the reason gadhafi had megrahi brought back to the country, to libya, is because megrahi is from an importanti needed to support him. now it's a tribe that the national transitional council wants to win away from gadhafi and bring to their side. if they would have sent megrahi out of the country they could forget support from his tribe. they need it now to build the government. a lot of the country in the south is still tribes favorable to gadhafi. there is a lot to play for here by the national transitional council. >> a very powerful report. nic robertsson, thank you very much. 270 people lost their lives on that day in 1988. many of the family members and loved ones felt betrayed when scotland freed al-megrahi. how will they feel knowing he's close to death? on the phone with me a man who lost his brother in the bombing and led an organization. you probably saw the report there. what did you think? >> i'm happy that megrahi, as far as i'm concerned can't die soon enough. whether he dies in libya or comes back to the united states or scotland, at this point is irrelevant. >> the fact that t

megrahi apparently in a coma.ging mother at his side. >> we just give him oxygen and nobody give us the advice. and some food by injection. if you see, his body is weak. >> he had been expected to die almost two years ago. but convicted pan am 103 bomber megrahi lives, only just this wasn't the way he looked when he was released from a scottish jail two years ago. he came home to a hero's welcome freed on compassionate grounds because doctors said he would be dead in three months. almost immediately, he began renovating this palatial house money no object. it doesn't take long walking around this building before you begin to realize and looking at the marble here on these expensive fittings to realize that it appears megrahi was being paid offhand somely for all those years he spent in jail. >> in the two decades since the bomb exploded on board pan am 103, over lockerbie killing 270 passengers, crew and townspeople, it seemed the secrets of the attack would die with the bombers. megrahi always maintained he was i

al-megrahi was not dying of terminal prostate cancer. you do not have to be a terminal expert to realize this man is terminally ill, as we've said. >> they're hoping to release 800 pages of documents relating to his abandoned appeal, which had never been made public. if he is indeed on the edge of death, his knowledge of who ordered the lockerbie bombing is about to die with him. abc news, tripoli. >> al-megrahi is staying in tripoli, but as forces loyal retreat, they're leaving evidence of just how his regime operated. inside his internal security headquarters, there are piles of photographs and documents that bear witness to his reign of terror. we have gained access to the building and here's what we have found. >> the regime kept many of their secrets here, but today we were able to walk right in to the security headquarters. testaments remain to the dark arts practiced year. we found operational charts about tracking anyone with a cell phone anywhere in the country. guidance on identifying new potential suspects. this is where colon

they benefited from megrahi. will, is that the national transitional council want megrahi's tribe on board and to support the new government here. that is very important for them. they may try to protect them, but this is still a chaotic time and the family are -- seem very, very afraid and certainly know there will be people out there on the streets that will be very angry how well they've done out of gadhafi. christine? >> nic robertson, amazing reporting. just to see you call over the wall, really interesting. thanks, nic. >>> we asked you to talk back on one of the big stories on the day. since dick cheney is on book tour, what will dick cheney's legacy be? "american morning" fans, i must preface this, are not fans of dick cheney. cheney's legacy will be one of cover up, chicanery and torture. he is the poster boy for the failed bush administration. he needs to take the advice he once gave a group he was addressing. just shut up and sit down. from tim, cheney was one of the most influential and powerful vice

megrahi was an agent of the gadhafi government.e no doubt that gadhafi gave the word to blow up pan am 103. while we ae at it, why don't we ask them to send us gadhafi so we can try him first flash flood the rebels want a complete break with the gadhafi era what better way to show that than to turn megrahi over to us. >> greta: i don't know who these rebels are. why even issue a statement or make a statement? >> apparently they've contradicted themselves i'm not sure what their position is. if they want to demonstrate a little gratitude to the united states for having over thrown gadhafi this would be a good way to do it. and to show they've renounced the practices of that regime. >> greta: what happens with megrahi, if he dies he dieses? the families just suffer the indignity of what the scots did? >> this is outrageous interest start to finish. the scots didn't have the does shun to do what they did. i think our statement department dropped the ball. -- >> greta: they were careless or complicit? >> i think complicit. i'm go that

gadhafi wanted to get megrahi back into libya before he died because megrahi is from a very importantase and support in the country. so for the national transitional council right now, if they were to say we're going to send gadhafi back to jail in scotland, that would send a very negative message to this very important tribe that right now they want to win away from supporting gadhafi and bring over to their side. now the national transitional council are saying the reason they're not going to send him back is because they don't have an international extradition treat ya. britain and libya actually did sign a special extradition treaty just a couple of years ago. so it does seem rather that the national transitional council is trying to curry favor with megrahi's tribe, which is hugely important. remember, a lot of this country in the south is still tribal and some of it still quite loyal to gadhafi right now. >> nic, so many families affected by the bombing of pan am flight 103 and we saw al megrahi at a rally not too long ago for gadhafi in a wheelchair wearing what appeared to be

>> reporter: he's the real megrahi.ed about it today, and it's clear from the images megrahi is a very, very sick man and may be close to death. they certainly are convinced it's the man, and i have seen him on a couple occasions before, and this is him. >> is there a possibility he could recover at this point, and does it appear to you, you saw him, that he is in fact dying? >> reporter: he seems to be very sick. certainly his family showed an awful lot of concern. it was very hushed tones in the room around the house, and a very subdued feeling. he may -- his situation or condition may improve if he gets better medical treatment, because they said he has not seen a doctor or been eating for a number of days and only has the drip and has the oxygen, but the prognosis seems very bad if he's slipping in and out of coma. tough to say when you are not a medical expert, and all the conditions that were presented to me seemed to show that he was very sick. but not impossible. he may have a short recovery for a period. >> do

i saw megrahi two years ago.n feet from me on a stage at an event after he came back to libya. he looked much better than he does now. i got the impression that his family were tense, nervous. you got the impression they were low at that moment. just sitting in the room waiting for him, in a way, to die, if you will. he didn't look -- i kept looking. i went back to look at the video, did his eyes move, how was his head on the pillow, did it look like the pillow had been there a long time. his thin looked skin. when you looked at his wrists they were thin. this did look to be a man perhaps on his last days. but not being a doctor, not doing proper medical checks you can't say with certainty his real state of health here. >> i know the u.s. still thinks megrahi should be behind bars. the national transitional council said they wouldn't extradite him but they are backtracking now, aren't they? >> they have left a bit of wiggle room here. they said, look, okay, when a government is formed they can decide and determin

we found abdelbaset al megrahi's house. house, where he has been living the past couple of years. we'll knock on the door, see if we can get any answer. hello? for 15 minutes or so, nothing. i'm not sure if they've heard me. let's try the last-ditch means, which is just shout over the wall. hello? hello? hello? then, all of a sudden, someone comes. nothing prepares me for what i see. megrahi apparently in a coma, his aging mother at his side. >> we give him oxygen and we give him some food by injection. you see, his body is weak. >> reporter: he had been expected to die almost two years ago. the convicted pan am 103 bomber abdelbaset al megrahi lives, only just. this isn't the way he looked when he was released from a scottish jail two years ago. he came home to a hero's welcome, freed on compassioner grounds because doctors said he would be dead in three months. almost immediately, he began renovating this palatial house, money no object. it doesn't take long, walking around this building before you begin to realize and lo

i saw megrahi two years ago.n feet from me on a stage at an event after he came back to libya. he looked much better than he does now. i really got the impression that his family were tense, nervous. you got the impression they were very low at that moment really just sitting in the room there waiting for him in a way to die, if you will. he didn't look -- i kept looking. i went back to look at the video, did his eyes move, how was his head on the pillow, did it look like the pillow had been there for a long time but really when you looked at his skin, it looked very thin. when you looked at his wrists they were thin. this did look to be a man perhaps on his last days. but not being a doctor, not doing proper medical checks, you cannot say with 100% of certainty his real state of health here. >> i know the u.s. still thinks megrahi should be behind bars. the national transitional council said they wouldn't extradite him but it seems they are backtracking now, aren't they? >> they have left a bit of wiggle room he

