phone call. an nfl player is fined by the league, but when you hear who he called, you might think it was well worth it. welcome to this cnn saturday morning for october 22nd. 6:00 a.m. in atlanta, georgia. 5:00 a.m. in fayetteville, arkansas. 4:00 a.m. salt lake city. u.s. troops will be home for the holidays and the war in iraq will be over. that s the promise made by president obama who said troops are coming home by the end of the year. chris lawrence has more on what this move really means for the future of u.s. involvement in iraq. reporter: there are some important reasons why the president had to make this announcement but there are real risks with the announcement as well. some 30,000 troops are still spread out across bases in iraq and they have ten weeks to get out. today i can say our troops in iraq will definitely be home for the holidays. reporter: the u.s. military is running up to 400 transportation convoys a week and has moved out 1.5 million pieces
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we ll talk exclusively to the man that could take over and what it means for libya, the u.s., and the world. and it s also going to send a powerful message around not only the arab world but frankly to dictators everywhere about the dangers of hanging on for too long. this is a special edition of piers morgan tonight. you re looking at dramatic video at the end of moammar gadhafi s life. the content is graphic. [ speaking foreign language] as you can see, it s been an extraordinary and dramatic day in libya. here s what we know. the day begins with a bloody battle. rebels finally hit the dictator s hometown of sirte. moammar gadhafi makes a run for it in a convoy and is reportedly spotted by a u.s. drone and it s fed to french air force jets. they spotted him in a ditch on the side of the road. he crawls into a drain pipe, his last desperate hiding place. they spray paint the entrance, gadhafi was here, they write. they take his golden gun as a momento. there are conf
our list. you tie for number one on my list. how about poppy harlow with kiss. that s our era! it s the top of the hour. 9:00 on the east coast and after 42 years, libyans awaken this morning to a new beginning free of a murderous tyrant. an ambassador for libya s transitional government says the death of gadhafi means a black era has come to an end forever and across the country, libyans celebrate under to the morni in hours firing off guns and blasting off car horns. dna tests confirm the corpse was, indeed, gadhafi and the international criminal court is allowing his burial in an unmarked grave. tomorrow libya s liberation will be formally declared and the transition to democracy and a new government will officially begin. cnn crews are in place around the world for all of you from the pentagon to tripoli from abu dhabi to london. we are tracking every single development surrounding the death of moammar gadhafi. let s begin with ivan watson. two major challenges here.
news. mission over, but hardly mission accomplished in iraq. so today i can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in iraq will come home by the end of the year. now president bush began the war in march 2003 with a dose of what the pentagon called shock and awe. in announcing its end, president obama used the term success, not victory, and said it was time america focused less on wars overseas and more on economic problems here at home. i would note that the end of war in iraq reflects the larger transition. the tide of war is receding. there is no doubt public opinion is on the president s side. nearly 7 in 10 americans oppose the war in iraq. but a number of conservatives, including the leading republican candidates for president tonight say, president obama is weakening america and emboldening iran. the former massachusetts governor, mitt romney, said the unavoidable question is whether this decision is the result of a naked political calculation or simp