house republican investigators have found a new whistle-blower who s expected to offer some harshly critical testimony later this week. our chief congressional correspondent dana bash has been watching what s going on. lots of new developments. what s the latest? reporter: i just talked to a republican congressman who s on this committee who insisted they will have a blockbuster hearing this week with lots of surprises that they re saving for the big event. but the committee is strategically releasing teasers from their star witness, teasers that democrats call partisans but republicans call proof of the obama administration s misleading acts in this incidence. four military personnel were ready to board a plane from tripo tripoli, libya, to benghazi to help american citizens under fire at the consulate there. but were ordered by superiors not to go. that s what gregory hicks, chief of mission in libya at the time, told house republican investigators. the point that this plane was
rooney s funeral will be private but a memorial service is expected to be scheduled. former heavyweight boxing champ joe frazier has liver cancer. frazier s manager says the 67-year-old is seriously ill and currently in hospice care in philadelphia. he was diagnosed just last month. fight fans will remember that frazier was the first man to meet muhammad ali back in 1971 but then he lost two later bouts with ali. thousands of connecticut power and light company customers can expect another cold night without service. that freak fall snowstorm that hit the northeast last sunday left hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in the dark. and as of this morning, some 215,000 of them are still without power. the utility vows 99% restoration by tomorrow night. and a little more breathing room for greece which has been teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. prime minister george papandreou met with the country s president said just hours after narrowly winning a vote of
hard in other cities. nbc s mike taibbi joins us from typicalpi tripo tripoli. here we are, opening of the u.n. general assembly. yet we still have a war. reporter: we still have a war. in fact, chuck, if you wanted to characterize this, that s an accurate way. the libyan government, transitional national council, is recognized authority now, is having trouble starting the peace. at the same time militarily they re having trouble finishing the war. there s fierce fighting in sirte and bani walid. there have been repeated attempts in both of those towns, i should say outside both of those towns since friday for anti-gadhafi forces to go in and take control and plant the flag which they did with relative ease in many of the spots along the way to tripoli. of course, with the essential help of nato bombing. in those two towns the resistance has been fierce. they ve been turned back again and again and again.
tripo tripoli. is its leader, moammar gadhafi, going to stay and fight or could he possibly leave? and we ve just gotten this dramatic video showing armed rioters shooting at police in the british city of birmingham. so what s the latest in that investigation? we ll have a live report. let s get right to the breaking news of iran. iranian state television is reporting that two americans accused of spying have been sentenced to eight years in prison. shane bauer and josh fattal were arrested after crossing into iran during a 2009 hiking trip from iraq. a third hiker, sarah shourd, was also arrested, but she was later released last fall for medical reasons. let s turn to our very own susan candiotti, who also joins us by phone from new york city. she s been in touch with the families of these two men. she joins us now by phone. susan, i know you re trying feverishly to speak to these families. when was the last time you spoke to them or their representatives and what did th
and in part because of the president s travels to the midwest and in part because of the new energy that texas governor rick perry is adding to the republican race. wednesday governor perry visited new hampshire, and while it s clear he s the flavor of the moment in presidential politics, the more he speaks, the more people, including many republicans, ask this question by so aggressively appealing to the republican base, is governor perry undermining his appeal as a general election candidate? this comment in new hampshire questioning man s role in global warming is new fodder tonight for the perry electability debate. i think that there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling in to their projects. and i think we re seeing it almost weekly or even daily scientists who are coming forward and questioning the original idea that manmade global warming is what is causing the climate to change. here s another co