takes his hand and boom. you can hear the announcers laughing. once they realize it, they are laughing hysterically. they couldn t stop laughing once they realized what was going on. it s hilarious. we called it masochistic cheating. it worked. that s so weak. i love hearing the announcers laughing. you don t understand what they are saying, but the laughter translates into every language. have a great weekend. thanks. 10:00 a.m. on the east coast, 7:00 a.m. on the west. three big stories we re working this hour for you. americans escaping the violence of libya. this ferry now carrying about 300 people to malta. in tripoli, government forces firing on protesters, and a heart-breaking story out of kentucky. an amish family mourns the death of three children.
ben, bring us up to date of what s happening there in benghazi, and what you know about tripoli. reporter: in benghazi, it s self-explanatory. you have this massive crowd of thousands of people who, despite the wind and the cold and the rain are coming out now expressing solidarity with the people of tripoli, who obviously, are in a far more difficult position. what we re hearing from tripoli i spoke with a woman about an hour and a half ago, who told me that people came out of the mosques after friday prayers to protest against moammar and his government, but they were quickly met by what she called intense gunfire from government forces. people went back to her homes, and now we re hearing that others have come out, that thousands of people are in green square, the main square in
evacuation of u.s. citizens, but there, of course, about 600 u.s. citizens in libya. some of them may have been evacuated by the companies they work for already. they are also thousands more with other nationality. although 200 leaving with this first boat load, many more need to come out. we will keep checking in with you to see to see how well it goes getting both foreigners and americans out of the country there. one of the americans on the ferry getting people out of libya is basketball player muneer who was faced with life and death experiences. he is from ohio. he was in libya as a star draw for a government-run basketball squad. he and other lead athletes irput up in a sprawling sports complex not far from president moammar gadhafi s house. he talked to cnn about some of
violent and aggressive. he looked like he was itching to shoot somebody. we have this video that was put up on youtube. it s from sawiyah. government offers attacked and wounded people and 150 more wounded. the security council is expected to meet today to talk about the situation in libya. oil prices spiking $103 a barrel yesterday. traders feel the market has taken into account the production outages in libya. a desperate search right now going on in mayfield, connecticut, for an amish child who disappeared when the family horse and buggy flipped over into a flooded creek. the bodies of three other children were pulled from the creek last night. police say that nine people from two amish families were rideing in the buggy when the accident happened. it had been raining in that area for several hours.
economists are looking at it, they are saying it s a modest, but growing likelihood, growing likelihood each day that the government would have to have some sort of a shutdown. this is, after all, kyra, when our elected officials are elected to do. this is their job to keep the government running and to pass a budget and have something to work from, right? but they cannot agree on a continuing resolution for how to fund the government and so that is what the stalemate is about. what would it look like? what would not be cut during a federal shutdown would you mail. mail service would continue. there are policies and funding in place to make sure that perhaps. that is still open. social security checks, a lot of people over at social security would be furlowed but keep social workers so people on social security would get their checks. law enforcement and national defense and national security, all of that stays open. of course, lawmakers continue to collect their own paychecks. lawmake