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Today while officials issued new warning about tap water way down south in tokyo. a live update from japan just ahead. plus the latest from libya. we will hear from the correspondent on the ground in the rebel strong hold of benghazi and get update on where qaddafis forces are headed now. first, lets check this out. flying along with some of the fighter jets of operation odyssey dawn as the white house wants to call it. british air force giving us this look at refueling mission in air as fox rep...

The admiral garrard huber reports that coalition forces flew another 75 missions targeting qaddafis tanks and weapons, but its not a war. jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. any change in strategy over the last couple of days, jen. >> we can report that no tomahawk missiles were fired last night. essentially that fafs the operation is over. they wont fire more tom tomahawks unless something changes and they are needed. they fired 162, in total, and as one official put it, there are less expen...

That qaddafi had ordered him to turn the city of 100,000 people into a did desert. and a witness reports that the area is completely surrounded. its not clear to us whether american or european military forces are planning air strikes there. but the pentagon has been putting some pressure on qaddafis forces in misurata. regime troops there have had a city under siege for days, but a senior defense official confirms that u.s. fighter jets carried out strikes on targets, including tanks. and a doc...

Nearby city of benghazi. we have heard about yet another round of shelling coming from tanks and libyan soldiers in the city. and north of the city on rebel fighters gathered in the desert. the fighters continue to probe. libyan army troops continue to return fire. number of dead and wounded in the last couple of days in the fights down in ajdabiya. >> shepard: a couple hours ago the news channel reported that colonel qaddafis taverns have began taking up position in the western edges of ajdabiy...

President nicholas sarkozy in paris a couple of weeks ago. ishe is the man that they say wl be the defactor leader of libya if and when qaddafi is forced out or indeed is killed, shep. >> shepard: jonathan hunt for us. thanks. in japan tonight there has been another set back in the nuclear crisis. you see this thick black smoke here billowing from a reactor. reactor number three the most problematic one at the fukushima nuclear plant. all the plants workers have reportedly been evacuated althoug...

Defines success, shepard. >> shepard: we are now hearing a member of qaddafis inner circle has reached out to the u.s. government. what did he say? do we know? >> a deputy secretary of state here spoke with qaddafis foreign minister over the weekend. the state department confirms the talks took place but wont say what was discussed. an official says we still have lines of communication open to qaddafi and his lieutenants. secretary of state clinton suggests the message to qaddafi is pretty consi...

[chanting] >> shepard: there, the troops are rallying speart of the coalition. and all of those still suffering around libya. team fox coverage of our waziristan -- wars around the world. jennifer griffin at the pentagon. first steve harrigan streaming live from the capital city tonight. you have been hearing new explosions there, its my understanding, steve? >> thats right, shepard. we thought the pace might slow down on night five of these attacks but anything but. we have heard multiple incom...

In japan, fresh smoke from a nuclear plant forces workers to evacuate again. and as radiation spreads, there is word of contamination in the drinking supplies. >> ill probably put -- water now. >> shepard: tonight, new worries in the nuclear crisis. plus, remembering elizabeth taylor. she was a hollywood legend who collected oscars and husbands. but there is a side of her some didnt always get to see. >> she was down to earth. she was a wonderful mother. >> shepard: tonight, the liz taylor you d...

One person who fled the fighting there said that it was in effect destroyed. now, the rebels have said, shep, that they have been helped by the coalition air strikes. but it seems at this moment that they still lack the organization, and more importantly, the fire power to route the qaddafis forces. qaddafis forces, on the other hand, seem to lack, perhaps, the motivation to finish the job and take out the rebels in the center of that city, shep. >> shepard: they may lack some organization on th...

Between qaddafi and the opposition. >> qaddafi has basically sworn that he will show no mercy to anybody who has been in opposition. thats not exactly an invitation to negotiate. it seems to me that if there is a mediation to be done, it is -- if there is a role to be played, it is among libyans themselves. this matter at the end of the day is going to have to be settled by libyans. >> arab league members are still deciding which -- whether to send planes or other contributions to the coalition ...