have continuing coverage of the unconfirmed reports that libyan leader qaddafi has died. >> caption colorado, llc comments@captioncolorado.com good morning. libya's long-time dictator moammar gadhafi captured ask killed this morning. celebrations in libya, this as rebel troops overtook his hometown of sirte ending an eight-month rebellion that toppled his government after 42 years in power. this morning the latest from libya, plus reaction from u.s. officials and from around the world, we'll also take a look back at his life, his reign and his many conflicts with the u.s. and its allies. early this thursday morning, and its allies. early this thursday morning, october 20, 2011. captioning funded by cbs

good thursday morning to you. 7:00 a.m. on the west coast and 10:00 here on the east, i'm erica hill. >> took over libya when he was 27 years old, but it appears moammar gadhafi has not only been captured, but killed. >> we want to begin this morning with breaking news. libyan's leader for 42 years when he was driven out of power over the summer. i want to show you a photo that i want to warn you, is graphic. it was released this morning and it shows gadhafi wounded or dead. pentagon officials tell us they cannot tell exactly that there has been no official confirmation on the death. but the national council says gadhafi was, in fact, killed. another picture there you can see. he was killed as his defenders were overrun in his hometown of sirte this morning which rebel forces say they captured. charlie dagata has more on those

developments. >> good morning, erica. al jazeera showing some of that graphic video of a man that certainly appears to be moammar gadhafi. at one point the screen freezes, but you can see his face, clearly. now the ntc vice chairman announced that gadhafi has been killed today. conflicting reports as to how he died. one that he was killed in a nato air strike trying to flee sirte. warplanes did have air strikes, but libyan tv has also been showing the entrance to two large concrete tunnels since gadhafi's disappearance. rumors that he has been using his network of tunnels that run throughout libya's vast deserts to run around undetected. also initial reports that he was wounded in both legs and the head and may have later died of those injuries. his laudy arrived and it's been transferred to a secret location for security reasons. erica? >> charlie in london this morning, thanks.

now, here's jeff. >> here >> erica, thanks. they're tracking the story as we speak and bill plante has the latest on that. bill, good morning. >> good morning, jeff. they are still waiting for official confirmation from libyans transitional government. but in the meantime, secretary of state clinton is traveling, she's in afghanistan today and here's what she had to say when she got the report. >> it would mean a lot to them. they were fighting so hard to get sirte, which is gadhafi's hometown and to try to end the fighting phase of their revolution and begin the building phase. and they knew that if gadhafi remains at large, he will continue to buy mercenaries and cause problems for them and if they know that he is no longer a threat to them, i think that will actually ease the

transition process into a new government. >> the secretary of state says that she isn't sure yet either but confirmation is likely to come soon and when it does, we're likely to hear something either from her or from the president. remember the president said in august that gadhafi's regime was over. and the u.s. lent its support, in fact, led at the very beginning in the effort by the rebels to unseat gadhafi. the u.s. then stepped back and let nato take the lead. the president was criticized at the time, but now his policy is probably going to be seen as a success. jeff? >> bill, have we got an indication that we will hear from the president when and if we get this confirmation? >> well, the white house is hedging a little bit on this, but it will be very surprising if we didn't. i think we're likely to hear from him or at least from some senior administration official because of the skin that the u.s. had in this game. this will represent clearly for them a victory. >> bill plante, all right, thanks very much. talk to you again soon,

appreciate it. we do also want to get you more news. again, remember, this is a pretty fluid situation, we are able to get in touch with our reporter katie who is on the ground in tripoli with more information from libya on how this is foun elding and what is on the ground there, katie, hello. >> what we're seeing now is that some arab news channels are playing footage of what appears to be colonel gadhafi lying seriously injured or dead. they have produced excitement here again on the streets of tripoli as you can probably hear behind mow more celebratory gunfire and honking of horns. we still don't have the official confirmation that gadhafi is captured or dead but the national council will give a report. nato has admitted they conducted an air strike and we do understand that colonel gadhafi

and some of ohis people may have been in that particular convoy. but we do not yet have an accurate account of what may have happened. we're also hearing reports that several other key figures, including his spokesman and perhaps even some other key players may have been in that convoy, as well. so, we're waiting to hear confirmation from the national transitional council erica, but the people of tripoli believe that colonel gadhafi is caught and this is the moment they have all been waiting for. >> we want to bring in cbs news national security analyst juan who joins us from washington. there are these images that have come out, not just the still images that we have been showing at cbs new news, but arab chann showing. walk us through the symbolism here. if gadhafi has been killed, what does this do, not only for libya, but for the rest of the world?

>> it's a great question, erica. i think the images are psychologically symbolically quite powerful. not just within libya where the rebels have been fighting for the toppling of the regime or killing or capturing of gadhafi, but also in the region where he has been a symbol for four decades. in arab world, in africa, he has been seen as a pillar of power and now with him apparently lying in the street either wounded or killed, that's a powerful message that the people have taken over in libya. >> and a lot of importance, too, we should say, to these videos. reports, i think charlie was telling us earlier that libyan tv, we're told, will be allowed to film the body. you mention the importance of actually seeing those pictures and having that confirmation. but there is still some amount of concern that there could be some insurgency that could mount up here. there are still a number of people in libya who are loyal to moammar gadhafi. >> absolutely.

