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Colby, as these rebels attempt to push qaddafi forces back we are also hearing, getting much needed help, from veterans of the libyan army, who are now joining the fight. connor powell is streaming life from ajdabiya. hi, connor. >> reporter: after several days, the rebels have been able to move forward and have pushed some of qaddafi's forces back yar wards and there is a bit of a stalemate developing around the key oil city of brega and the fox news crew returned from there, about an hour or so ago and we were with the front lines with the rebel fighters and saw first hand, they were trying ...

Nato now takes the lead in flying over libya and sending in missiles from the sea as well. the u.s. will still have a support operation here in libya but they are handing off the responsibility for the primary combat operations to countries like england and france and other countries of nato to make up the broad coalition in libya. there has been heavy fighting in the key oil town of braga. an area that both the rebels and qaddafi forces want to control. it is an important city for the oil production here in libya but it is also an important city as a gateway to the east and west. we got a fir...

>>reporter: regardless if they are targeting civilians are caught in the cross fire in libya, particularly in misrata and abraga . we are here in ajdabiya. it is a ghost town most of the civilians have fled east headed to places like benghazi as intense fighting is taking place between here and in cert which is qaddafi's home town. they are caught in intense heavy firing and nato is pounding away at qaddafi forces and they are hitting hard in the rebel areas as rebels try to advance with the cover of nato. we have seen intense fighting 7-10 days . there is a back and forth . neither side is ab...

Huge. here is the map. qaddafi controlled areas are in the red. rebel controlled in the green. towns in yellow are where the battles are raging tonight. the rebels made it as far as qaddafi's hometown of sirte tonight but have since retreated to the town of brega. [gunfire] >> shepard: insurgents firing rockets but as you can see they are not exactly pros with this thing. shortly after the crews shot the video you see here. the rebels pulled back even farther after heavy shelling. there are a few battling going on closer to where you are, right? >> shepard, one of those key battles is taking p...

And secretary gates just said, that he really thought it should be left to other allied force, especially the french and the british. martha? martha: great update and great reminding us that you mentioned that early on and we'd expect, i think, that there would be cia on the ground and the question that remains, whether or not they will actually train these rebel fighters. jennifer, thank you so much. jennifer griffin, reporting from the pentagon. rick: one of the side stories in all of this is a flood of libyan refugees who are now struggling to get by. in makeshift camps, thousands of people...