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friends" today. >> welcome to "fox and friends" on saturday morning. thank you for waking up with us. that is dave briggs and heather is here and i am clayton. >> lots going on today. >>dave: we start with new developments in libya where rebels have retaken the key town of ajdabiya after a fierce battle with muammar qaddafi forces and rick is live inside the town. what is the latest, rick? >>reporter: well, good morning, dave, we are on the edge of ajdabiya with fierce fighting this morning, in this location, and now muammar qaddafi's troops are 25 miles further west down the highway which we are told is littered with the bodies of muammar qaddafi troops. and this circle behind me, we were here a week ago on tuesday, two weeks ago, and muammar qaddafi jet dropped a bomb on a rebel position, just behind us, 500 yards from us and the town was under heavy shelling and became under muammar qaddafi control while this morning we drove through town, and what we saw were dos of tanks, litering the northern side of the highway and the when edge of town, and a number of muammar qaddafi tanks have been destroyed, a number of buildings have been hit hard and we are seeing activity behind us and a live shell on that hillside, the guy was touching it. and the town is almost deserted, but, that said, people are starting on flow back in and they are excited about the possibility of moving back home, the town is 140,000, and we are hearing explosions up in the skies above us and i was told it could be r.p.g. fire and troops are 25 miles down the road so we should be a safe distance and the headline is that town back in rebel hands and they hope to push further west and continue this march back to tripoli. >> thank you, rick, please do us a favor and move away from the live shell. please? will you? >> okay, good idea. good idea. >> rick has been doing gustsy reporting. yesterday he told me that the rebel forces are in communication case with nato and helping target the airstrikes there, so fascinating report on the ground. >> and the guys who are the rebels, people are asking, who are the rebels? some of the relatives are just regular folks, guys who work in the cell phone shop or the deli, they are taking up arms and fighting back against muammar qaddafi. >> and there is a concern of a power vacuum being createssed if muammar qaddafi falls and president obama who could address and of that because he is going to speak to the nation, finally, on monday night, and maybe we are getting a preview this morning because the president releases the weekly across address and addresses some of the problem in libya. take a listen. >> we are succeeding in our mission, taken out libya's air defenses and muammar qaddafi's forces are no longer threatening to show no mercy, the forces have been pushed back. so make no mistake, because we acted quickly, a humanitarian catastrophe has been avoided, and the lives of countless civilians, innocent men, women, and children, have been saved. >> he said the humanitarian catastrophe has been avoided. now now. what happens in the end if muammar qaddafi does not leave? he go after the people on the ground. >> and can you speak to the american people on monday and use terms like "military action," not calling it a "war," can he answer the questions that americans have? a poll just out suggests that americans are not necessarily behind the military action if libya because they ask, does libya pose a national security threat, 45 percent said "no," and 35 percent said yes and many feel that yemen and syria are two countries that do pose a threat to the united states and there is a lot of killing that is going on in those two countries. >> so, let us know what you think about what the president will say on monday night at fox&friends.com. and if you are not supporting what is going on in libya, could you be convinced by what the president says? >> we will see. >> and now to the rest of the headlines this morning, a suspected cop killer behind bars in georgia, surrendering to police at the apartment where he was holding eight people hostage. the 33-year-old is accused in tuesday's shooting death of an officer christian after they stopped him to question him of a carjacking and the kidnapping and that is when hood allegedly shot him. the 34-year-old officer leaves behind a wife and two young children. >> experts of japan's failing nuclear site, fukushima, say that radiation has contaminated seawater along the coast near the complex, and radiation in that water now is more than 1,000 times the normal level and that could mean a potential ban on seafood exports from the area and the plant is causing problems, the ocean's water is causing problems for the plant. officials say dumping ocean water on the reactors leaving a salty residue causing corrosion, another problem there. the u.s. navy is now delivering fresh water to try to help cool the reactors. it goes on. all judge ordering a mental examination of michigan man accused of leave an explosive device outside a federal building in detroit last month. the judge says that he was influenced by behavior in court and the suspect claims he was a former president, and the governor of california. and last week a bomb squad destroyed the device at a city park and no one was hurt in that incident. >> police in peru say the suspected murder van der sloot is slying, and the laptop was turned off the night he killed a woman, contradicting claims he attack her after she read an e-mail on his laptop. these is awaiting trial for murder. and now rick and a check of the forecast. rick? >> it was a week ago today we were waking up after the nice 70-- degree day. remember? there you go. >> i remember it like it was last week. >> 26 in new york city, 17 in minneapolis, and cold across the northern tier and temperatures around 15 to 20 degrees below average and that will not change, unfortunately, for at least maybe a bit of a break next wednesday, thursday, and then it is cold again. and this is the story across the southeast: storms across tennessee, they will continue all day long and become more severe through the afternoon. and we have snow into the northern plains. california continuing on get pummeled and southern california is looking better and you will remain fine the next couple of days but in central california, and points north, heavy rain today, more heavy mountain snow, and we will continue to deal with that the next few days. this is the storm that will move across the east, the snow, snow toward st. louis and in kentucky and parts of southern kentucky and louisville and tomorrow afternoon, in and around the nation's capitol with rain to the south and a mixing of snow that does not make its way through the big cities of the northeast with the storm too far to the south. look at temperatures: 93 in san antonio. if you want warmth, it is there. it is way far to the south and dallas by tomorrow, you will cool down and memphis, 59 tomorrow, so, spring almost leaving across areas of the southeast. for sunday. guys? >> thank you. as you know, many stateses from california to texas facing massive budget deficits. afternoon. how will they solve it? many hope to raise taxes. and the state of illinois raising income tax by 66 percent and personal tax by 45 percent has major businesses talking about beating it. >> states are courting caterpillar. february member -- nebraska wants them, and texas wants them and oklahoma wants them. they are consideration it. >> c.e.o., the chairman of caterpillar saying, we may have to move. the company has been there since 1909 and the c.e.o. is saying, look, we will meet with the governor who has a problem on his hands. 