. >> couric: meanwhile, mark phillips has made it to the town of zawiyah, where qaddafi loyalists have fought bloody battles with the opposition. mark i know both sides were claiming victory today, but what did you see when you were out and about? >> reporter: the government has been claiming victory for at least two days here but it has been impossible to get here until now. to get here we had to travel on back roads. we passed at least seven checkpoints. saw at least three dug-in positions including tanks. this still looks like a town under siege. very much the feel of a fortified town, perhaps because the rebels have threatened to launch an assault of their own to come back in. >> couric: mark, how critical is controlling this town to the overall effort for either side? >> reporter: the rebels holdout here, which lasted the better part of the week, was a real embarrassment to moammar qaddafi and the regime because it's right on the doorstep tripoli. it's literally a 30 or 40-minute drive from the outskirts of the capital. to have rebels holding out here and holding out so firmly aga

mark phillips in tripoli has more on the situation there. >> after more than 24 hours of attacks, the libyans are getting increasingly nervous, for good reason. >> as darkness fell on the second night of these attacks, tracer fire repeated by it will up the night sky over tripoli. no planes or missiles were visible but explosions could be heard in the distance. for the first time, there was some evidence of a strike within tripoli, a plume of smoke just visible against the night sky, from the general area of a qaddafi residential compound. there's been no evidence that he is staying there anyway. in fact, muammar qaddafi has not been scene for several days. his tv appearances have been via telephone calls to libyan state tv stations carried over a picture of the monument to the last time the united states bombed libya in 1986. qaddafi threatened a long war and claimed he would open up the country's armed stockpiles to a million libyans. the libyans claim there have been more than 60 casualties from the bombing. and held a public funeral for what they say were some of the victims. it's

and as mark phillips reports, libya's army is preparing a final push, warning civilians to get out ofparts of benghazi held by rebels. >> reporter: the eastern front in libya's fighting is moving further east. muammar qaddafi's army has pushed the rebel force back to the doorstep of its last remaining stronghold, benghazi. government troops have all but taken the crossroads town of ajdabiyah. and that would open the way to benghazi, or would allow those troops to encircle it by going straight for dubuque, which is what saif qaddafi is threatening. muammar qaddafi has written an instruction manual and had a stay in power. number one, stamp out dissent immediately. number two, shut downtown the internet so the opposition can't communicate, and most importantly, make sure any army units that are prepared to shoot are on your side. some of those libyan lessons are being applied in bahrain, where security forces used overwhelming numbers to break up the protesters' camp there. volleys of choking gas were fired. and more. the arab spring of egypt in tunisia has hit barren ground in bahrain

mark phillips has more. >> reporter: the anti-qaddafi rebels never had much serious military equipment, and a lot of what they did have now lies destroyed along the roadside-- evidence of a retreat that threatens to become a rout. the government advance has now moved past ras lanuf on to brega, the road towards benghazi seemed lightly defended as well. there is nothing the rebels with their light weapons can do to stop the qaddafi advance. the arab league has called for a no-fly zone, but for those anti- qaddafi forces it may already be too late. >> i expect he will kill people today. he will kill a lot of people. we don't have heavy weapons. >> reporter: this is the furthest point of advance of the anti-qaddafi rebels. the town of ajdabiyah. the only evidence they were here is a shot-up police station they had presumably occupied. the town itself is completely empty. the only sign of this conflict are some celebrating pro qaddafi soldiers. these are trophy towns the regime is now showing off. dusty places full of flattened buildings where the rebel positions once were. a libyan army s

mark phillips is in tripoli tonight. mark, what's the latest? >> reporter: well, the latest is another appearance by moammar qaddafi, this time at the hotel here where all the foreign journalists are gathered and drawing the kind of crush only he can attract. he again said that al qaeda was behind this rebellion, that they had misled libyan youth and he gave no indication at all that he's prepared to give up the brutal battle he's fighting to stay in power. for five straight days, the libyan army has been pounding the town and the people of zawiyah. for five days, the anti-qaddafi rebels there have resisted an increasingly ferocious assault and stayed defiant. >> i hate you, qaddafi! >> reporter: for colonel qaddafi, this pocket of resistance just 30 miles from tripoli is an embarrassment on his doorstep. one that flies in the face of his claim that the rebellion has been brought under control. he sent in the most notorious routhless libyan army headed by one of his sons to shoot them down. into the army rolled in there were injured, each time t

