while ago as the new libyan government took over. we ve come here today to say to the people of libya, just as the world stood by you in your struggle to be free, we will now stand with you in your struggle to realize the peace and prosperity that freedom can bring. reporter: that, of course, now is the hard part. libya trying to lift itself up. as i said, gadhafi is still missing. there s still some scattered fighting around the country but essentially a victory lap for president obama to come here and talk about libya. craig? ron, the other big headline there, the u.n. this week, of course the potential showdown over palestinian statehood. any new developments there? well, i think it already is a showdown, regardless of what the palestinians do formally, they say they will give the secretary general a letter about statehood on friday. the lines are already drawn. it s already clear the positions that various sides are taking in this. the united states says it will veto this r
rights case and we are facing an international human rights scandal on tomorrow. joining me to talk about this is diane mattwits of the action center opposed to the execution of davis and investigative crime reporter michele segown. this is the first time in four years troy davis has been scheduled for execution for folks who haven t been following this case as closely, how do we get to this point? well, 22 years ago, davis was accused of killing officer macphail. he was working off-duty and actually saw a homeless man who had been pistol whipped. when he got there that s when troy davis was, in fact, convicted of killing officer macphail at the scene and there were some casings there that also linked to a shooting that had happened just a little while prior to that. but the problem is, is that a lot of this was based off eyewitness accounts and a lot of those eyewitnesses recanted what they had testified to many years later. and so without the actual
disthe to get a clearer picturer. reporter: police believe robyn went missing between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. investigators wanted to keep this as authentic as possible. it s just after 4:00 right now and as you can see the re-enactment is under way. the action moved to the shoreline. this is where the real mystery begins. giordano claims the couple went snorkeling. he says robyn was pulled under and he ran out to save his own life. no crime committed. the actor playing giordano went through the motions, following gary s version of events, running out of the water and back toward the restaurant looking for help. in the surveillance video, the real gary giordano walks up shirtless in a bathing suit, knocking on doors, before leaving. police ask giordano himself to join the re-enactment. he declined. giordano s new defense attorney, jose baez, spoke with matt here on today.
scientists say a giant satellite is hurdling towards earth and expected to crash in pieces later this week. scientists still say they have no idea where it s headed. nbc s tom costello has more from washington. reporter: nasa s reputation is built on precision but pinpointing when and where a six ton satellite might crash to earth isn t a precise science. nasa is guessing friday or it could be thursday or saturday. it s difficult to be precise when the object is not behaving. it s tumbling in ways we can t control. reporter: climbing to space aboard the shuttle discovery in 1991 the ur satellite studied the atmosphere and climate change. engineers expect it will break into 100 pieces on re-entry, a quarter could make it to earth. nasa is sure that any surviving pieces of the satellite will fall somewhere between 57
interview with laura white earlier said, we are still trying to stop this execution here in georgia. we are not giving up. michele, i understand you actually just got off the phone with officer macphail s family. what are they saying? what do they have to say about the execution, the decision at this point? at this point they re still they re not i spoke with his mom and we spoke for about 20 minutes recently and what she said is, you know what, this is great, yesterday we finally feel like our voices were heard. what made yesterday s meeting different than any other that they ve had before, was the fact that she said that they really took their time listening to both sides. they took four hours. there was one board hearing that happened previously that only took about 30 minutes and normally when she s in the car heading back home she s back home now, that, you know, she gets that call to say you know what, we re not moving forward with this. she says although they received th