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i'm peggy bunker. >> i'm rob nelson.fi brothers' comments come as opposition forces move even closer to libya's capital. we get a rare look inside the embattled country and this ruler's family. interesting interview. the son saying, show me evidence civilians have been killed. denying what's happening out there, according to the media, and saying, my dad is not leaving. he's there to say. >> they're not going anywhere. that's what they're saying. >>> also coming up, what addiction experts are saying about charlie sheen. just before his one-on-one interview on "good morning america" and "20/20," we asked him point-blank if he's on drugs. >> increased speculation whether "two and a half men" will come back to the air at all. we'll see what charlie has to say. on top of all that, it's monday after the oscar night excitement, from the red carpet to the actual awards, who looked good and who -- >> who not so much. >> jennifer looked good. >> she looked good. >> that was not an example of the worst dressed. >> no, we'll talk a

rob and peggy? >> emily schmidt, in washington. thanks, emily. >>> saudi arabia is taking steps to make thur the protests in that region do not spread to the kingdom. king abdullah returned wednesday after three months away for back surgery. and brought with him a massive economic aid package. it will provide saudis with interest-free home loans, unemployment assistance and debt forgiveness. >>> there's grim news in new zealand in the wake of that massive earthquake. officials say the death toll has climbed to 98. clarissa ward reports from the devastated city of christchurch. >> reporter: in so many parts of this shattered city, the race is on. >> we are pulling people out. some very lucky to be in a pocket. other people, not so lucky. we don't know. >> reporter: at this building, relief. roslyn chapman found alive. her first day on the job. she was trapped for hours in a tiny space under her desk. rescue workers cut through pancaked floors and ceilings to reach her. hundreds of rescuers have been working around the clock, careful

. >> reporter: rob and peggy, good morning to you. diplomats say they are not ruling out any options on sanctions. this means that libya's dictator could soon face more resistance from abroad, to go along with the uprisings at home. libyan anti-government protesters are moving closer to their capital, closer to moammar gadhafi's last area of control. and they say, they're united. >> there's no division between us. all one team. and we'll fight as one team, until we die or he's out. >> reporter: gadhafi shows no signs of leaving voluntarily. in a call to state tv, he says the protesters were on drugs. and blamed al qaeda for the uprising. >> translator: it is bin laden who is duping your sons. this is a fact. >> reporter: this independent video from an eastern port city earlier this week shows the force of people fighting for gadhafi. >> they shoot people in the head. and in the chest. direct. the goal was to kill the people. not just to fire on them. >> reporter: the unrest has caused crude oil prices to surge 20% in the past week. pr

. >> and i'm peggy bunker.so much damage in downtown christchurch that it's been evacuated. even the city's most recognized landmark is in ruins. >>> also ahead in this half hour, major developments today in libya where antigovernment demonstrators are demanding an end to the moammar gadhafi regime. how gadhafi has responded just hours ago, went on tv to make a bold statement. all signs indicate his power -- you know, he's on the way out. >>> also coming up a little later, how everyday parents are following celebrity trends, throwing their children ultralavish birthday parties, even when money is tight. >> have you ever seen that show on mtv -- >> i know. >> -- "super sweet 16". >> they get the cars? where were my parents when that was going on? >> me too. >>> breaking news from new zealand. 65 people are dead after a earthquake rocked the southern city of christchurch. >> that death toll is expected to rise as rescuers frantdically search for hundreds trapped beneath the rubble. 6 terry moran has details on wh

rob and peggy? >> emily schmidt, in washington, thank you. >>> reform efforts are playing out differently in bahrain. the king agreed to pardon dozens of prisoners. at least 50 prisoners have already walked free. opposition leaders say they will sit down and talk, but not until all prisoners are let go. >>> also, the u.s. is denouncing the killing of four americans by somali pirates and urging international cooperation for a crackdown on piracy in east africa. the americans were shot to death after pirates took them hostage on friday. one of the pirates told "the los angeles times" they had no intention of killing the hostages. it claims that u.s. forces fires on them first. >>> former white house chief of staff rahm emanuel, has his dream job, mayor of chicago. he cruised to a decisive victory in last night's election. we'll have much more, including reaction from emanuel himself, later in this half hour. >>> in other news, wisconsin's governor is warning that layoffs could begin as early as july,