things al-megrahi should be behind bars.n council said last weekend they wouldn't extradite him, but they seem to be backtracking now, don't they? >> they've left a bit of wiggle room here. they said, look, okay, when a government is actually formed, they can decide and determine here, but it does seem to be a political element. they want gadhafi's tribe to join the national council. megrahi is from an important, powerful tribe. gadhafi wanted to keep him on-site, and right now the national tribal council seems to want to win over gadhafi's tribe and this is certainly one positive way they can do it, anderson. >> very quickly, i hear gunfire behind. is that celebratory, or is there still fighting going on? i know you were taken to a compound in tripoli where there were about 150 or so civilian bodies, or what looked like civilian bodies. what was that? >> first of all, the gunfire most definitely is celebratory. it has been going on for quite some time ever since the rebels took over most of tripoli, and it's also the beginn

these pictures show al-megrahi close to death. his son demands that he returned to prison in britain. >> i am pretty sure that's megrahi and members of his family looking after him are in neihaus. let's see if anyone opens the door. [doorbell] a few minutes later abdul nassar al-megrahi emerges. he tells me that his brother is in a,. the man is struggling between life and death, he told me. he should be allowed to die with his family instead of overseas. >> megrahi was found guilty of blowing up pan am flight ma 3 in 1988. he was released when it was thought he had three months to live. he returned to a hero's welcome two years ago. scottish authorities have dismissed the democratic assembly -- the event criticism. >> it has been ventilated by too many people too often, that somehow he was not dying of terminal prostate cancer. he would not have to be a medical expert to realize this man is dying, is terminally ill. >> if he is indeed on the edge of death, his knowledge of who ordered the lockerbie bombing is about to die with him

megrahi apparently in a coma. mother at his side. >> if you see, his body is weak. >> reporter: he had been expect it had die almost two years ago, but convicted pan am flight 103 bomber abdel baset al megrahi lives. and this isn't how he looked when he released from a scottish jail two years ago. he came home to a hero's welcome, freed on compassionate grounds because doctors said he'd be dead in three months. almost immediately he began renovating this palatial house, money no object. it doesn't take long walking around this building before you begin to realize, and looking at the marble here on these expensive fittings, to realize that it appears megrahi was being paid off handsomely for all those years he spent in jail. in the two decades since the bomb exploded on board pan am flight 103 over lockerbie killing 270 passengers, crew and townspeople, it seemed the secret of the attack would die with the bombers. megrahi always maintained he was innocent. just a month ago in a rare public sighting moammar gadhafi

megrahi in a coma.r at his side. >> his body is weak. >> reporter: he had been expected to die almost two years ago. the convicted pan am bomber lives, only just. this wasn't the way he looked when he was released from a scottish jail almost two years ago. he came home to a hero's welcome, freed on compassionate grounds because doctors said he would be dead in three months. almost immediately he began renovating this palatial house. money no object. it doesn't take long walking around this building and looking at the marble here, to realize that megrahi was being paid offhand somely for all those years he stayed in jail. >> since the two decades since the pan am explosion over lockerbie that killed over 200 passengers, crew and townspeople, it seemed the secrets of the attack would die with the bombers. megrahi always maintained he was then. just a month ago, moammar gadhafi had him literally wheeled out for a pro-government rally. i'm seeing him now for the first time in two years. he appears to be jus

so i think we ought to give them a chance to make a decision to hand megrahi over. i think this is entirely consistent with justice. he killed 270 innocent people in cold blood, he served an average of two weeks per murder in that scottish jail, just over ten years, before he was released, two weeks of murder is not an -- a murder is not an adequate sentence. i think we deserve another shoal him martha: a lot people, the families of those killed say the health -- sorry to say it, but his health is really irrelevant in this case. if he dies in prison, so be it. a lot of people die in prison. >> yeah, look, compassion is entirely misplaced here. think of those 259 passengers and crew on pan am103, paulg through the cold dark sky from 30,000 feet, then ask me why this man deserves compassion. martha: yeah, well, suddenly they've decided once again that he's knocking at death's door and eventually, if he has this terminal disease, which according to all these reports, he does, he will pass away, but the timing of it seems irrelevant to me in many regards given what this

