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Just arational as it is emotional. >> good morning, everyone. today is tuesday, march 22nd. i'm alisyn camerota in for gretchen. moments ago, news that a u.s. fighter plane went down as attacks intensify in libya. live to the war zone with the very latest. >> exactly what is the mission in libya? >> to give the people of libya a chance to -- for democracy and freedom. why not that be our highest priority? >> ok. it seems, though, that everyone is on different pages. we'll try to review all of them. steve? >> brian, all those jobs created by the stimulus wonder where they went? well, men or wom...

Welcome back to the cnn saturday morning where we're seeing developments out of libya today. let me reset for you. several hours ago our reporters on the ground, arwa damon, started reporting that the town of benghazi was under attack by gadhafi forces. this has been the rebel stronghold, the center of the movement has been there in the eastern city of benghazi. but she said it was essentially under attack. we saw dramatic images of a fighter plane under control of the rebel forces coming down in flames from the sky. this gives you an idea of the type of dramatic images and the dramatic action...

Assume for some kind of statement from gadhafi. it turned out to be a photo op. i cannot make this up, a photo op of a huge statue of a fist crushing a plane. a fighter plane. that is what we had offered to us today. plus another pro-gadhafi demonstration going in and coming out of that headquarters. i'm going to throw it back to you at this point. >> jim maceda, so many thing happening as we watch the video from earlier today. one of the jets falling to the ground there, and let's bring in colonel jack jacobs. msnbc analyst. that happened this morning. we were reporting that. also the breakin...

Paris to discuss taking military action in libya. bombings have been reported in the capital of benghazi after issuing a cease fire. this new video showing a fighter plane in flames in benghazi. details are still emerging about what happened. let's go to jim maceda for us. good morning to you. what are you hearing about this jet? >> reporter: hi there, alex. the jet is confirmed to be a rebel jet, rebels themselves who confirmed it. they have two or three of these very old jets of the 1970s they commandeered taking the benghazi area and sent it up in the southwestern outskirts of benghazi wher...

Three mile island was rated a five and the chernobyl catastrophe was a 7. >> woo f. we learned one thing from chernobyl, it is that we don't know. the radioactive clouds spread over the them fear sphere after chernobyl. >> is there a nuclear coverup in japan? history tells us it has happened before at the height of the cold war in 1957. there was another level 6 nuclear accident shrouded in mystery in the former soviet union. on may 1, 1960, it became one of the prime targets on france's gary powers ill fated surveillance flights. his u.s. fighter plane was shot down by the soviets. experts sa...