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U.s. strategy failing? senator john mccain questioned the time line laid out by president obama at a speech at west point in which he said july 2011 is when the u.s. troops would begin to withdraw from afghanistan at a rate to be erm ded then. >> i continue to worry a great deal about the message we are sending in the region about whether we are actually going the stay ort not, and whether we are going to do what is necessary to succeed rather than set an arbitrary time line. >> reporter: genera...

Way to go which is what the relief well is classified as. >> and how fearful should we be about the structural integrity of that entire well? >> well, i think -- i doubt that it is degrading at this point, but that if, lets say if we put a big valve on top of the blowout preventer and drilled it shut, that would put a tremendous amount of pressure on the well casing and that might be a bad idea at this point. >> i suspect it would be. steven wereley, thank you for your expertise and thank you fo...

Rescuers trying to save them from an oily death. and soldiers in afghanistan have pointed questions for the militarys central command, general david petraeus. [ man ] this is baileys favorite time of day. mine too.

General david petraeus was back on capitol hill today answering pointed questions about the escalating violence in afghanistan. the head of the military central command had to cut the testimony short yesterday as you recall after a fainting. lisa sylvester is joining us now with more on what happened today. lisa? >> well, that is right, wolf. general david petraeus, a day after fainting on capitol hill, as you mentioned, wolf, today back on his feet and he said he had become a little dehydrated ...

8:00 p.m. tune into cnn on tv orion line or on your iphone. weve got you covered. updates on the covered who tried to enter the macdill air force base with fake i.d.s. searchers found weapons and other gear in the car. we know that the man in the duo is an active duty military member on awol status. the couple is being held at the central command base. in germany, a hostage standoff. the hostage taker held people captive in the h & m clothing store. parts of the city were evacuated. it ended...

Air force base in florida. what theyre willing to grant to the public is that the vehicle they arrived in was a honda suv, not registered in florida. after they seemed suspicious at the gate, and produced fraudulent identifications, a k-9 detected a positive hit in the vehicle. they found three rifles, military style, three handguns and plenty of ammo but base security was never breached. >> suffice it to say to our trained security forces personnel there was something not right about them. as t...

Forward. jane: lindsey graham, key to this issue, said id like to know how this happened before i decide to make significant changes in the law. a debate to come. carl, thank you -- karl, thank you, im sure well see you tonight im sure. well carry the speech live, you can tune in, complete coverage, 8:00 eastern. join us. jon: just into fox, some reaction from general david petraeus, head of central command, responsible for the overall conduct of the wars in afghanistan and iraq and he was testi...

Jon: im jon scott, along with jane skinner "happening now", new details on the investigation involving the times square bombing, general petraeus, head of central command says he believes the suspect, faisal shahzhad, acted as a lone wolf, yet there are many questions to answer in it case. o in this case, federal law enforcement saying they are looking for some kind of a money man who helped bankroll the pakistan-born u.s. citizen. he is seen here on surveillance video, purchasing the same kind ...

The interview tonight is someone ive been very much looking forward to talking to, sinead oconnor joins us from dublin. >> thanks for having me. thanks. >> you called for accountability for the church at a time when almost no other public figures were doing that. do you feel youre starting to see accountability now? >> well, i dont think were really seeing proper accountability, no. i mean, accountability would be for the vatican to admit that there was a coverup orchestrated by central command....

By central command, there would be differences in how each diocese handled the manner. they all behaved without exception in the same way with dealing with complaints, which was they transferred abusive priests in or out, put pressure on families and victims not to go to the police, and they -- the conclusion of all of those reports is that the churchs concern was for the preservation of its assets above the caring of the children. so the only thing that i think would make anyone happy and which...