for instance, was there a shooting underway to which authorities responded and then the shooter himself, whether one or more, we don t flow, got involved in a shootout with police? details have not yet come. what we are reporting through the daily herald is that four officers are shot, multiple victims. and they re transporting a number of them by life flight helicopte helicopters. we expect to have reporters on scene shortly. you can imagine in the afternoon, 2:45 in the afternoon on a 17 degree day and traffic is bisque with the soft lockdown underway. you can see the officials headed up to the warehouse area from the wfld picture out of aurora. a huge crowd has gathered
rescue a couple people at a time, then they have to go back, reload, essentially. but, you know, you don t want to call this a military operation. this is humanitarian disaster relief. but it s the same skill set that they do use in a combat zone. if they re in a combat zone, they re looking for targets. right now they are looking for people desperate to get out, jim. well, the u.s. navy, as you know, barbara, has enormous experience with humanitarian aid. even going back to the asia tsunami, kalt ctrina. they know how to do it and they do it well. this is a live picture from aboard one of the u.s. navy helicopte helicopters, in fact, a joint operation between the u.s. navy and the u.s. air force. flooded homes, flooded neighborhoods, flooded communities. we re joined now as well by retired rear admiral john kirby, spokesman for the state
and gadhafi said rivers of blood. what do we know about the military and how far it will fight and for whom? that s the complicating fact. it s not just the military, but the secret police. very loyal to gadhafi himself. we ve heard there have been defections away from that. but gadhafi has always relied on outside mercenaries, as well. you ve got your secret police elements, those elements of the military, outside mercenaries still doing the dirty business of the government, which is to say being totally willing to wipe out using gun ships, helicopte helicopters, whatever it takes. they will continue to do that. in a way, i think that obviously he was wrong to talk about the west will come in if we have a civil war and so forth. they are absolutely brutal and willing to carry this forward until the streets are totally pa pacified. it s a regime that seeks to be totalitarian. it has a revolutionary ideology. and so the army has always been
it s being sprayed by helicop r helicopte helicopters, planes, boats and it s getting into the oil itself. mixing the oil up with the waves. and then that oil kind of falling down to the ground either to the ocean floor or it gets eaten by microbes that live in the ocean naturally. so that s good. look at these pictures because this is what you were talking about. how the dark spot there on the bottom right from the european space agency, how it s not just one big puddle. it s been blown around a number of times. there are currents out there. so this slick is now looks more like a snake rather than a circle. let me go one very, very quickly i want to take you to the forecast page and i ll show you what the winds are going to do over the next couple of i das. oil spill, there you go. winds offshore, good news. by later on this week, bad news. high moves to the east, winds are from the south. winds push that oil onshore. ali? that s what we ve got to be careful of. until we get this