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change could be on its way in syria after days of deadly protests. the government is expected to lift the state of emergency. miami s big three celebrate after a big night. the details in our sports update. first, rebel fighters are advancing on gadhafi s hometown sirte and libyan state tv says it was bombed overnight and suggests government forces are keeping the rebels at a distance from the city for now. that despite an early report in which a source claimed anti-government fighters took sirte. rebels appear to capture key towns from loyalists. ras lanuf and elal brega seems be in their hands. here is the scene last night in the capital tripoli. our correspondent there says he heard six explosions followed by bursts of anti-aircraft fire. international forces continue to strike libyan targets over the weekend and nato says it is taking over full control of allied operations. it s now going to oversee the no-fly zone, an arms embargo and all efforts to protect civilians but has such a tough task aheadment more from diana magnay outside the libyan force headquarters in naples, italy. hi, diana. reporter: hi, jane. this is called no-fly zone plus. so it means that nato has full military command now of the operation. now call ed operation unified protector by patrolling the mediterranean, implementing the no-fly zone and now thirdly fulfilling the u.n. mandate to protect civilians though still the rules of engagement there aren t particularly clear. let s hear what the secretary-general of nato had to say about that. our goal is to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of aaattack. nothing more, nothing less. reporter: when ambassadors were hammering out what the rules of engagement were to be. we did hear they constitute attacking loyalist forces if they are posing an offensive threat to civilian populations but this is still obviously a delicate and difficult area and hope to find out more about the details over the course of the day. there will be a press conference in a few hours time here at the joint allied force command in naples which is where the operation will be commanded from under a three-star general and it means that the u.s. will effectively now be taking a supportive role rather than the primary role in this operation going forward really just sending in reconnaissance and jamming planes rather than conducting a majority of the strike missions it has been and, of course, the cruise missiles. is it clear what would constitute success and when the operation would be over? reporter: that s at the moment is not clear, in fact, on the sunday talk shows in the united states, secretary of defense and the secretary of state were asked that kind of thing and could give no collar indication of whether this be a question of weeks, months or whether it would be over by the end of the year so we are hoping for more details as the day progresses but i think it s hard to ascertain how long this campaign might continue, zain. cnn diana magnay reporting, thanks, diana. another look at how the rebels advanced. operation held areas are here marked in yellow. areas under control are marked in green. on friday the rebels were in control of benghazi. colonel gadhafi was in charge of tripoli, raz, sirte and ajdabiya but then anti-gadhafi forces took back control of ajdabiya, ras lanuf and al brega. rebels gained control of those two cities at the start of the civil war but quickly lost them to government forces. the libyan government says coalition attacks are killing innocent civilians. the u.s. rejects that claim and says colonel gadhafi is going to great lengths to mislead the outside world. here s robert gates on face the nation. the truth of the matter is we have trouble coming up with proof of any civilian casualties that we have been responsible for. but we do have a lot of intelligence reporting about gadhafi taking the bodies of people he s killed and putting them at the sites where we ve attacked. we have been extremely careful in this military effort. libyan authorities say they ve released a woman who claimed she was raped and beaten by gadhafi forces and burgos into a hotel used by international journalists and was shouting saying she had been detained and assaulted and bundled away by force by government minders. now they re saying she s been let go but cnn cannot confirm there. there is a lot more concern about her well-being and nic robertson has more from tripoli. reporter: government officials had initially told us when eman al obeidy was taken away at this hotel that she was mentally unstable. they later told us she was in fact safe and well and sane and was in a police investigation headquarters filing a criminal complaint against the men who raped her. now they are telling me she is at home with family in tripoli. many journalists have been asking if they can see her. there are many concerns and questions about what we re being told about her and about her well-being. the government has been involved in a smear campaign against her. state television raising all sorts of questions suggesting that she s been involved in prostitution. indeed the government spokesman himself had earlier been on the record saying he was a prostitute. you have been on the record yourself as nic, could we not discuss her no, no, listen, nic, nic, nic, could we please? this is a very nic, please, could we just to respect her, her daughter, her family, to respect this is a very conservative society. could we not expose her in public and let what do you care about, nic, not to embarrass me standing on the