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Just arational as it is emotional. >> good morning, everyone. today is tuesday, march 22nd. im alisyn camerota in for gretchen. moments ago, news that a u.s. fighter plane went down as attacks intensify in libya. live to the war zone with the very latest. >> exactly what is the mission in libya? >> to give the people of libya a chance to -- for democracy and freedom. why not that be our highest priority? >> ok. it seems, though, that everyone is on different pages. well try to review all of them...

Welcome back to the cnn saturday morning where were seeing developments out of libya today. let me reset for you. several hours ago our reporters on the ground, arwa damon, started reporting that the town of benghazi was under attack by gadhafi forces. this has been the rebel stronghold, the center of the movement has been there in the eastern city of benghazi. but she said it was essentially under attack. we saw dramatic images of a fighter plane under control of the rebel forces coming down in...

Assume for some kind of statement from gadhafi. it turned out to be a photo op. i cannot make this up, a photo op of a huge statue of a fist crushing a plane. a fighter plane. that is what we had offered to us today. plus another pro-gadhafi demonstration going in and coming out of that headquarters. im going to throw it back to you at this point. >> jim maceda, so many thing happening as we watch the video from earlier today. one of the jets falling to the ground there, and lets bring in colone...

Paris to discuss taking military action in libya. bombings have been reported in the capital of benghazi after issuing a cease fire. this new video showing a fighter plane in flames in benghazi. details are still emerging about what happened. lets go to jim maceda for us. good morning to you. what are you hearing about this jet? >> reporter: hi there, alex. the jet is confirmed to be a rebel jet, rebels themselves who confirmed it. they have two or three of these very old jets of the 1970s they ...

Three mile island was rated a five and the chernobyl catastrophe was a 7. >> woo f. we learned one thing from chernobyl, it is that we dont know. the radioactive clouds spread over the them fear sphere after chernobyl. >> is there a nuclear coverup in japan? history tells us it has happened before at the height of the cold war in 1957. there was another level 6 nuclear accident shrouded in mystery in the former soviet union. on may 1, 1960, it became one of the prime targets on frances gary powe...

We are going to hear from a reporter in tokyo about the mood of the country just a bit later in this hour. more fighting on the ground in libya. the international community is poised to intervene with force. gadhafis army reportedly shelled mbenbenghazi, the home for rebels in libya. rebels claim they shot down a fighter plane bombing the city. government officials deny it was their plane. nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel covering things for us. lets get the latest on whats h...

Get out of the air force business. this is not a powerful air force. remember this -- no american fighter plane has been shot down since bosnia and n all of the operations that weve undertaken. i dont want to deny the importance of air defenses, but senior air force generals and experts are pointing out that this is doable. we cant wait for russian approval, chinese approval, turkish approval. this is a doable thing, its not an answer. but having boxed ourselves in with this rhetoric where the p...

Security forces and groups of armed men are beating people, preventing them from coming out into the streets of the libyan capitol. weve had many, many reports of groups of armed men shooting in the streets, opening fire on demonstrators as well. another piece of video i cannot show you now, it is very graphic, shows more than a dozen bodies of men with their arms tied behind their back on the side of a highway, wolf. some of them with their shoes off. all evidently killed execution style, and t...

And el-baradei saying it must be followed by a, quote, national unity government and is also calling for free and fair elections. and el-baradei, reports say, had been put under house arrest by the government and doused by the water canons during the protest early on and left his home in vienna and arrived in his native egypt, cairo and has been talked about as a potential president of egypt and now is speaking out, saying hosni mubarak must step aside from his office today. no word yet on what ...

Those massive joint u.s.-south korean exercises took a live fire turn today, ships and guns aiming their sights in a mock attack on an abandoned submarine off the coast of south korea. it is a suspected sinking of a south korean ship by a north korean submarine, way back in march, that started the latest round of -- of tension and in fact triggered the exercises. earlier today, we spent some time on another u.s. ship, heres a bit of what we saw and heard. the destroyer, the uss mccampbell is thi...