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Perspective. thank you so much. jon: several u.s. navy ships have moved back closer to the japanese coast after moving farther out to sea over radiation concerns. take a look at some new video of the u.s. seventh fleet command ship, the uss blue ridge transporting supplies for the victims. favorable weather conditions are allowing those ships to move closer to shore for relief and rescue. but growing radiation levels from the plants at fukushima remain a concern sparking widespread concern here ...

Here in this region with the aid efforts sending more emergency rescue teams and supplies and seven ships are position the off the coast. navy helicopters flying relief runs between the mainland and the uss ronald reagan is serving as a base of operation. we will have much more on that mission in a moment. dozens of other nations including the united states are sending the japanese government millions in disaster relief. early on monday, early today in the united states, president obama said the...

Relief operation once and if the government of japan asks for help. lets walk you through what we do know so far. there are three major navy warships in the region that are getting ready to move to lend a hand to japan. first up, the uss essex in malaysia and getting ready to get underway relief supplies and start steaming toward japan to help out there. its going to take it a few days to get there, but they are getting underway. the uss blue ridge, a navy command ship in singapore also getting ...

"americas newsroom," good morning, im arthel neville in for martha maccallum. bill: she has a few days off, nice to see you, arthel and welcome back here, im bill hemmer. good morning, muammar qaddafi saying only 150 people dead not chaos and not the thousands like most reports are estimating on the outside. arthel: and now the u.s. military is mobilizing a few big guns, just in case. two guided missile destroyers and a command ship now sailing the mediterranean near the suez canal and david lee...

Ships closer to this divided nation. want to go live to our pentagon correspondent. the u.s. military now considering some options. what do we know? >> well, weve now learned today that a second us navy destroyer as now entered the mediterranean sea. now, it has two in the mediterranean sea. as well as a command ship in a port in italy. if you look toward the suez canal, two more ships have been moving closer. one is the uss enterprise. what this is doing is giving the military options. anything...

Mediterranean. the ... in essence a second destroyer was moved into the mediterranean crossing the suez yesterday, jointing a command ship off the coast of sicily and we were just told by secretary gates that the uss kearsarge and a transport ship can hold a lost cargo with a carrier deck, they have been ordered into the mediterranean. so, again, they are setting up, moving the naval assets closer to the libyan coast but they are positioning them for humanitarian assistance. >>shepard: thank you...

Barry, the stout which is a destroyer and the mt. whitney a command ship. but its stuff to enforce the no-fly zone if you dont have the planes to do it with. >> reporter: you cant do it. the question becomes do you want to do it. i think secretary hillary clinton had a good point. we dont want this to be a revolution that has made in america stamped on it. let the libyans do this. our role is a different role. one of the roles we could have is the egyptian military who are talking to the libyan ...

As did the airplane that left a little later. >> another british naval vessel is on its way. >> we had military assets over the horizon, that is the situation, you know, was concerning anyway. we had options available. >> pentagon officials said they never received a formal request to help. if they did, the u.s. navy only had a destroyer and a naval command ship in the mediterranean. neither of them particularly good for passengers. the u.s. military officials tell us that the real reason they w...

>> reporter: the reason the state department opted for a ferry they werent sure they could get permission for flights to land. there were heavy bribes being asked at the airport and canadian plane that went into tripoli have not been able to take off even though the american plane went to istanbul. >> and pentagon did not get involved? >> reporter: they werent asked they were on the horizon but they only have had destroyer and command ship in the mediterranean, not particularly good for passenge...

>> another british naval vessel is on its way. >> we had military assets over the horizon, that is the situation, you know, was concerning anyway. we had options available. >> pentagon officials said they never received a formal request to help. if they did, the u.s. navy only had a destroyer and a naval command ship in the mediterranean. neither of them particularly good for passengers. the u.s. military officials tell us that the real reason they werent called upon is the state department was ...