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Tons of water on the reactor. the head of the international atomic energy agency in switzerland warns the crisis remains very serious, but pressure in reactor number 3 is down. that bit of encouragement echoed by an official at the nuclear regulatory commission who told the "new york times" that the situation in the plant appears to be "on the verge of stabilizing." also today, rescuers continue to dig through the rubble in search of survivors and bodies from the march 11th quake and tsunami...

After command and control facility, it did have some command and control capabilities, but also to rattle gadhafi, to rattle his sons, and, more importantly, though, to rattle the senior military leadership around gadhafi to try to wean them away, to convince them its over, throw down your guns, move away, save yourselves. because the u.s., the british, the french, the other coalition partners are coming. and thats one of the clear objectives in all of this, to scare these senior iraqi military ...

Europeans, members of the arab league, who will then be participating in establishing a no-fly zone there. so theres going to be a transition taking place in which we are one of the partners among many who are going to ensure that that no-fly zone is in force and that the humanitarian protection that needs to be provided continues to be in place. with respect to initiating this action while i was abroad, keep in mind that we are working on very short time frames and we had done all the work and ...

Take the lead, though that is still being decide. and libyan fighters are still on the move. word from misrata east of tripoli, gadhafis tanks unleashed absolute destruction and carnage. a witness says they are shooting people in the main street. an exclusive cnn poll finds broad american support for the allied mission. more than 80% say protecting libyans from their longtime dictator should be a somewhat or very important goal of the u.s. but 70% do not favor sending in any ground troops. i w...

President has said that gadhafi must step down, he must go, after the air attacks and after the attacks on the ground troops there, even, what will happen if gadhafi is still in power at the end of all of this? how will this be viewed? >> it will be seen as a huge setback, not only for the opposition, for the rebels first and foremost, but it will be seen as a setback for the u.s., for britain and france. remember, the obama administration, they were much more reluctant warriors than the french ...

Barrages going off. we havent heard any missiles falling. the compound we were taken to was several square miles, a palace compound used by moammar gadhafi. it has multiple layers of security to get in. one of the layers you go through the carriers where the soldiers who guard the property live. then you sort of get into the middle of the compound area, which is a large open field area. we were taken to one building there that had been hit by two missiles. it appeared as if it had gone through t...

There. >> the "uss mt. whitney" is a ship designed for normandy style invasion. it has the best command and control, bar none, across the globe. >> thats where its all happening. central command. alec, good to see you. appreciate your insight. >> good to be here. in a few moments we expect could hear from president obama for the first time since u.s. forces started protecting libyan residents by force. well bring you his comments live from chile. earlier today, a top u.s. kmapder said the mu...

In libya? do they expect the united states and allies to rep rebuild libya? >> i think were not there yet and the infrastructure right now is mostly correct. they have some oil. they have exported oil. they have large foreign currency reserves. not quite like iraq in that respect but it might be like iraq in the sense that if this stalemate, and gadhafi remains in charge and he holds on to major population centers and were on the fringes of this using air power, it might mean a prolonged stalema...

Still loyal to gadhafi. theres sort of a fear of sort of a force behind them or certainly a counterinsurgency that could be launched against them. so there are concerns about that. and they certainly recognize that if there were international boots on the ground then that could count very much against them, not only in a broader arab opinion around the region but also with libyans, that this could be used by moammar gadhafi to say, look, this is an international force that the opposition has inv...

Campaign began, is going to take some of our questions. hes going to take questions from the media here, chilean press as well as the u.s. press and you can bet theres going to be one at least not more questions about libya. first time to quiz him on this and press him. white house aides tell us this morning again that the u.s. is going to take a lead role for only days, not weeks. but what if after just a few days here the u.s. starts pulling out of the air strikes and in a lead role and gadhaf...