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i'm carol costello. the eastern seaboard bracing themselves for the worst of irene on this "american morning." good morning, everyone. it is -- it's wednesday, wowp halfway through the week. august 24th. welcome to "american morning." feels like it's halfway through the week. he had like a hundred years of news in two days. >> we started off yesterday with what was going on in libya, these hurricane preparations, and then an earthquake. >> right. >> did you feel it? >> christine and i were together working. i thought it was a little vertigo. i said, is that the subway? and we were ...

in it he vowed martyrdom or victory. he said the repeat from his compound was in his words a tactical move. his spokesman promising to turn libya into volcanics and fire. he claims that tribes loyal gadhafi are making their way to tripoli to liberate the city. at the gadhafi compound loyalist gunmen trying to take it back from the opposition who captured it today. our sara sidner was there when it all. >> reporter: we're having to run out of the compound now. we see gunfire coming from outside the compound. in and it's getting -- it's getting too close. so we're leaving. we're not go...

is really prepared for this kind of quake or worse, and the other breaking news story we're following, bullets flying from moammar gadhafi's compound in tripoli, only hours after it was captured by rebels. cnn goes inside the compound as chaos, looting and celebrations unfold. we're following a very dangerous and uncertain situation in libya right now. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." millions of americans on the east coast and beyond heard the ground rumble and felt buildings sway. the earthquake that struck just a few hours ago measured 5.8, the strongest to rock...

[ speaking in a foreign language ] [ gunfire ] [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> hello, everyone. this is randi kaye here watching the live events unfold in libya here along with michael holmes. it is 7:00 p.m. in tripoli, where the fight to oust moammar gadhafi just took a potentially momentous turn. within the past 90 minutes, libyan rebels penetrated gadhafi's compound which nato war planes have bombed off and on now for months. >> the rebels now have the run of the place. we have seen them celebrating, confiscating files and weapons and ammunition as they go room by room thro...

gunfire and explosions rocked the capital today. rebels say they're making substantial gains in their fight to seize the capital. reuters reports thousands of rebels were seen closing in on tripoli today. nato says moammar gadhafi's regime is, quote, crumbling. the libyan government denies the rebels are making any gains. but a government official who asked not to be named concedes that parts of the capital and its suburbs are no longer in government hands. in an audio address broadcast on state tv today, gadhafi vowed to fight until, quote, the last blood drops from every man and wo...