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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning, everyone. it's friday, october 21st. ali's off today. welcome to "american morning." >> it's been a long week. a big week of news. it's been a very long week. >> i must say, i had a great time in vegas. >> i know. vegas seems like a year ago. doesn't it? all of the gadhafi news yesterday. you can back from the big debate and the gadhafi news. moammar gadhafi killed in his hometown, captured alive. almost 24 hours after reports he was mortally wounded there is still a fog surrounding exactly how it happened. >> right. and new vid...

to be gadhafi. reports of his capture and killing came soon after the rebel forces had announced that they had taken control of sirte, his hometown. the gunfire there libyans didn't wait any time for confirmation of gadhafi's death to start celebrating there in sirte. libyan rebels fired into the air as you can see a great deal of celebration there and excitement. the burst of gunfire echoing through tripoli as well as people are filling the streets. i want to bring in our own barbara starr who's live at the pentagon for the latest there. barbara, give us a sense of what we know. wha...

Patting the president on the back for his work in afghanistan. there's a recent pew poll that shows about 50% of post 9/11 veterans think that war in afghanistan is worth it. 41% of the general public thinks that. what do you make of numbers like those? >> you know, i think that ten years in most of us would not have believed we would still be in afghanistan. but i do think that we are far better off now than we were just three years ago. we have really decimated the al qaeda leadership. we've rolled back many of the taliban's gains. and our troops have done a tremendous job in training up the...

hour, extensive live coverage of the fight for libya. and the hunt for the man who held an iron grip on the country for decades, will gadhafi and his inner circle be brought to justice? president obama is warning the fight for libya is not over yet. cnn is using its global resources to cover the latest gasps of a brutal regime and deadly civil war. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." libyan rebels say their real moment of victory won't come until moammar gadhafi is captured. we're following breaking news ou...

watermelon haul, which you can picture. >> oh, boy, yes, i can. hey, go big or go home. that's what i say. thanks, jeff. >> okay. >> all right. at 10:00 a.m. on the east coast, 7:00 a.m. out west, i'm kyra phillips. thanks for joining us. wall street just minutes after opening, only hours removed from the gut-wrenching plunge, u.s. investors seem to be shrugging off some of the concerns, at least for now. riots erupt across great britain. dozens of police officers hurt. hundreds of people arrested, and a government desperately trying to tamp down public rage. 61-year-old diana ...