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Security? >> well, you have threat levels at the large airports, chris, like l.a.x. new yorks kennedy. you have large threat levels at these big city airports and airports around the world. theres been many ground attacks at airports, you know, in terminals. l.a.x. had one in 2002 at a ticket counter where a couple of people were killed. its not new, there are ground attacks at airports. so what you have is an ever-tightening ring of security. and it has to start out past the terminal with maybe...

Tremendous amount of effort in protecting aircraft after takeoff and relatively, we invested much less in protecting airports against ground attack. i want to remind you that back in the 70s, when the attacks against aviation were almost a weekly matter, many of those attacks were against airports, on the ground. european airports from paris to munich to athens to london to vienna to rome, all of them suffered ground attacks by terrorists at the time. so theres a lot that needs to be done. we di...

Resumed his air campaign. he is also launching ground attacks on the rebels as well. jay carney told me the reason why the president didnt mention it is because they have a separation here at the white house that their support of the rebels is one thing but what the president wanted to focus on last night was assads chical weapons attack. thshat they think is the most important case to make to the american people, shep. >> shepard: ed, libya is the most recent country to work on destroying its c...

Uses for military training and light ground attacks. # in california, a small passenger jet with three people on board ran into a hangar. the faa says the pilot reportedly lost control during an engine test. jumped after the plane jumped. no one was hurt. turning now to business, jackie deangeles. >> good morning to you. futures higher after stocks rallied on thursday closing near the highs of the day as fears over the fed pulling the plug on its stimulus programs started to ease. look for d...

Gave his first comments in suffering that gruesome injury telling the "new york daily news" that, quote, this is a minor setback for a major comeback. a true american hero helped start the baseball season in the nations capital this afternoon. clint roam ashea threw out the first pitch. in february he became the fourth living medal of honor recipient to serve in iraq or afghanistan. for his actions during one of the worst ground attacks of the afghanistan war, the taliban attack on combat outpos...

To syria. the planes can be used for air to ground attacks and for training pilots on more advanced fighters ordered from russia five years ago. tensions between iran and the west ratcheted up today. jennifer griffin has details from the pentagon. >> it was a major move designed to push iran back to the negotiating table. the european union banned the import one day after the british and french warships followed aircraft carrier through the strait of hormuz. abraham lincoln was the first aircraf...

Fighter jet training aircraft to syria. the planes can be used for air to ground attacks and for training pilots on more advanced fighters ordered from russia five years ago. tensions between iran and the west ratcheted up today. jennifer griffin has details from the pentagon. >> it was a major move designed to push iran back to the negotiating table. the european union banned the import one day after the british and french warships followed aircraft carrier through the strait of hormuz. abraham...

International air strikes, rebels continue to push back forces loyal to gadhafi. this morning an opposition spokesman claims the rebels captured gadhafi as hometown of sirte, a city located half way between the rebel-held east and the government-controlled west. if that is true, it will be a significant victory for the movement which retook two key oil complexes and eastern town over the weekend. those developments come as nato agreed to take over command and control of the entire libya operatio...

We begin with gaining momentum after a week of international air strikes, libyan rebels continue to push back forces loyal to gadhafi. this morning an opposition spokesman claimed that rebels captured his hometown located half way between the rebel-held east and the government-controlled west. it would be a significant victory for the movement which took two oil complexes over the weekend. those developments come as nato agreed to take over command and control of the entire libya operation inclu...

Week and they say they can produce as many as 100,000 to 130,000 barrels of oil a day. possibly up to 300,000 barrels of oil a day within the next week and they say they already have a deal with qatar. one thing that the rebels also are doing, when they come across some of the tanks, partially destroyed by the air strikes, theyre loading those tanks on to flat beds and bringing them to benghazi and other places and trying to fix them so they can use the tanks themselves. again, harris, dramatic ...