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Territory under control. they have a plan over a period of months to make these transitions, elect new officials, conduct, implement a new constitution, steps like that, all important but this had stood in the way of being able to move forward in that. so in that sense the fate of qaddafi, if it is sealed today is important for libyan people moving forward. >> i want to underscore moving forward will be a difficult road to go. it will be a long one. stephen yates, thank you for your time out of salt lake. >> thank you, bill. bill: martha. martha: as we've been discussing we're looking at the e...

police and sheriff's officials in ohio after the owner of a preserve, game preserve, killed himself and let them loose on the town. the one monkey they couldn't find, police say the t cheetah, ate that monkey. >> authorities defending the decision to take those animals down. saying it was us or them. ja jason carol. >> reporter: so many questions this morning. why terry thompson the man that owned all the animals, why he opened the cages and set those animals free. knowing that many of them would most likely be killed. this is a manna by all accounts loved these animals. that's one o...

Likely hiding in a desperate attempt to extend his four decades in power. he is the longest serving leader in all of africa and the middle east. muammar qaddafi was born in libya 1942. youngest child in the a family of desert no mads. he went to an american university soon dropped out and went to the army. it was in the current strong hold of benghazi that in 1969 the then 7-year-old colonel launched a bloodless coo against libyans king. terror training camps in libya. in addition his forces are said to have brutally crushed any and all internal dissent. witnesses describe public hangings, jai...

Civil war, it seems civil war has already begun. >> it's a pretty dodgy situation. you can see on the map, wenled in between tunisia and egypt, two countrys where the leaders have fallen. let's talk about mr. gadhafi and who he is. he was born in the desert, the longest serving leader in both africa and the arab world. as you said, he's ruled for 42 years, since he toppled king edris in a coup. he began planning it in military college, got training in britain by the way. interesting he launched the coup in ben gauze zi, the second biggest city which is where the worst of the protests are takin...

Biggest city after tripoli, it's ban place of protest and unrest before. now, this appears to have been sparked by the arrest of a human rights lawyer but there are other issues as we said. youth, average age 24 there. unemployment, food shortages. libya has put down these sorts of protests before but that was a different time. what's interesting here is these protests aren't targeting directly colonel gadhafi yet. now, that would be something of a red line. if that red line is crossed it takes it into a whole other area, i think. anyway, he has been in power for 42 years. he is the arab world...