like syria or the ivory coast where people are currently battling their government that in those places the circumstances just aren t the same. there is not the same level of force, the situation is significantly different enough that the world has not come together. shepard: at least not yet. in fact, today the white house said america s involvement in libya sets no precedent. and the u.s. will handle other uprisings on a case by case basis. so what does it all mean? team fox coverage and the brady bunch boxes tonight. steve harrigan, mike emanuel first the national defense university where the president will speak not from the white house. mike, what else can we expect from the president? well, shep, we expect the president of the united states to lay out to the american public why he believes libya is different, why he authorized the use of force. you can also expect the president and a team promising that the u.s. would only be in command for days not weeks a
problem here because of all of qaddafi s oil money. tens of billions of dollars in cash. so he can afford to pay a lot of people to do his dirty work. the goal, hand over control to some unidentified somebody in days, not weeks. and what signals the end of this war? to that question tonight, there is no specific answer. we have team fox coverage. jennifer griffin at the pentagon. james rosen at the state department. first, let s get to steve harrigan live this overnight in tripoli. steve, a lot of antiaircraft fire earlier. what are you seeing there now? shepard, right now it s quiet, but three times tonight we have had heavy antiaircraft fire. those red tracer bullets going up into the sky. they usually follow loud explosions on the ground. inside this city of 1.5 million people for the third night in a row we have had major explosions. not sure whether they are from cruise missiles or from attacks from war planes those explosions coming from qaddafi s one mile
nuclear crisis in japan. despite being taken off the front pages it is far from over. in fact, in many ways it got worse today as they had to evacuate that fukushima power plant as smoke or steam started rising from two nuclear reactors. officials investigating the cause of this steam or smoke which delayed workers from getting the plant s cooling systems up and running again. the u.s. nuclear regulatory commission reports reactor cores of units 1, 2, and 3 all have damage but that their outer containment structures are holding. workers have already connected units 5 and 6 to dediesel generator. get to team fox coverage now. our greg palkot in the city of osaka japan. trace gallagher on the nuclear disaster. take us through each reactor and where things stand in this disaster. shep, the number one reactor appears to be stable tonight. the power is back on there the number two reactor the power is back on but there is white smoke coming out. it s unclear where that smoke exactly is co
heart broken by the images coming out of japan which he calls one of our closest friends and allies. the united states will continue to offer any assistance we can as japan recovers from multiple disasters. and we will stand with the people of japan in the difficult days ahead. shepard: and the pentagon tweeting today and i quote: despite precautionary repositioning of ships, we remain committed to the mission to help japan. to let s get to team fox coverage now. first to james rosen live at the state department. james, i want to hear more from you about that relief mission as we work to get more information about reports of an explosion at the nuclear facility. james, to you. shep, the u.s. government has been at this from the very beginning. the united states agency for international development uasaid had a team ready to go within an hour of the earthquake. over the military side crew members on board uss blue ridge
especially the victims and their families. i offered our japanese friends whatever assistance is needed. shepard: that assistance includes u.s. aircraft carrier in japan and another on the way. team fox coverage continues. shannon bream at the pentagon tonight. the u.s. has other ships headed in that region as well, right? shepard, we know of at least seven that are headed that way. they included uss ronald reagan. it s a super carrier. it has all kinds of capabilities like air lift which would allow cargo and people to move on and off the ship. medical facilities that equate to a full hospital on board. other ships on their way to the region are stopping in ports like singapore to on load relief supplies so they can get those to the people of japan. also have some 38,000 troops on the ground there. they could be immobilized as well. shepard: we are watching brand new pictures coming in live. this is the first time we have seen these pictures. we have heard so much about the deva