the atlantic defense organization did say they have had a command control center and also an anti-aircraft battery in that town. this is another khadafy stronghold, about 90 miles southeast of where i am right now. it s been heavy going really for the last week for the fighters. they have encircled the town and they may well a start a fight from the south because in the northern part of the khadafy loyalists hold the higher ground. this is a tough fight for those fighters. back to you, heather. heather: thanks very much. gregg: the palestinian authority in the united nations to two weeks to decide for their bid on statehood. how might this affect the middle east?
sadly for us, we ll have to live in real time, i m afraid. heather: all right. thank you so much. we appreciate your insight. thank you. glad to be with you. gregg: you think it would debunk einstein s theory on relativeity. a florida jury delivering a verdict in a high profile murder trial. bob ward s daughters sobbing after it s read. coming up. we ll have reaction to the jury s decision from judge jeanine pirro. joins us live. heather: major developments out of libya. explosions rocking the nation as nato tries to protect civilians from forces loyal to moammar gadhafi. we will take you live to tripoli. ently than many other allergy medications. omnaris. omnaris, to the nose! did you know nasal symptoms like congestion
gregg: dozen of chunks of an old satellite falling for hundreds of miles to earth and latest on the impact site. heather: thousands of republicans voters are gathering in orlando voting in the florida straw poll getting underway minutes from now. the poll is traditionally a key indicator hospitalize will go on to win the florida primary on the gop nomination. chief correspondent carl cameron is live in orlando. we re waiting on the straw poll results with carl. carl, set the scene for us. reporter: the actual balloting has begun now and they are here and they are making their final decisions. many candidates did speak at the straw poll event but the two front runners left florida earlier, romney and per ri are in michigan on mackinaw island but before rick perry departed the sunshine state he spoke to a prayer breakfast of republican activists and made it clear thesis there has to be a kind of candidate not necessarily skilled in debating but firm in his conviction, cas
we re waiting on the straw poll results with carl. carl, set the scene for us. reporter: the actual balloting has begun now and they are here and they are making their final decisions. many candidates did speak at the straw poll event but the two front runners left florida earlier, romney and per ri are in michigan on mackinaw island but before rick perry departed the sunshine state he spoke to a prayer breakfast of republican activists and made it clear thesis there has to be a kind of candidate not necessarily skilled in debating but firm in his conviction, casting himself as such one. listen to this. americans are looking for in a candidate, they are looking for an authentic principled leader. [ applause ] think about it. you have seen what happens when our country chooses leaders who emphasize words over deeds. . reporer: as i said earlier, a number of candidates had an opportunity to speak today. each of them making their pitch why they belong in the oval offic
gregg: like what? or radiological, or you could take for example, right now in libya, we don t know where gaddafi is, but even more importantly to my mind is we don t know where gaddafi s weapons of mass destruction are. we have a short window to get our hands on this chemical weapons. we know he had a lot of mustard gas. we know he had some shoulder launch missile, called the man-pads or rpgs. 20,000 of those. he has raw materials. some of the raw materials of nuclear weapons. he doesn t have a bomb. he gave it up. but is there stuff there to be sold on the international black market, could find its way to a dirty bomb and bomb in times square? gregg: what do we do? i hope we have people on the ground in libya rounding that up to keep it off the black market. there is evidence that some of it has started to show up in one or two market in that port of the world. i assume we do, i don t want to know about it because the less said the better. i sure hope we have. gregg: k.t. m