the latest. what can you tell us? reporter: well, this was the frontline on saturday morning when muammar qaddafi s army tanks shelled this part of southern benghazi, with shells landing a couple hundred yards from our position here. but at this hour as far as we can tell his troops are south of us, now, 100 miles south, and we know this because many of muammar qaddafi s thanks were destroyed yesterday by nato airstrikes. we saw the tanks, artillery and heavy equipment that were burped, charred, blackened and lit by the strikes from above, nato jets and this has embolden many of the opposition fighters would have pushed their way south back to the town which was in rebel control until a week ago and fell to muammar qaddafi forces and is still being held by muammar qaddafi forces. they are moving toward town, but
revenge. now, it does not make a last sense to do something right now pause that would create a pretext to force governments to take him out so my guess is he will want to survive and come back another day. now, the point you have to ask: well, just go in and finish this, but we are not prepared to go in and finish this great a this from a perspective of a vacuum that will have to be filled. that may not make sense. there are ways to guard ourselves again a future muammar qaddafi threat and take him out in the future in a time and place of our choosing not at the one that just seems likely to rush in there and get this over. there is no easy answer here. neil: we always get ahead of ourselves. thank you. u.s. officials now say that muammar qaddafi forces are pulling back from rebel strong holes after coalition airstrikes. and now rick in benghazi with
make no mistake muammar qaddafi has military power in that town. we have heard of several deaths today being reported from that area as rebel forces went toward the town and were fired on and the rest of them were able to retreat. benghazi itself is quiet tonight. a lot of people whoever evacuated the city when it came under fire have not yet come back, many of the stores are closed and the people are lying low but the rebel fighters are still out and about and they are saying they believe democracy is in their sight. the battle is not over yet. neil: thank you, rick. he is bombing in libya and now bombing in latin america? mixed messages from a president who could be sending mixed signals.
civilians. you re going through areas with large demonstrations going on. are the demonstrators happy with the news, a no-fly zone has taken place. absolutely. it s coming to the rescue of the people there? yes, there s a very strong national pride. a lot of flags waving, a lot of victory signs flashing, and guns firing in the air and a very strong community spirit. and what i think is most striking here is how these people are supporting one another. it s important the opposition fighters and every check point that we ve passed today heading east out of benghazi, along with many other choices fleeing the city. the check points they were passing out bottles of water and they were offering shelter and their homes for people who didn t have a place to go and they were offering cash to people who needed money and the gas stations that reported all day, was giving away the fuel all day long, didn t charge a dime for any of the fu fuel.
moderate positions. where is redeclaring a tea party over? arkansas governor huckabee is here to weigh in on that. and now hour three for fox and friends right now. good morning, everyone, we have been telling you what a busy news day if libya, the citizens are converging on targeting expected to be bombed by france. this as libyan leader muammar qaddafi is defying calls for a cease-fire, the one he announced yesterday, and the forces are shelling rebel-held benghazi as muammar qaddafi warns the world not to intervene. and rick is on the ground in eastern libya and joins with the latest. what is the latest? good morning, we are coming to you from a gas station east