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>>heather: welcome back at the bottom of the hour. pope benedict urging the nation to be a model of religious peace in the middle east while in lebanon, which is home to many faiths that have been protected for years. we do not know if chicago schoolteachers are on the job tomorrow. officials are meeting right now with union leaders to vote on a deal. teachers walked off the job on monday affecting 350,000 students. >> the national hockey league locking out their players amid a labor dispute. the two sides are very far apart in negotiations for a new deal. >> new calls for the united states to...

Support for assad. jenna: do you think there's maybe even something deeper? that they just don't really fear the united states, they don't fear our involvement there? they don't think we're going to be more aggressive? so why not double down with your friends that are your neighbors rather than go a different way? >> well i think what they're doing in effect is telling the obama main strings, -- administration, people on capitol hill who want to aid the opposition something that has been implicit right from the outset, which getting involved with the opposition means taking on tehran itself. i...

Position. >> you've done that with me then. exxon mobil is owned by shareholders, other oil companies. where they do wrong, we should take them on. but if we want to reduce oil prices, reduce gas prices in this country, we can't have it both ways. we can't only say we're going to cherry pick and be about the energy sources we want to support. i don't want to be put in the box of supporting oil companies. >> you did a good job. you talk about iran. let's get there. tensions in iran are looming over energy costs with heightened concerns with an -- >> you're going on and on, harold. >> stop it, b...

>> live from america's news headquarters i am patty ann browne. they cut off oil shipments to britain and france. it's in retaliation for tough sanctions they imposed on tehran last month over the controversial nuclear program. a team of u.n. inspect tors are heading to iran to see if they will come clean about trying to build nuclear weapons. an avalanche hit a ski resort in washington state. it happened in an out of bounds area at the popular seasons pass s ski resort. 8 people were missing but authorities confirmed they are now accounted for. the survivors dug them selves out and performed ...

The economy in egypt is absolutely flat or negative growth, huge joblessness, huge poverty numbers. and people are very unhappy and they're very unhappy seeing the mubarak model even though he had a mixed role in, in some ways was a helpful ally seeing the mubarak model not end. that's what they fought a revolution to end. >> such a complex situation. jane harmon, thank you very much. thanks for your insights. and republican candidates are pushing foreign policy for a tougher policy against iran. urging the white house to heed calls from congress and slap new sanctions on tehran's central ba...