Outside Misrata News Today

>> reporter: good morning, alex. well, there are many challenges. there is, first of all, making sure they can restore security completely everywhere. theres still been rather thorough search through every house in sirte, the hometown of gadhafi where he was captured on thursday. they want to make sure theyve gone through and found every single last loyalist troop. there was a report earlier this morning in "the los angeles times" saying gadhafi are sequestered something -- stashed away somethin...

>> nbcs ron mott there, thank you so much. a memorial service is about to get under way in st. petersburg, florida, for dan wheldon. wheldon died last sunday in a horrifying crash in las vegas. the two-time indy 500 crahamp w in the middle of a 15-car pile upwhen his car hit a wall and burst into flames. wheldon originally from england made his home in st. petersburg and the service is open to the public. there will be another service tomorrow in indianapolis. libyas national transitional co...

Of gadhafis body at last report it was somewhere in a meat locker where actually people were filing by to look at it? >> reporter: well, i dont know if you could say they were just filing by anymore. the body, gadhafis body, is still in this commercial freezer. we saw it yesterday afternoon just as the day was coming to a close. there were very clearly thousands of people running through, filing at that time into this small room to see the body of a man theyd once feared so much. weve heard that...

Outside misrata. so, nick, is it necessary to put boots on the ground to get real control of the situation? >> well, in misrata the rebels are surrounded, besieged by government forces. this has been going on for the last five or six weeks. the whole duration of the no-fly zone. weve heard the nato commanders say that its difficult to target government forces at misrata because its an urban environment. that the tanks, we were here a weak ago, week and a half ago, tanks were hidden under trees. ...

Would be struggling to make a decisive impact here. and the rebels have nowhere to fight to here. theyre fighting to hold a piece of territory. they cant break out of this town and hook up with rebels elsewhere. the other rebels are 400 to 500 miles away. its a difficult and intractable situation. >> nic robertson, reporting live from misrata, libya. thank you so much. pro basketballer allen iverson has a run-in with police while riding in his car. his very expensive car, with a friend. well t...

To terrorize the city. >> you describe the level of destruction you can see around you or you have been able to see or have heard from witnesses? >> it is absolute destruction and carnage. he is firing at all buildings, private and public. he controls the main street, which leads all the way to outside misrata, and the buildings just on that street are a scene from afghanistan or iraq. its absolute destruction and carnage, and he has distributed his -- over the -- were being

More clashes, more deaths. the situation in syria really getting worse right now. this is a big surprise because syria, you dont see protests there. this is very rare. were monitoring today to see if there will be even more, but syria now seems to be the latest country in the region where the protest movement really gaining momentum and were wondering whats going to to be happening next. >> mohammed, thank you for that. focussing on libya now where pro-qadhafi forsdz and rebel forces are fight...

Told that there are 200 muslims with laser-guided rifles, and they are shooting people in the main street and in the back streets. i have one -- we have one victim who was shot in his home in a back street, and he is terrorizing the outskirts of the city. on the east, west, and the south his troops are going almost door to door searches terrorizing people and rounding up young men and terrorizing all men and women. we have reports of shooting. we have reports of looting peoples homes on the outs...

Well, he hasnt, and he is terrorizing misrata right now. >> thank you, sir, for speaking to us and telling us what is happening right now. weve been showing you video from an earlier occasion in misrata, but we are hearing now that misrata is being flattened, raised to the ground as we speak. the resident of misrata also said there was absolute carnage and destruction going on. he said there was firing at all buildings. the pro-qadhafi forces are in control, he said, of the main streets. there a...