nic, what was it like in tripoli in those early days? time we had almost all the freedom. intelligence got ahold of the idea we were renegades. we were heading to parts of the city they didn't want us to go to. we were headed back to the hotel city we didn't want to. then they clamped down on us. the access dried up. >> ben, you were the first western journalist to enter through the east in libya in opposition-held territory making your way to benghazi. i will never forget the video is like the allies entering in paris after world war two. it was this extraordinary jubilation. >> you know, our first 48 hours in libya was really nerve-racking because everybody would meet and speak to was full of this energy that had been pent up, frustration, anger. it was suddenly coming out. they were happy to see you, but they were so excited that finally, they were free, you couldn't have a normal conversation. people were shouting. ahhh! i thought oh my god, if i stay here much longer, i'll die of a heart attack. but i mean, it was thrilling in a dif

back with hala, ivan, nic, arwa and ben. you live in cairo, your family was there. the same time this was all happening, you are concerned about your family and their well-being. >> i was completely split, ripped in two. on one hand, i wanted to cover the resolution. my neighborhood was an armed camp. my neighbors put barricades on the roads. they pulled out weapons i didn't know they had. shotguns, machine guns, samurai swords. my 17-year-old son was out with a baseball bat and our german shepherd. we live in a nice neighborhood surrounded by slums. >> we snuck from the hotel to the bureau for a better satellite feed. moments before we went on the air, security saw people coming from the back alley. the bureau is open. anybody can get into the building. that's when we decided to turn off all the lights, get down on the floor. the security guy suddenly jammed the couch in front of the door. that's our high-tech security? jammed the couch in front of the door. we went ahead with the broadcast on the floor. that, for me, was one of the most intense moments. >> surreal

i think nic robertson wants to weigh in on this. are you there? >> yeah, don i am.ut how does this score the of sectarian divide that seems to be happening and coming to some kind of a specific head right now as troops leave, how does this affect the united states. one of the ways it affects is we talk about and people talk about iran and iran's growing influence in iraq and that's manifested through sort of shia political dominance that crosses sectarian divide. we're hearing sunni politicians being hard pressed by this government. one of the countries that has a great interest in what happens in iraq has a long border with it, saudi arabia. they have a great interest in iran's great regional interest. saudi arabia as we all know provides a very large amount of the world's oil. what happens to regional stability? is saudi going to fear that its interests are not served well if it allows iran to grow stronger in iraq? would this conjures up images for some analysts of a proxy sectarian war in iraq, which would potentially destabilize the region. of course, this is s

nic the participants of the expedition will become more frozen mountain rivers to approach they go to some of the springs are close to hand. however the tourists encounter more and more natural obstacles. a small but deep mountain spring and pins the travellers they decide to fell some trees and build a crossing. of the hill this is what we call accept raced through the snowmobiles that we dug we built a bridge this is how we entertain yourself. the closer to the end of the adventure the move on the snowmobile suffers. a. surprise sometimes it's happening. the tourists carry all the necessary tools with them in. case of emergency in the wild is hard to find help well there's no mobile coverage there. that's why the travelers have to rely only on themselves. two hours of repair works and a snowmobile is ready to go again. independent takes positions to eastern cyan a considered dangerous. a few years ago during an extreme summer rafting trip down a mountain river two of nikolai to his friends perished. together with nikolai they dared to be the first to conquer the rapids but they were

nic where we find lannet. charles. >> reporter: if this doesn't get you into the holiday spirit, nothing will. check this out. listen to this . ♪ [ music ] ♪ >> reporter: absolutely beautiful. but you be what? like i said -- you know what? if this is not getting you into the holiday spirit, here at the maryland historical society, it's all about fun. and it's also about learning stuff. and so right now, i am here with santa. you know what? i have it looks like a little customer here right now. did you give santa your list? >> you want to sit over here? you're jack, right? and i remember you had a nice train set, pal, don't you? very good! ho ho! >> you have in it mind what i want to do. i do have a question for you. you're here, and do you do historical talks? is that what happens here? >> yes, more or less the history and the myths and the legends of christmas time, how it goes way, way back to the old norse time, and travels back up to st. nicholas, then we have the contemporary santas. >> reporter: do you e

