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Libya is not getting back to us, we cannot independently confirm that. >> this is exactly the problem with libya. you mention the media blockade. the media has been trying to play catch-up essentially since the protests started in benghazi. we hear reports from relatives and friends, then a day later the numbers are confirmed by the media. youre absolutely right. you have to verify every single number. >> its difficult. asma, help me understand this. help our american audience understand this. b...

This is just an american controlled effort and now there is a better opportunity, now that it is sweeping the region and he went out of his way at the press conference to say something about iran and i think they are edging up, cautiously, to something that approaches more of that span. >> they are a long way away from that. >> but they are getting tougher in the rhetoric. >> id like to see them get tougher in the actions, sooner here -- >> would you like to see them openly support the freedom f...

He then watched television coverage as we are watching these pictures unfold, these developments unfold, on television. president obama was doing the same this morning, looking at the scene that has unfolded in cairo, that he was there watching for several minutes, just outside the oval office, watching the coverage, as we are watching extraordinary developments take place. weve also been told now that president obama will make an on-camera statement later today about what we are seeing that is ...

You mention president obama there, his reaction and what the administration has said throughout this crisis in egypt, i think youre exactly right. playing catch-up is the way people on the ground interpreted the u.s. administrations reaction to all of this. some express frustration toward me, other american journalists, u.s. government has not been clear in calling for and giving its support to the pro-democracy protests so -- but i think the united states is in that position also of having to b...

To brass tacks, the no child left behind puts such a strong emphasis on english language ars and math it has taken out of the school day performing history. weve got away from a holistic education. a lot of the courses that teach the critical thinking, problem-solving, communication and creativity that are part of -- partnership for 21st century skills have been lost because science isnt being taught in the lower elementary grades, middle schools are playing catch-up and by the time kids get int...

Dallas. looking for snow to continue throughout the morning. houston is another problem area, by the way. you have a lot of freezing rain. were hearing the interstates are just not passable at all. stay home there today. dallas love field, the runways are closed here as well as corpus christi. its the snow in dallas, the freezing rain in corpus. and all of that liquid is spreading off to the east now and were seeing freezing rain across parts of louisiana as well as into miss py. other airport d...

And cedar rapids about 9.5 inches of snowfall. temperatures gripping all of the country except for florida at this time. its going to take a long time for that snow to melt. now, weve got new concerns at this hour with arctic air in place. conditions are right for winter weather. look at this, weve got winter storm warnings from brownsville to houston, all the way up to central parts of mississippi. expecting to see freezing rain, some snow and sleet. in fact, we can see up to an inch in houston...

Government thats dedicated to ushering egypt into the 21st century. egypt and really most of the arab world has been on vacation from history for the last 50 years thanks largely to oil. egypt didnt have oil hit the peace treaty with israel. what peace with israel was to egypt oil is to saudi arabia. it got egypt all of this aid. i want allowed the regime to move very slowly on democratization. now it has to play rapid catch up. the really sad thing is, david, is that, you know, the first rule o...

Government thats dedicated to ushering egypt into the 21st century. egypt and really most of the arab world has been on vacation from history for the last 50 years thanks largely to oil. egypt didnt have oil hit the peace treaty with israel. what peace with israel was to egypt oil is to saudi arabia. it got egypt all of this aid. i want allowed the regime to move very slowly on democratization. now it has to play rapid catch up. the really sad thing is, david, is that, you know, the first rule o...

It allowed the regime to move very slowly on democratization. now it has to play rapid catch up. the really sad thing is, david, is that, you know, the first rule of politics is make big decisions when you have strength and leverage on your side. mubarak has had three decades, basically, to make the big decision of making egypt, promoting egypt in a transition to democratization. he did not use this opportunity all these years and now hes got to make a big decision. egypts got to make a decision...