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procedures but he was on demerol. that demerol, as he was coming off of it, was acting as a stimulant. it breaks down as a stimulant and that stimulant was really very much keeping him awake. and that is why he needed all of these other medications to help him sleep. what i thought was even more remarkable, they were talking about this idea that on the day this happened, they say conrad murray did give propofol, this medication that we ve been talking about, and then observed michael jackson for at least ten minutes, according to these defense sources, and then he thought that michael jackson essentially fell asleep due to exhaustion, he had been up and rehearsing and then the doctor left the room. after that, they say michael jackson had been playing possum. this is according to the defense team and sources that i ve talked to. they say that he was playing possum. he woke up, got out of bed, went to the bathroom where he had lorazepam, took eight pills, and then had a walkin
shall we? and there is another showdown over a possible shutdown. one week from today, the federal government will are up out of money. so with critical government programs and disaster relief hanging in the balance, congress is taking the weekend off. but they say they have good reason to. they needed to cool off a bit. cnn congressional correspondent indicate baldwin tells us what s holding up a deal. with lawmakers heading for the exits and after a long week of heated debate. that s the danger to this country is the $14 trillion deficit and the $1.6 trillion we add to it every damn year. wake up. wakeup. you can t kill these programs. this is the solution you are killing. reporter: congress leaves washington with no agreement on how to avoid another government shutdown. why the holdup as the september 30th deadline looms? neither side is backing down. top republicans and democrats continue pointing fingers at each other. harry reid is holding a bill up with full
for moammar gadhafi has spread way down south into this cluster of outposts in the sahara desert. what you see right there, bombs. those are bombs going off at an airport seized by the rebel are s. libyan rebels are taking on hard-line gadhafi loyalists hundreds of miles south of tripoli. this fire fight, you see and hear it, ben wedeman found himself right in the middle of it it. ben is live for us now. as i said, hundreds of miles south of tripoli, way out in this desert, just after 9:00 p.m. local time. ben, before we get to that fire fight, just tell me where you are and tell us why the rebels are there so far into ethe desert. reporter: we re about 450 miles south of tripoli. we re on this air base that just two nights ago was taken over by the rebels. now, the reason why this is important is that we re about let me think in miles 16 miles to the north of sabah, the biggest city in southern libya, a city traditionally very loyal to moammar gadhafi. in fact, rebel c