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Security checks, for example. going to have a huge impact on people, and the big date to circle on your calendar is march 4th. that's when the current funding for the federal government runs out. without a budget deal by then, the government will be shut down, brooke. >> real quickly, 20 seconds. what's our own president up to on this presidents' day? >> reporter: actually pretty quiet. we have what we call a lid, look, can you go home, not going to be doing anything today a few hours ago, so he's behind the scenes doing a little bit of work. he's obviously focused on the situation in libya. w...

Libya is not getting back to us, we cannot independently confirm that. >> this is exactly the problem with libya. you mention the media blockade. the media has been trying to play catch-up essentially since the protests started in benghazi. we hear reports from relatives and friends, then a day later the numbers are confirmed by the media. you're absolutely right. you have to verify every single number. >> it's difficult. asma, help me understand this. help our american audience understand this. because you cannot paint the middle east with a broad stroke here. it's very, very different from w...

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Go inside libya. they have not responded to our requests. >> right. >> there's a tiny island of malta 2, 50 miles in the water outside of libya. >> yeah, two mirage, french-made mirage fighter jets with libyan pilots on board landed in malta and according to sources in malta, they asked for political asylum because they were asked to fire on their own people, to bomb their own people. >> that's what they said. >> and they refused. this is the information they are getting from maltese officials who spoke to our cnn producer on the ground. as anything else related to this story,brook, it's diffi...

Cairo. ivan, as we pointed out, so much happening right now and so quickly in libya. and though all of -- through all of this, we have yet to see the leader here of 42 years, moammar gadhafi. first i have to ask you, does anyone know where he is? >> reporter: no. in fact, you've got the top diplomat of britain who's come out and said he has information indicating that gadhafi may have gone to venezuela. he has ties with the venezuelan government, and that charge has been denied by libya's ambassador to london. do not know where gadhafi is right now. he has had some phone conversations with the...