states largely as a result that they refused or could not find profitable opportunities to invest in so they put in cash flow and liquid assets. how do you create a degree of certainty about the long-term future that would induce the people who hold the liquid assets to invest them in long-term assets because this is the only source of expansion, which is very large, in which debt is not relevant. you don t need to borrow. all you have to do is pull those funds, which is sitting there so because they don t know where else to profitably invest them. if we can get that going it s a major positive. the day the debt ceiling fight ends, the president has a press conference outside the white house and says corporate america, the wealthy, i m coming after you. i m coming after you with higher taxes. i still think i was right.
living on handouts and wondering what will come next. here is fox correspondent jonathan hunt live from libya. reporter: and we re some 30 miles west of tripoli and will term what happens in libya. it s very short at least the anti-government protesters who have taken control of the sector of that. and they are ringed by pro qaddafi forces, the army, the militias and how that fight ends may well determine what happens next. if the anti-qaddafi protesters can hold that city, then there s a rebellion that s already taken hold in the east of libya and that could spell the end for qaddafi because it em boldens them to march on tripoli. if the qaddafi forces are to retake the city then increasingly deranged libyan leader and he may decide he will fight on for days, for
accomplished and gadhafi could remain in power? that s potentially one outcome. reporter: and it may be gadhafi alone who decides how and when the fight ends. brian moore, nbc news, washington. meanwhile in japan, staggering new estimates of the death toll there, coupled with fresh problems at the country s tripled nuclear complex are overshadowing some success with cooling the plants overheated reactors. there s word that workers have been evacuated after gray smoke was seen rising from unit 3 of the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant. this as japanese officials had announced two of the plant s six overheated reactor units were safely cooled down. high levels of radiation have also been found in tap water. greens and raw milk. all that as officials now predict the death toll will exceed 18,000. also in japan, there are stunning stories of survival. including that of an 80-year-old