we have re-established our connection with with sara seidner. she was approaching what's called green square right in the heart of tripoli. sara, set the scene for us where you are right now. >> okay. we are at green square. what you're hearing is celebratory gunfire. what we're seeing in the streets is rebels basically. there are not thousands of people. there are more like -- just doing a quick count here, maybe 100, 150. but they're not all together in one area. they are spread out all over -- around the square. but what we're being told by the rebels coming over is that there are snipers err errs on some o buildings. there are small fires that people have set purposely but they are not in any way going to subvert roles. they are in the middle of the square. there are a few people kind of milling about in the outskirts. >> sara, i'm going to interrupt because we're losing that connection. we're going to try to re-establish it so we can better appreciate it. sara seidner, our correspondent, is moving in with rebel forces. they are now at green

sara seidner is with us from zawiya. matthew chance is in tripoli. that they have gotten rid of the traitorous rebels, that's what we're hearing on libyan state-run television. we're not going to go far from the story. the full resources of cnn on top of it, we have our entire crew there in libya, reporters, correspondents there, producers, cameras on the ground, as well. and we're checking on it back here in the u.s. so stand by for more information on libya. >>> here we go now. here in the united states, rain is pummelling the midwest with the chicago and the detroit areas really feeling the brunt of it. our meteorologist, jacqui jeras, is here to tell us about the severe systems that are going through. it looked pretty ominous over the skies of chicago. the air show -- i lived in chicago for a number of years. it's amazing to see. they come right by the buildings. they had to be delayed, right? >> yeah, they did. it was able to go on. they got the people out of the way, told them where to go to stay safe. those storms have moved on. we've got anot