and the images in some ways are an attempt to try to quell some of that insurgency that may arise. you have tribes that are still loyal to gadhafi. you certainly have family members, five of gadhafi's sons who are still alive and on the loose. two of them have fled to algeria. and you have members of his inner circle who are still presumably alive and on the loose. so, there is a chance here that you're still going to see pockets of resistance and fighting, which certainly the transitional national council wants to avoid. >> tell us what is the next challenge here because for so long this was a goal to either capture or kill moammar gadhafi, even after he had been thrown out of power. what is the next challenge in front of them now? >> in many ways, i think this was inevitable. we knew gadhafi would be found and killed or captured in some form or fashion but the real trick and the difficulty lies ahead. for the transitional national council the ruling body in libya, their trick now is to

consolidate power and move towards elections and to try to bring together the various factions that have been part of the anti-gadhafi regime. without gadhafi, now a question to what galvanizes the libyan people and i think that's going to be tricky for the council. >> juan, thank you. >> thank you, erica. very busy news morning. betty nguyen is at the news desk with a check of other headlines. >> good morning to you. new violence erupted near the greek parliament building in athens as the country remains gripped by a general strike for a second straight day. factions among the tens of thousands of protesters attacked each other with rocks and fire bombs. the strike and protests are aimed at parliament where lawmakers are due to pass a new astaiusterity bill today. federal health officials may have traced the origin of that deadly listeria outbreak linked to contaminated cantaloupe.

listeria was found on dirty equipment at a colorado packing facility. the equipment was bought used. it was corroded and previous used onpitatose. the government says the past use may have played a role in the contamination and also contaminated water on the plant floor. at least 25 people have died from that outbreak. actress lindsay lohan is out on bail this morning in los angeles. she was taken out of court in handcuffs yesterday. lohan has performed very little of her 360 hours of community service she is required to do. the judge set another hearing for november 2 pd to decide if lohan must return to jail. wife of president nicolas sarkozy has given birth to a baby girl. he paid a visit to meet his new daughter. he said both mother and baby are doing very well. he didn't reveal the child's name or anything else about her.

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in zanesville, ohio, this morning the hunt for the wild animals sets free on tuesday is over. most of the animals were shot and killed by police. this morning animal lovers are asking why. cbs news correspondent cynthia bowers joins us from zanesville this morning with the very latest. good morning. >> good morning, erica. by all accounts the death toll was staggering and inexplicable. people who knew the 62-year-old terry thompson said he was a nice guy who just marched to the beat of a different drum but who was so despondent over debt and impending divorce he set loose 50 of his beloved pets prior to committing suicide, condemning those animals to almost certain death. joel harris shot this cell phone video that shows just one of the bears that was part of terry thompson's exotic animal farm. >> a wolf comes from the fence that the bears in and comes up

to the fence and then just pops right through the fence. >> reporter: the neighbor, sam, was the first wins when he saw wild animals eyeing his horse. his wife made the first 911 call. >> we live next to terry thompson and there's a bear and a lion out. >> a bear and a lion out? >> yeah, right behind us. >> reporter: facing dozens of dangerous animals as night fell, matt lutz made the tough call, shoot to kill. >> public safety was my number one concern. i gave the order on the way here that if animals look like they were going out, they went down. >> what began in 1977 with a pet monkey for thompson's wife turned into an obsession, a menagerie that included lions, tigers, cheetahs, giraffes and camels. thompson had many run-ins with the law, most involving animal issues. >> animals running at large to not being treated properly and such. this has been a huge problem for us for many years. >> reporter: ohio is one of eight states with loose laws

concerning ownership of exotic pets. this tragedy is certain to increase the call for restrictions. >> if they had these animals, they better have the proper permits and conditions for these animals. as far as i'm concerned, we should not go through this again. >> the schools were back in session today and the community is getting back to normal, but there is plenty of grief over what people see as a necessary, but, nonetheless, tragic massacre. erica? >> cynthia bauer in zanesville this morning, thanks. earlier where spoke with matt lutz and asked him if it was possible as critics have said to tranquilize those dangerous animals instead of killing them. >> there's a lot of issues with that. i guess the two biggest hurdles would have been we do not carry tranquillizer guns in our cruisers. we have about 32 primary response cars in the county and none of them are equipped with any type of tranquillizer gun. so, when the first responders arrived on the scene, we already

had animals outside the fenced area. obviously, they were released from the cage. they were running loose in a pa pasture field and some had already been outside the fence area. no time to wait with the idea that public safety was number one for us and we did not want these animals roaming our streets in an unsafe manner. the second part of that was the time of day. we received the first 911 call on this at 5:00 p.m. the majority of oour officers didn't arrive on scene until 5:30, 5:45 which left us with about an hour to hour and a half of good light before it got dark. so many animals running at large that we just, i made the decision that we were not going to have wild animals running loose on our streets. there was no way of telling which animals would lay down, which animals would run all night, where these animals would end up and that's why we made that decision. >> there had been a history of calls at this property with terry thompson.

had been charged with a number of things over the years. but local or county humane officer said at one point i read, it wasn't a matter of when but if these animals were set free. he threatened to let them loose in the past. how much focus did you have on this particular property and on these animals in the back of your mind knowing you might have to prepare for this? >> well, i guess it's been in the back of my mind for a long time. i have been in law enforcement in this county for almost 23 years. i've known terry. terry was the type of guy, i coined him as somebody who would push the envelope a little bit. terry would not say things like that about threatening to let them loose. i always thought one or two of these animals may be loose and terry may be killed by one of them. i have seen the trust he put into the animals and a lot of respect for the animals and trusted them a lot further than i had ever seen anyone else do. i thought at one point we would have an incident where he would be mauled and an animal or pen

of animals would be loose and we'd have to deal with that. >> any danger at all this morning that something else could be lurking out there? >> we don't think so. we have one animal that's unaccounted for, which was a monkey. there is a possibility that he would be loose, but we have had no reported sightings of anything and it's a high probability that he could have been eaten by one of the big cats. out of the 49 animals that are dead, 48 were shot by law enforcement and the one animal that is left would be a monkey that we believe was killed by one of the big cats and this other monkey could have been in the same area of where that monkey was killed. >> sheriff, appreciate your time this morning. thank you. >> thank you. >> boy, crazy story still. still ahead here this morning, mire fireworks at the michael jackson manslaughter

