little son, and one of the bizarre twists in the case now known as the memphis three. and you unleash us and tell us that you are readier for us to have this conversation. why congresswoman maxine waters is ready to unleash on the president, and does the president s new promise to promote diversity have anything to do with the comment? we ask. it is all right here, right now on cnn. standby now. good evening, everyone, i m don lemon. we start with breaking news out of libya tonight. rebel forces say they have begun the offensive on the capital. the libyan government denies it. moammar hadafy went on tv to rally his soldiers. and we have the latest from matthew chance. what is the latest . well, don, we have been hearing intensive clashes of firearms and the clashes of the khadafy loyalists who have been attempting to confront them, but those sporadic gun fires and exchanges appear to have stopped as we got into the early hours of the morning, and we are not hearin
three young boys murdered. at 9:00 that night, i knew that i would never see him alive again. three teenage boys suspected. i wanted to bash their head up against the wall, kick his face in. three teens demonized. that was the first thing that everybody started saying that it was a ritualistic killing, satanic killing. three teens convicted. guilty of capital murder. their accused ring leader sent to death row. i m in solitary confinement 24 hours a day, seven days a week. he deserves to be to be chured and punished for the rest of his life for murdering three 8-year-old children! it was a crime almost too horrible to imagine. three teens worshipping satan murdering three 8-year-old boys. that happened right here back in 1993. two of the teens got life in prison, a third was judged to be so evil that he was sentenced to die. but after spending 18 years behind bars, a dramatic new development. the so-called west memphis three were abruptly granted their f
towards the capital. this is the city of zawiya. on this day, even if you couldn t see the fire fight close up, you could hear its deafening sounds reverberating from the eastern part of the city. just getting too close. there are snipers on the tops of buildings. loud bangs. artillery fire. morta mortars. we ve got to get out of here. despite the major battle going on around him, a rebel fighter, who did not want to be identified to protect his family, was confident of victory. considering the fighting is to fierce here, how long before you think you re able to push into tripoli? hopefully a couple of days. or one week maybe. reporter: you think it s going to be that soon? i think so because we are, we are in control in 80% of zawiya. reporter: but to push forward, they need to secure the whole city where gadhafi s army is doing everything it can to keep hold of this town. why is zawiya so important? because of oil factory. reporter: zawiya has one of the last re
stand . another saying it could put civilians in the cross hairs. both officials say they don t know what form a final offensive might take. recent nato air strikes are clearly upping the ante. our people there telling us they are under way again tonight, loud explosions being heard in tripoli within the past hour. opposition forces telling us they re making use of the air attacks to try to make progress on the ground. those forces now in the middle of a major push on zawhi, the keyport city on tripoli s doorstep. fierce artillery fire could be heard today. opposition fighters telling our sara sidener they could become moving on the capital within a matter of days. that could just be optimistic talk on their part. meantime the opposition says a orm libyan prime minister has defected, fleeing tripoli with his family. no sign, though, that his former boss, muammar gadhafi, is going anywhere. and that s the potential problem. a potentially very violent and bloody problem. joinin
he could be planning for a last stand . another saying it could put civilians in the cross hairs. both officials say they don t know what form a final offensive might take. recent nato air strikes are clearly upping the ante. our people there telling us they are under way again tonight, loud explosions being heard in tripoli within the past hour. opposition forces telling us they re making use of the air attacks to try to make progress on the ground. those forces now in the middle of a major push on zawhi, the keyport city on tripoli s doorstep. fierce artillery fire could be heard today. opposition fighters telling our sara sidener they could become moving on the capital within a matter of days. that could just be optimistic talk on their part. meantime the opposition says a form libyan prime minister has defected, fleeing tripoli with his family. no sign, though, that his former boss, muammar gadhafi, is going anywhere. and that s the potential problem. a potentially very