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That. the broader humanitarian challenge, following the earthquake and tsunami, here's the latest figures the government is putting out a short while ago. 7500 dead. 11,700 missing, 450,000 still in evacuation shelters, that is basically homeless. a lot of criticism the last couple days the government has been spending too much time dealing with the nuclear crisis and not enough time dealing with the situation on the ground and the earthquake and tsunami ravaged areas and now, it seems like more attention is being paid, more food, more attention being given to the survivors of the terrible, mu...

And the developing situation in libyaing, officials speaking of u.s. military operations in the region, jennifer griffin was there, at the news briefing, and you have learned further details as well, jennifer? >> reporter: that's right, we just got an operational update from vice-admiral gortney, director of the joint staff in the pentagon and told us 110-112 tomahawk missiles and it takes an hour to fly from the ships they were launched from, from u.s. vessels in the mediterranean as well as one british submarine, and takes it about an hour, and those were first fired 2:00 p.m. eastern and fi...

Moment of truth. >> heather: one minute left and that was my last question to you, the world no doubt looking to see what the u.s. does next and what do you think president obama should do, now, moving forward? >> well, the president in my view ought to lay out the clear goals the ultimate outcome of the military action, will be the overthrow of muammar qaddafs regime, and, this whole battle in libya has basically been a momentum play, when it looked like the rebels were winning, you had army units defecting to the rebels and they were gaining strength and now it looks like qaddafi is winning ...

About, make no mistake, he likes that phrase, we are part of a, number one, broad coalition, number two, an effort to make the people of libya safe and number three, acting in regards to u.s. interests. do you think it's of interest that he mentions first the broad coalition? >> this whole exercise in libya is an ivtd by president obama to say, i'm not george bush, we are not doing it the way george bush did it like the way in iraq and afghanistan, even though at the time we did have a broad coalition. but he seems to be sort of cite ago rear guard action some blow back, domestic blow back to ...

These folks? who are the rebels. >> i assure you the entire council which was formed, east, west, north, south, they are very good people. they are not al qaeda as qaddafi tried to presents them to the world. you see the people there are serious and want to have a democratic process, to have elected government. and, we have the right to live like democratic country. we have been under this region jimmy more than 4 decades, my friend and they have to give a chance for the government to -- there is no way that this government will be worse than qaddafi. no way. these people, they are professiona...