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Completely leaving it. american pilots would still be up there dropping bombs and patrolling the sky. team fox coverage on unrest in the region, steve harrigan in tripoli and jennifer griffin, first, explain who will be calling the shots once nato takes over. >> reporter: a canadian general, charles brow charred has been put in charge but brouchard but he will be reporting to two american commanders, admiral sam locklear. he will be based in italy and another admiral who is the supreme allied commander. >> shep: you spoke to the man who is in charge of the mission in libya. >> general hamm she...

Appears to be being done by american forces anyway. why are they pretending that they're not leading this? >> you know what, that's a great question. and one that i wonder about, as well. as you see what's happening on the ground, as you see the interviews with general hamm, the u.s. commander, africa commander, talk about this, clearly he's in charge right now. and presumably and everybody says will hand that off to a coalition, to nato, to be in charge at some point. secretary gates reiterated that again today. but in the meantime, it's -- its -- it seems to be an awkward situation for the m...

When it first started with air strikes on saturday may have acted unilaterally, gone in without telling people. is that even possible that that can happen? >> i'm sure it can happen. france has got a great military. they're -- they're a big country. if they want to do it. and -- and it does seem like it was almost coincidence with the meeting that was taking place in paris. so maybe they got ahead of themselves there on their timeline. >> i mean, you cannot have a situation surely when you have a coalition like this where anybody gets ahead of themselves. and i'm curious what you think of the ...

The ground, as you see the interviews with general hamm, the u.s. commander, africa commander, talk about this, clearly he's in charge right now. and presumably and everybody says will hand that off to a coalition, to nato, to be in charge at some point. secretary gates reiterated that again today. but in the meantime, it's -- its t -- it seems to be an awkward situation for the military. on the other hand, no-fly zones, that's something we've done before. again, that's the tactic. that's not the end game. that's not the strategy. and that has jet to be revealed, i think. >> finally, general m...

Would primarily focus on the spent fuel ponds and their status. >> another dimension of the problem is some of the radiation gets embedded in soil which makes significant areas of around chernobyl, for instance, impossible to be inhabited. is that a concern around reactors and how large a domain, a piece of property will that affect? >> it's a good question. i don't think we have a final answer on that. one would guess that in the main it's the area around the plants themselves that will have the highest amount of radiation. when radiation is up in the air and begins to disperse, as it dispers...