see her dad later in the night but master sergeant philip sharpe arrived home from iraq hours earlier. aw. that s precious. this morning a second win for libya s rebels. they are marching toward gadhafi s hometown after a weekend of victories. we ll take you inside libya for a look at their progress. and a cobra has gone missing at the bronx zoo in new york. yeah, a cobra. a poisonous cobra. we ll talk to jack hanna at 9:40. hi. i m dan hesse, ceo of sprint.
humanitarian disaster. that is always hard to point to something that didn t happen. now we are beginning to see, because of the good work of the coalition, to see his troops begin to turn back toward the west and see the opposition begin to reclaim ground they had lost. the white house also admits the north african country posed no threat to the united states. here is what secretary gates said about it. secretary gates, is libya our vital interest? no, i don t think it is vital interest for the united states. we clearly have interests there. it is part of the region, which is a vital interest for the united states. got that? let s go to the white house and cnn s dan lothian. defense secretary gates did not exactly make it easier for the president. you heard him. i don t think libya is a vital interest for the united states. how does mr. obama make
from ras lanuf and rebel fighters have seized the key oil town of brega. also nato okay to take over for the responsibility for the operation in libya and will happen two or three days and the current coalition led by the u.s., britain and france can stand down. former president jimmy carter will be back in cuba tomorrow. this video shows carter on his last trip there, it was in 2002, when he was greeted by fidel castro, and he s the only u.s. president in or out of office to visit the communist island. this is not an official visit, a private trip and it was at the invitation of the cuban government. the political world is mourning the death of geraldine ferraro. she was the first female vice presidential candidate for major u.s. political party in 1984 and was walter mondales run s mate and was elected to congress three times from new york. mondale and ferraro lost to ronald reagan and george bush in a landslide but ferraro s place in history was secure.
18-year-old adrise was a student studying business. today, they re amateur soldiers in the rickety rebel army of libya s opposition. united, they say, by one mission, to topple the regime of moammar gadhafi. i come to here in benghazi after i saw gadhafi dictator, he kill my people here. he kill libyan people without any reason. i want my country free, i want freedom for my country. reporter: the opposition s leadership is just as much of a motley mix as the fighters, a group of 31 made up of local politicians, military leaders who have defected and prominent figures like lawyers, doctors, academics, activists, and they call themselves a transitional government. they, too, at this point, appear to have the same objective. the main objective of the national council, it is the main objective of the libyan people and it is the removal of gadhafi and his regime. reporter: with the rebels pushing west, gaining momentum and territory, a libya without gadhafi appears more likely by
national council, the main objective of the libyan people and it is the removal of gadhafi and his regime. and that of gadhafi and his regime, removal. reporter: with the rebels pushing west, gaining momentum and territory, a libya without gadhafi appears more likely by the day. whether democracy will follow is far from clear. libya has long been a patchwork of tribes and rival sects kept largely intact in the grip of gadhafi s autocratic regime. although they ve joined hands in a common quest, two of the opposition s leaders have already criticized one another. it s normal. i mean this difference is normal. this is what we like. for 42 years, we have unified opinion and nobody express their opinions. we didn t have this freedom. so i.d. good. it s good to have rivalry. reporter: the opposition says the path to democracy won t be easy, but whoever derails it, they say, will face what colonel gadhafi is facing now.