take a listen. >> we have no confirmation of moammar qaddafi's whereabouts but at least two of moammar sons have been detained. his regime is falling a part and is in full retreat. moammar qaddafi must stop fighting without conditions and clearly show that he has given up any claim to control libya. as for his future, that should be a decision for the chairman and the new libyan authorities. >> reporter: secretary general rasmussen announcing today that the moammar qaddafi regime is crumbling. while one rebel spokesman said today that perhaps nato could ratchet down its operations there is no sign of that. in fact in the last two days we have seen 40 individual strikes, sortis against targets in and around tripoli, and that is the most intense of this month-long campaign. folks here in europe are planning for the future looking beyond moammar qaddafi and trying to avoid the chaos that perhaps we have seen in other situations like this. we heard today from french president nicholas sarkozy he'll be meeting with the head of the national transitional council this week and next week there

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provide amnesty to any moammar qaddafi forces who lay down their weapons and turn in moammar qaddafi.ad dog of the middle east had this to say. >> thank you to the free people of tripoli, the free people i met in the streets of tripoli. thank you, tripoli. the mission of the people of tripoli is to cleanse their city, cleanse their areas, the areas of tripoli, the libyan tripoli. all the hreub kwrapbs should come tlibyans should come to tripoli. >> reporter: one u.s. predator drone fired a missile in another 24 hours. a bomb was dropped by a u.s. warplane. we don't know the targets of that. we know from a nato spokesman that nato is not currently hunting for moammar qaddafi. jon: jennifer thank you. jenna: new information about the progress of construction at the world trade center now that we are nearly ten years after the 9/11 terror attacks. laura ingle is live in lower manhattan where tours of the site for the news media are getting underway. you have a special sneak peak, lawyer a what have you found? >> reporter: that's right, we are just about to go into the world trade center

and libyan rebels hold moammar qaddafi's fortified home in tripoli tonight. ed for 42 years. that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. for all of us at cbs news, all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> a bay area community without a grocery store gets its wish. the one thing they don't want to come along with it. >>> one unofficial community pushing in on the turf of another. how neighbors are fighting over an invisible border. >>> and fewer days in the school year, it's up for debate tonight in the east bay. the sad lesson on why teaching less will save more. >>> good evening, i'm dana king. >> i'm allen martin. >>> it's bringing jobs and pumping money into the local economy but people in one san francisco neighborhood have a message for a

the immediate questions tonight is where in the world is moammar qaddafi? have you heard any inkling of where the libyan dictator soon to be ex sd dictator is? is he breathing, has he left the country? what do you hear? >> it is the million dollar question. there is talk that a 7 vehicle convoy crossed the desert in libya about 3 days ago on friday and that it may have been on its way to my gore yaw. the good money is that's where he is. we keep on hearing his audio messages where he would bring in and urge supporters to pick up guns to go and fight em employering them to dry out the rats and vermin but all of the while he is on a saturday light phone making his way out of the country. the last photograph of him shaking hands with somebody in algeria with his friend around president of venezuela. just too early to call right now. >> stand by if you can. don't stay on the phone if you are in personal danger no more than anything. pulitzer prize winning journalist, you were nodding your head. is algeria a likely spot? i cannot image although we are stunned th

there are reports that moammar qaddafi's compound has been breached. have you had an opportunity to confirm that? >> yeah, jon, we've been speaking to a number of our news desks and watching the same pictures that you're watching and it seems like the rebels have made a dent in the compound and that they are trying to get inside and take the fight to the moammar qaddafi camp there. certainly from where we are from our vantage point, we can hear the sounds of the battle going on, loud explosion, tank fire, small arms fire. it's quiet here, so it sounds very close. we are getting even indirect fire probably from that battle landing near the hotel. certainly there is a major confrontation happening there, and it could be, you know, crucial in this struggle for control of this country, skwr*pb. jon: but nobody knows where today of requires inside that compound, right? >> jon we don't. last night we had a surprise visit here at the hotel. it was seif al islam. they were very relaxed and they say they are in control of the area. i put my hand through the win

