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he said the retreat from his compound was a tactical move. just breaking right now over the computer wires, we're seeing from reuters, mousi ibrahim, the government spokesperson, who was in the hotel with other journalists, but fled yesterday. he is saying to reuters, now the mission is to just liberate tripoli gradually, our men are assuring me, it will only get easier them are trying to turn libya into the next iraq. central tripoli under the influence of gangs. they have been using them to describe the opposition fighters. clashes this morning in tripoli. some of our men died, but...

This hour, stretch from the southwest to the upper midwest. and just about all of those storms have the potential to spawn new twisters. let's go straight to our severe weather expert, chad meyer, joining us from cnn's weather center. chad, what's the latest? what do we expect in the next few hours? wolf, i have 18 separate tornado warnings. three tornado warnings actually have tornadoes on the ground. the rest are just rotating storms that haven't yet made it to the ground. we've had damage in missouri and some damage across parts of st. louis, where softball-sized hail has fallen on cars a...

They would be on the next boat out. >> reporter: for locals their new neighbors have become part of the community. for good and bad. chris owns a canal boat and lives on the river. >> we need them. a lot of people see it as a problem. >> reporter: they have become visible simymbols of britain's immigration whoas with no easy solutions. he won't be voting but it's their case that will be on the minds of voters when they go to the polls tomorrow. tony? >> cnn's atika shubert for us in london. thank you. we've got a live picture we want to show you. let's see. is that picture up here? there we ...

The chandeleur islands, louisiana. >> chad meyer, i'm in your space. >> your light, it comes this way. my light comes this way. in the middle, there's darkness. >> yes. we wanted to take a look at the gulf region again. and take a look at the gulf of mexico because is the window of opportunity, right? >> it is, big time if winds have died off. this is the opportunity that they didn't have for the past seven days to coral some of this stuff with the booms and actually light it on fire or get it off with a skimmer. have you seen that the skimmers, how the skimmer boats work? >> no. >> they're aw...

The oil out of that container. so it's going to stop the flow of oil into the water. it's going to be pumped into a ship up above. and that ship can hold about 125,000 barrels of oil before it has to be off-loaded or replaced or pumped out. this is the latest and greatest possible thing they can do. that right there -- >> you took the words out of my mouth. >> 30-footmark. 25-foot mark. they have to remotely operate it. i don't know what kind of game this is. like playing plachinko. the winds and waves are taking it forth and all of a sudden you have one wellhead. >> good stuff, chad. got to g...