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April 3, 2011
The qaddafi tanks. how do you feel about that, the americans scaling back. >> im sorry. we want to thank them for what they did and helping us and supporting us here because the fighters need you here and the people here in benghazi. >> geraldo: what are you feel budget future, your future, your familys future. in. >> we hope that a better future if qaddafi leaves but like we dont hope that he will come back here. if it comes it will be really hard to live here any more. >> geraldo: i think that...
April 3, 2011
The qaddafi tanks. how do you feel about that, the americans scaling back. >> im sorry. we want to thank them for what they did and helping us and supporting us here because the fighters need you here and the people here in benghazi. >> geraldo: what are you feel budget future, your future, your familys future. in. >> we hope that a better future if qaddafi leaves but like we dont hope that he will come back here. if it comes it will be really hard to live here any more. >> geraldo: i think that...
April 2, 2011
Control backfiring, are people becoming increasingly upset with this company? >> reporter: upset might be an understatement. if you go onto the blogs and websites about tepco, anderson, especially in japanese, what you start to see is a general public outrage. the reason we turn to the web is theres anonymity there. on the web, its a totally different game. there are websites where you can find the addresses, the home addresses of the tepco executives. one of those web threads says, dont forgive...
April 2, 2011
They believe they need a reformer. >> foreign affairs columnist bret stevens joins us to more. to be fair to the secretary she said she was quoting other people about being a reformer not her views. >> its bizarre for her to comment for others. and assad is deeply implicated in the assassination of the former lebanese prime minister and extremely close ties to hezbollah, extremely close advertise to ahmadnejad, responsible for turning damascus into a hub for al-qaeda. >> paul: he is not a reform...
April 2, 2011
Tepco. keeping them honest tonight, despite pledges to be transparent and keep people informed, we continue to hear contradictory statements and statements that lack specifics. most recently the question of radioactive water at the plant and the nearby ocean. in tepcos briefing late last night, an official said levels of radioactive iodine from a pipe near the number one reactor had reached 10,000 times the standard limit. a short time later, the utility said no, thats wrong and well get you mor...
March 31, 2011
Potentially at least one twister thats already touched down and caused quite a bit of damage. these image just coming from our affiliate wfla. and we already know that theres been a situation at an airport in the tampa area as well with a building collapsing and possibly up to 70 people whove been trapped. we know that emergency preparedness, emergency response teams are on the way to try to get to those folks. and when we get more information, well be able to bring that to you and chad myers wi...
March 31, 2011
People from achieving that. the teacher cuts are the thing im talking about. at the same time people think they have a lifetime of success -- >> were punching ourselves. >> were talking about bringing in corporations. people dont have faith in most -- manufacture the public schools, especially in the inner cities, theyre talking about bringing in corpses and charter schools. in other words, what we established and what was so great in the 50s and 60s, people think that system is failing. we need...
March 30, 2011
Didnt hear? >> i thought he was covered and hearing what the russians claiming and other people and we needed somebody very strong to come out and to actually clarify that this was something that needed to be done. >> reporter: youre from benghazi. benghazi was mentioned in the speech. the war many ways launched to save mbenbenghazi. how did it feel for you here to listen to the speech many. >> to say i was happy would be an understatement. obviously, we like to think its for the whole of libya ...
March 28, 2011
Nearly 2,000 times the normal amount of radiation, charles. well, to say that march has not exactly been a good month for tepco would seem like a gross understatement. and one researcher said he did sound the warning bell well above the earthquake and the tsunami and their devastating consequences. paula hancocks picks up the story from tokyo. >> reporter: the destruction a tsunami can reap on a power plant is clear. one seismic researcher says it could have been predicted telling cnn he warne...
March 27, 2011
Qaddafi forces are taking full advantage of the coalition air strikes and today -- antiqaddafi forces. senior current rick levinthal is live in benghazi with the latest. hello, rick. >> reporter: shannon, to call this a dramatic turn of events would be an understatement. it was 8 days ago the qaddafi tanks were in southern benghazi shelling across the street from our hotel. since then the nato fighter jets have been pushing them back and destroying tanks along the way. 100 miles south of benghaz...