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you're looking at live pictures of sirte, libya, sirte fell today and so did moammar gadhafi after 45 years in power. he took over libya at 29. he has been on the run for months. tripoli fell a couple months ago and now sirte falls and, apparently, moammar gadhafi is dead, as well. that's what libya's prime minister is telling the associated press at this hour. >> that's right. that is what we're learning. you mention that tripoli fell. two months tomorrow that tripoli fell. a number of not only information, but a number of images also coming out of sirte this morning. i want to warn you before we

show you this next bit of video. video obtained by al jazeera which they tell us, in fact, is video of moammar gadhafi's body. this video had come out and we had seen some stills similar to this, but, again, al jazeera broadcasting this video earlier and we are showing it to you, again. warning it is graphic of what we are told, in fact, the body of moammar gadhafi and you can tell a lot of blood. clearly, there had been a lot of activity this morning we know in sirte. a fair amount of violence. the latest on the situation now from charlie d' agata. >> we have seen the still pictures of what appears to be

this is a cbs special report. good morning. we are getting multiple reports now that moammar gadhafi, the dictator of libya, has been killed today. we are receiving a report from the associated press libya's prime minister says moammar gadhafi has been killed. we also have this it report coming from the reuters news agency. it is a translation of a statement from the vice chairman of the libyan national transitional council that is the current rebel government of libya. and in that statement the vice chairman says, and i quote, i am announcing to the world the killing of gadhafi by the hands of the revolutionaries, the chapter of gadhafi and his tyranny has now been closed. for the last two months there has been a fight in libya, of

course, gadhafi had left tripoli, once his capital city had fallen. we are getting video in now from the al jazeera network that purports to show gadhafi's body after he was killed today apparently in his hometown of sirte. again, this is footage that has just come to us unedited. that is said to be the former libyan dictator, moammar gadh i gadhafi, in his hometown of sirte. there was a ferocious fight for his hometown over the last couple of weeks. sirte fell this morning and very shortly after it fell we began to get word that gadhafi had been captured and then word that gadhafi had, in fact, been killed in the fighting, although we do not have details at this point of precisely how gadhafi was killed.

there is jubilation in the city of tripoli, the libyan capital, this morning, and we have a reporter there now in tripoli and i wonder if you can tell us what is the mood in the libyan capital at this moment. >> reporter: i think you can hear it behind me in the background. this noise is the reaction officials have the confirmation that colonel gadhafi, who ruled libya with an iron fist for 42 years that he, in fact, has been killed today in his hole town of sirte. this is the rae action you are hearing behind me, the euphoria here in tripoli. many people suffered for a long time under colonel gadhafi. their relatives were imprisoned or killed. he really had a very strong dictatorial raul. and the past eight months has been about removing him from

pow power. two months ago when libya fell, they knew where he'd gone. now they know for sure he is out of the way, that he's gone, and this ises really a time now for huge celebration in the capital tripoli as you can hear behind me. >> thank you, kitty. we've not heard any official confirmation from any u.s. source today. the president has not spoken about this. the secretary of state, who is traveling today, has also reserved any comment waiting for absolute confirmation but, again, to repeat what kitty just said, we do have word from the current libyan government, the national transitional council, saying that moammar gadhafi has been killed. there will be more about the death of moammar gadhafi on your local news on this cbs station, on cbsnews.com and, of course, tonight on the "cbs evening news."

prosecutors in the michael jackson manslaughter trial are wrapping up their case with some pretty powerful testimony against conrad murray. >> comes from the man who literally wrote the book on the sleep drug connected to jackson's death. bill whitaker reports. >> reporter: on one thing, both the prosecution and defense agree, that michael jackson used the anesthetic propofol to relieve his insomnia. on wednesday, prosecutors called their final witness. the doctor who wrote the safety guidelines on propofol. >> virtually none of the safeguards for sedation were in place when propofol was administered to michael jackson. >> reporter: ans the doctor listed 17 ways dr. murray

definite yat deviated the standard. >> he was wrote to the witness stand so the jury can be left only with his words ringing in their ears that propofol can never be used in the manner that murray used it. >> reporter: dr. murray told investigators jackson begged him for the propofol that eventually killed him. shafer no competent doctor ever would have given into such pleadings. >> what i saw was a patient who stated what he wanted. i want this. i want this. i want this. and i saw that conrad murray said yes. tell me what you want, i'll do it. >> dr. conrad murray should never have ka pit rated to michael jackson and given him the drug because he begged for it. he needed to know when to say no because he is the doctor, he is in charge. >> reporter: murray's attorneys cross-examined shafer today and on friday, they start presenting his defense.

bill whitaker, cbs news, los angeles. >> here with us this morning is cbs news legal analyst jack ford. jack, when you look at this, i mean, some of the things that dr. shafer had to say that was pharmaceutical never, never land and he was clueless what to do with dr. conrad murray. when you put this guy on the stand as part of your evidence fairly damming it seems. >> damming and great theatrics in the trial. as a prosecutor you want to finish with a flourish. you look for a real strong witness. here literally as bill just said, the guy who wrote the book gets on the stand and comes after dr. murray and ticks off 17 different circumstances that he said were definiviationdevia. remember, it's a manslaughter case. they are not suggesting he intendedo kill michael jackson

but saying that he deviated from standard of care and that michael jackson could die from all of this. that is a great witness to wrap up your case with. >> what will the defense do? i think some people would consider it a surprise if conrad murray testifies. you think he should. >> it's been interesting question. ordinarily defendants don't take the stand. the reason is a lot of times they are guilty. other times, defense attorneys might say i don't want to shift the focus in the courtroom. you know, the prosecution has the burden. if i put on my defendant, even though technically it doesn't shirt, the burden people say did he convince me or not. but in this kind of case you have to believe that dr. murray has got to tell his story in some way, shape, or form. the defense might say we got everything we could have gotten from him through the audio tapes that the prosecution has already put on. if i'm the defense attorney i might think about saying to the jurors we didn't put him on the stand. you heard everything he had to stay. he volunteered to talk to the police and a guilty man wouldn't

