control. and defecting from libya. this high level official left for london, but the brits aren't giving him the warmest welcome. >> not being offered any immunity. >> and now prosecutors say they plan to drill him for details on the bombing of panam flight 103. plus, the radical cleric anwar al awlaki. on why all the mideast uprising are good for the terror business. but, first from fox this thursday night, as defections rip holes in the libyan leadership muammar qaddafi stands defined. determine qaddafi is determined to stay? libya until the end. it seems he is also determined to keep making threats. in a message that went out on libyan state television, qaddafi accuses person powers of starting a new war between muslims and christians. part of the message reads, if they continue, the world will enter into a real crusader war. they have started something dangerous that cannot be controlled. now colonel qaddafi is actually calling on wernl leaders to resign. about 17 hours ago nato officially took control of the -- all air operations in libya. and two members of the alliance have released videos showing strikes on targets. this one shows a french warplane attacking an ammo dump, they tell us. another video shows a belgium f-16 taking out a fighter jet we're told. the military reported recent bad weather has made it hard to knock bag qaddafi's army and it's moving forward. today defense secretary robert gates says there is still no plan to send american ground forces. >> do you know if there is any time in the future that there are going to be boots on the ground in libya? >> not as long as i'm in this job. >> shepard: not military boots on the ground. we have reported here that cia teams have been inside libya for a while. and today we learned a little more about their mission. team fox coverage now jonathan hunt on reports of another high profile defection today. first to molly henneberg at the white house. molly, tell us what came out of those cia teams. >> hi, shep. the white house won't comment on intelligence operations and had been careful to what president obama had said publicly that no u.s. ground troops will be sent into libya. but, u.s. officials say there are small cia teams on the ground in eastern libya trying to fair ret out who are the leaders of the opposition? what are their motivations? what do they want for libya. said to be a special. there have been cia operatives in benghazi. when that f-15 jet went down last week and the two pilots ejected. we know one of them ended up in benghazi and some u.s. undercover agents were able to get him out of the country. shep? >> shepard: without some sort of help, it's widely believed or further help i should say it's widely belief these rebels trying to overthrow the government can't win. new debate in washington whether to give those rebels weapons. how is that going? >> that's a tough question, because some military leaders have said they have seen, quote, flickers of al qaeda involvement with the rebels and clearly nobody at the white house or no lawmaker on capitol hill wants to arm a terrorist. the white house said today that it is has been finding out more and more about the opposition and overall the white house describes it bs as, quote, broad and diverse. here is more. >> these are lawyers, doctors, merchants. you know, agricultural workers. mothers and fathers and sons and daughters. this is not -- this is not a single segment of society or slice of society that represents only a small constituency. the opposition to qaddafi is widespread. >> carney says president obama has not made a final decision whether or not to arm the rebels but he does say that they are, quote, many sources of equipment out there besides the u.s. shep? >> shepard: molly henneberg live at the u.s. molly, thank you. now the latest qaddafi insider to jump ship. he was supposed to take over for libya's u.n. ambassador who resigned a few weeks ago. tonight, the replacement is out thereof, too. defecting. is he now in cairo and says libyans have the right to quote freedom, democracy and a good life. just yesterday libya's foreign minister turned up in the united kingdom bringing 30 years of qaddafi's secrets with him. >> moussa koussa is one of the most sought of a of the regime. fragmented, under pressure and crumbling from within. >> shepard: scottish prosecutors are now asking to talk to this muse is a could you about the le bombing. officials are not giving him any immunity. team fox coverage continues. "the fox report" chief correspondent jonathan hunt in the newsroom. he is reportedly talking to the brits any way and could have a lot to say. >> he certainly could have a lot to say, shep. as far as we know he is with qaddafi at his right hand throughout the last few weeks turmoil in libya. the white house says this represents a major defection. libyan diplomats at the u.n. here who have now sworn allegiance to the rebels called it a big blow to qaddafi and a former british ambassador to libya told me earlier today that he believes koussa who he knows well will be bringing with him a treasure trove of information. listen. >> he must know what's going on so to speak