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Who were in the home, harris. the associated press adding that friends and relatives inside of that one story house as it is described in the capitol city of tripoli there were wounded. i am sure david lee miller as details come out and news warrants, we ll check back with you. the saleh qaddafi, and three grandchildren of muammar qaddafi killed in a nato air strike. david lee will check back as the news warrants. we ll bring you the latest out of libya as the story continues to develop. i want to go back to home base now. a new storm developed in the midwest and threatening to add to the misery of the tornado-stricken region. emergency crews are searching for the missing and the number of date at more than 340 . official word coming from the national weather service in mississippi in particular ....
We were in the press conference when all of this was announced and they said the airstrike happened two to 2 1/2 hours ago at a residential neighborhood here in central tripoli, right close to a downtown area. and the building that this happened in was absolutely flattened. i came away from the airstrike site and the building is apparently moammar gadhafi and his wife were visiting their second youngest son, saif al arab gadhafi and they were in the house when the airstrike happened. we re also hearing on libyan tv some of the grandchildren of moammar gadhafi were killed as well. the spokesperson here for the government is telling us that both moammar gadhafi and moammar gadhafi s wife are in good health, have survived the airstrike and have been brought to what they say is a safe location. but i can tell you, by seeing the house hit by that airstrike it s hard to imagine anyone would have survived. it seemed to have been hit by two bombs in total. ....
Angry and upset at what happened. don? as we re reporting this news and i want to tell our viewers, again, this is breaking news here on cnn, cnn has confirmed and we re on the phone with our frederik pleitgen who is in tripoli that one of libyan leader, moammar gadhafi s son, saif al arab gadhafi killed by a nato airstrike. announced at a press conference,ing and we re also being told as reported by frederick pleitgen, moammar gadhafi and his wife were inside the house when it was targeted. we re also being told possibly two of his grandsons were killed as well and, frederik, just getting to the political ramifications for the allied forces involved, it is said moammar gadhafi is not the target, it is to help the rebels here. but again, if homes are being targeted here, this possibly changes this politically, because the government is going to say, see? moammar gadhafi is being targeted, we told you so. ....
Of two well-known photojournalists the past few weeks. the city of misrata has been under what some described as a meed eve siege for weeks now. now we have dramatic new video showing the extent of the devastation. here s cnn s rez acehia. two months of ferocious fighting has laid waste to much of misrata, a city that has become the face of the war in laboria, it s deadliest most brutal front. mohammed tenashi is one of thousands of casualties. his legs crushed, his arms shot in the bloody fight for tripoli street, the city s main road and for weeks, the frontline in the battle for misrata. translator: i had a machine gun, he says. i started shooting, but there was a guy up above i didn t see. he shot me in the arm. the tallest buildings in misrata are along tripoli street. whoever controls these buildings ....
Owns the highest points. obviously a crucial advantage in any battlefield. both sides fought ruthlessly to gain that advantage. early on, gadhafi s fighters owned the high-rises. regime snipers hit on the higher floors and picked off their fighters down below. last week, the rebel forces still made up of untrained but unshakeable fighters finally took control of tripoli street using makeshift barricades they fenced in gadhafi s forces, then squeezed them. how did they do it? just by brave. by bravery. yes. nato air strikes took care of some of the regime s heavier weapons. this is an incredible scene here. this used to be an old vegetable market and a very large enclosed building. the rebels say the forces were hiding their thanks here perhaps thinking it nato forces would never hit a civilian target. apparently they thought wrong. the rebels say that s the hole made by nate toe air strikes ....