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good morning to you. tuesday wednesday, august 24th. this is your "a.m. wake-up call." i'm carol costello joining you live from new york. international leaders meet today to talk about getting aid into libya. as for moammar gadhafi, he's nowhere to be found even though rebels have taken control of his compound. but gadhafi is still talking, at least we think he is. two networks have been aired supposedly from the embattled leader. he calls for libyans to clear out of tripoli and get rid of what he calls criminals, traitors and rats. rebels claim to control 90% of the country. cnn's...

thing. cnn newsroom continues right now with randi kaye. >> hi there, suzanne. thank you. well, three major stories on the radar this hour. starting with a major hurricane. category 3 irene batters the bahamas and eyes the carolinas. chad myers is watching that. a hostage ordeal is over in tripoli, but the fighting goes on, and moammar gadhafi still out of sight. and washington surveys the damage from the earthquake that shook the east coast almost 24 hours ago. i want to start with a huge and still growing hurricane irene. chad myers is watching it all for us. what's it doing ...

in it he vowed martyrdom or victory. he said the repeat from his compound was in his words a tactical move. his spokesman promising to turn libya into volcanics and fire. he claims that tribes loyal gadhafi are making their way to tripoli to liberate the city. at the gadhafi compound loyalist gunmen trying to take it back from the opposition who captured it today. our sara sidner was there when it all. >> reporter: we're having to run out of the compound now. we see gunfire coming from outside the compound. in and it's getting -- it's getting too close. so we're leaving. we're not go...

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little son, and one of the bizarre twists in the case now known as the "memphis three." >> and you unleash us and tell us that you are readier for us to have this conversation. >> why congresswoman maxine waters is ready to unleash on the president, and does the president's new promise to promote diversity have anything to do with the comment? we ask. it is all right here, right now on cnn. >> standby now. good evening, everyone, i'm don lemon. we start with breaking news out of libya tonight. rebel forces say they have begun the offensive on the capital. the libyan government deni...