mark phillips file this report we satellite phone from the oil port city of ras lanuf, which qaddafi loyalists recaptured from rebel forces. >> reporter: the qaddafi regime has been very anxious to demonstrate that they have taken back significant chunks of territory from the anti-qaddafi rebels. today, they organized a tour of foreign journalists through bin jawaad, when which is the further to the west the rebels have come. they've been beaten well back and the town is under clear government control, if quite badly shot up. the government has also taken back as far to the east as ras lanuf, a major oil-refining facility on the mediterranean coast. it, too, had fall tonight rebels and was a major strategic gain for them but now the qaddafi forces are clearly in control as well. that's a mixed blessing at this point as the refinery is largely on fire with a massive plume of dense, acrid smoke still towering into the sky and carrying on for miles to the western horizon. libya is a one-industry town, and right now a lot of it is going up in smoke. but this has strategic importance, too

mark phillips, cbs news, tripoli. >>> a young bay area sailor who survived an explosion in afghanistanot a birthday gift he won't soon forget. u.s. navy joe burns returned home to san bruno this afternoon on his 20th birthday. he was severely injured in afghanistan when his vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device. a welcome community welcomes him back home. >> i didn't expect any of this. it feels good. i'm glad to be home. i'm glad to be with my family. you guys are really awesome. >> of course, today's tribute focused on the heroism, but they also made fun of the car he arrived in, a pink bug. it's not his. >> more than 150,000 orchids on display at fort mason in san francisco offers a look at this unique flower. they are apparently the divas of the floral world. they are exotic, glamorous, and difficult to grow. there are also exhibits that explain the flower's complex structures and ways they adapt to a variety of habitats. >>> lawrence is back because we need to learn about the rain. >> there's a lot of moisture in the atmosphere. this is subtropical, so the temperatures

mark phillips shows us some worn it creates new enemies for the west. >> reporter: of all the targets it in these attacks this flattened building in the gadhafi compound in triply is the one that people are complaining about the most. this is the attack they claim was launched to kill him. despite the hundreds of people who have gathered around the complex to provide protection. >> family, children, men and women have come from everywhere to stay day and night to protect this location to protect this location. and the rockets hit only 50 to 100 meters from them. >> reporter: gadhafi himself was probably not in -- his tent. he has not been seen since before the bombing began, his location a secret. his tv speeches threaten an long war have been played out over a shot to the monument of the last attack here in 1986. as nervous libyan gunners have been hosing down the sky with antiaircraft fire for the third night running those enforcing the u.n. resolution have had to explain that the libyan leader himself is not a target. so the libyans who support moammar gadhafi, though, attacking hi

mark phillips in tripoli for us this morning. mark, thank you so much. >>> meanwhile, president obama continues his south american tour today. he'll travel from brazil to chile this morning. the president spent two days in brazil making note of its switch from a dictatorship to a democracy. but events in the middle east remain at the top of his agenda. >> from the beginning we have made clear that the change they seek must be driven by their own people. >> after stopping in chile the president travels to el salvador. >>> to japan now. this morning workers are evacuated, or were evacuated from the tsunami stricken fukushima daiichi nuclear plant and smoke was seen rising from one of the reactors. there's been a dramatic jump in the estimated death toll from that massive earthquake and tsunami eleven days ago. police now estimate more than 18,000 people were killed. charlie d'agata has the story. >> reporter: beneath this pile of rubble a much-needed sign of hope. crews pulled an 80-year-old woman and her teenage grandson out alive,

