from the ground? reporter: no. they are following the news reports reich everybody else. not only at pentagon, but at nato because they don t have boots and eyes on the ground. they have to gend in large part on what they re hearing indirectly through the rebel sources that report back to their leadership in benghazi. and the media reports. there are reporters actually with the rebels inside the compound there. if in fact, the rebels have taken control over that entire compound, that could deal a serious blow to the command and control efforts of the libyan military because that pretty much was the center of the libyan military. but pentagon officials are quick to caution that even if that compound has fallen there are still elements of the gadhafi military, progadhafi forces not only in and around tripoli, but outside of tripoli that are still conducting offensive military operations. so, the fight was is not over yet. the key question that i know you re going to ask, contessa,