ballistic missile test in the works. we begin tonight with high anxiety over north korea s threat to launch a satellite, a launch pentagon officials believe is to test a ballistic missile capable of launching a nuclear warhead capable of sitting the main land. weather is such that officials believe the launch could come at any time. let s take a closer look at what they are worried about. this is north korea. i want to show you new satellite images from april 9th. a clear image of the launch pad. the rocket is here. you see preparations, rail mounting. that s how they brought the rocket out. the ex university deflector is right here. you see support vehicles way up here on the distant edge. now, let s look at a more recent satellite image released today. a bit grainy. if you notice here, i will try to highlight it, you can see support vehicles much closer to the launch pad. not much activity over here by the fueling tanks. the analysts that have looked at this believe based
launched the invasion of iraq. that is similar to what qaddafi has. take a listen to vice admiral gortny. this is a integrated missile defense system much like the one that iraq had and surrounding baghdad. built on older soviet technology. but still, good capability. a good capability but the pentagon sources tell us that they don t expect it will take more than a few days to take out the air forces. we ll see the fighter jets and u.s. planes over lib yampt they will not put them in the sky until confirmation from global hawk surveillance site to suggest that sa 85 air defense systems that qaddafi has has been degraded. john: thank you, we ll take you back to libya live where
were some communications or talk to try to talk that down we are on the leading edge of coalition operations. we re the united states under general hamm in africa command. he s in charge of this at this point. and in the coming days, we intend to transition it to a coalition command. can you say how many british ships were involved compared to the u.s. ships? we had one british submarine. and the rest were all u.s.? yes, ma am. and the number of that? i don t have that in front of me, any of the exact numbers. how sophisticated was this air defense system compared to iraq s, iran s and even going back to vietnam? you studied these systems and the public would like a sense of that, i think. this is integrated missile and air defense system much like the one that iraq had and that surrounded baghdad. built on older soviet technology
julie: tonight, how soon they could reach the surface and the dangerous journey that awaits them. also tonight, new details on a horrific school shooting. a man accused of opening fire on a group of elementary school kids, injuring two of them. now the hero construction worker tackled the suspect to the ground. speaking out. > [ inaudible ] a new chapter in the space program as the u.s. prepares to say goodbye to the aging shuttle fleet. astronauts will soon rely on soviet technology to reach the stars. it has worked for 50 years flawlessly. we begin with a developing story out of washington state. we must warn you, it is disturbing.
neptune missile system. unlike most of the armaments that are circling around here in ukraine, this is something that the ukrainians designed and built themselves. it s based off of soviet technology, but it represents some real leaps and bounds. so to be able to show that they used this neptune system in action to such lethal and devastating effect against the biggest of the russian ships, the flagship ship, that s something they re not really going to be backing down from, it s just too delicious. and you know the ukrainians have been blasting out quite a bit of their own propaganda. but at the same time a lot of that or at least most of it has turned out to be true, especially when you compare it to what we ve been hearing from the russians. while it may seem immodest of them to crow about this without necessarily arriving at any real confirmation, you can t really blame them. matt, i m curious, the intensifying russian missile strikes, is that from russian migs? is that ground to