you can t make this up, folks, the story of the day here. it s a police pursuit involving a suspect on a bicycle and cops trailing the guy in a golf cart and on horseback. reaching speeds of 10 and 12 miles an hour. it was a scene out of die hard . oh, boy. but before all that, the u.s. gives up the military lead in libya to nato, beginning today. a three-star canadian general is expected to now head that operation. this comes as president obama concedes it might take longer than expected to rid libya of gadhafi. john hendren has the very latest. good morning, john. reporter: good morning, rob and peggy. president obama is fielding criticism on capitol hill from republicans who worry this libyan intervention could drag out for a long time. but there is one other possibility. president obama says moammar gadhafi s regime is showing signs they want out.
lieutenant charles bouchard is picked to run the day-to-day operations. retired major general james spider marcus is a former commanding general of the u.s. army intelligence center. identi does it make sense to take over the no-fly zone when the coalition is supposed to protect civilians on the ground? i think nato truly has command and will continue to have command. and it s not an academic discussion, but it s the diffence between command and control. command is a legal term. it has to do with shaping operations and what the in ste looks like. control is technical. how do you communicate, how do you choose targets? which aircraft goes after each target? which nation s aircraft are assigned against different kinds of targets. so natohas command of the operation and the three-star canadian general clearly is already within the nato structure. he s from allied forces south,