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good evening. for one week now, we have been focused on the dangerous unknowns of the nuclear crisis in japan. but tonight, we begin with the unpredictable and dangerous mind of moammar gadhafi. today, president obama told americans that u.s. forces may be called into military action once again, this time, against gadhafi. joining other countries trying to keep the dictator from savaging his own people. tonight, we set out to answer three big questions. will other countries like england, france, arab nations really take the lead in libya? can the american military stretched so thin in afghanistan and iraq add another burden? and, is there a chance that gadhafi will fold, even though he s threatening retaliation? our team has been reporting on this all day and is standing by. we start with jake tapper and exactly what the white house is expecting now. jake? reporter: good evening, diane. well, president obama is mindful that the american public is weary of war. and that the international community is skeptical of the u.s. attacking yet another muslim country. so, he s done everything he can to make this conflict seem as international as possible. he even mentioned our arab partners in this effort seven times today. president obama today gave moammar gadhafi one last chance. moammar gadhafi has a choice. a cease-fire must be implemented immediately. that means all attacks against civilians must stop. reporter: gadhafi must pull back his troops, the president said, and allow water, power and humanitarian relief to reach civilians. let me be clear. these terms are not negotiable. these terms are not subject to negotiation. reporter: the president had been committed to squeezing gadhafi diplomatically, but everything changed on tuesday, as gadhafi s forces pushed to rebel stronghold benghazi. the president told his national security team, what we re doing isn t stopping him. tuesday night, the president met with defense secretary gates and other military officials over dinner and later instructed his national security team to broaden the united nation s resolution to allow for more military might. not just targeting libyan fighter jets, but also tanks on the ground. all the while, saying this must be an international effort. we will continue to work with our partners in the international community to press gadhafi to leave. reporter: the french and the british are expected to play a lead role in air strikes. and the u.s. secured the commitment of arab nations, the uae and qatar, to deploy jets. at the u.n., it was the arab nation of lebanon that introduced the no-fly zone resolution. still, the u.s. will play the essential role. we will provide the unique capabilities that we can bring to bear to stop the violence against civilians, including enabling our european allies and arab partners to effectively enforce a no-fly zone. reporter: and the president emphasized that the u.s. will not be introducing ground troops. but there is a risk in this approach. administration officials acknowledge that. the american people may not be fully prepared for casualties because of this somewhat more detached approach. diane? well, jake, that takes us to our next question. however strong they are, can u.s. military forces really take on one more assignment? and how many more american planes and pilots could be exposed? martha raddatz covers national security and she takes that for us tonight. martha? reporter: diane, american forces are already stretched thin with the conflicts in iraq and afghanistan. so, it is the british, french and other allies who will likely take the lead role in enforcing any large no-fly zone, a mission that would begin with air strikstrike s into libya. libya has a robust and sophisticated array of surface to air missile batteries, more than 30, with the bulk around tripoli. if u.s. and allied fighter jets were sent to patrol all of libya, every one of those missile sites would have to be taken out first to eliminate the threat. on paper, it s a very difficult threat. what the libyans are capable of is another story. but we still have to honor the threat that we know exists before we go in there and risk the lives of air crews. reporter: that could mean launching tomahawk missiles at the sites from ships in the mediterranean. but there is an easier option. a smaller no-fly zone, over benghazi, which is controlled by the rebels. so the surface to air missile sites around there may not have to be taken out. that smaller no-fly zone would require only about four to eight fighter jets, with 30 to 50 support aircraft. refuelers, communications and jammers, so gadhafi s forces couldn t talk to one another. if gadhafi did not retreat, the no-fly zone would be spread like an ink spot west. that would require about 125 fighter jets and hundreds of support aircraft. it could also take weeks to set up. but how long would allied forces continue the no-fly zone if gadhafi digs in his heels? it depends on the mission. are we just going to prevent airplanes from flying anywhere in libya or are we actually going to help the rebels on the ground? that is a huge second question, and it is a big step militarily and politically. reporter: but whatever the mission, the u.s. will be largely providing a strategic role. we may not be contributing any fighter jets. but