if they don t restore order quickly, you may have, you know, acts of chaotic behavior and vandalism, maybe looting. so far we have not seen, heard any reports, credible reports of mass looting or mass killing or anything. but definitely unless you restore order quickly this could be a possibility in the next few days and weeks. we have reports that fighting is sill going on. that there is still snipers, progadhafi loyalists who are firing off shots elsewhere at the advancing rebels. so it s not as though the fighting is completely over. it s just that they ve taken over the compound. we ve seen the black smoke rising from this compound for more than an hour now. so it looks like it is still burning. and the rebels are going in saying this is for the libyan people. are the libyan people as a whole behind this? most revolutions throughout history are not waged by
the court understands that there are others with different views on this. but they could not deem this to be a credible case. one reason the court decided that no special prosecutor would be handed over to this so quickly was for possible appeal process. he s going to stay the execution of this order until appellate division can decide on that. but formal charges against dsk have been dropped. it does not mean that there will not be a civil lawsuit against the former imf chief. we also have news from libya. black smoke has been billowing from the gadhafi compound. according to al jazeera they are claiming that the rebels say they have control of this compound. we re going to have much more on msnbc. my colleague contessa brewer takes over for the next hour. so here s five bucks
about 7:00 time in libya. richard, we hope you recharge that cell phone battery. that s a live reports from nbc news as well with richard engel on the ground inside gadhafi s compound where hundreds of rebels and now civilians have entered the gates of the libyan leaders compound. as we have reported have broken into the armory. they have taken some of the assault rifles there and have gone room to room looking for the libyan leader. they expected that he was holed up inside this compound. but so far no reports that rebels have found him. they say their intention is to turn him over to the international criminal court. the pentagon is telling us they believe that gadhafi is still within libya and in fact, a prominent russian says that he spoke with gadhafi who said he s still in tripoli alive and well and planning to fight to the end. andrea mitchell reports takes over from here. good day. here we are in washington with
there are gardens. terror reck asian areas, many of these buildings are completely destroyed. we actually are looking at live pictures from inside the compound. and it s hard to tell who may be rebel forces and who may just be curiosity seekers. are you seeing that, richard, where you have people who are civilians coming in wanting to see what s there? mostly we re seeing looters. we re not seeing families, we re seeing men in their 20s and 30s and 40s carry things. leaving the compound. there will be some curiosity seekers perhaps tomorrow when families come. this tends to attract people and everyone s going to want to come here and take their picture inside this compound that has been such a forbidden city for them for so long. no, this is not cower i don t sayity seekers so much.
compound. it is not exactly square. it spreads out for several miles in that direction. there is thick, black smoke coming from the center area of the compound. we ve been hearing quite a bit of explosions. we re hearing what sounds like anti-aircraft guns being fired directly into the compound. if i step out of the frame and you widen out a little bit, if you see to the left, there is an area of smoke. that is a high building, and the rebels are using that high building, there was just an explosion right there, to fire on to the gadhafi compound. the rebel post is also on fire, but that building you re seeing to the left of the frame is not quite in the compound. it s just outside of it. if we pan a little bit more to the center, you see where there s a new plume of smoke rising. that s right in the center of the compound. that is where that famous statue is of the fist holding the