this. i don't know. i think there will be many twists and turns to come. >> think you're right and hopefully, you'll be with us. thanks. i'll see you in the "situation room." libya coverage continues with cnn's don lemon in the cnn newsroom. >> moammar gadhafi's compound attacked, in shambles. the likely weapon, missiles from allied firepower. cnn's nic robertson seeing it up close. >> the cruise missiles show us that's what they are. >> even after the brutal dictator promises a second cease-fire, their rebel crackdown intensifies. who targeted and blasted the strong man's headquarters? where is he?

why hasn't he been seen? >> welcome to our viewers around the world. i'm don lemon at the cnn newsroom in atlanta. we begin this hour with with breaks news. destroyed, part of moammar gadhafi's compound in libya's capitol, tripoli. it was hit because it had military capabilities, insisting that gadhafi was not the actual target and neither was his residence. it is not clear where he is right now. anti-aircraft firelighting up the night sky over tripoli. coalition forces continue to pound key targets despite libyan army announcing a cease 5 moments ago. the white house doesn't believe libyan forces will abide bite, after all, they did ignore the

first cease-fire declared friday. mike mullen says the first no supply zone is in place and they have done major damage to lib 83s fixed defense systems. and they are trying to deter area tacks on civilians. france and the u.s. have taken big efforts in odyssey dawn, u.s., france, britain, italy, an canada and spain, belgium, denmark, norway and qatar are involved. nick will update us on the other side. take a look.

[ background voices talking ] >> those pictures from nic robertson simply amazing. let's go to him, nic. >> reporter: we were taken to moammar gadhafi's palace compound, a large area, a couple of square miles. we could see the roof had been smashed, two big holes punched in it. we were told missiles and given

parts taken out of a building while we were there. this is a thin control system actuator, appears to be from a cruise missile pulled out of the building while we were there. the whole roof was pancaked down two floors, a four story building and we were told one of the missiles had gone in and only exploded when it hit the basement area. the rooms we could see blown out, large lumps of concrete blown out over 100 yards or so. the government official told us there had been no cash amounts there. the government official said what is happening, quoted a pentagon spokesman saying there will be no strikes on moammar gadhafi's palace compound and told this was a building used by officials coming to meet moammar gadhafi in a nearby tent. from what we could see, the building didn't serve any other purpose, certainly not a control and command building, didn't see any cables or antennas and a

couple we talked to said they had been in there a few days earlier to meet moammar gadhafi. the building very heavily damaged, debris spread everywhere, government officials angry about inconsistencies they see coming from the pentagon. fantastic reporting from nic robertson and also in the region, arwa damon with the latest on the offensive and rebellion. i understand tense calm is how you describe the situation where you are, arwa. >> reporter: that's right, don. ever since gadhafi's forces launched their attack on benghazi yesterday, we've seen most shops remaining closed and increase number of checkpoints manned by opposition forces and much more diligent forces even though they managed to drive gadhafi's forces out. there were those air strikes. we traveled outside benghazi 30 miles, 20 some kilometers to the

location where the air strikes took place targeting gadhafi's military masked at that location. the debris, aftermath strewn around for miles, kilometers. we saw vehicles ranging from armored personnel carrier, to tanks that had their turrets blown off and a number of charred bodies. many residents of benghazi traveling out there to survey this for themselves, hardly able to believe gadhafi's military had come to such a grinding halt. many of them expressing their gratitude to the international community's intervention because they all firmly believed a massacre at the hand of gadhafi's forces was imminent. the belief was the opposition had taken this just about as far as they could with the weapons they have at hand with the fact they are nothing more than a bunch of young men who learned how to fight over the last few weeks. arwa damon from eastern libya. thank you very much.

let's get the experience of an experienced leader, russel honore joins us live from norms. fenn ral, you saw the footage and heard it from arwa damon, what do you make of it? >> it's indicative of its precision. hit the building they were going after for a purpose. probably tried to disrupt the command and control. let's look at what was not hit, don, didn't hit the palace, didn't hit the electrical generators, no intention to make the people in tripoli pay for gadhafi's mistakes. this was a precision strike, done at night with the purpose of probably taking that building out. understand, that's my assessment based on what we're seeing on the ground. >> general, thank you, stick around. we will need your expertise throughout this hour. next up, nic robertson and i

