afghanistan. so to honor him, she joins the marines to finish his mission. let me get you caught up on the headlines, what you might have missed while you were sleeping. first of all, president obama came home, he s back at the white house now after wrapping up a nine-day trip that took him to hawaii, australia, and indonesia. the trip was meant to promote american business and manufacturing in the region. also on capitol hill today, live picture you are seeing. work will be going on. members of the deficit supercommittee promising to keep working to get a deal done. now one member of the so-called supercommittee is openly admitting that a compromise is unlikely. a live report just a couple of minutes away. [ crowd noise ] what you re seeing here, police firing teargas into crowds of protesters in cairo s tahrir square trying to break up demonstrations. the second straight day of protests aimed at the military government that took over for former egyptian president muba
us, literally right over us. we had to take cover. so we started to wonder what exactly was going on, if there was some sort of fight that started up again in this town, which is just about 30 miles from tripoli. as it turned out as the night went on, even though that went on about an hour and a half, we finally got in touch with rebel sources who told us, no, actually they are celebrating. yes, they re blowing off things like mortars but they are celebrating still. what we do know, there were gun battles in the city of tripoli today. we drove into the main drag from the west. that is where a lot of businesses normally are, a lot of commerce takes place and some neighborhoods. we drove straight down towards green square and we were stopped in the evening because they were telling us that we couldn t go any further. we could hear gunfire. the rebels telling us that there were snipers in the area, that the situation was very tense, that they were at one point surrounded but tha
hermi his son appears to be in tripoli, he claims the city is still under his family s control. he said his father is sacred talk to him in a moment, live. sara, if you can hear me, what is the latest there right now? reporter: we were hearing loud booms, loud blasts, a lot of rapid gunfire. we saw tracer rounds coming over our heads very, very close to us, literally right over us. we had to take cover. so we started to wonder what exactly was going on, if there was some sort of fight that started up again in this town, which is just about 30 miles from tripoli. as it turned out as the night went on, even though that went on about an hour and a half, we finally got in touch with rebel sources who told us, no, actually they are celebrating. yes, they re blowing off things like mortars but they are celebrating still. what we do know, there were gun battles in the city of tripoli today. we drove into the main drag from the west. that is where a lot of businesses normally are,