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On Sept. 17, 1978, at the climax of negotiations for an Israeli-Egyptian peace framework at the presidential retreat at Camp David, an exhausted President Jimmy Carter committed a blunder that would

LEBANON — A new workforce development program seeks to attract more career-seekers to the early childhood education field by combining classroom-based learning, mentoring and hands-on experience in a child care facility. But organizers need the city’s...

Kyle Mullen died February 4 after the "Hell Week" portion of SEAL basic training.

The San Diego City Council officially established the city’s first Privacy Advisory Board on Tuesday. Meanwhile, legislators and victims advocates say the recent mass shooting in Sacramento has increased their resolve to push for tougher gun laws in California. Plus, the Studio Door in Hillcrest will soon be opening a new show highlighting young people's art about climate change.

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Procedures they have to go through to make this happen t to move through this compound. theyre aware of the time it takes, how much time they have on target. so a lot of this is very practiced, but theyre professionals and theyve been doing this a long time, so it -- it seems to work, but they are certainly adrenaline driven i can assure you that. >> dick couch, retired navy s.e.a.l., thanks for giving us some insight into this. i think everybody is as much as were not going to get all the detai...

Precision strikes versus the aerial strikes? >> that might perhaps be the case. dont forget the heart of what a lot of of the special operations does is the counterinsurgency work and those people who work to help afghanis and iraqis defend their own country, so that there is a lot more that goes on besides just these raid-type operations or the special reconnaissance, because there is foreign internal defense and a lot of other things, but i think that it is a capable force and something that w...

Team here, dick, that has had success over time. they hunted down major al qaeda and taliban members since 2001. it has operated in somalia, and afghanistan and iraq as well and under a cloud of secrecy always. the question here is, will we ever know who these heroes are who dont want to be known? >> i rather hope not. i think that the respect and admiration of the professional colleagues is enough for these people. i would hope that the commander in chief might have them all over for a very qui...

Who led one of the only successful p.o.w. rescue operations in the vietnam war, and he is author of six books including "the sheriff of ramadi." dick, as you know the president and the national security team watched as the s.e.a.l. team six pulled off the perfect mission here and we are watching the pictures, so what made this operation so flawless so far as we know right now? >> well, you had a very good ground force in place there. dont forget that the s.e.a.l.s while they are getting a lot of...