them. my apologies. we don t have ed. we ll go to david piper who is in libya now, and who has been following these events. david, the president s line about the libyan people, calling on them to secure their dangerous weapons which is a piece of this story americans care a lot about. reporter: yes. that s a very important part of this story. when i first arrived here about six weeks ago i went to a munitions dump, mines and mortars and shells. a few days later that was empty. people are trying to secure these weapons. but in particular those surface-to-air missiles are a major concern as they get into the terrorist hand they could take down commercial jets. but the libyan people are trying to if you are democracy. the transitional council said once sirte falls, they will now
into the 10 months old disappearance. what prompted the national guard s involvement now? honestly what prompted this is a lack of any other leads. police it tell us they haven t made any breakthroughs on the case. they re trying to get fresh eyes on this investigation. take a look here, as you mentioned 25 national guardsmen deployed here to research this area a few blocks away from the home. these are especially trained mps, and they ve been trained in it. joining fbi and local law enforcement here to just try to bring a fresh set of eyes, go through everything, make sure they haven t missed anything. here s what the national guard told us about their search. with the additional man power, they re able to research or search the area with like a fine tooth comb. they re able to get down in the grass, dig in the dirt, try to find any glues that helps. they re low crawling under bushes and vines. and here s exactly what they re talking about. take a look at this thicket.
wednesday october 12th. american officials are outraged and say iran will pay. this texas used car salesman is the unlikely suspect in an alleged assassination plot backed by iran. the u.s. claims that mons orr arbab arbabsiar was going to kill the ambassador of the united states. saying ar baubs yea wanted to blow up a restaurant killing the diplomat and potentially many americans right along with him. officials gathered in washington and gathered the diplomatic corps at the state department to ensure them they are safe. the obama administration is also deciding how to respond to iran. it s an outrage that violated one of the fundamental premises of which nations deal and that is the sanctity and safety of their diplomats. this is really over the top. they have to be held accountable. the u.s. linking the alleged plot to the elite quds force that is part of iran s revolutionary gad, but it is far from clear if quds was acting on its own or from top iranian leaders. iran
they ve already taken the convention center. this was another qaddafi stronghold. that was left just in rubble after nato s strikes and artillery attacks there. the hospital now has also been taken and revolutionary fighters have been going through there arresting any suspected pro qaddafi fighters there. the university also was taken overnight. we believe that one of these revolutionary fighters got in a tank and smashed a major wall down to allow these forces to get in. we don t know if he s survived that incident. nato planes have been seen in the air today but there have been no reports of any strikes. there s reports of civilians being caught up in the fighting. revolutionary command says most of them have managed to get out, escape but that a few may still remain. also this time, libya s national transitional council says once sirte falls, they can declare
another straw poll victory. the president the republican presidential candidate finished first at the conservative values voter summit this weekend winning 37% of the straw poll vote. herman cain came in second with 23% and rick santorum finished third with 16%. herman cain said the bad economy is having a greater impact on african-americans but the gop candidate says racism is not the reason why. i don t believe racism in this country today holds anybody back in a big way. is there some are there some elements of racism? yes. it gets back to if we don t grow this economy, that is a ripple effect for every economic level and because blacks are more disproportionately unemployed they get hit the worse when economic policies don t work. that s where it starts. grow this economy and it s going to help everybody to get jobs and get back into the work force. cain and his rival republican candidate hold a debate at dar mouth college in new hampshire on tuesday. the voices