becoming africa s 54th country. british newspaper news of the world closes after allegations that journalists hacked into voice mail accounts. in norway, a man describing himself as a resistance leader, bombing the government building and carrying out a shooting rampage at a youth camp killing 77. japan beats the u.s.a. becoming the first asian country to win the fifa women s word cup. two, one, zero and liftoff atlantis ends nasa s 30 year shuttle program with the final 135th launch of a space shuttle. london suffering widespread rioting after a police shooting after a young man. the deadliest single loss for u.s. forces in the decade old afghanistan war. a chinook helicopter crashes killing 30 american service members, most of them elite navy seals. more than 10 million people in east africa hit by the worst drought in six decades.
martha. martha: all right, thank you gregg. so 23 past the hour, the tsa warning flyers it will unwrap your christmas gift, folks! so don t wrap before you go. security officials at the airport saying that anything that looks like a christmas gift will be searched and this follows last week s discovery of dozens of pounds of marijuana that was wrapped as holiday presents, so they ruined it for everybody! a norwegian court keeping a confessed mass murderer behind bars for more time, b revment vick killed # seven at a youth camp, he tried to declare himself a resistance leader. he will be held under that trial. the national center of diabetes estimated one in every ten adults could have diabetes by 2030, most of the cases will be type two diabetes linked to weight gain and lack of exercise. gregg: our nation s ballooning debt, taking center stage on capitol hill, pressure growing for
more from alex crawford in just a moment. for days she documented the battle. still believed to be raging right now in zawia. you ll also hear from a woman trapped inside another town, mizrata, another city under attack by libyan government forces. and we ll talk with arwa damon who spoke exclusively with the resistance leader who now has a huge bounty on his head from gadhafi. we ll talk with our team of correspondents spread out across libya. in the east, opposition forces are fighting back hard with captured weapons, including katyusha rocket launchers. and anti-aircraft artillery. but the libyan air force is pounding them harder, hammering them with air strikes around ras lanuf. yet it is in cities farther west where wholesale slaughter is taking place. several times the gadhafi regime claimed they recaptured zawia, but that was false, and we know that because of alex crawford from sky news who was there.
more from alex crawford in just a moment. for days she documented the battle. still believed to be raging right now in zawia. you ll also hear from a woman trapped inside another town, mizrata, another city under attack by libyan government forces. and we ll talk with arwa damon who spoke exclusively with the resistance leader who now has a huge bounty on his head from gadhafi. we ll talk with our team of correspondents spread out across libya. in the east, opposition forces are fighting back hard with captured weapons, including katyusha rocket launchers. and anti-aircraft artillery. but the libyan air force is pounding them harder, hammering them with air strikes around ras lanuf. yet it is in cities farther west where wholesale slaughter is taking place. several times the gadhafi regime claimed they recaptured zawia, but that was false, and we know that because of alex crawford from sky news who was there. the regime has also said again and again that reporters are
but the rebels have their own firepower, courtesy of army defectors. more from alex crawford in just a moment. for days she documented the battle. still believed to be raging right now in zawia. you ll also hear from a woman trapped inside another town, mizrata, another city under attack by libyan government forces. and we ll talk with arwa damon who spoke exclusively with the resistance leader who now has a huge bounty on his head from gadhafi. we ll talk with our team of correspondents spread out across libya. in the east, opposition forces are fighting back hard with captured weapons, including katyusha rocket launchers. and anti-aircraft artillery. but the libyan air force is pounding them harder, hammering them with air strikes around ras lanuf. yet it is in cities farther west where wholesale slaughter is taking place. several times the gadhafi regime