so the opportunity zones will allow cities like detroit to qualify for additional exemptions relative to the first nine. right now in the first nine you can deduct purchases if you re a business. you can deduct capital expenditures and net exports. but for those cities that qualify as opportunity zones, you will also be able to deduct a certain amount of your payroll expenses. so you will be insented to put people to work. the other thing about the opportunity zone, is that it just doesn t apply to certain kinds of businesses located in the zone, all businesses would qualify for those kinds of extra exemptions. one of things i believe in is empowering cities to help themselves, empowering workers and individuals to help themselves. this is not an entitlement program. so the cities will have to step up and remove some of the barriers that are within their city limits. so that if the cities do what they can do to help themselves, we will have the 9-9-9 legislation so structured
statements from the department of state. we get this from nato, nato aircraft saying it hit two pro qaddafi forces military vehicles which were part of a larger group, maneuvering around the town of sirte. the armed vehicle, nato said, were conducting military operations, presented a clear threat to civilians, that from nato. whether that has anything to do about whether or not this was in the air where qaddafi was captured or found, we do not know. we will find out more from the pentagon, department of state, and the white house as we get it here on america s newsroom . breaking news out of tripoli. back in a moment after this.
it appears to be muammar qaddafi. in the town of sirte, moments after he was apprehended and shot dead. a bullet to both legs, a bullet to the head. this goes alongwith, what we refer to as a still picture that was released about 90 minutes ago. that s the image that we first talked about. now we have the video to back it up. al jazeera with that out moments ago. hillary clinton is on the road. she is just landing we understand in pakistan. wendell goler has been with her. wendell was with her two days ago when she was in tripoli. he continues his travels with the secretary of state. here is part of his interview as pertains to libya a moment ago. with respect, a source confirmed to fox that muammar qaddafi has been injured and captured in sirte. what does that mean for the libyan people?
of sirte, his hometown where he was born. martha: let s go to ed henry at the white house. what is the latest statement out of the white house on all of this? reporter: martha, they re not putting anything on the record yet. they want to be careful. they want to see the forensics. they want to make sure muammar qaddafi is dead before they get ahead of that. you understand why they would be cautious. the president is sitting down with some of his top national security advisers. 10:00 a.m. he has a daily briefing. he get s latest intelligence around the world and gets the threat. goes through the whole gamut. libya will a top topic of consideration for him to go through. we need to point out the president will be sitting down with the prime minister of norway in the oval office. that is significant. norway provided six f-16s to the nato mission in libya. they were part of that mission for four months. the president will be talking to reporters about 4:10 eastern time with the prime min
and not keep mounting the anti-aircraft guns on top of them. fighting phase has to go beyond libya. they ve captured gadhafi and taken the city of sirte, the last holdout city and they need to use this to move on, otherwise there is a danger that the fighting will just continue. buttimistic about libya. they managed to do this. they have friends. they have experts, libyans living who can help a lot. i think they have some hope. thank you so much, richard eng engel. thanks for everything. the vice president joe biden responding today to the apparent death of moammar gadhafi in libya. nato got it right. nato got it right. and guess what, libya, gadhafi, one way or another is gone, whether he s alive or dead, he s gone. the people of libya have gotten