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worth has destroyed about 30 homes already. it threatens many more. this is so big, the fire is so big and intense that firefighters haven't been able to contain any of that. right now crews are getting people out of its way and trying to protect the homes still standing. the fire has burned nearly 8,000 acres. air tankers are expected to drop water on the fire today. it is unclear how this fire started, but the epic drought and the heat may have made this the worst fire season in texas history. oklahoma is suffering, too. a fire near oklahoma city has forced people within a two squa...

Feels fine and she was joking around on twitter. cia operatives are now on the ground in libya, gathering intel on military strikes and anti-government forces. the presence of the cia could open the door to arming libya's rebels, but the united states has not made a firm decision to move forward. in a hearing before the house armed services committee today, joint chiefs chair mike mullen said moammar gadhafi continues to turn on his own people. >> he still denies his own people food, water, electricity, and shelter. he threatens them on the streets of misratah and he has made no secret of th...

In terms of these options leaders and forces. to try to figure out who can be trusted, and in the eventually that some of them may be armed, who you would give those arms to. so they would not be turned against either the u.s. or coalition forces or our friends in the region at some future date. >> jim miklaszewski, thank you, jim. >> contessa, one more thing? >> yes, sir. >> something very interesting out of the testimony today from secretary gates. he said when asked about arming the rebels that he was against arming the rebels. he thought that somebody else, some other nation should do that...

They were outside of sirte two days ago. they hit that wall of fire. it was as much local militias as anything else. these were armed civilians running around in jeeps and pickup trucks, looking very much like the rebels, by the way, who actually ambushed the rebels as gadhafi's heavy weapons were pushing them back and back and back. so now they're in ajdabiya. rebel leaders are pleaing for anti-tank webs, for shoulder-fired rockets. but looking at the footage and great reporting richard is doing out there. it would take professional soldiers months to learn how to fire these types of weapons....