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he said the retreat from his compound was a tactical move. just breaking right now over the computer wires, were seeing from reuters, mousi ibrahim, the government spokesperson, who was in the hotel with other journalists, but fled yesterday. he is saying to reuters, now the mission is to just liberate tripoli gradually, our men are assuring me, it will only get easier them are trying to turn libya into the next iraq. central tripoli under the influence of gangs. they have been using t...

This hour, stretch from the southwest to the upper midwest. and just about all of those storms have the potential to spawn new twisters. lets go straight to our severe weather expert, chad meyer, joining us from cnns weather center. chad, whats the latest? what do we expect in the next few hours? wolf, i have 18 separate tornado warnings. three tornado warnings actually have tornadoes on the ground. the rest are just rotating storms that havent yet made it to the ground. weve had damage in mis...

They would be on the next boat out. >> reporter: for locals their new neighbors have become part of the community. for good and bad. chris owns a canal boat and lives on the river. >> we need them. a lot of people see it as a problem. >> reporter: they have become visible simymbols of britains immigration whoas with no easy solutions. he wont be voting but its their case that will be on the minds of voters when they go to the polls tomorrow. tony? >> cnns atika shubert for us in london. thank yo...

The chandeleur islands, louisiana. >> chad meyer, im in your space. >> your light, it comes this way. my light comes this way. in the middle, theres darkness. >> yes. we wanted to take a look at the gulf region again. and take a look at the gulf of mexico because is the window of opportunity, right? >> it is, big time if winds have died off. this is the opportunity that they didnt have for the past seven days to coral some of this stuff with the booms and actually light it on fire or get it off ...

The oil out of that container. so its going to stop the flow of oil into the water. its going to be pumped into a ship up above. and that ship can hold about 125,000 barrels of oil before it has to be off-loaded or replaced or pumped out. this is the latest and greatest possible thing they can do. that right there -- >> you took the words out of my mouth. >> 30-footmark. 25-foot mark. they have to remotely operate it. i dont know what kind of game this is. like playing plachinko. the winds and w...

Determined by the implements and procedures used to make them, which essentially means just because we in the media dont know what the impact is, doesnt mean there havent been an impact. so because -- >> i dont think it is as big as haiti, without a question. even though it is an 8.8 instead of a 7.0, a lot more shaking went on, many more people were effected violently with the haitian earthquake. i dont think most people know this -- >> so these reports that i just heard, that they dont have an...

The low 60s and now as rafael pointed out moments ago we are well into the hundreds. >> and getting to people, getting to hard-hit areas is part of the reason why assessment takes a little bit of time. so we are going to talk more about whats taking place in chile. now lets talk about the effects of what took place in chile. we are talking about people in hawaii who got a very alarming wake-up call this morning, just really about an hour ago. >> so i dont know how well you can hear me on the mik...

And government officials cannot -- dont have access to these areas. chad, are you there? chad myers, are you there? chad, can you hear what i am translating from these reports? >> sure, of course. >> i just want to bring you in. now, it sounds to me, and you, fred and i have covered these an awful lot. you know, fred, we in the media have a tendency to bring you the pictures from where we have them. >> sure. >> where information is available. >> right. >> and guess what, information is going to ...

The if you look at it from the side, heres the ocean. all of a sudden the ocean plate going down below the andes. the andes are here, and the earthquake was very close to shore. only three miles from shore, so if there was an earthquake and a tsunami very close to shore, it would have have been instantaneous. you would have felt the shock, felt the wave and you would be able to see the wave coming in. if it was going this way, which we do believe it was, that would be the three, six, nine, twelv...

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