in the bunker. he must have been taking part in talks with qaddafi himself and the people around qaddafi over the last two or three weeks. and he knows what their strong points are and what their weak points are. >> that former ambassador also told me that the most important thing koussa could do right now is make a very public statement urging others to defect as well, shep. >> shepard: the libyan government is claiming this is much to do about nothing? >> yes. the spokesman for the libyan government today said in a somewhat bizarre statement that moussa was a tired old man who needed a break. listen. >> this is a -- whole nation. it's not dependent on individuals. it doesn't matter how high ranking they are. we have millions of people [inaudible] and this is a fact. so, if anyone seems tired, feels sick or, you know, exhausted, you know, and you want to take a rest. just happen. >> it appears other libyan officials may take up that offer to take a rest as the spokesman put it. according to the al jazeera tv network. several other libyan officials are now trying to get out of libya to tunisia and to defect as well, shep. >> shepard: this foreign minister who defected, was he tied up in that panam 103 bombing at all? >> put simply, we don't know for sure. but there are many who believe he was. the scottish authorities as you said earlier want to talk to him about it. and there are several people here on capitol hill who say that the u.s. authorities should also talk to him as quickly as they can about the bombing of panam flight 103. he was a former intelligence head in libya. but not at the time of the bombing. he didn't take that position until 1994. but he has been at colonel qaddafi's right hand for 30 years. so a lot of people want to know exactly what he knows about that particular terror attack, shep? >> shepard: jonathan hunt life in the newsroom. jonathan, thank you. about a hundred new rebel volunteers are reportedly arriving in the training camp in the libyan town of benghazi. a lot of them are apparently teenagers. 15, 16 years old. but a camp commander says they can't join the fight without parents' permission. >> we have youngest over here but we don't accept youngsters and take in our forces unless they their parents -- >> >> shepard: that commander tells the associated press the actual won't go to the front line. fighting come up. what kind of weather was this for opening day of the baseball season? we had trouble all across the country even the space shuttle feeling the pain. details on that and the huge budget battle here domestically. there is a new twist from the journalists of fox news tonight on "the fox report." 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>> that's right, shep. i don't see assad going anywhere any time soon. unlike in egypt where thousands and thousands gathered in the capital at that square and overtook the police and army, in syria, assad has been able to clamp down on these protesters to where it really hasn't mattered much to where they have been able to gain momentum in damascus. the security infrastructure is much stronger there, shep. >> shepard: you are in aman jorpd. deadly protests last week. i understand they're expecting more after friday prayers tomorrow. >> that's right. we met with the head of muslim brotherhood who told us today they are willing to go all the way to get reform here. think queen of england monarchy. that's what they would like to see here. king abdullah of jordan may be open to some changes what the muslim brotherhood gentleman told me today but he is not going to be looking to sip tea and have a royal wedding every couple of decades. >> shepard: reena ninan aman jordan for us this friday morning. the the kuwaity reported the entire cabinet resigned because of negative aftershocks on the country's national unity. but analysts say the resignation was a move to protect three officials from an investigation over alleged failures in office. including the government's response in uprising neighboring bahrain. in bahrain, home of the united states navy's fifth fleet, opposition groups report the sunni led government there has stepped up arrests of activists and shiites. more than 300 detained and dozens still missing since it launched crack down on pro-democracy protests. the feds loaned billions, make that trillions of your tax dollars to banks during the height of the recession. but the banks didn't want any of us to know how much money they borrowed. it was a big secret. but it's a secret no more. and we'll show you the results coming up. plus: [chanting] shame on you. shame on you. >> shepard: now it's ohio. the state's republican governor about to sign a bill into law at any moment now that severely limits union bargaining rights. coming up, why opponents in this budget battle say the fight is far from over. ohio republican governor john kasich, former fox news contributor signing a bill into law now that limits collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of public employees. this has just happened. the law in some ways is tougher than that in wisconsin which prompted tens of thousands of protesters to rally