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Heather heyers death and in the end justice was served. The hbo documentary film no accident streaming now on max. Kristi jacobson, karen dunn and robbie kaplan, thank you for being with us this morning ana cabrera and jose diazbalart pick up the coverage right now. Right now in our special coverage of the israelhamas war, israel continuing to pound gaza with air strikes this morning vowing those strikes wont let up until its hostages are freed by hamas. This while a wall of troops and tanks are building along the gaza border, what we know about israels strategy and whether a Ground Invasion i...

Normal voice but then all of the sudden hed cradled his head in his arm, and he was trying to hide the fact that he was crying. he was that traumatized by what he had gone through, his father said. this particular family fled a.j. dab ya three days ago because of the i ntense fighting. they were telling us gadhafi's forces were firing their weapons, firing tanks at civilians at their residences as they were driving up they described the streets stwn with bodies that no one was able to recover because anyone who approached them would get shot at. this entire area outside offa ajdabiya. they hav...

Forward but being pushed back by gadhafi's artillery. they're holding on to at least parts of the city. what we did today, we drive through the desert, around the front line, and we were able to get inside ajdabiya itself. we found there are rebels in the center of the city and pockets of gadhafi troops and they're now engaged street-to-street fighting. as the rebels go, they take cover. they were using assault rifles to fire on gadhafi's forces where they are. gadhafi's group is firing tanks. very few people are left in the city. most of the city was empty. almost all of the shops we saw were...

For military action against libyan government forces. and rick has the news from ben gaza. what is the situation on the ground there today? >>reporter: greg we hear disturbing reports from civilians and opposition fighters that not only is muammar qaddafi not honoring the cease-fire he said he would put in place but the people are saying the fighting got worse, the attacks by qaddafi were worse after the cease-fire was announced. we heard that they were firing tanks and artillery on civilians, on fighting targets, and they had killed up to 25 people according to some reports in that town alone...

Compound. loyalists inside have been firing tanks and mortars to defend it, making a final stand. it's unclear if gadhafi is still inside. his whereabouts are unknown. >> play his last card if you can say, his last game. even his big army loses control. >> reporter: rebels are preparing to take the compound and have it surrounded. a day that began with such joy ended with the realization these rebels still have fighting to do. the rebels here have changed the name of this square from green square to martyr square. melissa. >> that is nbc news chief correspondent richard engel in tripoli. joini...