thank you. cnn gets a first-hand look at what s going on in syria. lisa sylvester monitoring that. reporter: wolf, cnn international core respondent nick robertson is on the ground in syria and said thousands of people gathered for funerals in damascus, many chanting with down with the regime. but there was a pro government rally in damascus. they had the live broadcast equipment confiscated on arrive value and they are often accompanied by a government monitor. the former pakistani president tells cnn he s succeeded where others failed as leader of his nuclear armed country. and he says he ll return from exile by the end of this month to run for offers despite the threat of arrest. he s wanted in connection with the 2007 assassination of former prime minister. in britain, investigators identified the body found on
is spending millions of dollars to flood the airwaves with anti-romney attack ads. is this payback time for newt gingrich? i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. president obama dropped a bit of a bombshell a little while ago in an unscheduled appearance announcing bill daily is stepping down after just a year. he ll. replaced by the budget director, jack lou. here s jessica yellin. she s working the story for us. jessica, what s going on over here? well, wolf, first of all the president actually said that bill daley wants to spend more time with his family. let s listen to part of what the president had to say and then we ll talk about it a little bit on the back end. here s the president. obviously, this was not easy news to hear. and i didn t accept bill s decision right away. in fact, i asked him to take a couple of days to make sure that he was sure about this. but in the end, the pull of the hometown, we both love. a city that s been synonymous with
city of brega. it is a key oil port. three more air strikes today. no casualties from those air strikes. libyan government officials say here their targets was an ammunition dump. the fighting has produced fewer than 20 casualties has been low tech. small arms fire from jeeps and pickup trucks. so far what we haven t seen is the big guns in the libyan government. soviet made armor carriers and tanks. shepard: you they re tonight, what s the situation? shepard, it s interesting to hear that rebel fighter saying 15 days there is going to be war here inside the capital. because we walked around today without a government monitor it does not seem like a country that could be on the verge of a major civil war. shops still open in tripoli. traffic flowing normally. last week there were protests. this week people will be watching to see how firm qaddafi s hold on power in the