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happening at this air force base. it is currently on lockdown. that is what were told. a public affairs person on base tells us, quote, it has been reduced to a single point of entry are. obviously were making phone calls on it and well keep you posted. as soon as we learn anything more about this air force base in tucson on lockdown, well bring it to you live here on cnn. moving to libya, the hunt for moammar gadhafi has spread way down south into this cluster of outposts in the sah...

for moammar gadhafi has spread way down south into this cluster of outposts in the sahara desert. what you see right there, bombs. those are bombs going off at an airport seized by the rebel are s. libyan rebels are taking on hard-line gadhafi loyalists hundreds of miles south of tripoli. this fire fight, you see and hear it, ben wedeman found himself right in the middle of it it. ben is live for us now. as i said, hundreds of miles south of tripoli, way out in this desert, just after ...

>> right. all right. chris lawrence, thanks so much from new orleans. appreciate that. in this disturbing discovery on a beach in panama city, florida, what does that look like to you? some there say its a large oil container with bp markings right on it and that it washed ashore yesterday, leaking a small amount of oil. cnn i-reporter ben wally snapped this shot off the tank. its unclear if the container originated from the deep water horizon drilling rig which exploded april 20th. officials ...

mural. why? well, from rescue to recovery, crews are now looking for bodies instead of survivors at that arkansas campground that was swept by flash floods. the death toll rose to at least 18 today, and as many as two dozen are still unaccounted for. governor make beebe says four people are confirmed missing but another 20 people may have been in the area when the floods hit. the flood waters came so fast many had no time to escape, but our casey wian talked to one woman who made it ...

life joins us live. ill ask him if he learned anything new from that interview. a a. we are asking the person who was asked to lighten the skin color on this mural. why? from rescue to recovery. crews are looking for survivors rather than bodies. the death toll rose to at least 18 today and as many as two dozen are still unaccounted for. t the. >> they said the river is rising so fast i cant get out of my cabin. his cabin was built on piers, his cabin was moving. and while he was tal...

the president visits mississippi, alabama and florida over the next two days. tuesday night he goes on television to update the nation on how the u.s. government is responding to this growing environmental catastrophe. cnn plans to carry his address live at 8:00 eastern. the following day president obama meets with bp chairman carl hendrick sponburg at the white house. today republicans are blasting him, the president, for not doing this sooner. >> he could have picked up the phone a...

Guard officials, and they say hell have a response by tomorrow night. all of this is because up to twice as much oil aflowing from that broken well as originally thought. and bps containment cap is catching a lot of it but missing a lot of it as well. meantime, a stainless steel box about the size of a refrigerator washed up on a florida beach today. it is marked bp and it is leaking oil. but it is not known if it came from the doomed rig. so we go now to chris lawrence. hes in grand isle, louis...

But it is not known if it came from the doomed rig. what is it, do we know, chris? >> reporter: we know it is a stainless steel container, don. it washed up in panama city beach, florida. it washed ashore this morning. we have spoke on the the sheriff there as well as one of our i reporters, ben wally. he says it washed up in the shallow water. some of the officials got a crane and dragged it up on the beach. that is when they noticed it will still oozing a little bit of oil. they told the swimm...