against it for weeks. tougher because it extends union restrictions to police officers and firefighters. and as many public employees did in wisconsin, opponents of the ohio measure call it a union buster. governor kasich has said that the savings from lifting the union protections will help fill an 8 billion-dollar budget gap. >> this is not an effort to punish anybody. this is an effort, again, to restore balance and to be able to remove the burden from our local communities who find themselves in a position of having to raise taxes and which ultimately drives companies out of their community. >> shepard: the law doesn't take effect for 90 days. mike tobin with the news live for us now. the ohio democrats are vowing to fight this thing on and on. >> exactly. you just mentioned that it takes 90 days to go into effect. ohio democrats want to use that 90-day period to collect about a quarter million signatures. that would be enough to put this thing on the ballot for a statewide referendum. ohio democrats want to use that statewide referendum to repeal this legislation all together, shep. >> shepard: why does supporters of this thing say they need to limit collective bargaining rights? what's their reason given? >> you know, it's pretty much the same argument as wisconsin. the money that's coming from the state and going out to the local governments, the counties and the cities has to be cut. so the absence of collective bargaining according to ohio republicans would give these local leaders the flexibility they need to strike their own deals and adjust their own budgets to deal with economic hard times. shep? >> shepard: mike tobin on the battle in ohio. thank you. >> got it. >> shepard: we're now learning which banks borrowed millions and trillions of dollars in the government during the crisis. a lawsuit from fox news and bloomberg business filed has forced the federal reserve bank to give up the borrowing details for the first time ever. the fed released about 25,000 documents all together. some of them hundreds of pages long. they show that foreign banks relied heavily on the fed as a lender of last resort during the crisis. and, in fact, two overseas bank borrowed about $50 billion in a single day. here at home, home highlights include a record of $3 billion to morgan stanley. 29 billion to why cove i can't. those loans both coming a month after the collapse of lehman brothers dried up the credit. it borrowed 2 billion and borrowed another 2 billion every night for a week until j.p. morgan bought the bank. the fed had argued that letting people see these documents could weaken the banks. but the supreme court would not take the case, so the fed had to release. they the feds are reporting now another drop in the number of people fresh out of work. the labor department reports 6,000 fewer of us filed their first time claims for unemployment last week. the second drop in the bass three weeks. and hiring is on the right. but according to economists not enough to lower the unemployment rate. a judge today handed down a 25 year prison sentence to the former new orleans cop who killed an unarmed man in the chaos that followed hurricane katrina. david warren convicted of shooting 31-year-old henry glover in the back less than a week after the storm. another former officer got a 17 year sentence for burying or i should say burning that same victim's body. the judge told him the devastation caused by hurricane katrina was made uglier by your disturbing actions at a time when more was expected of you, you failed miserably. severe storms pounding a large portion of our nation. >> i saw the tree going like that, you know, the tops were just circling. >> shepard: and the damage is extensive. we will show you where and when it happened and where it's the worst. plus, estimating how much this conflict in libya will cost. and how much it will -- that's from the secretary of defense and that's next. quit and i went online to find a way. ♪ what really excited me about chantix -- it's a non-nicotine pill. i didn't want nicotine to give up nicotine. while you'reaking the medication, for the first week, you can go ahead and smoke. 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>> can you believe it? a lot of this moisture getting caught up in bigger system here. not looking like that much right now but a coastal storm develops overnight. we have winter storm warnings in effect from parts of maine back towards pennsylvania and new york. parts of jersey. by the time it's all said and done, some areas up to about a foot of snow. the worst of it across northern areas of new england. we might see a dusting in the city and dusting around boston by the time this is done. a wet night and very wet morning commute. people need to be careful. airports looking like they could be a mess. >> shepard: storms did damage to the space shuttle endeavour just weeks before its final mission. nasa officials say they spotted a funnel cloud north of the launch pad there. and there is some minor damage to that foam insulation on the existential fuel tank. do a full inspection. blast off during april 191st during "the fox report." i thought