course. and a sense of overwhelming jubilation. that is one thing we ve been able to report with certainty is this feeling that they ve now arrived at a moment of history, and they can finally open up the next chapter. nbc s adrienne mong reporting as she travels from sirte to the rebel stronghold of misrata. thank you so much. thanks to the gentlemen on the panel. we re going to keep you around for a little while, if you don t mind. and just once again, to show you the video that we have coming in to us here at msnbc, the first images, you can see them for yourself. rebel leaders claiming that is the body of moammar gadhafi still waiting on u.s. confirmation. we re going to have much more right here on msnbc. i m robert shapiro. over a million people have discovered how easy it is to use legalzoom for important legal documents. so start your business, protect your family, launch your dreams. at legalzoom.com we put the law on your side. to bring you a low-priced medicare prescriptio
hometown of sirte in libya. what s the latest there, adrienne? reporter: good morning. we re outside sirte, making our way back to misrata, the rebel stronghold, rebel dominated city. still no complete confirmation apart from the prime minister s announcement that they have caught and killed gadhafi. we ve been talking to a number of militia men who have been making their way also from sirte to misrata, many of whom seem to have souvenirs already. there s a group right now just standing near us who claim to have a ring and a hat that belong to gadhafi. earlier, we saw a vehicle that reportedly carried the body of the united states who was wup of gadhafi s senior commanders. and there was also an ambulance that drove by and reportedly had the body of moammar gadhafi s son. so there is definitely a lot of evidence here on the ground to support the announcement, of
rebel commanders are saying with a unified voice that gadhafi is, in fact, dead. they have made an announcement speaking from the prime minister, in fact, in libya that moammar gadhafi is dead. how he died remains a 34is tri. one rebel commander involved in the operation has told nbc news the following sequence of events. he said that two rebel units this morning, one the tiger unit, the other called the al tharouk unit, were traveling through the southwest portion of the city of sirte. they came across a factory. it is a factory that makes animal feed. it is part of an industrial area in the southwest portion of sirte. they saw a group of vehicles parked in a building adjacent to this animal feed factory. they thought it was suspicious to have such a large number of vehicles in this industrial