we have barry peterson in tripoli, mark phillips on nato, and wyatt andrews with the president. oil prices slide, so why are you still paying so much at the pump? mark strassmann has figured it out. dr. jennifer ashton tells us about plans to screen newborns for a silent killer. and chip reid is at the opening of a national monument to a king. >> with this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. fast-moving developments tonight in a war backed by american firepower. libyan rebels are pressing their attack after surging into the capital city, tripoli. forces loyal to the dictator moammar qaddafi have been cornered in small pockets of the city. one of those pockets is qaddafi's presidential compound, which has not yet fallen. qaddafi, who ruled libya for 42 years, has not been found yet, but at least two of his sons reportedly have been arrested. correspondent barry peterson is with the rebel forces. >> reporter: the question tonight: where is

>> mason: mark phillips, thanks. remains of the u.s. troops killed in afghanistan saturday were returned home today. president obama joined family members at dover air force base in delaware. chip reid is there. chip? >> reporter: well, anthony, the president spent five hours here today honoring the sacrifice of the men who died in the deadliest incident in nearly ten years of war in afghanistan. the president arrived here shortly after noon and was whisked off for meetings with family members. he then joined the families to observe a process known as "dignified transfer," in which each case of remains is slowly and solemnly carried off the cargo plane and placed on american soil. now, 30 of those cases were draped with american flags, eight with afghan flags, to honor the sacrifice of the eight afghans who also died in that crash. none of it was witnessed by television cameras. the media was not invited. anthony? >> reporter: chip reid at dover air force base, thanks. the "cbs evening news" continues now with scott pelley in kenya. >>

mark phillips reports. >> reporter: of all the wholesale robbery and thuggery that has taken place onin's streets this week, one incident has stood out. an injured kid sits bleeding and stunned on the sidewalk, some of the apparent looters surround him, seemingly to provide comfort, but as he is being distracted from the front, he's being robbed from the back. his backpack opened and rifled through, what looks like his wallet stolen. the pure callousness of the incident has galvanized feelings, including the prime minister's. >> when we see the gis dusting sight of an injured young man with people pretending to help him while they are robbing him t is clear there are things that are badly wrong in our society. >> reporter: two questions asked about the lawlessness, when will this stop and why is it happening? some of the looters provided answers to at least the second question. >> reporter: that attitude has brought the police onto the street and it's brought out the vigilantes. they call themselves anti-riot squads. citizens determined to do what they feel the police have been unable

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mark phillips now on what's behind the violence. >> reporter: the violence has spread like an arc of across london, parts of which were in flames for the third night running. it started as a demonstration after a police operation in which a man was killed, but it's now become a wave of violent outbreaks that threatens to spiral out of control. >> to see scenes like that is absolutely heart breaking and shocking. >> reporter: they are areas with a history of social tension, but police are calling these outbreaks copycat opportunistic rioting. police at first were accused of under-reacting to the violence, then of overreacting. a stop-and-search incident spurred this latest round of violence. but whatever tactic they use, they haven't been able to stop it. wherever the police presence quells the violence in one area, it breaks out in another. >> what i've seen is pure violence, is pure gratuitous violence. it's criminal damage. >> reporter: whether the rioting is being coordinated or just random, it is destructive and right now no one seems to know how to stop it. mark phillips, cbs ne

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cbs news correspondent mark phillips in london with more for us. good morning, mark. >> reporter: good morning, chris. they have started to fix up some of the areas in london that were hit in the rioting but it did continue for a fourth consecutive day. this time, though, it was different in that police reaction and the reaction of the public and the politicians. >> we needed a fight back and a fight back is under way. >> reporter: it didn't end but it was less intense than it had been and it moved. the fourth consecutive day of street trouble in britain shifted north out of london and into the cities of manchester, birmingham, and liverpool and their surrounding areas. >> get away! >> reporter: cities that were once industrial powerhouses but were many of the young now apparently feel looting opportunities have replaced job opportunities. and what they couldn't or didn't want to steal, they list. this kid deliberately sets fire to a dress in a store causing the biggest fire of the evening in manchester city center. the night also provided a glimpse

mark phillips in london for us this morning., the rioting in a half dozen locations in london and britain is trying to figure out not only why this is happening but how to make it stop. the battles through london streets it's being called. nowhere was that battle more devastating than in what had been this furniture store in london's southern suburbs. it's been called mindless violence. and the owner of this business is trying to find reason in it like everybody else. >> without incriminating yourself. >> so why burn it? >> reporter: there's no mystery, though, about how it started. a police gun search operation that resulted in man being shot dead last week. watch what happened as we filmed one of the riot locations last night. this latest round of violence. >> going to kill people. >> reporter: and that anger has caused an angry reaction of its own. >> there's a shopping spree out here. everybody is having a free for all. this isn't right. this is like anarchy. >> reporter: as police tried to stamp out the rioting in one area,

