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He meets foreign heads of state as well. they say this is a civilian building. we wanted to investigate the rubble and check whether or not there might have been a command and control bunker under the building or adjacent building might have had military installation in it. they said that they were still checking the rubble themselves and that they had things that they felt might be secret in there. they claim it's a civilian building. we were not able to check out whether or not that's true. as nato says attacks on civilians were launched from that area. >> fred pleitgren thank you so much. ...

>> now the president has said that where we have some unique capabilities, he is willing to use those and, in fact, he has approved the use of armed predators. and i think that today may, in fact, have been their first mission. so i think that will give us some precision capability. >> we're going to talk about more of those predators in a moment. let's get to fred pleitgren in tripoli for us. let's start with john mccain's trip to benghazi to meet with those rebel forces. what does it mean? what's the context? >> well, it means a lot, obviously, to the rebel forces but it also shows that the ...

Military campaign. he in the past, of course, has also said -- [ no audio ] the u.s. should be in it for he was received in benghazi. when he came there, they went to freedom square -- [ no audio ] which is the center of benghazi. to help the rebels at this point in time. he's in a couple meetings with the leadership of the transitional national council, feeling out how america can help them, what america can do. of course everything at this point short of putting any boots on the ground, ali. >> fred pleitgren live in libya, thanks very much on that story. we'll continue to follow it. a sto...