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Analysts said we may not have hit bottom yet. "american morning" starts right now. all right. it is tuesday, march 22nd. a lot of news this morning. again, it's been a wild couple of weeks. >> and it's well into the day in japan. already another two earthquakes today. we're well into the 600s in terms of aftershocks and tremors. more concerns there. >> we're going to bring everybody up to date on that. but first, we're going to start with libya. coalition forces hammering moammar gadhafi's forces and positions as the head of forces in libya said the coalition flew 80 missions yesterday more ...

Departure of colonel gadhafi, it clearly is. and you don't do that with the no-fly zone or the application force through the air exclusively. it's critical, but it's insufficient. you have to have a separation of forces. that has to be monitored. the only way is through ground forces. there's going to be some contributing nation that's going to put forces on the ground. but it wouldn't be a stretch to identify u.s. forces, special ops forces. >> this breaking news that came out that this f-15 suffered mechanical failure went down in libya. what we're hearing right now, tell me if this is diffe...

Right now. four hostages onboard a hijacked american yacht, killed by their pirate captors. our david mckinzie is in my robey, kenya, to tell us about what happened here. i mean, this is startling. this is something where the u.s. forces were keeping a close eye, hopefully negotiating. was this a botched rescue attempt? >> well, it's unclear at this point, suzanne. certainly four u.s. navy ships including an aircraft carrier were keeping an eye shadowing in the words of the u.s. navy this 58-foot pleasure yacht, the quest, which had four americans onboard all of them experienced sailors. what ...

Going around parts of the pacific. initially on this trip leaving from the india from the western port of mumbai there had been part of a rally as it were a group of vessels sailing together for safety. at some point they left that group of vessels to go on their own and that could have caused them to be even more vulnerable. i just want to play a bit of sound here from a vice admiral with the u.s. he described what happened when those u.s. navy special ops forces arrived on that boat. >> there were no gunshots fired from the boarding team as they boarded. none. and then as they were clearing ...

Pirates. this news just coming in. they were sailing on their yacht and came under attack from somali pirates. they were being followed by u.s. forces who were hoping to negotiate with the pirates. it all ended very badly. those americans killed. we'll have more on that after this break. are content to imitate, we'll continue to innovate. the lexus rx. why settle for a copy when you can own the original? see your lexus dealer. how can expedia now save me even more on my hotel?iginal? well, hotels know they can't fill every room every day. like this one. and this one. and oops, my bad. so, they...