and what is all of this doing to the price of oil? the tv movie version about a true murder story is set to air tonight, or will it? and engineers will definitely want to see this one. look out. the exact moment of a parking deck collapse caught on cam. the news starts now. hello and welcome back. i m brooke baldwin. if it s interesting, if it s happening right now you re about to see it happen rapid fire beginning with this. i want to show you malta, a mediterranean island between sicily and libya. you see the pictures here. those are two mirage fighter jets belonging to the libyan air force and maltese officials say they landed there, defected instead of firing on protesters in libya, as they were allegedly ordered to do so. again, that is according to an official in malta.
us in the situation room. we re going to discuss what he senses is happening in libya in the aftermath of what happened in egypt before that in tunisia, and we re also going to look ahead. what other countries are on the brink right now of moving beyond long-established governments and re regimes. fouad ajami will help us with that. fran townsend, our contributor at cnn, former homeland security adviser to the president, she was in libya last year, and we ll speak to her about her meetings with gadhafi and others, so a lot of libya coming up at the top of hour. and on a much lighter note, rumor is you re at l.a. because you re at the nba all-star game. can you confirm? i can confir. i had a great time. i loved the slam dunk contest and loved the game last night. it s a guy kind of thing, i guess, if you like basketball. it s a gal kind of thing, too. i mean, i can appreciate some slam dunks. a lot of gals a lot of gals like it as well, but the guys really do like it and i v
we see $4 a gallon gas. others say because we ve got an oversupply of gas at a key u.s. facility right now, that the spike in oil prices, it won t necessarily affect what we pay at the pumps. two schools of thoughts here. one of these things, brooke, we won t know it s happening until it happens. just don t be too surprised if you see that gas price creep up a bit when you drive up to the pump. we won t know yet until it happens. alison kosik. surprise. surprise. thank you. coming up next, we ve got the latest on those four americans on that boat that s believed to be seized by somali pirates. we will tell you how now the u.s. navy is involved and what one of the americans actually e-mailed to a friend just a little more this a week ago. we ve just gotten this this afternoon. you have to wait for that. also, conflicting reports about the leader of li libya, and whether he s still even in his country. we re going to get to the bottom of that and take a closer look at exactly w
seen in libya s neighbors to the west and east, tunisia and egypt. and the fear among some opposition activists right now, brooke, is that is exactly what s happening in tripoli right now. we can t get through to anybody to confirm it. ivan watson, on the phone from next door in egypt, because as you pointed out libya will not respond to requests to get in the country. thank you. now big-named celebrities joining these thousands and thousands of protestors there in madison, wisconsin. that ongoing budget battle showdown continues here. we re going to take you there live, next. plus, what the u.s. navy is now doing to help those four americans believed to be held hostage by somali pirates somali.
opening fire on demonstrators there. very ominous news coming out of there. and the deputy ambassador from libya to the united nations actually coming out, television cameras, a few hours ago, brooke, and accusing his own leader, moammar gadhafi of committing genocide against his own people. right. reporter: very ominous signs what could be going on. i saw that. saying gadhafi has declared war on libyan people, i want to ask you, ivan, i know did s difficult to entirely confirm these reports. i want to talk to you about malta, the small island about 250 miles off the libyan coast. we understand there s reports of some fighter jelts that land on this tiny island. what can you tell me about that? reporter: another disturbing signal here, brooke. two libyan air force mirage f-1 fighter jets landed at malta, legislation than 250 miles from the libyan coast. we are looking at pictures, ivan, of some of these jets.