libyan abdel basset al megrahi was released from a scottish prison and returned to libya in 2009. it was believed he'd soon die of cancer. now new york's two senators are calling on the new libyan government to put al megrahi back in jail. >>> hurricane irene, now the storm is gaining strength much quicker than expected and could reach the southeast coast of the u.s. by the end of the week. irene is currently a category 2 hurricane with sustained winds of 100 miles an hour and gaining strength. fueled by the warm waters of the ocean, irene pummeled the virgin islands and puerto rico yesterday. power was cut to more than a million people. irene is currently northeast of the dominican republic and expected to move to the bahamas later today. the hurricane is gaining strength and could hit the u.s. east coast as a category 3 storm. folks in florida are getting ready. >> flash lights, your lanterns, your charcoal. >> and then at the end we have water and gas cans for your generators and stuff like that. >> i remember hurricane andrew. i was completely unprepared for it. but this time,

al megrahi was convicted of the 1988 lockerbie bombing of pan am flight 103.im two years ago on compassionate ground claiming at that time he had only months to live. when nic found him he was barely conscious and appeared to be on death's door. last hour i asked bert ammerman who lost a brother in the bombing knowing how he felt knowing megrahi was close to death. >> i'm happy that megrahi, as far as i'm concerned can't die soon enough. whether he dies in libya or comes back to the united states or scotland, at this point is irrelevant. >> the fact that the ntc says they will not extradite him, does that bother now? >> no. this all changed, martin, a couple of weeks ago. as i have been saying over and over when people asked me, the big fish is gadhafi and his sons. as long as gadhafi and his sons are eliminated or arrested we could try gadhafi for the bombing of pan am 103 p. we have to stay focused and have gadhafi and his sons eliminated. if we do, my brother and the other 269 people didn't die in vain. >> the downfall of moammar gadhafi revealed his family

but two years after his release, megrahi is still alive.ated upscale community in tripoli. megrahi's brother spoke to the press gathered outside the house. the doctors, he said, are not allowing visitors, but cnn managed to capture these images showing someone believed to be megrahi hooked up to life support. the scottish government released megrahi in 2009, doctors saying he would soon die of cancer. at home he was greeted like a hero and met personally by gadhafi's son. now that the government is toppled, new york senators have asked the national transitional council to return the former officer to fully account for the attack that killed 189 americans. but with megrahi now possibly unresponsive and near death, the remaining questions about panam 103 may remain unanswered. >> that was nbc's stephanie gosk reporting from tripoli. scotland says this morning it has no plans to extradite al megrahi. >> where's gadhafi, by the way? did you run into each other? >> i don't know how he got there, but he's got these tunnels, i understand. one of t

al megrahi is apparently in a coma this morning. his son tells nbc news his father's medicine has been looted. nbc's stephanie gosk is in libya's capital. this is somebody, a lot of people particularly in the new york/new jersey area. is his son saying he would not be in a coma if he could still get access to his medicine? >> reporter: that's a little unclear. in fact, his son's story is a little unclear and maybe doesn't stand up to what we've seen on today. we were outside the house today, there were no signs of looters. generally looters don't open up doorknobs and sort of walk in cleanly and walk out. there were no signs of looters in this neighborhood at all, which this is an upscale, gated community. we didn't even see any graffiti on the walls there. so it had at least the perception of being well protected when we were there. you know, they released megrahi, scottish officials, from his life sentence for humanitarian reasons two years ago. and they said he was at death's door, dying of cancer. one month went by, he didn't di

megrahi always maintained innocence.a month ago in a rare public sighting, moammar gadhafi had him literally wheeled out for a pro-government rally. i'm seeing here now for the first time in two years he appears to be just a shelf the man he was far sicker than he appeared before. >> has he been able to see a doctor? >> no. there is no doctor. there is nobody to ask and we don't have any phone line to call anybody. >> what's his situation right now? >> he stop eating and he sometimes is come in coma. >> coma. he goes unconscious? >> yes. we just sit next to him. >> all that's keeping him alive, they say, oxygen and a fluid drip. i asked about demands he return to jail in scotland. >> my dad, if you send him to scotland, he will die by the way here or there. >> do you know how long he has left? >> nobody can know how long he will stay alive. nobody know. >> it seems i have arrived too late. he's apparently in no state to talk. whatever secrets he has may soon be gone. >> nick robertson joins us now from tripoli. incredibl