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here's how it all unfolded live on the air last night. >> reporter: i don't know if you can hear that in the background. very heavy -- very heavy -- >> nic, if you're quiet just for a moment, let's listen, if you can get close to a window or opening and maybe we can hear it. as of now, we don't. is it still going on? >> reporter: it is still going on at the moment, don. let me get a little closer. you might be able to hear it now. >> we can. we can. let's listen a bit, nic. [ loud noises ]. >> reporter: that's the sounds of heavy anti-aircraft gunfire

erupting over the city of tripoli here. we heard it sporadically several hours ago, now hearing it much more, in a much more sustained fashion. >> nic, if i can jump in for a second, i will let you continue. i want to tell our viewers nic robertson reporting in tripoli with heavy artillery fire. you're also looking at live pictures from tripoli from the camera where nic robertson is. nic robertson, continue, please. >> reporter: hearing the loud gunfire and explosions in the city, this gunfire seems to have followed on from several loud explosions which could have been missile explosions. don, what i'm going to do is get myself to where that camera is, if you can give me one minute. >> you go ahead and get into

camera position. we will let our viewers listen as you get ready. we will be very transparent. nic robertson in tripoli, joining us by telephone but will get himself in camera position. what you're looking at is tripoli, believed to be fun fire happening in tripoli and possibly motrtar fire. and this is happening and seems to be in response to the coalition, allied forces, the u.s. being one of them firing on libya today and also french aircraft in the area in place. britain sending in aircraft as well, france also helping out in this, and they will all join the coalition forces in the air at least. president obama, any u.s. president has promised no ground forces and not promising that now. let's listen to the fire and

unrest in tripoli. a [ fugunfire ] >> for those of you who are just tuning in, i want to welcome our viewers from around the world watching cnn's breaking news coverage of the unrest in libya. what you're hearing, firing going on in tripoli right now. cnn's nic robertson covering that part of the story for us. he is in tripoli, our senior international correspondent, getting in place so we can speak to him. you see him in a corner of your screen. as soon as nic is available to speak to us, we will get him live. if you can, nic, jump in when

ever you're ready. i'm not sure if his camera can hear us. if so, weighed love to see the pictures we saw before and have nic talk over them. >> reporter: heavy anti-aircraft gunfire. as i was reporting to you just a little earlier, the gunfire came after we heard several loud explosions here. it is in the city, now, about 2:35 in the morning heavy anti-aircraft gunfire seems to be subsiding at the moment. it has come, quite literally within the last 10 minutes, it was very quiet in the city. we had sporadic gunfire, then a couple loud explosions, followed by that heavy anti-aircraft gunfire which subsided for the moment. this is what we're hearing in the city at the moment.

>> nic robertson as the skies of tripoli were lighting up last night with gunfire. what has the next objective for allied forces? we'll check in with barbara starr and russel honore next.

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if you're just joining us, we want to reset the scene for you on the breaking news out of libya. a crushing missile strike pulverized a four story building in tripoli, part of a palace compound used to greet other national officials and vips. barbara starr joins us by phone with new infortion about this strike. what are your sources telling you tonight? >> caller: coalition military officials told our chris lawrence the compound was targeted because it specifically did contain military capabilities to exercise command and control over libyan forces, in other words, it would have provided gadhafi and his military team with the ability to communicate with their forces in the field, the exact thing the coalition is trying to stop right now. the key question on the table

right now, don, are they targeting gadhafi or not at this compound? are they trying to get him specifically? the pentagon, u.s. says, no, gadhafi is not a specific target. this is a general area he's known to have been in. clearly, the view from the pentagon is if he just happens to be there when they hit it with cruise missiles, so be it. we know it's a long history of the military finding it very tough to target and kill specific people it's going after, don. >> barbara starr, thank you very much. let's bring back in cnn contributor russel honore. you heard our pentagon correspondent. where's the evidence? did the reporters and journalists who visited this site, where's the evidence that says what the coalition forces are saying about targeting or striking this building? >> it's interesting to see this unfold on television and you hear gadhafi representative then a representative from the pentagon disputing this was a

legitimate target and gadhafi forces said, hey, we weren't supposed to be target, an interesting dilemma in warfare, might be one of the first we've seen where forces are doing battle assessment over television. that being said, we have precision strike. the target we went after, if we tried to do this in the vietnam war and take a twenty aircraft package and b-52s to hit that building. tonight, it was done with precision. they went after the target and hit it. it didn't provide collateral damage and that speaks to investments we made in technology and ability to hit the target. whether he was in the building or not, that is consequential. >> all right. general, stand by and thank you. u.s. military officials said they were not targeting moammar gadhafi. they said it over and over.