mark phillips has more now from tripoli. >> reporter: for five straight days, the libyan army has been pounding the town and the people of zawiyah. for five days, the anti-gadhafi rebels there have resisted an increasingly ferocious assault and stayed defiant. for colonel gadhafi, this popular resistance, just 30 miles from tripoli, is an embarrassment on his doorstep. one that flies in the face of his claim that the rebellion has been brought under control. he sent in the most notoriously ruthless unit in the libyan army, the kamis brigade, headed by one of his sons, to shoot them down. each time the army rolls in, the toll of death goes up. each time the diminishing number of defenders, augmented by some army defectors, has somehow repelled the advance. >> we killed four people, and we took their guns and their weapons. now the people standing outside, their victory is near. >> reporter: the rebels are getting no outside military help but they're about to get some more economic clout. the european union will announce that they will put sanctions on libyan government holdings in compa

mark phillips is in tripoli. >> reporter: of all the targets that have been hit in these attacks, this flattened building in the qaddafi compound in tripoli is the one the qaddafi loyalists have complained about most. this is the attack they claim was launched to kill him. despite the hundreds of people who have gathered or been gathered around the complex to provide protection. >> families, children, men and women have come from everywhere to stay day and night to protect this location, to protect this location and the rocket hits only 52 to 100 meters away from them. >> reporter: qaddafi himself was probably not in his tent. he hasn't been seen since before the bombing began. his location a secret. his t.v. speeches threatening a long war have been played out over a shot of the monument to the last american attack here in 1986. as nervous libyan gunners have been hosing down sky with anti- aircraft fire for the third night running, those enforcing the u.n. resolution have had to explain that the libyan leader himself is not a target. to the libyans who support moammar qaddafi, though

vision, the first time since these attacks began perhaps to reassure his supporters. >> couric: mark phillips in tripoli tonight. mark, thank you. meanwhile, the wave of unrest continues tonight throughout the middle east. in cairo today it was the police protesting-- they want higher pay. as they demonstrated outside the interior ministry, a fire broke out on the upper floors and a security official accused them of starting it. in yemen's capital, protestors again demanded that the president step down. today he promised to leave at the end of the year but they want him out now. when he does leave, the u.s. will lose a major ally in the fight against al qaeda. and in syria, the governor of a southern province was fired today after security forces killed seven antigovernment protestors over the weekend. meanwhile, in this country, there's been some confusion and a lot of debate about u.s. goals in libya. some questioning whether we should even be there. more on that from wyatt andrews. >> reporter: after scores of cruise missile and bombing attacks, the president still calls the u.s. mission i

for more, let's go to mark phillips, who is in tripoli this morning. mark, what's the latest? >> well, bob, the situation here can best be described as murky this morning. both sides are effectively claiming victory. at least the government side is proclaiming a kind of victory, saying that it has recaptured several of the towns which the rebel forces have taken over the past week. and the streets here in tripoli were full this morning of people celebrating and firing guns in celebration in the air. but the situation on the ground appears to be unsettled-- one way of describing it. >> schieffer: where do you see this ending? are we at kind of a stalemate here? >> i think we are in a kind of stalrmate. i think neither of the forces, either the government or the rebels, have either the will or the organization to completely knock the others out. >> schieffer: mark phillips reporting from tripoli. one other note. in an interview with a french newspaper today, moammar qaddafi is calling for a u.n. commission to investigate the unrest in libya. he pledges his government's full coop

mark phillips is in tripoli tonight. mark? good evening. >> reporter: harry, it's been vintage qaddafi. it's been confounding, it's been confusing and it's been confrontational and for a while today it seemed that qaddafi was setting the agenda in this conflict again. his army was poised far final he said conclusive assault against the rebels in benghazi. he had gone on t.v. calling the u.n. action madness. "if the world went crazy, qlab would go crazy too" he threatened. buten this his foreign minister strode into a room to deliver a great diplomatic head fake. libya, too, wanted to protect its citizens, he said, so its army would stop shooting them. >> therefore, libya has decided an immediate cease-fire and the stoppage of all military operations. >> reporter: having already celebrated victory at least three times in the past ten days, the qaddafi faithful were now cheering the declared end of hostilities. >> we all love our leader qaddafi! >> reporter: what is this is really about is moammar qaddafi's survival. his army is

