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You calling if. we thought it was an important story to tell down there in st. pete. appreciate it. >> thank you. i want to take you back to libya where every indication is that a noose is beginning to tighten around the capital city of tripoli and around the country's long time leader, moammar gadhafi. joining me now from new york is fareed zakh kakhar arzakhar -- . this is from benghazi. thousands of libyans, this is the kind of picture you stop and marvel at because they're rising up against gadhafi. as you look at this, fareed, what are your thoughts? just curious. >> this is absolutely ...

Drugs. >> what? very different from what we've been seen. would there be a battle for triply? who would that battle be between? and what scenario -- give me a scenario under which gadhafi would be forced to flee libya? >> reporter: most people believe that the scenario would be that, either, a, the army simply drops him like a hot potato, because he is such a liability for the country, or that the tribes that currently support him will pull away and come over to the side of the anti-gadhafi forces. what's interesting, brooke, we were speaking with some of the leaders of the ad hoc government i...

[ singing ] >> reporter: this dem. stration in benghazi gives you an idea of the passion of the people of the city, of the passion of so many libyans who have been thieen thirsting for s for this sort of opportunity, the chance to express themselves freely. [ chanting ] >> we arrived in this city and from the beginning, everywhere we went, i felt like i was an american soldier going into paris during world war ii. everybody clapping and cheering. we are the first television crew to get to this city. and we were just overwhelmed by

Sons, perhaps the intelligence apparatus. perhaps the army. it's probably some kind of combination of all those things. but it highlights the problem which is it's not clear that anyone is really in charge in libya. the whole country is run but a very clannish way. that's why so much of the government, ambassadors, ministers are spinning off defecting left right and center. >> they are. >> and what is likely to happen is fairly chaotic in the aftermath of gadhafi's leaving. still, it shouldn't deter us from pushing ahead because no matter what what happens afterwards, it's probably not worse t...

Tonight. >> reporter: hundreds of people filtering in and out of the capitol. some are outside carrying signs but the vast majority of them are inside. they have taken over in there over the past week. actually today, there was some rules established for the upcoming weekend. they're going to limit the space where the public can be. but for the past week, they have taken over the staus state house and that continues to be the case today. i even saw some people from los angeles that came in in solidarity with these folks that are protesting the governor's will here. >> really? all the way from ...