stephanie gosk, misrata. >>> here are other stories making news early today in america. fists were flying at a youth football game in florida. an argument over one referee's calls erupted into a brawl. one player and a couple of parent coaches roughed up the referee before the melee ended. no arrests were made after the incident, but charges against some of the adult attackers are expected soon. >>> in kansas, a couple wichita officers braved suffocating smoke and raging flames to pull an elderly driver from his burning car. the officer sprang into action after the 65-year-old's car ignited following a crash into two vehicles and a guardrail. the officers and the driver did not suffer any serious injuries. >>> finally at the nebraska state fair, we have liftoff. a group of dogs got plenty of air time showing off their leaping skills at the dock dog competition. with a little coaxing, owners did their best to get their dogs to take flight. the dogs with the longest jumps will compete for the championship monday. >>> for a look at your national and regional weather, here's

stephanie gosk, nbc news, misrata. >>> here's a first look at other news going on. fists were flying at a youth football game in florida last weekend. an argument for a referee's calls erupted into an all-out brawl. at least one player and a couple of parent coaches roughed up the referee before the melee ended. no arrests were made after the incident but charges against some of the adult attackers are expected soon. >>> in kansas, a couple of wichita officers braved suffocating smoke and raging flames to pull an elderly driver from his burning car. the officers sprang into action after the 65-year-old's car ignited following a crash into two vehicles and a guardrail. the officers and driver luckily did not suffer serious injuries. >>> finally, at the nebraska state fair, we have liftoff. a group of dogs got plenty of air time showing off their leaping skills at the dock dog competition. with a little coaxing owners did their best to get their dogs to take flight. the dogs with the longest jumps will compete for the championship on monday. >>> now for a look at nati

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stephanie gosk is live in misrata, libya, right now, and stef stephanie, what more do we know about that>> well, michael, secretary of state hillary clinton in paris in a meeting with libya and 60-plus nations said that the united states believes that justice was aborted when megrahi was released from a scottish prison two years ago and now that gadhafi's government has been toppleded they are putting pressure on the new interim government to handle the megrahi case. there are calls for him to be called back to scotland for justice, and there are angry pleas for him to be extradited, but hillary clinton is not asking for him to be extradited, but be put back in prison, and there are reports however that he is on his death bed. >> what is the latest in the search for gadhafi? >> well, right now, the theory that is gaining the most traction is that gadhafi has escaped to the south, to the town of bani walid, and there is a rebel spokesman who said that is where they believe he is. the truth is that nobody knows, and the search is on, and the other city that he could have escaped to that is

i am joined by stephanie gosk and let's talk about where you are right now, because it looks pretty badd you? >> hey, craig. well, there is no city in libya damaged as badly or suffered as much as misrat tmisrata, becaus supply routes were cut off and they ran out of food here, and now they are worried that there could be more fighting. just down to the road to the south and the east of here. gadhafi, himself, was on arabic television today and he said that the followers will not step down to demands of the national transitional council in the towns of bin al weed, and he says that he wants the fight to be long, and they will not surrender. >> stephanie, we got word late this afternoon, word that gadhafi has spoken once again, and that there was a television station, arabic station that played some of what he said, and what do we know about that? >> well, it is really a rallying cry. similar to the statements he has given in the past, but specifically, he spoke about this deadline. now, the interim council has extended the deadline for a week. it was this saturday and now it is a week f

. >> stephanie gosk in tripoli.ons learned on college campuses from 9/11 and how they have translated into jobs for new graduates. >>> a new report from the "los angeles times" examines protfound effect 9/11 has on college campuses. colleges are placing importance on majors like homeland security. there are microbiology programs that study germs like anthrax and ebola. an explosion of federal dollars to fund programs makes domestic security one of the faste fastest-growing areas of study. i'm joined by scott gold, reporter for the "los angeles times." good morning. >> good morning, alex. >> in your research did you find students actually major inning these fields have an easier time finding jobs once they graduate? >> yeah, i did. this was part of an ambitious series of articles we're writing in "the times" available at latimes.com. the other pieces touch on thing that were more intuitive. air travel and police work has changed, but i was unaware of how systemic and transformative the change has been on american col

nbc's stephanie gosk is live in tripoli to bring us the very latest. porter: hey, thomas, good morning. we've made our way down the road from tripoli, we're outside bani walid. it is one of the contested of four strong holds that will could be battles for for week. this country has been basically at war for the last six months and the overwhelming sense that you get from rebel forces and from the negotiators trying to deal with people within bani walid is that they really don't want another bloody battle. but talks broke down last night. apparently there are no new negotiations going on. the chief negotiator came out and spoke to the press here at this checkpoint. he said that they need food, water, medicine inside the city and that they are being basically -- the people there are being held captive by a group of 70 armed hard-core loyalists. he also said that the rebels are ready to go in and take that city. they are just waiting from the word from the interim council. thomas? >> stephanie, out of these strong ho strongholds, is there any one that may