more now from mark phillips in tripoli. >> reporter: day five of the bombing campaign over libya and the combined coalition air forces have declared something like victory. >> their air force no longer exists as a fighting force. to the point that we can operat. >> reporter: control of the skies has led to near control on the ground, as moammar qaddafi's forces have learned. and as the bombing has continued, the brave face of the regime is showing some worry lines. instead of rambling on for hours as he often does, moammar qaddafi's latest pep rally's speech lasted a brief three minutes. out in public is a risky place for him to be these days. and where the obedient cheering crowds once numbered in tens of thousands, now they are often down to a few hundred, sometimes to mere dozens. even the regime's once p.r. machine is grinding down. today after much promising to show the world what it said were innocent victims of the bombing, it either got lost... >> are we lost? >> yes. >> where are we going? >> reporter: they never found the house, or the victims weren't innocent. and there's

mark phillips shows us some warn that this campaign is creating new enemies for the west. >> reporter altogether targets that have been hit in these attacks this flattened building in the gaddafi compound in tripoli is one they claimed about the most. they say this attack was launched to kill him. despite the hundreds of people who have been gathered around the complex to provide protection. >> family, children, men and women have come from everywhere to stay day and night to protect this location. to protect this location. and the rockets hit only 50 to 100 meeter away from them. >> reporter: gaddafi himself was probably not in his tent. he hasn't been seen since before the bombing began, his location a secret. his tv speeches threatening a long war have been played out over a shot of the monument to the last american attack here in 1986. as nervous libyan gunners have been hosing down the sky with antiaircraft fire for the third night running, those enforcing the un resolution have had to explain that the libyan leader himself is not a target. to the libyans who support muammar gadd

mark phillips reports. >> reporter: the gadhafi government declared victory in tripoli and it seemed like the whole town dutifully came out to celebrate. people were told government forces were on the counteroffensive, wiping out rebel gains of the past week. the declaration of victory may be premature or it may be wishful thinking, but in this kind of crowd, with this kind of gadhafi support, it's taken as unquestionable fact. the facts on the ground, though, are a lot less clear. at bin jawad, the furthest point of the rebel advance from the east a government offensive did push back the ragtag rebel forces. >> myself, i was like three kilometers away. which is less than two miles away from the border of bin jawad. and what we get is knocked on from sideways and bombs all over. >> reporter: they retreated in disarray but formed up again in the oil port of ras lanuf, which they still hold. in other towns, misratah, zawiyah, closer to tripoli, forces loyal to gadhafi used tanks, artillery and warplanes to attack rebel positions. again, government claims of victory are dismissed by reb

>> couric: mark phillips reporting tonight from tripoli. many questions remain, including what happens if qaddafi stays in power. we'll try to answer some of those questions later in the broadcast. meanwhile, a hint today that the so-called arab awakening is spilling over into syria. antigovernment protests continue to grow in the south in spite of a brutal brachdown this week that killed at least 37 protestors. today, president bashar assad seemed to try to placate the demonstrators. he pulled back his security forces in dahra and ordered the release of all protestors who had been arrested. it's been nearly two weeks since the earthquake and tsunami in japan. the recovery is only beginning and the crisis at that damaged nuclear plant is far from over. today, two plant workers were take on the the hospital after suffering from radioactive burns, and rescue workers say the evacuation zone around the plant has kept them from searching for the missing. the number of missing is now above 17,000 and the death toll has reached more than 8,800. me

mark phillips in tripoli has the latest. >> reporter: the qaddafi government declared victory in tripoli today and it seemed like the whole town doubtfully came out to celebrate. people were told government forces were on the counteroffensive, wiping out rebel gains of the past week. the decoration of victory may be premature or it may be wishful thinking, but as this kind of crowd w this kind ofovernment offensive did push back the tag rag tag rebel forces. >> myself, i was like three kilometerss away, which is less than two mileses away from the border. and what we get is push from sideways and bombs all over. >> reporter: they retreated in disarray but formed up again in the oil port of ras are ras lanuf which they still hold. in other towns, closer to tripoli, forces loyal to qaddafi used tage, artillery and warplanes to attack rebel positions. again, government claims of victory are dismissed by rebels who say they beat back the attack and even captured government vehicles in the process. there's a propaganda battle being fought here as well. and it starts young. the qaddafi regime

