the strikes, and the organization s secretary general says it s not if gadhafi will go, but when. yet the libyan leader, as we know, meeting with south africa s president, really showing no signs he s heading for any sort of an exit anytime soon. dan springer is live in benghazi with more. reporter: and the pressure continues to mount on gadhafi. some breaking news at hour, we just got confirmation, another high of level defection from the libyan government, this time the oil minister, and that s a big deal because almost all of this country s wealth comes from oil. as for that nato extension of another 90 days, that takes this military action out until the end of september, and that s no small deal also because it takes 28 members of nato to agree because there is military action involved. remember what the mandate was, to enforce the no-fly zone, to enforce the arms embargo and also to protect civilians. nowhere in that mandate is it mentioned regime change. however, listen to what
what kind of message is that sending to the rest of libya? reporter: they were down to 20% of what it was prior to the rebellion starting in the east. if i was the rebel, that would be very good news for me. the generals are saying that there are only ten generals remaining, that are still loyal to gadhafi, and yet we still don t really feel like there is a sense of impetus, that there is any kind of sense of time running out here for gadhafi. the administration always say to us, the only person that can answer these questions about when gadhafi will go, is go gave fee himself and he s not talking right now, brooke. no, it isn t. one more question about jacob zuma. he said that he would bring up the missing south african photographer missing in libya.
joe johns, have a great rest of the weekend and safe travels. you, too. on this memorial day, i want to begin on cordova, alabama. it hit on the morning of april 27th by a powerful ef-3 tornado, and then the very same day ef-4 tornado hits that same town that night. cordova, alabama, is not the town that you see here in some of the video, some of the aerial pictures here and satellite images. a lot of folks have certainly lost their homes, but as we told you on friday, the cordova mayor jack scott is invoking a ordinance that rejects any trailer which is being offered by the federal government to folks whose homes have been destroyed. and jack scott is saying emergency or not, the law is the law. and as we showed you on friday, none of the folks in cordova are none too thrilled about the 50-year-old ordinance. we will talk to some folks live in a moment, but first, listen to this. what i suggested is putting the fema trailers in my backyard, because of the mayor, we wan
of libya are protected and the shadow of tyranny is lifted. you can see him there going into westminster to speak to the joint houses of parliament there. yeah, he was with the prime minister david cameron and both of them putting up a united front when it comes to libya saying it is relentless punishing gadhafi s forces until they well get out basically. and the other thing that is interesting is that he ruled out any deadline for ending the military assault there saying that it is going to be done, and i think he said in a timely fashion. i like that he said that at least in the press conference that ultimately, gadhafi will go. well they cannot stop now, can they? of course not. and it is obviously, they are going to keep going. but meanwhile, the air strikes are heating up as well on the compound. well, 18 deaths yesterday, and our producer there in tripoli who is a good friend of mine, and we have worked a lot in baghdad, and she was saying that it is rattling the hote
help. i was in the reserves and my unit was called military government, then it shifted to civil affairses. and our task was to go into countries after there had been a regime change and help assist the civilian government. we did that in haiti. we did that in iraq. my unit, not me. this was not world war 1? why do i come up here? oh, i m getting paid. always a good reason. at least you re honest about it, governor. michael, gadhafi will go. it s a matter of time. and we know that the united states has already worked with nato and others. but it s tough going. who do you pick as the leadership? it is tough going. you look at anyone who has 17 different spellings of his name can t last long. the population s largely