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carolinas and threatening the entire northeastern seaboard. we'll have a lot of details about that tonight. the other breaking story, of course, libya and the hunt for gadhafi. the opposition's already got his cap. this guy took it out of his pal as. now they want that head that goes with it and they're willing to pay. $2.5 million for the dictator dead or alive, they say. one of his sons still at large is sending e-mails to our nick robertson. nick just got another one a few minutes ago and he joins us shortly. in the meantime, heavy fighting today in tripoli. take a look. >> runn...

stand. sara sidner, what's it like to be in the middle of the chaos. this is "piers morgan tonight." tonight's breaking news. steve jobs stepping down as ceo of apple. joe, is this a surprise, lots of speculation about steve jobs' future because of his health? what's your view? >> the only real surprise is that it happened tonight, really. he's been sick for a long time. he has not looked well, obviously, in appearances recently. everybody he's had a liver transplant, a tumor on his pancreas. so his health, one assumes has been deteriorating, and there is a certain kind of sad inevid...

or alive, they say. one of his sons still at large, is sending e-mails to our nic robertson. nic just got another one a few minutes ago and he joins us shortly. in the meantime, heavy fighting today in tripoli. take a look. street battles all day. this is from the capital's eastern neighborhoods not far from the airport. the field in opposition still taking heavy shelling from nearby loyalists. in the last hour or two, the two sides have exchanged artillery throughout the day. opposition commanders have been trying to direct fire to minimize civilian casualties. gadhafi forces are ...

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...

or victory. the words he said were it was a tactical move. he also claims that tribes, loyal to gadhafi are making their way toward tripoli to liberate the city. that claim has been made before. at the gadhafi compound as the sun went down, there was new fighting. loyalists, gunmen trying to take it back from the opposition who captured it today. sara sidner was there when it all happened. >> let's go. come on, sara. come on, sara. >> having to run out of the compound now. we see gunfire coming from outside o the compound. it's getting too close. so we're leaving. we're not going to ...