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cbs news correspondent mark phillips is in tripoli with the very latest on that for us this morning. mark? >> good morning, chris. well, the war is coming very close to home for colonel gadhafi here. in fact, come right to his home. he hasn't been seen for a couple of days here. his appearances have been by telephone calls into local tv station, inciting the libyans to continue to fighting on, saying this will be a long war. all the other stuff that we've been reporting. but last night was a very feverish night of activity here. the sky was laced with anti-aircraft fire. we couldn't see or hear any planes or missiles overhead, but we did hear at least one very loud explosion. and that turned out to be a hit within the compound that colonel gadhafi and his members of his family occupy, a big, fortified compound here in the center of tripoli. we were taken to see what the impact had done, and what it had done was destroy a building which is being called a command and control center for libyan forces. here the libyans are saying it was an administered building within the compound, only a

cbs news correspondent mark phillips is in the libyan capital tripoli. 's the latest this morning? >> well, the latest here is that the libyan government is sticking to its guns, both rhetorically and militarily. they appear to be trying to consolidate positions around benghazi. reports of movement there. and of course, some graphic scenes of artillery hit in the town, on the fringes, at least, of benghazi. and of a plane being shot down there. appears it might, in fact, have been a plane being flown by the nascent rebel air force but still very murky information on that. here they've maintained their rhetorical offensive. today, moammar gadhafi sent those letters, one to president obama, who he called his son. he's often referred to him as a son of africa, saying basically that they were engaged in a fight here against al qaeda affiliated jihadists, and asking president obama what he would do in the circumstance. that is the government line here, and they're sticking to it. they also sent letters to the european leaders, david cameron and nicolas sarkozy

mark phillips. >> gay marriage will not resume in california for now. a federal appeals court has refused a request to allow gay marriages while it considers the constitutional of proposition eight. it'll probably take another year at the least. >>> other bay area headline, the city of san jose has reached ten takive agreement was three more unions to reduce the pay and benefits by 10% over the next two years. the unions represent city eveningers, supervisors of trade workers and midlevel managers. leaders say the sacrifices needed to save jobs. san jose faces a 105 million- dollar deficit. >>> what would you do? a man found a bag of cash in the hilltop area of richmond and turned in to police. police won't say how much was in it only that it was over $100. if nobody claims the money the guy who found it'll get to keep it. >>> there is a recall of cant lopes but if you bought them at one store you may already know about it because that store made an effort to call you. >> reporter: less than a week ago a man bought a bag of them. >> this is the last of

intense fighting for control of key cities around the capital of tripoli, and cbs news correspondent mark phillips is in tripoli with the latest on the libyan conflict. mark, good morning. >> good morning, rebecca. well, there is still fighting going on in at least two locations in tripoli. near tripoli. and further to the east from here. but as this conflict drags into its second week, it is looking more and more like a stalemate. if there's a front line in this rebellion, it's along the main coastal road that runs through a series of towns between benghazi in the east, and tripoli. rebels have been pushing toward a spot on the map called roz lanoun. an oil town held by forces loyal to the gadhafi regime. the rebels have small arms and try to make up in enthusiasm what they lack in weaponry and experience. the government forces have heavier guns, and here they have proven stubborn to dislodge. other fault lines have emerged closer to the capital. this is government supplied aerial footage of what they say is zawiyah, about 30 miles west of tripoli. both sides have claimed to be in control, after

mark phillips shows us where that is. >> reporter: the ante gadaffi rebels never had much series military equipment and what they did have now lies destroyed along the roadside. evidence of a retreat that threatens the area. the government advance has now moved past it and onto braga. the road toward bengazi seemed lightly defended as well. there is nothing the rebels with their light weapons can do to stop the gadaffi event. it may already be too late for anti-gadgadaffi forces. >> we don't have the weapons. >> reporter: this is the furthest point of advance. this town. the only evidence they were here is a shot up police station they had presumably occupied. the town itself is completely empty. the only sign of this conflict are some celebrating pro- gadaffi soldiers. these are trophy towns the regime is showing off. a libyan army spokesman said bangazi is next but that a major assault won't be needed. >> these are very limited people. >> reporter: but that's just what the people of bengazi fear. >> when gadaffi comes here, nobody will be left. all of them will be dead. >>> investigator