nic robertson joins us on the phone from london with more, and, nicnick -- nic why libya? base of operation to strike europe and to strike u.s., american interests. why now? because the opportunity presents itself. saudi arabia is known to produce al qaeda, has in the past for iraq, produced a large number of jihadists, went to iraq and became suicide bombers targeting american troops inside iraq. right now, ayman al-zawahiri sent two topless. one with a very, very long relationship with ayman al zawahi zawahiri, is trusted by him. seemed set to get a strong hold in the eastern part of libya, where he's determined is the best place to do that. other libyan members, senior figures in the al qaeda leadership. the two people he sent, one was picked up as he was a libyan, european national, picked up traveling through europe. the other one has made it there. established a group. this is somebody who was a jihadist in the 1990s, trained in mujahadin training camps in afghanistan, known to be exceptionally radical, was also in jail in britain for some time about three or four ye

want to go to london to nic robert son. nic, what is nato's side of the story, first?e operating a surveillance drone on the border of afghanistan and iran and they say they lost control of it as it was coming in in to land. based on that, that seems to tally with what the iranians are saying that they shot one down and brought one down and have it intact. the iranians are saying it's a stealth drone, the rq-170 sentinel. they haven't offered any proof, they haven't put out any pictures of the stealth droef drone aircraft. that's sort of where the disconnect is at the moment. do they really have it? how much of it do they have? and exactly what aircraft is it? that was nato's side. they he were flying it along the border. >> whether the drone crashed or whether it was shot down, obviously it's a big deal if iran has it. but why? what exactly can one glean from this thing? >> well, the great thing about drones they're cheap to build, cheap to operate, you don't lose pilots, but this downing could be really costly and expensive if the iranians has it. not just to the uni

nic robertson is in liege. nic, do we know his motive?er: investigate horse say they don't know why this man turned killer. he was a hardened criminal, had done time in jail for drugs and gun crimes. he was under suspicion of sexual harassment, almost rape. we are told he began his killing spree by shooting a cleaner in the head in the shed where he grew his cannibus, large amounts of cannibus. he shot himself in the head. there was no suicide message the police were able to find so far. the only thing they can say is they think he must have just gone insane. erin? >>> shocked and dismayed. that's how dottie sandusky says she feels after learning her husband jerry was charged with sexually abusing boys. she vows to prove he's innocent. but after 45 years of marriage, raising six adopted children together, is dottie sandusky capable of making an objective decision about her husband's guilt or innocence? darlene is someone who would know. she was married to a pedestrian fail more than a decade and she had no idea. she is out front with us t

nic robertson is in liege. nic, do we know his motive?rs say they don't know why this man turns killer. he was a hardened criminal, had done time in jail for drugs and gun crimes. hess one held a gun license. he was under suspicion of sexual harassment, almost rape. we are told he began his killing spree by shooting a cleaner in the head in the shed where he grew his cannibis, large amounts of cannibis. then his killing spree behind me in the christmas market before shooting himself in the head. there was no suicide message the police were able to find so far. the only thing they can say is they think he must have just gone insane. erin? >>> shocked and dismayed is how she feels after finding out they are husband was found guilty of sexually abusing boys. after 45 years of marriage, raising six adopted children together, dottie sandusky capable of make an objective decision about her husband's guilt or innocence. darlene ellison is someone who would know. she was married to a pedophile for more than a decade and had no idea. she's out fro

