Lets Go Inside Libya News Today

I so very tired. >> people are so very tired. afraid to come out. you can help them to bring them out. theyre afraid because of the libyans. >> what are the libyans doing? >> attacking. >> attacking who? >> the foreigners. >> all foreigners? >> yeah. >> yeah? >> entirely west african. >> why are they attacking west africans. >> about the man, the leader. brought some -- >> theyre human. we should do this. im student. i should do this. >> yeah. >> i even go to the study. im here for just for help...

Key oil cities and then sort of pressure the rebels to negotiate by essentially saying weve taken this, can come and get you. lets not do it. that seems to be their attitude right now but what were seeing in usa yeah, for example, even when you have a professional or what is supposed to be a professional very well-equipped army, this country is not short of money for equipping the army, they are still having a tough time driving out what they describe as 100 rebels holed up inside the city. it m...

Language on a no-fly zone. president obama warning once again today that the bloodshed in libya is unacceptable. >> i want to send a very clear message to those who are around colonel gadhafi. it is their choice to make how they operate moving forward, and they will be held accountable for whatever violence continues to take place there. in the meantime, weve got nato as we speak consulting in brussels around a wide range of potential options, including potential military options, in the respons...

And the simple truth is, this is the part of the country, this broad swathe of states from about alabama over to texas sort of down near the gulf, the central gulf area, that led the country in the increased amount of driving as the country tried to crawl out of the recession. more people doing business, more people traveling, more people buying, trying to make things happen. rural areas by and large have moved up in their travel as weve tried to recover. the result is that last year, americans ...

Mission creep into no-drive zones, and then youre talking about people on the ground. >> reporter: libyas air force command is in tripoli. compared to nato pilots, libyas pilots are believed to get four times less training in the air. most fighter jets are the old soviet-era migs and in all total, probably fewer than 200 are operational and their helicopter fleet is smaller, perhaps no more than a dozen attack helicopters built more than 30 years ago. still, u.s. officials insist any military ef...

Moment. you just heard bill richardson say colin powell is the guy who could go to tripoli and look gadhafi in the eyes and say its over. youre leaving. >> if you read marcus mayberrys book on condoleezza rice he laid out how gadhafi was just in love with condoleezza rice. why dont we send her if he has so much affection. probably will pull him out of libya and make this thing real simple. >> sort of makes sense for colin powell to go along. >> they are shooting live ammunition at people who tel...

Are. they -- if they -- if they could trust them, they might give them stinger missiles or shoulder-fired missiles to knock down libyan warplanes but they are not sure they would be giving the weapons to the right people. >> look, sometimes youve got to take a gamble, take a risk. these are rebels. these are young men and women that want gadhafi out. they are not going to be a perfect military structure or government structure. it looks like they are forming a provisional government, but i think...

Considers whats happening in libya to be a full scale civil war. we have an update on the situation on the ground in libya. we received just a little while ago from cnns arwa damon in the eastern city of benghazi which is now under rebel control. >> are they digging in for a sustained long-term civil war? whats the sense youre getting over there? >> reporter: you know, wolf, a few days ago when we were talking to the opposition leaders they truly believed this would be all over in a few days a...

Britain and allies dont really need to have happen right now as they weigh options. >> i know theyre very sensitive to that. the white house says all options are on the table right now as the u.s. watches the civil war in libya unfold, including sending u.s. troops to the region although the white house press secretary, jay carney, says thats not at the top of the list. neither is arming the libyan rebels at least for now. lets get more with our senior political analyst david gergen and gloria...

Uption should that occur. >> but gas prices are rising so steeply for small businesses that the gas pinch is beginning to feel more like a punch. and phil carusos business has been around for a while. during the 70s oil crisis they resorted to delivering flowers by bicycle. he they might have to pull out the bicycles to do it. >> takes a little longer. thanks for that. theres a growing humanitarian crisis as thousands of people try to flee libyas civil war. were taking you live to the boarder ...