contain oil and gas terminals, and, this just in, the u.s. government has announced sanctions against libya and it s also suspending u.s. embassy personnel have left tripoli and all u.s. embassy operations now suspended. so, dan lothian, joining me live from the white house. dan, some significant announcements out of that daily briefing from jay carney today. reporter: thaerlt. you know, over the last couple of days what you ve heard from this white house is they were reviewing a whole set of options. today we heard some morre specifics, we re assuming because this administration has been careful not to come out of any strong language directed at gadhafi himself and other options until all the americans who wanted to leave libya did get a chance to do so. so soon after that plane lifted off with? americans, that ferry also removing americans from libya, then you heard the administration coming out with a series of steps, including what you were talking about, not only
i want to go to diana magnay standing by with one of the americans who just got off that ferry in malta from libya. diana, who is it? reporter: there s one passenger who doesn t want to tell us his name because he still has family in libya who he wants to make sure stays safe but he s been describing some really terrifying scenes that he witnessed in one area of tripoli, and i m going to interview on him right now. so tell us what exactly you saw over the last few days before you boarded the ship. i saw carnage. i saw carnage, little kids, 16 and 15-year-old kids who were shouting and demanding the ouster of gadhafi and very quickly as soon as the numbers grew, i don t know how the libyan authorities knew about it, they sent army. i believe it was the 32nd division that reports directly
and they don t leave the house like except for in the early hours of the morning and they just get what they need and they stay home. and they stocked up several days before. are you still there? i m still here. okay. perhaps that was a horn from the ferry as we re watching some of these pictures. are you sitting there watching cnn right along with me? are you watching for your family? i m actually at work right now so i can t watch anything. well, we re watching, and i think many people around the world are watching these images as these people from this ferry disembark after being holed up for days on this ferry as they ve been trying to leave tripoli in libya. can you tell me why your family was in country? yeah. they were in tripoli. they were there for various reasons. my mom was just visiting and a couple of my other siblings are working there right now, just kind of recent thing that started. and my sister just got married, my oldest sister.
publicly at the regime that he represented just days ago, brooke. amazing. grown men hugging on the floor of the united nations during the security council emergency meeting. it is historic, we ll use that word. hala, i also want to salk about saif gadhafi, one of the sons, who said something pretty interesting to cnn turk about plan a, b and c and d. saif al islam gadhafi, one of the sons of moammar gadhafi and once the heir apparent to the regime in lib yeah, speaking to one of our affiliates, cnn turk, one of the reporters who flew to the tripoli capital, flew to state television in tripoli, conducted this interview at 1:00 in the morning because that s when they were able to make it to the state television building and saif al islam gadhafi was there in front of a big monitor and map of libya saying apart from eastern libya, essentially,
described as a press conference later this evening in tripoli. libya has allowed a small group of international journalists to enter the country legally, as opposed to what we ve done, and they sort of are going on a dog and pony show. it s unlikely they will have much of a look at what s really going on in tripoli. this may be one last attempt by the gadhafi regime to win over international public support. i doubt we ll have much luck at it though. i was speaking with richard roth at the united nations a while ago. we were speaking about the significance now that the u.s. government will be imposing these sanctions against libya. there had been sanctions for some ten years, and now there will be sanctions once again. will that though fall on deaf ears, ben? reporter: well, i think if you look at the behavior of moammar gadhafi since these this uprising began on february