rather, those refueling tankers, jammers and communications aircraft. but all those details are still being worked out, diane. but still, a dangerous mission. and will be worked out over the weekend. very soon. thank you, martha. i want to bring in christiane amanpour now. the anchor of this week. you sat down with moammar gadhafi within the last month and you have talked within the last 24 hours to his son. is there any chance he ll back down? reporter: from what they re saying, no. from what they re saying, we re going to die here, we re not moving. we re not moving anywhere, my people love me. however, since this u.n. resolution has passed, you ve had the foreign minister say, cease-fire. you ve had them say, we have no intention of going into benghazi. when they are just on the outskirts. and last night, before the resolution, gadhafi really threatened them, saying, we ll show no mercy so, it s possible that he could stop and pull back. the question is, what will be enough for the u.s. and its allies? at one point, the defense minister threatened to take down commercial planes. reporter: and as we know, back in the 80s, that is what happened with lockerbie, the pan-am 103. and of course ronald reagan once sent bombers against libya, for terrorist actions that libya was conducting. so maybe and that was gadhafi. maybe they have learned a lesson. any exit theater, exit strategy for him? reporter: i know there have been senior international officials talking to him and trying to negotiate precisely that. but up until now, it hasn t seemed to work. well, thank you christiane. i know we ll all be watching on sunday morning when you will have the latest on the continuing crisis in libya, as well as the disaster in the pacific. and your guests include energy secretary steven chu. and it s not just news from libya tonight. what s been called democracy fever continues its uncertain path in the mideast today, with a protest turned into a blood bath in yemen. at least 46 people were killed, hundreds wounded in a brutal crackdown by the government there. police blocked demonstrators from escaping by building a wall of burning tires. and now, we move back to japan and the latest on the nuclear crisis there. as we said, today, an executive with the power company sobbed in front of the cameras. and, for the first time since the earthquake and tsunami struck one week ago, we re hearing the harrowing words of the workers who were caught inside the plant as the quake hit. david muir, just back from japan, tells us the latest at this hour. david? reporter: diane, as you know, they are describing the fear as that earthquake struck before they even knew the extent of the damage, and of course the crisis that would follow. this evening, another sign of that growing crisis from a hospital inside that evacuation zone. tonight, for the first time, workers from inside fukushima, when disaster struck. this man was standing outside, in between reactors. he didn t want to show his face, but he said, i thought the building would be stronger. i would never imagine the building would turn out the way it did. another from inside reactor four. the building shook sideways and the lights went out. still another from inside reactor three. it was shaking violently for a long time. i was very scared while it was shaking. and tonight, this image. the head of tokyo electric running that nuclear plant, in tears after addressing the cameras. and from inside the evacuation zone, a disturbing picture just emerging. this hospital at its breaking point. a nurse with her head in her hands. they say they re out of medicine and even if they had it, there are not enough doctors and nurses to help all the patients. and today, that powerful image from tokyo, the fire chief addressing his team. the lives of many people, he said, rest on your actions. the firemen then lining up, shaking their chief s hand. they were headed to the doomed plant. they are now spraying at least one reactor, each truck rotating in and out to limit exposure. and tonight, the u.s. continues to help the japanese try to get power up and running, to get the cooling pumps working again. we know of a power line now connected to reactor two. but now the wait to turn it on. major concerns when they do. will the tsunami-ravaged cooling pumps even work? and there s fear of an electrical explosion. given the drenched reactors. but once power is on, standing by, five huge high pressure water pumps from the u.s., with japanese personnel ready to run them. but tonight, a kernel of hope after this from admiral george willard, head of u.s. pacific command. i am cautiously optimistic that we re progressing and that worst case scenario will never be encountered. and david, you told us last night that the plume of the air mass from japan to the u.s. might be arriving today, did it? reporter: yeah, well, the monitor picked it up in sacramento. the u.s. government has these radiation detectors up and down the coast and a minuscule amount detected in sacramento tonight of that isotope zenon-103. that same radiation coming from the nuclear plant in japan. scientists say no reason to worry. they said it this way, diane. one millionth the dose someone receives from walking around in the sun or from rocks. no reason to worry, but it is here. one millionth of that walking around dose. okay, david muir, thank