question. one sfa commander told your team the rebels would not be able to win without american intervention. is that a widely held view among the rebels? reporter: of course, it is. the opposition in libya wouldn t have won without a ntao intervention. revolutions are great and people came and they work well to upset things, but when you have a determined dictator, using his entire organized army, they generally don t win. the uprising against saddam hussein didn t work. the uprising against gadhafi didn t work. the uprising against assad hasn t been working the past 2 1/2 years. they don t think without some sort of game-changing military intervention, they won t seed. richard engel in turkey, thank you very much. david gregory s guest will be secretary of state john kerry this morning on meet the
governments around the world scrambling to get citizens out of libya. the u.s. is now chartering a ferry to take americans from libya to malta because libya wouldn t allow a chartered plane to land. photos of jar red loughner is grinning in a photo after taking down six people and wounding 13 others. police arrested a 16-year-old boy in the killing of is police officer. this is the fifth law enforcement offered killed in the city in less than a month. this video from inside one of mexico drug tunnels earlier this month, rafael romo was inside that tunnel. the obama administration is in the process of changing the way it measures the security of the nation s borders. but why is this such a good idea? jeanne meserve has all of the details. reporter: that s the
four african states compete forge four seats. what you needed to have happen is other african states to compete and if they had, libya wouldn t have won and how do we get that to happen. the u.s. ran on a slate only two candidates for two seats. when it declared candidacy, it wasn t a good position to challenge other states to run in a competitive election. george w. bush administration was very dubious of the united nations, felt that some of the voter process was a bit of a show, dog and pony show, is this just evidence they were right? no, absolutely not. what we need to do is make it better, but you can t give up on it because this is a system that s helping people on the ground. and really, what s, you know, who are you going to serve by backing out? right. usually the u.s. spoils for a fight and wants to get in there and do what s right. needs to do more of that. the obama administration is doing the right thing by engaging the council, but need it put more time and resou