continues to bomb gadhafi s forces and weaken them. stephanie gosk in libya. thank you. daddy s partner, randy, came to the door, and he always told mommy if something happened, they would not call, but they would bring somebody to the door in person. when she saw them, she freaked out, because she knew it was a bad sign. the children of 9/11, and the special follows a year in the lifef of the children directly impacted by the terror attacks. i will talk to one woman who lost her dad on that day. plus, it was known as the arlington oak, and the tree that stood beside jfk s gravesite for decades could not stand the wrath of hurricane irene, and detate d more details ahead. time for the your business entrepreneurs of the week. this couple build playgrounds in north carolina, but hit hard by the recession, they let the employees go and moved into a
fine. then after north carolina, irene could hit new york and new england late this weekend. keep watching for latest turns in the hurricane s track. right now, a firefight is under way outside a cluster of buildings in tripoli. libyan rebels believe they have moammar gadhafi pinned down. they believe he is hiding in apartments in his compound. rebels have put $1.5 million bounty on gadhafi. he is wanted by the international criminal court for alleged war crimes. moammar gadhafi s son, wants a cease-fire to stop the bloodshed in tripoli. saadi contacted nic robertson by e-mail. reporter: he said he wants to negotiate a cease-fire. he doesn t want it to be syria. he wants help in the negotiations. he says he has reached out to washington and reached out to nato. he wants help in doing this. rebels claim they captured three of gadhafi s sons this week, including saadi. but saadi s status is not clear. the number of americans filing first time jobless claims is up agai
where is the colonel right now? fighting near tripoli s airport is leading to speculation he may try to flee, but where would he go? perhaps south america. nicaraguan president daniel or tago says he d consider giving kaz if i asylum and at the start of the rebellion there was speculation he might jet off to venezuela, perhaps spend his retirement with president hugo chavez, but libya s no-fly zone presents a problem. any flight leaving libya requires nato permission and gadhafi certainly won t get it. what about some place nearby? just look at gadhafi all smiles with his middle eastern counterparts. egypt s mubarak to his left and tunisia s ben ali to his far right. oh, yes, but they are both gone from power now, aren t they? indeed, gadhafi has no friends left among his neighbors. after all, it was the arab league that called for nato s intervention. that leaves zimbabwe s robert mugabe known for his contempt for the hague criminal court that has issued an arrest
expect they will slash health benefits once federal insurance exchanges begin in 2014, and gold is down $100 an ounce. that s it from cnbc, first in business worldwide. martin? the future of libya is up for grabs after the fall of moammar gadhafi. while gadhafi loyalists continue to fight the world looks on and wonders if libya will become the next incubator of democracy in the region or if it will become the latest breeding ground for anti-americanism. evan coleman joins us. evan, just a short time ago, libya s intelligence chief quit and declared his allegiance to the rebels, so which way does libya turn after gadhafi now? i wish we knew for sure. i mean, it looks to me that the government will be a pro-western government. certainly looks like one that will be amenable to work with nato and the united nations, but it s very hard to tell. i mean, right after saddam hussein was overthrown in
their own future as the political tide really changed in tripoli and it got very tense at times. we really wanted to leave. there was heavy fighting around the hotel. we were worried about a confrontation at the hotel as they made their way to tripoli. just because the compound surrounding it really wound up being one of the very last places that gadhafi controlled. missy ryan with the reuters news agency, thanks for joining us this afternoon or evening and do stay safe as you enjoy your new found freedom. thank you. and now to the latest on the hurricane. right now the east coast is preparing for what may prove to be the biggest hurricane threat in years, perhaps even decades. hurricane irene is expected to make landfall this weekend. let s get right to weather channel meteorologist and hurricane expert bryan norcross,