griffin is live at the pentagon with momplet so exactly what did this iranian official say, jennifer? reporter: jon, this is the first time we ve heard an iranian leader, a commander of the armed forces taking about taking a preemptive strike. let me quotena cnn muhammad hejazi, head of the forces, he said, quote, our strategy now is if we feel our enemies want to endanger iran s national interest and want to city to do that we will ability without waiting for their actions. it was clearly designed to be a message for israel, just as those iranian destroyers who passed through the suez canal over the weekend and dock a syrian port yesterday was designed as a message, a muscle flexing exercise for the israelis. we now understand that those iranian destroyers have left that syrian port. it s not clear whether they offo whether they offloaded cargo but they are traversing back through the
benghazi, which is surrounded by open roads and deserts have been very ineffective to protect the people of misrata. according to medical officials, at least 48 people have been killed just this weekend and medical officials were out collecting the bodies of some of those people who were that the bodies were still on the streets this morning after intense shelling all weekend. what is the situation in terms of who controls misrata? there were setbacks to the gadhafi forces. is this the kind of thing which is still fluid or is this firmly in rebel hands? reporter: no, it is very fluid. the rebels control the port and aid ships have been going in and out of misrata. they haven t been leaving from benghazi today. it is a stormy day, a little lightning and thunderstorm here, so the aid ships haven t been traversing the water to get to misrata today. but in general, the port is open, and an area in the center of the city is controlled by the