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6:00pm eastern time on special report and join him on the fox news channel also on your local fox stations right around 7:30 when the president begins his address to the nation. gregg: its a federal program meant to track how drug cartels get their hands on dangerous weapons, but it may have played a role in the death of a border agent. why a key congressman believes the justice department and the feds are standing in the way of truth. plus, her husband and his parents are behind bars, still no ...

Plan to hand over to allies. the nato mission will be to enforce the no-fly zone which is essentially already in place, but u.s. british and french jets will still go off the no drive zone for qaddhafi forces and that involves another kind of element of things, and hell also be taking to leaders on capitol hill who have had a lot of disparaging comments about how this has been rolled out, both from the left and from the right. jenna: there has been so many questions, as you point oud, about liby...

When. back to you. jenna: interesting story with a lot more im sure to come. william la jeunesse thank you so much for that report. gregg: radiation levels soaring at the fukushima nuclear power plant. workers are skrapl pwhreupb righscrambling tocontain the ra. now there is word of a partial meltdown at one of the reactors. how bad will this get? we are facing the possibility of another government shut down in just eleven days. this fight is over more than just money. we are live on capitol hil...

The lack of support from the u.s. and france. jenna: if we see a change there, what do we want. >> this is a very complicated question. in part because remember the obama administration came in wanting to repair relations with the president. you heard hillary clinton call him a reformer rather than a tyrant. the entire middle east strategy which is trying to make progress on the palestinian conflict is rounding making better arrangements with syria. a lot of us would like to see the support for ...

Casualties caused by any of the nato air strikes. take a listen to defense secretary robert gates yesterday. >> the truth of the matter is we have trouble coming up with proof of any civilian casualties that we have been responsible for, but we do have a lot of intelligence reporting about qaddhafi taking the bodies that hes killed and putting them at sites that we have attacked. >> reporter: we heard from the libyan ambassador to washington, basically as this whole mission began over a week ago...

Appear to be opposition figures who were tortured before they were killed by qaddhafis forces. gregg: jennifer griffin thank you. jenna: the president getting ready to address the people on libya tonight. this is the first military campaign president obama has launched before taking office. some critics contend the speech is over do. lets talk a bit about the timing and the content with bret bair. that is what some have said, that its too late. why hasnt this address come sooner? >> reporter: we...

Dont forget israel in this conversation as we take a look at what is happening in the mideast region, israel being our true ally in the area what will iran, michael, what do you think iran is thinking right now watching what is happening in syria? >> well, i think that for iran this is sort of mixed. were the syrian regime to fall i think that would certainly be concerning for the iranian regime which has used the syrian regime as its closes ally in the region. jenna: do you think its a possibil...

Long it will be, that the majority of it will deal with the operation, and the libyan operation, but that he will talk about the regional influences, and what weve seen in tunisia and egypt and other places. of course it gets sticky when he starts talking about, if he does, syria and yemen where obviously killings are ongoing of protestors against those governments. and the line is if were in libya will we have to be in yemen or in syria eventually if that killing ctinues? i think defense secret...

Drizzle. that is making hazardous conditions but it should be out of the area this afternoon. as you head southward, florida, dealing with thunderstorms, a lot of humidity, and there was a severe thunderstorm watch issued out early this morning, that has expired. that did include fort lauderdale and also west palm beach. so were going to see conditions continue to slowly improve throughout the day. otherwise the big snower is the extreme cold behind that cold front, 30 in new york, 30 cleveland,...

>> let me tell you about carter country. they have been cooperating with the atf from the get go. >> reporter: you assumed they had your back. >> absolutely. we felt we were partnered with the atf in a lot of ways. >> reporter: the operation has since been linked to the death of agent brian terry and 150 shootings in mexico. >> i did not authorize it. eric holder the attorney general did not authorize it. >> reporter: one of the questions that we always ask is who is lying. darrell izza has open...