stand. what you care about nic, okay, listen, if i said something i said what i knew. i don t want to repeat anything i said. i m not withdrawing from what i m saying but don t want to make it more public. this is a criminal case and we need to protect her privacy. her daughter s rights when she grows up and make this as criminal case, legal case as possible without talking about people s history, their files, their crimes or their lifestyle. especially we live in a very conservative society so as a sign of respect for this hopefully and quite sure that the okay from them will come out. reporter: a lot of journalists trying to meet with eman al obeidy to see her, hear her old story. now she has been as the government says released from government custody. clearly many questions o outstanding. the family says she doesn t have a child and the journalists will continue to push the issue here with the government. until they re able to meet with her. so many questions about her safety and well-being until that happens. nic robertson, cnn, tripoli, libya. u.s. president barack obama is due to speak about libya monday night expected to provide an update on the multinational military action and you can catch that live on cnn from the national defense university in washington. it airs at 7:30 p.m. u.s. eastern time, that s 2330 gmt. you re watching world one from london. growing fears. japanese officials wonder what to do with highly radioactive water. the temperature is rising in one of the damaged nuclear reactors. we ll take you live to japan. the cream disappears but your wrinkles don t. introducing neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair. it has the fastest retinol formula available. in fact, it s clinically proven to smooth wrinkles in just one week. so all you have to do is sit back and watch your wrinkles go away. new rapid wrinkle repair. from neutrogena®. you re watching world one from london. rebels are recapturing towns from soiss loyal to moammar gadhafi. they are now advancing on the libyan leader s hometown of sirte. bombs fell last night but no indication the rebels captured it just yet. in japan a new tsunami warning as han canceled. they woke up to a new fresh magnitude 6.5 quake but it triggered new fears among the survivors. the disaster killed close to 11,000 people. adding to that new fears are emerging at the fukushima nuclear plant and officials say they need to extract highly radioactive water that s accumulated in one damaged reactor but haven t got anywhere to put it and that s not all. cnn paula hancocks join us from tokyo. let s talk about new levels of radiation. what information have you received from tepco. reporter: well, monitmonita, had another news conference and pointed out they have had another setback in their attempts to try to bring the nuclear plant back online. earlier they were saying they were struggling to try to drain the contaminated water from the reactor s turbine. room but discovered it is in the tunnels that come away from the turbine room and carry the electrical cables so another area they ve discovered the contaminated water, varying levels of radiation and reactor two just outside that building, we understand the radiation levels are high. monita? adding to the problems for tepco there seems to be criticism about the way they ve been handling the crisis in japan but also misreading supposedly misreading radiation levels. what more do we know about that? reporter: that s right. this was a mistake that happened sunday when they were talking about radiation levels and decided it was 10 million times the usual level of raid indication that you d find in the cooling system for reactor two. it turned out it was 100,000 times more. but when you re bandying about numbers it s confusing for the public and not something you want to get wrong and have come under a lot of criticism. the destruction a tsunami can wreak on a nuclear power plant is clear. what s not clear is whether the owners of the fukushima plant could have predicted this. one seismic researcher says, yes, saying he warned them two years ago there was evidence of a earthquake and destructive tsunami in the area. translator: data on tsunamis can be found in layers of the earth. my institute has been researching this. based on this data it indicates tel aviv a huge tsunami that occurred previously. that s why i asked the question. reporter: okamura says that taupe co-decided to focus on a 1938 earthquake in which one person died and barely mentioned the word tsunami throughout the whole meaning. they have not responded to his allegations and though they hold press conferences direct questions are rarely met with direct answers. at this press conference reporters acted why there were no preparations for such a big tsunami to hit and called on tepco to apologize. the japanese government has told tepco to be open and transparent so as not to lose the public s trust but it has not escaped criticism. 58% do not approve of the way they handled the crisis according to a pole by kyodo news agency. this man says i won t forgive the government for hiding information and the tyranny of the power company. i m protesting because the government is not taking action. this man says i can understand because with the earthquake and tsunami combined there was nothing they could do but the public may find it harder to understand mistakes made by tepco such as miscalculating the number of zeros when reporting the level of radiation in water in reactor two s turbine room. it was revised from 10 million to 100,000 to a confused public. we also heard from the chief cabinet secretary who said that these kind of errors cannot be forgiven and won t be calling on tepco to be more careful in the future. monita? paula, thank you. let s get more on the weather in japan as well as the tsunami advisory put out from jen delgado. we did have an advisory and we ll give you more it was and we ll step off camera. that indicates the earthquake that triggered that tsunami advisory. 