trading. they jumped 6% yesterday to close above $91 in new york. moammar gadhafi s departure would have little if any impact on the u.s. economy. reporter: you see the condemnation the white house and state department have issued. also remember the moammar gadhafi s oil, very little of it comes to the united states. most of it to europe. there s no reason for that to stop flowing. in terms of tara, he was not supporting al qaeda. he did, in fact, condemn that. he seems to have gotten out of the tara and wmd business. don t know what will happen if there s chaos after him. but in terms also of the united states, doesn t have a huge amount of leverage there. gadhafi is not mubarak. libya is not egypt. egypt got bz 1.5 billion of u.s. aid. that s not the same with libya. again, abc s chris she an amanpour there. you can stay with abc news throughout the morning as we continue our coverage of the uprising in libya. 3 and now the uncertainty facing the gadhafi regime. we ll h
congress is under way. and it didn t take long for tea party members to flex their new political muscle. a top republican leader was forced to backtrack on the always-krovrls issue of ear marxes. senator mitch mcconnell had long defended that process. but no more. banning earmarks is another small but important symbolic step that we can take to show beer serious. in a strange bit of political theater, the earmark issue put tea party members and the white house on the same side. president obama praised mcconnell s move. in the house, another bizarre bit of politics was playing out. veteran congressman, charlie rangel, walked out of his ethics trial, after saying he had no lawyer. that didn t stop the committee from hearing evidence against rangel. reporter: when congressman rangel arrived to his trial, he had one strategy, delay and plead for a postponement. 50 years of public service is on the line. i truly believe that i m not being treated fairly. and that his
they were given cell phones to make calls as soon as they entered the housing the administration headquarters under heavy guard. fox news learned that the british couple paul and rachel chandler have been freed after being held by somali pirates more than a year. there is no word if a ransom was paid. stay with us for more on this developing story. now back to geraldo at large already in progress. fell. building 47. the official explanation is that fire brought down building 27. over 1200 architects engineers looked into the evidence. up until now only those considered nut jobs questioned the conclusion that office fires caused by the nearby catastrophe of the towers collapsing brought down tower number 7. i believe it is the first time that fire melted steel. i believe it defies physics that building 7 which collapsed in on itself. it is impo possible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved. geraldo: that would mean that the mos
attack and the third was a declaration of war. the publication of the bush memoir fills in some of what we did not know about 9/11. no official account addresses the issue know being raised in an extraordinary ad campaign. i lost my son. my uncle. my son. on september 11th 2001. most people don t know that a third tower fell. building 47. the official explanation is that fire brought down building 27. over 1200 architects engineers looked into the evidence. up until now only those considered nut jobs questioned the conclusion that office fires caused by the nearby catastrophe of the towers collapsing brought down tower number 7. i believe it is the first time that fire melted steel. i believe it defies physics that building 7 which collapsed in on itself. it is impo possible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved. geraldo: that would mean that the most obnoxious protesters in recent years are right. the shouting is a
seven couples left. almost anyone could go. and good morning, everyone. up bright and early here in l.a. i m taking part in the women s conference, hosted by california first lady, maria shriver. george, as you know, it s a real who s who out here, including your wife, ali. yeah. big night last night. a late one, too. i hope i run into her there at the conference. i have to tell you, this situation in chicago, it s so odd. that huge storm, bearing down during rush hour. affecting 24 states across the midwest, george. it will be a very ugly morning out there, robin. also, in the midwest, breaking news from an american auto giant this morning. ford releasing record-setting earnings and announcing over 1,200 new jobs. we have an abc news investigation into a major problem for another car company, bmw. they are admitting that some of their models could unexpectedly slow down. creating dangers on roads and highways. chris cuomo is breaking down that story right here this