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Following the hurricane. doctors on the ship expect the problems they encountered a come from elderly in the heat. away from their medicines and dialysis. >> here in puerto rico, mosquito borne diseases. >> this ship can reach any part of the coast in under eight hours. they dont need a port. flight deck carries two helicopters. what looked like lifeboats on the rail are floating ambulance ambulances. intended for combat support, the staff trying to prevent a health crisis in puerto rico could t...

The administration has parsed that word combat. the fact is they will be in combat. we saw that even with the advance on kunduz a couple weeks ago that you had forward deployed u.s. advisers calling in air strikes, including that horrible air strikes that hit the hospital there in kunduz. theyre not directly on the firing line as it were, but theyre very close to the front lines. plus they have combat support. you and i have been to a lot of combat zones. its not just a training area. >> did the...

Forces, pushes them back. its interesting here. the president calls this a counterterror operation against al qaeda particularly. remember, when kunduz fell, you had u.s. troops there helping to call in air strikes. in fact, as you remember, you had an american air strike that hit the msf hospital there. it is not just a counterterror operation. you still have u.s. troops doing combat support for afghan forces because afghan forces on their own havent been able to fight back taliban. theres fudg...

And make whatever adjustments seem necessary at the time. this was our advice to the president for what would be sufficient and good basis for planning for 2017. >> the president today talked about the end of the u.s. combat mission in afghanistan. does that mean the that the u.s. military will no longer provide combat support to the afghan forces, such as the airstrikes in kunduz a few weeks ago? >> its not a part of the mission on a day-to-day basis to engage in combat. our mission on a day-to...

Necessary at that time. but this is our best guess and certainly was our advice to the president for what would be sufficient and a good basis for planning for 2017. >> mr. secretary, the president has already talked about the end of the u.s. combat mission in afghanistan. does that mean that the u.s. military will no longer provide combat support to the afghan forces such as the air strikes in kunduz a few weeks ago? >> its not a part of the mission on a day-to-day basis to engage in combat. ou...

Hats off now president obama. or hey you should have listened to these guys six months, a year ago. >> were almost seeing, president obama is kind of ushering back the 1980s, were having a cold war go hot. maybe putin should go afghanistan and we could all start wearing high-waisted belts. >> heres the problem, the u.s. troops in afghanistan, they fight under these very restrictive rules of engagement that are crippling, it limits their ability to provide minimal combat support to the forces the...

Military support to damascus. and providing combat support and activities and posing an ongoing threat to u.s. national interest. >> it is financing and supporting terrorism and training terrorist and subvert the regional order and they will have greater resources that iran could not get to in the past. >> reporter: with greater certainty, the state department said it is separate from long-standing legal claims pressed in federal courts against the regime by hundreds of american families and car...

Saying, listen, war is when one side wins and one side loses. >> the senator and congresswoman blamed pakistani religious schools and the pakistan based network for providing the taliban with an endless supply of fighters and combat support. >> a rare tornado ripping through a city close to tokyo, japan, killing a 14-year-old boy and injures dozens. it is a science center, housing dozens of research institutes but residential areas were the hardest hit toppling trees and tearing roofs from homes...

Than others. what i believe is a possible scenario is that the moderate element in egypt joining with the other elements that are in the parliment would give us a government that is the kind that we would like to see. i think hathat most egyptians would like to see. >> moving to syria, you are outspoken and saying that the u.s. must do more to protect the syrian protestorings, what can be done at this point knowing that the white house is not inclined to send in combat support? >> i say in all r...

moammar gadhafis grip on libya appears to be ending. rebels say they control 80% of the libyan capital today, pockets of gadhafi fighters are holding out. they still control this hotel thats home base for foreign journalists. gadhafis whereabouts are unknown. his loyalists continue to defend his compound. rebels keep rolling with no major resistance. they pour into the street to celebrate after they have taken much of tripoli. >> we were outside the windows screaming. everyone realized...