you. and the official toll, we should tell you, tonight, is more than 6,500 dead. more than 10,000 missing. and clarissa ward is in japan and tells us an entire nation stopped today. clarissa? reporter: diane, out on the street, we saw it everywhere we looked. amid so much loss, the people here taking a moment to pause to reflect, to catch their breath. sirens sound as leaders of parliament, whole towns in shelters, observe a moment of silence. for the exact minute, one week ago today, the earthquake shattered their country, the tsunami wiping away the life they knew. and today, a new look at just what it was like to be inside the tsunami, facing that wave of water. the car races and races but it is no match, submerged in an instant. today, in the wake of those waves, the search for the missing continued. 9-year-old toshihito aisawa has been searching for his family too. he carries two signs. one with the names of his mother, father and grandma. the other with a simple plea. i will come back at 11:00 tomorrow, please wait. and across this devastated country, signs of hope. a u.s. aid plane arrives in yamagata. by air and by sea, aid rushing to so many in need. masayuki shibata was hard at work rebuilding his barber shop with his two sons. he promises they ll be back. he and others are beginning to rebuild their lives. and just today, diane, their prime minister vowed they will, create japan once again from scratch. thank you so much, clarissa. and still ahead on world news, here in the united states, if there s an earthquake under a nuclear power plant, what are the three places hardest to escape? 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zero. reporter: and bell employees were encouraged to tutor taft students, at the school, during their work day. here s a person who is willing to take some time out of their schedule to give us just one more dose of love. reporter: the result? taft has been transformed. now, the place many were once afraid to visit, is attracting students. like kenny fowler, who transferred from one of cincinnati s other top schools. it wasn t until i peeked into a class where one of the students was reading his essay and he said he enjoyed a plethora of things. and i was like, what does that mean? and they were high-fiving each other and everything. i was like, wow. reporter: and a school with an almost all-black student body has closed the racial achievement gap. taft students now outscore white students in ohio on math, reading and science. the graduation rate is now 95%. reporter: ten years ago it was 18%. 12%. reporter: and this spring, the old taft becomes this, a gleaming new $18 million school. we visited with a group of students seeing it for the first time. and the clock. that works! you have to look at these children like they re the most important part of your life. and if you do that, you ll be able to replicate it. i can teach you how to be a good teacher. i can t teach you how to care. so, we choose anthony smith. 110 students expected to graduate and virtually all of them attending college this fall. and that s a plethora. we re so glad you watched tonight. we re always at abcnews.com. don t forget, 20/20 later, and david muir will be at this desk through the weekend. i ll see you back here on monday. we hope you have a great weekend. until then. ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss tornado damage in the north bay. fierce winds that tore through this neighborhood. tornadoes are rare, but not unheard of this, weekend, stronger storms slamming the bay area, i ll have details. and whiteout conditions and a major traffic accident fchl you haven t left for a ski weekend at tahoe yet, don t. berkeley scientists going to great lengths to move the nuclear fallout from japan won t hurt us here. that is a tornado touchdown. if it happened over land it would have been a tornado. and this first one did damage. it did. it was the first one to hit the bay area in almost a decade. it had winds up to is 10 miles per hour. if you see destruction, it s amazing that no one was hurt. this landscaping materials company occupies almost the en
all these kids in just five words. he s our person of the week. good evening. for one week now, we have been focused on the dangerous unknowns of the nuclear crisis in japan. but tonight, we begin with the unpredictable and dangerous mind of moammar gadhafi. today, president obama told americans that u.s. forces may be called into military action once again, this time, against gadhafi. joining other countries frying to keep the dictator from savaging his own people. don t, we set out to answer three big questions. will other countries like england, france, arab nations really take the lead in libya? can the american military stretch so thin in afghanistan and iraq add another burden? and, is there a chance that gadhafi will fold? even though he s threatening retaliation. our team has been reporting on this all day and is standing by. we start with jake tapper and exactly what the white house is expecting now. jake? reporter: good evening, diane. president obama is mindful that the american public is weary of war. and that the international community is skeptical of the u.s. attacking yet another muslim country. so, he s done everything he can to make this conflict seem as international as possible. he even mentioned our arab