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And he is as defiant as ever. >> translator: we will be victorious in this fight. we will not give up. they will not terrorize us. we are making fun of their rockets. the libyans are laughing at these rockets. we will defeat them. in any way, by any method. >> as reza sayah would say, that was vintage gadhafi. there is reza now in benghazi. i want to start with something with regard to where you are. we heard from the president, secretary clinton speaking about an hour ago saying libyans are saf...

I know you know that the president has been in south america for the past couple of days, but he has now cut his latin america trip short to return to washington. air force one has just taken off from elle sal ra dor and in an exclusive interview with cnn the president says the coalition air strikes on libyas military has already saved lives. >> gadhafi had turned his troops on his people and said that they should go into benghazi, a city of 700,000 people, and show no mercy. and because the int...

Well as targeting some of his early warning radar sites. his air forces have not flown. now, that f-15 that went down yesterday, the u.s. says it was a mechanical failure from the beginning. gadhafi forces have claimed they shot it down. but whats believed to still remain are some mobile surface-to-air batteries and coalition commanders have said theyre not necessarily really targeting those because theres so many of them, theyre so mobile and so theyre only taken out as the situation warrants. ...

Have not been spotted in the skies. meantime, weve been hearing from president obama. he now has cut his latin america trip short. there he is in el salvador with his family. he hes cut the trip short to head back home to washington. in fact, in an exclusive interview with cnn, the president says the coalition air strikes on libyas military have already saved lives. >> gadhafi had turned his troops on his people and said that they should go into benghazi, a city of 700,000 people, and show no me...

Well, we mentioned we have breaking news out of washington and a lot of people coming forward, members of congress on both sides of the political aisle, fairly critical of president obama and these objectives here as operation odyssey dawn is now in its fifth day in libya. and now we are hearing that a letter has been sent from speaker boehner. our own congressional correspondent breanna keilar will go over the letter with me on the other side of this break.

Theyve gone through and seen. but by and large those who go to these places do so because they can and they can deal with it, as horrible as some of it is. there are others who cant. and good for them. >> and you know from experience. >> yeah. >> michael holmes, love it when you sit down and express -- i love reporter notebooks, hearing beyond the headlines, your own story. >> its the sofa. >> it is. were warm and cozy here. thank you so much. coming up, relief for the families of those three ...

That country. nonetheless, the government claims thats not the case, but they understand theres tension. now, what really ratcheted up the tension in the past week is the fact that you had forces from gulf cooperation council countries like saudi arabia come into bahrain to help the government against the protestors. these are sunni forces, forces from sunni countries going into a shiite-majority country. the opposition there, the protestors, they saw that as being like a declaration of war agai...

>> reporter: now, if you look at americans and what they think, there are a few polls out there. a gallup poll on wednesday showing 47% of americans supporting it and 37% against action in the -- u.n. action in libya. thats a little bit less support. but you do have a cnn poll from monday which shows 70% -- well, seven in ten supporting the no-flow zone. so looking at all of these polls -- and they do vary somewhat, brooke -- as long as its being described as humanitarian, to rescue people and s...

That air force one has now landed. remember the president cut his latin america trip short to get back home. there are pictures of it landing at andrews. back home in washington, obviously predominant topic that he needs to deal with immediately is libya. and on tt note, i want to go now to congressional correspondent brianna keilar who has a letter from speaker boehner. how critical, brianna, is it of this operation in libya? >> reporter: there is some criticism in here, brooke, but i think par...

East of tripoli. if you get misrata, its an indication that rebel forces are moving west towards the capital of libya. right now theyre fighting. theyre fighting over misrata and what gadhafi forces appear to be doing are putting cells within miz raut at that, snipers, attacking civilians according to witness accounts, gadhafi loyalists throwing grenades at civilians. the question is, how is this no-fly zone, how are u.s. f-15s or french fighter jets going to take out those types of fighters, th...