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Involved with it? >> i have been involved with childrens charity and along the way make a wish found adings and my crew chief when i first started his son had leukemia and it got me in cancer awareness . when i had moy own children. my daughter will be five next week. i had no idea that we as parents, my wife and i were putting her at risk. we didnt have a booster. we are encouraging people to go on the facebook page . to make a pledge which also benefits march of dime great organization. and we...

plenty to talk about today. some black churches are having problems with same-sex marriage, some pastors are backing the president. others are pulling their support altogether. >> i love the president, but i could not support what hes got started. >> we have some large challenges. >> republicans made their position clear today. ryan previs said he doesnt think same-sex marriage is such a big issue, but pastor joseph lowery disagrees. >> within the confines of the faith, we do marry, bu...

afghanistan. were going to get a live report from kabul. also -- the race for president heads to daytona where a big race of another kind is also taking place. tonight is oscar night in hollywood. once again, comedian billy crystal taking on the toughest job in show biz. we start with the search for a gunman in afghanistan blamed for killing two ranking u.s. officers inside the heavily for the fiortified ministry of law enforcement. nato is pulling advisers from minute tris and i...

information, what has emerged is two americans have been shot dead on the afghan interior ministry compound. apparently according to afghan police source on a secure part in that compound where western forces have some of their training personnel. the taliban have leaped forward to claim responsibility, saying that the gunman was work for him. naming him as abdul rackman and saying he was acting in revenge because of the burning of the koran that happened about a week ago on the americ...

Aviation forces capable of of deeing anywhere in the world on short notice. military officials are not saying much in materials of how this happened. they are only saying that two choppers collided. one was a cobra, and this is a picture of what that aircraft looks like, it is the backbone of the marine corps attack helicopter fleet and can hold a crew of two, the other was a supraho ewey, a twin sized helicopter capable of holding ten passengers, one or two pilots and crew chief. the pentagon s...

Medium-sized utility chopper, capable of holding up to ten passengers, in addition to one or two pilots, and a crew chief. now, senator john mccain releasing a statement this morning saying, in part, and im quoting here, this tragedy is a grave reminder of the sacrifices the men and women of our armed forces make to keep us safe. the pentagon says that this was an accident, and that it is under investigation. they also tell us that it will be 24 hours before the names of those seven u.s. marines...

She started climbing down without ropes or climbing gear before realizing it was just too steep. now she cant get back up. the sheriffs department has blurred the womans face because shes asked not to be identified. sergeant bill barth is the teams crew chief. >> she was at a pretty steep angle tucked away in a little ledge. below her was probably a 500-foot drop straight down on the rocks. so she was definitely in a situation that i wouldnt want to be in. >> the womans been frozen in this spot ...

That down? >> well, i think theres two things, rachel. i think that on the one hand we have to do a better job of helping them seamlessly transition from the d.o.d. to their civilian status. that is they need faster, better access to their health care. they need faster, better access to their g.i. bill so they can go right into those training programs, the vocational rehabilitation programs. on the other hand, we have to educate our employers and show them that these veterans are going to be ver...

>> reporter: when you get an idea of what happened here, a man named dean wells, 59 years old, was so busy helping other people get to shelter in spots of the store of the home depot, he forgot about himself. his memorial service was today. and to say that he was a bit of a character would be probably one of the vast understatements of the day. dean wells, the whistler, they called him, ten-year army veteran and former blackhawk helicopter crew chief. before the tornado smashed the home depot wh...

They knew their loved one had passed away. there wasnt that opportunity to get them out of what one person frankly called a refrigerator. >> paul, there are also funerals and memorial services taking place this weekend, right? >> reporter: yes, there sure are. a number of people are being honored. one of the true characters, a man named dean wells. he had gone into his hoe depot where he was a manager and basically secured so many people to safety, that he forgot to take care of himself, a forme...