partners in this effort seven times today. president obama today gave moammar gadhafi one last chance he has a chance. a cease-fire must be implemented immediately. that means all attacks against civilians must stop. reporter: gadhafi must pull back his troops, the president said, and allow water, power and humanitarian relief to reach civilians. these terms are not negotiable. they are not subject to negotiation. reporter: the president has been committed to squeezing gadhafi diplomatically, but everything changed on tuesday, as gadhafi s forces pushed to rebel stronghold benghazi, the president told his national security team, what we re doing isn t stopping him. tuesday night, the president met with defense secretary gates, and other military officials over dinner and later instructed his national security team to broaden the united nation s resolution to allow for more military might. not just targeting lynn yab fighter jets, but also tanks on the ground. all the while, saying this must be an international effort. we will continue to work with our partners in the international community to press gadhafi to leave. reporter: the french and the british are expected to play a lead role in air strikes. and the u.s. secured the commitment of arab nations, the uae and qatar, to deploy jets. at the u.n., it was the arab nation of lebanon that introduced the no-fly zone resolution. still, the u.s. will play the essential role. we will provide the unique capabilities that we can bring to bear to stop the violence against civilians, including enabling our european allies to effectively enforce a no-fly zone. reporter: and the president emphasized that the u.s. will not be introducing ground troops. but there is a risk in this approach. administration officials acknowledge that. the american people may not be fully prepared for casualties because of this somewhat more detached approach. diane? well, jake, that takes us to our next question, however strong they can, can military forces really take on one more assignment? and how many more american planes and pilots could be exposed? martha raddatz covers national security and she takes that for us tonight. martha? reporter: diane, american forces are already stretched thin with the conflicts in iraq and afghanistan. so, it is the british, french and other allies who will likely take the lead role in any no-fly zone, a mission that would begin with air strikes into libya. libya has a robust and sophisticated array of surface to air missile batteries, more than 30, with the bulk around t tripoli. if u.s. and allied fighter jets were to patrol all of libya, every one of those missile sites would have to be taken out first. to eliminate the threat. on paper, it s a very difficult threat. what the libyans are capable of is another story. but we still have to honor the threat that we know exists before we go in there and risk the lives of air crews. reporter: that would mean launching tomahawk missiles at the sites from ships in the mediterranean. but there is an easier option. a smaller no-fly zone, over benghazi, which is controlled by the rebels. so the surface to air missile sites around there may not have to be taken out. that smaller no-fly zone would require only about four to eight fighter jets, with 30 to 50 support aircraft. refuelers, communications and jammers, so gadhafi s forces couldn t talk to one another. if gadhafi did not retreat, the no-fly zone would be spread like an ink spot west. that would require about 125 fighter jets and hundreds of support aircraft. it could also take weeks to set up. but how long would allied forces continue the no-fly zone if gadhafi digs in his heels? it depends on the mission. are we just going to prevent airplanes from flying anywhere in libya or are we actually going to help the rebels on the ground? that is a huge second question, and it is a big step militarily and politically. reporter: but whatever the mission, the u.s. will be largely providing a strategic role. we may not be contributing any fighter jets. but rather, those refueling tankers, jammers and communications aircraft. but all those details are still being worked out, diane. but still, a dangerous mission. and will be worked out over the weekend. thank you, martha. i want to bring in christiane amanpour now. you sat down with moammar gadhafi within the last month and you have talked within the last 24 hours to his son. is there any chance he ll back down? reporter: from what they re saying, no. from what they re saying, we re going to die here, we re not moving. my people love me. however, since this u.n. resolution has passed, you ve had the foreign minister says, cease-fire. you ve had them say, we have no intention of going into b benghazi. and last night, before the resolution, gadhafi really threatened them. so, it is possible that he could stop and pull back. the question is, what will be enough for the u.s. and its allies? at one point, the defense minister threatened to take down commercial planes. reporter: and as we know, back in the 80s, that is what happened with the pan am 103. and of course ronald reagan once sent bombers against libya, for terrorist actions that libya was conducting. so maybe and that was gadhafi. maybe they have learned a lesson. any exit strategy for him? reporter: i know there have been senior international officials