moammar qaddafi's exact location right now remains a well kept secret. ashes continue between rubbles and regime loyalists. a few minutes ago, nato reemphasized it will continue operations in libya and will bomb qaddafi forces if they continue to fight. >>> 5:37 on your tuesday. we have traffic and weather. i guess if you like it hot, today's your day, right? >> today's your day. >> yeah. we haven't had many days like that this year. and this is kind of a quick hitter. now don't like the heat -- so if you don't like the heat, you don't have to wait for long. we have dense fog at the coast. thick fog visibilities less than quarter mile in some spots. mostly clear skies inland. temperatures 13 degrees above yesterday this afternoon. 94 in concord today, 86 -- nine drags warmer in san jose. 75 in oakland and 70 beautiful in san francisco. how about that elizabeth, nice sunshine. >> i like it. i'm thinking of heading inland today. i want the really hot stuff. >> that's where you have to go. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> on the roads, so far it is okay at the bay b

. >> suarez: again, the major developments of the day: the hunt for moammar qaddafi intensified as new battles raged in libya's capital. hurricane irene blasted the bahamas, with winds of 115 miles an hour and headed toward a weekend strike on the u.s. east coast. and wall street pulled back, after a three-day rally. the dow jones industrial average lost more than 170 points. find more about the coming storm on our website, kwame holman has the details. kwame? >> holman: track hurricane irene's path using a special map with data from n.o.a.a., google and others. that's on the rundown blog. is eating healthy bad for your family's budget? our health unit examines the costs of good nutrition and offers strategies for smart shopping at the grocery store. plus we look at nasa research on how black holes can consume a star. watch an animation on our science page. all that and more is on our web site: newshour.pbs.org. ray. >> suarez: and that's the

reported so far. >>> nato now taking an active role in tracking down libya's fugitive dictator moammar qaddafi. scattered fighting tense in parts of the country. it is increasing at tripoli's airport leading to speculation that qaddafi could be nearby and loyalists are trying to protect him. rebels have reportedly offered a $1.7 million bounty for qaddafi's capture. >>> big tanker fire still under watch in northern california. coming up why crews are reigniting the fire actually after it burned-out. >> and a nice gesture takes a nasty turn. how mark zuckerberg's $100 million gift to a school has now led to a lawsuit. >>> and if you are taking off out of sfo today, going to be a pleasant day. cleared for take-off by this afternoon. we are going to hit a high of 71 degrees, mostly sunny skies for sfo today. landing today in houston? you're almost going to break the 100-degree mark. high of 99 today and there is a slight chance about 20% chance of seeing some thunderstorms there. continuing on to atlanta, going to be very beautiful. plenty of sunshine in the skies, high of 94. we'll have a full l

now three of moammar qaddafi's sons are in custody but no one seems to know where moammar qaddafi himself is right now. we go live to dominic dnatali who is streaming live to us from libya. >> reporter: it's sunset in north africa and we are hearing that the streets are quiet in tripoli. people are rather concerned that 95% of the city is now controlled by rebels there is a feel there could be a war brewing. there are remnants of loyalists of moammar qaddafi in the city holding positions, there are still tanks about and there's on going battles from street to street. many neighborhoods have fallen to the rebels all the same the loyalists seem to be entrenched and continue fighting to the very last. they have littled munitions after one of the key arsenals outside the city fell to the rebels yesterday, the weapons took advantage and that's what help them speed them into the city and over take it. nato still has air patrols in the skies. there haven't been any bombing raids today so far. there were 40 such raids yesterday which exemployings were heard across the city. at the moment it's a v