there has been a lot of criticism about the release of megrahi. he was released two years ago by the scottish government on humanitarian grounds. they said he was dying of cancer imminently. he didn't die a month later, no the a year later. it is now two years later and he is still alive living in basically a luxury home here in tripoli. there have been reports that he is in a coma. that's what his son says. that's what his brother also said when he came out of the house and spoke to reporters today. he is not taking any visitors. veronica? >> stephanie, i would like to switch gears and ask you what is the latest on the search for gadhafi? >> reporter: well, there were some rumors over the weekend that gadhafi was actually still here in tripoli. if he was, it seems he has moved out. there is no longer any fighting here within the city center or any part have o tof the city fo matter. there are two possibilities that rebel forces are focusing on. to the south, one city called ben walid. he could potentially be there and his other big spot is his ho

dominic dnatali live with us. >> reporter: before we talk about abdel baset al-megrahi we're going toout toda gadhafi's family. his family and wife have passed into algeria. that news has been confirmed. no further details from that. there has been reaction immediately from the national transitional council that if gadhafi family has fled there they want them returned straight away and they want justice. algeria does not recognize the council here and agrees with the gadhafi regime. reporters besieged his house in the center of the city today and yesterday. some of them were able to get inside and see him. reporters have come back and said abdel baset al-megrahi what's mays kwraeuted, thinwas what's mac emaciaited. he was comatose, unlike moammar qaddafi they have no intention of returning libyan citizens to the west. others say ph*eg r-r even if he is in his dying day has to stand and get justice. megyn: tom jones former astronaut joins us live next. requiring welfare recipients to take drug tests first in florida. how is that working out? the governor may be having one heck of a leg

and britain are still demanding that libya's new rulers try to extradite megrahi. 270 people were killedeased from a british prison in 2009 on so-called compassionate grounds. then he returned to libya as a hero. you did remember that, zain verjee, that welcome that he got on the runway. it was appalling to those who lost loved ones in that bombing. now several u.s. senators are demanding he be sent to the u.s. for trial, but here's the question s those gee mands have been going on ever since his release. now you have libya in turmoil. do we even know where he is? if he is still there? we saw him at a rally a couple weeks ago, a pro-gadhafi rally, probably more than a month ago. what's your take on all of this? >> it's difficult in this situation of total turmoil and chaos in tripoli to establish exactly where megrahi is. what's been happening. he was released on compassionate grounds because he had prostate cancer. what they've been doing, every couple weeks, they call him by phone or video link, establish some kind of communication with him, but because of the situation going down righ

for this if you calculate 2670 -- 270 dead it worked out that megrahi spent two months in prison, perurder victim. >> greta: if our leaders had only talked to some of these victims. i remember one might talking to the brother of one of the men who died on the plane. he wasn't supposed to be on that plan he stayed an extra day to work. he said his brother always got on business class and got a scotch. he could envision him having a scotch, and then blowing up. not to mention the college students. it is beyond me our government can go whatever. >> for people who complain about airport security think about those poor people falling out of sky from 30,000 feet think about what that would be like if you don't like the inexpect shuns at the airport. >> greta: -- if you don't like the inspections at airport. >> greta: i don't like our government was so weak in light of what happened. maybe this will be our chance, he will go back to jail, who knows, whatever. thank you. >> thank you. >> greta: from his vacation on mvp. sends a message to the people -- on martha's vineyard, president obama se

al megrahi had been freed by a scottish court back in 2009, because he claimed to be dying of cancer.ll and appearing in fact at pro-gadhafi rallies. >>> and now to a stunning about-face from new york prosecutors investigating the dominique strauss-kahn sex case. they are expected to request that all charges be dropped during a hearing later this morning. >> this after they announced monday that they no longer ç believed the hotel maid accusing the former imf chief of assault. abc's scott gorborg has the latest now from new york. good morning, scott. >> reporter: good morning, rob and tanya. prosecutors didn't say anything publicly before they filed papers asking the judge to drop charges against dominique strauss-kahn. but in those papers their reasoning is clear. they wrote "if we do not believe her beyond a reasonable doubt we cannot ask a jury to do so." the crimimal case that began with a bombshell, an accusation that dominique strauss-kahn sexually assaulted a hotel housekeeper, is now heading for a quiet ending three months later. his accuser, nafissatou diallo, appeared next t

