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we re going to hear more from the 90-year-old hollywood legend about the issue that affects millions of americans, early this thursday morning, march 3rd, 2011. captioning funded by cbs and hi everyone welcome to the early show here on a thursday morning. i m chris wragge. and i m erica hill. good to have you with us today. we begin with the very latest from libya. this morning, leader moammar gadhafi s air force is bombing rebel forces there in the east once again. cbs news correspondent mandy clark joins us from libya this morning. mandy, hello. hello. well, we re on the road towards the front line and we re hearing that this town of adjibaya and brega were bombed this morning. this morning, the rebels were digging in. and getting ready to defend the territory they won back. the assault by government troops began before dawn yesterday and included bombing runs by gadhafi s warplanes. they are bombing us by very big bombs. reporter: this bomb narrowly mis ....
Planes with bombs. if this is the case of moammar gadhafi trying as you say to reassert his power here, is he successful? did you not tell me minutes ago that this area is controlled by anti-gadhafi forces? reporter: at the moment, it is. they did manage after a prolonged battle to drive the libyan army forces out of the city. at least four people were killed, dozens wounded in the fight. but, of course, the libyan forces didn t retreat very far. they re just down the road from brega so there s a good possibility they may try again to push towards the town. and it s, of course, a very important town because it contains one of libya s largest oil refineries and facilities for the export of natural gas. so controlling that town is key for whoever wants to control ....
All around the world and to keep us safe. as promised, we are now getting the video from brega, an oil refinery town within libya. remember i was talking to our senior international correspondent ben wedeman about the fact that he and his crew were some 100 feet away from where the bomb was dropped oust of the skies of libya. we ll show you that video right after the break. also, the group that goes around the country protesting at the funerals of fallen soldiers, they find out if they can continue their protests. we ll tell you what the u.s. supreme court ruled today with the final vote of 8-1. cold. [ clock ticking ] happy anniversary. [ male announcer ] what happened to luxury? where did all the personality go? the gusto? the glamour? we believe you can have it all. luxury with lightning in its veins. ....
Remind us where this is taking place, and what were you feeling? what were you hearing around you when the bomb dropped? reporter: this is just outside of brega on the eastern side. this was during the day when there was this ongoing battle in the town. we had heard this airplane flying over before. in fact, about ten minutes before the bomb was dropped that you saw it dropped another bomb just to the south of brega, and, of course, in the afternoon a similar bomb fell very close to us as well. this is all against a backdrop of of what appears to be an attempt by moammar gadhafi to reassert his authority in this part of the country. ironically yesterday he sent a convoy of 18 trucks with relief supplies to eastern libya. i guess today he s sending ....
Welcome back. this is powerful stuff we re about to show you here. cnn s ben wedeman said he and his crew was there in el brega in libya as they watched these bombs fall from the skies today. we now have the pictures to prove it. we have ben standing by. look at the pictures, then we ll talk to ben on the other side. ben wedeman live for me in benghazi. ben, this is powerful stuff. i mean, the pictures do not lie. ....