6.1 came out as a 6.5 with a depth of five kilometers around 15 mys. we know it was 17 kilometers and had a strength of 6.1 located 100 kilometers to the cease of miyagi prefecture. that s why we had that advisory there. anywhere you re seeing in orange, that indicates earthquakes we ve had throughout the day, so it s been very active. actually up to nearly about 670 aftershocks since the initial one on march 11th. as a take you to the weather computer, some update information to give you an idea how many more aftershocks we can expect. potentially we could see them going through the next several months ahead but the magnitude of 6.9 we could see roughly about 100 aftershocks across the region. right now we have about 44 in the 6 magnitude range so certainly this area is going to remain very active seismicwise as we go through the next year. let s talk about the weather. actually dealing with dry conditions. that s good. ridge of high pressure. it s going to be weakening. light showers working in down towards the south but for fukushima as well as sendai this area will stay dry and the winds offshore and that will be favorable as we go through the next several days. i want to point out. here s the proof. there s that offshore flow and fukushima power plant so that certainly going to be cooperating. the temperatures as we go through the next several days will climb up. a lot of sunshine along with the average high of 11, getting closer to that. finally i want to leave with you video coming out of myanmar. don t want to forget this area. march 24th we had a strong earthquake that bordered on the border of thailand and that one was 6.8 in chiang rai. i want to point this out because this area still trying to recover and the residents are surveying the damage. as i take you back over to the satellite. this is myanmar and thailand to give youen idea quiet weatherwise but this area hard hit with a recent earthquake, as well. send it back over to zain and monita. jen, thank you. you re watching world one. an american wedding cake tore a british prince. william gets inspired by a u.s. tradition. stay with us for that. lean cuisine has a fresh new bag. lean cuisine market creations steam meals. like new chicken poblano with tender white meat chicken, crisp veggies, in a savory cheddar sauce. new from lean cuisine. to finish what you started today. for the aches and sleeplessness in between, there s motrin pm. no other medicine, not even advil pm, is more effective for pain and sleeplessness. motrin pm. before i started taking abilify, i was taking an antidepressant alone. most days i could put on a brave face and muddle through. but other days i still struggled with my depression. i was managing, but it always had a way of creeping up on me. i felt stuck. i just couldn t shake my depression. so i talked to my doctor. he said adding abilify to my antidepressant could help with my depression, and that some people had symptom improvement as early as 1 to 2 weeks. he also told me about a free trial offer from abilify! now i feel more in control of my depression. 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cookies and chocolates to be served alongside. it s a british tradition and kate middleton created a multitiered fruitcake to be made by a celebrity cake designer. cookies and cake. what was in your cake. we had a banofi wedding pie cake. any kind of cake would be good. scotland may have lost their football friendly but scottish golf fans had plenty to speculate. don riddell. just after paul lawrie won, the pga s arnold palmer went to martin laird. an up and down day for tiger woods. this on the 18th was a down. double bogey, tiger finished for 24th. laird didn t exactly have a smooth ride. he found the water from there. that soon translated into a double bogey dropping his score to 6 under but he got his act together after that. now on the 16th. a birdie putt to move to 8 under. that brought a two-shot lead over his closest rival, steve marino. marino pushed him really hard. his birdie on the 18th took the american to 7 under giving him a chance of a playoff but would only watch and hoped laird slipped up. he held his nerve and made his par putt to win it by a stroke. second win on the pga. novak djokovic has won all three events that he s played in the season. he is the only man in the top 100 not to have lost a match in 2011. he continued that form at the miami pastors with an easy match against james blake. the number two seed extended his phenomenal 2011 win streak to 20-0. 