martha rad dad went looking for answers with an exclusive interview for tonight's "target libya" report. >> reporter: the man asleep here, miles above the mediterranean sea, is general carter ham. he, and most of his staff, passed out upright, somewhere off the libyan coast. we're in an osprey, the marine corps craft that's part helicopter, part airplane. it's not comfortable. but the commander of all forces deployed for operation odyssey dawn catches a nap wherever he is. ham is taking me to the u.s. battleships here on his first trip since the war began. this is the "uss kearsarge" with more than 2,000 u.s. troops on board. >> i use a very tech nick call term as i was talking to the president. he said, how are the attacks going? and i said, mr. president, the marines are hammering the [ bleep ] out of them. >> reporter: all eyes have been on ham and the men and women who serve under him here, especially with the fighting inside libya intensifying. these are the latest images from a raging battle for a place called misrata, the last major town near the libyan capital still controlled b