a moammar qaddafi spokesman has denied that. so far no proof that moammar qaddafi is actually in the mulling. he released an audiotape calling the rebels rats and calling on his followers to purify the city of tripoli. a bounty on moammar qaddafi by a businessman has grown to more than one million dollars. as far as the hunt for moammar qaddafi is being aided by nato forces as well. british reconnaissance and intelligence from nato will be used to try to help the rebels track and capture moammar qaddafi. megyn back to you. megyn: coming up a terrifying first day of school. [screaming] megyn: a bus full of students catching fire and then exploding. how the children got out and what set this off in the first place. wow. police in aruba just releasing brand-new photos of missing american robyn gardener. why they are now putting out what they think are the last note owes that were taken of her alive. forecasters warning irene could be the worst hurricane to hit the east coast in new and a half decades. why is the governor in north c

inside: moammar qaddafi joined shortly after by his heavily pregnant daughter aisha. "qaddafi" said abu salim "looked calm." >> reporter: during a 15 minute meeting qaddafi hands over the army to khamis, then there's an intense family farewell. a sister to her brother, a father to his son. from here, qaddafi with his daughter at his side became a deposed tyrant on the run. they left the compound in a group of suvs while the fighting was still going on and headed south. abu salim's commander told him qaddafi was headed for sabha where he can use strong tribal ties and the vast desert for protection. it is a familiar hideout for him. it's where he fled after the u.s. bombing in 1986. on saturday, abu salim said he held the door open as khamis got into an armored car. minutes later it was blown apart by an apparent missile strike and based on the young soldier's information rebels announced that khamis was dead. if qaddafi is holed up in sabha it will be hard for the rebels to get him but be he's a master of disinformation, likely to say he's going in one direction then h

(gunfire, cheering) the rebels celeb >>> libyan rebels say they are confident they will find moammar qaddafihave a good idea where he is. the rebels celebrated today as they moved closer to qaddafi's hometown of sert. nato is hitting multiple targets with warplanes. his wife and three children have escaped to algeria. official in libya's interim government demand that they be sent back. >> august is the deadliest month in afghanistan since the conflict began 10 years ago. there were 66 american troops who died this month topping the record of 65 killed in july 2010. nearly half month of this american deaths came from an attack on a helicopter which left 30 dead. 30,000 troops will leave afghanistan by the end of the year. >>> national guard helicopters are taking food and water to those cut off after hurricane irene. a dozen towns in southern vermont are isolated by flood damaged roads and bridges. we have the unprecedented damage in that area. >> reporter: flooded roads and power outages are preventing first responders from reaching residents in the vermont hills. >> in one town people are

there's still no word on the whereabouts of moammar qaddafi. ( gunfire ) as clashes continue this evening in parts of tripoli one of the fiercest battles is around qaddafi's compound. tanks were seen emerging from the base earlier and witnesses say there's been sustained gunfire there throughout the day. nearly 24 hours since their arrival, the rebels say they're now in control of 80% of the libyan capital. these remain dangerous hours, but the joy of a liberated people has spread across this city and nation for everything has changed here. >> brown: lindsey hilsum of "independent television news" has been covering the libya war since march. she returned to the country last week and entered tripoli with the rebels yesterday. here's her report from the capital as new fighting broke out today. ( cheering ) >> reporter: he never thought he'd live to see this day. praise be to god it's over. after 42 years, over. his grandson may be too young to remember the moment when everything in libya changed, but he was there. ( cheering ) >> bye, bye qaddafi. ciao qaddafi. bye bye. >> reporter: today t

that is moammar qaddafi's hometown.y can capture that that will ultimately lead to the ultimate downfall of moammar qaddafi, he won't have a safe place to fall back to. they do suspect he actually might have made his way there. the other day they discovered that underground network of tunnels leading out of the compound and think that might be his way out of the city. the national traditional council says it is moving to the capitol. it's got about half its people here. it will move the leaders once security allows it to do so. that will effectively firmly implant the national transitional council in the capitol as the defacto rulers. they are saying they are going to go for u.n. recognition come september and hopefully -- megyn: can you revea without revealing where you are, tell us your position? with what exactly happened? >> reporter: we are in a building with other foreign media outlets. we are in the very center of the city. it is currently sundown here. about 20 minutes ago we started the sound of anti-aircraft g