it was during "studio b." we will be live from kennedy sportscenter for both programs that day. the shuttle commander mark kelly says he is waiting to hear from documents from his wife's doctor whether she can be there still recovering from shooting back in do you on? january. it's the bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news. secretary of defense facing tough questions today on capitol hill about the end game in libya. >> it all seems extremely open ended to me to say this is not about regime change is crazy. of course this is about regime change. why not just be honest with the american people. >> opposing the qaddafi regime is not part of the military mission. >> shepard: in fact he said the goal of the mission to prevent humanitarian disaster. despite assurances there will be no u.s. boots on the ground in libya. lawmakers today remain skeptical. jennifer griffin with the news live at the pentagon tonight. a lot of debate about how much this thing is going to cost and gates gave some numbers, right? >> he did. he also warned this could be an astalemate. he said it costed as of monday $550 million. he said each month here on out would be an estimated $40 million. he also reminded congress that there are 18,000 u.s. service members helping out in japan right now. >> we are in serious budget trouble. the ongoing cr and significant budget cuts at a time when we are asked to do so much i think brings this issue home. and, frankly, i need help from the congress, the department of defense needs help from the congress. if we're going to do all these things, we need the resources to do them. >> gates was visibly annoyed with the questioning on capitol hill today. he also -- he and admiral mullen also mentioned that american striker jets will basically be put on stand by in italy and the ac-130 and 810 war hogs will not be used in a couple of days. >> shepard: we have been hearing that qaddafi's son was in the united states. what do we know about that visit. >> we know a little more tonight. we know that the state department representative met him at the airport and was with him through the entire visit. that it was organized through pentagon officials through the air force that he went to the national defense university as well as to the air force academy. he met with the dean's of faculty there. and this was an itinerary, again, planned by the air force. he was supposed to be shown planes lock keyed martin and norfolk grummond planes hopefully with the idea he would buy those planes. he went home early after two days after the libyan uprising had started to basically command the 32nd brigade. one of the most notorious brigades under qaddafi. >> shepard: we are reading in the guardian newspapers online edition, there is a secret talk underway in britain senior aid to qaddafi's son. >> this is a different son. this is safe qaddafi and we're hearing a report, we're working on confirming it now. guardian has reported that mohammed ishmael an aide qaddafi who's has arrived in london for talks about a way out of the situation there are reports that qaddafi's sons are concerned that their father won't survive and they are looking to end this. this is another key defection if, in fact, this envoy is in london, we have seen detections in egypt now. the deputy head of mission in britain may also be defecting. there were two senior defections today. so we are seeing some of qaddafi's inner circle looking for a way out tonight. >> shepard: a way out for qaddafi. jen griffin at the pentagon. updates as we get them. mow maury qaddafi's forces continue to push the rebel fighters further east. they are winning this thing huge. here is the map. qaddafi controlled areas are in the red. rebel controlled in the green. towns in yellow are where the battles are raging tonight. the rebels made it as far as qaddafi's hometown of sirte tonight but have since retreated to the town of brega. [gunfire] >> shepard: insurgents firing rockets but as you can see they are not exactly pros with this thing. shortly after the crews shot the video you see here. the rebels pulled back even farther after heavy shelling. there are a few battling going on closer to where you are, right? >> shepard, one of those key battles is taking place in the city of misurata, libyans third largest city. it's just 130 miles away from the capital. and for government forces, it is a key objective. they have got to take control of misurata if they are going to shore up their control of the western half of the country. there are also reports that qaddafi forces, which have been besieging that city for two weeks now without being able to take control are shifting tactics somewhat. sometimes getting out of their armored vehicles, getting into civilian pickup trucks. this, in part, to avoid nato air strikes, shepard. >> shepard: in speaking again qaddafi, i guess there is sort of a warning for the u.s. and the allies that the fight could spiral out of control. i wonder what that means, if anything? >> that's right. qaddafi is attacking western leaders. here is what he had to say. they have destroyed the shared interests of their people and the libyan