abdelbaset ali mohmed alma gr gras -- al megrahi be released. >>> and also, a baby bump announced at the mtv music awards and now the mom- to-be is giving up a huge role for mommihood. >>> and the number of irene hfis from irene have been increasing. the number of reports are that the number could climb to 32 people. right now, flooding is the biggest concern, and vermont is seeing the worst of it. their governor calls it the worst flooding in a century in that state. further south in new hope, pennsylvania, the delaware river is surrounding homes and many people at this hour are still without power and many more without power for a few days. the damage from the storm is estimated in the billions of dollars. president obama said it will take time certainly to recover from irene. >> the effects are still being felt across much of the country including in new england and states like vermont where there's been an enormous amount of flooding. so, our response continues, but i'm going to make sure that fema and the other agencies are doing everything in their power to help peel on the gro

abdel baset al-megrahi, the convicted bomber of pan am flight 103, his family says he is in and out of a coma and near death. he was released from a scottish prison two years ago when he was said to be suffering from terminal cancer. not even a hurricane could stop colin powell from getting to the set of "face the nation." he had something he wanted to tell bob schieffer, and that story is next. ,,,, >> pelley: former vice president dick cheney takes aim at some of his colleagues in the george w. bush administration in a new book coming out tomorrow. he's critical of former secretary of state colin powell. on sunday's "face the nation" powell responded, objecting in particular to the words cheney is using in promoting the book. >> what really sort of got my attention was this way in which he characterized it. "it going to cause heads to explode." that's quite a visual. and in fact, it's the kind of headline i would expect to come out of a gossip columnist or the kind of headline you might see one of the supermarket tabloids write. it's not the kind of headline i would have expected to

compensation to the families of the american victims and provided a libyan suspect, abdel baset al megrahi, and perhaps the image of what happened to another middle eastern strongman who hung on for too long, saddam hussein, had changed from ally to pariah, he shut down his nuclear research program, he granted western oil companies lucrative contracts, but he never lost his act for the theatrical, showing up in italy wearing a picture of libyan heroes hung by italians in the colonial period, showing up at the united nations to tear up the u.n.'s charter during a 90-minute rant and called the security council the terrorist council. when his people, oppressed for so long, finally rose up against him, he seemed unable to comprehend that his time had come. mark phillips, cbs news, london. >>> more of the days news right after this. we'll be right back. finally, there's a choice for my patients with an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation, or afib, that's not caused by a heart valve problem. today we have pradaxa to reduce the risk of a stroke caused by a clot. in a clinical trial, pr

but one notorious patient has now left the hospital, abdelbaset al megrahi, found guilty of the 1988ockerbie bombing, allegedly dying of cancer, and released by scotland two years ago. he is now home in tripoli, without adequate medical care, his brother says, slipping in and out of a coma. there's new evidence of gadhafi's brutality against his own people. in the central hospital today, 25-year-old amir aoon clings to life. he was one of gadhafi's prisoners, shot by his guards as rebels advanced. they tried to slit his throat, but the knife was too dull. abdel ragae was one of 200 prisoners marched out of his cell last thursday and shot by gadhafi loyalists. i think there were three of them, and they were shooting constantly. he was left for dead, he said, and at least 40 others were executed. nearby, rebels uncover a huge weapons cache. gadhafi's stockpiled weapons in hidden stashes across the city, apparently preparing for a drawn-out battle in tripoli. this was a private farmhouse, it's filled with thousands of cases of ammunition. and gadhafi himself still at large is now a figu

