huge. here is the map. qaddafi controlled areas are in the red. rebel controlled in the green. towns in yellow are where the battles are raging tonight. the rebels made it as far as qaddafi s hometown of sirte tonight but have since retreated to the town of brega. [gunfire] shepard: insurgents firing rockets but as you can see they are not exactly pros with this thing. shortly after the crews shot the video you see here. the rebels pulled back even farther after heavy shelling. there are a few battling going on closer to where you are, right? shepard, one of those key battles is taking place in the city of misurata, libyans third largest city. it s just 130 miles away from the capital. and for government forces, it is a key objective. they have got to take control of misurata if they are going to shore up their control of the western half of the country. there are also reports that qaddafi forces, which have been besieging that city for two weeks now without being able to take cont
and secretary gates just said, that he really thought it should be left to other allied force, especially the french and the british. martha? martha: great update and great reminding us that you mentioned that early on and we d expect, i think, that there would be cia on the ground and the question that remains, whether or not they will actually train these rebel fighters. jennifer, thank you so much. jennifer griffin, reporting from the pentagon. rick: one of the side stories in all of this is a flood of libyan refugees who are now struggling to get by. in makeshift camps, thousands of people, from the city of ajdabiya, forced out of the rebel held territory as qaddafi forces fired on them and many sleep outside or intent cities. in tent cities. established a no-fly zone, stopped an advancing army, added more partners, to the coalition, and transferred command of the military effort to nato. that is not bad for a week of
hitting in the capitol city of tripoli, many others moving down the coast in the town of misurata, we talked about sirte, that s qaddafi s home town, the naval assets in the mediterranean are substantial, not just from the united states but many oli d partners patrolling off the coast of libya. they ve taken an active role in the fighting off the ground there, advance the map one time, we ll show you where we are today. remember yesterday and the day before the battle seemed to be over sirte, qaddafi s home town and his forces seemed to be asserting themselves, and gaining strength against the rebels there. now what rick was talking about is ras lanuf. now, this is an oil port city, just east of sirte, the rebels, we ll put them in white, the rebels had been in patrol of ras lanuf and had occupied that area for the past two weeks but again, qaddafi forces making up ground. for clarification, the rebels come from the east generally, qaddafi forces with him from the west and move in this
there, smile! martha: something to be happy about. right? bill: for now! martha: we need that today because there is no end in sight in the libya situation as qaddafi forces once again are gaining ground in the battle against the rebels today, a lot of breaking news on this front that you need to know about. what about bahrain and syria, though, which are also percolating in a dangerous way? we re going to take a closer look, we ll give you the very latest on the ground from those countries and find out who is blaming them, all of this, on a, quote, worldwide conspiracy. bill: john bolton is on that. also back to the tank in sea world, the whale that drowned and killed a trainer during an audience show is back in the tank. is it too soon after the deadly incident? we actually have a trainer in the water with one of our whales. the whale that they re not supposed to be in the water with. okay. so we don t know what s going on. we were told to call and have people on standby wh
the midway point between the east and west in northern libya and says qaddafi forces are digging in with heavily armed check points, watch that battle. martha: among those reacting to the speech last night, former vice presidential candidate, sarah palin critical of what he said about libya last night. watch this: i think that was a profoundly disappointing speech because it proved the obama doctrine is full of chaos and questions and is dodgy, dubious and a good question, that you ask, greta, because we re not hearing from our president, what is the end game here, and, with qaddafi still in power, if we re not going to oust him via killing or capturing, there is no acceptable end state. martha: that she said and we ll talk about that, coming up with dan senor, and see what he thinks about sarah palin s assessment and his experience in iraq and whether or not there are similarities as to what is going on this libya, coming up on america s newsroom, bill.