hour, extensive live coverage of the fight for libya. and the hunt for the man who held an iron grip on the country for decades, will gadhafi and his inner circle be brought to justice? president obama is warning the fight for libya is not over yet. cnn is using its global resources to cover the latest gasps of a brutal regime and deadly civil war. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. libyan rebels say their real moment of victory won t come until moammar gadhafi is captured. we re following breaking news out of libya. the state department in washington says opposition fighters are believed to control about 90% of the capital, tripoli, and they say they have three of gadhafi s sons in custody, but moammar gadhafi remains at large. the u.s. government says it believes he s still in libya. libya s national transitional council says he may have fled to neighboring chad or algeria. president obama is cal
green square is right on the coast there. gadhafi s compound, a few miles away has taken a pounding from nato air strikes. today is the scene of ferocious gun battles. for now it s still in the regime control. and as for the libyan dictator, he may still inbound hiding or on the run, but three of his sons are in custody. and that included the man on the left, and he is wanted for crimes against humanity, just like his father. and then rebels also captured this woman, a well-known anchor on state tv, and witnesses say she is unharmed and state tv has gone dark. and then sara sidner has spenlt the day on the streets in the capital. what is happening there now? reporter: i wanted to go back to what you talked about, the last bit you talked about, the woman who was a news anchor on tv. everybody knew her and she worked for libya state tv. we were there just after she had been detained. they said that she was detained with her brother. it was peaceful. we wanted to see her to se
the risk is real. take the next step. call today. i m martin bashir. coming up at the top of the hour, a stash of porn found in osama bin laden s compound. the sordid details of the ensign affair, and some men who chase ghosts for a living. i guess it must be friday the 13th. and we have breaking in us to report out of libya right now. libya state tv has aired an audio statement by moammar gadhafi. in the statement gadhafi says he s alive after nato attacks and has the support of millions of libyans. he also says he s living in a place where, quote, you can t reach me to kill me. again, there were conflicting reports from an italian official who said that gadhafi had been injured and had fled tripoli and now we re just getting this audio statement in for moammar
he will open up the weapons depos to his people so that they can fight. gadhafi also called on other islamic neighs to stanld by him. when he was speaking, it was on libya state tv soon after the allied attacks began. translator: libya will try to defend itself according to section i of the united nations charter that all targets maritime targets will be exposed to real danger, whether the mediterranean and north africa. because of this aggression naked aggression and irresponsible aggression, it s a war zone. moammar gadhafi. let s look at the countries leading the effort. france s jets are currently enforcing this no-fly zone.
stage that it s not likely to pull in a lot of popular sentiment, depending on how long the air strikes go on and how deep they hit the people and the territory of libya. alex? jim, in terms of casualties, jim, libya state tv now says 64 people were killed in the allied attacks, 150 injured. any way to verify this? reporter: no. at this point, there is obviously no way to verify that. those are figures that we re getting from state television. and of course, on state tv, there were long clips with individuals who looked wounded, saying that they were close to the strikes, that there were a number of civilians who had been wounded. so, it s really the regime trying to get the message out to the west that already there is going to be the backlash, there is a lot of collateral damage, but there s absolutely no way to independently verify any of those reports, alex. okay.