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you ll experience all of that in the hour ahead through the eyes and minds of my colleagues and friends, where it happened right from the start. january 2011, the first rumblings of an uprising in cairo. crowds began to gather in the city central of tahrir square. a revolution has begun. what is your message to president mubarak? he should leave tonight. hosni mubarak should be egypt s dictator for 30 years, and the growing crowd of protesters want him out. but mubarak digs in, and the once-peaceful protests turn violent. oh, my god! this is an unmistakable show of military force. firefighter jets flying low over cairo s tahrir square, liberation square, which has been a symbol of defiance. what you re hearing them saying is in arabic it means, go, go. the demonstrators say that s the army firing to warn them to stay away. reporter: pro-mubarak forces target the unarmed protesters. journalists also come under attack. i m a little bit scared, because ....
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 ....
Family. dan rather speaking last night to rachel maddow. joining us how from minneapolis, congressman keith ellison. also with us in washington, washington bureau chief. thank you both for being with us. congressman, i ll start with you. in your statement yesterday, he said libyans should know they have a partner in the united states. what exactly should be the united states role going forward with regard to libya? i think the united states should neighboring clear that where there are basic needs of food, clothing, shelter, that the united states aid agencies are there no the libyan people. we also should be at the ready and continue to work with nato to deal with this last portion of tripoli which is still under gadhafi control. and then moving forward, the libyan community needs to build a state apparatus which gadhafi never really allowed to be built, a civil society and of ....
They have arrest warrants out for him. the question is will the libyans just give them up or want some sort of trial themselves. this is, of course, exactly what we saw in iraq with saddam hussein who also had an arrest warrant with the icc. it remains to be seen. at this point, the fighting is still raging, not just at the compound where gadhafi perhaps is but also in the district that is still under gadhafi control. by the way, the entire town of sert is still under loyalist control. so we are still a ways away from this being over. libya is so different than when we try to compare it to iraq with the people resooifding in libya. it is tribally divided. in iraq it was religiously diversified between shiites and sunnis. explain to all of us as we watch ....
good morning to you. it is tuesday, august 23rd. this is am: wake up call. i m carol costello live in new york. let s get started with that big storm crashing through the atlantic ocean right now. irene is getting ever more powerful and may be heading toward the united states. people in south carolina already getting ready for irene. the hurricane is near the dominican republic right now. take a look at the storm from the international space station. irene is now a category 2 hurricane, but jacqui jeras says it could become an enormous category 4 later this week as it gets closer to the southeastern united states. it s already left about half of puerto rico without power. cnn will take a closer look at the storm s path in a few minutes. how is the battle for tripoli going anyway this morning? that depends on whom you ask. rebel leaders say they have control over most of the city. there s still some fierce fighting in some neighborhoods. moammar gadhafi s son saif, ....