i'm rob nelson. >> i'm peggy bunker.ama is watching events unfold in the middle east back home he has made a major decision that could affect the future of same-sex marriages. we'll have all the details. >> a big reversal for the administration. >>> the latest from the devastating earthquake in new zealand. officials say they have not given up hope just yet of rescuing more than 200 people still listed as missing. >> here it comes again, sunday night will mark oscar gold. it will be handed out to hollywood's best. but are they really the best, is the big question? a look at who got snubbed from this year's oscars. >> like every year, a lot of snubs. >>> first, new concerns this morning about the safety of americans trying to exit libya. bad weather has delayed a ferry that is taking hundreds of u.s. citizens away from all that chaos. >> meanwhile, international pressure is growing on libyan leader moammar gadhafi to stop the violence. lara setrakian has the latest from dubai. >> reporter: the uprising against moammar gad

peggy and rob? >> now, lama, gadhafi has been in power for 40 years. the question that many people are wondering is will he leave? >> reporter: well, there are reports that he has left the country. although his son saif al islam on tv overnight said he remains in libya and is leading the battle from there. there's no way of confirming that he is still in the country at the moment. but as i said, there are reports that he's already left. will he actually step down so far, the indications are no. he will not give up power yet. as you rightly said, he's been in power for more than 40 years. and saif, his son, on tv said, we are not tunisia or egypt, comparing the country to what happened recently in those countries with the deposing of their leaders. saif said that the armed forces are with him, with his father. tens of thousands are here to be with him, he said. and they will fight for the last man, the last woman and as you said, the last bullet. peggy, back to you. >> of course, we're seeing democracy brewing in other countries. even extending far into

." >>> good morning, i'm peggy bunker. >> that's right. i'm rob nelson. me extend a warm welcome to a new face on "world news now," joining our crazy little overnight family here. >> thanks, rob. i appreciate it. great to be here. >> absolutely. tell us about yourself. where are you from? >> i'm from seattle originally, came from working on the morning hours in denver, colorado, but i also lived in new york for ten years. it's nice to be back. >> so, back to these crazy hours. >> back to these crazy hours, which i'm used to. a nice, fun crowd here. doesn't feel like the middle of the night. >> that's good. we try to keep it light. welcome. we're caffeinated and ready to go. >>> coming up, the unrest in libya. new fears today of a civil war after dictator moammar gadhafi's son issued a dire warning on television. >>> also, the online video game getting lots of buzz called spent. we'll tell you what it is and why it's calling attention to a very serious problem, homelessness. >>> up to 1,000 flights are canceled across the upper midwest because of a februar

i'm peggy bunker. >> i'm rob nelson. least 113 people are now confirmed dead in this week's earthquake in new zealand and the final death toll there is expected to be at least three times that. hundreds of search teams, some from here in the u.s., are now searching for survivors. authorities say they have pulled nothing but bodies from the rubble for the past 48 hours. two confirmed dead were infants. one killed by a fallen television set. >>> in houston three children are dead after a tragic fire at a home day care center. there were seven children inside the home, all between the ages of 18 months and 3 years. neighbors saw the smoke and tried to help. the owner of the day care center pulled out two of the children herself. the other four children remain hospitalized. >>> citgo petroleum has just been fined $300,000 for an explosion at a texas refinery nearly two years ago. as abc's brian ross has learned, dozens of aging refineries across the country use the same toxic chemical blamed for triggering that blast. now mi

. >> and i'm peggy bunker.mmar gadhafi and the unrest in libya that could end his 40-year dictatorship. we'll get the very latest on the tension there. >> he's certainly carved out the rep chlt. he's considered the mad men in that part of the world. i think the last couple of days have furthered that reputation. >> very bizarre man, absolutely. that's undisputed. >>> also ahead this half hour, the strongest evidence so far that links cell phone use to potential problems in the brain. what you should know before making calls. folks have been worried about this for years. and we spend so much time, you know, wired up these days. >> pressed to your head, right? >> oh, man, scary. >>> and later, treating pets who are in chronic pain. a handy laser that's making a difference and the veterinarian who is actually seeing some results. >>> but we begin, though, with the increasingly violent situation unfolding still in libya. the government promises to continue its attacks on protesters. and leader moammar gadhafi says

