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This guy's defection is the beginning of the end for gadhafi in any way, right? >> no, i don't think so. he was forced out of the intelligence service in 2009. gadhafi's sons all fought with him. he was on thin ice three or four months ago. but it is important in the sense that it gives a morale booster for the rebels and the united states and the west. i think what we should hope for is a snowballing of this and see somebody truly from the inner circle, his brother-in-law, for instance, leaving and then we would know it was the end. >> you say you've been hearing for several weeks he was look...

Misrata. badly damaged buildings, streets littered with wreckage. libya's third largest city, position stronghold in the west is under siege by pro-gadhafi forces. >> all right so we're extremely close to the front line right now. we're with a couple of fighters from the opposition forces. and then this is in downtown misrata. there's a lot of destruction everywhere. most of the buildings here have some sort of damage to them, pot marks, a lot of destroyed cars in the streets as well. and we can also see that the people that we're with, the fighters that we're with are very, very tense at this...

>> and, nic, what more you can tell us about the detection of moussa koussa and that he found refuge in great britain? >> reporter: well, the government here is really struggling to come up with a plausible answer. they've said that he was given time off because he was sick, because he was old, because he had blood problems, because he had other health issues, but that doesn't really match with what they were telling us until the news broke. they were saying he'll be back at any moment. it seems that the government's putting up the best -- putting up the best face that they can on this, but th...

Pretty funny. there are kind of -- they're a little camera shy, at least they were at first. it's a lot all at once. it's overwhelming for them. >> how much money. >> andton doesn't feel real. >> how much money do they each get? how much are they walking away with? >> they walked away today with at least $19 million each. can you imagine winning that much at once. >> we were all sort of elbowing one another, you would share with me right, even if you didn't go in on this? you would share with me, wouldn't you, alison? >> i would definitely share with you. >> allison, you live in new york ci ci...

Fighting and some exclusive cnn reporting here. this is from the main battle front near there. this is near brega. smaller battles are taking place elsewhere along this coastal highway. we've been talking about misrata off to the west. fred pleitgen got in, got out and dropped the story for us. take a look. >> weeks of urban combat have taken their toll on misrata. badly damaged buildings, streets littered with wreckage. libya's third largest city the final position stronghold in the west is under siege by pro-gadhafi forces. >> so we're extremely close to the frontline right now with a couple...