Evening News Online, 02.23.12

February 23, 2012 4:46 PM

Thursday: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is heading to Tunisia for a major international conference with two aims, getting medicine and food into Syria and getting rid of Bashar al-Assad; Also, in a classified conference call led by the chief of counter-terrorism, the FBI makes it clear that it's seriously concerned about a possible attack by Iran on U.S. soil; And, Melvin Moran - a second generation oil man - makes his case that the controversial fracking method of extracting oil and gas may lead to energy independence for America in just a few years.

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