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 trying to >>> 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. 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