cain for leaking the story is speaking out. plus, lawmakers documents of the bankrupt solar energy company that got a half a billion dollar loan from the obama administration. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com while herman cain scrambles to try to get in front of the growing controversy, he s raking in lots of campaign contributions. cain s campaign now tells cnn they ve raised an astonishing $1.2 million since sunday evening when news of the accusations first broke. meantime, cain may face new embarrassment and more pressure if one of his accusers is allowed to come forward with a statement. brian todd has been reporting. what are you learning today? going to get to that in a moment, but what we may hear, there are indications that cain s alleged behavior may have cost the national restaurant association up to $80,000. politico reports one of the woman received a payout of about $45,000 as part of her settlement. earlier this week,
arabic networks saying he is walking around in tripoli and calls rebel forces criminals and traitors and rats. more and more the rebels do believe he is still in or near tripoli. in fact, they think two days of fierce fighting near the airport could be pretty significant. we are covering every angle of this story with multiple correspondents on the ground. sara sidner is in tripoli central square and we have arwa damon and frederik pleitgen and zain verjee. let s get to arwa damon right near the airport on the latest on the clashes. there were grad rockets fired at the airport complex earlier today. the fighting around here has been quite intense. and the rebel commander who led the assault on the airport believes that that fighting is directly linked to the whereabouts of colonel gadhafi himself. translator: the clashes are fierce because i think a route for gaffy to escape to other places. traffic all day and breaking people in the sunset and we spotted a convoy. possib