nic robertson is there. what do you know about the attacker?attacker is believed to have stood, throwing his grenades, firing down on the crowded christmas market. according to a security source, told to report to a police station on questions of sexual harassment and possible rape. he's already spent 40 months in jail on charges of supplying and growing large quantities of cannabis and also racketeering weapons. erin? >> nic, thank you. >>> next to iraq where one of the deputy prime ministers spoke out against his country's prime minister. nuri al maliki and the obama administration. arwa damon is in baghdad tonight. you spoke with him. what did he tell you? >> reporter: a sunni deputy prime minister is absolutely shocked, he said, that president obama would introduce prime minister nuri al maliki as being the leader of a democratic state. because he says individuals like himself have absolutely no power. he claims that al maliki has no intention of moving forward towards building up a power sharing government. he went on to say, and i quote,

free syrian army but not syria you know in steam libya for supporting the street who's only in syria nic or because there was. an old contentious between syria and tripoli tonight it was this country was created artificially very late so you don't have such a thing in syria and so you have the only way to divide the people is to use the confession of your so we try to do that now. below it's. sunnis and of course more so to. christian jews and so on but to have a main fight they want to create peace between and i would send signals who last competition a war in syria. hundred sixty years ago so it's difficult to prevent how do you see the situation progressing now first. i think that all be reaction to destabilize the country are not working we see a lot of problems a lot of people killed but this is not a civil war great way to organize if they want to enter with foreign troops inside like the do need or using proxy from the gulf council i think. the problem is base country is ready for battle glorious countries leaving since sixty years in the middle east who is that will has not led.

nic robertson is there. what do you know about the attacker?rter: erin, this is where the attacker is believed to have stood, throwing his grenades, firing down on the crowded christmas market. according to a security source, told to report to a police station on questions of sexual harassment and possible rape. he's already spent 40 months in jail on charges of supplying and growing large quantities of cannabis and also racketeering weapons. erin? >> nic, thank you. >>> next to iraq where one of the deputy prime ministers spoke out against his country's prime minister. nuri al maliki and the obama administration. arwa damon is in baghdad tonight. you spoke with him. what did he tell you? >> reporter: a sunni deputy prime minister is absolutely shocked, he said, that president obama would introduce prime minister nuri al maliki as being the leader of a democratic state. because he says individuals like himself have absolutely no power. he claims that al maliki has no intention of moving forward towards building up a power sharing government. he

visit grandparents is ridiculous because these barriers are being taken i disagree with a couple things nic and i thought or maybe you said you didn't think there'd be any instant benefits russia can offer an immediate benefits subsidized energy that's extremely important to using energy as a political weapon i thought we got over that not years out of that's part of creating a common economic territory each republic contributes former republic and the other thing is really because i disagree with you on this steve because i think one per what it is i know it is unusual i know one of the things is that you know i think that you know when you look at russia's energy policy is very intensely based on geopolitical interests because you know if you look at our media a close russian russian ally they pay market world prices ukraine has to do this and i don't know but the thing is it's interesting they tried it it didn't work well with them and you have a they have a differential pricing policy for that and yes because if i see no need for reasons i don't consider that a particularly. but i disag

while i'm on this story i'm joined by rod he's business as nick poole hello to you nic ok so what's different this time we had these anti corruption bribes before what's different now names have been named also there's been an acceptance of how boyd spread the problem is a promise to putin's a rock the whole of all the bosses in the sector were involved in shady deals and now we've we've had corruption draws before and president medvedev made it one of the sort of central policy issues of his presidency and he dealt with the police this is tony industry such a what the prime minister is saying is we know who you are and this is your warning so he's giving names at the time but why why now is it after the question and answer thing when people were asking when this is going to end you think i think it's pretty clear anybody who's been watching russian politics for the last few weeks sees that things have changed here. particularly off the ruling you know it's russia party picked up a very unwelcome morning the party of crooks and thieves the people in russia are demanding more almost from. the