22-0 if you include the davis cup win at the end of last year. he took the first set 6-2 and was up a break here in the second when his groundstrokes proved a bit to much for his opponent, he took the set 6-0. all over in 52 minutes. he is on course to repeat his miami triumph of 2007. in miami last night there was an incredible and historic performance from the miami heat against the houston rockets. for the first time in a regulation game since 1961 three players from the same team scored at least 30 points and 10 rebounds. lebron was one of them. miami are a star-studded team that have failed to gel a lot this season but they were in the zone, lebron had 33 points 10 rebounds, only three assists short of a triple-double. chris bosh had 31 and 12 rebounds while wade recovered from his early injury to produce 30 points and 11 boards. last time three achieved it was in february of 1961. the cincinnati royals lost it incredibly but the heat got the win they deserved, 125-119. all right. thank you very much. exciting. you re watching world one live from london. coming up i come to here in benghazi after i saw benghazi dictator kill my people. he kill libyan people without any reason. they come from school, homes and workplaces across libya with one goal in mind. ending the gadhafi regime. stay with us for a closer look at the civilians who have taken up the fight. hello. this is world one live from london. i m monita rajpal. and i m zain verjee. our top stories this hour, opposition fighters in libya are advancing toward colonel gadhafi s hometown of sirte hoping to take control of the city as they march continually westward toward the capital tripoli. over the weekend they retook two key towns, al brega and ras lanuf. that came as nato said it was taking control of all international air operations over the country. more worries at japan s fukushima nuclear plant. officials say there is no place to put highly radioactive water that needs to be removed from the damaged reactors. they also warn the heat is rising at reactor number one. the earthquake and tsunami that hit japan on march 11th are now known to have killed nearly 11,000 people. israel deployed a rocket shield near gaza but the military says israelis under fire from the gaza strip may not be completely safe. a battery of radar-guided momentums nicknamed the iron dome isser in beersheba. it s to track to intercept missiles in midair. angela merkel s conservative christian democratic party suffered big losses and is poised to lose its grip on power. the southwestern state of baden verten berg has been ruled by them for more than half a century. early results say they failed to gain a majority and now the greens are expected to form a coalition. for the first week of international action over libya it was a u.s.-led coalition directing air strikes and cruise missiles but that is changing. the nato alliance will take charge and paula is there with more. how long is it going to take to transfer the command? reporter: the transition will take a few days. we expect a complete transition by the end of today but in terms of taking over the entire mission it could take until thursday or friday but we ve already learned, for instance, zain, that u.s. warships are beginning to pull back not going on as many sorties. that was what the united states wanted. president obama promised that he and his government would be stepping back a bit from the mission. they say they have enough asset, enough countries contributing it to handle it for a three-month period. they may extend that but if they extend that past three months again we ll have to go through the entire agreement process at nato again, zain? what s been said about how they will avoid civilian casualties. reporter: they say this is paramount and finished an interview with the secretary-general who told me about the mission. they refuse to talk about the rules of engagement saying they re classified but on the other hand they re saying are we going to arm the rebels, no, he says. we re here to protect people, not arm people. that s very clear and perhaps a difference from some members of the coalition. just yesterday defense secretary robert gates was saying they hadn t decided whether or not they would arm the rebels. completely in contradiction to what the nato secretary-general said. in general when you talk point rules of engagement it is fair to say that it will not go as far as the coalition has been going. that is not what you ll hear publicly. nato continues to say they will do no more or no less than the coalition. but obviously today when i put the question to them, zain, look, in sirte we hear libyan forces are in retreat and still being attacked. the nato secretary-general said, no, we are there to protect civilians. we re not there to attack forces in retreat. zain? cnn s paula newton reporting from brussels. libyan opposition fighters have been quick to take advantage of support and push government forces back. the rebels took the town of ras lanuf virtually without a fight and arwa damon is there with more. reporter: this is the gate to ras lanuf, heavily damaged but that we are told is initial fighting in gadhafi s forces and opposition fighters. the fighters saying when they came through here earlier they encountered no resistance, in fact, they say there was no sign of gadhafi s troops at all. this largely due or completely due in fact they will say to the air strikes that took place that forced dpad s military back significantly back with the fighters now saying they also control bin jawad. these have been very significant gains for the opposition. now they control brega, ras lanuf, two oil towns and we can see the refinery of ras lanuf, dark spoke rising from it. we went into the city, the town of ras lanuf earlier. most of the buildings do not appear to have taksustained tha much damage but most were set on fire or done by the military and one pan was trying to salvage family photos visibly upset. a stream of fighters coming through here, trucks loaded with ammunition, others with blankets, waters all resupplying the front lines. people waving french flags. one had an american flag saying they want to thank the international community. although there s not been much of a fight this far, the opposition says their next destination sirte being