sunday may be a day of rest for some, but the boulevard is alive with its usual buzz. the street performers and the walking billboards, the shopkeepers and the ticket takers, the newcomers and the old timers, they are all here. how are you doing today? and in front of the mcdonald s on the corner of hollywood and highland, the kids have taken up their usual spots. brittany and jason are here, ready for business. and so is tom, spanging in his own haphazard way. and though he s still in hollywood, tom has split with al, just as he vowed, and is now squatting with a different group of friends. last night it was the fuel up there. tonight it s probably going to be the same place. jason has made some choices, too. i m done with the clinic. brittany is trying to get in. when she goes, i m going to buy
southern desert. fighters had been chasing the younger gadhafi for more than two weeks to the capital of libya right now, tripoli. what can you tell us about how this all unfolded? reporter: well, we re hearing from senior military officials among the revolutionary fighters who are telling us that the capture took place after a stake out, an 18 day stake out deep in the southern deserts of libya. we understand that is where saif gadhafi was hiding and they tell us they believe he was trying to make his way to neighboring niger. now after 18 days of this stake-out they finally moved in on a convoy at about 2:00 p.m. local time and after a gun battle that took place for about two hours they say that saif and members of his entourage surrendered to the revolutionary force and after that he was taken to the western mountain city where the fighters captured him came from where he s being held now in an undisclosed location. what s the overall reaction from ordinary people in t
cut, unemployment benefits, tax credits for businesses, protection against bias for unemployed job applicants. despite the president s hard line push to nas bill and tireless national campaign, obama s jobs plan essentially die ted hands of senate republicans tuesday on a key procedural vote. 60 votes were needed. clearly, the votes just weren t there. the president knew it was coming. he now has to rethink and regroup. the republicans don t exactly have a concrete alternative jobs bill to fix the problem. so the big question is what happens now? are we back to square one or do we call it plan b? whatever you want to call it let s talk about it with someone who knows a lot about it chief national correspondent and anchor, john king, joining us live now from washington. hi there, john. so the president, he says that he is prepared to break his jobs bill now into pieces in the hopes of getting parts of it throughsome that the answer here, do you think? it is the only answer b
which is essentially what most of the strikes are about. the military also issued consistent communiques over the weekend talking about how they re going to dissolve the parliament and suspend the constitution and try to keep the government functioning, the government that was just put in place by mubarak before he left with the military watching what they re doing to keep the country functioning. we ve seen over the past two or three days a steady stream of pronouncements by l military government, the military leaders essentially trying to reassure the public they are in charge and things will continue to function in some way but, on the other hand, as you pointed out you do have the strikes going on. we spent the day with a group of transportation workers bus drivers, dispatchers, ticket-takers that work on the mass transit part of this, the government-run part complaining that they earn less than minimum wage. many of them do. and many of them have for many, many years. they were
every level of the franchise, ticket takers, people working here and there, which might not have happened had he not insisted that it happen. again, the economics of this got to be very important. the south and new orleans and a lot of other places, when they understood it was not about black or white but about green, money, it started it. i was in the very beginning of it. and i was proud of that. and i felt an obligation. i didn t have to do that. but i felt this obligation because i knew that day was going to come like sunday where it took a long time, but a really long time. it did take a long time. but it was a teachable moment for us that, you know, quitters never win and winners never quit. and that s i think that s a tribute to new orleans. that s why people have rallied around this team. this team was a part of new orleans. it s not a job just for them. they are new orleanians all the way. now, there s a lot going on in this city all at once.