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Workers killed bay drone strike in pakistan. it happened in january. we learn more about it from u.s. security correspondent jim sciutto. >> reporter: it was in this mountainous border region between pakistan and afghanistan that a u.s. drone strike killed two western hostages held by al qaeda, including one american, warren weinstein, abducted in pakistan in 2011. al qaeda compounded been under surveillance for hundreds of hours. what the u.s. did not know it is that weinstein and giovanni were...

January. live video now from armenia where a memorial is taking place to commemorate the tragic event that began one century ago today. armenian groups say turks murdered more than 1 million ethnic armenians during the first world war. their descend ends call it a genocide but turkey always rejected that term. parts of southern chile are under alert after the calbuco volcano erupted twice in 24 hours. thousands of people are being evacuated. wednesdays eruption was almost the first in a 30 y...

I remember when warren weinstein was abducted in 2011. an aide worker that was loved in lahore among the people. then news of the drone strike shortly after that. i have been speaking to one of the intermediaries acting as liaison with the captors of weinstein and his family. that source telling me the last proof of life was a phone call between weinstein and his wife elaine back in june of 2014. they were hopeful of another phone call or some form of proof of life and then they heard about this...

Those hostages, american warren weinstein, italian aide worker lopgiovanni lo porto. president obama made phone calls to weinsteins widow and the italian prime minister. as jim was saying this all unfolded back in january when the cia conducted that drone strike on the compound near the afghanistan/pakistan border. after what officials say was hundreds of hours of surveillance. the white house said intelligence officials said they had no idea hostages were in this compound. senior administration...

About this operation but the integrity of the drone program as a whole. it was in this mountainous border region between pakistan and afghanistan that a u.s. drone strike killed two western hostages held by al qaeda including one american warren weinstein, abducted in pakistan in 2011. the al qaeda compound had been under surveillance for hundreds of hours. what the u.s. did not know was that weinstein and the italian giovanni lo porto were being held and hidden inside. >> i again appeal to you ...

Journey. they were putting the priority on getting them through medical checks and identified and processed for the start of their asylum applications to begin. nevertheless aide workers went inside the tents where they were being looked after and they came out and have told us first of all harrowing stories from egyptians, syrians, somalis who say they were at sea for up to 20s days in a fishing boat the first sailed from egypt then towards the coast of libya and then the migrants had to transf...

Aide workers are trying to get in relief and medical supplies that run out. syrian government forces are tearing the camp to pieces andine a hospital hit by a rocket. u.n. secretary called for international help. >> the refugee camp is a piece of hell. residents including 3500 children are turned into human shoulds. they face a double edge sword horrible living inside of the camp and government forces outside. joishgs the world cannot stand by he said and watch a massacre unfold and the people m...

Reduced to rubble. the government declaring a state of mortgages as the death toll continues to rise with more than 30 injured, thousands in need of shelter, food and water, including some 60,000 children. a near total communications blackout across the other province making it nearly impossible for officials to determine the scale of injuries and damage. aide workers calling this one of the worst disasters to hit the region. a beautiful island paradise now hardly recognizable. in some areas wer...

Thank you so much, it was important for us to see that devastation first hand ivan. eight health care workers are back in the united states three others are due to arrive today t. centers for disease control says so far all are symptom free. they will be monitored and housed in isolation at three different states at hospitals that have treated ebola patients. the infected aide worker arrived on friday and is in serious condition at the health and institutes of maryland. the ncaa mens basketbal...

Tomorrow, but they will immediately be transferred to either emory hospital in atlanta or the national institutes of health in maryland. >> ten patients are being flown back home and none of them diagnosed with ebola. all of this after an american health care worker contracted the deadly virus and treated at the nih facility and is listed in serious condition. recovery efforts are now happening after tropical cyclone pam ravaged the islands of vanuatu over the weekend. experts say it is one of t...