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Urbana, illinois. they need to vote on a budget bill that would restrict coll t collective bargaining rights for state employees. going to overtime talking about the nfl owners and players. they have been extended through today. the current collective bargaining agreement set to expire at midnight last night. president obama, a bears fan, weighed in yesterday saying leave me out of it. >> im a big football fan, but i also think that for an industry that is making $9 billion a year in revenue, ...

Anti-gadhafi protests in libya. war planes attacked a rebel position in eastern libya overnight. that follows president obamas warning against gadhafi against using violence to remain in power. the president stating publicly for the first time that the libyan leader must go. >> colonel gadhafi needs to step down from power and leave. that is good for his country. it is good for his people. its the right thing to do. >> and the president has not ruled out a military option for libya. cnns ed henr...

President himself said this could end in his words in a bloody standoff, which seems like the worst of all possible worlds, this just dragging on. >> good to see you as always. our senior white house correspondent ed henry at the white house for us. hugo chavez, fellow dictator and ally to gadhafi proposed sending an international good will commission to mediate in libya. he says he spoke to gadhafi who requested that the whole united nations come see the reality on the ground before any invas...

Come across gadhafis troops, that there they are treated worse, there theyre held up at gunpoint. in some cases robbed by libyan soldiers who also seem to have instructions to search them for cell phones, for laptops, for sim cards which they then take away from them because they dont seem to want any images of the atrocities that were hearing going on inside libya getting out. so not only do they lose what little earnings theyve made -- and you have to consider these people are going to libya b...

It is scrambled two fighter jets to intercept a corporate plane. it happened near toledo, the plane was out of communication and that is when the f-16s shows up and contacted the planes pilot. we are told communication resumed and private plane continues on the path and everything is now just fine. the libyan dictator who says his people would die to protect him, sending a convoy of medical and food supplies to the rebels. they rejected it saying it could be poisoned. a live update from inside l...

>>shepard: before i let you go, charles, there are concerns expressed by the human rights council about the possibility of food shortages and the use of food and water against the people. have you seen signs of this in the benghazi area or beyond? >>reporter: we hear talk of it. there are scattered reports of shortages of medicine and other goods for hospitals. so far, there is food here. it is not hard -- the stores appear full. it does not yet appear to be a pressing crisis issue. but, it cert...

>> in the years ahead libya could become a peaceful democracy or face protracts civil war, or it could descend into chaos. the stakes are high. and this is an unfolding example of using the combined assets of smart power, diplomacy, development, and defense. >> inside libya, rebels repealed an assault from gadhafi forces in three key cities, including the one they hold closest to the capital of libya. nbcs stephanie gosk is reporting from benghazi, one of the areas in the country held by rebel f...

Involved in dealing with libya, ended up benefiting personally. how and who benefited? >> well, its the old revolving door, martin. david welch, senior u.s. diplomat, who negotiated the lifting of sanctions against libya, left the state department at end of 2008 and immediately went to work for bechtel, a major construction company. among his duties, overseeing business development in libya. mark alan, the british spy master who dealt directly with gadhafi on his decision to surrender nuclear we...

As his sons. the security resolution allows for an investigation by the international criminal court into the crackdown in libya. it was a unanimous vote. one of gadhafis sons who has been very visible during his crackdown, says his fathers government will survive. the streets of tripoli, relatively quiet right now, thats the capital city. but nic robertson reported from the western city of zawiya, minutes ago that there are anti-government protests under way. they are armed, but afraid of cla...

And free will. well explore that this morning in our faces of faith. we start with the mass exodus of foreign nationals from inside libya. this morning, a ship carrying thousands of chinese citizens finally left the eastern city of benghazi. and a plane made it out of tripoli. many others waiting to get out. this video shot by cnn crew in the capital city. a virtual tent city filled with people trying to evacuate and thats just at the airport. united nations refugee agency says as many as 100,...