. >>> convicted lockerbie lopper al megrahi is in a coma and apparently near death. krn can cnn found him at an expensive village. freed from a scottish prison in 2009 after doctors treated him for cancer said he was dying. >>> libyan rebels are advancing and have 14,000 fighters set to liberate moammar gadhafi's hometown of sirte and have given loyalists there a monday deadline to disarm and surrender peaceful lp. the rebels gained control of the city. and 28 people killed when a suicide bomb went off at a sunni mosque in baghdad. a member of parliament was pun of the victims. other attacks elsewhere. >>> those are the top stories from cnn, the world's news leader. i'm zain verjee and "world news today" starts right now. >>> good morning from cnn london. i'm charles hodson. >> and good afternoon from cnn hong kong. welcome to "world business today." stop stories this monday august the 29th. now the citizen for japan's revolving door politics. the finance minister would be the latest to try to turn around the world's third biggest economy. >>> hurricane irene has lef

abdel baset al-megrahi was released from scottish custody two years ago to return home to libya wheree was expected to quickly die from cancer. he lived on and was hailed a hero by the gadhafi regime; rio de janeiro five people were killed and others wounded when a trolley derailment the historic trolleys are popular with tourisms, but city officials have been criticized for neglecting maintenance on the carriages. no americans were killed or injured in the derailment. >>> in london, scotland yard bitched security for the beefed up security. more police will be deployed on the streets for the main day of the festival. >> amazon.com is dig deep to overturn a california law requiring online companies to collect state sales tax. the seattle-based company has yet to collect enough signatures for the proposed june, 2012 ballot measure, but the company has already spent more than $5 million on the campaign. bay citizen reports that the largest sum of money ever spent this early in an ballot initiative campaign. a recent lav times poll found that 46% of voters favorite online sales tax, whil

lockerbie bomber al-megrahi is reportedly near death again. reports say he is at a n. a coma at his home in tripoli. there is no doctor available sings the rebels took over tripoli. he was released from prison, you will remember, on the grounds he was near death that was in 2009. calls for him to return to scotland. they will not extradite a lib ban citizen to the west. president obama will reportedly not nominate a new chairman to the chairman of the economic advisors today. labor economist alan krueger. assistant secretary for the first two years of the president's administration and also a chief economist at the labor department during the clinton administration. krueger's nomination expected to be confirmed by the senate. happy feet is home ward bound. the wayward penguin finally left the zoo for his home in ant articca. the poor penguin got sick on a beach there back in june. he likely ate sand that he mistook for snow. >> brian: that's the penguin that ate the sand. >> alisyn: happy sand will be released after four days at sea. >> brian: becoming the new pan davm

you know, what about abdelbaset al-megrahi?to him now that -- the reports over the weekend that he you know -- his situation was never as dire as it was ever presented. we know he's, you know, still around. and there he is, hugging the son of muammar qaddafi, now by the rebels. >> he's a guppy, and what was done was for oil and big business and shame on our government and bp, and they were in on it, but what is important is both sons were arrested and that is critical and to eliminate or arrest qaddafi, the libyan people have a chance to move forward. let us not make the mistake we'll be able to bring democracy to the nation. it is amazing when i hear the people talk about that. let's try and develop their culture, the tribal background, you have a chance, it took us nearly 100 years, to give african-americans the right to vote and almost 200 years to give women the right to vote and, it is in sanity, the experts saying we can bring democracy within a month or a year-and-a-half and, it will not happen, let's use common sense an

you sympathize with al-megrahi. can't wait to wake up and see what -- >> i just can't wait to wake up and see what the future is like. there will be these pads with all sorts of talking things on them. >> but you will wake up and say you were on a talk show that didn't exist. >> and explain my sware droab. oh, i got this in the 80s. i like how his brother said, it is between life and death right now, so what difference would it make? last i checked wree all between life and death right now. that could mean anything. he is playing with us. >> there is something really fishy going on here, and i think it was -- bolton might have said that scotland did this because of an oil deal, but nobody really knows. if that's the case, we have to do something to scotland. maybe we can write them a strongly worded letter. >> i think we ignore them. i think we write a strongly worded letter. >> how about we ban those kilts? >> oh yeah. >> as a defendant of the scottish i know you could tell my great grandfather -- i adore the kilt.

