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41 people now confirmed dead from hurricane irene. this hour vermont is still trying to pull people out of the rushing rivers. i ll speak with several people still trapped there. including a groom got married saturday, hoping to leave on his honeymoon in 48 hours. we ll get a live update pr him. also from fema and the governor of vermont. stay tuned for that. in addition to the wildfires, there s talk about a formation off the coast of the yucatan peninsula. chad myers, who is racing back out here. chad myers, as we re looking at this formation, do we need to be worried? we don t need to be worried at this point in time. although, this may be the nicest tropical storm, i hope, that we ever see ever. you consider what we just showed you, all the pictures in oklahoma, that s really, other than the fire, that s what all of texas looks like. completely tinder ground. if we can get a 40 miles per hour storm over the gulf of mexico and run into louisiana and texas and spr ....
Reports. we continue to follow the breaking news out of libya. rebels struck a decisive blow against the dictatorship there seizing control of most of tripoli. 80% of the capital is under rebel control. there are still scattered clashs. a senior pension official tells nbc news u.s. intelligence believes muammar gadhafi is in libya possibly hiding out in the tripoli yar. a prosecutor from the international criminal court is urging rebels to hand over gadhafi s son to stand trial in the hague. rebels reportedly have three of gadhafi s sons in custody. ron paul may not get enough attention, but he certainly cleaned up in new hampshire over the week. he won the new hampshire young republicans straw poll. and last week he was just 152 votes behind michele bachmann in the ames, iowa, straw poll. and check out this ad the paul campaign is running in iowa and ....
to an end. libyan rebels made fast and furious advances over the weekend. they claim they now control a great majority of tripoli. it could be a mortal blow to leader moammar gadhafi s 42-year rule. some of his forces are still putting up a fight. there have been reports of tank fire near gadhafi s home. there was no sign of gadhafi yet himself. the rebels are saying they ve got three of their sons and opposition leaders already are making plan to govern. [ crowd noise ] as you might expect, there are celebrations around the world. libyans living in manchester, england, took to the streets to celebrate the leader s push into tripoli. we ve been suppressed for 42 years. now we re testing the freedom, the freedom of speech, the freedom of movement, the freedom of everything that mean libyan people are free, no longer suppressed, and gadhafi, the dictator, is out, his sons are being captured, and we are we can t describe the joy we re feeling right now. [ crowd noise ....
gadhafi s last stronghold, reaching the heart of tripoli, celebrating on his turf and cnn was on the back of the truck to witness it all. amazing. i m carol costello. president obama telling moammar gadhafi to face the facts and give it up. the white house already hoping the rebels are ready to lead out on this american morning. all right. good morning, carol. good morning, everyone. it is monday, august 22nd. this is american morning. i m christine romans. i m carol costello. thank you for joining us. ali has the morning off. a lot going on. let s get to it. that s right. up first, breaking news, new explosions overnight coming from moammar gadhafi s tripoli compound. three of his sons are in custody but gadhafi s whereabouts are still unknown as history continues to unfold in libya this morning. quite a sight. rebel forces say they control most of the capital and gadhafi s forces in one tripoli neighborhood are negotiating their surrender. listen. talk ....
a.m. in london, 4:00 p.m. in hong kong. hello, i m andrew stevens. i m charles hodson, you re watching cnn s continuing coverage of the uprising in libya. history is unfolding today in libya as colonel moammar gadhafi s 42-year grip on power appears to be coming to an end. here now the latest. anti-gadhafi forces say they re in control of most parts of tripoli. the rebels caution there are still some pockets of resistance in the capital. colonel gadhafi s own whereabouts are unknown now, but there have been sporadic gunfire and explosions near his al aziz la compound in tripoli. rebels say they have now capt e captured three of gadhafi s surviving sons. prosecutors for the international criminal court say they hope to put saif gadhafi on trial, but a spokesman said the libyan people should decide whether to handover the sons to the icc. we ve been able to speak with some libyans who say they are ready for change. one young woman says the country has been put through ....