absolutely agree. now that we ve taken this step and we re in, we better come out of this in terms favorable to the united states. it would be nice to have terms favorable to the allies, but given that we have put forth so much to get this started and essentially solidify what the allies are going to do on the follow on, this had better turn out in our favor. gregg: allall right. captain chuck nash, as always, great to see you. thank you. nice to be with you, gregg. heather: and early stops, top gopers gathering in las vegas for a republican jewish coalition meeting. speakers include senator jonathan from south dakota and house majority leader eric cantor. brant new chairman of the gop. they took president obama to task. i love the opportunity and the freedom that is america.
childers. welcome to a brand-new hour inside america s news hour. gregg: topping the news, libyan rebels reacting to some of their people killed by nato air strikes. heather: radioactive water leaking from a crack discovered at the japan nuke year power plant. gregg: phone lines to the white house have been burning up today as the president reaches out to house speaker john wayneer and senate majority leader harry reid to avoid a government shutdown. heather: southwest airlines expecting to cancel hundreds of flights today so it can inspect dozens of its planes as it follows a midair scare aboard a 737. a huge hole developing in the roof of the jet as it was cruising at 36,000 feet. take a look at this cell phone video capturing the scene.
thank you. gregg: fox news alert. rebel forces in libya say 13 of their own fighters have been killed by friendly fire. they apparently got caught up in a nato air strike against their common enemy, missouri, and his forces. the attack happened as the rebels were getting ready to storm a key oil city. hunter powell is streaming live from ajdabiayh, libya. conner? gregg, nato continues to enforce this no-fly zone. we just heard jets flying above a few minutes ago. but it isn t becoming increasingly difficult to enforce as the front lines blur, as gadhafi troops and rebels engage in different parts of northern libya here. today, according to nato officials, they are investigating reports that nato coalition jets may have mistakenly dropped bombs on a rebel fighting position, according to rebels here, they say 13 fights were killed and many injured after some rebel
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personally involved in the negotiations today after getting a lot of heat even from people in his own party that he was quite distant about the whole thing. hi, gregg. he made two separate calls today. one to house republican speaker jan painer and one to the top senate democrat, harry reid. the white house says the president, quote, urged both sides to reach a final solution and avoid a government shutdown. republicans and democrats are at odds over how much should be cut from the budget. house republicans are pushing for $61 billion in cuts. senate democrats and the white house are countering with 33 billion in cuts. there seems to be disagreement over how close the two sides are to a deal. after a few weeks of negotiations between democrats, republicans and my team at the white house, it appears that we re getting close to an agreement between the leaders of both parties. you heard democrat leaders claim an agreement has been reached on this issue. but let me be clear, there i