rebel official was even denied a meeting with barack obama in washington on friday but a mood you brill is the first senior member of libya's national transitional council to visit the u.s. after meeting american officials there gravels are having trouble getting washington to release colonel gadhafi is frozen assets administration earlier promise to hand over some of the multi-billion dollar funds to the even opposition journalist patrick hayes says the revolutions for the west is only alienating libyans. robert gates and so he's cautious about understanding who makes up the opposition and through an extent caution is commendable because this humanitarian intervention by the west in libya wasn't a plan the strategy was a war without any real i mean it was something of the with i don't think. any real clear sense of who they're doing it on behalf of who the rebels are and what they want to achieve from its transitional national council of libya now completely orientated from the west through of nato towards america they want to try and get exemptions from obama from western leaders and

government a top rebel of facial was even denied an audience with barack obama in washington on friday but brill is the first senior member of libya's national transitional council to visit the u.s. after meeting american officials djibril said the rebels were having trouble getting washington to release colonel could obvious frozen assets administration earlier promise to hand over some of them also a billion dollar funds to be also met french president nicolas sarkozy in paris on saturday with no breakthrough there either is a leading capital tripoli funerals were held for a group of muslim clerics allegedly killed by nato airstrikes as a war activist kate hudson says the coalition's intervention is an insult to international law. when the un security council voted to take action against libya it was designed as they said to protect civilians and now it seems that with the escalation of the air attacks they are hitting as it seems more and more civilian targets we've heard from a un agency expressing concern to the security council that civilians are suffering in a number of ways shortages of

libya's national transitional council to visit the united states after meeting american officials to brill said the rabbits are having trouble getting washington through these kind of an obvious frozen assets. the administration had earlier promised to hand over some of the multi-billion dollar funds to the libyan opposition journalist patrick a rebel allegiance with the west is only alienating its. robert gates he's cautious about understanding who makes up the opposition and for an extent that caution is commendable because this humanitarian intervention by the west in libya wasn't a plan the strategy was a war without any real i mean it was something of the way i don't think through you know any real clear sense of who they're doing it on behalf of who the rebels are and what they want to achieve from it transitional national council of libya now completely orientated from the west through of nato towards america they want to try to get exceptions from obama from western leaders they're not looking towards the libyan people it means that determination doesn't come from the libyan people

during the official visit to the white house of the anti develop the movement rebel representative brill says in desperate need of food and medical supplies in the city of benghazi but they are having trouble getting washington to release colonel gadhafi has frozen assets u.s. had promised to hand over some of the multibillion dollar funds anti-war activist. says any revolution is on shaky ground when the opposition turns to western countries for. the us are interested in stopping the revolution but not helping the revolution i think the intervention was meant to corrupt and control the revolution for us fans and not giving any real life of its own or any capacity to actually alter the situation in libya in the way that the community and an egyptian revolution is doing the object for us is to to keep the libyan rebels on a very short lead not to allow them any real independence autonomy and to use them for us foreign policy ends the rebels were naive if they ever believed that the west was going to have an open hand towards and it was going to help them freely assist them in completing t

but a cipher, a code book with one meaning that could be decoded by an analyst who was sufficiently brill yafnlt -- brilliant. isaac newton spent as much time decoding the bible looking for concealed messages in the things like the dimensions of the temple of solomon or the tower of babel, that kind of thing, as he ever did studying the gravity of light. and he thought his biblical work was at least as important as his science. here's newton, for instance, trying to match up the book of revelations we vents in world history. the fourth beast had great iron teeth. that's newton quoting revelation, and devoured and breaking pieces and stamped the residue with his feet. in this newton tells us this was the roman empire. to us it sounds crazy, but that's not the point. the point is that newton and all his peers believed that the universe was a cosmic code, and their task was to break that code. in the 1660s newton and all his fellow scientists were poring over their bibles, and what they saw terrified them. everybody knew that the bible talked about a day of judgment. the question wasn't if w

"early" show contributor taryn winter brill is here with more.u this morning. >> good morning to you, erica. well, after rising for decades, the u.s. divorce rate appears to be leveling off. while singles may be waiting to wed, those who choose to marry appear to be in it for the long haul. despite the recent high-profile breakups of couples like arnold and maria and sandra and jesse, divorce is actually on the decline. according to newly released data from the u.s. census, three out of four people who got married in 1990 made it to their ten-year anniversary. that's up 3% from couples who married a decade earlier. >> i think we're not seeing as many divorces, because, especially educated people, the ones who can still find good jobs in our globalized economy, are pooling their incomes and making their marriages work, and they're divorcing at lower rates than people in the past. >> reporter: one reason, more couples are living together. before deciding whether or not to wed. how long have you been living to the? >> three years. >> reporter: three