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youre looking at live picture from the united nations. where all eyes right now are on this years general assembly. president obama and the first lady, michele bachmann, expected to arrive in new york only minutes from now. at issue for the united states and much of the world this week, a showdown over the middle east. the palestinian authority president vowing to submit a formal application for statehood to the united nations security council. it could have serious implications for th...

>> reporter: for three generations his family has worked this land trying cotton, tobacco, soybeans before finding the climate just right for sweet poet. >> were blessed, unfortunately, with gnats at hot temperatures. those are things we have a supply of. thats what sweet potatoes want. its a tropical plant thats adapted to warm temperatures and southern soils are relatively poor. >> reporter: and now the poor soils are making north carolina rich. >> right here in this field is the capital. nort...

tripoli today. a government official says one of the blasts hit a compound belonging to libyan leader moammar gadhafi. nato claiming responsibility, at least one of the attacks which it said struck a vehicle in a storage area. the airstrikes happened during the daylight which has been rare for nato strikes in libya. president obama arrived back in the u.s. within the last hour. he wrapped up a six-day trip to europe today in poland where he did meet with the prime minister, also met ...

Things about her, when you actually get to meet her, is she has met every head of state, every leader going back to the 50s and she knows so much. youre told not to talk to her about she engages in conversation about things about world politics, foreign policy. she really is a very knowledgeable observer. >> well, and part of the constitutional duty of a monarch is to advise, to encourage, and to warn, and shes had 12 prime ministers since sir winston churchill who shes done all three of those t...

Need to import oil from the persian gulf by 2023. i think everybody would agree wed be better off if we did it. >it. >> nor, ill give you the final word. >> i dont know anybody that believes we can shut our use of gas by 2020 or 2023. thats absolutely ridiculous. jackie was quite honest a minute ago when she said we dont want the domestic industry to compete with new energy alternatives. and she fundamentally disagrees with what i know is the consensus of americans. we need to do all of the abov...

Very, very difficult under the present circumstances and regulations. >> they also say look, we dont need to get oil from the volatile middle east where there is all this violence at the moment, why dont we go to canada and get it or brazil and get it. >> we are planning to do just that. we therefore dont need to go to the gulf. and you are saying on that one? >> we cant get all of the energy we need from any single location. all of the above is the right hanes and part of all of the above is in...

This war in libya is al-qaeda, bar none. >> sean: al-qaeda is claiming michael that the terrorist leader saying the arab revolts are boosting al-qaeda. they are open about this. we foe from our own state department and other reporting, that in fact, we may be arming those people, if they decide to arm them and may be protecting the very people that want our destruction. >> well, thats why we need more intelligence information. the intelligence gathering has been wrong, like iraq even. the day be...

This war in libya is al-qaeda, bar none. >> sean: al-qaeda is claiming michael that the terrorist leader saying the arab revolts are boosting al-qaeda. they are open about this. we foe from our own state department and other reporting, that in fact, we may be arming those people, if they decide to arm them and may be protecting the very people that want our destruction. >> well, thats why we need more intelligence information. the intelligence gathering has been wrong, like iraq even. the day be...

The use of firearms, on average hit 1 out of every 10 -- have a hit with 1 out of every 10 shots they fire, the idea of increasing the number of firearms in the hands of citizens who will not have the training that police have and the lack of knowledge about when and where to use firearms and colleges and bar rooms and subways. id be very afraid of that. >> just a final question, briefly, if i can, you talk regularly to serving officers. >> certainly. >> how do they feel about this spike in atta...

There. >> the "uss mt. whitney" is a ship designed for normandy style invasion. it has the best command and control, bar none, across the globe. >> thats where its all happening. central command. alec, good to see you. appreciate your insight. >> good to be here. in a few moments we expect could hear from president obama for the first time since u.s. forces started protecting libyan residents by force. well bring you his comments live from chile. earlier today, a top u.s. kmapder said the mu...