will take you to the pentagon to a briefing held this afternoon by vice admiral william gorfy -- gortney. this is about 25 minutes. >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you for being with me. let's get to it. on the slide to my left, you will see a quick snapshot of what we've been doing the last day or so. i would like to point out, ships at sea have launched another 14 tomahawk missiles. and scud missile garrisons near tripoli. we had a total of 140, 49 of which were strike-related. meaning they were designed to hit a designated target. of those totals, roughly have were flown by partner nations, and nearly all or 75% of those in support of the no-fly zone are being passed by coalition partners. next slide, please. this is a good depiction of what the no-fly zone looks like. some of these missions are what we call defensive combat air. you can see these missions depicted in blue. these are designed to keep the air space free of libyan aircraft. all of these are being flown by our partner nation pilots. the other stations, designated in red, are interdiction missions. the united states is

gortney. >> good afternoon. everyone and thanks for being here today. i want to take a few minutes to update you on the military operations in libya and then i would be happy to take your questions. as you know we began our enforcement of united nations resolution yesterday and with air command controlled air structure. and i report that there were 110 launches from ships and submarines and that rose to 124 in the hours after i briefed you. we judged the strikes to be effective and degrading the regimes ability including their ability to launch their sa-5, the long ranged missiles and the sa-3, and sa-2. the initial strikes they briefed yesterday are highlighted in yellow. and the strikes after i briefed you are in red. >> we are not ruling out further such missile strikes against valid targets need arises. in the past 24 hours we constructed from a field. next slide. these strikes were carried out last night east coast time by two bombers from the air force basis with attack mission. and the photo to the left is a use and this is dual use for civilian

at a pentagon briefing, vice admiral bill gortney reinforced that view. >> clearly the opposition is not well organized, and it is not a very robust organization. i mean, that's obvious. so any gain that they make is tenuous based on that. i mean, it's... clearly they're achieving a benefit from the actions that we're taking. we're not coordinating with it. but i think general ham's assessment is pretty good. >> ifill: and in another development, the persian gulf state of qatar formally recognized the rebels as the legitimate representatives of libya. it was the first arab government to take that step. >> brown: still to come on the newshour, new findings of radioactive material around japan's fukushima plant; and supreme court arguments about campaign financing. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: unrest gripped syria again today, with security forces confronting new protests. the troops used tear gas and fired into the air to disperse crowds. some 4,000 people demonstrated in daraa, where thprotests began more than a week ago. there was al

in washington, a top pentagon official vice admiral william gortney said u.s. planes are deliberately passing up targets inside cities. >> without harming the very people that we're trying to protect. it's a challenge there. that's hard work. that's a very very hard task to do, and we're trying to do it to the best of >> lehrer: the french foreign minister alain zhoop said today the air operation may last days or weeks but not months. for now, he said, government attacks on misrata make it clear that the coalition cannot stop. >> he still has military means on the ground, cannons. and bombarding a hospital, it's a sign that this regime is barbaric and so unacceptable for the international community. so we will carry on the airstrikes. >> lehrer: nato members met again today in brussels, and they moved closer to taking over the libya operation. turkey had opposed that step, but the turkish foreign minister said his government's demands have now been met. he said the u.s. and its partners would hand off control to nato within one or two days. >> brown: and we ass

and yesterday admiral gortney said this is all about protecting civilians and opt decision forces whichthe middle of the civil war richard was just talking about. and finally this premise that this is a coalition effort right now it's all u.s. it's u.s. commanded, u.s. led, u.s. military. and when admiral mullen was talking about handing over command to the coalition, i was told, number one, we're really not in any hurry to do that, and, number two, it could be an american commander. >> general hayden, i had a member of the bush administration say to me, candidly, look, can you imagine if car cozy was in power in 2002 as we were starting the iraq war? you really have the french and british leading on this as the senators pointed out, the arab league swinging behind this here. it would be difficult, gadhafi may try, to make this a unilateral u.s. effort here. >> no. i don't think anyone is saying we should. let's look aat why people are doing these things. the arab league move was rema remarkable. this is about cold, hard facts. this is about mass migration. our eerp enfriends have a dir

captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> that was vice admiral gortney briefing on the military action u.s. is taking against libyan forces. we had back to capitol hill and the senate banking committee hearing on the troubled asset relief program, or tarp. we will hear remarks from the treasury department's special inspector general in the south dakota at democratic senator. this is about one hour and 15 minutes. mr. barofsky? >> it is a privilege to appear in front of you once again. it is also a pleasure for me to be testifying alongside my oversight colleague. tarp has been an historic program in many respects one has been the unprecedented oversight assigned to this program by congress as embodied by the three representatives present here today. by working together closely and coordinating our activities, i believe that we have well served the american people. by making sure that we could cover the broadest coverage possible and insuring unprecedented transparency and accountability in the 13 programs that make up tarp. part of our focus has been on