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on the georgetown pike near walker road in great falls. zeal -- delia goncalves returns to the scene. >> reporter: vdot crews worked through the night to remove a second tree deemed damaged and in danger of falling. and shortly after 6:00 a.m., the nearly 100-foot tall tree came toppling down. crews hope to avoid another tragedy like this one yesterday. it was 6:30 in the evening. police say 64-year-old albert roath iii of great falls was stuck in bumper to bumper traffic when without ...

website, cnn.com/gps that has gotten a great deal of reaction. let me talk about it for a moment. it all started because i read a website that pointed out after the s&p downgrade of the united states, no country with a presidential system of government had a aaa rating from all three rating agencies. only countries with parliamentary systems have that honor with the possible exception of france which could be characterized as having a parliament, a prime minister, as well as a presiden...

should the u.s. be taking economic queues from iran? maybe. ill explain. next, an inside look at intelligence and the war on terror are john miller who has just resigned as one of the nations top spooks. finally, a last look at how not to be a spy. first, here is my take. i wrote a blog post for our gps website, cnn.com/gps that has gotten a great deal of reaction. let me talk about it for a moment. it all started because i read a website that pointed out after the s&p downgrade ...

Been a rock solid bastion of repression. syria is led by one guy, bashar assad. a decade ago he succeeded his father whose unshakeable rule lasted 30 years. now we ask the obvious question, is syria next. joining me by phone from damascus, id like to ask you about daraa. killings yesterday. were hearing another big protest today and many more planned for tomorrow. whats happening there right now? >> its happening now. in daraa, things at the moment are calmer than it was last night, but as we ha...

Movement sweeping through the countries here in the region. what you have seen happen in bahrain and yemen seems to be happening in syria. if you look at that press difference earlier in the day, she was parroting a lot of the lines we have heard the past few weeks from other leaders. shes saying that the government there regrets mistakes that have been made. shes promising certain reforms will happen, but shes also blaming foreign forces and blaming the media for distorting facts. all of these ...

Who we know was quite ruthless. this will be a real test of how far the man in power now will go. >> absolutely right. when bashar el asaid came to power, he promised reform. economic reforms, more liberalization. that was extraordinary at the time, because syria is known to have an authoritarian regime. his father was known to rule with an iron fist. he promised this. people kept waiting and waiting, now you have protesters in the streets saying they have waited long enough. theyre not going to...

That the administration thinks that someone else needs to be in place there. yes, they do. was this is specific mission about creating regime change? they say no. >> and a last question is, just tell me if you dont know, dan, the question of an exit strategy for moammar gadhafi short of, you know, fighting to the death. is there any talk there at the white house about how they could get this guy out of that country without going down in flames? >> you know, not only do i not know the answer to t...

It seems to indicate the government is nervous and dont know how to deal with it. bashar el assad is in a tight spot right now. >> lets talk, regionally how important syria is. libya has bsh syria is interconnected with so many very important things in the middle east. thats israel, lebanon, iran, countless things will change if the leadership in that country changes. so its very important what happens there. >> absolutely. i mean, the simplest way to try to put it, and its a complex and thorny ...

from the secretary janl rasmussen, but were expecting that nato will be taking command maybe sometime over the weekend. >> there had been some question as to whether handing over to nato would be problematic in the view of arab countries, countries in the mideast. do you know how that might be resolved? >> well, this is one of the things thats been the interesting back story, joe, is that the french have said that the arabs dont want nato to take over this command because they feel it ...