and government officials call rebel claims lies. we'll have a live report just ahead. take a look at this. we're tracking tropical storm irene. there's a chance the storm could affect the u.s. we'll tell you where it's headed. a soccer team scattered for safety after gun shots ring out in mexico, sending crowds ducking for cover. we'll show you what happened and what sparked it. we begin in libya, and our correspondents this morning say gun battle in tripoli. this video is from another city just 30 miles from tripoli. one of gadhafi sons says the rebels are losing every belgts. a senior u.s. administration person says obama has been briefed on the situation in libya from his vacation spot. >> the raising of the white flag we will not talk about, and it's nauz because of islam, this is rejected by the people of libya. >> i want to get the detail from our man on the ground, our international correspondent with cnn. matth matthew, what else are we hearing from the libyan government? >> reporter: we had a press conference in the last couple of minutes with the spokesperson saying eventually that nato has been stepping up the air campaign in tripoli and on the outskirts of tripoli for rebels to enter the city, and he warned tripoli was protected by thousands upon thousands of soldiers, and there's interesting overnight from lib raw television, the state's television, one of the state television channels here in the country. you see one of the anchors of an overnight television broadcast bran dishing a gun, and there were reports that there was gun fire outside of the headquarters of that television station, and she said the state television would kill or be killed, and they are going to defend trip i tripoli. this is the kind of words that we have been hearing from colonel gadhafi, and even the state broadcasters in this country. >> you said things have changed dramatically overt past 24 hours. explain that for us. >> reporter: well, yesterday tripoli was quiet and stable. we were talking about the fighting raging elsewhere in the country, and really 30 miles west there was a battle under way for the town that controls the road in tripoli. that is essentially over. the rebels established some control of that city, at least they perhaps have control over the whole of it, and i don't know because we will have to speak to the other team about that. and what has happened since that rebel advance is all hell broke loose in tripoli. there were armed gangs that have risen up and they battled the security forces on the streets, and all night, despite the fact that the libya government, the gadhafi regime's situation was under control, we were hearing ferocious clashes between groups, and grenade explosions and things like that is continuing today as well, and clearly the situation outside the hotel, it's very volatile indeed. >> matthew, thank you very much in tripoli. and assad goes on television today to talk about his country's future. that's a look at the scene on friday in damascus. yesterday syrian forces fired on protesters in the city of holmes. al assad is continuing to process. last week the u.s. called for assad to step down. and this is video from the damage yesterday where one person was reported kill in israel. and israeli authorities arrested dozens of men belonging to or supporting hamas. in cairo hundreds gathered peacefully outside of the embassy. one group burned the israeli flag. they are calling on israel's ambassador to be expelled. in norway, just a couple minutes away from a national ceremony remembering the victims of the july 22nd massacre. the service will conclude norway's month of official mourning. 77 people were killed as authorities describe as one man's bombing and shooting spree. the suspect has pleaded not guilty to the crime although has reportedly confessed to it. there's a lot we're watching in the weather department. so harvey never became a hurricane, but tropical storm irene just might. reynolds wolf has the details. i know it's too early to say whether it's heading to the united states, but it's heading in that general direction, reynolds? >> it certainly is. that's the best way to put it and the best tone to use, there's a lot of uncertainty. and it's one system we're dealing with, and it will be interacting with land quite a bit. a perfect example of what happened to the tropical system when interacting with land can be seen when you are looking at harvey, and it made its way from the caribbean south of the yucatan peninsula. still a heavy rain maker but i would give it a few hours because it will fall apart more. however when you look at irene it's a different situation. notice the top half, the top two quadran quadrants, a lot of deep convection there for the time being. the path will make its way a bit more to the area here, and it will react with land. if it hop scotchs from the islands it will be tough for it to maintain the same kind of power and structure. it's a wait and see sort of thing. with this forecast it does bring it into the keys and perhaps into the bahamas and south florida. it's the time of years, folks, we have to watch the tropics carefully. we always do that here at cnn, hurricane headquarters. we have showers moving into parts of the northeast, and frontal boundary and storms in places like new york, but as it moves through you will have a blast of cooler temperatures and we'll talk about that coming up at the bottom of the hour. >> thank you, reynolds. ahead, fighting to feed their four children. >> i get up with my boxing gloves on every day for them. >> hard times for families across the country. we'll tell you how one washington family is making huge sacrifices. also coming up, a soccer match in mexico comes to a grinding halt with gun fire. so what happened? we'll tell you. and getting a fresh start in life. a lot of people are lining up at a temple in thailand, trying to turn their luck around but in order to turn to a new page you have to do that. we'll have that extraordinary new story coming up in our morning passport. stay with us. 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[ announcer ] we are insurance. ♪ we are farmers bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ president obama says he will roll out a new jobs plan after labor day. he's working on it right now. he is said to be meeting regularly with key economic advisers during his vacation on martha's vineyard. the plan is still a work in progress. in his weekly address the president said there are things the administration can do right now that will mean more jobs, more customers for businesses, and certainly we need to see a drop in unemployment. so we will wait for the jobs report to come out. meanwhile, how to stand out in a tough job market. no doubt about it. it's tough out there. last week in atlanta, thousands of people stood in line for hours at a job fair that was sponsored by the congressional black caucus. some camped out overnight and others wait in the heat and many complained when they finally did see a recruiter, they were just told to apply online. now, in a statement the congressional black caucus said it will follow-up with employers who were there to see how many jobs they