reporter: good morning, alex. well, there are many challenges. there is, first of all, making sure they can restore security completely everywhere. there s still been rather thorough search through every house in sirte, the hometown of gadhafi where he was captured on thursday. they want to make sure they ve gone through and found every single last loyalist troop. there was a report earlier this morning in the los angeles times saying gadhafi are sequestered something stashed away something like $200 billion u.s. dollars around the world. of course, there have been rumors of concerns that this money is being used to keep loyalists troops strong, even though he s no longer here to lead them. i think the other issue, of course, is how do you start rebuilding some of the infrastructure. a lot of people we spoke to yesterday during the friday prayers on the square, freedom square in misrata, here said maybe the first priority was to make sure there was proper
nbc s ron mott there, thank you so much. a memorial service is about to get under way in st. petersburg, florida, for dan wheldon. wheldon died last sunday in a horrifying crash in las vegas. the two-time indy 500 crahamp w in the middle of a 15-car pile upwhen his car hit a wall and burst into flames. wheldon originally from england made his home in st. petersburg and the service is open to the public. there will be another service tomorrow in indianapolis. libya s national transitional council is expected to formally declare the country liberated tomorrow. that move will jumpstart the countdown for election and drafting of a new constitution to form an interim government. what lies ahead in the eight months before those elections are expected to begin? nbc s adrian long is live from misrata. good morning to you. let s talk about the uphill battle the next eight months bring before an election. how difficult are those challenges?
of gadhafi s body at last report it was somewhere in a meat locker where actually people were filing by to look at it? reporter: well, i don t know if you could say they were just filing by anymore. the body, gadhafi s body, is still in this commercial freezer. we saw it yesterday afternoon just as the day was coming to a close. there were very clearly thousands of people running through, filing at that time into this small room to see the body of a man they d once feared so much. we ve heard that the freezer was opened again today to the public. and from some of the scenes we ve seen, it looks like it s not just filing, it s people really crowded outside, wanting to get a look. we ve heard there are people coming from outside misrata, traveling all the way to see the body of this man. parents with their children, is how we ve had it described. all right, adrienne mong, thanks
outside misrata. so, nick, is it necessary to put boots on the ground to get real control of the situation? well, in misrata the rebels are surrounded, besieged by government forces. this has been going on for the last five or six weeks. the whole duration of the no-fly zone. we ve heard the nato commanders say that it s difficult to target government forces at misrata because it s an urban environment. that the tanks, we were here a weak ago, week and a half ago, tanks were hidden under trees. military vehicles hidden inside store fronts. to have made any enforcement of the nato the u.n. resolution to protect civilians, it makes it very, very difficult. but it s also very difficult military environment. gadhafi s forces far outnumber the rebels and have more equipment. yet they re not able to take over the city. so even boots on the ground here
would be struggling to make a decisive impact here. and the rebels have nowhere to fight to here. they re fighting to hold a piece of territory. they can t break out of this town and hook up with rebels elsewhere. the other rebels are 400 to 500 miles away. it s a difficult and intractable situation. nic robertson, reporting live from misrata, libya. thank you so much. pro basketballer allen iverson has a run-in with police while riding in his car. his very expensive car, with a friend. we ll tell you about his tirade with the cops, next. and we re expecting house speaker boehner any minute now. we re keeping a close eye on that.