determine their own destiny in a new and democratic libya. no details from the president as to exactly how gadhafi died. there are clearly many, many questions about that. i want you to take a look at that. this footage shot today in gadhafi s home town. sirte. it appears to show gadhafi in custody and still alive up against that truck. it is jumpy, hard to follow. we do see this man purportedly gadhafi, in this semi upright position. clearly under duress. quite possibly mortally wounded. the most detailed account we have thus far at cnn. detailed but unconfirmed, is that he was wound asked captured in his home town of sirte. that his captors were determined to put him in a car, drive him to misrata. there are hospitals there. and that gadhafi died in transport. and cautioned, a lot of questions here as this story comes down. dan rivers live for us now in the libyan capital of tripoli as night has fallen there. 9:00 your time. we ve been talking about your covering the batt
another straw poll victory. the president the republican presidential candidate finished first at the conservative values voter summit this weekend winning 37% of the straw poll vote. herman cain came in second with 23% and rick santorum finished third with 16%. herman cain said the bad economy is having a greater impact on african-americans but the gop candidate says racism is not the reason why. i don t believe racism in this country today holds anybody back in a big way. is there some are there some elements of racism? yes. it gets back to if we don t grow this economy, that is a ripple effect for every economic level and because blacks are more disproportionately unemployed they get hit the worse when economic policies don t work. that s where it starts. grow this economy and it s going to help everybody to get jobs and get back into the work force. cain and his rival republican candidate hold a debate at dar mouth college in new hampshire on tuesday. the voices
the rest of the unit joins in, shooting wildly. they come under fire. [ gun fire ] an ambulance is hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. they and we are caught in the open. a pot shot. something in the distance. fightered opened up and there was some return fire. cnn producer was hit. i ve been shot. down, down. down. go, go, go! get down! right side. go to the right side of everything. go, go! that s it. good. other way. we start to check his injury. looks like there is a piece of shrapnel inside. you can feel it? i could feel it. when he was moving around, i could feel it inside. reporter: at a nearby field hospital, medics help ian. while dealing with their own grief. a colleague of these men was killed in the same attack just meters away from where the rpg, we think, hit the ambulance that was near us. what was his name? and how old was he? about 27, 28. reporter: tell me about him. about 9:00 he wake up me in my bed and we he came to tus and he s like
safe havens left. one is sirte, the hometown of gadhafi. the second is this the south. sirte has been given that extension to for the loyalists to give up. it is looking likely that could happen without a single extra deposit of blood being . the elders mulling over the terms that the rebels have given them. basically, unless they give up, indeed it is going to be one of the fiercest battles we will have seen. they believe gadhafi himself could be either in sirte or the other town. when it comes to the crunch and they move in, we ll know for sure. dominic, thank you. well, at this hour, president obama heading to new jersey. he has just landed in new jersey. take this evening mitt romney is making his tea party day because headlining an event in new hampshire.
and rebels are fighting for control of their country, and they are issuing an ultimatum saying that gadhafi forces have four days to surrender, and they are behind gadhafi s hometown of sirte, they say they will go on the offensive if they don t standdown. stephanie gosk joins us, because, what can you tell us about this offensive, because nobody knows where gadhafi is. no, they don t know. and in is the end of the ramadan period, and when this period is over, that these forces still loyal to gadhafi face an attack. two places. one is sirte, gadhafi s hometown, east of here, and then southeast of here, the city walo be shown the support that