filled. joining me now is joe hanna hill, and she attended the job fair, and also we have a media coach. you waited 4 1/2 hours and got inside and what happened? >> they explained to us to go and visit the different recruiters, and as you got to each one, i only had one and i think it was verizon was the only one that took a resume, and all the rest of them basically just explained to apply online and they gave you their website. >> how did that make you feel? >> ahhh, especially after waiting in line for over four hours. i think everybody else along with me, we really expected to speak to a recruiter. we were even told that there were 70 employers that would be hiring on the spot, and i did not see any that hired on the spot. >> they said for job seekers it's up to them to follow-through with online applications but the problem is you have been out of work and cut your internet serving to save money, right? >> exactly. exactly. so it's very difficult. what i have been doing is following up -- there are places where you use their internet, and the department of labor you have access, and all of the libraries, doesn't matter what county. >> you are going to the library and trying to update your resume. >> exactly. >> what is your advice to johanna. >> well, when you are applying for jobs online it's crucial that is targeting for jobs online. >> not the old paper resume. >> right. >> you have to have several. and a lot of times you get screened out when you are applying for a job, just by the computer process before you see a person, right. what do you do? >> use key words in your resume. you need to review job descriptions and see what it is they're looking for in the job descriptions, and make sure they are in your resume, skills, job titles, and computer programs, and anything in the job description needs to be in the resume or else the computer doesn't choose you for the interview. >> and even if you have not held the job before, right, it's a way to trick the system if you will? >> well, using headlines on your resume that are job titles, even if you never held that job title, it gives the system an opportunity to say this person can be qualified. >> employers will deny this, but there has been a lot of talk out there that when people go to apply for jobs they are told if you don't have a job, don't bother applying. so what do you tell someone like johanna, you have to have a job to get one? >> well, it's important to appear to be involved in your field, even if you are not working. >> what does that mean? >> if you are not paid to do your job, you can be active in social media. i tell people how they can interact on twitter, and engage on linkedin, and share advise with others in their field. >> what have you done in terms of making yourself more marketing? >> i have not done the twitter and facebooking, but i havebeen networking with people. >> just talking to people. >> yeah, somebody standing on the corner, it doesn't matter who they are, and i open myself up to let everybody know i am seeking employment. >> there are a few sectors hiri hiring. at this point johanna says she has been out of work for 18 months and will do anything. >> the number one thing is to say i can do anything. employers don't want somebody desperate. so focus in on what your specific skills are and then identify specific jobs. don't say i would like to apply for any job in your organization. >> when you hear the numbers, the unemployment rate overall in the nation is 9.1%. for blacks, it's 15.9%. for whites, it's 8.1%. nearly double for african-americans. >> and it may be even more than that, because honestly, they are not counting -- i think the numbers are sort of fudged. and the reason why i say that is because there are people still unemployed, but their unemployments have been exhausted, so they are not counted in the numbers so to speak. it's a little unfair, but it is -- hey, that's the way it is. you just try to keep your head up and keep going. i have had some good outlooks, so i think things are looking up for me and changing. >> i hope so. i wish you the very best of luck. 18 months is a long time. you look great. >> well, thank you. >> and marion, thank you for your advice. thank you so much. coming up, looking for a way to get a fresh start in life? try this. can you climb inside a coffin and bury the person you used to be. it's happening in thailand. an unusual ceremony to say the least in thailand. what is it about? >> it's interesting. it's the temple about 66 miles northeast of bangkok. here what you have is people who literally have mock funerals as a way of erasing bad luck, getting rid of the old and bringing in the new. you see them beginning the ceremony. they lie with a bunch of flowers, and for 90 seconds they close the coffin. they take the sheet and with the sheet going that way we pull out all the bad luck and then they bring in all the good luck. people pay and $6 to do this. >> they pay to do it? >> they pay to do it. now they are bringing back and in all the good luck. what they are paying for is the chanting of the buddhist priests, and it's a death chant and then a birth chant. two things determine your fate. one is your name and the other is your birth date. if you are having bad luck, let's change your birth date and have a new birth date. >> now it's making sense to me. >> so the concept, beginning again and today is the first day of the rest of your life and some essence of rerival is not a new one. >> has it been going on for a long time? >> it has been going on for decades. there was a revival when there was a movie called "the coffin." people will do it several times a year, revive, renew and p refresh. what you get for $6 is the chanting, and flowers, and a merit mag, and there's a toothbrush and tooth paste and food to get you through. >> you have a gift bag when you leave? >> yeah. >> like going to a charity dinner? >> exactly. but you have a psychological sense and a lot of psyeople say they weigh in on the concept of let us have an opportunity to start again. >> that part i can wrap my head around. thank you very much with our morning passport. keeping the sound of senator joe lieberman. >> turn the blackberry off and television off and be prepared not to answer the phone. but i would just say to you, try it. you will love it. >> sounds like a perfect way to spend your sunday. senator lieberman has written a book about keeping the sabbath. we will hear from him in "in faces of faith" after the break. and tropical storm irene could be taking aim at the united states. reynolds wolf is tracking the storm and is live next. would der our next generation mobile broadband experience to 55 million more americans, many in small towns and rural communities, giving them a new choice. we'll deliver better service, with thousands of new cell sites... for greater access to all the things you want, whenever you want them. it's the at&t network... and what's possible in here is almost impossible to say. i don't always have time to eat like i should. that's why i like glucerna shakes. they have slowly digestible carbs to help minimize blood sugar spikes, which can help lower a1c. 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