of the authors of that bill, a republican state senator last night to get his perspective. here s what he had to say. we are under siege as a state. we re not competitive. we ve got well over 9% unemployment. this is just one piece of an overall reform package designed to stabilize the state. reporter: now, the bill in question would eliminate collective bargaining for state unionized workers, would also change arbitration rules and require employees to pay up to 20% for their own health care. yesterday we saw massive rallies around the state and particularly here in columbus where we saw thousands of people descend on the state house. and as you can tell behind me, jesse jackson is leading this crowd in a chant of keep hope alive. they are framing this battle very much as a fight against the middle class by the republican leadership here in the state house. contessa, back to you. is there the same sort of divide saying, okay, look, we know we need to have concessions
to kill the protesters house by house. and take down the barriers that police were separated from the protesters, he claims, and start killing those who would erupt against him. he s lost the east coast. east lost the eastern section of his country. word is he s got about 5,000 loyal soldiers that actually want to train and know how to fight. if he s got that 5,000. besides that 5,000, he might have lost the rest which means civil war. he is willing, it seems, to preside over what is now currently somalia like where it s the somalis are killing each other. exactly right, brian. and really the only people he knows he s got a weak army and he knows these 5,000 can t defend him so he s hired these mercenaries from subsahara africa and these guys are cold blooded killers and they re walking through the streets and somebody comes up to them, they shoot them dead. that s why the italian minister, foreign minister has estimated that, perhaps as many as 1,000 people have been j
layoffs next week. that is all ahead, but, first, breaking news is changing the world on studio b. first from fox at 3:00, the breaking news from libya where the leader is murdering his own people by the hundreds. fox news has reported of bodies in the street, chaos in city after city, as general muammar qadhafi is vowing to die a martyr. the uprising in libya reaching a fever pitch at the country s crumbling dictatorship fights for its existence. the leader, muammar qadhafi, addressing the nation, and the world, on his own state-run television saying he will not leave his country and calling himself a warrior. (inaudible) shepard: the rambling 90-minute long speech called for the supporters to take to the streets and fight back against the civil demonstrators and calls them drug addicts calling for appear end to his rule. the strong man railed against the united states in what he called lies in the western media. and he promised to cleanse libya house by house if the p
the rage that began has reached tripoli. people claim fighter jets have fired on protestors. the pilots asked for asylum saying they refused orders to bomb the rioters. it s colonel moammar qaddafi s desperate attempts to keep people from overthrowing his regime. the capital is torn by burning barricades and gunfire. the death toll may have topped 300 with uncounted more wounded. police say the libyan s parliament in tripoli was torched. with no independent reporting possible, the only way to see inside the country was through videos posted on the internet. one unnamed source claimed the libyan air force was ordered to hit military installations in an effort to keep weapons from protestors. it didn t work. these jubilant young men are brandishing arms, including anti-tank rockets apparently looted from a military base in ben as is give which roe testors claim they now control. while an narky reigned in the streets, libyan t.v. showed life as normal and warned against dens of
should not compromise. if they stop without reaching their goals, i think that would be bad. reporter: anti-government protests continued today in yemen and bahrain. allen pizzey begins our coverage of the middle east in turmoil. reporter: a ball of fire. the sound of gunfire. and an explosion. the rage that began has reached tripoli. people claim fighter jets have fired on protestors. jets landed in malta the pilots asked for asylum saying they refused orders to bomb the rioters. it s colonel moammar qaddafi s desperate attempts to keep people from overthrowing his regime. the capital is torn by burning barricades and gunfire. the death toll may have topped 300 with uncounted more wounded. police say the libyan s parliament in tripoli was torched. with no independent reporting possible, the only way to see inside the country was through videos posted on the internet. one unnamed source claimed the libyan air force was ordered to hit military installations in an effort to