we'll get to the story in japan later, but first, to libya and our correspondent mark phillips, who joins us from tripoli. well, mark, these planes carried out a heavy bombing attack. no question about that. but it appears, at this point, that qaddafi is not backing away. >> that's right, bob. his reaction has been the usual kind of bluster and defiance. he's been on tv twice here. he's been on tv, we've heard him on tv calling in on the telephone. he hasn't given away his position by actually appearing in person for reasons of self- preservation, i suppose. but he said basically that this will unite libya. he says he's opened up the armories of the country to arm the civilians against the threat of invasion by these "crusader forces," as he calls them. but i think the real question here is just how serious a wound he has sustained this time. he's been hit before, so whether this is just another glancing blow or whether this is in any way a mortal wound on moammar qaddafi. he's a survivor. he has survived for 40-plus years here. what will really determine the course of events now i think

mark phillips, cbs news, tripoli. >> a young bay area sailer who survived an explosion got a birthday won't soon forget. u.s. navy corman apress ties. e he was severely injured in afghanistan when his vehicle was hit by an explosive device. today, a grateful community welcomed him home. >> it feels good. i'm glad to be home. glad to be with my family. you guys are awesome. you are really nice to do this for me. >> today's tribute focused on his heroism. we also made fun of the car he arrived in. it's not it. >> more than 150,000orchids on display this weekend. lock at this unique flower. orchids are the divas and they are exotic and difficult to grow. there are exhibits that explain the complex methods and ways they adapt to a variety of hemp saids. the run is through tomorrow. >> mine only looked like that once. once the flowers dive, that's it. >> we are getting rine for a second. we have the rain outside now. scattered showers, most of that light stuff, but indeed, it's wet around the wee area. the rain continues to fall ute and will likely pick up add we head into the early mornin

mark phillips, cbs news, tripoli >> couric: meanwhile, are you old enough to remember when gas cost $1.61 a gallon? we bet you are because it was only about two years ago at the height of the recession. now it's almost $2 higher. the biggest jump happened in the past three weeks. since the revolt in libya, gas is up 38 cents to an average of $3.52 a gallon. that reflects the rise in oil, up another dollar today to more than $105 a barrel. with pump prices rising nearly two cents a someday, anthony mason reports president obama is weighing his options. >> reporter: the price runup in the oil trading pits and the gas pumps has the white house considering tapping into the nation's emergency supply. >> it's an option on the table. >> reporter: set up after the arab oil boycott of 1973, the strategic petroleum reserve holds 726 million barrels of crude. in four salt caverns along the texas and louisiana gulf coast. it's the world's largest emergency oil reservoir, enough for the u.s. to withstand a loss of imports for more than two months and only the president can authorize its use. >> the st

mandy clark, cbs news, ras lanuf >> couric: in tripoli, mark phillips spoke today with qaddafi's son saif, he vow it had government will soon retake all of livia. >> do you think you've broken the back of this rebellion? have you broken the back of this resistance? >> 100%. in fact, we are fighting less than one thousand, 800 people. >> reporter: that's the strength you estimate? >> this is the whole strength and power of the militia. >> reporter: you say there's no scope to talk anymore? you're just going to... >> enough. enough is enough. enough is enough. for me personally, i have no mercy towards them. >> reporter: you're just going to squash them? >> of course. come on, of course. >> couric: saif qaddafi said the regime will win even if western powers intervene. meanwhile, back in this country, a major rainstorm is soaking the northeast tonight. as much as three inches is expected in some places by tomorrow. and the big worry is flooding. this same system already hit the deep south where elaine quijano shows us the real danger came from tornadoes. >> reporter: at alexander hardw

