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Martha: secretary of defense gates saying libya is not a vital interest to the united states, so why are we there is the question today. bill: widespread flooding causing big trouble, houses soaking up an enormous amount of water. well tell you where.

Points to protect against the violence. the army deploying in a show of force, reports on saturday that 61 people had been killed. in syria alone. despite the turmoil, secretary of state hillary clinton saying the situation there is much different from libya, heres part of the explanation. >> certainly, we deplore the violence in syria. what has been happening there the last few weeks is deeply concerning. but, there is a difference between calling out aircraft and indiscriminately strafing and ...

President obama addresses the nation in prime time to explain military action to the american people and congress. meanwhile, there is this in the town of brega, libya. those are rebels on the move. we are told the capitol city of tripoli is under fire. coalition air strikes targets his -- targeting his home own as rebels celebrate their gain in the eastern part 69 country. here is more now -- part of the country. here is more now. >> [gunfire] >> bill: no translation needed there, huh? bye bye ...

♪ hello sunshine, s[ female announcer ] wake up to sweetness with honey nut cheerios cereal. kissed with real honey. and the 100% natural whole grain oats can help lower your cholesterol. you are so sweet to me. bee happy. bee healthy. >> im gregg jarrett in for jon scott, mainly breaking news in libya, western airstrikes continue to pound qaddafi targets as rebels advance on several fronts tonight, the president taking to the airwaves, to explain our mission. and big developments out of syria...

Bill: a "fox news alert," reports out of syria saying security forces, firing tear gas on thousands of protesters. and, the freelance journalist is on telephone, from damascus and the videotape is from the southern town of daraa, cell phone video and we cannot -- cannot independently verify, some reports say 61 were killed and others say it is much less than that, between 25 and 35 and whatever the case, syria is a place where you dont find protests like these and simon is on the phone now. out ...

Were enforcing the no-fly zone and what comes next, what is the command structure going to look like and what will be the involvement of american forces who are patrolling the no-fly zone and potentially doing other things. he has had trouble, being clear because it is not clear in his administration and the challenge tonight is to be clear, settle continue fusion, clear it up and make a strong case to the american people this is worth doing. martha: a lot of people want to hear what he says ton...

As other cities and we have the disturbing video of what is going on now that the army is on the street, using brutal means in order to put down these protesters, they are trying to stop a libya-like situation where the rebels and protesters get control of a few cities and take control of a lot of weapons. like what we saw in libya. president assad and his regime in syria is trying to prevent. so far, we have heard reports of at least 100 pro-democracy demonstrators killed, plain clothes policem...

The president say emphatically it is the policy of this administration that we are not going to fight other countries civil wars. bill: okay. hes hinted at that, i think, so far, nine or ten days in. bob, what does he say? >> i think karen is right, i think he says were not here to fight other peoples wars, but were brought in as part of a coalition to save peoples lives and degrade qaddafis military. those two things have almost been completed. now the question is where do we go from here. is i...

The government? as they transition, some sort of democracy, or military rule or perhaps a combination of both, and obviously, we have the conflict which now developed into a full-blown civil war in the country of libya, at the end of the report leland mentioned iran. three weeks ago, the iranians sent two naval warships through the suez canal and docked at a port in syria which brought grave concern to israel because it sits in the middle of all of this now in the eastern mediterranean. somethin...

Locations. we have driven in through brega and ras lanuf which is in opposition fighter control, again, pushing further west from abdijaya over the weekend, it was still in the hands of qaddafi troops but they have pushed back because of the nato strikes, taking out the artillery and heavy arnowhere that theyve retreated to sirte. the west line is in front of sirte, where qaddafi tafntion and troops are dug in and rebel fighters continue to probe positions there, trying to gain access to that to...