it s very difficult to discern whether someone is friendly or an enemy and just how tense the entire situation is. what happened is that the soldiers asked this man in the taxi to stop. he stops his veeng. get gets out of it. starts moving towards them. their biggest threat is suicide car bombs. the initial assumption is he is a suicide car bomber or a bomber himself. he moves towards them. they start shooting. . a lot of confusion. screaming to come to go. ends up on the ground. drag him away and try to treat him, but he eventually dies of his wounds. they don t know who he is. there s no identification on him. they still think the vehicle was packed with explosives. and then there was such an intense fire fight that ensued right afterwards, the last i saw, his body was on the side of the street wrapped in a blanket
addresses were by telephone to the nation and remains defiant and says this will be a long war, against coalition forces, and also promised to take veeng, not only against military, but against civilian targets, in the region as well. as far that s fighting goes, some signs of real progress in the east. apparently, french war planes, during their initial attack knocked out any ti entire plato and, there are reports people who fled have begun to make their way back into benghazi and, also, some rebel fighters have begun, once again, to march to the west, to engage muammar qaddafi forces. 6 gregg, back to you. gregg: steve harrigan reporting live from tripoli. heather: the pentagon is helding a briefing e saying the air quality over libya successfully weakened muammar qaddafi s military forces and more strikes may happen, jennifer griffin is at the pentagon with the latest for us.
commotion happening on the west side highway. i ran outside my building to see what happened. initially everyone was confused. people thought it was a case of road rage. they thought that maybe someone had lost control of a veeng and hit some pedestrians, but as the minutes ticked by, it appeared it was something much more severe from what happened, as ki see the first police were tending to not to one or two people that were hurt but multiple people on the ground in that bike lane severely injured, you know, i witnessed a first responder, a police officer giving cpr, trying to resuscitate a cyclist who seemed unresponsive at the time. to give you a little bit of a sense of this neighborhood. this neighborhood is a mixture of a lot of residential, along with, you know, corporate buildings and that bike path is