jobs. good evening. we begin tonight with a u.s. exclusive, moammar gadhafi. the flamboyant and brutal dictator at the center of the firestorm in libya. today our christiane amanpour became the only american reporter to sit with gadhafi. he refused to acknowledge libyan protesters. he laughed at demands that he step down, even as anti-government forces rage across his country. so let's go right away to christiane in tripoli. good evening, christiane. you sat right across from a man the whole world is wondering what he'll do next. what did you hear? >> reporter: well, diane, i see he was relaxed and focused determined to tell his side of the story. on the other hand, he remains incapable of realizing there is an uprising against him. colonel gadhafi emerged from the first of a convoy of cars, greeting us at a beachfront restaurant as the sun set over the mediterranean. in his trademark flowing robes and gold rimmed aviator shades he looked every inch the flamboyant character he's known to be. how are you? good to meet you. i'm christiane amanpour. abc. gadhafi is not hiding in some underground bunker. he walked right in through the front doors and he wants people to know that he's still in tripoli. i sat down along with two british journalists for his first interview since the uprising began here 11 days ago. >> translator: obviously this is the first time i'm meeting the press these days. >> reporter: though he spoke mostly in arabic at times he broke into excited english. >> no demonstration at all in the city, no, no one against us, against me for what? because i am not president. they love me, all my people with me. they love me all. >> reporter: if they do love you -- >> they will die to protect me, my people. >> reporter: if you say they do love you, then why are they capturing benghazi and -- >> it is al qaeda. it is al qaeda, not my people. it is al qaeda. al qaeda, al qaeda, yes. >> reporter: rerefused to accept there are protesters in the country at all. despite the fact that the opposition is now in control of most of the east coast of libya. colonel gadhafi, the president of the united states, the leaders of britain and other leaders, are calling on you to step down to leave libya to leave your position of power. will you do that? >> translator: who would leave his homeland? why do i leave my homeland? why do i leave libya? >> reporter: they say that they've done it because you have ordered force against your people, shooting of protesters. >> translator: this is lie, 100%. >> reporter: the international community is concerned about stockpiles of mustard gas or other kind of chemical weapons. would you ever use those? >> translator: haven't we solved the wmd programs? we got rid of all that. this is a thing of the past and we have already finished this. is it reasonable that any sensible man would use such a weapon against even his own enemy? let alone his own people. >> reporter: now, at the end we asked him about relations with the united states. he had been brought in after giving up his wmd program and say he did feel betrayed by the united states but said about president obama he thought he was a good man and over the years he had spoken to the u.n. and elsewhere about obama's policies and appreciated him ending the war in iraq. that's what he said about the president of the united states. diane? >> christiane, tell me more about what you felt from him sitting in the room with him, was it denial about the protesters? is someone giving him the opposite information? >> reporter: we asked over and over again, and he again and again said this was al qaeda. this was just militants. when i talked to him about benghazi, the second biggest town in the hands of the opposition, he said, no, that's not true. it's just chaos and, again, he said it was al qaeda. he again said that the demonstrations, only those doing that are on hallucinogenic drugs. >> it was a strange and riveting interview. christiane amanpour reporting from tripoli tonight. when the protesters in benghazi heard what gadhafi told christiane they were stunned and outraged telling our alex marquardt in eastern libya that gadhafi is a liar and crazy. and the white house also reacted quickly and strongly. let's hear about that from jake tapper there tonight. >> reporter: good evening, diane. i read some of the quotes from christiane's interview with colonel gadhafi to the u.s. ambassador to the united nations, dr. susan rice and she said, first of all, it sounds just, frankly, delusional, and she pointed to the part of the interview where he laughed and said how he can laugh when slaughtering his own people underscores how unfit he is to lead and how disconnected he is to reality and noting the treasury's department's announcement freezing $30 billion in his assets, she said they have no resources to seize. they've led a clean and uncorrupt life, sarcastically, of course. >> any action plan yet from the white house? >> reporter: yes, in fact, two naval ships are repositioning, one to the red sea, the other into the mediterranean, and there is more talk of a no hi-f zone being imposed but the questions of the nitty-gritty of that. who would be in charge, the u.s., u.n., nato and would you shoot down the planes in libyan planes took off? >> jake tapper reporting from the white house tonight. there is new evidence