police and sheriff s officials in ohio after the owner of a preserve, game preserve, killed himself and let them loose on the town. the one monkey they couldn t find, police say the t cheetah, ate that monkey. authorities defending the decision to take those animals down. saying it was us or them. ja jason carol. reporter: so many questions this morning. why terry thompson the man that owned all the animals, why he opened the cages and set those animals free. knowing that many of them would most likely be killed. this is a manna by all accounts loved these animals. that s one of the major questions that investigators will be looking at this morning. in all, 49 animals killed. the pictures really tell the whole story. we see those pictures of those animals, wild exotic animals, killed out here. sheriff s deputies telling me they were sickened to have to do what they did to put the animals down but simply felt as though they had no choice. the story actually started to unfo
malveaux. the u.s. says opening korean markets to american automakers and farmers will create 280,000 jobs. more next hour when president obama and lee hold a news conference at the white house and you ll see it live here on cn this. in libya today, the battle for sirte has come down to a few streets. [ gunfire ] sirte is among the last towns to keep fighting for muammar gadhafi, the former libyan ruler. it s his tribal home and fiercely loyal. it will declare them liberated once it declares all of sirte. our dan rivers is there. reporter: like the troops we re with, we try to stay out of the line of fire. sometimes the bullets come out of nowhere. comfortably close, even battle hardened soldiers flinch sometimes. libyan fighters claim they have captured one of gadhafi s sons in sirte. that has not been confirmed. such reports have been wrong in the past. and freed american hikers shane bower and josh fattal will meet with secretary of state hillary clinton this a