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Differences. >> is he his fathers son? >> he is much more open. he is very pensive like his father. he spent time in the west. he likes the technology toys of the west. he is a computer nerd. he married a cosmopolitan. >> reporter: first lady assad was dubbed a rose in the desert. the piece ignored human rights abuses in the middle east. assad promised reform when taking over. there is no escaping he is the son of assad. >> he is a child of the super power cold war.

May be a tricky task for some humans, right? what about a machine or maybe two. check out these devices. this is switzerland. theyre jumbling them. theyre quad rho koppewere toly use overhead tracking sensors to follow the ball and are not piloted by human. kind of cool. also this. if you are a borderline space geek like me, youll get a kick out of this. these are taking -- this of the planet mercury. messenger veered into mercurys orbit just this month after 6 1/2 years. pretty cool stuff. in...

Stan lee, who brought spiderman and a slew of other superheroes. im so excited. grab the cracker jax. open day today for major league baseball, but check the weather. it doesnt feel like spring, does it, if youre anywhere in the east? rain and cold temperatures pretty much making it miserable. in new york, it barely made it into the 40s for yankees fans. in our nations capital, the president did not go to opening day -- or he will not i should say. events in libya and elsewhere keeping him b...

Longer engaged in any aerial bombardment of libyan targets to protects civilians. also, it looks like theres a significant dispute emerging between the obama administration on the one hand and nato secretary-general anders rasmussen on the other hand. rasmussen says flatly that the resolution does not authorize any arming of the rebels fighting gadhafis forces. the u.s. position is it may or may not. they certainly dont go as far as razz musing. dianne feinstein is with us. also denis kucinich...

Land them in jail. >> of youve said people are worried about gps tracking devices could be in their simm cards. >> its not just syrians. diplomats and americans living in syria, as well. >> wow. i know we have some video. this is youtube video. the person says this was shot somewhere in southwestern syria. what were looking at, its showing a crowd of people throwing shoes up at this billboard the face of president al assad. we know throwing shoes in the arab world is a show of extreme insult. di...

Okay. weve got her back on the phone. lauren bond studying arabic at american university if cairo just spent a couple of weeks meeting people in syria, listening to them talk about their country and their leadership, president al asad. what led to you syria? >> i went to syria for a conference funny enough on arab news of today and the arab world of tomorrow under the patronage of the first lady. and when i was there, i had planned to do a story on that conference which just happens to have been...

Loyalty demonstrations they call it. of course, the attitude there was -- many speculate the people taking to the streets supporting president al assad are simply trolls of the government, that they might be paid to go out there, they might just be fearful, but it was a very different scene in damascus and some other areas. >> ive got one more question for you. we know that he president al assad spoke yesterday and made no mention of ending this nearly 50-year emergency law. when you talk to peo...

those are the rebels. and what you see right there is actually the road we spoke about just yesterday. this is that coastal road meandering along the med ter and ian sea where most of the fighting is taking place. heres the maps. today the rebels have regrouped near brega. but i want to turn the corner because all eyes today are on tripoli and the quell of whether gadhafis inner circle perhaps has been collapsing. moussa koussa turned up yesterday in london defected, heres what we know...

theyve also had to leave two critical oil ports, brega and ras lanuf. the u.s. navy launched a new barrage of cruise missiles at targets near tripoli and nato takes command of the operation today. joel brown is in washington with more. good morning, joel. whats the latest? >> betty, it wasnt even a close fight. gadhafi forces routed the rebels, proving again to many, they dont stand a chance without the coalitions help. the u.s. starts handing over control of the military operation in ...

we do have winter weather advisories out to our west. want to show you the readings right now. 50 in culpepper, the warm spot. still in the 30s in garrett county. low to mid-40s right now. as far as live doppler 9000 hds concerned, there may be a few sprinkles starting to develop. not all of this is reaching the ground. north of fredericksburg, see the darker greens coming across the river over toward dahlgren, trying to lift into charles county, there may be a few sprinkles there. we ...