as ever. the libyan leader accusing nato of cold-blooded murder. following an airstrike on a compound. rick leventhal is streaming live from rebel-held misurata. rick? rick: and heather, muammar qaddafi has been making the claims repeatedly, and sunday they actually proved true, nato admitting an errant strike hit a residential building, killing 12 civilians and wounding 18 more, but nato says now is the time to actually step up the bombing campaign, to increase the pressure on qaddafi and his troops. and, the fighting on the ground remains extremely fierce, if not more so, in a town of davniya, the front, most closest to misurata and that is where we are seeing the most casualties, 50 rebels reported wounded, today alone and we are hearing as many as 200 taken out of the fight the past ten days and 50 fighters killed.
qaddafi s government not releasing numbers on its troops but they are in for a long and difficult battle, west of misurata and, earlier today we got a close-up, rare look at the russian-made rocket launcher built in the 1970s, used by qaddafi s troops and some of the opposition fighters gained control of these rocket launchers and today we saw for ourselves what it looks like when those rockets are fired. we should tell you, heather, these they are the same rocketsd into misurata by qaddafi troops east of the city and have seen more of them land here today. heather: thank you very much, rick leventhal streaming live from misurata, libya. thank you. bill: the war continues, breaking news on it, eric cantor s withdrawal, what it means for the debt talks and the economy struggling to turn around and in his address last night the president said now is time to focus on building our nation. is this the start of his re-election campaign? we have a terrific panel on deck, fair and balanced deb
that any deal must include tax increases. he says there is not support in the house for a tax increase. i don t believe now is the time to raise taxes, in light of our current economic situation. it continues: i will not be participating in today s meeting, i believe it is tomorrow for the president to speak clearly and resolve the tax issue. where does that leave the gang of 6 or 7? depending on who is in, who is out right now. and, how they reach some sort of path forward. to reduce what is on your screen now. not that, that is eric cantor, the gang of 7, but the $14.4 trillion in debt. the u.s. government carries today. eric cantor withdraws now from meetings and we ll wait for the statement from him on camera, or also, hope to get him on our air, live, this morning. here on america s newsroom. breaking news, now, on the hill. heather: muammar qaddafi defiant