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We begin with gaining momentum after a week of international air strikes, libyan rebels continue to push back forces loyal to gadhafi. this morning an opposition spokesman claimed that rebels captured his hometown located half way between the rebel-held east and the government-controlled west. it would be a significant victory for the movement which took two oil complexes over the weekend. those developments come as nato agreed to take over command and control of the entire libya operation including ground attacks. president obama will speak to the nation tonight to explain what role the u.s. ...

Commanders to work their way through it in a manner that protects our soldiers. it's an additional burden we're putting on the commanders. the unity of command in the operation, they wouldn't take the additional burden on. >> general, thank you for coming in. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. we're standing by to hear from the secretary of state hillary clinton. she's getting ready to make a statement over at the state department. we'll go there live. you're looking at live pictures. the treaty room at the state dpeept. as soon as she walks to the microphone, you will see her. you will hear her ...

Intention is that it wants to end the bloodshed. the intention is to end the bloodshed, but you have opposition forces saying they want to continue the war. the question is how do you end the bloodshed? when one side wants to continue to fight? it brings up the questions the critics are asking. where is it going? when is it going to end? how will it end? >> dan lothian at the white house. the white house, the president, the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, they said repeatedly it would be a matter of days. they handed over the command of responsibility to someone else. now we know...

Room." breaking news as coalition aircraft pound targets in libya. the u.s. and key allies reach a deal for nato to take over command of the operation. there are already questions whether the agreement will hold. we're awaiting a statement from the nato secretary general as well as the secretary of state, hillary clinton. we'll bring you both statements live. congressional critics have been slamming the white house over the handling of the crisis. if nato takes control, will that take some of the heat off of president obama? and an international tribunal investigates gadhafi for war crimes a...

Point how that will eventually happen. >> lots of questions that have to be answered. the pentagon will have to answer a lot of these questions. chris lawrence is our man at the pentagon. pentagon planners, pentagon commanders have been saying now for days that they have effectively destroyed libya's air defense system. basically the air force is not flying anymore. so maintaining the no-fly zone over libya doesn't look to be that difficult of an operation right now. the real difficulty will be making sure the ground forces don't endanger civilians. if you believe what the secretary general of...