volunteer. so i think that may be the argument you see. i don't know if you'll see him, but i think you'll see -- you might but you'll certainly see the defense relying on his words tlich there. >> everyone think this is a slam dunk case. prosecution did a great job, a ton of evidence against him. there was o.j. and casey anthony. what are the chances we see a head-shaker after verdict? >> the first thing you learn if you've tried cases as a living. no such thing as a slam dunk case. you can handicap saenand say th prosecution has a great amount of evidence. the defense doesn't have to prove anything. all they have to do is raise questions in the minds of the jurors and that could be enough. >> not about those of us who haven't tried cases but what we see and the opinion that is shaped in the public is, obviously, very different than the job that the jury has. we kind of always have to remind ourselves they can only look at the evidence. >> exactly. >> and it's beyond a reasonable doubt. >> we go back to casey anthony. i had said two years, that was

going to be a hard case for the prosecution to win because if the jurors follow just the evidence and in that case, remember, they couldn't prove a cause of death or a manner of death. jurors work very hard in overwhelming number of instances to do legally what they are supposed to do. >> jack, thanks very much. three or four more days and then we wrap up? >> that's what they are saying. >> that means we will be talking to again soon. up next nearly a century after the titanic sank, we will get your a first look at photos and fascinating stuff. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. [ boy ] there's something inside your mcdonald's happy meal. where? it's really good. do you see it? it's called hope. hope? yeah, hope. i don't see any hope. i don't see any hope in here. you can't see it there, but you can see it here. 'cause every time you get a happy meal or a mighty kids meal some of the money goes to ronald mcdonald house charities to help lots of kids and families.

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cbs's bigad shaban has the story. >> reporter: april 10th, 1912. the titanic set sail for its first and last time. for john and el snyder how they spent their honeymoon. among 2,200 passengers and just over 700 survivors. their photos of the rescue and their writings of how it all happened is going to the action block.k. john wrote when we had moved some distance away from the titanic, we realized by looking at the bow seeing the different rows of port holes less and less, the finest boat in the world was doomed. phil weiss runs the new york auction house that is now selling the memorabilia. >> you don't see these kind of things come to the market any more. most of this material has been located, found and accounted for. >> reporter: the items include a letter from john schneider written on an actual embossed stationery from the trip. >> on board.

>> reporter: it included two of this photo believe to show the newlyweds wearing the clothing when es rescued. another letter to his father, john wrote his wife nell who saved their lives. she is the one who urged me to get up when i wanted to go back to bed, he wrote. we were almost the very first people placed in the life boat. during a 1980 interview, nell at the age of 91 recalled what happened when the ship hit an iceberg and the band kept playing. >> it sounded so sad and yet it sounded so good. we thought, well, this is the end of it now. and then, all of a sudden, it just went like this. it was gone. >> reporter: perhaps the snyders greatest photos these treasures. the most remarkable of all, what may be a rare image of the iceberg that took down the unsinkable titanic. bigad shaban, cbs news, new

york. >> it's incredible. >> you realize how difficult it's been for me to resist saying iceberg? >> i know. one of your favorite things to say. kudos. we all talk about there is that scene that everybody remembers from the movie "titanic" when they are playing and tell them to keep playing. but to hear her talk about that music, i mean, it's chilling and listening, then down it went. >> we were just talking with jack. it's like every time you hear about this and it comes back into the news again you perk up and listen because it's fascinating struff, a hundred years later. >> still to come, jack hanna is with us and he will talk about the horror he witnessed in ohio. nearly 50 wild animals killed after their owner set them loose. this was heartbreaking for jack too. he is director emeritus of the columbus zoo and he'll give us a better idea what happened and what is facing the six animals who have been moved to the zoo. stay with us. you're watching "the early show" on cbs.

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good morning, everybody. i'm frank mallicoat. it's 7:55. time for some news headlines. today marks 20 years since the deadly firestorm in the oakland hills 25 people died and more than 3300 homes burned. a public remembrance is planned today. the public utilities commission will meet this morning in san francisco to discuss how much pg&e should be allowed to charge its customers as it modernizes its natural gas system. it's expected to cost more than $3 billion and the utility's plan would have ratepayers covering 90% of the tab. state assemblyman jerry hill plans to be there urging the panel to reject pg&e's proposal. and dell says it plans to add 200 jobs to its new santa clara campus that just opened yesterday. they will focus on research and

development. ceo michael dell says by the end of next year, 700 people will work at that new facility. we'll have your traffic and weather coming right up. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,

an earlier traffic alert in vacaville was cancelled ahead of schedule. a big rig hit another big rig

and one was carrying a load of live chickens. they were all over the road for a while. 10 minutes ago they completely re-opened the freeway. unfortunately, we are still really backed up through vacaville. westbound 80, you are jammed solid still from leisuretown road. hopefully things will improve here shortly. but if you are counting, that's a six-mile backup at last check. we are also backed up at the bay bridge toll plaza to the macarthur maze. that's traffic. lawrence has the forecast. >> we have fog around the bay area to start out the day. it's moved onshore and into the bay as we speak. looking from the transamerica cam, you can see lots of cloud out there right now. but by the afternoon, we'll find plenty of blue skies an sunshine inside the bay and 60s and 70s there. mid-70s inland. at the coastline, still patchy fog, temperatures cooler in the low 60s. next couple of days, we are going to watch those temperatures beginning to warm up as early as tomorrow. much warmer over the weekend with high pressure offshore wind, some of those temperatures in the 80s. ,,,,,,,,

welcome back, everyone. jeff glor along with erica hill. chris wragge off this morning. you are looking at, well, there you go, looking at pictures in sirte, libya, as a celebration is on in moammar gadhafi's hometown. apparently moammar gadhafi -- libya's prime minister is confirming this morning that moammar gadhafi was killed today. a man who's been on the run for several months now. >> who ruled that country for some 42 years. tripoli was taken over two months ago, two months tomorrow. then we get the word early this morning his hometown of sirte has been taken over and that he had been captured and now killed. we have more video from this morning. this is graphic video.

