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Anyone who has read "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson or "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair, knows that Chicago was once the “Hog Butcher for the World” thanks to the Union Stock Yards and meatpacking plants nestled next to the railroads. Stanley Kurek, a Polish immigrant, first opened Stanley’s in 1924. Stanley’s was a place for stockyard workers to come in, get a meal, and cash their paycheck. Two remnants of this storied past can still be seen today. The first is the limestone Union Stock Yard Gate, a National Historic Landmark, designed by White City arch...

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Country is what is happening at that plant. joined by once again jim walt, an expert nint nationin interna security. jim, always good to have you here with us. i kind of started with you yesterday with this same question. give me the good news. >> we started out with six problems, six different reactors that were having problems. so that narrowed. the problems haven't gone away. but they narrowed. that is always a good thing. reactors four and five which had some nuclear waste spent fuel pond problems, they got the cooling system going there. that's a huge victory. they're trying to get electr...

>> reporter: meanwhile, libya became a no-man's land for foreigners including the country's vast number of foreign guest workers. some 200,000 are said to have fled. many across the border with tunisia creating a mass refugee crisis. the airports were swamped by mobs scrambling to get out. this week as libyan government forces began retaking towns held by rebels, the united nations voted to impose a no-fly zone over the country. >> this resolution should send a strong message to colonel gadhafi and his regime. a new chapter for libya being written by coalition planes and missiles. ...