i will never resign from serving our people until their voices reach our words and until their goals are achieved. i m calling for them to leave our people alone. reporter: so he resigns on abc this morning. now it s not clear at the u.n. whether security council is scheduled to meet for a one-hour meeting at 3:00 p.m., it s not clear whether they ll have the u.n. ambassador or deputy ambassador. they invited the deputy ambassador who called for the meeting. the ambassador was absent yesterday. he showed up today. there s a little bit of a tug-of-war and different messages coming out from the libyan ambassador to the u.n. and his deputy right now, jon. jon: still eye ironic that that leader so often thought to be unhinged gives a speech about peace and freedom and democracy while he s ordering bombs to be dropped on his own people.
scene it was just too late. jon: a couple of points. go ahead, jon. jon: the grenade that was launched at the sterret, it didn t even hit the sterret and even if it had it would have done virtually no damage against a u.s. warship. it won t have done much damage at all. it would have left a black mark on the ship. there are several things about this issue that really bother me. one is you have a 58-foot sailing vessel and you wind up with 19 pirates on it. i don t think the pirates go out in that kind of force to take down a 58-foot yacht. they were either out there after something else, and the quest just came across the horizon and was in the wrong place at the wrong time, or and of 19 pirates, after they took the quest, why didn t some of them go back to their mothership? so, you ve got a situation on board this small, 58-foot sounds
jenna: the news that family had to wake up to this morning. news that we all didn t expect on this. we ll have more on this developing story as we get it. jon: and of course tensions very high in the middle east and rising in recent weeks. gas prices rising right along with them. how bad is it going to get the next time you fill up your car? we ll look into that also. a city in ruins after a powerful earthquake strikes new zealand. it s the second major quake there in just the past few months. a seismologist about what is going on there just ahead. ready sensei.
to be a factor in this crash. there was recent severe weather that had dumped rain and snow over much of this area, but officer mario lopez says the road where the bus slid was wet but not icy. a deacon at the church, op jon cho, said the driver was a professional driver, so this incident which took one life and injured 23 others appears to be a tragic accident, jon. jon: the breaking news desk for us today, thanks. jenna: well, we are america s election headquarters and there s news out today that may cause democrats some concern, maybe. a new analysis by the gallup organization showing much of the nation is moving right. overall the number of states considered solidly democrat has dropped from 30 in 2008, just 14 in 2010, and the number of states considered competitive for either party has jumped by eight, so up for grabs by either democrats or republicans. so what should we take away from this information as we
project gun ran upper. charles grassley claims federal agents knowingly sanctioned those illegal weapon sales in hopes of tracing the guns to mexican cartels. by doing so the strategy allowed terry to be shot. it causes you to wonder why the folks who are supposed to have your back in washington d.c. seemingly don t care. reporter: terry s mother agrees. i think they ve put these guns out there and they ve lost them and now one of our own have got killed with one and they ve made a big mistake. reporter: that was william la jeunesse reporting for us on again that slain agent brian terry. accusations from terry s step-mother only to fox news that she believes there is some sort of a cover up going on. more on this story as we get it. jon: we ve been talking about the protests across the country over crippling state budget gaps, 14 rallies are planned for today, plenty more to come this week. we ll get you a live report ahead. also a tragedy for those four