it was obtained by al gentlemja. this is apparently the body of moammar gadhafi. they are showing this video this morning. as you can see it is very graphic. it does in fact appear to be the body of moammar gadhafi, that is what they say it is. a lot of reports of different nato air strikes in the area, so still flushing out a number of those details this morning. >> one thing seems clear, sirte fell relatively quickly and we got this news about gadhafi. we're going to go to the white house. we've been waiting for reaction from them. bill plante is standing by. bill, have we heard anything from the white house on their plans? >> reporter: jeff, they have not yet officially confirmed that they know colonel gadhafi is dead. but it does seem likely, and we could expect to hear something later in the day. but you can understand why they're skeptical around here. there have been so many rumors over the course of this libyan revolution and of course most of

them have turned out to be wrong. we have a great moment on video. secretary of state clinton is traveling today. she's in afghanistan. reporters were with her when she looked down at her blackberry and got the report. >> wow! huh. unconfirmed. yeah, unconfirmed. unconfirmed reports about gadhafi being captured. unconfirmed. yeah. we've had a bunch of those before. we've had -- have had him captured a couple of times. >> reporter: even though it does now appear to be true, secretary of state clinton went on to say in that interview with a group of reporters that if it's true, it will mean a great deal to the people of libya, that it might liberate them from the continued fighting and allow them to begin to build a new nation. she did caution, however, that fighting is likely to continue because of gadhafi supporters remaining loyal, because of the various factions which still

exact in that troubled state. but for the obama administration, this will be seen as a win. president obama backed the libyan revolution early on. he sent in u.s. air power at the very beginning and then pulled back and let nato take the lead. jeff. >> all right, bill. one would think at some point today we will hear from the president on this. bill plante at the white house. thanks very much. now here's erica. >> we want to go to tripoli, libya, where we find kitty logan on the ground who can give us a better sense of not only how libyans are reacting but some of the news trickling out. kitty, good morning again. >> reporter: it's a great mood of celebration here in tripoli, as you can imagine, especially since the news has been made official. there's been huge amounts of celebratory gunfire, honking of horns. you can hear me prayer which has been continuing for some time now. relief and ecstatic celebration all over the country. this is what the revolution was

all about, the eight months of conflict was specifically to remove colonel gadhafi from power. now, the rebel movement didn't want him ever just to step down or to play any role in the governing of the country, they wanted him gone for good and that is what they have today. the national transitional council today spoke of a new era for libya, a new start, a new phase, the old regime well and truly in the past and behind them. there are still several characters at large. another of gadhafi's sons may still be in a convoy which is still moving out of sirte. there are reports that the rebel fighters, the pro-government forces are still involved in a firefight with a convoy which fled sirte this morning. but certainly the key player, the main man, the person they always wanted to stop, colonel gadhafi has now been confirmed killed in that incident this morning. the exact circumstances we're not sure about, but it does seem he was attacked as a convoy was

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i want to get to the very latest on a story that has captured the attention of the nation coming out of zanesville, ohio. that's where a man who had a menagerie of wild, exotic animals on his property, more than 50 apparently, opened their cages to set them free before taking his own life on tuesday. a number of those animals, 48 of them, were killed. there's a lot of questions this morning as to why they were killed, why they could not have been tranquilized, perhaps moved to a zoo. joining us to help answer some of those questions is jack hanna, director of the columbus zoo and aquarium. he worked tirelessly with police as they tracked down those animals. jack, it is obvious to so many watching over the last couple of days how hard all of this has been on you as an appear mallovma -- animal lover. >> it's been the worst thing

that's happened to me in 40 years. when i got there yesterday and saw the carnage of the animals, i thought why couldn't we have tranquilized him. we had four tranquilizer guns. they were 50 miles away. darkness was about 45 minutes. i don't know if you can see those bears, those are grizzlies. we had a couple of those lose along with 18 tigers, 17 lions so picture 30 or 40 of them coming out of this compound with four tranquilizer guns. if we shot one of these animals like a tiger or a bear, it has to hit a certain muscle. we have 30 some animals coming at the sheriff with our people. so what can be done with four guns? once you hit the animal, the animal goes and for three to ten minutes he's not down, he's just running everywhere because the drug is taking effect. no telling what would have happened if four tranquilizer guns were all we had. there's no doubt in my mind after 40 some years doing this

we'd have had some deaths on our hand. therefore, he had to make the critical decision. i know why people around the world are contacting, england, australia, all over, very upset with the sheriff over doing this. he had no choice. we would have had major loss of human life at zanesville, especially when the sun came up. it's all over with now. i sit here last night and cried several times. i look at these pictures, i don't believe it's happened. but it had to happen or we'd have had a mess on our hands beyond compression. >> six of the animals were able to be saved and transferred to the zoo. how are they doing this morning? >> they're doing very well. we have footage of the animals taken early, about 4:00 a.m. this morning. they're eating well, doing well. by the way, the governor, we met last night. the governor is passing laws immediately. there will be no more animal auctions in the state of ohio with exotic animals. within six months we'll go out to people like we saw last night and knock on their door and if e.r. not up to standards, which are going to be great standards because i'm going to have

something to do with setting those standards, those animals will be taken immediately to the wilds where we'll spend several hundreds of thousands of dollars building a repository for these animals to have a home. >> terry thompson who had these animals had a record of animal abuse. authorities were called out a number of times and yet he kept these animals. the conditions had been described as deplorable in some places. if we knew of the situation there, if it was seen firsthand, how was it allowed to continue? >> that's what we've been sitting over here since 5:30 this morning. my wife asked me the same exact question. the sheriff had been up there 30, 40 times. he went to prison. there's people in ohio that have these animals, i didn't know it was him. people went to arrest him for all the weapons, they went there but weren't allowed to do anything because the law states he's not open to the public so the u.s. government cannot inspect his property to write him any citations. so we have a situation that was

