of course, now entering your hotel just moments ago. i want to welcome all of you in the usa, you're watching cnn and we are with nic robertson in tripoli who has been waiting eight hours today for moammar gadhafi to pitch up at the hotel where the journalists are staying at the behest of the government. for our viewers in the u.s. who have just joined us, if you can describe what's going on in the past five, six minutes or so. >> reporter: well, moammar gadhafi arrived at the hotel. he pulled up in a cavalcade of about four or five white land cruisers, got out of his vehicle surrounded by i would say half a dozen to a dozen bodyguards. they swept into the hotel. there are more than 100 journalists and camera crews waiting for him to come in, and as he came in, the whole thing descended into pand momentum and the scrum to get the best