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outfront tonight, gadhafi is dead. libyan dictator moammar gadhafi killed today after 42 years of rule. we have video in tonight from misrata that shows the body of moammar gadhafi. the video is graphic. it is disturbing and it is not appropriate for all viewers. in the video which we are going to show you now, several fighters are seen surrounding the corpse shouting slogans. they re shouting allah akbar, god is great. others saying the blood of martyrs are not in vain. he has wounds on his face including one on his forehead. gadhafi was reportedly killed by a bullet to his head near the hometown of sirte. we ll show you another video taken as he was dying or after he died. this is also gruesome. the transitional council released this information. he was captured wearing an undershirt and trousers and they took a dna sample while they say his blood was still hot. hair samples were taken as well. some of the hair, though, was found to be artificial. samples from his ....
good morning to you. it is tuesday, august 23rd. this is am: wake up call. i m carol costello live in new york. let s get started with that big storm crashing through the atlantic ocean right now. irene is getting ever more powerful and may be heading toward the united states. people in south carolina already getting ready for irene. the hurricane is near the dominican republic right now. take a look at the storm from the international space station. irene is now a category 2 hurricane, but jacqui jeras says it could become an enormous category 4 later this week as it gets closer to the southeastern united states. it s already left about half of puerto rico without power. cnn will take a closer look at the storm s path in a few minutes. how is the battle for tripoli going anyway this morning? that depends on whom you ask. rebel leaders say they have control over most of the city. there s still some fierce fighting in some neighborhoods. moammar gadhafi s son saif, ....
But very wet. we ll see lots of travel problems as a result of that for today. the severe weather threat is really going to kick in hard late this afternoon into the evening hours and that purple area from northeastern parts of texas through arkansas and to western tennessee, is the greatest chance of tornadoes and the chance of tornadoes today we think is going to be greater than what we saw yesterday and this is going to spread into the ohio valley dumping the heavy rain as well. another ugly day. tomorrow looking bad as well for severe weather. but, a little glimmer of hope, guys. things are looking better by the end of the week. we ll talk more about that in your forecast coming up a little bit later. thank you, jacqui. let s go to libya now, the situation in misrata taken a turn for the worse. some of the deadliest fighting there being reported overnight. despite being pushed back by rebels, gadhafi forces continue their shelling of the city and killing libyan civilians in the ....
Rubble. one western journalist witnessed the battle inside the city describing it as hell on earth. libya s government accusing nato of trying to assassinate moammar gadhafi with an air strike that wiped out a building in his compound in tripoli. nato officials say it was a key command and control center used to launch attacks on civilians. cnn s frederick pleitgren got a tour of this bombed out compound, this is the video. what did you see? we saw the building was absolutely flattened. there really wasn t much left except some rubble. it seemed like it was hit by heavy munitions and the blast coming from that area before, christine, indicated these were heavy bombs or missiles launched on to that compound. the interesting thing is that we actually tried to verify the claims of the gadhafi government of that this, in fact, was nothing but a civilian institution, one often used by the way by moammar gadhafi where ....
To. but protesters don t want to negotiate with gadhafi, they want him to step down. and until he does, the fighting continues. the battle for ajdabiyah, the second in a month, lasted two days. the town was crushed by gadhafi s artillery while rebels responded with whatever they could. these fighters struggled to position makeshift rockets, even dropping the launcher before they fired. there were new claims that the government was relying on foreigners. this man is algerian, he says, we killed him. but at a critical moment, when it seemed the rebels would be outgunned, nato made a direct hit. for the last week, the rebels have been complaining that nato hasn t been doing enough to help them this is evidence of an air strike today that did>ç criticism turned to praise. by the end of the day, there was no sign of gadhafi s forces. the residents here fled days ago, their city is now in ruins. ....