angela merkle represents something that she touched on.ist police state and resisted those who tried to oppress the millions of german citizens of east germany for many years. as she said, she could never imagine she would be in the white house, receiving the medal of freedom. she says remember -- things can change dramatically. your most profound dreams -- the reality can exceed your fondest dreams. this happened to her. she is saying once again that totalitarians are a danger in the world. the muslim totalitarian regimes are now facing a change. she was raising an issue that possibly they could also disappear and they could have freedom for the muslim peoples. that is what she is working for, and hopefully obama and the other leaders in europe. let us pray that they succeed. >> there is no question that you are right that she represents a historic figure in some sense, and that she did grow up in eastern germany, in a totalitarian system. now she is standing in the rose garden, getting the medal of freedom as chancellor of germany. you h

in washington d.c., a grand reception is planned for the german chancellor hot angela merkle.e she is with president obama. they have a grand ceremony planned for her today. there will be a 19 gun salute and then a formal accord dinner tonight were merkle will get the presidential medal of freeman. they have a lot of business to get to as well. talking about a wide range of policy issues such as an aid operations in afghanistan and libya and the middle east peace process and what is happening there and of course the world economy. >> an industry group is unveiling plans for airport security aimed at reducing check-in times. it will feature iris scanners to match the passengers eyes to their passports and information chips inside of those passports to identify passengers who could pose as a security risk. passengers could be subject to different degrees of searches depending on level of risk. that should be in place within the next five years. >> the california ethics board has rejected a request from the las angeles democrats or to investigate whether schwarzenegger violated s

angela merkle represents something that she touched on.esisted those who tried to oppress the millions of german citizens of east germany for many years. as she said, she could never imagine she would be in the white house, receiving the medal of freedom. she says remember -- things can change dramatically. your most profound dreams -- the reality can exceed your fondest dreams. this happened to her. she is saying once again that totalitarians are a danger in the world. the muslim totalitarian regimes are now facing a change. she was raising an issue that possibly they could also disappear and they could have freedom for the muslim peoples. that is what she is working for, and hopefully obama and the other leaders in europe. let us pray that they succeed. >> there is no question that you are right that she represents a historic figure in some sense, and that she did grow up in eastern germany, in a totalitarian system. now she is standing in the rose garden, getting the medal of freedom as chancellor of germany. you have to pinch yourself

angela merkel praised the u.s. and germany partnership center 2 countries are united in stabilizing afghanistan and stopping iran from developing nuclear weapons tonight the president will award merkle the u.s. presidential medal of freedom during a dinner at the white house is the nation's highest civilian honor. eyewitnesses say that 400 tribal gunmen clashed with yemeni government forces earlier this morning and have mackay taken control of the yemen city tidies the fighting has intensified since president ali abdullah saleh i was forced out of the country to recover from one suffered in an attack last friday officials said that he is burned on over 40 percent of his body initial reports said that the winds came from a rocket or mortar attack but officials are now saying it's possible an explosive device was hidden in the palace >>in libya nato unleashes air strikes on muammar gadhafi compound and a military base today we're hearing a released 25 loud explosions and the bonds despite several buildings. no wayword yet on if muammar gadhafi suffered a knee injury is the libyan government claims the airstrikes had some television stations killing two people and injuring 16 nato call