the details in 15 minutes. first the heaviest bombing in libya in weeks. new nato air strikes demolish parts of at least two government buildings in tripoli. this is new video as libyan officials showed reporters the damage inside one building they claim is used by parliament. these fresh attacks came a few hours after nato s chief warned that time is running out for gadhafi. so far nothing nato has done has stopped gadhafi s forces from terrorizing the city of misrata, the last city the rebels have control of in the west. these are new pictures in to cnn. witnesses a say gadhafi s forces are still shelling its port and residential areas, killing hundreds in weeks of fighting. new this morning, looks like u.s. intelligence agents will get to interview three of the surviving wives of bin laden. pakistani officials have decided to allow the u.s. access to bin laden widows to question them or take them into custody with the provision that their countries of origin have been asked
thursday, the defense secretary said other countries are capable of arming and training badly outgunned libyan rebels and that the u.s. will soon take a back seat to enforcing the no-fly zone. our role has begun to recede to the support roles that i indicated. we will not be taking an active part in the strike activities. and we believe that our allies can sustain this for some period of time. friday, sources revealed the cia is reporting that gadhafi is killing substantial numbers of people in towns outside media coverage. today what to do about libya? we turn to president obama s former national security adviser, general jim jones. then, budget battles with republican senator john cornyn and democratic senator mark warner, and the president about to kick the presidential race
out of libya is an objective, how are we going to accomplish that? how are we going to bring this to closure? i don t see how this ends. i don t know how this ends. i m more depressed than i thought i would be. if something doesn t become clearer and more decisive, it will be very difficult to get authorization to approve the plan as it is. is the mission in libya clear to you? the mission is is clear. i think we are in the process of developing those key elements that allows us to go down the path to get to the understand sta end state. but the original premise for doing anything in libyan was humanitarian, to prevent a massacre that gadhafi himself said he would conduct, and the united states decided to act to prevent that, now and it was
now, police accuse her of getting a gun when her mom refused to sign the loan application. you re going to want to hear how this one turns out. oh, man. also, a little on the strange side. some people in suburban denver swear that they saw something that reminds them of the movie close encounter of the third kind. they say they saw it. what exactly did they see? we ll look into that. you worked in denver for a few years i saw a few things in the sky. after a long night. it s denver, big sky. before all that, the case for war against libya. president obama spoke so the nation last night about the need for military action there. the president says a transition to nato on wednesday will significantly reduce u.s. military risk and also the cost to taxpayers. jake tapper is joining us with more now. reporter: president obama explained why a special set of circumstances, in his view, required u.s. and international community to intervene in libya. tonight i can repo
gadhafi. he has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world. reporter: the kind of humanitarian disaster, he said, that went on for a year in bosnia before the world responded. tonight i can report we have stopped gadhafi s deadly advance. reporter: hours earlier rebels recaptured crucial territory from gadhafi s troops with coalition planes clearing the way. the president said he fulfilled his promises. no ground troops and a quick transfer of power to international partners. nato takes over on wednesday. so for those who doubted our capacity to carry out this operation, i want to be clear, the united states of america has done what we said we would do. reporter: he pushed back at the conservative critics who argue the goal should go beyond the u.n. mandate of protecting civilians to taking out gadhafi. broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.