we get this morning's latest from mark phillips. >> reporter: the libyan government proclaimed victory this morning, and the crowd dut flee came out to celebrate. government forces were on the offensive, they were told. the rebels were being beaten back. >> these people that you see are the true people of libya. >> reporter: the other self-described true people of libya, the rag tag rebel forces were clearly in retreat, moving back eastward, but they still claim to be in control of towns like this one. and they still maintain their power base in libya's second city of benghazi. in zawiyah near tripoli where control has swung back and forth over the past two days, the rebels have gone quiet. the issue now is whether the government forces have the means and the will to roll the rebels back all the way. and whether weary fek tively looking at a steal mate of two libyas: rebel-controlled in the east and qaddafi in the west. for sunday morning, i'm mark phillips in tripoli. >> mason: back here at home thunderstorms tore through the deep south yesterday spawning a tornado that slammed into t

his siblings include princess anne, who married mark phillips, they had two children together, petertogether, before getting divorced. princess anne then married timothy lawrence. peter is married to autumn kelly, canadian. zara is set to mary mike tindle this summer. he's a professional rugby player. younger brother prince andrew married sarah margaret ferguson, who became the duchess of york. they had two daughters, before they divorced. and the youngest, prince edward, earl of wessex, married sophie rhys-jones, now the countess of wessex. they have two children. lady windsor and young james, officially known as viscount severin. there you have it, the british royal family tree. >> you got that down? >> that was one of the more interesting pieces i've seen on the royal wedding. finally a little breakdown of the whole family. >> rob's coming around. >> yes. of course, kate and, what's his name, william, yes, they are counting down to april 29th. they inv >>> this morning on "world news no" deadly destruction. a series of powerful storms. >> unusual winter tornadoes adamage left behi

cbs news correspondent mark phillips is in tripoli in libya this morning with the latest. orning, jeff. well, after a week of steady losses, the rebel forces, the ones opposing moammar gadhafi, are fighting a desperate rear guard action around ajdabiya. it is very much the gateway to the area of the country that the rebels control. if that falls, the road up to benghazi would be open and the road to tubruk further toward the egyptian border would also be open as well, allowing the government troops to perhaps swing around and cut off benghazi from there. as you said there are reports of heavy fighting around ajdabiya. the government forces are said to be on three sides of it. the only open side is the north side along the road toward benghazi. reports as well about bombing at the airport at benghazi where the rebels have claimed, unconfirmed, but claimed to be flying a fueled airplanes with sorties of its own. a manager at the airport tells us, in fact, a bomb did fall but it fell harmlessly in some outside area of the airport. >> mark phillips, thank you, mark. >>> secreta

that is where we find cbs news correspondent mark phillips who joins us from tripoli this morning with the very latest. mark, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. if anything, moammar gadhafi has been getting more confident and belligerent as his troops make headway against rebel strongholds across the country. he has made two appearances the past couple of days and each of them he insisted he will rush this revolt. moammar gadhafi's troops have been on the offensive and so has he. parading through the gathered international press to again blame the uprising on the foreign influences that he says come from afghanistan, pakistan, and palestine. his code for al qaeda. the occasion was an interview with the turkish tv channel in which the libyan leader seemed unhappy with the chair he was provided. he, again, though, gave no indication he was willing to relinquish the seat of power he holds in tripoli. his troops continue to pound the rebels holed out in zawiyah and squeezed back to the central square of the town and taken high number of casualties in a battle now in its sixth

mark phillips is in tripoli with the latest on this morning's announcement. good afternoon, mark. >> reporter: good afternoon. another death and canny response by moammar gadhafi who says he will respect the resolution and they have declared a cease-fire but what that actually means is shrouded in the usual gadhafi haze. the first bomb to fall was this bombshell announcement by moammar ga dafys' foreign minister. the libyans don't like the u.n. resolution but they accept it and will stop their military advance. >> therefore, libya has decided an immediate cease-fire and the stoppage of aerial military operations. >> reporter: what this means is now the question. gadhafi's tanks are well within striking distance of the last rebel stronghold. the city of benghazi and within nato's cross-hairs. had they moved forward they would have been clear targets for nato air strikes. if they sit where they are the problem for nato becomes more complicated. the u.n. resolution talks of taking measures to protect the libyan population but is that population under threat if it