tonight's air strike against his come mound strong-- compound st suggests otherwise. i want to welcome an author of "showdown korea" and "collapse of china." what do you make of this dramatic change tonight? >> i think gadhafi will bring this to the u.n. security council. we will want to say the coalition has gone beyond the terms of resolution 1973 passed last thursday to protect the libyan people. i don't think it's a good argument but nonetheless, he will make it. the other place he will make it is in qatar because he doesn't want another arab nation as part of the coalition. if you have another arab nation there, it looks like gadhafi against the world. if qatar is actually part of the package, clearly, it doesn't look good for gadhafi. >> gordon chiaang, stand by as

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as the conflict goes on in libya, the number of casualties will only go up. medical staff and hospitals are finding themselves short on

supplies and long on victims. this doctor has seen the horrors in libya and recently returned home after treating victims in libya. do you believe the cost in the terms of lives lost will be worth it if it can end this conflict? >> i definitely think so. the extent gadhafi and his forces have been willing to attack his forces and speaking to my colleagues on the ground in benghazi, there's been a huge escalation of deaths and casualties in the last seven days. he won't stop unless the people can get him out. >> doctor, can you talk more to us about the kind of difficulties doctors are facing over there? what is it like to be a physician in the war zone? >> there's a lot of difficulties in terms of shortages of

supplies, shortages of equipment to deal with this. there's a lot of shortages when i was there, with orthopedic and surgical equipment. they're not used to dealing with this extent of major injuries and casualties they're dealing with. also, a big shortage in terms of training, not a lot of people qualified and have the appropriate training to deal with this so people are being forced into roles they've never really dealt with before. >> what's your fear with the possibility of what happens to the people in libya the longer this goes on and what moammar gadhafi does to those people? >> he's shown himself. currently, as this has gone on longer and longer, he's become more and more indiscriminate with attacks against civilians and lashing out and the fear is the longer this takes the more he will take innocent civilians as hostages and injure people on

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let's get you caught up on the headlines. a coalition air strike hit moammar gadhafi's compound insisting it's because it had

nuclear capabilities and not because he was there. they're not sure where he is now. a teenager and grandmother were rescued sunday nine days after the tsunami and earthquake and survived on food out of their refrigerator. rescuer spotted him. they put the death toll at 8,450. nearly 13,000 missing. at the fukushima power plant, electricity has been restored to the water pumps at reactors 5 and 6 and hope to have water pumps running again soon at number 2. in rio de janeiro, president obama made only a brief reference to libya, calling the rebels courageous and saying they're taking a stabbed against a regime that brutalized its own

people. john boehner issued a sharply worded statement calling on mr. obama to offer more details on u.s. military goals in libya. for the first time since she was shot, congresswoman gabrielle giffords spent time with her brother-in-law who just returned from the international space station. like her husband, he is an naugh astronaut. he returned and visited with her thursday. she was shot in the head in january. in wisconsin, the tragic death of a police officer killed in the line of duty. it happened following a dramatic shootout. police say a gunman opened fire on officers investigating an assault. listen. gunfire ]. >> heavily armed s.w.a.t. team members had to rescue a woman

from the shooting. when the barrage ended, two officers had been shot. one later died and the other reported to be in critical condition and police found the gunman dead inside his home of a self-inflicted wound. one of the most eloquent voices of a libyan rebellion died. abusi died from a sniper's gun. he dared to put his life on the line. on the day he watched his friends die, he spoke to us on what he was witnessing in libya. >> you believe your life is in jeopardy just by making this call and talking to us now? >> caller: of course, i do. they already shot down two of my friends. this is not mine, this is just a

random card i was given to be able to speak to you. >> thank you so much. be in touch and be safe, okay? >> i'm not sure i will be there tomorrow because i'm not sure if i will survive tonight but there will be a lot with you tomorrow hopefully. i haven't got that information. >> do you think the situation is that bad that you believe people won't survive overnight? is it that bad? >> i'm telling you my friend has died already and all kinds of people died. i don't know what will betors with you. >> that was on february 19th, at a time when moammar gadhafi was pulling down a curtain over his campaign of terror, he shed light on the horrors of war. his bravery likely cost his life. i spoke to arwa damon about his sacrifice in the name of liberty. >> mohamed is one of the many people who literally risked their lives and paid the ultimate price simply to get the real news out about what was