i'm curious nic are you are you an occupy wall street supporters you like what's going on right now in the country because you know that is is one vein of what their protests are going to look if you're thinking about the economy in any sort of reasonable way then you have to conclude that radical inequality is going to destroy it we you know look i'm all about some level of inequality i'm a very competitive a type person i like the fact that i get to compete every day and i have great confidence in my ability to win but an economy which concentrates wealth in the way that ours currently does is an economy that is going to tip over it's going to eat itself we have to maintain a healthy balance and the simple fact are the healthier the middle class is the better off ultimately capital is like me will be and occupy is the first instance in general you know thirty years where people have finally woken up to how how crazily and equal our society has become by the way not just economically but of course there are all these crazy and many ways that's for sure you know i think that maybe i ma

nic robertson, thank you so much. >>> i want to keep you in the loop.ing on getting the sound. we're going to hear what he says about mitt romney. plus, this is something that people have been talking to me about. alec baldwin gets the boot from a plane because he's addicted to some sort of word game, he even tweeted me while this was going on. that is next. >>> if you fly a lot, you might be sharing a plane with a celebrity. sometimes it's fun and exciting. sometimes it doesn't go so well. >> i actually felt alec baldwin was turning off his devices and he just got a little angry. >> he was on his phone and didn't want to get off the phone. then he was going into the bathroom and became a little bit ir rate and they had to remove him from the flight. >> okay. what are these passengers talking about? they are talking about that guy in the shades. they are complaining about him. alec baldwin forced their flight to be delayed because he wouldn't turn off his cell phone. the actor blames the addictive game, words with friends. he immediately started disting

the nic says the primates may still be needed in a study of new diseases. >>> researchers from the moffetter and university of south carolina say women with scuomous cells were more likely to be smoker than those without the disease. women who smoked for at least 20 years were more likely to develop squomous skin cancer cells. >>> and a new study may have led to a new treatment for deep vain trombosis. those who took iron supplements did not have a higher risk of blood clot. this shows treating iron deficiency may help prevent deep vain trolbosis. >>> i'm tom vacar, getting rid of electronic items for hard cash, still ahead. >>> back here in 10 minutes, we're going to look at your bay area weekend. i'll let you know which day will be the warmest. >>> new at 6:00 -- >> graffiti vandalism is an ongoing and expensive problem in the south bay. but police say they may have taken down one of the biggest tagging crews in the south bay. >>> thousands of infants have died in santa clara county. now health experts have issued a warning they say could save lives. >>> could a vision of the future inc

nic robertson is live there. nic, what's the number of the latest victims in this case? >> reporter: 124 people according to prosecutor were taken to hospital for treatment. some of those with serious injuries and some of them also with psychological trauma. five people including the attacker died in the attack, and the police also saying they found the body of the attacker's cleaner at his house in a shed that he used for growing cannabis, large quantities of cannabis he used to sell, that body found overnight. if you look down over my shoulder here, you can see the bus shelters, the windows blown out, the scene of the attack yesterday. crowds gathered around. a lot of journalists and camera crews but in the middle there, flowers laid in tribute. i talked to one lady here who was a witness to the attack yesterday. she was still shaking. she had her young children with her and said she was absolutely horrified, shocked at what she had seen. she said for her, in this quiet city here, known for its trang quilt tranquility, this felt like for her, the 9/11 in liege. shockin

no one knows what happens when the nic engine of china chugging at 8% a year when that starts that stall that could be scary as well and have effects on europe and all the rest there are a lot of things off of obama out of obama's hands on the economy and is he going to get the blame for them because that's what happens to all presidents. >> kirsten, final word to you. >> actually agree with what jonah says. >> disagreement, agreement, history lessons and we are good to go. charles, you look like you have something to say. >> well, the battle of hastings. >> shannon: all right. that's it. close up four history books for now. that's it for the panel. stay tuned for one teacher's very strict policy on texting in the classroom. >> shannon: finally tonight, when a professor lays down a no texting in class policy, you should probably listen because sometimes they really mean it. >> what the [inaudible] several hundred now. >> here you go. >> i feel like doing that to my phone sometimes too. we have toil after the fact we found out the kid was in o