megrahi returned to a hero's welcome in libya when scotland released him on compassionate grounds.but libya's rebels say they will not extradite him to the west. >>> fox news learned president obama will nominate a new chairman of the white house council of economic advisors in front of tv cameras today. he's princeton university alan krueger. he served as assistant treasury secretary for economic policy for the first two years of the president's administration and was also chief economist at the labor department during the clinton administration. the nomination is expected to be confirmed by the senate. i can hear you, steve. happy feet is homeward bound. they finally left a zoo. the poor penguin got sick in june and likely ate sand that he mistook for snow. you think that evolution would have cured him of that. but he will be safely released after four days at sea. thank goodness. those are your headlines. >> brian: i found out a week ago that we're running out of african penguins. we have other penguins to focus on. >> brian: i call them penguins. >> steve: let's talk a little b

. >> al-megrahi did not leave alone.e been execute government has never issued indictments against gadhafi or his brutal regime. they never tried to prosecute him or seek justice or accountability for the mass murder of american citizens. actually conversely, the u.s. government rewarded gadhafi when he turned over the two indicted for criminal trial by giving billions of dollars of oil contracts as well as billions in zero, practically zero interest loans. so this is really important for us our hope lies with the libyan people that gadhafi is arrested and also his henchmen, his regime and they are tried in either at the libyan court system or in the international criminal court. >> victoria, you lost your husband in the pan am flight. how important is it to you that gadhafi is brought to justice? captured and brought to jous tis? >> well, we need to get him out of business. we've seen that -- i felt his brutality one day, but the libyan people have lived with his brutality and the mass murder of innocent civilians for 4

these are photographs of abdel- baset al-megrahi in libya and he appears to be in a coma hooked up ton and intravenous drip. he's a former libyan intelligence officer and may be the last man alive who knows who authorized that 1998 bomb. he was released from scottish jail two years ago and was said then to be dying of prostate cancer. >>> it is becoming a dangerous new drug fad. today the state senate will consider a bill that would ban bath salts. the substance contains a synthetic drug that experts say causes paranoia and violent behavior. the state assembly has already passed the ban so if two-thirds of lawmakers approve an emergency clause, that ban could go into effect immediately if signed by governor brown. >>> 6:21 on your monday now. new concerns about rowdy sports fans right here in the bay area. why a transit agency could be fueling that problem. >> and trying to lose that extra belly fat? the big mistake most people are making when they hit the gym. some bay are ,,,,,, ah yes. there it is. the "mystery spot". not a mammal in this household is willing to lay claim to its or

it's one reason people were so outraged when the actual terrorist,al megrahi was released by the scotts and in tripoli now. >> harris: there's talk about where gaddafi is and where he could go. is there anybody out there, you have a host of experience who would help a dictator. in your experience kung of anybody who would help this guy out. >> i can think of a number of people that would give him refuge, speculation algeria is it one, venezuela, hugo chavez would be another. there are a number of possibilities. i am scent cal at least at this point, that he really has decided to flee the country. my thought would be he would fight to the bitter end, but it could be his forces have melted away and he's headed for the hills. >> harris: i'm just getting and i want to bring you in on this, too, ambassador, because maybe you can give us your thoughts, from our correspondents now. i'm getting that there is a battle for tripoli underway. all the celebration that we're seeing, and i've said this before this does not tell the whole story, sky news cameras focused on the green square and there's

scottish authorities freed abdel baset al-megrahi in 2009, thinking he was terminally ill. his brother said today he's still alive, and in a coma. for now, the rebel alliance faced the more immediate challenge of getting the capital, tripoli functioning again after last week's fierce fighting, and months of nato bombardment. severe water shortages and power outages have affected swaths of for tripoli. >> warner: do people have the basics? i mean, food, water, electricity? >> there's not a lot of water to be honest with you. there's not a lot of water anywhere. there's some drinking water but very little water coming out of the taps anywhere in tripoli. there have been some deliveries. communities are getting their own water and distributing it themselves. electricity has been intermittent. haven't noticed any power cuts today but it has been a problem. otherwise, you know, generally there are some shortages. there have been shortages of baby milk. there are some shortages of drug in the hospitals. so the city's still struggling but people are coping. generally neighborhoods

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