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Half drive. we are starting to see hotels fill up along the gulf coast. a noncasino hotel 1500 a night for one of the casino properties. >> how does it compare to past super bowls? >> very similar. we see prices go up from 200 to 400 percent for super bowl weekend. the thing that is different about new orleans is they don't have as many hotel rooms. it >> no offense to indianapolis but indianapolis in february. >> and you have mardi gras right on the heels of super bowl. people may be taking part in those if he istities. >> how do you get around when you get there? >> traffic will be a mess. i...

hauled before congress and impeached. newt gingrich outlines his solution to so-called activists and ignites a huge controversy. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in the situation room. it's a rogue isolated nation on earth. now the state is in transition now with the death of their leader, kim jong il. a tearful woman announced the news on state television saying kim jong il died suddenly of heart attack at age 69. >> north korea is built on a cult of personality surrounding the kim dynasty and word of his death sparked near hisser toa on streets with people wailing and weeping openly. k...

clinton is just wrapping up a meeting with the japanese foreign minister at the department of state. a joint statement is expected to follow shortly. earlier president obama called south korea's president to re-affirm his commitment to korea's security and stability. when it comes to the payroll tax cut, it's one step forward and two steps back in congress. the house is expected to reject the senate's two-month extension of the payroll tax cut. house speaker john boehner says the house will be pushing a one-year extension. >> the idea the tax policy can be done two months at a time...

Who's been kind of leading this with the kansas city police department telling one of our bookers now that this was, in fact, a tip that was received which is what led them to this house. and what you're looking there on the left-hand side of your screen is a well under the deck of a vacant house. this house is about .5, maybe a half mile away from where the irwin house is. it's about a three and a half, four-minute walk, maybe a minute and a half drive. they got a tip, and what they're doing, it doesn't look like time is of the essence here, that there's a great sense of urgency. well, there ...

Outside. >> he was referring to al qaeda. meanwhile, the u.s. treasury department has announced it's freezing at least $30 billion in libyan government assets here in the united states. it's reportedly the largest amount ever blocked under any sanctions program. we're covering this story from every angle on the ground as only the global resources of cnn can. let's go to our senior international correspondent ben wedeman. he's standing by live for us in eastern libya. what's the latest there, ben? >> the latest is that what we saw today, wolf, is that mid-afternoon we heard an airplane overhead...