tonight, mark phillips tells us the police are out in force and so are the vigilantes. >> reporter: of all the wholesale robbery and thuggery that has taken place on president's streets this week, one incident has stood out. an injured kid sits bleeding and stunned on the sidewalk. some of the apparent looters surround him, seemingly to provide comfort. but as he is being distracted from the front, he's being rob robbed from the back, his backpack opened and rifled through, what looks like his wallet stolen. the pure callousness of the incident has galvanized feelings, including the prime minister's. >> when we see the disgusting sight of an injured young man with people pretending to help him while they are robbing him, it is clear that there are things that are badly wrong in our society. >> reporter: two questions have been asked about all this lawlessness: when will it stop and why is it happening? some of the looters provided answers to at least the second question. >> reporter: that the attitude has brought the police on to the street and it's brought out the vigilantes. they cal

mark phillips, cbs news, london. >> after an extensive man hunt, coalition forces are claiming a symbolic. an f16 air strike killed the tall ban insurgent responsible for the deadly helicopter crash this past weekend. the taliban attack killed 30 americans and eight afghan commandos. >>> prosecutors on the brian stowe beating case say their case is based on admissions from both suspects. in an l.a. courtroom today, lui sanchez and marvin norwood pleaded not guilty to charges of mayhem and assault and battery. he continues to make progress. >>> at&t park is literally a field of dreams tonight for hundreds of giants fans. elizabeth cook shows us they are paying for the chance to lay their heads on the lawn that the team calls home. >> it's like wow. pablo has stood on this area. >> now you are sleeping on it. >> yeah. it's like sacred ground for baseball. >> summertime and camping usually go hand in hand. but for these giants fans, roughing it means setting up their tents on the perfectly groomed grass in the outfield of at&t park. >> it is like a dream come true. it's so cool. we get to se

mark phillips has more. >> reporter: the trouble didn't go away on the fourth night of rioting in britain, it just moved, north to the cities of manchester and birmingham, where looters tried to take up where those in london had left off, but there were more police and fewer rioters, just as there were in london, where police numbers were more than doubled to 16,000, and where they chased trouble down before it could begin. after three nights of looting and burning, britain declared it had had enough. >> this is criminality, pure and simple, and it has to be confronted and defeated. >> reporter: where the fires had burned, the morning light revealed destruction that looked like the wartime blitz. many of the rioters had been coordinating movements using blackberry messaging service because unlike texting it can't be texting. "shops are going to be smashed up so come get free stuff." said one message. we're about to get free stuff in east listen done" said another. >> i don't know why people do this. >> reporter: who controls the streets has been the question for days. now the police are t

shows how phillip garrido fooled mental health experts before kidnapping jaycee dugard. pbpbpbpbpbpbpbqçdçdçdçdçdçdçdçdd >>> the debt ceiling deal may be done, but wrangling isn't over yet. markexplain. mark? >> this debt deal mandated reducing the deficit by equal amounts and the deal is done, but there are a lot of details that are not done. this debt ceiling bill passed this morning, both california senators voting for it. and moments later the president signed it and promised to push back against the cuts only approach. >> i said it before. and will say it again. we can't balance the budget on the backs of the people who have born the biggest brunt of the recession. >> the bill sets up a super committee. members of congress divided between the senate and house, that committee will be tasked with finding another $1.2 tril quinn in cuts or taxes. and senator feinstein says she believes a balance add approach must be the final goal and she promised to advocate for that. and republicans said no.. >> we don't believe and american people don't believe raising taxes, job killing tax increases in the middle of this recession is a direction we ought to take. >> if the committee ca

phillip garrido posed has created outrage. >> the last time our government turned a blind eye to criminal justice, they got my child. >> reporter: mark klaas says he's terrified, especially since the state is set to transfer supervisions of parolees to counties come october. >> what's happening is dangerous. it's very dangerous. it's a betrayal of the public trust, quite frankly. >> reporter: the d.a. is worried, too. >> at the end of the day my fear is something like the halloran case happens again. >> reporter: the d.a. hopes the th tragedy that happened here will lead to changes and perhaps allow folks to improve on the system. meanwhile, once again, come october thousands of parolees will be transferred from state supervision to county supervision. prison sentences for some parole violators will also be eased. that at a time many say the system is already failing. reporting live in marin county, i'm jodi hernandez, nbc bay area n news. >> it's a complex issue. >>> in alameda the police need some help. they're looking for two suspects that robbed a 60-year-old woman and her son at gunpoint. they took off with the woman's purse and