and that will be a worry for him. nic robertson, thank you. addario, one of the journalists captured by pro-gadhafi forces in libya spoke about her hair rowing experience. a guy reached over from the front seat and started carresing my hair, like a mother would a son or daughter and he started touching my face, very gently and saying this phrase over and over. i said to anthony, what is mort? what is he saying? anthony said, he s telling you you re going to die tonight. and i just i mean, what can you say? don t miss the second part of an ac 360 prime time exclusive tonight, new york times journalists captured by the regime share more stories. 10:00 p.m. eastern. you won t want to miss that
gadhafi s tanks and troops. we would not be participating in the strike missions. reporter: u.s. senators say america has holstered its most effective weapons when they are needed most in libya. your timing is exquisite. reporter: john mccain says gadhafi has rowdied the rebels. that s when we announced that the united states is advocating its leadership role and removing the most valuable assets. reporter: the fight is over the a-10 and ac 130s used to attack in and around cities. they fly low, closer to the target and shoot machine gunfire instead of just dropping bombs. you pull them off, they are not flying and there s no i haven t pulled them off. reporter: bad weather in libya grounded the gun ships the last few days. in that gap, gadhafi forces regrouped. the planes will fly for a few more days until nato takes total control. the idea that the ac 130s and
secretary gates has argued that between iraq, afghanistan, troops also helping out in japan, there s not enough manpower and even a reduced mission in libya is going to cost american taxpayers about $40 million a month, also says there s just not enough money to go around. chris lawrence at the pentagon. thank you. ali velshi spoke with billionaire oil man t. boone pickens about alternative forms of energy and reducing the american addiction to foreign oil. here s some of that conversation. the thing is going to carry us and i hate to say this, it s not because it s patriot i can not because it s clean and all, it s cheap. natural gas on gasoline gallon is $1 to $1.5 cheaper than diesel and gasoline. when you look at one mcf of
in march. that s better than what economist were expecting. the unemployment rate edged down to 8.8% as well. the lowest since march of 2009. in libya, opposition leaders gathered in the rebel stronghold of benghazi. they extended the offer of a cease fire with moammar gadhafi s forces only under certain conditions that include pulling his forces outs and giving libyans freedom of expression. on the front lines, rebels are moving to push gadhafi s forces back but the troops are turning up the attack in various cities. the cia told congress that gadhafi s troops are killing a substantial number of people in towns where the media is not present. and now there are growing signs his inner circle is cracking under international pressure. a day after the current foreign minister defected, we re learning another of gadhafi s men has defected.
movement, we see an awful lot of these down there. these are the libyan rebel flags that are being waved by the rebels in libya across the border. they re very popular here in egypt, these types of demonstrations as well. it also shows the immense amount of sympathy coming from egyptians for the protestors, the opposition movement, across the border against moammar gadhafi in libya and at protests like these i ve seen in other arab countries we also see the flags of other countries that have sparked these pro-democracy movements, them being waved as well, as a sign of solidarity. and i know, you know, we talk quite a bit about egypt and libya these days, but this lael all began in tunisia. so how are things going there? reporter: that s right, tunisia was the first successful revolution, and i just got off the phone with the a tunisian friend. there were clashes in the