people. and undermined peace and wiped out civilians. they want to return us to the middle ages. now, he might be speaking that somewhere but the message itself is just coming on the scroll on the bottom of libyan state tv. qaddafi himself has not been seen in several days, shepard. >> shepard: there we go. steve harrigan live tripoli for us again tonight. steve, thanks so much. now the rise of freedom. our cameras have been following the rebuilding of the world trade center site for months now and we plan to be there for years to come. we have seen incredible progress. look at this brand new video we just shot this week. see here in the outline of the entire site is now set. you can seat footprints where the twin towers once stood. see those? those are the centerpiece of the 9/11 memorials set to open this september. 10 years to the day after the attacks. tonight, a look at how the survivors and people across the country are helping to build that memorial. ♪ ♪ >> shepard: they are small but they are making a big difference. signs of support for the 9/11 memorial popping up at restaurants and stores around new york. >> we support the 9/11 memorial, forever changed, forever connected. >> shepard: sneaker salesman was forever changed when his store beneath the world trade center was destroyed on 9/11. he lost $500,000 and 3,000 pairs of shoes. but everyone in his store made it out alive. >> we were getting calls from some of the employees what should they do? and, get out. and then the second one hit and they said we are being bombed. and so they all went their ways. >> shepard: today, gary has 10 super runners shops in other parts of new york. he is forever connected to the world trade center. >> we were there and we are not going to forget about it. >> that's why gary is donating money to the signs of support program to help build a permanent memorial at ground zero it opens in less than six months. 9/11 memorial president joe damages says business owners like gary will be paid back with customers. >> we're going to tell our visitors when they come down here go frequent the businesses that are supporting the memorial whether it's hotels, restaurants, bars, delis. >> shepard: so far the signs of support program has raised $80,000 through donations from 150 businesses both big and small. most are in the new york area. there are only four in other parts of the country. the the noble sliewn would be one of them. recognize 9/11 and. >> alan yamamoto sticking change in a tip jar. they say they will take an iou from you. we have a link to the memorial's web site at our web site foxnews.com/freedom. also see the entire rise of freedom series there. another story next week and every thursday night right here on fox report. are lawmakers close to cutting a deal on a federal spending? kind of depends on who you ask. the budget battle rages and now the tea party is all up in it. a live report straight ahead. plus, new signs that radiation from the crippled nuclear plant in japan is spreading. it's getting worse. tonight, where else officials are finding contaminated food. that's next. yourself to something special for lunch at red lobster. how about a coastal soup and grilled shrimp salad combination? or maybe skewers of wood-grilled shrimp. seafood lunches starting at just $6.99 at red lobster. but women have made olay #1. not surgical results, regenerist is the #1 anti-aging serum and the #1 anti-aging moisturizer. not drastic. just fantastic, younger-looking skin with olay regenerist. i really didn't see it coming. i didn't realize i was drifting into the other ne. 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>> shep, yeah. you know, the more we hear about contamination further and further away from the plant, the less the japanese authorities seem inclined to expand their exclusion zone. the no-go zone currently at 12 miles. voluntary evacuation zone at 12 miles. the united states keeps telling japan look it needs to be 50 miles. yes they still don't adhere to it the nuclear watchdog is saying look you have got to expand it even green peace and environmentalists have been testing soil around the plant for the last week or so and said look we really need to extend. this the japanese seem to be completely ignoring that we are also hearing from the french president nicholas sarkozy who was in the country today that he believes also that the exclusion zone needs to be extended. he sent experts over here with him to help japan tackle the problems that they have actually got here in terms of containment. but the -- lessons here that we need to learn from japan that we're going to take back home overseas because there could be issues like this nuclear disaster there. all in all, it's getting very difficult for the japanese to come to terms with. they are not attacking it the way they should. >> shepard: dominic dinatale tonight in japan. thank you. democratic and republican lawmakers are locked in a struggle over how much money should be cut from our federal budget. today, republicans are knocking down reports of progress that came from the vice president joe biden. he announced that democrats and republicans