a pretty good handle on the women and children who were there. you were signing their death warrants, too. if you put sufficient fire power in there. so there were genuine collateral damage concerns as well. yeah, you would kill a dozen children at least. thanks so much, general, for joining us this morning. my pleasure and thank you. meanwhile, 23 minutes before the top of the hour. it s gone from bad to worse in memphis, tennessee, as floodwaters are reaching near historic levels. rick reichmuth, our chief meteorologist has been on the story all weekend and joins us live from downtown memphis where it is a mess. yeah, it is. and people keep walking by and saying wow, we ve never seen anything like this and we can t imagine it would be like this. we re standing on the bridge right now. you think a bridge over water? no, normally a bridge over a road and it s right there. biel street, this is where biel street and riverside drive meet. normally this would be streets and traffic
they re angry. they re frustrated, and they feel completely betrayed and abandoned. the failure of the united nations to pass a resolution that would implement a no fly zone, people are telling us is nothing short, they say, of having global leaders sign their death warrants. carrying both the flags to show gratitude to those two nations, this man says a no-fly zone must be implemented now. simply to save the people. they re killing the libyan people, he says. the world is taking so long. he is going to finish off all of libya and there will be no point to a no fly zone. this regime is a big a threat for all the world. we re defending the world peace, not just for our citizens. reporter: it s already been a month of bombardment and bloodshed says this man. this is the u.n. s responsibility. if the u.n. won t protect
we are discussing very seriously and leading efforts in the council around a range of actions that we believe could be effective in protecting civilians. those include discussion of a no-fly zone. but the u.s. view is that we need to be prepared to contemplate steps that go beyond a no-fly zone. while the u.n. contemplates its next move, the people of benghazi are living in fear that international action will come too late if at all. cnn has more. reporter: to say that people are disappointed with the international community s inexaction an understatement. they re angry, frustrated, and feel completely betrayed and abandoned. the failure of the united states to pass a resolution that would implement a no-fly zone, people are telling us, is nothing short, they say, of having global leaders sign their death
program. in october, the money to fund some types of life-saving transplants like heart, liver and bone marrow transplants finally tried up. in her budget this year, the governor went after the state s medicaid program again. brewer proposed to cut $541 million from the already strapped program. by dropping 280,000 arizonians from the rolls and offering no help to the transplant patients. governing is about choices? what would you do? would you spend $1.7 million if it would save 96 of your neighbors? 44-year-old douglas was denied a heart transplant after the budget cuts into effect. he told rueter, quote, governor brewer is signing death warrants. that s what she s doing. this is death for me. he s one of the 98 people whose chance of prolonging his life was essentially ended by a stroke of governor brewer s pen.
if we had a ticking bomb terrorist case. which we ll get to, we ll sell the book, right? i have a torture scene with a ticking bomb nuclear terrorist case. you re using parlance. if there were a terrorist caught and he knew there was a nuclear bomb in the harbor of new york that was going to kill a million people, we would torture him. would that be the right moral decision? no. but if we re going to do it, i want to make sure we do it with accountability and visibility and not under the radar screen. i m not in favor of torture. but torture warrants. i don t favor the death penalty, but i favor death warrants. come back to what i said before, want to make sure people heard. you think it would have been morally wrong to torture that person in the ticking bomb situation. always morally wrong to torture, but we re going to do it we re going to do it. if we re going to do it, i want to make sure there is accountability. bush administration, waterboarding, did all those t