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Shutting off key supplies routes that nato uses to get materials into afghanistan. you can see some of those supply trucks going nowhere. pakistan also is calling for the u.s. to leave the air base within 15 days. it's said to be a hub for covert c.i.a. drone strikes, although the u.s. has never confirmed that. and the head of pakistan's army says pakistan has lodged a protest with nato, calling for, quote, strong and urgent action be taken against those responsible for this aggression. arthel. >> arthel: definitely a situation that will be closely watched. thank you very much. >> rick: over t...

rules says joe paterno's football players got preference shl treatment because joe paterno demanded. she held the post from 2003 to 2007. in a statement to cnn, she says in part, over several years, there were numerous meetings and discussions about specific impending student discipline cases that involved football players. as a result, my staff and i felt compelled to alter how we handled cases involving penn state football players. the consequence of these accommodations put us in the position of treating football players more favorable than other students. joe paterno's lawyer say...

Many of not upholding the democratic principles of the egyptian revolution. richard engle has more on the story. >> reporter: this wasn't what the revolution was supposed to bring. funerals after a massacre of christians by egypt's mainly muslim army. it started with a peaceful demonstration. christians, 10% of the population here, were demanding justice after one of their churches was burned down last week by increasingly aggressive islamic radicals. but when the demonstrators reached central cairo, government troops, witnesses say, attacked. military vehicles plowed through crowds. the demon...

See the military moving in? it seemed like the old days of the mubarak regime. egyptian soldiers and police used tear gas, guns and clubs to break up a crowd of about 1,000 people in cairo's tahrir square today. they came to protest against the ruling military council which they say has become secretive and abusive. two huge pumps are headed to japan to help engineerness at the crippled fukushima nuclear power plant. a russian cargo plane is flying them there. the pumps can channel massive amounts of water into the reactors to help keep them from overheating. each pump is fully assembled, re...

Movement that pushed egypt's president from power is now taking aim at the military officers who replaced him. protesters packing central cairo and clashing with riot police. they're angry and have demands. straight to cairo now. cnn's ivan watson is there. >> reporter: barricades are erected around tahrir square after clashes erupted overnight under cover of darkness. what appeared to take place, demonstrators were trying to do a sit-in here in the central round-about, included among the demonstrators were about 15 uniformed army officers and soldiers who defied a ban by their generals and jo...