that minuteman icbm, intercontinental ballistic missile test, long scheduled test that was supposed to take place out at vandenberg air force base? that would have a test that would have sent a missile from vandenberg 4300 miles away. admiral locklear said he agreed with the decision by the pentagon to postpone the test and rising tensions and misunderstanding on the korean peninsula. martha. martha: jennifer, explain a little bit, last week the word there wasn t a lot of movement on the ground in north korea, militarily. that most of this had been rote rick. has that changed?. reporter: it has not changed. this is still viewed as rhetoric because of the young nature of this up tested leader in north korea. some that i ve talked to have called this the debutante as ball. this is his coming out. how is he going to act? is he in a corner now and is he going to have to act in the wake of all this belligerence?
missile de guided missile destroyers will gain the launch. uss benifold and uss fitzgerald are heading there. they both have high-tech missile systems on board. they will watch the rocket and track any parts that fall into the secording to admiral locklear who doubts this launch is for benign purposes. there are indications declared indication of intention to do what they would call a peaceful satellite launch. we believe it is still in contradictory to the u.n. security council resolutions that because of the nature of the type of missile that they will be firing and implications it has for ballistic missile type of activity somewhere down the road and destablizing impact that will have on the security environment throughout the region, not just on the peninsula. reporter: the state department says it will go along with south korea and japan to the united nations security council to demand
from, the parachute drop by locals. and, then the other pilot was, was already back on board the ship picked up by a marine osprey craft. it was back. the other, the second copilot, had, was essentially being ferried back as we spoke to admiral locklear a few moments ago. jenna? jenna: question our viewers have, where are we at with this mission? reporter: it s a great question. admiral locklear laid it out extremely clearly for us. he said that, in essence, the president, on march 18th, referring to u.n. security council resolution 1973, laid out very clearly what qadaffi needed to to do to be in compliance with the security council resolution. he needed to stop, halt attacks on civilians in benghazi. that has in essence
there be in the air over libya at any given time, chris? it s hard to say because they don t parcel it out by country. it is a coalition effort. so they re mixing and matching french jets, uk jets, u.s. jets. and it really dependences on exactly what sort of mission they re flying. some are still flying these strike missions. others more further towards. eastern part of the country are now in a more patrol area, just sort of over flights. we re also learning this piece of information. admiral locklear is now saying this afternoon that air forces are now diminished, quoting here, to the point where it will not have any negative impact, referring to gadhafi s air forces here, on these coalition members conducting the air strikes. can you just what does that really mean? that means that the major assault phase is, for the most part, over. when it comes to getting rid of the air defenses.
was a training and repair facility, a facility they said that was used by civilians. we did see workshops, mechanical workshops where there were repairs for propellers for some of the vessels. clearly for us we could see this was a military facility that had been target, brooke. nic, as i keep you, stand by. i do want everyone to know we have you in tripoli. we also have arwa damon in benghazi. she s been working and covering the opposition forces. we ll get that side of things as well. but i want to ask you about a city not too terribly far from you, nic. and that s misrata. we ve heard from admiral locklear saying gadhafi s forces despite this alleged cease-fire, they re very much still attacking civilians there. i m sure you ve asked the government to take you to misrata. what are they saying? reporter: time and time and time again we ve asked. misrata has been the center of