happening in his own country. he was one of those young bright inspiring minds everybody who met him grew to respect and admire him. he was a hero, 27 years old, a technology wizard who managed to rig cameras up and live stream video over what was happening in libya at a time it blacks news hole for many organizations like our very own because we did not have access to proper information in the country and did not have reporters in the country. mohamed was one of those many people who was our eyes and ears on the ground risking his life, as he did there, to speak to you over the phone. somehow, he also managed to get those pictures out by bypassing whatever system the gadhafi regime had been trying to put into place, bypassing those firewalls to get the message out, one young man out of many who passionately believed in

this battle for a free and democratic libya. he did end up paying the ultimate price. yesterday, he was killed when the gadhafi forces entered the city of benghazi and shot by them according to his wife when he decided to go in the neighborhood when he heard rocketfire had killed a number of children. he was an expectant father. i'd like to share one of his favorite quotes, a candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. >> he was 27 years old. we'll talk to a libyan american who still has relatives and friends still living in libya, just ahead. but first, devastating images and heartbreaking stories in japan are sparking many people to give to charity but not and as many as you might think. what should you give to charity?

we spoke to a charity navigator on this weekend's bottom line. >> what charities really need most is unrestricted money, that can be used for whatever they think they need to use it for. people like to give knowing exactly where their money is going. people should just give money when they have figured out what the charity is, is that right? >> right. that's really important. we see a lot of people who give supplies at time, a beautiful thing, very heartfelt but a very good chance the stuff will get thrown away. the distributions channels just aren't there. unless you have a link to the charity on the ground, a very good chance it will get wasted. make the donation directly. if you have an attic, turn it into a garage sale. but money is what the charities need at this time.

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well. we had this doctor on with us before. he is a libyan american and has friends and relatives still living there. doctor, thank you for joining us. what's happening in your homeland, personal to you. welcome back. what are you feeling? >> first, i'm not a doctor but appreciate what doctors do. >> okay. >> okay. your question about what the people feel. >> what are they saying? >> they are waiting for the moment that this regime is collapsing. they understand that this is what the coalition is doing is legal and more ral and understand he will not go without a fight. >> so the question i asked the doctor before you, do you think the casualties, the cost of this, is it worth it? >> i believe so. we hope less casualties will

happen but we believe the price will be paid for better future for better libya, libya without gadhafi, without this tyrant. >> when you joined us before, did you think moammar gadhafi would leave? you didn't think it would come to this, did you? >> when i said he would leave, i didn't necessarily think he would leave physically the country on an airplane. he would leave the power, the position he is in. >> did you think it would come to this point and this sort of conflict? >> not this way. but i thought it was less than this but the man proved he is a brutal enemy to drag the people through this. >> as you talk to people at home, what do they say to you? >> they are concerned but waiting for the outcome and believe what they see -- >> i mean more in detail what's happening in their neighborhoods, towns, witnessing, neighbors? >> the main concern i spoke with many people i spoke with is the

town of misurata. there is genocide over there. gadhafi continues to unleash his forces to attack people in tanks and barrage missiles. the city is surrounded, sieged almost a month right now. hospitals deprived of everything and people under continuous attack by gadhafi forces and also the city in the west. >> people in tripoli no specific military targets so they are less concerned. >> thank you, will you stick around? i have another question i want to ask you but i want to ask you about the young man who died. >> yes. >> trying to bring the images to the world. >> yes. >> stick around. we'll have a little bit more with ali gebril. plus russel honore on the future of libya. up next. from lexus. welcome to the darker side of green.

