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yesterday in california. 48-year-old andre turner opened fire killing two of his co-workers and wounding two others. turner then committed suicide. according to the "l.a. times" she was shooting at specific people. the breast cancer awareness bible also known as the pink bible is being pulled from stores. the publishing wing of the southern baptist convention ordered the recall. the group says the bible helped raise money for a foundation that contributed to planned parenthood. many ...

Correspondence at arlington cemetery. chris, the president is nominating a new chairman of the joints chief. who exactly is martin dempsey? >> reporter: well, hes a career man and known as an extrovert. the thing that makes him difference is his combat experience. hes spent the better part of the last nine or ten years involved in a very low-tech war in iraq. he commanded some of the troops during the height of the insurgency and hes also seen as someone looking at how they fight the war of toda...

Tried and true combat experience, but sort of the quiet generals who have got experience, who will advise him, but in executing the strategy that he wants and he sees going forward. >> fran townsend with excellent insights for us, its going to be interesting going forward, from the big political decisions about afghanistan and iraq. the president could always say, this is bushs holdover defense secretary in bob gates. now he will be gone. this is the presidents team completely. now, fran, thanks...

joe johns, have a great rest of the weekend and safe travels. >> you, too. on this memorial day, i want to begin on cordova, alabama. it hit on the morning of april 27th by a powerful ef-3 tornado, and then the very same day ef-4 tornado hits that same town that night. cordova, alabama, is not the town that you see here in some of the video, some of the aerial pictures here and satellite images. a lot of folks have certainly lost their homes, but as we told you on friday, the cordova...

memorial day. on this national holiday, a heavy rush of politics. sarah palins mystery tour rolled into town. we dont know when she will appear because her aides will not tell us. her stops included ft. mchenry and shes being cagey on the subject of whether its a rolling civic lesson or a 2012 campaign. >> i believe there are many more people out there to add. competition breeds success. i would hope that there is going to be debate. >> also this day, president obama leads the traditio...

>> jamie: today, eric and i have the true privilege of remembers those who give so much on this memorial day weekend. we do feel privileged as we honor members of the military serving right now and those who have given the ultimate sacrifice for our country. men and women alike putting on the uniform in a show of patriotism to keep the rest of us safe and free. how about the women? a new book sheds light on what life is like for a female officer that has risen through the ranks and served in ira...

Laden were among the countrys most guarded secrets. >> the group assigned to the mission is an elite navy team. outside of movies, we rarely hear about the navy s.e.a.l.s. >> the team that killed osama bin laden had gone through thousands of scenarios for assaulting a compound. just like this group of navy s.e.a.l.s on u.s. soil. but the team that went after bin laden was special. part of the naval special war fare develop group or devgru. >> this man said the men in the raid have at least five ...

Is, you know, early 1980, was combat experience. we were just getting rid of retirement of our vietnam veterans. so what i first needed, those who had been in combat, with a bullet going by their ear with their name on it, was about. the second thing i looked at was trade skills. because we were going to be counterterrori counterterrorists. do hostage situations. so i wanted to have people who knew how to be electrician, knew how to do air conditioning. so i could implement my people to repair s...

His child support, this is an operation against known combatants, war team combatants. theres a whole different set of rules. in many of those operations, when those s.e.a.l.s hit the door, they dont ask questions, they start firing. thats just the way those operations are conducted. second of all, i think the reason it got hosed up, as many in the building have said, some of the information -- we have to remember all initial reports about any combat operation are always wrong, the information w...

Dev group. >> the s.e.a.l. team is the all-star of the s.e.a.l. teams. >> reporter: stu smith a former s.e.a.l. who says the men in that raid have at least five years as special operators. >> the s.e.a.l. team is based on combat experience, all of these guy probably have a hundred, 20 omissions. >> reporter: the cia provided detailed satellite pictures of bin ladens compound. enough to build a replica, where the s.e.a.l. team practiced. a soon yor enior defense offici they trained without nowing...