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February 23, 2011
Americans to malta. we have full breaking details in a moment and the latest om libya. also tonight, well go to ground zero of that deadly earthquake in new zealand, right in the middle of a big city. and later, four americans dead on a yacht, hijacked by somali pirates. navy s.e.a.l.s swung into action to save them. we have new details on what happened and what went so very wrong. we begin with breaking news out of libya. u.s. citizens being offered a way out by ferry in a few hours from ...
February 23, 2011
To use funds from the robbery to bankroll her border watch group. libyas political crisis rocked the stock markets with oil prices plunging. -- surging. the dow plunged more than 200 points in the last hour of trading. the wisconsins democratic party is accusing scott walker and republicans of blocking access to a left leaning website in the state capital. the spokesman called the accusation a lie and said the pro-union website was blocked only temporarily as all new websites are where the s...
February 23, 2011
Of libya. >> great to get your take this morning on the situation that is rapidly deteriorating it seems in libya today. thank you so much. >> thank you. well, its every high school athletes dream. to be state champion. but one 15-year-old sophomore gave up his dream of being state champion in wrestling because he refused to wrestle a girl. that wrestler will be here with us to explain why he did that. also, this morning, there is a big storm brewing in the mississippi valley. reynolds wolf ...
February 23, 2011
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February 23, 2011
[ gunfire ] >> you can hear it, heavy automatic weapons fire. some of the protesters are armed. but the incoming fire is too much. you can see the car peppered with bullet forces. the streets are not safe and many libyans are hiding in their homes. i spoke to a woman in tripoli a short time ago. >> there was shooting without mercy. more than 200 people had passed away, maybe more, nobody knows. nobody knows the real number. but definitely more than 200 people have died yesterday. >> do you still...
February 23, 2011
Carrying out their officers orders to fire into the protesters. several said they fired randomly in the air to avoid killing fellow libyans. so it appears that even though the military, in many areas, continues to carry out gadhafis orders, they may be doing it unwillingly. >> you talked about pro-gadhafi tribes in egypt that might attack the east. is that a real possibility? >> reporter: it is a possibility. in fact, gadhafi for many years, every time he would visit egypt, he would go to the oa...
February 23, 2011
On. lets start with tunisia. they have less than 1 billion barrels. in egypt, its 4.4 billion barrels, and most of that stays in egypt because they export very little of it. in bahrain, theres also, again, less than 1 billion barrels. but then take a look at libya and you see theyre sitting on 44.3 billion barrels and responsible for about 2% of all oil produced in the world on any given day. and much of that production is in question this morning. jim burkhard is at the emergency research and c...
February 23, 2011
The u.s. is against getting the citizens out of libya. its chartered a ferry. thats scheduled to depart tripoli less than three hours from now. passengers will need to reimburse the government for the cost of the trip. the state department says so far its not been able to schedule chartered flights out of the country. tonight spend a little time now looking at some of the important divisions within the libyan army. cnns ben weederman was the first western tv journalist to report from inside li...
February 23, 2011
Control. youre about to hear from a man for the first time in 42 years says he can say he is free. his name is mufta and when we spoke to him on friday, government shootings were under way. he was risking his life just to call us. now he insists on showing his face. thats because moammar gadhafi no longer controls benghazi. for now, benghazi has taken on the appearance of a liberated city. i spoke with mufta earlier today. mufta, what has it been like the last 24 hours? >> its been great for us ...
February 23, 2011
I am elated. i am happy, you know? i cannot express my feeling more than that, you know? >> mufta, stay safe. well talk to you again. >> thank you. >> lets bring back in jill dougherty and fareed zakaria. can gadhafi hold on? >> i think he probably can. its a pretty brutal regime. we tend to think of gadhafi as this comical mad cap, but hes ran one of the most repressive countries in the world. libya was tied with north korea for the most closed repressive society in the world. he has the guns a...