have agreed upon a number to announce our budget cuts. >> there is nothing no agreement on numbers. nothing will be agreed to until everything is agreed to. >> shepard: last month the house passed a bill to cut more than 60 billion from the budget. senate democrats have been offering half as much. hence the hold up. hours ago things got more intense when a lot of tea party types came to town. shannon bream with the news on capitol hill now. shannon, the tea party is in the middle of it now. >> shepard, they are. they did not allow the cold, wet weather in washington to dampen their spirits. they were firm in their message. they were here to remind g.o.p. lawmakers of the campaign promises they made last fall to cut $100 billion from the funding before the current fiscal year. they have some ideas where that money could come from. including blocking all federal funding to planned parenthood. it's a fight both sides. >> cutting off funding to groups like planned parenthood has to be one of those issues that we are just not going to back down from. >> no more money to planned parenthood no matter the fact that they serve 5 million people and do cancer screenings and all the things necessary to help women's health. stop std's oh no, they are zeroed out. a vendetta against them without a. >> without a new deal the about will expire next friday. if the government actually shuts down, all salaried payments to members of congress and the president will be blocked. the house is now considering a similar measure. shep? >> shepard: shannon bream at the rotunda. shannon, thank you. al qaeda is now weighing in on the uprisings in the middle east. of course, al qaeda really had nothing to do with those uprisings. there is concern terrorists could try to capitalize on the situation. are>> are you concerned that al qaeda or hezbollah or some other unsavory group might take advantage of a leadership vacuum that we are helping to facilitate through our military action? >> shepard: well, the defense secretary answers and there are new comments from a radical american cleric in al qaeda's lifestyle magazine. that's next. catherine herridge is live in the d.c. newsroom. how does this help al qaeda? >> well, allow can i says allah can i says al awlaki. government for us to consider what is occurring to be a step in the right direction. this full-page graphic from inspire magazine mocks the ousted presidents of tunisia and egypt by putting the word booted next to their name. >> they do opportunities, we have to be on guard against that as do these countries themselves that their revolutions don't get hijacked. but i think in the long run, al qaeda is a loser in this revolution that's taking place. >> that's because the change in the middle east has undercut al qaeda's core message that only bombs and bullets can get rid of these dictators, shep. >> shepard: this magazine, it has advice for would-be attackers, right? >> there is a section on the alleged fort hood shooter. this is a new picture of major middle hassan still awaiting trial. in the dear abbey section of inspire for english speaking jihadists. held out as successful lone wolf attack. as lg as you you keep it to yourself, nobody in the world will know what you are thinking. that's why individuals like middle and others have been successful even if they were ultimately arrested. and in what may be a sign that al al awlaki feels comfortable. is he offering some kind of video hookup and questions with some of his followers. he feels bold to say the least, shep. >> shepard: i'm sure he does. catherine herridge in washington. thanks. a burning car only seconds to save the person inside. let's go across america. >> georgia, investigators are calling this man a hoe for risking his life to pull a deputy out of a burning squad car. >> when i got down to her, the flames had just started. >> shepard: we're told dustin elliott was driving home when he saw deputy jenny do you vein's car crash into a true and burst into flames. he got her out as flames lift up the windshield under the hood. the hospital may release the deputy today. new york, police finding a fifth set of human remains near long island beach. they say nothing yet linked this discovery to the body of four in december. this is not the body of a missing new jersey prostitute last seen in the area a year ago. d.c. three men charged with murdering a pizza delivery man. >> three guys in jail for murder for $13. >> pearl bennett still trying to understand why the men killed her son 38-year-old paul bennett police say the suspects, all in their early 20's may have planned to ambush the delivery man. they now face first degree murder charges. massachusetts. a city worker falls 35 feet after stepping on a piece of plywood that gave way as he worked on boston's key commuter rail lines. the worker broke both legs and took fire crews hours to rescue him from that shaft. that's a fox watch across america. >> shepard: well workers can now worry about more mundane things like parking tickets. the deadly cobra that disappeared -- got it where was the cobra as it tweeted away? 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