broker a ceasefire. meantime, a bombshell in the business world to tell you about. steve jobs steps aside as apple s ceo. we ll hear who s in line to replace the long-time leader. and hurricane irene batters the dominican republic, is over the bahamas and is heading towards the united states. full coverage of all these stories is straight ahead. captions by vitac battles, bounty and an offer to broker a ceasefire. we begin this hour with developments from libya. fighting continues to rage in the capital as rebels take on pockets of resistance. gunfire can be heard in the streets. clearly intense scenes playing out there. among the hot spots, the tripoli airport which has seen some of the most intense fighting. rebels are in control there, but they re now fighting gadhafi loyalists just east of it. one thing we re not seeing, any sign of this man, muammar gadhafi. but a benghazi businessman is hoping to change that. he s offered a $2.5 million bounty. and now one
i m carol costello. the eastern seaboard bracing themselves for the worst of irene on this american morning. good morning, everyone. it is it s wednesday, wowp halfway through the week. august 24th. welcome to american morning. feels like it s halfway through the week. he had like a hundred years of news in two days. we started off yesterday with what was going on in libya, these hurricane preparations, and then an earthquake. right. did you feel it? christine and i were together working. i thought it was a little vertigo. i said, is that the subway? and we were with somebody who said the lights are swaying. yeah. this ligds grid was swaying. i did not feel it. i was in a shoe store buying shoes. you thought that s what it was. my husband is in baltimore, he really felt it. he e-mails me and says, get out of wherever you are. i m thinking, how does he know i m buying shoes. hopefully, gladly there are more stories of that sort. only something like
fighting to the finish. the war wages on in parts of tripoli where gadhafi loyalists continue to hold out. hello. i m here at the cnn center. welcome to our viewers in the united states and right around the world of our special coverage of the crisis in libya. rebels say he was in their custody. but just hours ago, saif islam, the son of moammar gadhafi spoke outside a hotel in tripoli and his message was clear. the government remains in control of the libyan capital. translator: there have led through the sea and through other means gangs of people who are sabotaging and you could see the people of libya are standing and had to have broken the spine of those rats and gangsters, just today we ll go to the hot spots of tripoli, in tripoli, and we ll reassure the people that things are fine in libya. now, saif gadhafi says his father remains in tripoli despite speculation that he may have fled the country. still, there s been no sign of the long-time libyan leader. 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
i m wolf blitzer. we are watching breaking news, history unfolding in libya. we are following breaking news. we will be in the hours ahead as developments continue. it is early monday morning there in libya. moammar gadhafi is under siege from rebel forces. the rebels say they have two of moammar gadhafi s sons captured. we have pictures of saif. the international criminal court at the hague has an arrest warrant for him. now we are told in the heart of tripoli s green square which they have renamed martyr s square. we heard moments ago that some of them are pushing back with word that gadhafi forces may be going to reenter that part of the city. the government has been saying 1,300 people have been killed over the past 12 hours. our people on the ground have seen no evidence of that though. one of our reporters with the rebels say there are no signs of pro government forces on the streets of tripoli at the moment. our colleague matthew chance is holed up in a hotel in