who is streaming live to us from libya. reporter: it s sunset in north africa and we are hearing that the streets are quiet in tripoli. people are rather concerned that 95% of the city is now controlled by rebels there is a feel there could be a war brewing. there are remnants of loyalists of moammar qaddafi in the city holding positions, there are still tanks about and there s on going battles from street to street. many neighborhoods have fallen to the rebels all the same the loyalists seem to be entrenched and continue fighting to the very last. they have littled munitions after one of the key arsenals outside the city fell to the rebels yesterday, the weapons took advantage and that s what help them speed them into the city and over take it. nato still has air patrols in the skies. there haven t been any bombing raids today so far. there were 40 such raids
good morning. well, yes, qaddafi s forces still trying to cling on to the last ditch effort but yes, they have about 5% of the city which means it s very much over for the regime. apparently, coming out of the compound which has been the main strong hold of qaddafi throughout throughout this revolution, they came bursting out with tanks. they came out with pickup trucks, apparently firing wildly in any direction. no indication of where they ve gone but we are still hearing there were sharpshooters loyal to qaddafi around the city firing on some citizens. we are hearing from nato that they are saying qaddafi should now quit. it is over. they put a hold on the air strike, they re maintaining air patrols over the city but it appears the rebels have full control of the city now. where is qaddafi? that s the $70 billion question. why $70 billion? that s how much wealth his family amassed during the
that crashed after experiencing a mechanical failure. we re around an hour s drive east of benghazi. both crewmen ejected safely from the f-15. it took more than nine aircraft, a platoon of marines and a group of friendly libyan rebels to get them back into u.s. hands. by week s end the u.s. role in air patrols had been handed off to allies. some 75% of the combat air patrol missions in support of the no-fly zone are now executed by partners. on sunday that figure was less than 10%. but it continues to perform refueling and surveillance and still conducts the majority of targeted strikes at gadhafi s ammo, tanks and troops. at least 12 nations are in the fight. gadhafi s air force all but destroyed. the fighting on the ground continues. gadhafi himself still defiant. chris lawrence, cnn, washington.
key areas, as we ve mentioned is around zintan, misrata, and ajdabiya it s those areas where we re working to go after the c-2 architecture that s around there, the logistics, ammo depots to put pressure on the forces inside the city itself, but we are not striking inside the city. at mirl one of your charts was a layout of where they re flying from before they go to their air patrols or to strike targets. can you talk us through what a typical sortie has looked like, how long your aircraft are spending, how much time are they taking? and what kind of wear and tear is on the airpower? let s go for slide 3, please. the aircraft are launching from many bases around europe
we saved essentially, a million people from slaughter or being send sent off to other countries and it ended up with democracy in serbia and that worked out pretty well but it won t always be like that and america does have a limitations and i think we should be aware of that. but i don t think we should say we can t the something in one place because we aren t going to do it everywhere. i think we have the look at the situation, look at a number ofw hard it is? in other words, we need to measure the ability to make a huge difference commence rat with our interests. so in this case we re conducting air patrols having conducted, you know, the tomahawk strikes now other countries are going to be taking the lead. and happened so far it s been a