perspective. thank you so much. jon: several u.s. navy ships have moved back closer to the japanese coast after moving farther out to sea over radiation concerns. take a look at some new video of the u.s. seventh fleet command ship, the uss blue ridge transporting supplies for the victims. favorable weather conditions are allowing those ships to move closer to shore for relief and rescue. but growing radiation levels from the plants at fukushima remain a concern sparking widespread concern here in the unite. fox news contributor karl rove served as senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to president bush and knows well what happens in the white house at the time of a crisis like this. the u.s. navy, obviously, is doing an awful lot, karl. what else, if anything, in your view, should america be doing to help out one of it fastest friends in the pacific region? well, there s a white house
here in this region with the aid efforts sending more emergency rescue teams and supplies and seven ships are position the off the coast. navy helicopters flying relief runs between the mainland and the uss ronald reagan is serving as a base of operation. we will have much more on that mission in a moment. dozens of other nations including the united states are sending the japanese government millions in disaster relief. early on monday, early today in the united states, president obama said the united states government will do whatever it can to help the country recover. and now james is live at the state department. james? reporter: growth ensure greetings from washington. the united states is sending the full range of the u.s. government and resources with money. crews on the command ship spent the weekend packing humanitarian
relief operation once and if the government of japan asks for help. let s walk you through what we do know so far. there are three major navy warships in the region that are getting ready to move to lend a hand to japan. first up, the uss essex in malaysia and getting ready to get underway relief supplies and start steaming toward japan to help out there. it s going to take it a few days to get there, but they are getting underway. the uss blue ridge, a navy command ship in singapore also getting underway. it is specifically loading up relief supplies in singapore and heading on to japan. first up, however, will be the uss tortuga. and what they are putting onboard are small landing craft. the tortuga will be able to use these landing craft to get to
america s newsroom, good morning, i m arthel neville in for martha maccallum. bill: she has a few days off, nice to see you, arthel and welcome back here, i m bill hemmer. good morning, muammar qaddafi saying only 150 people dead not chaos and not the thousands like most reports are estimating on the outside. arthel: and now the u.s. military is mobilizing a few big guns, just in case. two guided missile destroyers and a command ship now sailing the mediterranean near the suez canal and david lee miller is streaming live from libya, david lee? reporter: arthel, muammar qaddafi spoke more than two hours today. and this is a special day here, this is a holiday, in libya, the 34th anniversary of the people s revolution. and, underscoring that today, he said repeatedly he is not a king, not a president, he is not a leader. he is someone who just inspired the revolution. and, he said and i quote, i led a revolution and then went back
ships closer to this divided nation. want to go live to our pentagon correspondent. the u.s. military now considering some options. what do we know? well, we ve now learned today that a second us navy destroyer as now entered the mediterranean sea. now, it has two in the mediterranean sea. as well as a command ship in a port in italy. if you look toward the suez canal, two more ships have been moving closer. one is the uss enterprise. what this is doing is giving the military options. anything from using the military to disrupt colonel gadhafi s communications, prevent him from broadcasting in libya to humanitarian relief and even imposing a no fly zone. the cure sarge in addition to