gleefully overran his compound in tripoli. since taking tripoli, rebels consolidated gains. took control of basically every city and every region in libbo except for gadhafi s hometown of sirte. today sirte fell to the rebels. reportedly while fleeing sirte, moammar gadhafi was killed. i want to show some of what we know happened today. fair warning here, some of these images are a little bit graphic. we will not show them for very long. these images show gadhafi apparently wounded. maybe still alive. but captured in the back of some vehicle. you can see gadhafi raising his arm here, see, as he is being pushed around. people around him taking pictures with him. you can here gunfire, presumably celebratory gunfire, though we don t know, in the background. other footage, obviously chaotic. showing gadhafi s ded body on the ground. after a lot of conflicting
it is a thursday, adrienne mong just arriving in miss ral at a via car. we were able to get contact with her again. adrienne you were discussing you were on a rooftop and hearing gunfire. yes, we were hearing gunfire, celebratory gunfire as well as a lot of cars honking and prayers just took place for the end of the day, the sun is setting and a remarkable sight as we were driving back into the city. huge numbers of women and children, a sight i haven t seen yet in libya, certainly not recently out on the streets just cheering in great evidence jubilation. as you are watching this jubilation, is there wide concern about safety? is this a very quiet i shouldn t say quiet, a safe celebration? yes, it seems very much to be a safe celebration.
police and sheriff s officials in ohio after the owner of a preserve, game preserve, killed himself and let them loose on the town. the one monkey they couldn t find, police say the t cheetah, ate that monkey. authorities defending the decision to take those animals down. saying it was us or them. ja jason carol. reporter: so many questions this morning. why terry thompson the man that owned all the animals, why he opened the cages and set those animals free. knowing that many of them would most likely be killed. this is a manna by all accounts loved these animals. that s one of the major questions that investigators will be looking at this morning. in all, 49 animals killed. the pictures really tell the whole story. we see those pictures of those animals, wild exotic animals, killed out here. sheriff s deputies telling me they were sickened to have to do what they did to put the animals down but simply felt as though they had no choice. the story actually started to unfo
even get back to it. it s moving probably 8, 10 miles an hour across the ground. so, you know, god help us. that s all. that s all we can do right now. [ sirens ] a whole different story in the east. remnants of tropical storm lee sweeping through the area. the storm left one person dead in mississippi, knocking out power to thousands all across the south. stocks deep in the red. the dow fell more than 250 points just after the opening bell. right now still hanging down. new concerns about europe s debt cries and the global economy weighing on investors. u.s. stocks plunged friday after a disappointing report showed no growth in jobs in august. two convoys of libyans allegedly loyal to gadhafi have fled to niger. a source says six high-ranking libyan officials were in one of those convoys. still no sign of gadhafi themselves. nato officials say it s to keep the libyan people safe an not to target the regime leaders. it s the first dahl day of the new job for general pet
also, infighting within the tea party movement, and a congressman s explosive charges that elements of the movement would like to see him hanging from a tree. and we ll take you inside the archives of moammar gadhafi s brutal regime and uncover secrets that massacre victims took to their graves. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. there is little to celebrate this labor day weekend here in the united states for millions of americans who want to be working, but simply can t find a job. and there s no comfort for them in the government s latest labor report, which shows the economy basically added no jobs in august, leaving the unemployment rate unchanged at a dismal 9.1%. it all puts even more pressure on president obama as he gets ready to unveil his highly anticipated jobs plan later this coming week. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is joining us now with details of