unbelievable. there wasn't any law to do anything to him. >> so all they could do, jack, is check and make sure that he had the permits he needed to have in the state of ohio and that was it? >> that's it. can you imagine that. that whole thing is changing in the next 60 to 90 tase. this will be one of the toughest states in the country to pull anything like this off ever again. as long as i'm here. i know the governor. governor strickland started this whole thing. governor casey will carry it through in the next few months and we'll be out there and this will not happen under my watch in the state of ohio unless somebody is sneaking it without anybody else knowing. >> there's so many questions about how this happened and what happened and what his thinking was before taking his life. you met with his wife yesterday. tell us if you can about this conversation and any insight she may have offered you. >> well, i understood she was very upset with me for taking her children. remember, these were her children. for someone killing her children. why would i try to take the remaining three leopards, certain small primates, apes

this big as well as one grizzly. she was crying. she was actually uncontrollable. you know what i did? when you see somebody that's just beaten to death, she lost her husband, but you see someone that's lost everything. i hugged her and tried to hold her. she was shaking. i've lost everything. you're taking my children. i said i'm not taking your children. i'm taking them to the zoo to take care of them. we cannot bring them back in these conditions. i'm trying to help you. and tears started coming out of my eyes. the emotions had been with me and our staff, the sheriff's deputies. when you saw those deputies that had to shoot those animals, i wished you could have seen their faces and wish you could have seen when they said they had to talk to their children. half of them had tears in their eyes. here they are shooting animals that jack hanna is trying to save. this is something that if you tried to write a script for this, i couldn't even imagine hollywood coming up with something like this. this is like such a bad droem

f -- dream for all of us. the only good is that in 90 to 100 days this state will never face this again. but the woman was beaten, she's done. what was i to do but hold her and tell her this will hopefully never happen again. that's all that i could do. >> jack, i can't tell you how much we appreciate your time this morning. thank you. that's a story we'll need to continue to follow. as jack mentioned, he spoke with the governor for a long time yesterday, they're talking about it this morning. changes to be made not just in ohio, but there's going to be i would imagine some focus on the other states in the country because it varies by state. the laws here governing wild and even the trade of exotic animals, how this continues and moves forward based on this tragedy. >> some very reasonable questions why someone has to own a bengal tiger as a pet in rural ohio. >> and i think he had 18 of these. jack was saying yesterday they have recently determined that they thought there were maybe 5,000 endangered species --

there are probably 1400 of these left in the world. he had 18 there. a lot of it defies comprehension. >> you feel very bad for the wife, no question about it. >> it's a terrible situation all around. and for those officers who as jack said had to go home and tell their kids. but they're doing everything they can to keep people in that area safe and to protect the community. so quite a story. as we said, we'll continue to keep an eye on the fallout from it. just ahead here this morning on "the early show," the cost of college has now doubled in the last 30 years. you may know about that financial pain all too well. student loans are now hitting record levels. more than a trillion dollars now in student loans. >> it's a mind boggling figure. a trillion dollars in student loans. we'll have advice for those who owe and those on the lookout for the best loans. you're watching "the early show" right here on cbs. city council around. -- stick around. k around. [ male announcer ] cranberry juice? wake up!

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americans took out $100 billion worth of student loans. for the first time ever over a trillion dollars in total student debt still needs to be paid off. >> talk about sobering and scary, cbs news correspondent rebecca jarvis is here to tell us why students are, in fact, borrowing so much and what you can do about it. is it simply that the cost of college is rising at public and private universities or is there more to this staggering amount of money people are borrowing. >> there is more to it. the problem has become two fold in, yes, the cost is rising exponentially since 1982 the tuition costs in this country are up 249% of the cost of room and board in college has doubled since that time, which is why now you have the average student coming out of college with more than $24,000 in debt. but in addition to that what adds to this $100 billion a year number and this overall trillion dollar debt is the fact more people are going back to school.

because of this economy. i'm sorry. because of this economy, more people are going back to school. with more people going back to school, people in their 40s, 50s are taking out the debt and that's adding to the overall total. >> there are broader effects in the overall economy. >> there are. there's a big ripple effect. when you think about it, with this younger generation of people that are taking out so much debt that it hinders their ability to live a life beyond college. they really have to live at the realm of that debt, at the whim of that debt. so housing, for example, 85% of students are moving back in with their parents. they are not buying homes. we already have a weak housing market. this is contributing to it as well. innovation, when you have to pay off the college debt and make that payment you can't take a risk and go out and say i'm going to start a business or come up with an invention instead you have to take the job that pays the salary to pay off the debt. innovation suffers as do jobs. more and more people being indebted means fewer dollars to spend as consumers and that

ripples through to jobs. >> when you're sitting down as a parent or you're watching this and about to take out student loans yourself, sitting down and making that decision, what are some of the things you consider. is it more than how much you're taking out? >> completely more than how much. think about it in terms of not all degrees are created equal. we know right now jobs in the sciences from health care to engineering are more in demand. if your concern is paying off that debt down the line, think about the type of degree you're pursuing. also think about finishing that degree. 45% of people aren't finishing it. that means you're not getting the value you're paying for through those loans. also remember these debts aren't expunged through bankruptcy. student loan debt is the hardest debt to get rid of. you have to pay it off. credit card and other types of debt you can get expunged through bankruptcy you can't do that here. >> things kids can do or parents? >> start paying off in school.