>> cbs's mark phillips in tripoli, libya, this morning. thank you. going to continue to follow that. because like we've seen for the last few weeks here develop plptss every hour and we'll get you more information. >> we do want to check in with marysol castro with our first check of the weather. good morning. >> good morning, chris and erica, good morning, everyone at home. we'll show you the national picture. there are pockets of sunshine. they all happen to be in the southern half of the united states. you can see this monster, a severe weather in the ohio >>> tharnlgs thanks so much. over to chris and erica. >> thanks. still ahead this morning, more on lifts and legend of elizabeth taylor. >> we're going to hear more about her remarkable time in the hollywood spotlight and, of course, as she gets much attention not just for her time in front of the camera but her time off camera. we'll take a look back at the full life of dame elizabeth. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. but women have made olay #1. not surgical results, regenerist is the

cbs news correspondent mark phillips has the latest this morning from tripoli. mark, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jeff. well, more evidence this morning as to why the rebels are so keen on that no-fly zone. heavy government attacks in two crucial areas in the front to the east of the country, one, as you mentioned in in ras lanuf where government heavy armored tanks have moved in and, again, shelled positions around the oil facilities in ras lanuf. gwynne setting off huge fires in those facilities. worrying enough for the rebels on that part of the front line but perhaps even more worry for them was air strikes this morning at another oil facility further to the east at brega. an area has not been attacked from the air before, but, today, there were jet attacks, bombs dropt dropped on the oil facility also at brega. that is 56 kilometers, about 30 or 40 miles to the east. in other words, back into the territory that the rebels have held. so they are under severe pressure there with the kinds of weaponry that the gadhafi, pro-gadhafi forces have which

mark phillips, cbs news. >>> 10 minutes before 8:00 a.m. did you set your clocks forward? that is something we are going to have to remind people about all day. >> i am sure for a lot of people it might already be too late. if you can't get your time right we will take a look at the weather, showers are headed for the bay area. >> a live look at san jose the sun is just starting to come up over the east foothills, 52 degrees in the capital silicon valley, 53 oakland, 52 san francisco and jim bernard is off this weekend let's go to lawrence with your sunday morning forecast. >>> well, folks we got some changes coming our way today. clouds moving through, showers, light showers in the morning hours, parts of the north bay not going to be much yet but i think as we head through the day we will watch the rain picking up as we head toward the middle of the day and afternoon showers found across much of the northern half of the state as this storm system moves on shore but not a real cold storm, farly warm, 61 degrees, -- fairly warm, 61 degrees, redding high country, mixture of

>> mark phillips in tripoli, thanks. >>> joining us to now to discuss that how long gadhafi can hold on is cbs news national security analyst juan zarata. good morning. >> good morning. >> reporter: we have several times this is a matter of days and perhaps week. i believe france's foreign minister saying but not months. realistically how long could gadhafi hold on if time is on his side as mark said? >> hard to predict. gadhafi has been ruling for four decades now. he is cold and calculating. he has used terrorism to affect his policies in the past. pan am 103 and supporting the i.r.a. but also calculating. he made the deal in 2003 to give up his wmd so he could stay in power after seeing what the united states did to saddam hussein. hard to predict with gadhafi because he sees himself as a fighter and wile e. survivor. >> reporter: he is trying to make the no-fly zone play to his strengths. one area, all of these claims of civilian deaths that have been made. >> clearly, i think he and his advisers are reading the tea leaves here and seeing the divisions in the coalition and so the

towards plea deal this month when the judge declared phillip is competent to stand trial this brings up strong emotions in people that specially marked last year he has been an advocate ever since polly was kidnapped from the homes in killed in 1993. >> very happy they confessed, i believe this should save jaycee dugard and her daughters from having to testify. that would be the best resolution. i would hope the judge would have a sense to adjourn in other of these people, are ever released to society again. the crimes they committed against this gym woman and a her family are about as bad as they can possibly be viewee. these people should sped their miserable lives behind bars. these people are monsters. they committed horrendous crimes over a long period of time. they have no business setting foot in society again. >> darya: our coverage continues on line, which posted the entire statement at www.kron4.com. seven 07 a.m., we will be back with more a couple of minutes. the approach to the bay bridge we will be right back. it's really delicious, mom. it's not too well done? nope. but it is a job well done. what are you reading, swee