fwad s hometown and there they expect the toughest battle as of yet, arwa damon, cnn, ras lanuf. the u.n. says it would like to do more but the situation in the country presents enormous challenges as one of the top humanitarian officers explains. the difficult thing for humanitarian workers is security and being able to go in and access the people most in need. the thing that i want to see is all parties to the hostilities recognizing that these are ordinary women, children and men we re talking about, they should not be caught up in this. they should not become the innocent victims of this. either in terms of their personal security, in terms of becoming accidental victims of the hostility or in need or, indeed, in terms of their need for food, shelter, medical supplies. it s very, very difficult for us to find out exactly what s been going on. we ve been trying to talk to all of the parties to gain access so that we can see for ourselves but we still haven t managed to get in to all the places that we need to. we ve had a lot of chances to see and hear moammar gadhafi as he fights to hang on to power but who are the people risking their lives to drive him out. reza sayah gives us a who s who of this. reporter: just last month they were civilians, all ages, all walks of life. my name houssam wrt. reporter: he a husband, father. engineer. the rebels seized control of two cities, ras lanuf and brega 18-year-old adrise was a student studying business. today, they re amateur soldiers in the rickety rebel army of libya s opposition. united, they say, by one mission, to topple the regime of moammar gadhafi. i come to here in benghazi after i saw gadhafi dictator, he kill my people here. he kill libyan people without any reason. i want my country free, i want freedom for my country. reporter: the opposition s leadership is just as much of a motley mix as the fighters, a group of 31 made up of local politicians, military leaders who have defected and prominent figures like lawyers, doctors, academics, activists, and they call themselves a transitional government. they, too, at this point, appear to have the same objective. the main objective of the national council, it is the main objective of the libyan people and it is the removal of gadhafi and his regime. reporter: with the rebels pushing west, gaining momentum and territory, a libya without gadhafi appears more likely by the day. whether democracy will follow is far from clear. libya has long been a patchwork of tribes and rival sects kept largely intact in the grip of gadhafi s autocratic regime. although they ve joined hands in a common quest, two of the opposition s leaders have already criticized one another. well, it s normal. i mean this difference is normal. this is what we like. for 42 years, we have unified opinion and nobody express their opinions. we didn t have this freedom. so it s good. it s good to have rivalry. reporter: the opposition says the path to democracy won t be easy, but whoever derails it, they say, will face what colonel gadhafi is facing now. we broke the wall of fear does not exist and we have no more fear to come out again and again until we have the right governments governing us. reporter: reza sayah, benghazi, libya. this is world one from london. next an insider s perspective of a former president of president bashir al assad. what will your heart tell you? stay with us for that report and more on the violent protests in the whole region. the cream disappears but your wrinkles don t. introducing neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair. it has the fastest retinol formula available. in fact, it s clinically proven to smooth wrinkles in just one week. so all you have to do is sit back and watch your wrinkles go away. new rapid wrinkle repair. from neutrogena®. you re watching world one. syria s cabinet is expected to resign next week according to a source close to the government and says the country s long-standing emergency law is likely to be lifted and the president will address the nation within a couple of days. demonstrations in the southern town of da ra and the coastal community erupted.raa and the c community erupted. it s similar to that of many countries where civil unrest was unheard of until now and what president bashar al assad does next could decide how the conflict is resolved. this is just one example of the anger felt by some in the country towards the government. well, stan grant tells us of one man who has a unique perspective based on 5 years. reporter: this man knows the mind of syria s president like few others and met at damascus university as young men in 1984. for nearly a quarter of a century the two shared good times. before being president he s a good guy. reporter: a good man. yes, for sure. reporter: what was he like as a friend. good, really. really. reporter: now the bad times. protests growing, blood on the streets. abdel nour says he does not recognize his friend bashar al assad. what is more important the president or the man? depend on the place on that place. on his end. reporter: if he s in the room as president. he s president. reporter: when he goes home to talk to his wife. abdel nour says it s the president, not the man who is authorizing the crackdown on protesters. in syria he says as part of an attack on disdepths in 2008 state security was given a license to kill. under the law they are immune. reporter: someone did shoot a syrian in the street. nothing will happen. for sure this was decreed by the president in 2008. reporter: abdel nour says he fears for his life after criticizing the government on his website. his