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good morning. it's 8:25. time for some news headlines. some developing news out of libya this morning. there are unconfirmed reports that the deposed leader moammar qaddafi has been killed. members of libya's transitional government claim they have his body. pictures showing a dead man resembling qaddafi have not been independently verified. suspect in an overnight workplace shooting is in custody. 50-year-old dorian long allegedly shot and wounded his boss at a richmond apartment complex last night around 6 a.m. authorities captured him on highway 50 without incident in el dorado county. millions of californians are expected to stop what they are doing at 10:20 this morning for the annual great california shake-out earthquake drill. bart will briefly stop all of its trains as part of the

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good morning. we'll start off with live look at the south bay. 101 right before the 880 interchange an accident blocking a lane so slow going northbound one through san jose. 880 the nimitz, not too bad

past the coliseum. but at the bay bridge, it's backed up into the macarthur maze. it's pretty slow down the eastshore freeway, as well. 52 minutes because of a couple of accidents from the carquinez bridge to the maze. that is traffic. here's lawrence with your forecast. >> all right, elizabeth. we have some sunshine now in parts of the interior at least. we take you to our mount vaca cam and we have hazy sunshine out there now. more sun into the afternoon. temperatures are going to stay mild again today but we have to break out of the low clouds. by afternoon we should, 70s inland, 60s into oakland and san francisco, 70s toward san jose, and some low 60s at the coastline with the patchy fog. it looks like the next couple of days, we are going to see some better weather as high pressure begins to build in. temperatures likely to start warming as early as tomorrow. but by saturday and sunday, high pressure really begins to strengthen. the offshore winds likely to blow. 80s showing up in many spots inland. cooling a little on monday. warming up on tuesday and wednesday.

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. we are back on "the early show." i'm jeff glor along with erica hill. we are celebrating a special anniversary at cbs. 60 years ago, we first used the cbs eye which was a corporate symbol. >> you think of the other corporate symbols, they morphed over the years.

this has remained the same. it changed color and size, but that's about it. earlier this year, "time magazine" did a segment on evolving logos. in the case of cbs, some companies get it right the first time. >> we sent our congratulations to the cbs president for requesting the symbol and bill goldman for designing it. >> we want to get you to the latest headlines. we are following the breaking news from libya. we have betty from the news desk with more. >> good morning. this morning, the u.n. secretary-general says the death of moammar gadhafi is a historic moment for libya. gadhafi was apparently killed as government troops stormed his hometown. in the words of the prime minister, we have been waiting for this moment for a long time.

kitty logan is in tripoli with more. good morning, kitty. >> reporter: good morning. there are scenes of jubilation here in tripoli as the official news came through the council that colonel gadhafi had been killed. rumors have been swelling through morning time. already celebrations in the street and all over libya, of course. this is what the revolution was about and the conflict was about. it was what the fighting for the last eight months was to remove colonel gadhafi from power once and for all. until today, no one was certain until that happened. now you have the evidence and confirmation. we do have a mood of complete and utter celebration in tripoli. we are hearing news that there is a convoy on the way. there has been a firefight between pro-gadhafi forces and forces loyal to the new government. that convoy may contain colonel

gadhafi's son. some scuffle still under way. the man they wanted to catch has been killed. this is a symbolic moment for the national transitional council. they feel this is a start of a new era. a time when they can move forward and form a new government and democracy they badly wanted. >> kitty logan in tripoli. thank you. we want to go to the white house for reaction. we have bill plante there. good morning, bill. >> reporter: good morning, betty. the white house, even though it seems certain that gadhafi is dead, continues to wait for independent confirmation. they are being cautious. secretary of state clinton who is traveling this week and is in afghanistan today is with reporters when she saw the capture on her balackberry. they try to end the fighting phase of the revolution and try to move on rebuilding their

country. she acknowledged even without gadhafi, there will be pockets of resistance. >> yes, there will be some, but i think it will be limited if gadhafi is not active. i think a lot of people will find a reason to reconcile and move forward in a new libya. there is also a concern as to how we disarm or how the libyans disarm everybody who has weapons because most of the people who are doing the fighting had never even fired a gun before. >> reporter: the continue factualism in libya and fighting will make it a while before there is any peace. as for the united states, the president said that gadhafi's regime is over. he used u.s. air power to lead in the fighting to overthrow gadhafi and let nato take up the lead. u.s. is likely to see this as a

win. >> all right. bill plante at the white house for us today. bill, thank you. in other news, and just in time for holiday travel plann g planning. u.s. airlines are hiking prices. delta will increase by $4 to $10 on the domestic flights. other airlines moved in quickly to increase. agents have been searching the home of the missing baby lisa irwin. they searched the yard of the family. the new action was not triggered by anything specific regarding a tip, but the couple

i think we have been talking a lot about how big bank are charging customers for big fees. most recently debit cards. as we know, people are not happy about the extra fees. >> there are things you can do. jack from cbs money watch is

here with options. >> good morning. >> let's talk about the hikes we have seeing at the banks. the monthly fees. wells fargo, $3. >> that is a test. wells and jpmorgan chase. the bank of america is $5. >> citibank is $20? >> that is not a fee. citibank says we know you hate the debit card fees. they have the tiered levels. if you don't have $15,000 in your checking, savings or mortgage and everything else, you get hit with a $20 fee for having a checking account. they give you a clause with the stripped down account for $1,500. >> that is your average daily balance. >> if you have a mortgage, they count that. >> okay. is it safe to say it is a test in quotes? they are trying it out and

everybody else is doing it. >> they are trying it in a couple of markets. i'm not positive these things will stick. remember a couple of years ago and we cracked down on the billing cycles. they said we will never give any win a credit card again. they broke a record for the amount of junk mail in boxes. they came back. rewards are coming back. i would not be surprised given the anger if these don't stick. >> let's talk about other options. credit unions? >> they are the winners. everybody is discovering credit unions. they don't pay taxes. the ceos don't travel in gulfstreams. the fees are lower. they large you less on mortgages and auto loans. they pay you more on cds and savings account. >> a brokerage firm may be another option for you. this is surprising. >> this is interesting. if you don't have enough money

