down for the evening. when all of a sudden from the top of this crest of this short hill this street across the street by the tire lot, across from the police station, loud noises, pop, pop, pop. it sounded like firecrackers that s what we thought at first. when everybody hit the floor and the police said get down get down and guns were drawn, we all hit the floor. it was a frightening moment. another eyewitness account, i m joined by bradley rafer, a free lance journalist covering the rally. you re just getting hooked up on the camera microphone there, but if you can hear me let me know i can hear you. let s talk about what happened last night. you were there. could you tell from where the gunshots came? from where i was standing i was actually at least ten feet from the cops that shot last night. it was about 120 or 150 yards up the hill where the gunshots actually came from towards the
else from the cnn team and other networks from around the world who gathered over the last few weeks to report on the libya story from the rixos hotel, that last bash of pro-gadhafi control in the libyan capital, they are now free. they are driving through the streets of tripoli headed to a safer location. they were running out of food, they were running out of water. hopefully well, hopefully they ll be able to have a regular meal, call their loved ones, have a glass of water, take a shower, and just relax, but it was an absolutely traumatic experience. so along with suzanne malveaux as we broadcast to our viewers around the world. obviously, this is a very significant development. i mean, a great sigh of relief. you and i have been talking to matthew chance for days now. you could really tell how very tense the situation was, how difficult that was for him and the other journalists, just the fact we were not really able to share the full story and matthew was not able t