very courageous people. arwa damon reporting live from eastern libya. we re hearing their call for weapons all the way here to the united states. arwa damon, many thanks. a lot of unbelievably disturbing things are going on in libya. maybe you heard about this. but watch as a libyan woman storms into a hotel and tells journalists and the world that government troops had raped her. a brazen move on her part. this is the first time a libyan opposed to gadhafi has tried something like this in tripoli. cnn s nic robertson described what happened right before his eyes. she came to tell her story to the only people she thought would listen. international journalists in a city hotel. why don t you treat us the same?
stories making headlines at this hour. a 6.5 quake shook the coast of japan just a few hours ago. it was an 8.9 that shook japan two weeks ago. a tsunami issue was alert but canceled. at fukushima power plant, a radiation spike that was off the charts earlier today turned out to be wrong, but it s still a volatile and dangerous place, potentially deadly levels of radiation are present in many places of the complex, most of them from contaminated water. readings in the ocean 1,000 feet from the plant, registered more than 1,800 times higher than normal. in libya, rebels are advancing westward, taking control of two key cities today. the opposition says gadhafi s
from the eastern part of gipt and from the obeidy tribe from her name. this is very alarming and tells the people of libya that the woman at the checkpoints of tripoli are not safe. they are subjected to all kinds of treatment including rape. do you believe they re sending a message through this woman if this is true? this is possible, this is possible. that this regime do everything to pacify the people, to threaten the people. they use tanks, they use rockets, they use everything. they killed innocent people. they use dead body to show them as fresh casualties of bombing. and, ali, in this conflict for the first time someone standing up on camera to moammar gadhafi and his militia. what s the significance of this woman and her story? it tells the people, tells the world that the degree of frustration, the degree of people being really fed up of the situation and for a woman in this kind of society in a very conservative
talking about nicolas sarkozy. i would like to sort of see how long our engagement will be in libya. i think we have been able to neutralize gadhafi s defenses. if nato is taking charge, the europeans and arab league is more than capable of taking the lead on this as opposed to the united states. i would like to see that being said. there have been different answers from secretary of state clinton and secretary of defense gates. let s talk about what secretary gates said. cornell, i want to pose this question to you. he said libya is not a vital interest to the united states. it is out there. now americans are really wondering. does this put more pressure on the president? i think we have to define vital interest. the president will layout why it
start. the dow up 18. the nasdaq better by 9. bit of news for you. gift basket retailer harry & david filed for bankruptcy. but it s going to stay open while it restructures its debt. so you still can get those wonderful chocolate and blueberry chocolate cherry things that you can buy there and just eat like popcorn. and the wonderful fruit. i love their gift baskets. i know. it is good. alison kosik, many thanks. sure. checking our top stories now. more confusion and contamination at japan s fukushima nuclear plant. today s worry, highly radioactive water found in a tunnel near reactor number two. the radiation is at least 100,000 times what it should be. officials don t know how the water escaped a turbine building. and they don t know if it s been seeping into the pacific ocean. after criticism from both sides of the aisle, president obama will try to clarify his stance and defend his actions on libya. he s due to address the nation tonight at 7:30 p.m. eastern.