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>> reporter: good morning, alex. well, there are many challenges. there is, first of all, making sure they can restore security completely everywhere. there's still been rather thorough search through every house in sirte, the hometown of gadhafi where he was captured on thursday. they want to make sure they've gone through and found every single last loyalist troop. there was a report earlier this morning in "the los angeles times" saying gadhafi are sequestered something -- stashed away something like $200 billion u.s. dollars around the world. of course, there have been rumors of concerns t...

>> nbc's ron mott there, thank you so much. a memorial service is about to get under way in st. petersburg, florida, for dan wheldon. wheldon died last sunday in a horrifying crash in las vegas. the two-time indy 500 crahamp w in the middle of a 15-car pile upwhen his car hit a wall and burst into flames. wheldon originally from england made his home in st. petersburg and the service is open to the public. there will be another service tomorrow in indianapolis. libya's national transitional council is expected to formally declare the country liberated tomorrow. that move will jumpstart the...

Of gadhafi's body at last report it was somewhere in a meat locker where actually people were filing by to look at it? >> reporter: well, i don't know if you could say they were just filing by anymore. the body, gadhafi's body, is still in this commercial freezer. we saw it yesterday afternoon just as the day was coming to a close. there were very clearly thousands of people running through, filing at that time into this small room to see the body of a man they'd once feared so much. we've heard that the freezer was opened again today to the public. and from some of the scenes we've seen, it l...

Outside misrata. so, nick, is it necessary to put boots on the ground to get real control of the situation? >> well, in misrata the rebels are surrounded, besieged by government forces. this has been going on for the last five or six weeks. the whole duration of the no-fly zone. we've heard the nato commanders say that it's difficult to target government forces at misrata because it's an urban environment. that the tanks, we were here a weak ago, week and a half ago, tanks were hidden under trees. military vehicles hidden inside store fronts. to have made any enforcement of the nato -- the u.n...

Would be struggling to make a decisive impact here. and the rebels have nowhere to fight to here. they're fighting to hold a piece of territory. they can't break out of this town and hook up with rebels elsewhere. the other rebels are 400 to 500 miles away. it's a difficult and intractable situation. >> nic robertson, reporting live from misrata, libya. thank you so much. pro basketballer allen iverson has a run-in with police while riding in his car. his very expensive car, with a friend. we'll tell you about his tirade with the cops, next. and we're expecting house speaker boehner any mi...