in the process. the basis for awarding federal contracts is supposed to be whether the person or business is providing the best quality at the best possible price, the best value to the taxpayers. the obama administration wants to inappropriately insert politics into the system. that is completely wrong and i m very much opposed to that. jenna: it is a story we ll watch closely the administration is supposedly sending someone to capitol hill talking about the policy as it stands but maybe not this future proposal. we ll keep an eye on it. thank you so much, senator collins. nice to have you on our show today. we appreciate it very much. thank you. jon: in libya the rebels are claiming a major victory against qaddafi s forces in a key western libya city. the we ll have a live report coming up. search for a missing baby intensifies.
shows they have laid off 36,500 work hers, a little bit under that last month. that s a 12% drop from last month. the pays of job cuts is slowing. big jobs report on friday will give us a new unemployment rate and that s what the markets are watching for. jon: rebel reinforcements are arriving in the libyan city of ajdabiya. they are offering protection for residents returning to that strategic town but there is practically no fuel or cars or cooking there. unexploded bombs are still lying around in the streets. nato helped defend the city against moammar qaddafi s forces fighting to clear a path straight through to the rebel stronghold of benghazi. we are getting new reports qaddhafi forces are shelling the rebel held town of misrata. the battle goes on there. jenna: syrian tanks on the movement witnesses say they are on a damascus road heading
recent reports that the port had been mined. they wouldn t comment on those reports. there is information coming from the ground now as a humanitarian ship was docked, the red star 1, moammar qaddafi forces shelled the port of misurata. the shelling reportedly killed four people, a man, a woman, and two children. some of the aid from that ship was delivered to misurata and some 800 people were able to board, many of them migrant workers and injured libyans an journalists that would like to leave the city. they are now reportedly enroute to the rebel stronghold of benghazi. recently 12,000 people have fled the city of misurata using 12 ships but there is still significant number of others who have been left behind a number of them tried to board that ship today and they were unable to do so. and the libyan government has said time and time again that the rebels are being supported by al qaeda. the government here in
it seems like there are hundreds and hundreds of people with ak-47 s, semi-automatic weapons, some of them in uniform, some of them not in uniform. you can also see the streets are lined with thousands and thousands of libyans who have come out today to pay their respects to the qaddhafi family and once again to also vent their anger. reporter: two of qaddhafi s sons attended the funeral. moammar qaddafi was con speubg ooh lust lee absent . we have not seen or heard from the leader since the air strikes took place. they say even though he was in the home that was struck by nato he is, and i m quoting now in good health. jenna: pakistan s president speaking out about the death of usama bin laden for the very first time. the world apartments most wanted
moammar qaddafi s forces have been shelling the city with moat tars and rockets preventing a humanitarian ship from docking there. this ship has on board food, water, medicine and other splice. once it docks it s supposed to take some one thousand migrant workers out of misrata along with libyans who are injured and 32 journalists who would like to leave the city. as of now the ship has not been able to dock. on the streets of tripoli there is a great deal of rage and anger because ever the air strike that killed the 29-year-old son of moammar qaddafi. yesterday we went to the funeral for saif al-islam qaddhfi and we saw the anger and frustration on the streets for ourselves. rage and anger over the death spilling over into the streets. the funeral has been going on for well over an hour. there is a massive amount of security on the ground.