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forces may have intervened. the prime minister is now on his way to his office. obviously this underscores how weak the libyan central government there is inside tripoli, has very little control over the security situation. you re dealing with militias heavily armed back from the revolution and still have not been brought under control of the government itself. also remember this comes just a few days after an american delta force raid snatched an al qaeda operative off the streets of tripoli. whether that had anything to do with it, perhaps there was anger over that, possibly libyan cooperation over that raid. we still don t know. obviously the prime minister is going to be heading back to work probably not too happy this afternoon about how his morning went. steve: that s an understatement. thank you very much. he s been kidnapped and he s been released. brian: the problem is you have no standing army and it leaked out over the weekend that he gave the green light to allow our
plane was headed to tokyo from san sand yea when one of its anti-icing systems failed, the other had an electrical glitch that left six toilets unusable. these are just the latest issues plaguing the airliner, the entire fleet had to be grounded earlier this year after battery problems. jenna: right now, libya s prime minister making his first television appearance after he was kidnapped, snatched from a tripoli hotel where he s living at gunpoint in the early morning hours. government officials say they may know the motive. leland vittert is live from our jerusalem bureau with more. what exactly happened here? reporter: jenna, it kind of sounds like a story out of the wild west. early this morning gunmen broke into this luxury hotel where the prime minister keeps his residence, beat up his bodyguards, took him at gunpoint. a couple of hours later another militia broke into the house where he was being held inside tripoli and stormed the area
troubling new assessment. they re expecting the storm surge from irene to flood the area, which includes the ground zero construction site, with anywhere from 6 to 12 feet of water. and other low-lying neighborhoods under mandatory evacuation orders. the city transit system will shut down at noon tomorrow. all five local airports also in danger of flooding. they re being closed, arriving flights, starting at noon. this is what they re concerned of. pictures of irene hitting the bahamas. new yorkers are used to seeing this on tv, not up close, though. they might see a version of it about 36 hours from now. all day today irene was making its way north. as it did, emergency plans started kicking in. warnings went up. people stocked up or hunkered down or they took off. in a moment we ll check in with anderson and our entire team for irene. first, chad myers and the late bulletin from the national hurricane center. chad, what s the latest? not much change in the forecast and no
sure chaos doesn t ensue or try to prevent it, we ll have to find a way to not get through a spyglass. i understand we don t want to be occupying another country but at this point, i think we re the only ones that know how to do this. right. you know, i think i would rather have the libyan guards have control of them rather than the rebels because you don t know who the rebels are. right. the libyans have trouble loading a gun. i don t know if they know how to get rid of mustard gas. we have dominique who is joining us live from across the border from libya in tunisia with the very latest. good day to you. good morning to you. yes, we are now hearing from the national transition counsel that they are trying to negotiate with pro qaddafi supporters in his hometown to see whether they will surrender. that s what their main focus is on today with regard to activity outside of tripoli. however, rebel commanders inside tripoli are saying the battle for capital is by no means over. i