23,000 jobs would up and leave because of the tax problem. he said i have to do well for my company and your state is not favorable to business he is saying and i cannot operate a company in good faith if the taxes are so high. all illinois has massive financial problems and i am from that state. individual income taxes have gone up by sick -- 60 percent and companies like g.e. ... they do not pay anything in federal taxes. unbelievable. >> so wisconsin from the beginning was courting illinois business and in new york they have a different way to solve problems. millionaires are stepping up and saying, we, perhaps, want to pay more taxes, 100 wealthy new yorkers calling themselves the new yorkers for fiscal fairness say we will pay more tax to help the state. how about that? >> and an actor says he will kick in more. all he said we don't want this to be saddled on the backs of the middle class and we need to pay our fair shake so we are willing to fill this problem, writing a letter to quote cuomo saying we will pay extra money. this speaks to the problems with the tax code if this country? >> give him credit he is putting his money where his mouth us, but rich hollywood guy is not speaking for the man who makes $200,000 with three kids and has to pay for schools, so it is a little different situation. but, will this work out? will the new yorkers unite, those that make more than $200,000 or $300,000 and get the state out of a jam? lot us know what you thing of that tactic. >> but that will not stop the government from raising taxes or new york state from raising taxes. >> coming up on the show we are dropping bombs on libya but the white house refusing to call it war. do mixed messages why there is no end message for libya? all stay tuned. my diet? well yesterday i had an apple turnover. i always keep it in the house. that and boston crème pie, white chocolate strawberries. 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[ gnome ] it's go time. >> welcome back to "fox and friends" on saturday morning. nato taking over the command of the no-fly zone in libya but the success not stepping aside completely. the white house still not calling the airstrikes in libya a war, so what is the overall end game? our chief political correspondent for the washington examiner is live from washington, dc, this morning. nice to see you. >> good morning. >>clayton: why isn't the white house calling the assault on libya "a war." >>guest: they do not want to give it prominence and it has been called "tie limited scope limited," anything to avoid use the word "war," and when the president speaks on monday he will not do it from the oval office, a way that would convey too much gravity, and he is trying to make clear that the united states is not going to war as it is in iraq or in afghanistan. really, trying to make that distinction. >>clayton: and this is not unprecedented, only five u.s. presidents have declared war officially and the war powers act prevents the president from doing that without the approval of congress, so this is in the unprecedented, the military advancements and assault. >>guest: that is correct but no one is really being fooled. there are a lot of questions, you have all of the united states ships, all of the united states planes, all of the united states military people involved, and when you say that nato will take over, that is true they will take over command, but there is still going to be u.s. command over nato and the big deal is, united states assets will still be playing the biggest role. a pentagon briefing yesterday, they said the u.s. has done 60 percent of flights so far. >> and run by a u.s. admiral. and my question is on president obama's leadership in all of this in the armed conflicts. and this poll struck me as fascinating. strong and decisive, 17 percent think so. cautious and consulting, and 48 percent. the middle one, 48 percent think consultative, don't we want that? >> there is an effort to try to down play u.s. involvement in this although the united states is playing the biggest role in it. and there, the part about not calling it a war, the president not giving an address from the oval office when it happened, in latin america, on the trip, did not cancel that trip, this is an effort to down play the u.s. role in this but they have not been able to hide the fact that the u.s. is by far the biggest player. >> i am glad you brought up latin america, and the president says he was in latin america because job is still the number one issue and we will not be thrown off by libya and the middle east, and looking ahead to 2012, what will be the most important issue, foreign policy facing the problem, libya and otherwise, or jobs? >> obviously if the election were held today, foreign policy would play a bigger role than a few weeks ago. but, it could be by 2012 that we're back to the issues that we have just had for the last few years which is, jobs and the economy and the president will be judged on the progress he has made. >> and the accumulation and that effect. >> coming up, democratic lawmakers pushing a bill that cuts the abstinence only education program but the u.s. has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in developed world. so it the right way to go? a fair and balanced debate on that is next. and he wanted to watch march madness and ordering basketball games could cost a man millions of dollars. we will explain that. ♪ one, two, three, four ♪ ♪ you say ♪ flip it over and replay ♪ we'll make everything okay ♪ walk together the right way ♪ do, do, do, do we make meeting times, lunch times and conference times. but wha'd rather making are t times. tee times are the official start of what we love to do. the time for shots we'd rather forget, and the ones we'll talk about forever. in michigan long days, relaxing weather and more than 800 pristine coursesmake for the perct tee time. because being able to play all day is pure michigan. your trip begins at michigan.org. it's personal. i have diabetes. so i'm proud to manufacture the accu-chek aviva meters and test strips here in the usa. and now we put a prescription discount card in every box so you'll pay no more than $15 on tt strips, which is a true american value foreople with dbetes likee. 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