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Space will be on one of these. one booster ignition and liftoff of the rocket. shepard: voice of translater. russian space craft blasting off an hour ago from the first pad where sent 50 years ago this week. six month stay. one american on board. veteran ron gerron. he is the only one of three who has already within to space. the youngest victim in the tucson shooting spree was 9 years old. now a special honor for christina taylor green. a statue made of art facts from 9/11. it s the latest in our rise of freedom series and it s coming up. plus, big developments in libya. conor powell on the ground in brega, explaining why the rebels are once again on the march. in talking to the local commanders here, one of the big ....
Now, to step down. he made these remarks yesterday, less than 24 hours after the white house kind of side-stepped this topic. so, what do you make of the turn-around on this, and the hard turn-around on this, especially timingwise? sure. well, you know, the white house has said their greatest concern really was getting those americans that were in libya safely out of the country, and i think the majority of americans that have been accounted for certainly have been. they did not want to get us into a hostage situation, which you know, sitting on the other side of that now, i think that was the right decision. now that those americans are safe and also, let s note that now that he knows, the president knows he s got support from other leaders i mean, the united states can t just go in and handle this alone. now we ve got the united nations on board, now we ve got some of our other nato allies on board, so they can take a look at much more strident actions. the president is meeti ....
From libya, and i m told there s only one american on board. the number 90 has been used in the last couple days, 90 americans in libya who still want to go out. there are about 3,000 other libyan americans who have asked to be evacuated, but there appears on to be just a few left. the british said they would help evacuate americans still left there. behind me, of course, there s tens of thousands of other people trying to get out of libya, too. this boat behind me, for instance, this is an italian cruise ship that arrived here in the dock in malta about three hours ago. on board, there s 2,000 evacuees, people picked up from libya escaping the violence, five nationalities on board. i was told south koreans, brazilians, portuguese, and then the chap i was talking to didn t know the other nationalities, but 2,000 people. they ll be taken off the cruise liner and put on buses and taken to the airport. just further down the port, there s nod cruise liner that brought in 2,000 chinese from ....