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cnn's ivan watson live with more on this medical and perhaps political mystery. ivan, what is the latest on the former president's condition? and what are we to make of this curious timing? >> reporter: well, let me bring you up to date, john on the latest. we're just getting a statement from the egyptian military, which is basically running the country right now. one sentence announcement that legal questioning of hosni mubarak and his family has started today. now, we know that mubarak was hospitalized in the afternoon local time. in that resort where he has lived basically since h...

Council trying to come up with some sort of cohesive defensive strategy. the fighters are teenagers we heard stories saying they spent a few hours on a weapon. the longer this drags out, the more concern the leadership here grows. as all the opposition leaders grow, they will not be able to hold the ground. they are willing to die for it. that is clear. as to whether or not they're actually going to push back, gain more ground, that's going to be increasingly difficult unless the international community convenes and steps in. >> arwa is here in benghazi in the east, still controlled by the opp...

Fred townsend. now a member of the department of homeland security's external advisory committee. last year she visited high ranking officials. as someone who sat across the table from moammar gadhafi. when you she the pictures you saw today, the fist pumps, pumping fists into the lobby, clearly a strange event designed to send a message, no? >> absolutely. gadhafi, what he said when the whole thing began was that he would die a martyr in libya. i think that was actually the clearest statement he's made of the truth. and i don't think he has any intention of leaving. i don't think he has any i...

attacks on the coasts in the west and east. let's look at a little bit of the fighting here. this town under opposition control, but listen to this. you see anti-aircraft fire in the sky. you see rebels on the street loading machine guns here. the opposition forces trying to hold the city. obviously you can hear jets flying over head. vigorous attacks for the government back here in the east. a bizarre appearance it was at a tripoli hotel where a foreign journalist is staying. we can show you where the hotel is right here. gadhafi's loyalists literally rolled out a red carpet here. f...

cargo plane at the east midlands airport about 100 miles north of london. it contained a device disguised acetoner cartridge and included wires and circuit board and covered with a white powder shipped from sanaa yemen and headed to chicago by way of philadelphia. we understand according to sources and a source tells cnn it was des continued for a chicago synagogue in particular. a second suspicious package from yemen was found at a fedex facility in dubai. the discovery prompted increased security involving u.p.s. cargo planes in newark, new jersey, as well as philadelphia and a u.p...