six republican senators led by kentucky senator ran paul. sent a letter to the president earlier this week asking if he would follow the law and get lawmakers authorization for continued military action. now the top republican in the house, speaker john boehner, is taking a wait and see approach. his spokesman says boehner received the president s letter yesterday, but has not seen the resolution on libya that some senators are drawing up. and therefore, can t make a decision yet about whether to support it. arthel. arthel: all right. thank you very much. meanwhile, nato hammering away at moammar gadhafi s forces in libya. the strikes are part of an effort to cut communications between the military unit and offer a measure of respite for the refugees caught in the middle of the war. reena has more. the eight naval air ships that nato struck yesterday, a lot of aide workers are hoping that might pave the way to allow much needed aid to finally get through the seas over to other p
ground. these air ships would obviously have a great deal of benefit to the rebel forces who are on the ground. there s also been some very precise targeting. they admitted that they have six tomahawk missiles at the headquarters of a unit extremely loyal to moammar gadhafi. commanded by one of his sons. when they remove a sub marine or a ship from the mediterranean, they ve got a lot of other stuff, is it because they ve already used up their tomahawk cruise missiles and have to resupply them or because they don t need them anymore? as they use tomahawks, it s an ongoing process where you go back, you resupply, you come back. if you really look at it over the timeline over the past week or so, you know, very few tomahawks are being fired today compared to say a week ago. so some of those assets are no longer needed but what you are