sent him to rob a bank. he walked out with more than 8 grand, but died when the device went off before the bomb squad arrived. dile armstrong and the victim s family have long insisted that prosecutors got it all wrong, that she is innocent. and the real killers are still at large. i m shepard smith. this is the fox report. it s the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. hundreds of libyan men joining the fight to topple colonel muammar qaddafi. volunteers signing up in benghazi. the oil chief claims production has dropped 50% since thousands of workers left the country to escape the chaos. he claims it s now safe for those workers to come back. team fox coverage now gerri willis with more on what all this means for oil and gas prices. first, david lee miller streaming live from benghazi in libya. what s the situation like there
inside that country. shepard? shepard: leland vittert live in cairo. hundreds of americans are trying to get out of libya tonight along with thousands of other foreigners. some of those who have escaped are describing a very ugly scene at the airport. listen to this. terrible. people fighting for their life to get scrambling over people. pushing and shoving and kicking. everything. one of my fellow passengers was beaten up quite heavily. he was quite wounded after that. it was quite chaotic at the airport. other than that, we got through. we are thankful to be here. shepard: not everyone managed to catch a fight. the u.s. chartering a ferry both island malta island in the mediterranean five hours away. tonight, they are still waiting. team fox coverage continues wendell goler at the white house tonight. that boat stuck in libbia, wendell? shepard, it was a couple of
egypt. but crucially, shep, gaddafi appears to remain tonight in control of tripoli and even more critically the army has not yet in its majority turned against him. and it is the decisions that those army officers make in the next few days, shep, that will ultimately, it seems, determine libya s fate, shep? shepard: jonathan, the world is reacting in horror and disgust with the united states among the leading critics of libya s violent response. this blood shed is completely unaccept being. it unacceptable. it is the responsibility of the government of libya to respect the universal rights of their own people, including their right to free expression and assembly. yet, secretary clinton never mentioned even the name of muammar gaddafi. and the obama administration has stopped short of demanding that the libyan dictator step down. team fox coverage continues jen griffin at the state department tonight. what outcome do united states
in the rivers of blood that gaddafi s own son promised would flow. foreigners are running for their lives. americans trying to get out but can t. the ports are closed. the oil movement has stopped. the markets are reeling and muammar gaddafi vows to fight to the death and become a martyr. large sections of his country are now said to be in the hands of a rising and growing opposition. one of gaddafi s closest associates, his interior minister has joined the revolt and instructed the military to do the same. but in tripoli, it is war. like nothing we have seen since the protests began spreading across the region, libya is in the midst of a world changing crisis. that could quickly did i involve into civil war. even genocide. we have team fox coverage now. jennifer griffin at the state department. first the fox report s chief correspondent in the newsroom tonight. jonathan an extraordinary and despicable display from gaddafi today. it was everything we have seen from colonel gaddafi
don t know where it will end. we don t know how bad it will get because all of our protection will be gone. now, many of these demonstrators are school teachers. why they are here at the capital ground school is not in session. of the madison school district just filed an injunction this evening that would prevent any more work stoppages while this takes place, shepard? shepard: mike tobin outside the state house in madison, wisconsin. the governor there also responding to president obama s comments about the battle. the president said he understands the need to balance the budget obviously. but the bill seems to him like an assault on the unions. team fox coverage continues with mike emanuel outside the white house tonight. the governor basically telling the president butt out. that s right, shep. saying doesn t washington have enough fiscal issues for him to deal with the governor also says he is not bashing public workers. take a listen. we re not degrading public employees,