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Government checkpoints on the route and telling us other checkpoints and they don't know who is controlling them. they say men with weapons. people don't want to talk about the situation too much when they get out here but they are describing a very scary situation, a situation they say is calm in the capital, but a false calm, if you will, because the government has such a lockdown on there right now, kyra. >> nic robertson, continue to check in with us. excuse me. bring us an update there about tripoli. our ben wedeman is one of the first western journalists during this recent uprising. he...

In libya, another city falls. third largest city now under opposition control but to hear it from the gadhafi family, hey, everything is normal to them. plus five dollars a gallon. we're talking about gas. and that is how much it could cost by this summer. we'll tell you if libya has anything to do with it or not. ♪ one, two, three, four ♪ you say ♪ flip it over and replay ♪ we'll make everything okay ♪ walk together the right way ♪ do, do, do, do

Opposition control of the east is a big development and this is where most of libya's oil production is located. still colonel gadhafi's threat of not going down without a fight can't be easily dismissed. the show of force as libyan state tv broadcast images of gadhafi supporters rallying on the streets of tripoli just last night. libyan government is not allowing western journalists into the country so we go to fionnuala sweeney in nearby cairo now. first off, there are hundreds of u.s. citizens in libya. i understand a plane was supposed to take them out but did that happen? >> reporter: no....

That particular piece of land. he has pitched tents in italy and france and opponents of this regime are saying it's time to look what's going on inside this country. when the attention of the world is on it but the cameras of international journalists are not inside of its borders, and it's very important that we keep our eye on it with all the resources that we have inside of the country, bring out as much information that we can. we have reports flying around, very difficult to confirm, that there might be military campaigns now being planned against benghazi, the mediterranean coastal city...

Echoing sentiments, didn't the president elude to that as well on the road? he's like we got the house and, you know, it's not a sure thing. >> well that's right. it is a reality and i think part of the motivation for that is to accept the reality. i mean there's a little credibility on the line when everybody from political analysts charlie cook to democrats on the hill are saying it is in play, the house of representatives. i mean we should really keep in mind what's at stake here. yes, bill clinton lost both houses of congress in his second year, in his second year in office, and went on to...