i always believed i was going to get out alive, he says. finally, after 17 hours, rescue workers the pulled all of them out alive. they are now recovering in the same hospital on the same floor, but haven t been able to see each other since they were rescued. they were brought together in an unexpected moment of had horror and survive. and i teach him a phrase in fwlish that he and his friends can share. we made it. we made it.. in english, we made it. we made it. ed haven dare ra, cnn, mexico city. that s a nice sentence in english for him to learn, isn t it? come up here, president trump s war of words with north korea. he s not letting up. we re live in asia for you just ahead. plus, roads piled with trees, no running water, low food supplies.
90% of contribute ptripoli. one of his three captured sons has escaped. let s he get the late frst from libya and sara sidner. first tell me what s going on there in zawiya. reporter: we were hearing a lot of loud booms, a lot of what sounded like mortar fire. there was definitely small arms fire. it sounded like this was a firefight and we went and checked it out. and we think that we have confirmed, we ve only talked to one of the rebels who has not been down at the square, but we think that it is again celebratory fire. but what they re using are things like anti-aircraft missiles. so it is very loud. it s hard to tell what exactly is going on. then we started hearing ambulances. we know zawiya has been under the control of rebels for about three days and we know that this has been a place that has been relatively rid of gadhafi forces for that period of time. and they ve pushed all the way into tripoli from here. but it is disconcerting when you start seeing tracer fire
group that puts out the video, the group that put out his video that just surfaced, the 25-minute video that came out in the last 24 hours, a call to arms for muslims. his capture may also have an impact on that communications arm of al qaeda as well. he has sort of really been the fwlish-speaking voice of al qaeda, if you will, for the past four or five years. so it may impact that part of the operation. but al qaeda s structured, we understand, if a way and we ve seen this, because of the way other figures have been captured in the past that one bit can break off and it s not going to stop the rest of the body operating. so i don t think we should think that gadahn s capture, if it s proved to be true, is going to stop al qaeda in its tracks, but it is going to give it pause for thought about just how safe its networks are in pakistan right now, fredricka. senior international correspondent, nic robertson, thanks so much, joining us from london. now, conceivably, while in this