southern desert. fighters had been chasing the younger gadhafi for more than two weeks to the capital of libya right now, tripoli. what can you tell us about how this all unfolded? >> reporter: well, we're hearing from senior military officials among the revolutionary fighters who are telling us that the capture took place after a stake out, an 18 day stake out deep in the southern deserts of libya. we understand that is where saif gadhafi was hiding and they tell us they believe he was trying to make his way to neighboring niger. now after 18 days of this stake-out they finally moved in on a convoy at about 2:00 p.m. local time and after a gun battle that took place for about two hours they say that saif and members of his entourage surrendered to the revolutionary force and after that he was taken to the western mountain city where the fighters captured him came from where he's being held now in an undisclosed location. >> what's the overall reaction from ordinary people in the streets there in tripoli? >> well, since this news broke about less than 12 hours ago we've seen constant gunfire in the capital of tripoli. we've seen pictures where people have gone out on the streets celebrating. we're hearing people honking their horns around the city. definitely a very joyous day for many libyans but also a sense of relief from a man they saw as a threat as he was out on run the. there were fears he could create an insurgency here and destabilize libya. not only the libyans were welcoming the news the international community too. we have heard from the international criminal courts prosecutor who also welcomed this news. let's hear what he had to say. >> good news is saif gadhafi is arrested. and that's very important because we consider and the judge will consider him one of the most reprehensible with his father in crimes after february. he's alive. now he'll face justice and that's important news. >> reporter: and according to the report, mr. ocampo will be traveling to libya next week to coordinate efforts to bring saif gadhafi to justice. he's wanted by the international criminal court but libyans also want to see him stand trial here in tripoli. that's a matter that's yet to be resolved. >> thanks so much from tripoli. other news from overseas now. police in egypt forcefully cleared cairo's tahrir square one day after a massive demonstration there. when darkness fell police fired tear gas and warning shots. 160 people were hurt and a police van burned. gentleman back in this country los angeles investigators are taking a look at the death of actress natalie wood. actor christopher walken hired lawyer. he was on the yacht when wood went overboard back in 1981 but police don't consider him a suspect. kareen wynter brings us up to speed. >> reporter: the los angeles county sheriff's department says woods' husband at the time, robert wagner who was on the yacht the night she died they say he's not a suspect but still this hasn't stopped investigators from taking a second look at this mysterious case. natalie wood was one of the most popular sought after actresses in hollywood which made her death in 1981 at just 43 years old all the more shocking and for some inexpoliticable. sheriff's officials were vague friday on what led to the re-investigation after 30 years. >> recently we've received information which we felt was substantial enough for us to take another look. >> reporter: it was thanksgiving weekend 1981 when wood and her actor husband robert wagner went sailing on their yacht the splendour. joined by actor and friend christopher walken. saturday night wagner and walken got into an argument. wagner notified the captain that wood was not on board. on friday davern told cnn he thought she tried to take the yacht's dinghy to shore. >> said to robert wagner, let's turn on the search light to see if we can see her and he says no we don't want to do that right now. >> reporter: natalie wood was discovered hours later dressed in a nightgown and socks floating a mile from the yacht. the autopsy revealed dozens of bruises on her body. still the coroner sought to quash rumors wood was killed or committed suicide, insisting the splendour in the grass star died of accidental drowning. was alcohol to blame? an autopsy showed wood had an alcohol blood level of .14. wood once told an interviewer her greatest fear was dark sea water and her sister lana later claimed natalie didn't even know how to swim. 30 years later question remains how did natalie wood end up floating in the pacific? as for dennis davern, investigators say they want to talk to him and hear what he has to say this time around. fred? >> thanks so much. in washington admiring dresses of some of the nation's first ladies. new exhibition of first lady frocks is opened to the public this weekend. eight new gowns are among the 26 that are on display at the smithsonian museum. curators rotate the dresses that go into the display. allows them to extend the life span of the collection. republican presidential hopefuls are making a big push for support in iowa but some big names are skipping the state weeks before its caucus. who ate my cookies and milk? oh, brother. hey, guys. ni-i-i-ck. oh... i thought those were put out for me. i did it again. no worries, nick. 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(phone ringing) chase sapphire preferred, this is julie in springfield. motherhood versus careers. women are choosing between the two every day. what does your choice say about you? two women share their story right after these top stories. 125-page booklet detailing program's every move during his trip to australia was discovered in a gutter near australia's parliament. the journalist who found it told cnn t.j. holmes president obama was in the middle of his visit at the time in australia and the details in the booklet are staggering. >> reporter: he would have been there for another 14 hours. there's a big if in this story. those are the big issues. if it was foreign intelligence or lone wolf kind of person. but if they did find it they would have had 14 hours and during that 14 hours they would have known to the minute where the president was, they would have known exactly what his convoy was comprised of and as you said earlier, they would have even known exactly which side of the limo he would be getting out of. >> the become also had the phone nuchls doz numbers of senior u.s. and aussie officials. >> saif gadhafi has been captured, tracked down and taken in custody today in the desert. libya's new leaders say they will try him there. oklahoma state university football players held a moment of silence last night for two women's basketball coaches. the head coach and assistant coach were killed when their plane crashed on the way to a recruiting trip in arkansas thursday. a memorial service will be held on campus monday. this very bizarre crime in florida. police arrest this man who dresses as a woman for pretend took a doctor. that's not all. he inject ad woman with a concoction that include cement, mineral oil and super glue. the woman thought she was getting a butt enhancement but almost died. american women are remaining childless. studies show about one in five, 20% of adult women are instead choosing to focus on their careers, education or just a child free lifestyle. so we're asking today is a woman's value defined by her ability to have children? those are the questions explored in this book "the barrenness" and the women together who collaborated. here's the authors. you go way back. you were college dorm classmates and now you share this incredible story that is in the form of this. this is a fiction. this is fiction but based on real life experiences. what was the inspiration as to you noticed, either you noticed or encountered an awful lot of people who said you know what? this is the life that i'm choosing. >> yeah. it's a really sort of important subject for me, the whole inspiration came when i myself to deal with whether i was going have children or not. once i came to the conclusion i realized there was stigmas around some women who didn't have children, particularly my dad's sister who she died about six years ago and she was 80 when she died but her generation of women sort of had this, i don't know, scarlet letter on their chest, they seemed to be perceived as unfulfilled. i didn't want that for my generation of women and for women to follow. and so i wanted to write about it and i wanted to do it as a novel because with fiction you can just fully explore this topic and i just wanted to show that women can be fulfilled in other ways, motherhood is great but it's an option. >> you wanted to reveal the blessings that come with it as opposed to you just mentioned there's connotation like it's a curse or it means unhappiness. >> yes. >> and not being fulfilled. >> absolutely. i wanted people to know that although it's really a