controls from that big fighter. shannon: libya s latin american allies think the oil strike is a grab for oil. hugo chavez qaddafi s main ally called the action irresponsible and nothing but interference of the internal affairs of a country. meanwhile cuban leader fidel castro questioned the usefulness of the u.n. security council which authorized the strikes against libya. and morales strongly objected to foreign intervention in libya but also said he was against human rights violations in that country. admiral mike mullen chairman of the chiefs of staff says a no-fly zone in libya is certainly in place a senior military commander has a bit more caution. jennifer griffin joins us live from the pentagon where the news continues to break, hello, jennifer. we actually have updated number, shannon, we can report there have been 124 tomahawk forces filed.
to go after the humanitarian aid while we have all of these atrocities and qaddafi is trying to gin it back up and threaten to do genocide type actions to put it in terms of the american people. i do think this t. is important is he not ignoring it. is he down in rio doing an important trade mission and engaging them on commerce issues. he addresses to why it is exactly why we are there. i think it is an important speech he will be giving. shannon: phil, in the last couple days he has had very strong language we must act in libya. this is something we must got involved in, we clearly have from a military standpoint. ncaa brackets and all kinds of things. is it too little too late or has he handled it right all along the way. it s a careful needle that you thread. the loudest criticism has been from the left in the democratic party. john larson and a bunch of democratic congressman held a conference call suggesting that the president was well beyond the scopes of his legal authority
tokyo, and a massive relief operation involving many nations including 50,000 members of the u.s. forces based here is ongoing now to help the over 400,000 people still in the evacuation centers up in the northeast. they still have real difficulty getting fuel, food, and water. the official death toll has now risen to 8,000 with another 12,000 missing, but the japanese police are reporting at this hour that 15,000 people could still be missing and have lost their lives in one location alone. back to you, shannon. david piper live from japan. thank you so much, david. well, the international coalition strike if libya looks a lot like the start of the 1991 gulf warp. qaddafi s strategy is to prolong the situation, hoping to play the role of victim. do military analysts think that strategy is going to work? plus, what is the cost of enforcing a no fly zone to
shannon, the sentiment from lawmakers on both sides of the i ll aisle this morning is that our enforcement of no-fly zone is justified. we didn t hear a lot of complaints that we are over there. we did hear some complaints that the president has not involved congress enough in the initial plans stations of operation odyssey dawn. congress wants to be more involved. some members aren t sure how they can be since the president is on a different continent. we know that the president has to be in contact with congress. he is now out of the country, and that s probably has been less than it should have been. national security council spokesman says the president has talked to members of congress about libya, including at that white house meeting before he left for brazil and even though i have the i have the vitor. he tells fox that s not the goal of this resolution getting rid of qaddafi. that s something that john kerry
both of them evil. it kind of registered. i think it s easy when he is trying to charm you, when he is taking you across a barley field as he gave me a ride in his tractor one day across the fields of libya that he is smart and intelligent and engaging. but he is also a killer. and we have got to remember that as we now take him on militarily. you are familiar with his family as well. we heard from his son today that this is all a big understanding in hindsight you will regret what you have done and you will see you have made a big mistake and the u.s. has been supporting the wrong people is that more of the party line down from his father? absolutely. he has been the father and son have been fighting what they call al qaeda in his country for many, many years. because it s been the single largest threat to their rule which is the islamist, militant islamist. of course, qaddafi wants to say who would you rather deal with? me or al qaeda?