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(Washignton: Nancy Cordes) The changing racial and ethnic makeup of the US population featured; statistics on Hispanics and African Americans and the population loss in Detroit cited; map of Hispanic growth shown; details given about the migration of the black population from north to south. [Vival Markets founder Joe REYNA†- recalls what he noticed about Hispanics.] [National Assn. Of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Arturo VARGAS†- says the story of the 2010 Census is the rise of the Latino South.] [Brookings Institution William FREY†- says the younger blacks don’t remember the bad stuff that went on in the South.] [Buford, Georgia resident Tristaca ANDERSON†- comments on moving from Detroit.] The growth of the Asian population noted. The political power of Hispanics discussed.
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(White House: Chip Reid) The transfer of the Operation Odyssey Dawn mission from the US to NATO featured.
(Studio: Katie Couric) Report introduced.
(Tripoli: Mark Phillips) Libya’s desperation amid the assault by the coalition featured; details given about the downing of a Libyan war plane by France and Libyan leader Muammar el-Kadhafi’s campaign against the rebels in Misrata; scenes shown of a burning military facility, injured people, a mass funeral, coffins in Tripoli’s martyrs' cemetery. [At funeral, Imam Khaled TANTOOSH†- says they are killing our children and women.]
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(Tokyo: Bill Whitaker) The radiation fears and ongoing efforts to control the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant featured; details given of continued worry about the safety of tap water for infants despite the government’s declaration that it is safe; scenes shown of Tokyo’s regional governor drinking a glass of water, people getting bottled water, smoke rising from the reactors, an ambulance carrying 2 workers with radioactive burns.
(Studio: Katie Couric) An order for safety reviews at nuclear plants in the US noted.
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(Arlington, Virginia: Bob Orr) The incident at Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC, where an air traffic controller was asleep on the job, reviewed; radio transmissions played; animation shown; details given about the controller’s account of what happened. [FAA administrator Randy BABBITT†- says we have an investigation.]
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(Pentagon: David Martin) Questions about how the conflict in Libya might end examined; details given about the operation by allied aircraft to stop the Libyan army from killing civilians, whether Libyan leader Muammar el-Kadhafi can survive, and the rebels. [Washington Institute for Near East Policy Jeffrey WHITE†, retired Army Maj. Gen. James “Spider” MARKS†- comment on air strikes on tanks.] [Former Assistant Secretary of State David MACK†- says the no-fly zone will not have a quick ending.] [Council on Foreign Relations Max BOOT†- comments on Kadhafi.] [Council on Foreign Relations Ray TAKEYH†- notes we know little about the opposition.]
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(Dallas: Mark Strassmann) Dallas Cowboys football player Bradie James’s Foundation 56 breast cancer outreach program that he started to honor his mother, Etta James, who died of the disease, featured; scenes shown of the mobile mammogram bus. [Mammogram patient Tammy GARRETT††- comments on the free screening.] [JAMES – talks about his mother.] [Breast cancer survivor Cecelia STEPHENS††- says she’d be dead without the program.]
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