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MARGARET WARNER (Newshour): The race to find Moammar Gadhafi has shifted east from rebel-conquered Tripoli to the Libyan leader's coastal hometown of Sirte.
MAN: We are looking for Gadhafi in the sky, in earth, in the street. Anyway, the game is over.
MARGARET WARNER: There were no reliable reports of Gadhafi's actual whereabouts, though it was confirmed that his wife, daughter and two of his sons fled to neighboring Algeria today.
And there were unconfirmed reports that another son, Khamis, had been killed. Gadhafi loyalists in Sirte pledged to resist the rebels converging from the west and east. But the military chief of the Transitional National Council, the opposition's loose-knit governing body, said they were still hoping to avoid a fight.
"As Life Gets Back to Normal, Tripoli's 'Heart Beginning to Beat Again'" (Part-2) PBS Newshour 8/29/2011
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MARGARET WARNER (Newshour): For an update on the situation in Libya, I spoke earlier this evening to Simon Denyer of The Washington Post, who is in Tripoli.
Tell us first what it's like in Tripoli today. What are you seeing? What are you hearing on the streets?
SIMON DENYER, The Washington Post: Well, life is returning to normal in Tripoli. Every day, it gets a little bit better. There are fewer checkpoints on the street today than there were. There are more shops open. We're just coming to the end of Ramadan, so people were keen today to get out to buy presents for their children, buy clothes for their children.
So you actually saw queues outside some of the clothes shops here. Traffic is returning to the streets. It's still not back to normal, but you're seeing the heart beginning to beat again for Tripoli.
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