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: the hunt for moammar qaddafi intensified today as new battles raged in libya's capital. good evening, i'm jeffrey brown. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the "newshour" tonight, we have the latest from tripoli, where rebels stormed a neighborhood where pro-qaddafi forces are holding out. >> brown: then, we look at what's next for apple and the world of technology, as steve jobs steps down. >> suarez: we talk to "washington post" sports reporter sally jenkins about the diagnosis of alzheimer's disease for legendary basketball coach pat summitt. >> brown: from the "economist film project": we get the story of two elderly drivers, still behind the wheel. >> next month, i'll be 97. i've been driving for about 89 years. i think i'm beginning to learn how to do it now. >> suarez: and we have another in our interviews with republican presidential candidates. tonight, former utah governor jon hunstman. >> i believe that on some issues we've gone too far to the right. and i believe that we've got to be more common sense oriented. we

reports of new fighting in tripoli as nato forces help in the hunt for libya's fugitive dictator moammar qaddafi, rebels putting a $2 million bounty on qaddafi's head. steve harrigan is streaming live from tripoli. steve, any word on qaddafi? >> reporter: gregg, right now, unk*frpl dollars reports -- unconfirmed reports saying qaddafi and two of his sons are surrounded an an apartment building near tripoli near the colonel's compound. fighting is going on there and keep in mind there's been a real credibility gap from both sides so this information is unconfirmed as of now. the hunt for qaddafi is intense, it is continuing, british officials have just said that nato assets are being used, intelligence gathering assets in hunt for qaddafi, but no confirmation that he is in fact surrounded at this point inside a group of apartments in tripoli. as that hunt goes on, the celebrations across the city of tripoli are continuing. >> they arrived in homemade vehicles, homemade weapons, the fire was in the air, rocket launchers, antiair craft guns. women, men and children enjoy the show, some cover their

thousands of people as you can see in these videos, in green square, that's the symbolic part of moammar qaddafi's regime, rebels saying they've captured reports of one, sometimes two, reports of capturing qaddafi's sons and they're now in sight of overtaking the regime and top ling the four two-year dictator. so far, no sign of him, though, at this hour. good morning, everybody, i'm martha maccallum on this very busy day in "america's newsroom". gregg: i'm gregg jarrett in for bill hemmer. an apparent victory for the rebel fighters, president obama saying in a statement sunday qaddafi's time is gefer, but guess what -- time is over, but guess what, he may not agree with that. take a listen: >> everyone should go out, i am with you in tripoli, no going back, we should go to the end of the earth that we want to liberate from the occupier. don't allow the occupier to future their -- put their foot in our land. i am with you in this battle as i always promised. we will never surrender. martha: wendell goler live at the state department, we'll go to him in a moment but first to dominic di-natale. what

called the situation in libya "fluid," but he said it has become clear we are nearing the end of moammar qaddafi's 42-year rule. the rebel flag is now flying over tripoli, qaddafi is no where to be found and two of his sons are in custody. months of nato airstrikes have demolished qaddafi's compound in tripoli, much of the city's infrastructure, and shut down the oil-rich nation's exports. inn europe north sea brefernt crude fell 26 cents to gallon 108 a barrel while here in new york light sweet crude added 1.86 to $84 a barrel. and joining us now john kilduff oil analyst at-- hi, john. >> hi, susie, good evening. >> susie: kind of a surprise that we didn't see prices go down more dramatically. why is that? >> well, i think there is a lot of speculation still about the situation there on the ground. as the president referred to it as fluid. we're still waiting to see where qaddafi is. and importantly there's conjecture over what the state of the oil infrastructure there actually is i happen to believe it's in fairly good shape and exports will resume rather quickly. but there's considerabl conside

