets 20 seconds to answer three probing questions we probably all need margaritas now. dana lohse is a cnn contributor and ahead party leader, and robert trainham. guys, first question, broken glass on the daily show, broken alliances on capitol hill. is it worth defending weiner? cornel? >> no, and i would like to reserve the balance of my time, madam speaker, for the other questions. >> okay. my goodness. dana? >> i agree with co

he was arrested twice but never charged in the disappearance of natalie holloway.dent from here in the u.s. disappeared during a graduation trip to aruba in 2005. >>> well, arizona's wallow fire it has burned close to half a million acres. this could become the largest wild fire in arizona's history today. still not clear but estimated to have burned up to 463,000 acres. arizona's largest fire burned about 468,000 acres in 2002. officials say 31 homes have been destroyed by the wallow fire. that's less than were lost nine years ago. officials say that's because of preventive measures like thinning forests. >>> it's now official, investigators say an arsonist is responsible for two early morning fires in the berkeley hills last week. they started just about the same time just a block apart. police are still searching for the arsonist who they view as very dangerous. the fire started while people in the two homes were sound asleep but fortunately no one was hurt. >>> time is now 6:19. a novato man facing several charges after police say he threatened a woman with arr

he is also the prime suspect in the disappearance of natalie holloway in aruba in 1995. >>> and now a of a two-year senate foreign relations investigation. they say that the report of billions of dollars in foreign aid to pakistan may have been spent in vain, because the country may not survive the troop withdrawal that is set to begin next month. the report urges president obama to re-think the overall war strategy. he is scheduled to have a telephone conference with president hamid karzai this afternoon. >>> and we are globe trekking in a moment. >>> and the dallas mavericks even up the nba championship with the heat last night. the big man for the mavericks was their big man dirk nowitzki fighting through to a sinus infection. he scored 21 of his points in the final quarter. game five is tomorrow night. don't miss it. >>> what does man's best friend have to do with one of the best publicized murder trials in years? we will catch you up to date with the casey anthony murder trial after the break. when an investment lacks discipline, it's never this obvious. introducing investment di