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Command. the pentagon internal report, according to the "new york times" who spoke to an official who had been briefed on it, said that while the u.s. violated its own rules because no american or afghan troops were in extreme danger, the hospital was not intentionally targeted. the crew, according to the pentagon, believed they were firing on a nearby building instead, which had reportedly been overrun by the taliban. doctors without borders responded to that explanation saying, in part -- plie...

Campaign come back with the ordinates still -- >> without dropping the bomb. mark halprin, its baffling what happened yesterday and the french are clearly disturbed by it. what is your take on the presidents press conference and where the united states policy is and where its going? >> the country and the world only have one president of the united states at a time and that posture that he had yesterday is not going to satisfy large numbers of people on the planet and the country, not just repub...

Continent, thats it. you can move as freely as you wish. so its a surprise that this didnt happen before, but the fact that it did to such a scale is sadly a true emergencies fail wre youre. >> when you say "such a scale," are you saying the coordinates of it all or are you talking about the impact that it had? >> no, youre slightly right. its not the technological complication of this. this is a low-tech attack because its just about small arms, hand grenades and suicide vests. but the really i...

Ignored. >> thats right. the phone goes unanswered. >> reporter: every year millions of residents find something to complain about from noise or smell or vandalized street signs. and unfortunately like cindi. it is a bureaucratic mess. they dont see it. >> and exactly like the new mexico state grad came up with greeny. it scutes through red tape in complaining to government. greeny makes it easy to report nonemergency issues and make it easy for local governments to track and fix them. >> report...

Positions. the u.s. opens the wpg will soon move from defense to offense, taking the fight to isis stronghold in raqqa. but at makeshift bases across the front line, the fighters we saw were lightly armed, poorly equipped, and exhausted by months of fighting. and senior commander la wand knows the battles ahead will be even tougher. >> can you take raqqa without heavier weapons from the coalition? >> translator: the weapons we have are not high quality. for this campaign, well need new, heavy we...

This campaign well need new heavy weapons. >> reporter: the most important they do have but dont want to talk about is this device which helps the ypg get exact coordinates which are sent to a joint u.s. kurdish operations room and minutes later fighter jets come screaming in. he told us he was given a week of training before using the device. who trained you how to use this? >> translator: believe me, i cant say. when you finish the training its a secret. but they werent speaking kurdish. >> re...

Of incoming ordinates, transmit that threat to the warship to droi the target. this is part of the multi billion dollar, as general eisenhower named it, military industrial complex, thats only gotten more complex, after the attack on the united states of september 11th, and the dual wars this nation has been fighting, the war against terrorism that goes on. we are here 4:02 eastern time in the middle of kate snows broadcast, covering the most unlikely story imaginable on a stormy wednesday after...

Electronic to ground stations to, you know, to ordinance to take out the missile? >> correct. the idea is in testing this is actually worked before where theyre able to take coordinates from the -- that are gathered from the blimp and pass them along to an f-15 or an f-16. ideally what t lly pentagon wou hooked up with the surface-to-air missiles and aircraft like the f-16s that are ironically chasing it right now. >> tell me one last thing. one place in the world where we immediately think of t...

Coordinates for enemy positions. its sent to a kurdish, u.s. operation room, and minutes later, fighter jets come screaming in. one man said he was given a week of training before using the device. who trained you to use this? >> translator: believe me, i cant say. when you finish the training, its a secret, but they werent speaking kurdish. >> reporter: a mystery as is so much of the unfolding strategy in this corner of syria. >> and we are joined now live from the regional capital of iraqi kur...

Isis fighters often go at night to that building just over there so that they can launch attacks on these positions. the u.s. hopes the ypg will soon move from defense to offense, taking the fight to isis stronghold in raqqa. but its makeshift bases across the front lines, the fighters we saw were lightly armed, poorly equipped and exhausted by months of fighting. and senior commander knows the battles ahead will be even tougher. can you take raqqa without heavier weapons from the coalition? >> ...