call or click today. alisyn: we have brand new pictures for you of qaddafi s compound in libya. take a look: these are the moments just after nato air strikes pummeled a number of buildings there and it is the scene just after midnight. you can see some of the buildings are now just a pile of dust and concrete. david lee miller is streaming live from tripoli, libya. david lee, tell us. reporter: alisyn, certainly before midnight local time two loud plasts could be heard in libya last night, we were then escorted to the compound of moammar qaddafi, along with other journalists, when we got there, we saw two buildings that were still smoldering, there was a fire truck that was still on the scene, hosing down one of the buildings, the two structures, we are told r. an office and library, the
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
following what is happening with the market. you know, alisyn, every time for the last ten years there has been a bump up in the oil price, people blame the speculators and, look, we know one of the reasons that oil prices are way up is because of the turbulence going on in the middle east, and, in places like saudi arabia and libya, that caused real supply disruptions, remember, 2007, the oil price went up to $150 a barrel. way higher than today and, nine months later it was down to 30 or 40 dollar is and there is massive fluctuations in gasoline and oil prices for the last ten years and sometimes you can t explain it. bill: stephen moore, the senior economic writer for the wall street journal, thanks for coming in and trying to explain all of this, to us. great to be with you. bill: at least another month, get to memorial day weekend and seems to be the pattern, the driving season, price of oil goes up and price of gas goes up in tandem. alisyn: you are optimistic after yes,
fight over president obama s health care reform, will apparently now go to the proper legal or normal legal channels after the supreme court announced moments ago it will not expedite a major lawsuit out of virginia challenging the constitutionality of that law. from virginia they wanted the lawsuit to go straight to the u.s. supreme court to offer clarity on what the course is for the law and whether or not it will be implemented or declared unconstitutional. the efforts now to put that on the fast track for the u.s. supreme court were denied and now, we will work our way through this appeals level, on the lower level, and we re working for more reaction from this, shannon bream, our correspondent from the supreme court talking with her people and also, further reaction from the attorney general, out of virginia. who had brought the case forward. so, for the moment, their efforts are stalled in virginia, on health care. 10 minutes now past the hour, just crossing now. predator drone
regime. hosni mubarak was no boy scout. but the non-communist regimes had the potential to evolve and the communist ones did not. they had to be replaced to achieve freedom. regimes like syria and iran, it s hard to see how they evolve to a situation where they are responsive to the needs of their people where they fact a civilized way. this is a regime that can use fear against its army and people to demand loyalty. bill: i find these images stunning. of all the unpredictability the past several months, it seems the more the governor cracks down the more the people go back into the streets. when you compare syria with what s happening in libya, libya seems easy. you have the history 20s