structu destruction of the wildfires in texas. this now stretches across a 16-mile area. winds whipped up flames again today. a separate fire in eastern texas killed a mother and her 18-month-old child. tropical depression lee slogging its way north today after dumping as much of a foot of rain in parts of louisiana. pumps in new orleans helped prevent any major problem there. that was good. but the storm caused flooding in other towns and cities along the gulf. in alabama, lee spun off portable tornadoes and strong winds damaged at least 20 homes in thewn the television say, tornado warning, and about that time, we had an ungodly clap of lightning and the hard ligwind by. lights went out, came back on and everything opened up. it was like a machine gun going off. breaking news on the political front. texas gov senior riernor rick p poultd pulled out of a political forum in south carolina to go back to texas to deal with the wildfires. five others will take part in the
reporter: well, it certainly doesn t give that impression at this point in time. the gaudhafi spokesperson say they are very secure in their power positions. nato says it hit some key command installations of the gadhafi forces south of tripoli, one of them being the command center, the headquarters of the 32nd brigade, candy, and that is the infamous hamas brigade which is commanded by one of gadhafi s own sons. it s the best trained, best equipped and most loyal to gadhafi. what nato was saying is this brigade was using that headquarters to target civilians both in misrata as well as on the eastern front. the other things that nato was targeting as well apparently was communications infrastructure around the down of serte that gadhafi s forces were using to communicate with their troops on the front line as well. but you re absolutely right, the rebels are still saying that it s too little that s coming from nato, especially in the
serte. they struck telecommunication installations there. it was both land line as well as mobile telecommunications to try to stop gadhafi s forces from communicating with the people on the front line. tell us what s happening east of tripoli in misrata, where we understand the violence is getting worse. i know you ve been there. how important is misrata for both sides? well, it s certainly very important for both sides. important for gadhafi, because is it is the final strong hold in western libya. it s a thorn in his side, really. for the rebels, it s important, because the rebels are trying to stay alive in that place. the violence continues unabated. one person was in the hospital there, said he saw at least 20 bodies in the hospital of people
rebels are pleading for more help and nato is dropping more bombs on the capitol. nato forces have targeted several locations there. do you have a sense, what exactly did they hit? reporter: certainly, nato is saying targeted locations south of tripoli as well as around the town of serte. that is the headquarters of the 32nd brigade here in libya. that s the infamous hamas brigade commanded by one of moammar gadhafi s sons. they say from that headquarters, gadhafi s forces were conducting strikes against forces in misrata and on the eastern front. the hamas brigade is the best equipped and best trained of gadhafi forces, and also the most loyal to the regime. the other cluster of air strikes happened around the town of
now, you re saying? history s open ended here, what you have, in fact, the president doesn t bear this burden alone. there are two men, there are two powerful men, sarkozy and david cameron, who have pledged themselves to the removal of moammar gadhafi. think of france, it s a great power, it s a mediterranean power. you can draw a line from marseilles to tripoli. nato has become the air force of the opposition to gadhafi. that s what nato will be doing. we talk about, there is a nato a u.n. charter, u.n. limits on what we can do. this opposition has an air force to back it. you can see the course of battle is coming closer to tripoli, and you will have to see what happens to these dictators. we will test whether he s loved in serte. this is his hometown. is he really loved there? is he loved in tripoli?