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Gadhafi orders security forces to sabotage oil fields
Oil jumped 6% Tuesday, at one point spiking to $98/barrel, due to concerns over spreading turmoil in oil-producing Middle Eastern and African nations.
New reports say Col. Gadhafi is ordering security forces to sabotage oil fields throughout the country, a move that could potentially affect the global oil market.
Though Libya only produces 2% of the world's oil, the growing unrest in the North African nation sparked concern over what might happen if the political turmoil were to spread. American Morning's Kiran Chetry talks to James Burkhard, Managing Director at Cambridge Energy Research Associates, about oil and international politics.
Rubin: International community must make Gadhafi stop mass murder
Moammar Gadhafi vowed to die a martyr for his country and refused calls to step down, in a speech Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Gadhafi continues to lose control over eastern Libya as well as the support of some members of the Libyan government and military.The Libyan leader insisted agents of foreign intelligence services were to blame for the wide-spread unrest and vowed to kill protesters. Former Assistant Secretary of State James Rubin talks to T.J. Holmes about Libya's future and and says the international community has to figure out how to exert more pressure on Gadhafi.
Friend remembers couple killed at sea, says they knew the danger
Negotiations between Somali pirates and the U.S. Navy ended brutally Tuesday in the shooting deaths of four Americans.
The Americans–Jean and Scott Adam, Phyllis Macay and Robert A. Riggle– were taken hostage by Somali pirates Friday as they sailed in notoriously dangerous waters off the coast of Oman. The Adams were fulfilling their dream of embarking on a missionary sailing trip around the world and were accompanied by crew-members Macay and Riggle.
Naval forces were trailing the pirates' ship, when pirates fired a rocket propelled grenade at the U.S. cruiser. Then, seeing gunfire where the hostages were being held, the Navy entered the cabin on the pirates' ship where they found the Americans shot dead.
Clayton Schmit was a close friend of the Adams and talks to American Morning's Kiran Chetry.
Repetitive impact, not the big hit, of great concern
Dave Duerson, a former Chicago Bears safety, was found dead Thursday in Florida at the age of 50.
His death was ruled a suicide due to a gun-shot to the chest, according to the New York Times. Duerson's brain was left intact and, therefore, able to be examined for a brain injury called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a wish he expressed to his family in text messages. Dr. Keith Black, M.D. is the Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and talks to T.J. Holmes about Duerson's death and CTE.
Wis. Dems not coming home, Walker’s worker cuts ‘nothing but a threat’
Democratic State Senators from Wisconsin remain out of town today, as they continue to put-off voting on controversial bill proposed by Gov. Scott Walker.
If passed, the bill would take away union workers' collective-bargaining rights and would require that they contribute more to their pensions and benefits packages. Republican State Senators are returning to work today and the Gov. Scott is urging Democrats to do the same. State Senators Glenn Grothman (R) and Jon Erpenbach (D) talk to T.J. Holmes about what's next for the Wisconsin state legislature.
New bill in Texas House seeks to allow guns on campus
Members of the Texas State House are hoping to pass a new law that would require colleges and universities to allow students over the age of 21 to carry concealed handguns on campus.
Proponents of the bill including Jeff Wentworth (R) argue concealed weapons are the best way to combat a Virgina Tech copy-cat shooting in Texas. Meanwhile, opponents like Eddie Rodriguez (D) say colleges and universities should be able to choose on an individual basis whether or not to embrace such a policy. Reps. Wentworth and Rodriguez talk to American Morning's Kiran Chetry.
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