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gebril. this is a live broadcast from libya state television and

all the unrest going on, this is what's going on, on television in libya. i will welcome back ali, what do you make of that? >> this is propaganda and people are praising their leader despite the bombardments and air strikes and showing people love their leader so much, they're showing fireworks and music at the dance. >> the future of libya, what do you think? >> the future of libya would be a brighter future without gadhafi, hoping they will have democracy, justice and economic opportunities and to engage with the war. >> we're talking about 27-year-old mahmoud, who died after bringing images of the world? >> i spoke with his family and

my condolences and they told me the story of this courage young man. 27 years old, born just two years before the 1986 area tacks against gadhafi. this is a new generation that didn't live under any other regime and this generation made the revolution happen and showed the courage and determination to join the 21st century, join the rest of the world in freedom, justice and economical opportunities. and they demonstrated their courage, demonstrated their determination. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> all the best to you and your family. >> thank you, don. thanks a lot. >> good to see you. stick around, we may need you throughout our broadcast. we'll be going quite a lot. ali gerbril. >> how do you see this playing out? as you hear the story, what do

you think about dismantling gadhafi's military capabilities? >> it's difficult when you have a dictator like gadhafi leave. he's prevented the elements of civil society existing. when he's gone, there's a vacuum and people operate in the old way, like gadhafi. the big problem here is develop the non-governmental organizations, all of the things we would like to see in libyan society. it takes a long time. i want to bring in general russel honore. i want to put the same question to you. how do you see this drama playing out? >> he will leave or he will be killed by his own forces or somebody near to him and there will be a transition. that transition will go to the freedom fighters who in their own way will sort it out with a lot of help from the u.n. and some folks going in to help them

stand up that civil governorance needed to run the country. they are very blessed. they have a natural resource, oil, that can provide resources to the people, a function of governance and with today's networking of information, the people will do well once he's gone. >> thank you. we'll show you the sounds and images from the first day of coalition attacks just ahead. [ wind howling ]

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the stories will fill volumes documenting the attacks on libya and everything that led up to them but the first images stand on their own. take a look. >> reporter: around 8:45, we saw plane overhead appearing to be heading south. around 9:10, one of our team witnessed a jet, a fighter jet fall out of the sky in flame

instruments we have since then spoken to an opposition fighter, who has told us that was one of their own aircraft that they were sending out to try to stop, bring a stop to gadhafi's military assault. >> libya is not yours. libya is for all libyans. the resolutions of the security council are invalid. >> they tried to enter the city yesterday and the day before yesterday and they were pushed back by our fighters and now they started to terrorizing the people on the outskirts and shelling heavy, really heavy shelling. >> translator: participants agreed to use all the necessary means, in particular, military means, to enforce the security council decisions.

>> yesterday, the international community demanded an immediate cease fine libya, including an end to all attacks against civilians. today, secretary clinton joined an international coalition of our european and arab partners in paris to discuss how we will enfor enforce resolution 1973. >> this is a brad international effort. the world will not sit idly by while more innocent civilians are killed. >> it is legal because we have the backing of the united nat n nations suit council and arab league and many others. it is right because i believe we should not stand aside while this dictator murders his own people. >> today, i authorized the armed forces of the united states to begin a limited military action in libya. in support of an international effort to protect libyan civilians. that action has now begun.

>> over 110 tomahawk cruise missiles fired from both u.s. ships and submarines and integrated air defense missiles and other air defense facilities ashore. >> i tried to run up to the roof and then i saw the second explosion. i saw a huge fire coming up from that place. and there was a lot of noise. i can hear some shooting. i can't know whether it was aircraft or gun shooting, very severe, very heavy? >> it is called "operation odyssey dawn" and most targets along the libyan coastline. why? major cities and gas installations and political capitol, tripoli. the reason they were there in the early day, because this is

where moammar gadhafi has his most powerful weaponry that could be used against coalition pilots. >> libya will try to defend itself according to section 1 of the united nation's charter that all targets, maritime targets will be exposed to real danger in the mediterranean in north africa. because of this aggression, naked aggression. >> this all unfolding on the first day. let's bring in retired general russel honore and gordon chang to give us thoughts on this. first, you, gordon, the u.n. resolution a few days doing air strikes. this happened at lightning speed. >> it certainly did. that was because it was necessary on the ground in benghazi the country's secondary city, it was obvious they would

retake it. if those air strikes didn't take it quickly, this would have been all over on the ground. that was absolutely necessary. >> same tquestion to you, generl honore, was that necessary? >> my personal opinion we should have done this three weeks ago. these types of attacks can be done within hours as the importanting t i planning the coalition had and countries participating added objectives to the united states not to be the lead country even though indeed we have, the other side of it is not to go alone, have a coalition as mandated by the u.n. these type attacks could happen within hours and a day anywhere in the world any time if it needs to be done. >> you bring up a good point in the short time i have 15 seconds left. many who say the international community did act pretty slowly