said is he keeping all of his options open and he spoke of using the military to rescue all those thousands of fleeing civilians. i have, therefore, approved the use of u.s. military aircraft to help move egyptians who have fled to the tune nishian border to get back home to egypt. i ve authorized u.s. a.i.d. to charter additional civilian aircraft to help people from other countries find their way home. we ll get back to the president in a moment. but first, this becoming a war? that is the question today. want you to have a look. tell me what you think. hey! [ explosions ] you hear the popping, gunfire. this footage was shot just yesterday near the libyan oil-rich city of brega if that name sounds familiar, it should because it was just about this time yesterday when we showed you this dramatic footage that was shot just outside of brega but our cnn team. do you remember that? that was the video shot by cnn shot yesterday near al brega by our own ben wedeman and his
the shoulder to shoulder commute and to work the use issues together. and it really is a piece of this that has huge not just near-term but long-term implications. in the end, it s relatively inexpensive if you get it right and you don t end up in any kind of conflict. i mean, wages compared the kind of resources we ve extended in these wars, the investments that we ve made on the military side, for instance, in egypt. $1.3 billion a year is not a small amount of money. when you look over 30 years from what the egyptian military was very specifically has done, it s been pretty extraordinary. were i ve seen it i ll use another example that i m extremely concerned about is in iraq. the budget we need the transition is we need to make sure that the state department budget here, in order to transition its supporting, for example. so there are near-term iraq, afghanistan, pakistan issue specifically, but also long-term, which these investments become preventative in establishing
current deal expiring and that means there could be a lockout as early as tomorrow morning. both sides are meeting this morning for a tenth consecutive day. fox s sarah simons is live in downtown d.c. with more. good morning, sarah. reporter: good morning, tony and allison. we expect to see them go into negotiations here in the next couple of hours or so. we ve been trying to find out exactly what has been going on in the negotiations, but because there is a gag order placed by the federal mediator, we don t know the details behind exactly what they ve what they have maybe been close to agreeing upon. we only know that the deadline is getting close here. they were in for a four hour session yesterday. the dallas cowboys owner jerry jones were here and all ten owners of the labor commission were here with roger goodell. they all took part in the negotiations. now what could happen here is that the owners could vote to lock out the players if there is no agreement that is
to keep you safe. we begin with breaking news in the district, a mother badly burned trying to rescue her child from a burning apartment. the scene is still unfolding now along benning road in northeast. that s where fox 5 s wisdom martin joins us live. reporter: investigators tell us at about 8:13 tonight is when they got the call about a fire here at 1713 benning road northeast. when they arrived, the initial call was for a fire on the second floor of this building with people trapped inside, but it turns out that the fire was actually on the first floor and the people were trapped on the first floor. investigators went inside and found a 3-year-old boy. they did rescue him, but tonight he is in critical condition. he was conscious and breathing after being taken to the hospital. also inside, a female. at this point we don t know the relationship between the female and the little boy, but that we re told by investigators she at some point tried to go back inside and r
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the supreme court ruled 8-1 today that the 1st amendment protects church members who mount antigay protests outside military funerals. we ve the oral argument in just a few minutes. as the gadhafi forces continue to rebel, he gave a speech. there s security challenged around the world and was asked about colonel gadhafi. that comes later. i want to take a brief moment just a say a few words about a tragic event that took place earlier today in frankfort, germany. i m saddened and outraged of this attack that took the lives of two americans and injured two others. i think the american people are united in expressing our gratitude for the service of those who were lost. michelle and i have their family and their friends in our thoughts and prayers, and we are praying for a speedy recovery for those who were injured. i want everybody to understand that we will spare no effort in learning how this outrageous act took place,