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Someone to look at their request? >> i'm not sure if those countries want to send people with missiles flying around. they are countries somewhat friendly with gadhafi and the u.n. has a new special envoy and the secretary-general said he saw worrisome signs of attacks on journalists and civilians. the libyans may reach out to the u.n. to come up with the envoy returning in a bid to make diplomatic process. but once things go flying, sometimes the deadlines pass and gadhafi is still sending out bellicose messages, which is not going to help him at the u.n. >> richard roth, thank you very much....

Has been quickly acted on by the u.s. and france. the deputy u.n. ambassador for libya told me by telephone he's relieved that these strikes have occurred. he asked for the no-fly zone a month ago when he dramatically politically defected from the libyan government though he represented colonel gadhafi for many years and was aware of what kind of political leader he was gadhafi was. he says he doesn't think there will be an emergency security council meeting. he says there will be no one left to represent libya at the meeting and you have to be a country on the security council to start the pr...

Other nations saw with -- when we went into desert storm 20 years ago, people tried to do things to protect their air defense systems because they know that's the first target. my guess in this case is we were pretty effective. >> how vulnerable is the libyan air force? right now, their mirages, mig fighters on the ground in bases at hangars, if the u.s. wanted to destroy those planes on the ground, could it? >> probably could destroy most of they will on the ground. may be some hardened shelters. that was doctrine. some of it's been done in eastern europe and elsewhere. but most of those are ...

Type of weapons very much in the past. but certainly the sounds that were coming up, sporadic gunfire. there's nothing apparently in the sky for them to shoot at. but those sounds certainly coming up. we've seen more security out on the streets as we came through the city. government buildings being protected by armed civilians, traffic intersections being protected or controlled by armed police and very little traffic out on the streets as we came back towards our hotel here. perhaps an hour or so, an hour and a half after those first missiles hit libya. there go some more anti-aircraft gunfi...

This is a new phase in the war in libya. more of our breaking news coverage right after this. i can't get rid of these weeds, or these nasal allergies.