[Whitfield:] Moammar Gadhafi tightly controlled his image as a common man thrust into leadership in Libya, but the civil war is revealing just how luxuriously he really lived. Here is CNN's Ben Wedeman.
[Ben Wedeman, Cnn Senior Correspondent:] We're outside Moammar Gadhafi's palace in Sabha, Southern Libya. It's a surprisingly sumptuous palace, given that he was a man who always prided himself for living in a tent. This, however, is no tent. Nonetheless, it does look a bit messy. It was recently redecorated by NATO. Let's go inside and have a look. This is the front door to the palace. Of course, the doors have been knocked off the hinges. It's not clear whether that's the result of the NATO bombing or from the revolutionaries who have made themselves at home here in this palace. Now, if you were Gadhafi, this is where you'd probably meet visiting heads of state in this entranceway, a nice fountain in the middle and, up above, an attractive sun roof; however, now minus almost all its glass. It is blazing hot down here in the Sahara Desert, so what better way to cool off than to go take a dip in your own personal private swimming pool? Moammar Gadhafi always said he's just an ordinary citizen with no official functions and that his personal salary was just a few hundred dollars. Obviously, though, he must have found some money, maybe in his nest egg, to build all of this. But it's not all fun and games, being the Brother Leader of the Libyan Jamahiriya. There's also the serious matters of state to be dealt with, probably discussed here in this conference room. After a long day of grueling statecraft, what better way to relax than to lie in a nice, comfortable Jacuzzi? You wouldn't find this in a Bedouin's tent. This is the master bedroom, and I think what Libyans found most shocking when they were finally able to get into these palaces, is that the man the official media always portrayed as being a man of the desert, shunning the luxuries of life, clearly seemed to enjoy them. This is where one of the bombs hit the palace through the roof, into the basement. Now, we don't know if anybody was killed or injured when this hit took place. We do know, however, that in the last few months, most government facilities and palaces were evacuated in anticipation of exactly this sort of eventuality. The five star lifestyle Moammar Gadhafi enjoyed is probably a thing of the past. We don't know where he is or where he's gone, but it's pretty clear he's not enjoying accommodations like this anymore. I'm Ben Wedeman, CNN, reporting from Sabha, Southern Libya.
[Whitfield:] The president of Russia today announced he will not run for re-election next year and named the man that he would like to succeed him. That man, Vladimir Putin. Putin already served two terms as president. The Russian constitution barred him from running for re-election in 2008, so he became prime minister instead. Now, it is legal for him to be president again. The election is set for March. In Eastern Germany, a man is in custody today. Police say he fired an air gun at some guards working security for the Pope's visit to Germany. No one was hurt, and police say the Pope was never in danger. And the CEO of investment giant UBS resigned today. The Swiss bank lost $2.3 billion in a rogue trading scandal. A U.S. Air Force sergeant is recognized for heroism under fire, but he didn't think he'd make it out of Afghanistan alive.
[Staff Sgt. Robert Gutierrez, U.s. Air Force:] I told myself, I'm going to get up, I'm going to fight, I'm going to kill them. I'm going to do what I got to do. If it happens, it if I bleed on and die, it happens, but they're going to go first.
[Whitfield:] Staff Sergeant Robert Gutierrez is nominated for the Air Force's highest war time medal. You'll hear how he earned it and how his entire unit is alive today because of him. That's later this hour. Car crashes are the leading cause of death for children three to 14 years old, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. But car seats can go a long way in saving lives. Reynolds Wolf shows us a new car seat design inspired by race cars in this "Technovations."
[Reynolds Wolf, Cnn Correspondent:] The first children's car seat was introduced in 1921, but by today's standards early versions didn't offer much safety. Ninety years later, an Indiana division of Dorel Industries is looking to the Indy 500 for ideas to create what they believe is the safest car seat yet.
[Barry Mahal, Dorel Industries:] Being close to Indianapolis really is what inspired us to try to work with them.
[Wolf:] The answer is in a material similar to the ones used in race car seats. It's a foam called "Air Protect." It reduces the impact by spreading out the force of the collision, and "Air Protect" has been put to the test.
[Mahal:] We've concentrated on side impact crashes, primarily because they are the most dangerous. In all the advances of automotive safety, a lot of that is up in the front of the vehicle. But when you talk about side impact crashes, you basically have about 18 inches of distance between the side of the vehicle and the occupant.
[Wolf:] Developers says the key is protecting the child's head and the upper torso.
[Mahal:] The design of the seat itself, how we have larger wings out the side, so that we're dealing with and addressing the intrusion that happens on a side impact crash.
[Wolf:] "Air Protect" is on the road now, and investors hope crash statistics will be the only thing taking a hit. Reynolds Wolf, CNN.
[Whitfield:] All right, red eyes, runny nose, sneezing, might sound like a cold but these are also symptoms of allergies. Take a look at the top 10 things that trigger allergies. Ten, cockroaches; perfume, number nine; eight, medicine; seven, latex; six, food. The top five when we come right back.