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surprise reunion amid the devastation. good evening and welcome to "world news." and tonight, we have been told that the women closest to osama bin laden are in custody and talking. his young wife, shot and wounded in the raid, and his 13-year-old daughter, who says she was there, she watched as her father was killed. and, as you are going to see here in a minute, only here on abc news, we have learned today that this raid, the navy s.e.a.l.s raid, was made possible by an astonishing...

uncovering fresh detail tonight about what happened inside that compound. martha? >> reporter: diane, for all the planning that went into this, all the gear, there was one minor glitch in the identification process. the s.e.a.l.s forget a tape measure to size up the famously tall bin laden. so, they improvised. one of the s.e.a.l.s laid down next to the corpse and surprised that the dead man was about 64". he was the most feared man in the world but there he was, huddled in a third flo...

they have been learning today, beginning with martha raddatz, uncovering fresh detail tonight about what happened inside that compound. martha? >> reporter: diane, for all the planning that went into this, all the gear, there was one minor glitch in the identification process. the s.e.a.l.s forget a tape measure to size up the famously tall bin laden. so, they improvised. one of the s.e.a.l.s laid down next to the corpse and surprised that the dead man was about 64". he was the most fe...

and curtesy of books, inc, and hes here available to sign copies for you. i will mention in introducing dr. milani, i could mention hes a shakespeare buff. as you read his book, youll see quotes from shake conspiracys richard the second that leads into the next chapter that highlights the analogies between the two tragedies. .. >> coming up next pamela newkirk presents a history of african-american men and women to their personal correspondences. the letter spent 300 years from benjami...

always bad weather? >> i have not noticed that. it is one of the big storms. the temperatures are up around 50 degrees. >> we do know it will not be a whole lot of snow. there you go. >> it is rain. how bad could it be? >> it could be pretty wet. the worst part of this is that it will take forever to get out of here. you saw the radar. we see the threat of blood swatches in effect. that is all wrong baltimore. when you get out into parts of west virginia, they have a flood warning. sar...

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its not just north korea is china as well. >> thank you as always, gordon. interesting and insightful comments. any further comments? all right. with that, ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. the meeting is adjourned. thank you. [applause] .. thank you for being with us this evening. president obama today spoke and the first anniversary of the 787 billion-dollar stimulus package that passed the congress and he signed last february. here is a little bit of what he had to say and ...