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
we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. gunfire, honking horns, celebrations in cities across libya, marking the death of gadhafi. we re following all the breaking news this hour. the man who ruthlessly ruled the country for 42 years was killed today outside his hometown of sirte. he was 69 years old. president obama said his death marks the end of a long and painful chapter for libya. one year ago, the notion of a free libya seemed impossible. but then the libyan people rose up. and demanded their rights. and when gadhafi and his forces started going city to city, town by town to brutalize men, women and children, the world refused to stand idly by. faced with the potential of mass atrocities and a call for help from the libyan people, the united states and our friends and allies stopped gadhafi s forces in their tracks. there will be difficult days ahead. but the united states, togethe
police and sheriff s officials in ohio after the owner of a preserve, game preserve, killed himself and let them loose on the town. the one monkey they couldn t find, police say the t cheetah, ate that monkey. authorities defending the decision to take those animals down. saying it was us or them. ja jason carol. reporter: so many questions this morning. why terry thompson the man that owned all the animals, why he opened the cages and set those animals free. knowing that many of them would most likely be killed. this is a manna by all accounts loved these animals. that s one of the major questions that investigators will be looking at this morning. in all, 49 animals killed. the pictures really tell the whole story. we see those pictures of those animals, wild exotic animals, killed out here. sheriff s deputies telling me they were sickened to have to do what they did to put the animals down but simply felt as though they had no choice. the story actually started to unfo
ended just hours ago and now you re about to see a photo that is said to be gadhafi badly wounded and in custody and we warn you, it s pretty gruesome. all right, well, he has either badly wounded in this cell phone video or dead. it s a cell phone image obtained somehow by our colleagues at the french press agency. we ll point out that cnn can t independently confirm its authenticity. now, rebel leaders were excited, but a little coy when the news broke. this is what the information minister for libya s national transitional council said. as a big day, a big day for the libyan people. i think it s a great victory for libyan people, great victory for revolution and we know now from our sources that we have a big fish. i don t know how big the fish is you don t know who has been captured. just a senior figure. yes. misrata radio confirmed the big figure as moammar gadhafi himself. we re waiting for a statement from benghazi. and to think is the one and then to see pe
tonight, the man up close and personal. my mom is probably up in heaven going my, my, my. my dad is probably up in heaven going, that s my boy. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. i m in las vegas at the sister resort to the venetian. the republican debate last night was pretty lively. and one of the live leanne tag nifts is with me tonight. hr man cane. that was some punch out last night. well, let s just say that it gotten ner jet particular and a little bit of fireworks. did you worry that rick perry was about to swing one? i was getting ready to referee and break them up. i was going, man, have they really gotten into it. but i think that they both came in with the intention of going after each other. they did it the last time. you can just tell that they are stout and say, go after them on this, on this, on this. i don t spend time doing that. you know what i spend time doing? preparing to talk about solutions. and that s why i just leaned back and