Moammar Gadhafi Still At Large; Libyan Rebels Prepare for Offensive Against Sirte
BALDWIN: Within just this past hour, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of Moammar Gadhafi, spoke to an Arab radio station, and he issued a challenge to the rebels who seized much of the country, including the capital of Tripoli. Said Gadhafi's challenge is this -- go ahead, take the city of Sirte if you can. Sirte is perhaps the last remaining Gadhafi stronghold some 300 miles from Tripoli. The rebels say they have Sirte surrounded, and they've told Gadhafi supporters there to surrender by Saturday. Arwa Damon for us live in the Libyan capital. Arwa, I know Saadi Gadhafi reached out to our own Nic Robertson. What has he said and what have we heard from Saif al-Islam on that television channel?</s>ARWA DAMON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, the two brothers do appear at least to be adopting different tones in that email. Saadi said they will be willing to negotiate a ceasefire to a certain degree saying if the rebels could guarantee safe passage to Tripoli, they would be willing to negotiate. The National Transitional Council for their part saying that they would secure safe passage for any family member to come to Tripoli, but that they would then be detained upon arrival. The rebels in the opposition council are not necessarily looking for any sort of negotiated cease-fire but rather firmly wanting to put the family on trial and see some sort of justice. Saif al-Islam continuing to adopt a very, very defiant tone saying they have 20,000 fighters ready to take on the rebel fighters in the town of Sirte, also saying that he was, in fact, speaking from a Tripoli neighborhood and that both he and his father were fine. Absolutely no way of verifying the authenticity of that message or verifying that Saif al-Islam or any one of the Gadhafi family members claim to still be in Libya. But if you listen to the celebrations happening behind me, the people here in Tripoli most certainly continue to believe the capital is firmly in their control and that the Gadhafi can try to fight for as long as it wants to, but they are not going to be giving up the freedom they have right now.</s>BALDWIN: Arwa, just quickly, why are they celebrating behind you? Just explain that.</s>DAMON: Well, it is the end of the holy month of Ramadan. People are telling us this year they are celebrating for their religious holiday but also they are celebrating their victory. They are singing various revolution slogans behind us. And it's been a fairly emotional time. We were seeing children out earlier in the street today who were also singing and dancing. And they were interestingly saying it is the first time that they have been out in the streets singing, no matter what it was that they were singing -- they are celebrating in that you are newfound freedom.</s>BALDWIN: They're celebrating. But let's talk about the stark reality of Tripoli. More than half the city doesn't have any running water. The U.N. is working of an impending crisis there. Is anyone working to get water running? Who's taking charge there?</s>DAMON: It's been interesting. Even though there are shipments expected from the World Food Program, neighborhoods are really rallying together. There are a number of households here that have dug their own wells. They have done this historically, and those people are literally throwing their doors open to everybody in the neighborhood. And 60 percent of the capital, according to the U.N., is without water and sanitation. Yes, families are struggling. But at the same time, they're saying that communities are coming together in a way that's never been seen before, at least never seen since the Gadhafi regime came into power. There are of course widespread health concern, and you continue to hear --</s>DAMON: People here celebrate with gunfire and fireworks. But at the end of the day there are concerns about the water situation. But they are saying they fully believe this is something they're going to get through given everything they've been through here, Brooke.</s>BALDWIN: Gunfire, their own version of fireworks. Arwa Damon they are celebrating the end of Ramadan. Thank you very much, in Tripoli. And now this --</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If you hadn't been drinking, do you think you would have done it.</s>SLOANE BRILES, FATHER: Absolutely. It was water. You're in the water. Do you go to water just to look at it?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And his clothes though, you threw him in in his clothes?</s>BRILES: Well, we have more clothes.</s>BALDWIN: This guy throws his seven-year-old son overboard off a moving boat. Coming up next, not only will you hear how he is defending himself in a pretty wild interview but also speak live to the sheriff's department investigating this. Don't miss both sides of this story. That's next.