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We ll tell you what he says his stepson is doing to him coming up. right now, we are cutting that video from libya from el brega where our crew, ben wedeman and mary rogers, were literally 100 feet from this bond that dropped over the libyan skies on to this oil refining town. we ll get that video and ben wedeman back up live. ....
reporter: well, the first bomb this morning, there were no injuries because it fell fortunately in fairly soft sand, which absorbs the impact and absorbs the bomb itself so there was no shrapnel flying around. in the afternoon when that bomb was dropped on a group of people celebrating what they felt was the expulsion of libyan forces from brega, it was much closer and i think there were casualties. in that particular instance, we didn t know if another bomb would be dropped, so we left the area immediately. but we did see medics coming in with stretchers as we were leaving. brooke? ben wedeman for me in benghazi, ben, thanks so much. thanks to you and mary rogers your photojournalist there. there are reports out of europe today saying a former top aide to moammar gadhafi says ga fauf dauf 50 ordered the ....
In the hands of the anti-gadhafi forces, that his army had been driven out of the area. but it came at quite a high cost. at the hospital we went to there were four bodies in addition to more than two dozen people wounded. but that doesn t count other hospitals in the area that took both the dead and the wounded. we re hearing some reports saying that as many as 16 people were killed in this battle that went on for about 12 hours. brooke? ben benghazi is still being held by anti-gadhafi forces? reporter: yes. yes, fortunately it is. because if it wasn t, i wouldn t be here now. well, i m glad you re there. i m glad you re safe. my thanks to, you mary rogers. and as soon as we see that video, hopefully you can come back on and walk me through what you saw, what you experienced in those frightening moments today in brega. ben wedeman, thank you. ....
At meineke i have options on oil changes. and now i get free roadside assistance with preferred or supreme. my money. my choice. my meineke. this is quite a story today. a loud and deadly battle is raging right now for a strategic city within libya. a cnn crew was right there. i m talking about an oil city called el brega, when government forces dropped a bomb that landed on a crowd of people there earlier today. our own ben wedeman has since retreated to the relative calm of benghazi. but, ben, do me a favor and take me back to el brega. what did you see? what did you hear? and how close were you when the bomb went off? reporter: we were uncomfortably close to that bomb. we were on a road just outside of brega with a large group of opposition fighters and also ....
The bombing who is also the one, i believe he told me, ben wedeman, can correct me if i m wrong, you re the one who hit record amidst the bomb dropping right around you there in al brega. take me back to that moment. what was that like for you and your camera woman? reporter: well, we were on the road to brega with a group of anti-gadhafi fighters who are preparing to launch a counterattack against government forces who have taken over brega when we heard this jet flying overhead. first it dropped a bomb in the area of the town itself, and then a few minutes later came by, came back flying very low over our heads and dropped this bomb right next to the road. i mean, we all just started to hit the ground when it happened. that was the first bomb we were very close to, and later in the day after the town had been retaken by the anti-gadhafi forces, there was a crowd of ....