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Certainly the incoming rockets that have reached jerusalem have gotten to open ground or been shot out of the sky by the israelis. here relatively peaceful. but things outside of jerusalem are very frightening. >> let's talk about the warning from hamas to airline to stay away from the main airport there in israel. tell us more about what we know about that and what that implies. >> reporter: yeah. this was some sort of 24-to 36 hours ago and a couple members of cnn staff have come in over the past, what, 12 hours sore so. one member of the staff just telling me before i came to air with you t...

You can see it, but it's just debris really everywhere. this is actually, though, now a functioning airport. the marines who arrived for the first time yesterday are going to be in here actually turning this into a 24-hour operation. for that you need runway lights, you also need radar. we're going to get both of those in the very, very near future. meanwhile, people are also using this as a place to get relief supplies, the stuff that's coming in here, the food, the water that's coming in here is getting to the main part of the city by helicopter. people are choosing to walk those 14 kilomete...

What they will recommend to the president. >>shepard: after that, we have to know what the afghans want, right? >>reporter: that is right. a key point is that the state department has just started negotiating status of forces agreement, what we remember as the sofa agreement that was the sticking point in iraq when the pentagon wanted to keep u.s. forces behind and they could not come up with a deal for soldiers and troops left behind so the united states pulled out come completely. a reason the united states wants to keep 10,000 troops in administration has to do with the fact the afghans do ...

else from the cnn team and other networks from around the world who gathered over the last few weeks to report on the libya story from the rixos hotel, that last bash of pro-gadhafi control in the libyan capital, they are now free. they are driving through the streets of tripoli headed to a safer location. they were running out of food, they were running out of water. hopefully -- well, hopefully they'll be able to have a regular meal, call their loved ones, have a glass of water, take a shower, and just relax, but it was an absolutely traumatic experience. so along with suzanne malv...

I'm taking extra precautionary measures, feeling we'll go and hopefully my husband will join us later this evening or tomorrow morning. >> greta: why did you pick there and how sure you can get a train? >> it is buy a 40 minute taxi drive to osaka. we are hoping if need be we are close to another functioning airport. >> greta: war the japanese saying about the safety of this nuclear facility? >> it is interesting. they are not talking much about it. it is hard for us to as ex-pats and americans we don't understand, i don't speak japanese so i don't know what is going on with japanese news. peo...