police through a private entrance. her murder conviction overturned yesterday. knox sobbing uncontrollably when this verdict was read. so emotional, she had to be helped from the courtroom. her friends say the first thing she wants to do when she returns home to seattle is lie down on a green field. let s get the latest from becky anderson live in perugia, italy this morning. do we have a timetable for knox departure, becky? reporter: yes. we believe she s gone. it s now mid-day local town, and we believe she left rome, about two hours from here, at 11:00. the family went to london on a regular flight. a possibility knox left on a private jet. they re going to london, we believe. there s a flight about 3:00 local time london out of heathrow to seattle, and so she ll be there with, what, eight, nine hours after she leaves london. this is the front page of the local paper here. innocent. they didn t do it. the court of appeals absolves amanda knox and raffaele sollecito. a
good morning to you. tuesday wednesday, august 24th. this is your a.m. wake-up call. i m carol costello joining you live from new york. international leaders meet today to talk about getting aid into libya. as for moammar gadhafi, he s nowhere to be found even though rebels have taken control of his compound. but gadhafi is still talking, at least we think he is. two networks have been aired supposedly from the embattled leader. he calls for libyans to clear out of tripoli and get rid of what he calls criminals, traitors and rats. rebels claim to control 90% of the country. cnn s sara sidner has been in the middle of it all, the heart of tripoli, green square. most of the gunfire you hear is in celebration. this is what it looked like when rebels took over gadhafi s compound. reporter: it s getting a little too loud for you to hear me and a little too much celebrating. we re trying to get i just got hit with one of the shells from one of the guns. sara, we can hear
i m carol costello. the eastern seaboard bracing themselves for the worst of irene on this american morning. good morning, everyone. it is it s wednesday, wowp halfway through the week. august 24th. welcome to american morning. feels like it s halfway through the week. he had like a hundred years of news in two days. we started off yesterday with what was going on in libya, these hurricane preparations, and then an earthquake. right. did you feel it? christine and i were together working. i thought it was a little vertigo. i said, is that the subway? and we were with somebody who said the lights are swaying. yeah. this ligds grid was swaying. i did not feel it. i was in a shoe store buying shoes. you thought that s what it was. my husband is in baltimore, he really felt it. he e-mails me and says, get out of wherever you are. i m thinking, how does he know i m buying shoes. hopefully, gladly there are more stories of that sort. only something like