until his deadly regime cracks and collapses because it will. i'm absolutely confident of that. >> late today, president obama called for greater pressure on assad to go. >> all of us who have been seeing the terrible pictures coming out of syria and homs recently, recognize it is absolutely imperative for the international community to rally and send a clear message to president assad that it is time for a transition. it's time for that regime to move on. and it is time to stop the killing of syrian citizens by their own government. >> despite the words, the killing goes on. we said at least 91 lives today. more than 100 yesterday, according to activists. and the shelling, this was the 21st day of the bombardment for people living in the baba amr section of homs. in the middle of this, crews from the red cross managed to evacuate a small number of women and children. the two western journalists remain in homs, so do the bodies of marie colvin and remy offlic, and so do tens of thousands of normal women and men, cold, starving, and still under the gun. you're about to see the work of a french photo journalist working with a correspondent from britain's channel 4. he went into homs and bore witness to things nobody should see. bombed out homes, starving people, wounded children. >> a little girl and her brother both badly wounded. >> no one can bear to tell her >> no one can bear to tell her that her father and youngest brother are dead. >> her father is dead. children being orphaned. kids being killed. we see it every single day, the carnage, khat mostly by cell phone cameras, the people making the videos stand on the front line, using the best weapon they have against the regime, the simple truth. and they're risking everything 250 do this. as a little boy explains in a home so cold you can actually see his breath. [ speaking foreign language ] >> died filming demonstrations. that child, so many others face more than tanks and artillery and rocket fire. they face hunger every single day. >> down the street there's a long queue for bread. parts of the city busieged, you can no longer get to shops in neighboring districts. a cup official blocks away, and you're in sybille district, where many belong to the president's sect. >> well, the picture is grim, cold, hungry people being shelled in the words of the late marie colvin, but many caught another view of people killed but not yet defeated. friday is protest day. it's almost a carnival atmosphere. but at the carnival of defiance, the people of homs tell their president what they think of him. mothers, children, fathers, and fighters. this mass of humanity dances for its freedom. >> these are really some of the clearest pictures yet we have seen out of homs. that defiance is founding an outlet, a limited one in the form of the free syrian army which is made up of defectors and civilians going up against trank tanks with small arms and rocket propels grenades. they're outmans and outguns. and many capturing that as well. >> they're attacking the government security building across the road. headquarters of the hated secret police. the filmmaker finds himself at the heart of the firefight. urban guerilla war fair like this is relentless and terrifying, the fighters appear fearless and take crazy risks. but they still find time to look out for manny. >> back at the headquarters, the battle is raging. free syrian forces have detonated a bomb below the roof top positions where snipers are trapped. after more than 12 hours, the snipers are still putting up a fight. casualties are mounting. a mini bus ambulance and a break neck race to a make shift field hospital. three syrian fighters have entered the government security building. it's room to room fighting now. stairwell to stairwell. it's the humiliation for president assad. with bullets still flyingering fighters make off with boxes of much-needed ammo. >> really gives you a sense of the intimate nature of the fighting, room to room. street by street. it paints a picture of a situation for which there may not be any easy answers or simple solutions. i talked about it with cia officer robert bair. also, princeton university's ann marie slaughter. >> ann marie, you wrote an aup ed for the times today where you wrote for foreign military intervection. you called for it in no-kill zones. explain that. >> what i'm proposing is that the countries of the region, turkey, jordan, saudi arabia, qatar, essentially provide what is necessary for the free syrian army to create zones close to borders that would be no-kill zones, would be close enough for humanitarian corridors, to enable them to do that, you would have to give them very good intelntelligence, juneications, special forces on the ground, and some weapons rng but not the kind of weapons that are being pro posed and most of us are afraid will result in a long civil war. >> bob, you have suggested now for kill zones. what does that mean? >> well, i know. it doesn't sound good, but what -- the syrians right now are considering sending their heavy armor into the cities and using heavy artillery. as they did in 1982. >> against the people? >> against the people, in a last-ditch effort to take these cities, and there will be no limits to the violence. hamas, about 10,000, 20,000 people were killed. we don't know. if they do that, i don't see how the international community can't react and hit this armor. the syrian free army can't do it. we should consider that possibility if it really does get that bad. >> so when you say a kill zone, you're saying above a certain line, you send tanks, a syrian regime, those tanks will be destroyed. >> once the tanks cross the bridge into homa or homs or alepo or any other city rising and turning against the population, you have to hit them from the air, and only we can do that. >> ann marie, how does this not escalate? how does this just not become a situation where countries all around syria start to send in weapons to the forces that they support, the various different ethnic groups, religious groups they support? political groups. how does it not escalate? >> i'm not sure that any of us have proposals that don't have a risk of escalation, and i'll just say, i probably would support bob's recommendation, but i don't see any chance right now that the international community is going to accept it. i think the point of the no-kill zones is that you actually could get areas at least to protect the cities that are not now under a siege. and the other assumption is that many, many, many of the syrian army's soldiers actually would defect if given the chance and given a safe place to go. so it's a partial solution. it doesn't save homs. but i think it's better than doing nothing. >> bottom line, do you think it's possible to really stop the slaughter in homs or do you think it's just a matter of time before the regime has succeeded there? >> i have to say, i am not optimistic for homs. the time to have started trying to save homs was probably a month ago. there's one encouraging sign, secretary clinton said today that the u.s. government was in touch with a number of people or there were reports of many around assad who were really getting very nervous. and that they hadn't signed up for this kind of slaughter. so it's still possible we would see some kind of implosion from the inside, but other than that, my concern is to make sure there are no mome homs or as few as we could possibly mange. >> i think it's going to get a lot worse. i think this is a long haul with syria. the sectarian divisions are what are dividing this country, and there's no easy solution. and it's just not a matter of regime decapitation. it's a long, long haul. >> because there are christians inside syria who say, you know, if assad goes, and the sunnis take over, we're going to be slaughtered. how do you alleviate that concern? >> well, i talked to the muslim brotherhood a lot, and they say, ask me, why doesn't the united states do something? they're worried about the sectarian problems, what are you going to do about the aloites? he said, we're going to kill them, what do you think? and i say, what do you expect. >> appreciate it, thank you. >> well, let us know what you think about the images we showed you. facebook, google plus. follow me on twitter. i'm tweeting about it right now. up next, soaring prices at the pump, and the candidates trying to make political hay out of it. keeping them honest, getting the latest on the race. later, something strange is happening again to those young girls in upstate new york. first it was mysterious twitching. now just as mysteriously, some of them are seeming to return to normal. was it all just mass hysteria to begin with? we have a "360" follow-up. @ [oinking] [hissing] [ding] announcer: cook foods to the right temperature using a food thermometer. 3,000 americans will die from food poisoning this year. check your steps at foodsafety.gov. high prices at the pump and the candidates are trying to cash in. just about everyone who wants to turn pain at the pumps into gain at the polls. we're keeping them honest. first the facts, nationwide, the average price of a price of gas stands at $3.64. that's 12 cents on the week and 11% for the year. double since president obama took office. republican candidates are pointing that out, trying to turn it against the president. they're also making a lot of big promises. here is newt gingrich at wednesday's cnn debate. >> i have developed a program for american energy so no future president will ever bow to a saudi king again. and so every american can look forward to $2.50 a gallon gasoline. >> speaker gingrich like santorum blames high prices on president obama's failed middle east policies. his decision to put the pipeline from canada to the gulf of mexico on hold. >> think about what this president is doing. here we are now facing coming up into summertime, when if we had a pipeline being built right now, and it could be built right now, right now, the president could sign an order to build the pipeline. we would have the construction jobs and the knowledge of the industry that all of the production would be coming online. >> senator santorum has gone further recently saying about the obama administration, quote, they want higher energy prices. they want to push their radical agenda on the public, and gingrich put a petition on his website called drill here, drill now, pay less. suggestion being that the white house is anti-drilling. that's the suggestion. it's not just the candidates. john boehner held a closed door strategy session with republican members. according to the "new york times," this is a debate we want to have. keeping them honest, there are a whole lot of facts, or problems for blaming the president for prices at the pump. prices nearly doubled under obama, put a key reason why prices were so low when he took office, the recession. people drove less, flew less, bought fewer products that needed shipping, so demand for oil and gas plummeting and prices were low. as for the suggestion he opposes domestic drilling for gas and oil, it's not so clear. business week, crunching numbers from the u.s. energy information agency reports that domestic oil production is at its highest level in eight years. however, some of the production was approved before mr. obama took office. oil imports are down as well. critics, including the american petroleum institute claims the administration is slow in granting new drilling leases and permits. experts we have spoken to say there's not much this president or any president can do to affect gasoline prices. price of gasoline depends on the price of crude which demands on global demand. and it spikes up when rogue nations like iran make noise. just yesterday, president obama tried to call out his critics. >> there are no silver bullets short-term when it comes to gas prices. anyone who says otherwise isn't telling the truth. anybody who tells you we can drill our way out of the problem doesn't know what they're talking about. >> well, that may or may not be, but just in case we're only keeping republicans honest t didn't keep senator obama from campaigning against prices when he was running for president. >> john mccain is part of the problem. they support a drilling plan that won't produce a drop of oil for seven years. mccain will give more tax breaks to big oil. he's voted with bush 95% of the time. barack obama will make energy unless an urgent priority. >> well, now, in fairness, mr. obama's plan for energy differs sharply from the current gop talking points, but it's based on the shaky assumption that policy makes a difference at the pump, and he wasn't the first to do what republican candidates are doing now. 2006, democrats blame bush for higher gas prices. so is this just a case of what is gas for the goose is gas for the gander? joining us, rich galen who is associated with the pickens plan. which focuses on america's energy issues and hillary rosen. apologize for the pun there. you say the price of gas is absolutely a winning issue for republicans. you thing it's a winning issue for republicans? >> winning issue for republicans because there happens to be a democrat in the white house. if the situation were reversed, it would be a winning issue for the democrats. to protect the president in this regard, every president 6 richard nixon at least has said, elect me and we'll have energy unless. first, we're not going to have energy unless because two of three biggest oil traders are mexico and canada. and we want to keep trading with them on oil. but the other side of this thing is that it -- there is no reason for, in terms of demand, for oil prices to be spiking to $109. it's all in the lead up to this, geopolitical. you have nigeria, iran, all of these places where traders are saying, i need to protect myself, moving forward, and they're bidding the prices up. but there's no demand reason for this. >> hillary, it is kind of hypocritical for the president to be pushing back on republicans for using the same kind of reterate he used when he was running for president against bush. >> i looked at the ad, and it would be hypocritical if that was what he said, but he said republicans are in kohouts with big oil, but oil companies don't give consumers the benefit of drops prices and that's because republicans are funded by big oil, when you look at a plan like mitt romney's it doesn't take on oil because he's funding -- his super pac is founded by the coke brothers, who run big oil. but let's talk about what actually the president can do -- >> the reason, hillary, that republicans say, gasoline prices have risen so far, is because they dropped so far. oil went down to $35 a barrel at the beginning of the recession. >> right. >> and the oil companies brought that up. the price is what the price is. >> and what i'm saying is when the prices wnt down, when the prices go down, consumers can get the benefit, but oil companies -- >> and they did. >> and they're getting profits and nobody is dealing with the fact that they're making the record profits as the prices go up. they're not paying it all up. wait, let's go back to the things that politicians do have control over, if we all agree that presidents can control the price at the pump. what president obama has done is he said we're going to depend less on the pump. so he doubled the fuel efficiency standards for cars. and got everybody together, the automakers and consumers -- >> that's not going to change anything today? >> it does. it changes demand. >> here is -- >> i let you talk, let me talk. >> let's -- let's not talk over each other. both, let's stop on the topic. i want to switch gears for a moment. i wanted to show this event that mitt romney held in michigan. it was attended by about 1,200 people in a football stadium. they moved it to the stadium because the other venue was too small, but there was about 65,000 seats in the stadium, most of them were empty, was this a big mistake because this was an important speech he was meant to make, and a lot of folks, just a sound of it, it sounded like he was talking to no one out there. >> of course, there's got to be something between 700 seats which is where the detroit economic club has its venue and 65,000 seats. somewhere in the city of detroit, there was something in the middle, but i think -- i was watching this on -- i was following this on twitter all day, and you would have thought listening to the national reporters, this was the biggest mistake in the history of american politics. it's not good optics, not a favorable thing, but i think once people listen to what romney said, in terms of what he is proposing moving forward, that if anybody cares about it, i'm not sure how many people do, but if they listened to what he said instead of worriedabout how many empty seats they were, they would be favorably disposed. >> the other thing that a lot of reporters focused on and i don't know if this is fair or not, that he mentioned his wife drives a couple of cadillacs. that's the other thing a lot of reporters are talking about. is that just the media looking for something to attack this guy on? >> that's a little out of touch, i have a couple cars here, my wife has a couple cars here. in california we have a couple cadillacs. it's that kind of tone deafness that has followed him along the trail where he doesn't realize that most people only have one car. and when he talks about, i get to have cars from every one of the detroit automakers, i think that makes people cringe a little bit in terms of the sense that he's out of touch, and he probably doesn't really care about the price of gas because he's filling all of those cars with gas. one quick point on fuel prices, which is this focus on getting away from oil, alternative energy, whether it's natural gas, whether it's solar, whether it's wind. you know, the republicans have simply not invested in this, and that is because the oil companies have held them hostage in congress, and so that there's just not the investment to get us away from being so dependent on the up and down gas prices. >> rich, i want you to be able to respond. >> that is correct, that we should have other alternative methods of powering our vehicles, and one of those is natural gas. i think the president has spoken of that, and i'm for that, and especially in heavy duty trucks, that would make a huge difference. i absolutely agree that we have to look to alternative fuel. >> rich galen, rillary rosen, appreciate it. >> we end in agreementd. >> a tragic suicide. clementi, his roommate is on trial for invasion of privacy among other charges. we'll tell you what happenedige the emotional first day in court. also later, no end to the deadly protested in afghanistan over nato troops burning korans at a military base. we'll have the latest. up close tonight, the trial has started in new jersey involving the tragic suicide of tyler clementi who jumped off a bridge just days after his roommate allegedly used a web cam to spy on his encounter with another man. the roommate went on trial today, facing 15 counts, including invasion of privacy. now, at the heart of the case is whether ravi's alleged actions constitute a hate crime, bullying motivated by prejudice against gay people. last year, he turned down a plea deal that would have allowed him to avoid any jail time at all. >> former rutgers university student arrived at a new jersey courthouse, ready to hear both sides argue whether his actions led to the death of his roommate. he used a computer web cam to show him having an intimate encounter with another man. days later, clemente jumped off a bridge. the jury heard vastly different views of the case. the defense said his actions were childish but not worthy of a conviction. >> just because we do some