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ABC World News With Diane Sawyer-20110222-01:32:00

going anywhere. "i'm very relaxed," he said "i've met with my supporters. everything else is being reported falsely by the foreign media." but clearly it is not all false. his violent response to the uprising is chillingly real. >> oh, my god. they are -- they are firing at the civilians here. they are crazy. they are going crazy here. >> reporter: with borders closed, telephone and internet shut down, it is impossible to get accurate information. we do know that hundreds have been killed, many mowed down by machine guns while attending funerals of those who died in the uprising. >> they are being killed by large caliber bullets, heavy, you know, machine guns. they've reported aircraft, helicopters. they've been using anti-aircraft artillery at the people. >> reporter: today signs that gadhafi is losing his iron grip. two libyan air force pilots landed their planes in nearby malta and requested asylum after

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ABC World News With Diane Sawyer-20110222-01:35:00

determined that no two people spell it alike. >> reporter: -- his ruling style was ruthless. a dictator at home, gadhafi funneled oil revenues to terrorists like black september, which carried out the munich olympic massacre in 1972. and in 1986, his agents targeted a berlin disco popular with american soldiers. >> this monstrous brutality is but the latest act in colonel gadhafi's reign of terror. >> reporter: president reagan ordered an air strike on gadhafi's compound killing the leader's 15-month-old daughter. two years later gadhafi retaliated by taking down pan am 103 over lockerbie, scotland. for years gadhafi refused to take responsibility for the massacre, but after 9/11 and the invasion of iraq, an about-face. gadhafi condemned osama bin laden, began to give up his chemical and nuclear weapons programs, and in august 2003, he formally accepted responsibility for the lockerbie bombing agreeing to pay $2.7 billion in compensation.

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ABC World News With Diane Sawyer-20110222-01:51:00

somalia to report on the pirates' five-year kidnapping campaign on the high seas. he has the latest on the new hostages. >> reporter: the four americans and their yacht remain captives on the high seas tonight boarded by pirates surrounded by two pirate skiffs, a u.s. navy warship shadowing them and for the first time today contacting the pirates by radio. the urgent challenge now, keeping them from making it to the somali coast where they can easily disappear. >> the pirates probably saw these americans as easy prey, they think they're americans, they must be rich so be able to pay whatever ransom is demanded. >> reporter: jean and scott adam and phylis macay and bob riggle, who chronicled every leg of their voyage on their website, knew these waters were dangerous, but they sailed on with a mission to distribute bibles across the globe, a cargo that could increase the danger to them in strictly muslim somalia. we ventured into the pirates' lair in somalia ourself last spring crossing hundreds of miles of desert under armed guard to reach a remote

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ABC World News With Diane Sawyer-20110222-01:33:00

refusing orders to fire on their own people, and there are other defections including key members of his inner circle and some of libya's top diplomats including the deputy ambassador to the u.n. >> we have never been with gadhafi. we are with the people, and we just made the statement. >> reporter: mounting evidence shows gadhafi's war is being fueled by hired gun, soldiers from neighboring african countries who are being paid to kill. >> mercenaries, you can hear them zooming by in their land cruisers. firing their guns. they don't really care who they hit. they're just looking for a target. >> reporter: in tunis where the arab revolution began more than a month ago, the first flight from libya landed late tonight. those who arrived had stories of horror. "from 3:00 to 6:00 in the morning," he says, "the shooting did not stop. i could not sleep." as we have noted, communication

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CBS Evening News With Katie Couric-20110222-01:58:00

captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org d by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> you're watching cbs 5 eyewitness news. >> just as the fire started the length people went to save animals in a burning van. and what turned the tops of the neighborhoods blue. >> we probably made 400 to 500 for the golf camp. >> one family's impromptu business model for a busy day. good evening i'm allan martin. >> and i'm dana king. a van on fire and five show dogs trapped inside.

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ABC World News With Diane Sawyer-20110222-01:59:00

looking at interstate 80 through berkeley. >> and there is a live look over interstate 580. the route you might take home to fremont or san jose. >> and hundreds of people stayed a lot closer to home to play in the snow today. there is the observatory. elevation 4200 feet. the peak is covered with snow. and the same story here on mount diablo. it's not quite as high, and there is not as much snow but there is plenty to play in. and there is no one mistaking mount tam for high sierra. and there is more snow than amount that might fall in several winters, three inches on friday

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ABC World News With Diane Sawyer-20110222-01:39:00

across the midwest a fast-moving storm is creating whiteout conditions. >> it got bad pretty fast. [ sirens ] >> reporter: roads are a nightmare. airports across the region are also getting hit hard. at least 1,000 flights canceled today following 1,600 yesterday. stranded passengers are singing the blues. ♪ i want to fly away to see my baby ♪ >> we're dealing with a double-barrel storm system. the first one provided all the heavy snow for minneapolis across the southern tier of new york and even a few inches in new york city. our next storm monday night, philadelphia, washington, d.c., you missed out on the first storm. you won't get missed tonight. >> reporter: all of the snow this season comes at a huge cost for the cities that have to get rid of it. here in minneapolis, for example, they've already gone over their snow removal budget by nearly $3.5 million. mike kennedy is the man in charge of getting minneapolis moving. he's seen so many snowstorms this year, he's had to come up with a system just to keep

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NBC Nightly News-20110222-01:34:00

al islam went on television to say his father would never flee. this is not egypt or tunisia he said repeatedly, warning of civil war and rivers of blood if the protests continued. today, new signs of cracks from within. two air force colonels, reportedly refused orders, to attack their countrymen and flew their fighter jets to malta to request asylum. several members of gadhafi's government, including diplomats posted abroad, announced support for the people fighting the regime. foreign oil companies began evacuating workers and families. joining an exodus of thousands. >> it's been quite frightening. we've had gunfire in the night. we saw some chaos in the streets. it's getting worse, not better. >> reporter: late daf there was

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NBC Nightly News-20110222-01:52:00

back bumper of the other. the car doing the pushing was in turn pulled along in the draft of air. it led to a harrowing race. the lead changed a record 74 times, and early on the wreck they called the big one. nascar now has a young new star. the irony is, they lost their last big star ten years ago. under deep blue skies, every one of the 180,000 fans knew what yesterday was, the tenth anniversary of the death of dale earnhardt, the driver of the iconic black number 3 car. so on the third lap, the fans fell silent and 180,000 people held up three fingers in tribute to the man who's been gone ten years now. little did anyone know the race would be won by a kid who was just ten himself when dale earnhardt died. and this youngest man ever to

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CBS Evening News With Katie Couric-20110222-01:31:00

should not compromise. if they stop without reaching their goals, i think that would be bad. >> reporter: anti-government protests continued today in yemen and bahrain. allen pizzey begins our coverage of the middle east in turmoil. >> reporter: a ball of fire. the sound of gunfire. and an explosion. the rage that began has reached tripoli. people claim fighter jets have fired on protestors. jets landed in malta the pilots asked for asylum saying they refused orders to bomb the rioters. it's colonel moammar qaddafi's desperate attempts to keep people from overthrowing his regime. the capital is torn by burning barricades and gunfire. the death toll may have topped 300 with uncounted more wounded. police say the libyan's

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