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only one, peggy noonan says wall street wins. are you that sure that the government wins a showdown? >> the key distinction is between the president and the democratic party. senate democrats are not looking good. it is perfectly possible that if this all falls apart that empeople will blame the parties. president obama is in a perfect position to do what he has been doing since december, which is to put himself above the argument and find the compromise. bring the parties together and get the big compromise. he turns out being the savior. chris: you don't want to be the one who is absolutely rigid on this. i think this one is an easy one, but i am not sure after all this talk on cuts. what will be a bigger issue when the voters go to the polls, when president obama runs next fall, what will be bigger, who who will cut government spending or jobs? >> it depends. the spending argument may prevail over jobs. if spending levels off, then jobs come back to the fore. >> american voters vote their pocketbook. if they don't have jobs, t

he worked with the greats, including frank sinatra, peggy lee. his best composition of all time, "lullabye of birdland" written in 1952. george shearing died of congestive heart failure. he was 91 years old. >>> we also learned today bob cook has died. we got to know bob in those pre-super bowl visa commercials. he was a member of the "never missed a super bowl" club. bob had attended all 44 super bowls until this one. he was too weak to go see his beloved green bay packers play and he had to watch their great victory from his hospital room. he died surrounded by his family. bob cook was 79 years old. >>> when we come back here tonight, valentine's day details about this year's fairy tale wedding. >>> finally tonight, with just over two months to go until the royal wedding, the world will be watching prince william and kate middleton have revealed who will join their wedding party. it's big news because it's a family first. nbc's peter alexander has details from london. >> reporter: think of it as a royal version of "will and kate plus 8." that's

. >> peggy ford is a 49-year-old mother of three from chicago. team, the misconducts was formed five years ago when a group of self-proclaimed hockey moms grew tired of watching their kids have all the fun. >> here i got it. no, i don't have it. >> you get up in the morning and you look around and you're like i'm not at home. this is awesome. i don't have to clean anything, i don't have to take care of anyone. >> come on. take it, dana. come on. go, melissa! yea! yeah. >> for gerald keen, the tournament is a long-awaited chance to play alongside friends. >> we used to play anytime school was canceled, daylight to dark. our moms used to beat us with a broom to get us off the ice. even today, we always revert back to that time that brought us closer together as friends, probably closer together than some brothers. >> gerald was supposed to be here a year ago. instead, he was deployed to iraq. after his tour, he learned that his friends had named their team the g-men. they won their division wearing sweaters that honored their friend and all those r

observatory, the first permanent mountain top observatory and the first celebrity skater in the modern era, peggy. >>> and now over to larry beil with the sports. >> first frozen waffle? who knew? the warriors say goodbye to the draft pick that never quite paid off. since we are talking about firsts, the sharks said hello to first place. >>> good evening. the sharks are playing very well. they vaulted into first place in the pacific division. in pittsburgh they had it won and gave it away and took it back. the lights went out in the arena prompting some strange entertainment in the crowd. giddy up, partner. we now have a low connection. back at two and two. tied at one and morrow squeezes it home and 2-1 san jose. less than a minute to play i and the sharks just missed an empty net. 2-2 on to overtime. he was crushed on that play. seconds left and seven, six, five, four on the doorstep and good night, drive home safely. that's five straight wins for san jose. a tough back to back. 3-2 in overtime. the nba trade deadline is coming up tomorrow. do not expect any major moves from the warriors. they

but peggy orenstein, mother of a 7-year-old daughter, doesn't agree. >> it's really hard to say where desire ends and coercion begins when you're talking about a $4 billion industry of 26,000 products and that's just disney. when i took daisy when she was about five-years old, we went scootering with a friend. and the friend had this pink scooter helmet, and daisy had this fire-breathing dragon scooter helmet. and the other little girl said, "your helmet's not pink. it's not for girls." and daisy said, "well, it's for girls or for boys." and the other little girl looked really skeptical. and i thought there was so much in this interchange about the narrowing of what's expected for girls, the potential exclusion if you don't tow the line, and just this pink box that increasingly defines girlhood and femininity as being about makeovers, princesses, and about being the fairest and ultimately the hottest of them all. >> orenstein says there are real-life risks for this fairytale obsession. she believes it limits girls' imagination and promotes sexualization. research finds early sexualiza

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scott hamilton, peggy flemming and evan lysacek. been said about this story? i'm a sports nut and when i watched this movie the other day, i was shocked that people haven't heard more about this. >> peggy and i were talking earlier. she says it is the single largest sports tragedy in the history of sports because it wasn't just the athletes that were killed. it's all the coaches, all the best coaches, parents, officials. it was devastating to u.s. figure skating. they were on such a roll. when you look back at four olympic gold medals in a row were won in men's figure skating. ladies', two in a row. >> that generation retired and then this was the new team. >> right. >> filling their shoes. >> that team then ceased to exist. peggy, you were one of the next generation of skaters who were given the job of rebuilding figure skating in this country. the olympics after the crash you placed sixth and then you won the gold. so what did that mean? >> i was on a fast track. you know, i was 12. i didn't really know if skating was going to be

of course peggy noonan put them both down beautifully. but it is just disgustingly unbelievable what these leftwingers try to do. i am waiting for your comment on that. >> guest: it is true that liberals play a game with politics, with events that are astonishing. who would have imagined that the end of the cold war, we should have all grab on in our man celebrated together, liberal democrats pleaded conservative republicans, people in between, we should have all celebrated because we all had a hand in defeating the soviet union. towards the end republicans and scoop jackson additional democrats were all that were standing. we beat the soviet union and we become without firing a shot. who would believe that the liberals would then start to say the soviet union fell of its own accord and we didn't have to spend all that money. it could have been spent on other things. we didn't have to waste that money on the american military. if you had told that to john kennedy i think he would be surprised. he would be celebrating the fall of the sovie

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. >> peggy had interesting questions in terms of numbers. if we kind of gave every foreign student who got a ph.d. in a stem field an automatic green card, would that overrun the system? i guess i would argue that, you know, when you break down the number of foreign students who are here today, you know, you're taking out the undergraduates, the graduate students in nonstem fields, and then taking out the people who drop out along the way. i think the nirms do start to -- numbering start to drop. still, a big number, you know, we don't have the best device for picking, you know, who is going to be the one starting google or an equivalent type of company, and so, you need to admit numbers sufficient to raise the probability of actually being able to find those people and keep them here, so the spirit of that proposal is basically designed to expand the field beyond what we have today because today we're kind of at the opposite end of the spectrum where there are so few foreign studentings who really have an opportunity to stay here unless the

of course, peggy noonan put them both down beautifully, but it is just disgustingly unbelievable what these left wingers try to do. and i'm waiting for your comment on that one. thank you. >> guest: well, it is true that liberals play games with politics, we vents that are astonishing -- with events that are astonishing. who would have imagined at the end of the cold war when we should have all grabbed arm in arm and all celebrated together liberal democrats, conservative republicans, people in if between, we should have all celebrated because we all had a hand in defeating the soviet union. toward the end the republicans and scoop jackson democrats were about all that were standing, but we beat the soviet union. and we beat them without firing a shot. and who would have believed that the liberals would then start to say, you see? , see, the soviet union fell of its own accord, and we didn't have to spend all that money. it could have been spent on other things. we didn't have to waste all that money in the american military. gee, if you'd have told that to john kennedy, i think he'd

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. >> peggy had interestin questions in terms of the numbers and we gave everybody in of american green card and i guess i would argue that the number of foreign students here today your taking of the undergraduates, taking out a graduate students in the bonn stem fields and taking out the people who drop out along the way and they do start to drop the the question is let's say the number is still a big number we don't have the best device for picking is going to end up starting google or equivalent type, the probability of being able to find those people and keep them here. sthe spirit of the proposal is designed to expand beyond what we have today because today we read the opposite of the spectrum where they are so few or to veto forced to have an opportunity to stay here until they have found a jo and are able to qualify for the visa through theirmployer. then on the zeros some between the high school workers it becomes easier to sum game only if we sick with the current number either permanent or temporary visa that we provide. in that situation then there is tension atthe high skil

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. >> peggy had interesting questions in terms of the numbers and we gave everybody in of american green card and i guess i would argue that the number of foreign students here today your taking of the undergraduates, taking out a graduate students in the bonn stem fields and taking out the people who drop out along the way and they do start to drop the the question is let's say the number is still a big number we don't have the best device for picking is going to end up starting google or equivalent type, the probability of being able to find those people and keep them here. so the spirit of the proposal is designed to expand beyond what we have today because today we read the opposite of the spectrum where they are so few or to veto forced to have an opportunity to stay here until they have found a job and are able to qualify for the visa through their employer. then on the zeros some between the high school workers it becomes easier to sum game only if we stick with the current number either permanent or temporary visa that we provide. in that situation then there is tension at the hi

. >> peggy had a couple of interesting questions just in terms of numbers.and if we kind of gave everybody, every foreign student had a ph.d and a s.t.e.m. field and automatic green card, would that just overrun the system. .. landau's people and keep them here. the spirit of that proposal is designed to expand the field beyond what we have today because today we are at the opposite end of the spectrum where there are so few who have an opportunity to stay here unless they already have found a job and are able to qualify for a visa through their employer and on the zero some pretty train, it becomes zero sum game if we stick with the current number in terms of the visas either permanent or temporary that we provide. in that situation there is tension between the high skill and low skill area. if we ever reach the area where we increase those numbers is -- >> i want to throw these policy issues out there because they are a bit tricky. there's something called a stable act and that you staple of green card into a graduate's degree and they can stay at that sta