today while officials issued new warning about tap water way down south in tokyo. a live update from japan just ahead. plus the latest from libya. we will hear from the correspondent on the ground in the rebel strong hold of benghazi and get update on where qaddafi s forces are headed now. first, let s check this out. flying along with some of the fighter jets of operation odyssey dawn as the white house wants to call it. british air force giving us this look at refueling mission in air as fox reports live tonight. homeowners rates have been going up, but you can still refinance to a fixed rate as low as 4.75% at lendingtree.com, where customers save an average of $293 a month. callending tree at. today. introducing the most fuel-efficient luxury car available. the radically new 42 mile per gallon ct hybrid from lexus. welcome to the darker side of green. see your lexus dealer.
the admiral garrard huber reports that coalition forces flew another 75 missions targeting qaddafi s tanks and weapons, but it s not a war. jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. any change in strategy over the last couple of days, jen. we can report that no tomahawk missiles were fired last night. essentially that fafs the operation is over. they won t fire more tom tomahawks unless something changes and they are needed. they fired 162, in total, and as one official put it, there are less expensive means to go after what remains of those air defense sites, shep? shepard: today, the defense secretary gates predicted that the u.s. could turn over control of the operation by the end of the weekend. there has been a lot of predicting but not any action yet. that s right. another source, another defense source said that it would happen sometime by tuesday. so, definitely they are in a hurry to turn over command and control in the coming days. but secretary gates was clear that they d
that qaddafi had ordered him to turn the city of 100,000 people into a did desert. and a witness reports that the area is completely surrounded. it s not clear to us whether american or european military forces are planning air strikes there. but the pentagon has been putting some pressure on qaddafi s forces in misurata. regime troops there have had a city under siege for days, but a senior defense official confirms that u.s. fighter jets carried out strikes on targets, including tanks. and a doctor inside the city says the tanks that were not hit have left. still the pentagon reports there is no intelligence that indicates qaddafi s forces are actually abandoning either misurata or the city of ajdabiya. it is so-called gateway to the east in libya. people there say rebels have been holding the city center but qaddafi s troops are packed all around the outskirts. but just to the north of rebel strong hold of benghazi, it s a far different reality.
nearby city of benghazi. we have heard about yet another round of shelling coming from tanks and libyan soldiers in the city. and north of the city on rebel fighters gathered in the desert. the fighters continue to probe. libyan army troops continue to return fire. number of dead and wounded in the last couple of days in the fights down in ajdabiya. shepard: a couple hours ago the news channel reported that colonel qaddafi s taverns have began taking up position in the western edges of ajdabiya after coalition air strikes apparently drove them away. the fox report s chief correspondent john hand jonathan hunt is in our new york newsroom. certainly seems that way, shep. according to some of those that have fled the fighting in that city, the rebels still hold the very center of it, but they are pretty much surrounded by qaddafi s forces in the outskirts, trying to move towards them in the center and apparently the center of that city has been heavily shelled.
president nicholas sarkozy in paris a couple of weeks ago. ishe is the man that they say wl be the defactor leader of libya if and when qaddafi is forced out or indeed is killed, shep. shepard: jonathan hunt for us. thanks. in japan tonight there has been another set back in the nuclear crisis. you see this thick black smoke here billowing from a reactor. reactor number three the most problematic one at the fukushima nuclear plant. all the plant s workers have reportedly been evacuated although it s unclear what exactly is wrong there. bad news because reactor number three has the highest levels of leaking radiation. because it contain as plutonium fuel mix which is considered far more toxic than the uranium ones. meantime officials down in tokyo are now recommending that parents in that capital city not let their infants drink any tap water. japanese media reporting tests at a treatment plant in tokyo show the water now contains levels of radioactive material