talking to him, but up until now, it hasn t seemed to work. i know we ll all be watching on sunday morning when you will have the latest on the continuing crisis in libya, as well as the disaster in the pacific, and your guests include energy secretary steven chu. and not just news from libya tonight. what s been called democracy fever continues its uncertain path in the mideast today, with a protest turned into a blood bath in yemen. at least 46 people were killed, hundreds wounded in a brutal crackdown by the government there. police blocked demonstrators from escaping by building a wall of burning tires. and now, we move back to japan and the latest on the nuclear crisis there. as we said, today, an executive with the power company sobbed in front of the cameras. and, for the first time since the earthquake and tsunami struck one week ago, we re hearing the harrowing words of the workers who were caught inside the plant as the quake hit. david muir, just back from japan, tells us the latest at this hour. reporter: diane, as you know, they are describing the fear as that earthquake struck before they even knew the extent of the damage, and of course the crisis that would follow. this evening, another sign of that growing crisis from a hospital inside that evacuation zone. reporter: tonigh tonight, for the first time, workers from inside fukushima. this man was standing outside, in between reactors. he didn t want to show his face, but he said, i thought the building would have been stronger. i would never imagine the building turning out the way it did. another from inside reactor four. the building shook sideways and the lights went out. still another from inside reactor three. it was shaking violently for a long time. i was very scared while it was shaking. and tonight, this image. the head of tokyo electric running that nuclear plant, in tears after addressing the cameras. and from inside the evacuation zone, a disturbing picture just emerging. this hospital at its breaking point. a nurse with her head in her hands. they say they re out of medicine and even if they had it, there are not enough doctors and nurses to help all the patients. and today, that powerful image from tokyo, the fire chief addressing his team. the lives of many people, he said, rest on your actions. the firemen then lining up, shaking their chief s hand. they were headed to the doomed plant. they are now spreading at least one reactor, each truck rotating in and out to limit exposure. and tonight, the u.s. continues to help the japanese try to get power up and running, to get the cooling pumps working again. we know of a power line connected to reactor two. but now the wait to turn it on. major concerns when they do. will the tsunami-ravaged cooling pumps work? and there s fear of an electrical explosion. but once power is on, standing by, five huge high pressure water pumps from the u.s., with japanese personnel ready to run them. but tonight, a kernel of hope after this from admiral george willard, head of u.s. pacific command. i am cautiously optimistic that we re progressing and that worst case scenario will never be endoubtered. and david, you told us last night that the plume of the air mass from japan to the u.s. might be arriving today, did it? reporter: well, the monitor picked it up in sacramento. the u.s. government has these detectors up and down the coast and a minuscule amount detected in sacramento tonight of that isottope zenon-103. scientists say no reason to worry. they said it this way, diane. one millionth the dose someone receives from the sun or rocks. no reason to worry, but it is here. one millionth of that walking around dose. okay, david muir, thank you. and the official toll, we should tell you, tonight, is more than 6,500 dead. more than 10,000 missing. and clarissa ward is in japan and tells us an entire nation stopped today. clarissa? reporter: diane, out on the street, we saw it everywhere we looked. amid so much loss, the people here taking a moment to pause to reflect to catch their breath. sirens sound as leaders of parliament, whole towns in shelters, observe a moment of silen silence. for the exact minute, one week ago today, the earthquake shattered their country, the tsunami wiping away the life they knew. and today, a new look at just what it was like to be inside the tsunami, facing that wave of water. the car races and races but it is no match, submerged in indiana stand. today, in the wake of those waves, the search for the missing continued. 9-year-old toshihito aisawa, has been searching for his family too. he carries two signs. one with the names of his mother, father and grandma. the other, with a simple plea. i will come back at 11:00 tomorrow, please wait. and across this devastated country, signs of hope. a u.s. aid plane arrives in yamagata. by air and by sea, aid rushing to so many in need. masayuki shibata was hard at work rebuilding his barber shop with his two sons. he s promised they ll be back, he and others are beginning to rebuild their lives. and just today, diane, their prime minister vowed they will, create japan once again from scratch. thank you so much, clarissa. and still ahead on world news, here in the united states, if there s an earthquake under a nuclear power plant, what are the three places hardest to escape? 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