that the tension in libya and across the middle east is hitting americans hard's pump. gas prices soared 19 cents over one week, the past week, hitting $3.38 a gallon. the second biggest weekly jump on record. second only to the spike right after hurricane katrina. and now bernie madoff, the man who perpetrated that $20 billion ponzi scheme has spoken on tape from the federal prison in north carolina where he was sentenced to 150 years for what he did to so many lives. our chief investigative correspondent brian ross has been on this case from the very start and tells us the new things madoff is saying. >> reporter: madoff's phone calls from prison sound like a kind of psychotherapy session. >> i mean, you know, i destroyed our family. >> reporter: he called a reporter from "new york" magazine steve fishman who taped the calls and plans to release more excerpts all week. >> i think that the reason that he wanted to talk with -- was in some ways to unburn himself in our conversation. >> reporter: the calls started after the suicide of madoff's son mark on the two-year anniversary of madoff's arrest. >> i cried and cried. i have tears in my eyes when i am talking to you about certain things and not a day goes by that i don't suffer. i may sound okay on the phone. trust me, i'm not okay, i never will be. >> reporter: madoff's former secretary says he seems to show no remorse. >> i didn't hear that, you know, mark is gone because of me. and i ruined people's lives. >> reporter: in fact, madoff actually blames his victims for expecting big returns to always be there. >> i made a lot of money for them. >> reporter: which he says made it impossible to stop the ponzi scheme. >> i tried to return funds to my friends, i tried to return moneys to the smaller clients and so on. they wouldn't take it back. the abuse i got from people, it was a nightmare. >> reporter: madoff seems to have forgotten the thousands of n nonmillionaires who lost their life savings, forced to sell their homes because of his fraud. >> bernie is in denial at some level. bernie doesn't understand that he's ruined people's lives. >> reporter: madoff also told the magazine that other than his fellow inmates and prison psychologists only his wife ruth understands him. >> she feels sorry for me to a certain extent, you know, because she realizes i'm not a horrible person. >> reporter: he calls collect because he only has $100 a month from the prison commissary. >> but he's not a horrible person. >> that's his story. >> thank you. weather in february ending with a battery of storms across the country, thunderstorms, tornadoes causing problems from the deep south through the northeast and matt gutman is tracking the turbulence. >> reporter: a battering ram of storms pounded more than half the country unleashing flash floods and tornado. a tornado killed a man in tennessee tossing his trailer on top of him. this twister touched down in oklahoma, golf ball-size hail came with it. other tornadoes slammed kentucky where just north of louisville, a twister flattened these three homes and flung this truck atop the debris. >> i just thank the lord i'm here because where i was sleeping, everything was -- fell all around me. >> reporter: in ohio the gates-mill dam broke triggering a flash flood that swamped the town. rescuers barely got to this man before the water swallowed his car and flooding near pittsburgh and dangerous wind and rain lashed indiana where thousands were left without power. only minor injuries have been reported, but most dangerously, these tornadoes are rain shrouded, invisible to the naked eye. >> when you get them shrouded by rain it's difficult to see the funnel cloud or tornado from a long distance away, so as a result, it's obstructed, and people can't prepare as much. >> reporter: and meteorologists predict the worst is yet to come in georgia and the carolinas where more tornadoes could touch down tonight. matt gutman, abc news, atlanta. and still ahead on "world news," creating american jobs. an all-american family thinks they buy a lot in the u.s. do they? 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our "made in america" challenge about to begin. have you thought what's made in america and what's not in your house? >> not until now. >> reporter: john is an advertising executive and she's a stay-at-home mom and said of course we buy american. what would happen when we start to pick things up. >> made in china. >> the cross? >> made in honduras. >> reporter: made in thailand. have you ever flipped it over? >> never. >> reporter: i see the kids' staff. what could be more american than that money on the monopoly board? >> the dice and tokens made in china. >> reporter: not american and the coffee table. >> the coffee table is made in india assembled by me. >> right here in the den. >> reporter: made in india, assembled here in the house. doesn't count. >> no. >> reporter: that was just the living room. looking what's on the plate and not underneath it. here's the test. the table is made in thailand. and the chairs? yes, yes. >> reporter: a fork -- >> this one is from korea. >> china. >> reporter: the plate from japan. anything in america made on this table. >> does not appear to be. >> reporter: even the children's rooms. what about your texas hat? 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