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campaign. im wolf blitzer and youre in "the situation room." but, first, breaking news this hour. congressman anthony weiner flatly denying that he posted a lewd photo on his twitter account but tells me he cant say for sure if the image of a mans underwear is him or not. weiner sat down with me a short while ago up on capitol hill in his office as part of his attempt to move beyond the controversy and his testy exchange with reporters yesterday. heres part one of the interview. >> tha...

Continue to be a threat especially into these early morning hours. threat for tornados actually going to be standing a little further south from indianapolis down into springfield, missouri, and we are going to continue to track this system as we head through these early morning hours and a line of storms does extend all the way down to texas and very warm air is going to continue to fuel these storms as we get through the rest of the day hitting a high of around 71 degrees today in memphis and ...

Come just hours after punishing air strikes by nato forces in the eastern part of the country. terry moran reports. >> reporter: ajdabiya is a ghost town. nearly every civilian has fled. for two days, a pitched battle raged here. rebels fought desperately as forces loyal to moammar gadhafi attacked trying to seize this strategically crucial crossroads in the east of libya. we hear shelling right now. what is that shelling? "we are clearing the area of gadhafis troops," a top field commander tell...

Won the day for the rebels and thats the story of this war. without nato the rebels would lose and even with the air strikes, they are not strong enough to overthrow gadhafi. a young solder in gadhafis army, hardly more than a boy, a straggler, he tried to take his own life when surrounded and failed. this man came to attack your town? >> yes. >> and yet youre saving his life? >> we have to. hes a human being. >> reporter: a moment of basic human decency amidst the indecency of the libyan civil ...

Sunday night to say that moammar gadhafi and his leadership have, in principle, accepted a road map towards peace. this is a huge surprise and will be astonishing if its true. there is reason to be skeptical but president zhuma said he was optimistic. that road map includes an immediate and verifiable cease-fire allowing humanitarian aid in libya and ultimately a transition towards a new government and democracy in libya. weve not heard from gadhafi himself. but if this, in fact, is the case, th...

The rebels fight here. one thing that will change over the next 24 hours as of sunday, the u.s. will end all military combat air and naval operations here in libya. theyre handing these operations off to nato, to the brits, to the french. they will now begin to take the primary responsibility for enforcing this no-fly zone and also hitting gadhafi -- the u.s. will maintain a presence here. they will also support the operation here. but they are taking a back seat to the brits and to the french i...