at the radisson, club sandwiches arrive on time in the lobby.amo and a security scanner are the really only discordant notes. >> don't want to take the video -- >> you don't, okay. >> inside the old part of the city, men slaughter a camel, while a girl records it with her ipad. >> okay. he said no. >> kids are setting off fireworks in the medina. >> incoming. >> tomorrow is the prophet mohammad's birthday and people who have not known freedom for nearly 50 years are ready to celebrate. martyrs square is filled with families, kids, teenage skater boys and hotshots on motorcycles. it's wild. and almost giddily happy. young men in the camouflage pants of the militias, most of whom were civilians until last year, do their best to sporadically keep order or just join in the fun. every kid above the age of 5 seems to have been issued a lighter and a fistful of fireworks. ambulances idle on the margins of the square to treat fireworks-related injuries, of which there will be many. >> that was good. >> this is tripoli. after 42 years of nightmare. how t

yesterday, saw people sleeping in the corridors of the radisson just a short distance from where i'm standing. generally, state of shock here at los angeles international airport. back to you. >> you have to commend the police for their swift reaction. reporting live from lax today, thank you. >>> an extreme weather alert now. strong winds and heavy rain slamming the northwest this weekend. some people in higher elevations there are bracing for up to a foot of snow. >> don't forget to fall back this weekend, tonight, right. >> the clocks. >> bring the clocks back. just an friendly reminder. some of us have to work and we have to get to work on time. let's look at the satellite radar imagery. a store system is exiting the east coast. then a weak system across the great lakes. but the system we're going to be talking about today is the one across the northwest where we're seeing some rain. we could see some wind gusts inside of 60 miles per hour. this is the big snow event for the cascades. the first of the season for them. it's going to continue to move eastward across the intermountai

the al qaeda is staying at the radisson and hilton thanks to obama's shameless withdrawal in iraq, they are in africa and the subsahara. 150 years ago lincoln promised us a new birth of freedom. obama has given us a new birth of al qaeda. bill: the white house is pushing back on the fact that we could have troops there for 10 years. that would break a fundamental promise the president made when he was running for office. >> the promise has made a lot of the contradictory promises and now he's trying to walk some back. the bottom line for the white house is they don't want this to go disastrous. they don't want the taliban in kabul before 201. but if this were only about the money. that would be politics. but it's about the maiming of our troop for no good purpose. the open reason you can argue that we should be there at all in any capacity is to keep killing across the borderer in pakistan. the notion that karzai says this has to be aproved by the loyajerga. it's a meeting of the mob families of afghanistan. bill: a lot of blood and treasure. martha: a big plane, and a small airport. th

the northeast england area. >>> now, to fighting between rival faction in libya's capitol which has left 10 people wounded. >> clashes broke out in several sections of tripoli. several buildings were hit by gunfire. among them, a radisson hotels where glommats and business travelers stay. rebel groups ended moammar gadaffi's dictatorship but that country has been plunged deeper into instability. the country has no constitution. >>> a deal on iran's nuclear program could be within reach. john kerry hopes to broker a deal that could freeze some of the uranium enrichment activities. after the first day of talks, iran's foreign minister said a deal could be reached by friday. this is the second meeting with world leaders on this issue since august which president hassan rouhani took? >> benjamin netanyahu says he thinks any deal with iran could be a mistake of historic proportions. kerry will meet with him in israel before he heads to geneva. the secretary of state was in jordan calling for more international aid for syrians. struggling to go cope with half a million syrian refugees. he . >>> the americans who are losing their current health insurance plans get a presidential apology. while he was touting his healthcare pl

chief was killed and buildings were hit by gunfire and among them an radisson hotel where business travelers stay and they ended thetor ship two years ago but since then they split up and the groups are accused of going deeper into instability and the country still has no constitution. muslim workers fired at a dhl site in kentucky are filing a complaint with the government and said they reversed the break time policy allowing muslims to pray which takes a few minutes and they were fired at the mail facility last month and say coworkers who are not muslims were given nonscheduled breaks to smoke and federal laws call for quote reasonable accommodation for workers to follow religious obligations. the senate takes a historic vote on gay rights. >> the bill as amended is passed. >> reporter: they voted 64-32 for a bill that would ban employers from discriminating against workers based on sexual orientation or gender identity and called the employment nondiscrimination act. >> when we say something is wrong and it shouldn't be done, that sends a powerful message to prevent discrimination in the first place. this is a r