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in tripoli as opposition forces continue their manhunt for the fugitive muammar gadhafi. and hurricane irene churning up the u.s. east coast. hundreds of thousands have already fled. 16 million americans are in the path of this monster storm. we've got all the angles covered on both stories. right now on world report. it's early morning in tripoli where rebel forces control most but not all of the capital city. there's sporadic but fierce fighting in several parts of tripoli. cnn journalists report hearing a nearly constant chorus of gunfire as rebels root out gadhafi loyalists. ...

this reid plan sometime this afternoon. expected to vote it down. it will be just a demonstration that the reid plan as is is not going to pass the house of representatives. meanwhile, the question is, what's going to happen in the senate, were there any meetings? no meetings scheduled among the leadersh leadership, a top republican leadership aide telling me mitch mcconnell doesn't want to meet with the democrats unless a representative from the white house is involved because the democrats don't have permission to sign off on anything unless the president says so. i also talked to ...

for those of you too young to remember that is a a 1970s movie. >> i want you to go to the window, stick your head out and yell, i'm as mad as hell and i'm not going to take this anymore! >> now that sounds like how a lot of people feel these days. this time, instead of the late actor peter finch, it was president barack obama who will people to take action. >> i'm asking you all to make your voice heard. if you want a balanced approach to reducing the deficit, let your member of congress know. if you believe we can solve this problem through compromise, send that message. >> and so ...

jeanne, first question, is it time to simply say, let's go for the possible in washington? everybody has grand ideas about what they want to do. nobody, nobody can get the support to get one of those through. do we have to look for just the possible? >> i think the mission of everyone in congress is to absolutely raise the debt ceiling. they cannot get away without doing that. the s&p has been the strongest credit rating agency. they said, we're going to downgrade you if you don't come up with a plan. but they say f you raise the ceiling but give us indication that you're on the road...

and some democrats are concerned that this is a, happening too late, and b, that it's possible the white house is agreeing to a deal stall essentially jam democrats into agreeing to something that does not go far enough on the issues that they care about, an they'll ultimately be in a position of either voting to agree with their president and raise the debt ceiling or risk default and untenable position in their view. >> untenable in their view. let's dig into the detail. what do we know about the framework that's being discussed and especially the parts that democrats don't like? >...