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You calling if. we thought it was an important story to tell down there in st. pete. appreciate it. >> thank you. i want to take you back to libya where every indication is that a noose is beginning to tighten around the capital city of tripoli and around the countrys long time leader, moammar gadhafi. joining me now from new york is fareed zakh kakhar arzakhar -- . this is from benghazi. thousands of libyans, this is the kind of picture you stop and marvel at because theyre rising up against ...

Drugs. >> what? very different from what weve been seen. would there be a battle for triply? who would that battle be between? and what scenario -- give me a scenario under which gadhafi would be forced to flee libya? >> reporter: most people believe that the scenario would be that, either, a, the army simply drops him like a hot potato, because he is such a liability for the country, or that the tribes that currently support him will pull away and come over to the side of the anti-gadhafi force...

[ singing ] >> reporter: this dem. stration in benghazi gives you an idea of the passion of the people of the city, of the passion of so many libyans who have been thieen thirsting for s for this sort of opportunity, the chance to express themselves freely. [ chanting ] >> we arrived in this city and from the beginning, everywhere we went, i felt like i was an american soldier going into paris during world war ii. everybody clapping and cheering. we are the first television crew to get to this c...

Sons, perhaps the intelligence apparatus. perhaps the army. its probably some kind of combination of all those things. but it highlights the problem which is its not clear that anyone is really in charge in libya. the whole country is run but a very clannish way. thats why so much of the government, ambassadors, ministers are spinning off defecting left right and center. >> they are. >> and what is likely to happen is fairly chaotic in the aftermath of gadhafis leaving. still, it shouldnt deter ...

Tonight. >> reporter: hundreds of people filtering in and out of the capitol. some are outside carrying signs but the vast majority of them are inside. they have taken over in there over the past week. actually today, there was some rules established for the upcoming weekend. theyre going to limit the space where the public can be. but for the past week, they have taken over the staus state house and that continues to be the case today. i even saw some people from los angeles that came in in sol...

Control. az z. ntan is also under opposition control. and triply is the ga deaf phi control, so the circle is tightening. we understand from reports on the ground that gadhafi is bringing in reinforcements to triply and also hiring. >> its interesting, because, what was it, two days ago, maybe yesterday when we saw gadhafi speaking on state tv, now we just heard his voice this morning, but in his rambling way, he was blaming a lot of this on the youth and osama bin laden. >> its sounding more an...

Repress i be totalitarian regimes. hundreds of thousands of people killed, imprisoned. tortured. for people to come out and express themselves and change the regime as is inevitably going to happen, i think this is an extraordinary moment. >> i wants to pick up on your comment character comment in a moment. but just sort of looking back, it will be two weeks tomorrow since we sat here and saw a reasonably smooth easing out, reasonably smooth easing out of hosni mubarak. is what were seeing in li...

The table, which is basically a compromise. >> thanks, ted. finally here, weve been trying to get the story on for you. dr. pepper telling the ladies, youre not allowed. also oil prices on the rise, alison kosik is live in new york. weve got to talk libya. how is the situation there going to affect gas prices here in the u.s.? is if youve been at a gas station, youre already feelings the gas prices rose three cents a gallon overnight aaa saying the national average is 3.23 a gallon. analysts...

Thats why they are working to unseat me, overthrow me, but i have to say, although we can chuckle at some of it, it is still laced a little bit with, you know, sort of worrying, threatening undertones, saying, for instance that if you are a foreign journalist, you have come in illegally, and that might be an issue for foreign journalists that might become a target. >> i was talking to fareed, and he said president obama needs to say very clearly, like this is the time, calling for the end of the...

Different from egypt. it has few institutions, it has ha huge disparity between the haves and have-nots, because it has wealth, but its only concentrated in the hands of a few. egypt was able to build on institutions that existed before and perhaps modernize them. >> libya is clannish. eastern libya was easier to go against gadhafi. its another tribal entity in that part of the country, so what happens with many households armed while there are fears with violence. the well educated, intelligent...