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Convincing qaddafi to do so. the spy chief defected yesterday and the deputy head of london mission defected yesterday. >> whos left? >> theres a lot left. one says hes the right and left hand of qaddafi. if they can get to him, the government collapses. so if you cant count on the rebels best thing that could happen is for them to realize their days are numbered and the world court awaits and thats what you could be looking at. >> you heard the president of the united states, arguably the most ...

Up the firepower. they have been bombarding the rebels with rockets and shells, forcing the opposition to retreat to the east. theres word nato launched a new round of air strikes in the country, the situation there very fluid and no one seems to know how its going to play out. there are possible scenarios. joining us with a look at those, jerry sieb of the "wall street journal". you laid out that the president -- you said that the president laid out the scenarios, you point out four, two good a...

Around the world looking for monsters in the world that dont have understanding of the rights of the individual are? >> let me tell you. i talk to folks involved in the process. there is great concern within the process. the military response to civilian leadership, it lays out intentions by policy. young we dont have a clear policy in militaries being asked to operate. >> is it likely that the general in charge is saying to the president, mr. president why dont you let us take out gadhafi or br...

Remember, it cant turn into a nuclear bomb. it will kill 210,000 people. thats if there were still 210,000 people here. 210,000 people. a nightmarish tragedy. right? that is assuming all the people are there and all the containment doesnt work. there is something else cooking around the world. there is no more containment left. its called the bond market. if the united states dollar collapses, which ill show you at the bottom of the hour, you are starting to have the meltdown, if that collapses,...

So clearly were vulnerable. >> no question as you see that map and see all those nuclear power plants along the coast, some are further away from the coast, some are closer. you begin to see the scope of the problem. unfortunately, weve got to go. i could talk to all of you all day, but paul gunter and stephanie cook, thank you for joining us for now. up next, the global economic impact of japan and what it means for us. if japans economy collapses, what affects will that have for us? well tal...

Remember, it cant turn into nuclear bomb. it will kill 210,000 people. thats if there were still 210,000 people here. 210,000 people. a nightmarish tragedy. right? that is assuming all the people are there and all the containment doesnt work. there is something else cooking around the world. there is no more containment left. its called the bond market. if the united states dollar collapses, which ill show you at the bottom of the hour, you are starting to have the meltdown, if that collapses, h...

Its okay, its okay. and then as it got stronger and then i started to get scared too. in the hallway. dubbing down. a -- ducking down. and i think that we were just kind of waiting to see if we should go out or slow down. i didnt really think the building was going to collapse. i was thinking, if this building collapse -- collapses, what are we going to do? >> that was i-reporter jessica tekawa speaking to us many of the iwitnesses to the quake and to the tsunami. getf lets get more on the rescu...

Are trying to pull trapped individuals from the rubble. look at that. that is the roof theyre trying to lift up that has collapses and is sitting on the floor of this theater. aaron stayed for a half hour and he says two or three people might have been killed by the collapse. we will bring you more viewer i-reports later in this hour. but that one is quite amazing. >> wow. the death toll continues to climb in japan, two days after the countrys largest earthquake on record. and the tsunami that...

Here it is for our viewers. it may not be news to some of on our viewers, but for those who just joined it, it will be. what does that suggest to you? >> weve seen the explosion that took out the outer -- the upper structure. so now we just have a melting frame where it looks like the other three which are still intact on the site. and whenever there is an explosion on that floor today, there is a cloud, a very small particle of smoke which happens for some time. we remember the terrible picture...

Rescuers are, of course, searching for survivors. >> we know the scores of buildings are collapses or damaged. of critical concerns are two of japans nuclear power plants. this is a story were watching closely. officials say cooling systems in some reactors have failed and some radiation has leaked. more on that angle to the story in just a few moments. >> now our correspondent kyung lah has spent hours trying to make her way to the northern quake zone and joins us now from near sendai, the city...