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gunfire and explosions rocked the capital today. rebels say theyre making substantial gains in their fight to seize the capital. reuters reports thousands of rebels were seen closing in on tripoli today. nato says moammar gadhafis regime is, quote, crumbling. the libyan government denies the rebels are making any gains. but a government official who asked not to be named concedes that parts of the capital and its suburbs are no longer in government hands. in an audio address broadcast ...

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a ton of money. this hour, how hes dealing with the new messes that the country simply cant afford right now. and from the seat of power to an iron cage in a courtroom, the ousted egyptian president hosni mubarak goes on trial for allegedly ordering the killing of protesters. im wolf blitzer, youre in "the situation room." sort of vacation right now, theyre on leave while tens of thousands of american workers are going without a paycheck because of their inaction. a lot of new ange...

And they dont want to investigate everything that happened. in fact, theyre trying to whitewash everything. and the faa is not concerned about other air controllers stacking up planes and handing them off in violation of procedures and safety. >> have you brought this allegation to the faas complaint, even if it isnt in the document relating to your specific litigation with them? >> yes, sir. on december 12, i was called into a meeting with my ops manager at the time and the vice president union...

Underway. apparently not for everyone. that has the ladies of the view upset. >> extra supervisors will be overlooking controllers to ensure this never happens again when the vice president and the president wives are flying around what about us! [ applause ] >> wake the hell up, wait until you go home to watch your movies. get your behind some sleep so you can ensure the rest of us who may not be married to a president or a vice president even hookers need you to look out. >> they are also sayi...

Underway. apparently not for everyone. that has the ladies of the view upset. >> extra supervisors will be overlooking controllers to ensure this never happens again when the vice president and the president wives are flying around what about us! [ applause ] >> wake the hell up, wait until you go home to watch your movies. get your behind some sleep so you can ensure the rest of us who may not be married to a president or a vice president even hookers need you to look out. >> they are also sayi...

Control the problems when all discipline must be padded by union requirements, nothing gets done. >> its interesting to point out, how did this guy get busted? because accidentally, the microphone from the movie was being transmitted to the pilot. so pilots are now listening to "cleaner" the movie instead of, you know, whatever travel talk they have coming from the controller. oops! >> if you dont know how it ends, it can be distracting. >> heard three minutes of it. i hope it was a good three m...

There are several rescues in that section of the potomac as high waters created dangerous conditions there. we will continue to watch this woman hopefully toe able to bring her rescue to you as well as soon as they can reach her. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com sleeping on the job can get you fired pretty much anywhere i can think of, and depending on the job, it can get other people killed. case in point, this job, air traffic control. zen times so far this year -- yes, seven times this...

What do you see happening now? is there a stalemate that theres a partition and a force is built up? >> first of all, the no-fly zone is not working now because theres no forward air controllers. there should be troops on the ground that would -- >> like cia officers on the ground? laser sighting and calling in air strikes? >> laser sighting, gps, the whole thing. thats the only way it works when youre fighting in close quarters. its not a surprise to me that the nato bombed the rebels force. we...

What is nato? and you look at the turks, theyre in nato and they are sympathetic to moammar gadhafi. you look at the germans. they have no interest in the use of power against gadhafi. so i think theres nothing here thats in any way that we should have known it would come to this. >> bob baer, where does it go from here? you said all i long opposition forces are difficult to train, it would take a long time to get them up to a standard where they could be a fighting force. what do you see happen...