friendship with al assad shattered. they no longer speak. reporter: you can t go back to the country. they are the most targeted for to keep all of them away. this is a tactic. reporter: he says he believes assad is getting the wrong advice. those closest to the president blaming the protests on foreign interference. he says it s time for the president to listen to old friends. if you were to give him one message today as a friend of his, as someone who knows him, what would that message be. listen to the people. and try to go back before you were president, what will your heart fell you? yeah, that s right. and i assure you he will enter the history. reporter: for bashar al as d assad, the vert of history awaits. stan grant, cnn, dubai. and staying in syria, a interest of producer hurricane cameraman have been missing since saturday night. they were went to cross into lebanon after going to syria thursday to cover those demonstrations. there has been no word for them. reuters officials says the agency is concerned about the well-being of its employees. you re watching world one live from london. imagine not being able to rescue the people in your care. that s a lasting torment for the doctors and nurses at a quake halfaged hospital in japan. translator: the patients couldn t walk, she says, i heard someone screaming, auntie, i can t save you. that s just ahead on world one. match my miles challenge. they re so confident their miles are better, they ll match the miles you ve earned on your airline credit card up to 100,000 on a new venture 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to be removed from the plant s basement. the earthquake and tsunami that did all the damage at fukushima is now known to have killed nearly 11,000 people. more than 17,000 are still missing. for some survivors the torment of being unable to help others or be with them for the rest of their lives as kyung lah tells us. reporter: in the haunted shell that remains of the hospital amidthe broken beds, the i.v. beds filled with mud, the nurse hears the screams of the lives she could not save. the patients couldn t walk she says. i heard someone screaming, auntie, i can t save you, i m sorry. i looked out and the wave was as high as a fourth floor window. i m sorry, i said as i ran upstairs. you had to leave patients behind? it is the biggest regret i have. the tsunami flooded every single floor of this hospital. 51 people were hospitalized that day. 12 drowned in their beds, three died on the roof awaiting rescue. but it wasn t just patients who died that day. ten of the hospital staff died with the patients, among them, a man who ran for a satellite phone so survivors could call rescue crews. the hospital s director says he tossed it to the roof seconds before the tsunami killed him. this handwritten note reads, he s helping us from heaven. the doctor himself lost his own wife but won t leave his makeshift clinic, a survivor burdened with the echos of lives left behind. nurse suzuki feels the same. she s been here ever since she was rescued, cheerfully treating patients despite losing her house, her friends and her family, everything. the clothes she s wearing donated. when i hear that says suzuki s lifelong patient it breaks my heart. it s a natural disaster. they want to save everyone but in this situation, they can t. nurse suzuki says she can do something now. she can stay on the job. whatever the situation, i will stay here. talking with the patients will be my cure. the caretakers pledging to heal and hoping to heal themselves. kyung lah, cnn, japan. those images pretty much say it all. there are so many moving pictures coming out of the region and we d like to share some of them with you here. a woman here is trying to salvage whatever she can. she s 74 years old, we re told and was left with nothing. but the clothes she was wearing when the tsunami struck. in jakarta, this man is adding his palm print to a backdrop resembling the japanese flag showing solidarity. indonesia was hit hardest by the tsunami there. a side of tokyo we re not used to seeing, normally vibrant, city lights and billboards were turned off in the fashion district. the earthquake left them suffering electricity shortages. if you d like to help the victims find more information, just go to cnn.com/impact. our impact your world team is collecting links to organizations that mobilizing relief efforts in japan. you can find a link to google s people finder database. now, that s one that s helping to reunite people separated in all that chaos. we continue to add information to that page so go check it out, okay, at cnn.com/impact. you re watching world one live from london. i m zain verjee. i m monita rajpal. thank you for joining us. we want to leave you with a look at some pictures coming out of the state of utah. these are rescuers that brought seven people to safety after they were trapped on a horseshoe mountain after an avalanche. you can see here it s a pretty steep climb. you re watching world one on cnn. right now on this american morning. radioactive iodine is spreading near the nuclear power plant. one of the reactors inside this facility is heating up threatening to release more contamination. meanwhile, low levels of radiation from the plant are being detected 6,500 miles away in the rainwater in massachusetts. rebels gaining ground on moammar gadhafi. nato says it will now take over the entire military operation in libya and at least a lot of americans want to know exactly what the role of the u.s. will be now. from the first four all the way 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