now! this is the last dictator in the world. we are free! reporter: this new government is looking for cash, they re asking for $5 billion from donor nation, italy just announced they will be freezing unfreezing libyan assets, giving $500 million in immediate cash. we will keep you up to date with that hunt for colonel qaddafi, unconfirmed reports from rebels saying he and two sons are fighting it out inside an apartment complex, here in tripoli. back to you in new york. gregg: steve harrigan, we ll check back in with you. martha. martha: hurricane irene, let s get back to that for a moment, taking aim at the east coast of the united states, folks in north carolina, they are expecting to be the first that are hit in this country. there s a look at the path. we re live in kittyhawk, we ll see how the folks are faring there as they get ready for the storm. gregg: they rarely win an election but can a third party candidate make history in 2012? we ll tell you what the top pollsters
was founded in 1995 to set up an islamist state or emirate inside libya, u.s. state department has designated the lifg a terrorist organization with links to al-qaeda, belhaaj fought against the soviets in 19 199 #, he lived and travels to 22 countries, including pakistan, turkey and the sudan, was arrested in malaysia in 22 on 20044 and later imprisoned in libya as part of a rehabilitation program. military analysts say bahaaj underscores a larger problem we don t know who s going to be in charge of the overall government. by all accounts right now, the very fabric of society is falling apart, and this is where we got in trouble in iraq. reporter: for context, the lisg claimed in march it was supporting the revolt against qaddafi and now under the national transitional council. then the lsig rebranded
martha: a serious tpwus crash to tell you about that has left the driver and one passenger in critical condition. the bus crashed into two tractor trailers in new jersey. take a look at this scene, the american bus association says the driver has 11 years of experience, was well rested, had no violations on his license, it was traveling from new york city to washington, d.c. gregg: there are reports crossing the wire, unconfirmed, that a group of libyan rebels have moammar qaddafi and some of his sons cornered inside a residential compound, apparently holed up in an apartment building. again, unconfirmed. in the meantime, new calls for the united states to keep qaddafi s vast weapons arsenal out of the hands of al-qaeda, shul-fired rockets, capable of taking down airliners, even wmds like mustard gas, all at
desperately need help there. wendall goler live at the state department with more on this. reporter: hi, rick. the u.s., europe, in fact, much of the international community have been trying to keep libya from suffering the economic and societal collapse that iraq went through after the fall of saddam hussein. but until the rebels take tripoli and actually control the country, the u.n. can t establish a mission there. in fact, the u.n. is not supposed to free up frozen libyan assets until there s a new government to give the money to. but the head of the rebel movement says his people can t wait that long. big meeting going on in istanbul right now, the 30-nation libya contact group where rebel leaders who include a number of ambassadors who served under moammar gadhafi have been asking countries to free up frozen libyan assets. earlier he met with the italian prime minister who agreed to free up about $500 million in
from inside the compound where they were jumping on top of the head of the statue of qaddafi the other day. what mistakes were made, perhaps, in iraq that we should not repeat in libya? the mistake that was made in iraq was there were a couple of them. one, it was the focus on a lot of the new people coming in, the so called rebels against saddam hussein, to settle scores, whether it was the shiites coming in and wanted to settle scores with the sunnis. they were far more focused on revenge than they were on organizing their country and getting things back to some kind of stability. the second mistake, and major mistake that was made, is that when the new team came in, the provisional government, they fired all of the baathist military and all of the people who were in the bureaucracy, and not just the top guys, but everybody who had a gun. they said go home, you re fired. rick: and they became the insurgents. they became the insurgents. everybody had a gun and nobody had a salar