how far one man went to land a gig at google. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, libyan leader moammar qaddafi. that's the word this morning >>> a nato air strike has reportedly killed the youngest son of libyan leader moammar qaddafi the word this morning from a libyan rebel spokesman. he is said to be among 33 libyan servicemembers killed in the strike early today. a government operation centered 90 miles southeast of tripoli is where it happened. officers in the capital have not made any public comment so far. >>> a kids fight leads to gunfire in hayward. this morning, police are looking for the shooter who left a 19-year-old in critical condition. witnesses say the kids were throwing rocks wednesday night at the ponderosa court apartment complex. one child was hit in the head. when that child went to the grownups, the adults started arguing. witnesses say that one of those adults left and came back with the automatic weapon and sprayed an apartment with at least 15 bullets. the 19-year-old was hit several times. police are asking witnesses to come forward. >>> a young man shot to death by h

forces loyal to the dictator moammar qaddafi have been cornered in small pockets of the city. one of those pockets is qaddafi's presidential compound, which has not yet fallen. qaddafi, who ruled libya for 42 years, has not been found yet, but at least two of his sons reportedly have been arrested. correspondent barry peterson is with the rebel forces. >> reporter: the question tonight: where is qaddafi? his country has gladly abandoned him and most of the capital city is now in the hands of rebels. you can sum up the mood in rebel-held areas in one word: joyful. families brought their small children to be a part of it, and destroyed tanks were a photo-op of change. >> it's a new day. feel feelings of a new day. >> it's unbelievable. we're so happy. i cannot explain just to you in words. >> reporter: it's hard to believe that a mere 24 hours ago, people might have been prosecuted for gathering like this and supporting the rebel cause. now they're out celebrating, but there are still some no-go zones. this street is blocked down there, an indication that the fighting is still no

the new privacy controls that were just announced. >>> plus, is it game over for moammar qaddafi? what's next for libya after rebels forced their way into his compound. >>> did you feel it?! the bay area had our own small earthquake last night on the heels of the east coast quake that we heard so much about. we'll tell you about them once i get my tongue together. >>> we'll be right back. >>> big crowd expected here in oakland at the park headquarters where people will get the first chance to speak directly with bart officials on the controversial move two weeks ago shut down cell phone service. plus the latest demands from the hacker group anonymous when we come back. >>> if you are taking off out of sfo today, we are cleared for take-off by this afternoon seeing beautiful mostly sunny skies out there and a high of 47 degrees, a whole lot hotter heading to houston today making it to 101 and houston also seeing a slight chance of some thunderstorms about 20% chance. also warm today if you are heading to atlanta a high of 90 there, mostly sunny skies. we'll have a full look at your

empty child seat in her car. >>> fresh fighting has erupted in tripoli this just hours after moammar qaddafi's son turned up free to thwart rebel claims he had been captured and to rally supporters. [ yelling ] >> qaddafi's son says his father is still in libya's capital city but moammar qaddafi's exact location still remains a secret. clashes continue between rebels and regime loyalists. thick clouds of smoke filled the sky, heavy gunfire and explosions shook several districts of the city just a couple of minutes ago nato reemphasizing it will continue operations in libya and will bomb qaddafi's forces if they keep fighting. >>> 6:40 now. facebook just keeps adding friends, why it's planning another expansion. >> from touch pads to ipad, cnet editor-at-large brian cooley says it doesn't matter which brand you buy. >>> pictures from chopper 5 of a major accident. details coming up. >> and the market opened about 10 minutes ago. let's check the numbers. so far, so good. not up a lot. but it's up. that's a good thing. got an update with kcbs moneywatch reporter jason brooks coming up. ,, the kin

