of the transitional council this morning who says, yes, yes, it will be buried in a private ceremony in an undisclosed location. in the meantime, we spoke to some of the fighters from the unit that found gadhafi. they re having a quiet celebration here in misrata. they re basically already looking to the future. construction workers hope to find jobs to get back to their normal lives. back to you, alex. aid reason among on the scene. we have brand new information on missing baby lisa irwin up ahead. how the search has become more visible. get ready to pay more at a fast food giant. why one is considering raising prices. get ready to do angry bird watching next week. okay. we ll explain right here on weekends with alex witt. [ female announcer ] removing facial hair can be irritating.
today at 2:00 p.m. eastern on ms nbc. for americans with family members in iraq, the news is sinking in their loved ones will come home by the ended of this year. we have new reaction along with veterans about the plan announced by president obama. my colleague is joining me with more. good morning to you, mike. it s been a few days now. what s the reaction been like? good morning, alex. we sampled opinion and reaction coast to coast on this. from the carolinas and northwest and chicago in the middle. we hear a couple of things. americans have been weary about iraq for a long time. all the polls say that. we heard that again in the last couple of days. the second thing, no matter how people felt about the war, whether supported it or against it,the thinking right now is in terms of getting out and ending it completely that it s about time. across the country, they ve been waiting for this. the date certain by which although serving in iraq will be home for good. the war s veteran
freedom feels like. this what maybe i m wrong to see gadhafi is dead. that s my dream. victory for libyan people. so we re so happy here. now that gadhafi is gone, the national transitional council will draft a new constitution and getting ready for elections. we have developing disaster news to share with you out of eastern turkey. rescuers are scrambling to pull people out of several deadly building collapses caused by a powerful earthquake. the details from nbc s anna bell roberts following this from london. anna belle, where did this happen and how much damage is there? reporter: alex, it happened in the far eastern province in turkey up by the iranian border. the magnitude of the quake, the preliminary estimate is 7.2. now, that is pretty high. but, of course, as you know, what really matters is how densely populated the area is and how robust the construction is.
dow jones venture source says that is a 29% increase from a year ago. the surge is attributed to rick perry set to release details of the flat tax plan on tuesday which began touting on the campaign trail this past week. the plan is based on a similar blueprint pushed by billionaire steve forbes when he ran for office back in 96 and 2000. how much of forbes will we see around perry in the coming days? guess what? we re about to ask him that. joining us live is none other than steve forbes. a friend to our broadcast as well. gormg, steve. caller: good morning, alex. how are you? i m well. i hope you are. we know you re traveling. we re glad you took the time. you have advocated this idea of flat tax. you re fond of mr. perry s are you full out endorsing him or helping him out a bit. caller: i ve been helping out on the formulation of this plan and just about to lean towards
i don t think a nurse would do that without risking somebody s life and this is what happens. they die and now you re liable. yeah. let s talk about lindsay lohan because we love doing that. we got to move on to her because we have a judge ordering her to work 16 hours at a morgue for violating her probation. she got cuffed to do that. she posted bail. but she shows up to the morgue late on that first day. apparently, early the next to sort of make up for that. but there are a lot of people asking, after all of this drama since 2007, come on, how many times we talking about her. why is she not in jail? because california has a really serious overcrowding situation there. and let s be honest, alex, the time and money having her show up somewhere is expensive. it s costly. you have to have officers overtime. you got to barricade. is that what kind of message is that sending? were she not in l.a., would she be behind bars? well, now i can tell you as an attorney for many years,