to keep a minimum balance, a brokerage firm is not an option. you need a higher minimum balance. you have old 401(k)s that sit there, you should roll those over. you may have enough to get free banking. >> that would count? >> exactly. >> smaller banks or local banks. >> they are exempt from the durbin amendment. they are making hay out of this. people's bank in ohio are paying the customers. that is a clever marketing. people will switch to community banks. they cannot just get the customers. it fits into the anti-wall street sentiment. >> you can also do online banking. is that practical? >> people are already doing half

their banking online. you can go whole hog. for a deposit, it is easier. you can take a picture of it with your cell phone. i think that will become common soon. they don't have atms, but allied bank will repay you any atm fees. brokerages will do the same thing. everybody is saying the big banks wobbling and doing whatever they can to draw in customers. >> doing what they can. >> what if you don't want to move? >> it is like jerry maguire and show me the money. if your company has a banking relationship. i'm an employee of xyz. >> a lot of banks are talking about getting rid of customers. >> it is true. they know that banking is

sticky. it is a pain. you have to change auto pay and direct deposit. the numbers prove most people end up not changing. >> thanks for breaking it down. jack, nice to see you. for six ways to avoid paying atm fees, log to moneywatch.com. up next, your teenager's mood may not be the only thing swinging up and down. >> research turns out their iqs may change. we will take a look at how you will just make them, but yourself ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

how many times a day to parents of teenagers say that?

according to a study their iq can go up or down. this comes as a surprise. scientists thought your iq is your iq, it doesn't change. dr. holly is here with more. what are we learning that could affect the change. >> this is an interesting study. scientists looked at kids between the ages of 12 and 16. later when they were 15 to 20. they found that the iq could actually change by 20 points, which is very significant. it could go up or it could go down. they confirmed it by mri. this is really a big step, because we've always thought iq couldn't change and this suggests otherwise. >> this seems to be excitement in the scientific community. >> very much so. kids get categorized quickly in the educational system. these are high achievers, average, low. what this shows, we can change our aptitude, our ability to learn. we shouldn't judge kids so soon. >> what are the factors that can

influence or cause this fluctuation. >> erica, that's the catch. the study didn't look at how we can improve our iq or what might cause it to drop. other studies suggested our education matters, our home environment and work ethic. so a lot of sort of external forces can affect it. >> even though we don't know what it is you mention home environment, work ethic, education. is it perhaps about keeping your mind active? >> yeah. you know what, especially as we get older in life, maybe it may not affect our iq but keeping our mind active as we age is in credit able important in maintaining our verbal and nonverbal ability. >> the previous thinking was, this is your iq when you're four years old, that's it. you're saddled with that. >> that's why this is significant. it really shows iq is linked, whether or not we like it, it's been controversial for years, it is linked with how we do in school, what type of job we'll

have and even linked with how long we'll live. these numbers matter. it's very empowering to know we can change these numbers. >> what's the thinking? is the thinking if it changed in these two periods of life with teenagers and into young adulthood, could it continue to change throughout your lifetime? >> that's what's so exciting about it. certainly we think that the brain is more plastic, meaning it can change more dramatically when we're younger. but since these teens showed changes, there's nothing to suggest it may not happen in our 20s or 30s or beyond. so now the catch is we've got to figure out what causes those changes. although i think my iq dropped 20 points with the birth of each of my daughters. i have two daughters now. so i'm hoping i can recover it somehow. >> if you figure that out, let me know, because mine has dropped a little bit, too, as a lot of parents would attest to. >> mine drops several points every time jack throws a fit. it's the screaming that kills brain cells. >> the reasoning with a

two-year-old i find. because mommy -- >> no, no, no. >> therein lies the problem. >> absolutely. >> he's practicing his brain activity when he says no, no, no. dr. holly phillips, thank you. >> just a reminder, we'll continue to follow breaking news here on cbs news on your local station. also on the "cbs evening news" with scott pelly concerning moammar gadhafi and at cbs news.com. have a great day, everyone. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

bay area on this t good morning. it's 8:55. in the headlines around the bay area on this thursday, the suspect in an overnight workplace shooting has been taken into custody this morning. 50-year-old dorian long allegedly shot and wounded his supervisor at a richmond apartment complex last night. around 6:00 this morning he was captured on highway 50 without incident in el dorado county. republican presidential candidate michele bachmann will speak later today here in san francisco at noon. she is expected to discuss her economic policies at the commonwealth club. minnesota congresswoman stopped in marin county last month on a fundraising trip. also this morning, a public remembrance for the victims of the oakland hills firestorm. a small blaze that started on this date 20 years ago rekindled and bound of control

and killed 25 people -- burned- out of controlled and killed 25 people and destroyed 3300 homes in the oakland and berkeley hills. got your traffic and weather coming right up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,

there are big backups through petaluma because of a full freeway closure. it is going against the commute, but it's causing some pretty big problems northbound 101 by highway 116. we have all lanes shut down. there was a big rig accident diesel leaking into the roadway. it caused some damage to the asphalt in the area. so they are going to have to repave it. they say they won't be able to get at least one lane until closer to 2:45 p.m., possibly later this afternoon. it is also causing some rubbernecking by the way for southbound commuter traffic, as well. and the bay bridge once again we are stacked up still through the maze. that is traffic. here's lawrence with your forecast. >> we are looking at some nice weather around the bay area this afternoon right now we have to get through low clouds and fog. we are seeing a lot of that right now in san francisco. clouds going to begin foul back though just a bit and we are going to see more sunshine toward the afternoon. mild temperatures in many spots inland. 74 in the napa. 75 fairfield. about 68 in oakland and 56 degrees in san francisco. more sunshine on the way for tomorrow with less fog, much

warmer over the weekend. 65 degrees in san francisco. ,,,,,,