ended just hours ago and now you re about to see a photo that is said to be gadhafi badly wounded and in custody and we warn you, it s pretty gruesome. all right, well, he has either badly wounded in this cell phone video or dead. it s a cell phone image obtained somehow by our colleagues at the french press agency. we ll point out that cnn can t independently confirm its authenticity. now, rebel leaders were excited, but a little coy when the news broke. this is what the information minister for libya s national transitional council said. as a big day, a big day for the libyan people. i think it s a great victory for libyan people, great victory for revolution and we know now from our sources that we have a big fish. i don t know how big the fish is you don t know who has been captured. just a senior figure. yes. misrata radio confirmed the big figure as moammar gadhafi himself. we re waiting for a statement from benghazi. and to think is the one and then to see pe
hour, extensive live coverage of the fight for libya. and the hunt for the man who held an iron grip on the country for decades, will gadhafi and his inner circle be brought to justice? president obama is warning the fight for libya is not over yet. cnn is using its global resources to cover the latest gasps of a brutal regime and deadly civil war. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. libyan rebels say their real moment of victory won t come until moammar gadhafi is captured. we re following breaking news out of libya. the state department in washington says opposition fighters are believed to control about 90% of the capital, tripoli, and they say they have three of gadhafi s sons in custody, but moammar gadhafi remains at large. the u.s. government says it believes he s still in libya. libya s national transitional council says he may have fled to neighboring chad or algeria. president obama is cal
green square is right on the coast there. gadhafi s compound, a few miles away has taken a pounding from nato air strikes. today is the scene of ferocious gun battles. for now it s still in the regime control. and as for the libyan dictator, he may still inbound hiding or on the run, but three of his sons are in custody. and that included the man on the left, and he is wanted for crimes against humanity, just like his father. and then rebels also captured this woman, a well-known anchor on state tv, and witnesses say she is unharmed and state tv has gone dark. and then sara sidner has spenlt the day on the streets in the capital. what is happening there now? reporter: i wanted to go back to what you talked about, the last bit you talked about, the woman who was a news anchor on tv. everybody knew her and she worked for libya state tv. we were there just after she had been detained. they said that she was detained with her brother. it was peaceful. we wanted to see her to se
resistance from pro-gadhafi forces. correspondents are reporting on the ground. cnn s sarah sidner is hunkered down in green square and matthew chance is in the city s hotel, the same hotel where senior libyan officials just fled moments ago. our first correspondent in tripoli, nic robertson, he is in our washington bureau and national security contributor, fran townsend is in new york and zain verjee is following international reaction from left knee done. dan lothian is with the president on martha s vineyard and barbara starr has the military perspective from the pentagon. all right. let s get to tripoli where all the action is right now. we ve been telling you about the fighting in and around green square. it s been a big symbol for the gadhafi regime. in fact, until recently, they ve been using it for big pro-government demonstrations. cnn s sarah sidner has been watching the rebel invasion and pretty heavy fighting as well. she fired this report before the rebels pull
immediate negotiations and a halt to the rebel assault. [ chanting ] this is video from our colleagues at sky news in trip l. people on the streets chanting libya is free. gadhafi needs to go. rebel forces say they re now in control of most parts of the capital and the government itself is conceding that parts of the city are no longer under its control. it says also that 1,300 people have been killed over the past 12 hours. what about moammar gadhafi and all of this? there is so much uncertainty surrounding this situation on the ground. where are rebels now? how much of the city have they captured and where is the man who was in charge of libya for 42 years? moammar gadhafi. there was an audiomessawed audi he vowed to fight to the drop of blood. now numerous news reports out of libya security forces are surrendering. perhaps they think it s not worth the fight. the rebel fighters pushed towards tripoli after seizing the oil-rich port town of zawiya. just 30 miles down th