armed men of moammar qaddafi held them hostage in a hotel. members of the fox news crew included in that group. tadik joins us live -- we lost his live shot. we will try to get him back. remember, yesterday we had a phoner who was saying he was laying on the floor, at the time he was on the floor of the hotel room trying to stay away from doors and windows so that he was not in danger and would not be hurt, that the firing was coming in towards the hotel from 400 yards away i believe he said, and now today we learn that indeed they were in great danger. thankfully that appears to have resolved successfully and we will try to get tadick back up to us so we can follow-up with him on the latest today from tripoli, to him just as soon as we have him. moammar qaddafi's exact whereabouts at this point remain unknown. there have been reports that he's claiming that he was walking around the city of tripoli. it's also unclear when he left his heavily fortified compound in tripoli which served as his personal living quarters and officers, that compoun

and in libya, rebels closed in on moammar qaddafi's hometown in their ongoing manhunt for him. he same time, qaddafi's wife and three of his children escaped to algeria. on our website, you can find more about tonight's stories and others. hari sreenivasan has some details. >> sreenivasan: explore a map of the proposed keystone oil pipeline on the rundown blog. and find more on how drug shortages caaffect hospital emergency rooms and sometimes result in stockpiling and price gouging for some prescriptions. that's on our health page plus economics correspondent paul solman tackles this question: who has the bigger economy: china or the u.s.? find his answer on our making sense page. all that and more is on our web site: newshour.pbs.org. gwen? >> ifill: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. on tuesday, we take another look at the nation's housing crisis as new home sales numbers are released. i'm gwen ifill. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and

moammar qaddafi and his immediate family are still at large. firefights continue in the capital and elsewhere. we begin our coverage with a report narrated by jonathan rugman of "independent television news." >> reporter: yesterday, they were celebrating its capture. but today colonel qaddafi's compound was a battlefield again. the fighting was fierce. libyan rebels used everything they had, even a gun designed to shoot down aircraft. the rebels say hundreds have been killed in tripoli in the last few days. as a hard core of qaddafi loyalists seems determined to fight till the last. in a radio broadcast last night, the man once known as brother leader vowed to fight or die. victory or martyrdom he said. calling on libyan tribes to march on the capital. the man who ruled for over 40 years hasn't been seen in public since april. yesterday, he claimed he was walking around tripoli incognito. and maybe he's so delusional we should believe him. today, qaddafi's former justice minister said he didn't object to qaddafi's departure from libya as long a

rebels in libya threatened an all out attack on moammar qaddafi's hometown, sirte, unless his loyalists surrender. and home prices in most u.s. cities edged up in june for the third straight month. but they were still below the levels of a year ago. we weren't able to bring you all the interview with senator leahy but we'll post that online later. for more of what's on our website we turn to harry veen veen. >> sreenivasan: fred de sam lazaro writes about church attendance and views toward abortion and contraception in rio de janeiro. that's on our "rundown" blog. and paul solman examines the latest homes sales figures, and asks why prices are not plummeting amid other economic troubles. that's on our "making sense" page. plus on "newshour extra," our site for students and teachers, find a lesson plan on tracking the health effects of disasters like hurricane irene, and more resources for educators. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. >> ifill: and again to our honor roll of american service personnel killed in the iraq and afghanistan conflicts. we add them as their

rebels in libya threatened an all out attack on moammar qaddafi's hometown, sirte, unless his loyalists surrender. and home prices in most u.s. cities edged up in june for the third straight month. but they were still below the levels of a year ago. for more of what's on our website we turn to harry veen veen. >> sreenivasan: fred de sam lazaro writes about church attendance and views toward abortion and contraception in rio de janeiro. >> brown: and that's the newshour for tonight. on wednesday, we'll talk with 9/11 commission chairmen lee hamilton and tom kean about the state of national security ten years after the terrorist attacks. i'm jeffrey brown. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. we'll see you online, and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: chevron. we may have more in common than you think. >> and by bnsf railway. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy, productive life. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions