set to try the cases are selling faction. how they believe the obama administration may be working to keep these cases out of gitmo. all new, all live "happening now." and good morning to you i'm jon scott. jenna: i'm jenna lee. we're so glad you are with us. we are here in the fox newsroom. happening right now we have a fox news alert out of libya. the u.s. navy releasing grand new video of the punishing nighttime assaults on qaddafi forces. they are using b.-2 stealth bombers, jet fighters and tom hawk missiles. jon: qaddhafi's forces come under fire across the count three. the security council set to hold a closed-door meeting on the situation in libya a few hours from now. jenna: in the rebel capitol of benghazi qaddafi tanks were blasted. the libyan leader is not about to give up and vowing a long war ahead. rick leventhal is live from benghazi. is there still fighting there. >> reporter: not here. as far as we can tell the front line has moved to the south again, to the town of average a. they were sending their own team to search for qaddhafi troops. there is a presence of the qaddhafi military surrounding the town, not sure if there is fighting within the city limits. the rebels are clear to push toward the western part of the country because of the fact that nato air strikes over the weekend took out a bunch of qaddhafi tanks and heavy armored vehicles that were just south of benghazi that pushed in here over the weekend. jenna: we have talked so much about benghazi and rightfully so. there has been so much action around that city in the past couple of weeks. what is the situation like now? >> reporter: saturday morning we were here, and there were tank shells, qaddhafi army tank shells landing 200 yards there the front door here. because of the violence a lot of people left. this is a city of one million people, many thousands have fled out of the city. a lot of them have not come back. the streets are quiet, the stores are closed. we went to the courthouse, that was empty. we looked for an official representative ever the resistance. they say their goal is to push on tripoli. we went to a hospital in benghazi, spoke with a doctor and saw a lot of wounded fighters in the intensive care unit. the doctor told us there were hundreds of people wounded in the fighting and at least 95 killed in that fighting. jenna: so much more to the developing story. rick leventhal in libya, thanks. jon: president obama is getting criticism from both sides of the aisle. u.s. command african spokesman is saying that ten to 12 more missiles were fired overnight. some members of congress are outraged they were not consulted before the air strikes began. our chief political correspondent carl cameron is live from washington with details. congress is beginning to grumble about not being consulted what happens now, carl. >> reporter: we heard a lot of the leaders say they were content with the president moving forward as forth of the u.s. coalition just to protect the no-fly zone. lawmakers are starting to worry about mission creep. they want a clear definition of what the u.s.'s role and mission will be. jack reed of rhode island who is a member of the armed services committee says going forward the president will need to to more with congress. >> this president should advice us. i think he will notify us, that gives us the opportunity to review what he's done. like lindsey if there is a proposal coming before the congress then i would have no difficulty in supporting the actions to date. >> reporter: senator reid was talking about republican lindsey graham of south carolina who said he didn't think the president would consult congress or would need to to keep the no-fly zone. then came word from john boehner and he made it very clear that republicans are going to want the president to consult with congress. in a statement he said among other things, quote, before any further military commitments are made the administration must do a better job of communicating to the american people and to congress about our mission in libya and how it will be achieved. that was then complimented by the chairman of the house armed services committee who said, quote, going forward the president must inform the american people who what extent million tear row force will be used and for how long. are our goals aimed at protect the civilians in libya or pre moving gadhafi from now. to what extent and how long will military sources be utilized it's clear that lawmakers are going to insist on greater engagement in the development of the policy toward libya. they are on vacation, unless they were to be called back for an emergency session. and no one is talking about doing that. jon: thanks, carl. jenna: fox news alert out of japan, two u.s. navy ships moved out of japan due to concerns about radiation. workers at the crippled fukushima plant facing new challenges today, plumes of smoke rising from the damaged reactors forcing some workers to evacuate. the latest set back coming after engineers reported some progress in cooling the reactors and restoring power to some of the cooling systems. on top of that new concerns about the safety of food in japan. the government stopping all shipments of spinach from areas around the nuclear plants. also milk shipments also banned from nearby farms. the restrictions coming after health officials say radiation levels exceeded government safety limits, jon. jon: the grim search for victims of the disaster goes on. the scope of the tragedy climbs higher as rescue crews sift through the rubble. right now the death toll is above 8400, almost 13,000 people remain missing. amid all of the tragedy there are moments of joy. rescuers are still pulling some survivors from the wreckage. they found a teenager and his 80-year-old grandmother inside their flattened two story home. the grandson was found standing on top of their collapsed house. crews had to use special equipment to rescue the grandmother who was trapped inside. the rest of their neighborhood absolutely ruined. jenna: let's get the latest from global radio news joining us on the phone from tokyo why it is early tuesday morning. so much made of what's happening at the nuclear plant. can you give us an idea of what the status at the reactors is right now? >> reporter: it's a little bit concerning again. the japanese government, the authorities here thought they had things under control. there has been some major breakthroughs in the last couple of days that really were giving us a flicker of hope that this crisis might be at an end. we do have smoke coming out of one of the reactors. the government isn't quite sure what the problem is and they are doing more work on it. they are hoping things will calm down again. they are not quite sure what is causing this. which must of course be ringing alarm bells. jenna: as far as a feeling in tokyo and the rest of japan about reports of radiation being found in food in other areas, what is the reaction so far from the public? >> reporter: the public are very concerned. when it gets into the food supply chain like this. in the water and milk, and staples like as you mentioned spinach, that is causing a great deal of concern. shops are already running out of the basics and the necessities and it will be harder for people to find the food that they now need to put on their tables to feed their families. i think that countries around the region, the chinese, taiwanese and south koreans have expressed concern about the food of radioactive particles reaching their people. it's another problem, another side to the crisis here. jenna: so much to continue to watch with this story. thank you so much. global news radio. jon: lots of breaking news overseas today. we are also watching a very dangerous situation in colorado, a raging wildfire there. scorching more than 700 acres just west of golden, on the west side of denver. concerns that this fire could spread. jenna: also, massive protests engulfing. violence in the cities of syria, bahrain, iraq. what it means for us here in the united states as well. we are getting new developments by the moment. greg jarrett has what you can find on foxnews.com. >> reporter: that's true this is the place to be, foxnews.com. this is a picture of a protester ever the cairo meeting of the arab league. should u.s. forces in libya be under another country's command? look at that, 78% say no. even in a coalition american forces should always be under american command. 16% says yes, we don't always need to be leading the chargement this is the place to be. we have folks on the ground. check it out, foxnews.com. we'll be right back. 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who do you turn the country over? to me the most concerning, what precedent is this setting we have never before in the united states gone to war overseas to protect somebody else's citizens. we've gone to war to rescue ours, in self-defense, preemptively in self-defense. why not syria, bahrain, yemen. stphaot argument that susan rice and others were making to the president apparently is that you could have another rwanda genocide on your hands in libya if you don't do something. >> that is absolutely right. you're right to point that out. they were concerned what the world would see is genocide on a mass scale of all the tribes that were against qaddhafi and all the rebels and their families, but it does set up a precedent. now i'm not saying that we should or shouldn't be doing this i'm just concerned of the precedent and also the lack of the clearly defined goal. is it to get qaddhafi, is it not? jon: to echo your thoughts the government in bahrain is accused of having killed its own citizen, bahrain a friendly country towards the united states. does that mean we would go to war in bahrain. >> i don't know, that's the problem this is all very fuzzy to me. what is the goal? we don't know what the goal is. do we have a strategic interest in libya no we don't. that is french, british and italian oil. do we worry about refugees? no that is a european concern. our concern is the flow of ale. if we get bogged down in afghanistan, iraq and libya we won't have much left if there is a problem in bahrain, in saudi arabia. jon: indications are that the obama administration expects that we will continue these cruise missile attacks in the early enforcement of the no-fly zone and then hand it off to quatar. >> the arab league says they were in favor of this. they have not shown up. the rest of the arab league has said we didn't think it was going to be this bad, and qaddhafi is a using that to say this is an invasion of the crusaders coming back to the middle east to kill libyan -- jon: they said go ahead and do it and they said, oh, that looks bad. >> the yes is what happens to qaddafi. brad gates says we will not. jon: you fear we may be in a briar patch. >> bad place to be. jon: thank you. jenna. jenna: international fire power enforcing that no-fly zone over libya we were just talking about. how does that really work? 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[ male announcer ] so don't blame it on aging. talk to your doctor and go to isitlowt.com to find out more. jon: fox news alert breaking news out of colorado a dangerous wildfire burning more than 500 acres in the foothills west of golden, on the west side of denver. it is threatening to spread right now. fire warnings posted as very strong and gusty spring winds kick up these flames. we'll have more on this colorado wildfire in the next hour of "happening now." take a look as well at how weather conditions will affect the battle to try to get it put out. >> we will continue to support the coalition, be a member of the coalition, we will have a military role in the coalition, but we will not have the preeminent role. jenna: if we don't have the preeminent role then who does? that was defense secretary robert gates talk being about the no-fly zone in libya. navy captain chuck nash helped enforce a no-fly zone in iraq. how do we answer that question, if we are not the ones in front who is. >> we have to find somebody to get in that chair. iit sounds like from the president on down it sounds like someone, tba is going to take over. nato is the only organization that could be reasonably expected to continue to run something like this with any credibility says they don't want the job. so you've got european countries that are used to spending one, maybe 2% of their gdp on defense, and now they've got even themselves and us involved in something that unless qaddhafi winds up pushing up daisies? the short term, this could be expensive, and long term and use assets that these countries don't have. jenna: how would you define success for us. >> at this point that's a great question, jenna, qaddhafi being dead would be a great way to start, whether we target him or whether his own people take him out, that would be a great way to start. what we've just done is we've kicked open a can not kicked it down the road, we've kicked it open and there are worms in that can because we have no idea what follows this. the law of unintended consequences is playing out loud and clearly right now. jenna: as far as the arab league involvement over the last several days it's been luke warm at best, and it seemed that the united states is waiting for the arab league's support to get into yet another conflict with a muslim country. i'm seeing a report from reuters do not want this placed under nato control, that is according to the french foreign minister speaking at a news conference. what would you make of that news alert. >> if we are waiting for the arab league to do anything we will be waiting a very longtime. it is a league, yes, does it show any leadership? no. it's made up of countries that they don't ge get along with eah other on the best of days, to expect them to speak as a unified voice that means anything for the arab peoples is really kind of silly. it's political top cover, we are just using it as an excuse i think on the political side. on the military side, we've got folks who are doing the very best job they can trying to execute the guidance they've been given. so on the military side things are going very well up until this point, but the political cacaphony that is on top of them i don't know how these guys are keeping their sanity at this point. jenna: captain nash what is the probability that we get stuck then, stuck meaning that we end up having to leave this operation, an operation that we why yet to define success for. you pointed out that means qaddhafi is dead and gone but that leaves so many other questions beyond that point. what is the probability the u.s. gets stuck somehow in libya? >> well, if you notice the conversation at the top realms of our national leadership is that we're going to turn this over. that means there is somebody on the other side willing to accept it. if there is no one on the other side willing to accept it, we're it. and so we are bringing some of the most critically needed aspects of this operation,