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>> gadhafi stands firm. >> there's more belt tightening in britain today to try to plug a gaping hole in the country's public finances. and it was once the engine of america. we bring you the startling new figures on detroit's mass population exodus. before all of that, we want to update you on the situation now in japan. black smoke has been seen rising out of the fukushima daichi plant number three reactor building. this is the reactor that has been giving crew there's some trouble the past couple of days. tokyo electric power company says some workers have been evacuated from the plant. w...

Right now where we have new video of a fire in the interior ministry compound. this is in cairo. we believe, according to some reports out of the area, that this fire was started by police that were protesting their pay and conditions. it's the first video we've seen of this fire. we'll bring you more information as we get it. in the meantime, the u.s.-led coalition bombarding libya from the air as two dozen tomahawk missiles rain down. what's the next step there and what about qaddafi? a member of the obama administration weighing in on that libyan leader. we'll go in depth on that. jon: a ...

Then the missiles and air strikes rain down. they come out saying the western military has gone beyond the initial no-fly zone. they were now bombing civilians. it was a different message coming from the arab league. today, the secretary general of the united nations stood side-by-side with him saying you know, it's time to speak with one voice. this is an operation, a military operation to protect civilians from being killed by the gadhafi regime. he seemed to back pedal a bit saying he respected the united nations resolution calling for this no-fly zone. i asked whether or not they felt ther...

Any one or all three of the reactors is eminent. should it occur when it is sunny with high pressure, for example, a catastrophic release of radiation would go high depending on how hot the release is and it would dissipate over distance but it would be a much larger downrange dissipation and radioactive foulout. if it comes in on a storm, a rainstorm, what will happen is, the radioactivity would, if there is a release, it would go into that cloud and it would start to rain down and an intense, much more intense raidage fall out will be very close. one of our concerns right off is that it coul...

And just as humid. we're also watching florida. rain down there in the keys and miami. the reason we're interested, this could become a tropical depression. who knows, maybe a tropical storm and head for louisiana over the next two to three days. as far as the forecast goes in the heartland, the heat continues, excessive heat warnings cover much of cincinnati, st. louis, kansas city, down to oklahoma city and tulsa. today's highs, easily 95 to 105 degrees. you're watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks.