we re waiting for president obama and german chancellor angela merkel to hold a joint news conference in the east room of the white house, possibly major developments regarding the future of the war in afghanistan to be announced. embattled leader mo maqaddafi vows he will stay in power until he s dead, this after rare daytime nato air strikes in libya s capitol city around his compound. we ll have a live report just ahead. also, high winds fueling a fast moving wildfire in arizona. forcing turns of hundreds in the town of grier to pack up and get out in a hurry. our own anita vogel has the very latest on those fires from our west coast newsroom. anita. reporter: well, hi there jon. it s not just that one town of grier, it s several small towns along eastern arizona. in fact late yesterday governor jan brewer had to declare a state of emergency for those affected areas. now, we re talking about flames that have scorched more than 240,000 acres so
jon: you get a cyber attack, it s pretty murky where these things come from. it can be murky. what the pentagon is saying is look, to the degree we can, what we re saying is we will use force proportionately and appropriately in those instances where we can prove where the attack originated from, and you re right, that is a problem. certainly, it s more of a problem when you re talking about a group or a terrorist organization as opposed to a state sponsor, where you have more chance to reverse engineer and walk that back and figure out that s where it started from. jon: mike baker, former cia covert operations officer, thank you. thank you. jenna: taking you overseas, jon, libyan dictator mo maqaddafi is facing new cracks in his regime as nato resumes air strikes. those are the reports. more of the military leaders are defecting, there s a looming shortage of food and supplies, and now the hague is considering charges against him for crimes against humanity. dan springer is live f
second is a meeting hall, the office and library was completely flattened and destroyed, the meeting hall was seriously damaged. nato says the particular sites were targeted because they are considered command and control centers. no doubt mo maqaddafi is going to have many sleepless nights now, the meeting hall, alisyn, he had used only three weeks ago to meet with the south african president to try and negotiate a way out of this conflict and the blast at the compound comes only hours after lindsey graham, u.s. senator, said there should be strikes closer to qaddafi s inner circle and every day he should wake up thinking it might be his last. alisyn. alisyn: thank you for the update. you can see you can see the no fly zone that covers a huge area of libya, from what the egyptian border in the east, all the way to the west and northwest as it borders with tunisia, stems out into the
harris: here in the newsroom we ve been monitoring a news conference that s been going on in iraq at camp victory, admiral mike mullen briefing reporters right now on the situation in libya, and what to do about those rebels. let s take a listen: the united states position with respect to arming the rebels is very clear, and we re not there snon decision to do that, so right now, that s not going to happen. harris: of course this coming on the heels as we ve been reporting to you this morning that senator john mccain is there on the ground in libya and in somewhat of a surprise visit, getting a taste of what it s like for those rebels, calling them today heroes, that we need to get behind, but you hear the admiral saying right now, there s no intention of putting any more weaponry in their hands as they fight off the forces of dictator
mo maqaddafi. more on this developing story as it comes in. rick: right now we re getting new developments in the mysterious death of a teenager from north carolina alicia barnes, found dead miles away from her house in a river in maryland. patti an brown is live at the breaking news desk. what are we learning? reporter: a terrible story, ever since felicia barnes went missing, her loved ones hoped she would somehow be found alive but that hope was dashed two days ago when the body of the north carolina teenager was found in that maryland river. felicia disappeared while visiting her half sisters in baltimore. baltimore. her body was found near the susquehanna river. the other body was a man whom investigators are trying to identify through fingerprints. so far, he s a black male and they don t know if he s connected to felicia. the cause of death has not been determined yet for