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Hottest legal stories of the day. tonight i'm joined by joey jackson and a criminal defense attorney. our first case, what happened to 13-year-old jesse benner? -- bender two weeks ago, 13-year-old jesse bender went missing. her mom went on tv begging for her return. >> we love you. we are out looking all day and night for you baby. >> judge jeanine: melissa bender initially told police her daughter might have runaway because she didn't want to go on a trip to pakistan. but then she feared jesse had taken off with a man she met on facebook. >> let my baby go. >> judge jeanine: after a nationwi...

A strange story. i know the police say that the girl's parents sort of gave them some misleading information and now the people who searched for the teen are outraged. tell us about that. >> reporter: yeah, certainly is a fascinating story, norah. as you say, 13-year-old jesse bender found with a relative actually in that motel on wednesday. authorities say she is safe and sound but now her parents are under a microscope. >> reporter: it all started last tuesday when 13-year-old jessy bender disappeared from her home in california. her mold told them she was afraid her daughter ran off with so...

taking to the streets calling for qaddafi to step down for the gazillionth time. updates throughout the morning. while you were sleeping, a bizarre student protest fizzled out in berkeley, california. >> eight protesters chained themselves together while perched on a ledge. they were up there for more than seven hours rallying -- brian is taking a picture here. with hundreds of other students against cuts in public education funding. when they finally came down, they were arrested for trespassing. he disappeared in iran four years ago but now u.s. officials have proof that retired f....

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correspondent, richard engel, joins me now live from tripoli. richard, tell us what you're hearing. >> reporter: we spoke early this morning with people in zawiyah, part of the rebel movement. they said at the early hours of the day the attack had begun, started with an attack, artillery fire and machine gunfire on the western side of the city, and then the assaults continued throughout the day. at one stage, the libyan government announced it had totally retaken zawiyah, a town about, as you mentioned, 25 miles outside of tripoli. the government has claimed it has taken zawiyah in t...