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More on the developments. >> general petraeus assumed command in a critical moment in the nearly nine-year war. taliban has opened up new fronts across afghanistan and there are questions about the strategy in afghanistan. today, the change of command ceremony, general david petraeus told both afghans and the world that there would be no major changes to the strategy that was implemented first by his predecessor stanley mcchrystal. but also backed by david petraeus. he says that the strategy is ...

Afghanistan at a transfer of power ceremony this independence day. joining us live from kabul is conor powell. tell us whats happening here there at this hour, conor. >> well, alisyn, general petraeus now commands some 150,000 u.s. and international troops here in afghanistan. and he took command during a fairly subdued change of command ceremony reflecting sort of the turmoil and chaos over the past couple weeks here at the nato command. now general petraeus paid respect and honor and praised h...

Once a budget is reached, workers will receive full back pay. right now the states controller in charge of issuing checks says he wont do it. the paychecks arent scheduled to go out until the end of the month. the new commander of u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan arrived in kabul to take on his new role today. general david petraeus is trying to reassure allies that the war against the taliban is on track. a formal change of command ceremony will be held in the next few days. petraeus arriv...

Ceremony for the coast guard. hes scheduled to deliver remarks at the change of command ceremony which just began at head quarters in washington d.c. well bring you his speech as soon as it begins. but this morning it is all about the money. the new jobs report is out. and its a good one. shows another 223,000 jobs were added in may. the unemployment rate study at 3.8%. the lowest that measure has been since april of 2000. heres the issue, though. hourly wages still rising very slowly. only up 2...

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Used because of number of approximate operations in staff afghanistan. they are having to reach out to the other army helicopters. hange o command ceremony for special operations. on monday admiral william mccraven, the man best known for basically running the bin laden raid and hes a seal himself, he is scheduled to take over special operations command and there was a change of command ceremony in tampa, florida. it is a bitter sweet time for a man celebrated the most important raid in seal tea...

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Also for the next couple of days. jon: and janices husband is hoping for big surf. hes a big surfer. at this hour the u.s. is in a new phase of the war in iraq. a change of command ceremony this morning, marking the end of operation iraqi freedom and the start of operation new dawn. the mission now focuses on advising and training iraqi forces as they assume responsibility for the nations security. dominic dinatali is streaming live from kirkuk. dominic. >> reporter: yes indeed, now general ll...

Dynamics, wind speed, let us know. >> they are flying into it right now. we could get new data at any time. >> rip currents, as jacqui mentioned, concern along the east coast as hurricane earl heads that way. we will check in with rob marciano in this hour. other big stories we are following this hour in the cnn newsroom -- the u.s. vice president, defense secretary and joint chiefs chairman in iraq today for a change of command ceremony. it marks the formal end of u.s. combat operations. rema...