coa coast, 7:00 a.m. out west. good morning. i m carol costello. police in new york have arrested two men who were planning to attack a manhattan synagogue. a law enforcement source tells cnn they were arrested in a sting trying to buy guns and a grenade. both men are said to be of north african descent. in libya, nato launches a new attack on the tripoli compound of moammar gadhafi. just hours earlier, gadhafi appeared on state-run television for the first time in two weeks. and right now on capitol hill, oil and gas executives are in the hot seat. they re facing questions over why they deserve billions of dollars in tax breaks while raking in nearly record profits. we ll listen in in a bit. first, the latest developments in the death of osama bin laden. intelligence experts are pouring over a prize discovery in the raid, a personal journal, handwritten by bin laden. according to the washington
abbottabad, pakistan, compound. it shows the terror mastermind still actively involved in al qaeda plans and urging operatives to find new targets within the united states. a convicted nazi war criminal will not be sent back to the netherlands to serve jail time and can live the rest of his life in freedom in germany. we ll have a little more on that one. but the libyan dictator moammar gadhafi appearing yesterday on state-run tv reportedly meeting with tribal leaders. the video airing a few hours before a nato air strike caused extensive damage to his tripoli compound. a 5.1 magnitude quake hitting the southeast coast of spain. it happened yesterday in the city of lorca. homes, historic churches, public buildings destroyed. and at least eight people were killed. thousands of others fearful of another quake spent the night sleeping in the streets. residents were warned not to go home because officials are warning more homes could collapse. a ruthless government crackdown in syria
this morning, new developments out of libya. rebels announced they have captured misrata, the nation s third largest city. the announcement comes after nato launched a new attack on the tripoli compound of the embattled leader, moammar gadhafi. earlier in the gay day, gadhafi made his appearance and people were wondering where he was, and, bam, he shows up on television. stories that will be making news later today. at 2:00 p.m. eastern, mitt romney is talking health care in ann arbor, michigan as he mulls another potential run for the white house. joe biden meets with a bipartisan group of lawmakers. on capitol hill, the senate homeland security committee needs to discuss post 9/11 intelligence reform and to discuss progress made to protect americans from terrorist attacks. the swollen crest of the
moammar gadhafi by nato and called it illegal under the u.n. resolution and said it was a shame to nato. and nato is saying something differently saying that it was effectively in that building was a command and control head quarters for the libyan military used to target civilians. we were in that building or in front of that building a couple of days ago when the african union was here in tripoli and they met with moammar gadhafi in that building, and that is the building that they held a lot of the negotiations with moammar gadhafi in there. and it is still up for debate whether there is a bunker underneath that building or in an adjacent part of the building, but nato is saying that civilians were being targeted from that building used as a command and control headquarters, randi. for the libyan government spinning the nato air strikes as an assassination attempt, but they are quick to say that gadhafi is alive and well. are you hearing that as well? well, the libyan government
it is just about half past the hour, and let s get you caught up on some of the stories that you may have missed. in afghanistan, thor ise es is on for more than 470 escaped inmates. they escaped through a tunnel dug by the taliban. it took 4 1/2 hours to get everybody out, an apparently a few more hours before the guards noticed that anyone was missing. this is the second mass escape from the prison that houses some of the most dangerous taliban prisoners. one of the biggest air strikes of the libyan campaign so far flattened one building at the tripoli compound of moammar gadhafi reportedly killing three people, and gadhafi not among them. the libyan government u called it an assassination attempt and said that the message sent by nato in the early hours this morning was