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also, the average price of gas. it crept a little higher as you slept but oil prices seemed to have leveled off. it s fat tuesday. let the good times roll in new orleans. also some powerful storms rolling in as well. sorry to be the bearer of bad news. mardi gras partiers might need to take the celebration inside. this morning, let s begin in libya, though. and what could be the beginning of the end for moammar gadhafi as the bloody clashes enter their fourth week. rebel leaders say he is trying to strike a deal to step down but gadhafi s government is scoffing at the claims and no one is underestimating the dictator or the ruthless cunning that has kept him in power for 41 years. let s get the latest, cnn s nic robertson is joining us. let s move on to ben wedeman. we are having some troubles over there in libya. but as we said, for more for more than four decades, gadhafi s shrewd and merciless tactics maintained a grip on his country and his opponents are not about
possibly trying to get safe passage out of the country saying he ll leave, but wants immunity. arwa damon joins us now on the phone with details of this from the center of the resistance, benghazi. this doesn t seem to mesh with his rhetoric over the past days and weeks. is this real? reporter: well, t.j., that really is what everyone here is trying to figure out at this stage. now, what we know from some of the opposition leadership is that they re saying that via intermediaries, they received an offer stating that colonel gadhafi would convene his people s congress, step aside, wants guarantees of safe passage for his family and guarantees he wouldn t be prosecuted. they re saying in return, he would have to first come out and publicly state he was no longer the leader of libya, a sustained cease-fire, and would also have to publicly acknowledge the authority and legitimacy of this newly formed national council. however, we did just hear from our nic robertson in tripoli