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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...

Stores open. having said that though, the majority of the stores remain closed. there are armed police at traffic intersections. there are troops with weapons at intersections in the city. and people we talk to here away from the camera say the iron grip of the regime is so tight, they cannot go out and protest. they're afraid of being attacked, afraid of being locked up, concerned that the opposition is losing momentum in the capital. they're only 40 minutes drive away, the opposition controls the center of a city, that's important for oil refining. >> in all the time you've been in libya and...

Manned by several soldiers and it seemed to have been fairly recently dug into that lawn. then as we came out beyond another gate of security we saw more soldiers on anti-aircraft guns. what we're hearing coming from that compound now, it sounds very much like these soldiers practicing on these weapons. perhaps they haven't used these types 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. and we've seen more security out on the streets as we came thro...

>> reporter: well, earlier we talked to people on the streets too afraid to appear on camera. they tell us they'd been part of the anti-government protests here. now they're afraid to come out on the streets because they've seen the violent oppression they faced. the anti-gadhafi protests are losing momentum in part because they say they were expecting the international community to do more to support them. but when you look around the streets here, you can see that iron grip on the security here is paying off for gadhafi. there are more people back out on the streets, more traffic on the road...