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>> we've heard from a lot of them ourselves, our interviews out there. police got more harrowing stories. one person described the chaos said she thought bullets were raining down from a helicopter. another said that she thought they were fireworks. another woman said she refused to leave her friend that was killed until a group of guys got her to safety. somebody else said that she was playing dead after seeing somebody shot next to her. a lot of harrowing store rows out there. >> shepard: dan springer live. thanks. breaking news coming to us from capitol hill. let's go to our senior producer...

It 112 and say it will go higher. and they are quick to remind us that it's not the number that's important but the human toll behind each one. >> it's really not just the list of numbers. these are stories. each one of these represents a family that's been displaced from their home that may have lost some family heirlooms. photos, possessions, kids' toys, what have you. >> meantime, a massive effort to save 500 other homes from a spot fire. the cost of this fight now over $7 million. and growing by several million dollars each day and the weather is only going to get worst. predicting winds u...

Called the fifth column is responsible. they condemned it as an act of terrorism. the big question is this the start of an insurgency that will try to spread fear. also today, nato voted to extend its mission in libya, another three months. that will mean a lot more air strikes in tripoli. the stated goal is not regime change but, rather, enforcing a no-fly zone, enforcing arms embargo and protecting citizens. the new deadline is the end of september. and, finally, another high level defection from the libyan government again today. the oil minister said he wanted out. he left the country, we ...

When you burn the wood, you are emitting dangerous carbon. true, like at coal plants. and while the trees store carbon it takes decades to grow a tree, but, just minutes to burn one. >> carbon is carbon is carbon. that is really the basic question here. the environment doesn't care, molecule of co2 comes from wide biomass or coal. >> we will not proceed with a project of producing 30 megawatts of power, we consider very, very creditably green, if we are not considered green power, and it doesn't make any sense to do it. >> reporter: the biomass industry insists that if the logging is done resp...