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There was a massive assault today on a taliban sanctuary in pakistan near the afghan border. u.s. drones fired volleys of missiles at insurgent targets. at least two dozen are reported killed. go straight to our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. barbara, what are you learning? >> well, wolf, the cia drones firing missiles, now the weapon of choice in pakistan for the u.s., but a weapon that comes at a price. >> reporter: pakistans north waziristan region, the hideout for the pakistani talib...

Anybodys standards. they were striking in the area north of waziristan, which is where faisal shahzad, the times square bomber went to meet pakistan taliban leaders. this camp that was hit, five different drones used in an attack that lasts 10 to 15 minutes. 18 missiles fired. all tied to two vehicles arriving at several compounds used by the taliban there. 14 taliban killed. several others injured. when you look at this, this is big by standards of drone attacks. five drones at the same time. a...

Family members is not immoral. and you know what? the agency is right, that was a lot cleaner, kicking in doors, risking american lives, bringing people out. but since that caused such heartache in america, now we are dropping bombs and killing families. >> whatever you do, there are going to be consequences. we are? a box on this. you feel you have to go after this. how are we going to do it? whats the best way. theres no best way. >> let me ask everybody around the table, we did less on it tar...

Officials on whereabouts of his wife so far, wolf. >> do the experts youre speaking to nic, believe this pattern of militancy which apparently developeded in faisal shahzad represents a new threat to the u.s. and to other westerners? >> if its as he claims, he got training from the pakistani taliban, which the pakistani taliban are denying, but if he did get training from this other group who have close ties with the taliban. the way theyve worked in the past is they share these training camps. ...

>> reporter: if its as he claims that he got training from the pakistani taliban, which the pakistani taliban are denying, but if he did get training from this other group, jaish e mohammed, who have close ties to the taliban, you know, the way the groups have worked in the past is that they share the training camps. lets not think about big training camps here, sometimes they can be quite small compounds, compounds around a single house. in a way it doesnt matter what the name of the group is, ...

Elaborate camps. these arent the sprawling compounds that we saw before 9/11, right? >> no, no. these are much smaller. those are easy to target by drone strikes. >> reporter: analyst jeff dressler said terrorists adapted to the strikes by making their cams more mobile. >> a lot of these training camps where theyre, you know, learn you suicide bombing and skills, are small compounds, houses, apartments. >> reporter: look at the red dots of this map of pakistan. these are the known locations of t...

Stories were less than familiar with. never this reporter, though. but a couple weeks back, we ran into the word derivatives. and now with the oil slick story, weve got a new word. disperseants. number one says, something that disperses. well, that clears that right up, doesnt it? lets move on. so what exactly does it mean to disperse? that means, at least when talking about chemistry, particles to separate uniformly without a solid liquid or gas. that is exactly what everybody is hoping will ha...

Now i have to work for somebody else. it causes a problem to my livelihood, you know. >> for more from the environmental impact, were joined by campaign network grn, works to restore the regions natural resources. thanks for joining us. im sure you heard michelle kosinski talk about the six to eight large sea turtles that washed up. no indication its part of the oil spill. people are trying to connect the dots and seeing the impact this is having already on the environment there. >> the sea turt...

Support battalion were involved. they will be putting barriers up around dolphin island. for that, i want to go down to a change of plans here. lets go to brian todd. hes in venice, louisiana, where the president toured. well talk about the presidents visit after we talk to brian. the reason i want to talk to you about this is because you mentioned some of these mchemicl compounds that they were going to put into the water. >> thats right, don. but what bp is telling us that they are not quite r...

Weve got some news from the final frontier. scientists think they found evidence of water on an aster d asteroid. it is 3 million miles from the -- they found water and organic compounds on it. the bigger picture here. scientists think this could be more proof that asteroids and comets gave the earth its water and organic material. okay, so if theres a giant ice cube with stuff swimming around it, what else is out there? is that just the tip of the space iceberg? is e.t. out there as well just w...