what you hear, shouts of god is great while others say, quote the blood of the martyrs will not be in vain. the camera tilts down, you see it there the head of gadhafi. wounds on his face, including a gunshot wound in the forehead. officials of the nur lew libyan government said he died of shotgun wounds to the head. suggests he deserves some credit for gadhafi s demise. our brave pilots have flown in libya s skies. our sailors provided support off libya s shores. and our leadership at nato has helped guide our coalition. without putting a single u.s. service member on the ground, we achieved our objectives, and our nato mission will soon come to an end. i m john king in washington. we d like to welcome viewers not only here in the united states but around the world. we consider the fallout of the breaking news, death of moammar gadhafi. there are many important unanswered questions tonight, including just how did gadhafi die. did his ruthless son saif die with him? the
outright confusion. these are live pictures near moammar gadhafi s compound. there have been heavy battles raging around this building. carloads of people have been streaming out of the libyan capital. we want to bring in retired general james spider marks. if you could, tell us about what you are watching, what you are seeing. what do you make of the pictures? with the low level flying that is taking place, bombing gadhafi s compound? suzanne, what you see is obviously a representation of chaos and confusion on the ground. the fact that civilians are fleeing, coming out of tripoli should not be surprising. the rebels are about to force gadhafi s complete departure in some way. that may take hours, that may take days. we still could be a week or so away. but that type of confusion, of what happens next gets folks very, very nervous. they ve got the opportunity now to get out of town, and you re going to see them get out of town and let this thing settle out. i think you l
tripoli. will leader moammar gadhafi flee or stay and fight? a man in new mexico rescues a little girl who is about to be kidnapped. being called a hero, but now he could be deported. take a look in the back of that pickup truck. yes, it s a stroller and there s a baby inside. find out what happened next. but first, let s get to libya and the situation their right now. libyan officials are denying that moammar gadhafi and his family are looking to leave tripoli. that as leaders are closing in on the strong hold. one spoke to our sarah seidner. reporter: how long do you think before you are able to push into tripoli? hopefully in a couple of days. reporter: a couple of days? you think it will be that soon? i think so. we are controlling 80%. now if gadhafi is not leaving, he could be planning a last stand in tripoli. our matthew chance is in the libyan city right now. matthew, gadhafi has been in power for 42 years. is it possible he could leave? reporter: i
lot of followers and doesn t appear that the regime is collapsing but there might be a couple of cracks, wolf. fred, thanks very much. we re also learning a lot more now about what is going on in misrata. the correspondent for the sunday times of london is joining us on the phone. she s been in misrata for a week. what are you seeing there because we understand there s a very brutal situation in misrata. what are you seeing? well, wolf, it s changed dramatical for the worse. within the last 24 hours especially. what we ve been seeing up until now is fierce fighting between the rebels and gadhafi army and militia. along tripoli street, which was a nice boulevard right through the middle of the port, town. and building by building, that finally finished. a very bloody finish last night. the gadhafi forces were holding
u.s. should be committed to this military intervention, and again, he believes that the obama administration should do more. brooke. those are great questions that you tried to press him on and his interesting choice to send them to the hague to the international court. and let me ask you, because we may be seeing more american flags there in libya, but the thing was turned over to nato and we said, we will help you, but this is your deal, and the question is do the rebels that you spoke with believe they can topple gadhafi, themselves, without more active u.s. involvement, and reza keeping in mind that the u.s. has now promised $25 million in aid and now from secretary gates we are hearing that we will be sending in armed drones. yeah, brooke. i think that beyond what the oppositions and the rebels are saying, all you have to do is to look at the facts on the battlefield, and it is clear that at this point the rebel forces don t have the kancapabiy and the capacity to take on a pr