. >> reporter: that's where gene and his wife, beverly, last saw their beloved elephant, babar. >> itell anchored in. >> reporter: chained to the foundation of their modest garland home. before, as the sign says, he wandered off. >> my husband has been checking the neighbors, to see if they smell like peanuts. >> reporter: that couldn't happen. because babav not real. he's a 400-pound bronze. a gift of love from a wife to a husband who admired a statue like it in a fancy neighborhood. >> i thought, okay, the man doesn't ask for much. so i bought him an elephant. and now somebody else has it. >> reporter: someone stole babar last friday in a daring daylight heist between 10:30 and 12:30 in the morning. >> they were there were no tire tracks. there were no dolly tracks. they had to have picked it up and carried it. >> reporter: they're hoping someone saw the thief. a thief with perhaps a back injury. or perhaps someone bought him, not knowing he's stolen or loved. >> i would like my elephant back. if they'll bring it back, that will be the end of it. >> reporter: they're offering a $500

. >> reporter: someone stole babar last friday in a daring daylight heist between 10:30 and 12:30 inorning. >> no tire tracks. no dolly tracks. they had to have picked it up and carried it. >> reporter: they're hoping someone saw the thief. a thief with perhaps a back injury. or perhaps someone bought him, not knowing he's stolen or loved. >> i want my elephant back. if they bring it back, that are will be the end of it. >> reporter: they're offering a $500 reward for a pachyderm they say is priceless. >> give them back their elephant. 400 pounds they carried that? >> i don't know who carried that. seem like a lovely couple. >>> that's what's making news in america this morning. >>> stay with us for

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two days after the rebel forces pulled out from babar a neighborhood in homes face a grow you know free range attacks by the rebels the chief of the free syrian army has sad but thursday's withdrawal was a tactical on your position syrian national council who is recognized by european union as legitimate representative of the syrian people has warned of massacres claiming they would provide leadership that is a good guys fighters and give them weapons the opposition group already formed a military council to coordinate their weapons supplies these reports follow the free syrian army claims that it's already received weapons and empty aircraft missiles from u.s. and french sources arming the rebels has been considered as an excellent idea by qatar and saudi arabia earlier with a twenty two nation arab league also viewed this as an option if the violence doesn't stop here in syria humanitarian organizations have been appealed to president bashar al assad to agree on a daily smooth hour ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid to be brought to the areas where prices still continues but the rock

this is the assault on the babar amar neighborhood. on the right heavy black smoke powers out from the buildings there. the wider pinpoint marks the neighborhood pock marked by artillery craters. next set of before and after pictures shows a bridge near the syrian border with lebanon. in the right hand picture you clearly see that bridge perhaps an access for people to escape the country destroyed. the u.s. government released these dramatic images on the eve of a new diplomatic push to try to stop the blood bath. former united nations secretary general cofkofi annan is now a special diplomat. set to meet with the president of syria tomorrow. >> is there any kind of a deadline that will be given to president assad? >> well, the imperative is to resolve this as swiftly as possible. our view it and i think the mounting view of the international community is that assad's days are numbered. but in the meantime he's killing an atrocious number of people. our preference has been and remains for this to be resolved through peaceful and diplom

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