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Systemic deficiencies including insufficient accountability, inadequate training and equipment, ineffective policies and inadequate engagement in the community. >> attorney general eric holder today in cleveland announcing a department of justice report that is incredibly damning about the patterns and practices of the cleveland police department, a police department thats come into the public eye recently with the shooting death of the unarmed 12-year-old tamir rice, who was holding a pellet gu...

Practice of using excessive force and as a result of the systemic deficiencies including insufficient accountability, inadequate training and equipment, ineffective policies and inadequate engagement in the community. >> attorney general eric holder today in cleveland announcing a department of justice report that is incredibly damning about the patterns and practices of the cleveland police department, a police department thats come into the public eye recently with the shooting death of the un...

Recovery. it includes emergency medical care. early psychological support and meetings debriefing him on my specifically informtion he can share about where and how he was held. sources say that thats already taken place at a forward operating base in afghanistan. bergdahl is now in phase two in landstuhl medical center in germany. something called decompression and involves more psychological and medical treatment to make sure she ready for more social contact. >> it is a chance between intense...

Important since were peeling this thing back if youre on the forward operating base, you can take your kevlar off and body armor off and you have other tasks to perform and when you leave that to engage with the enemy, you are completely outfitted and kited up as we call it. so for us to draw conclusions based on this antidotal video is another piece that needs to be include. we need totality of this picture. we need it. >> general "spider" marks. thank you for your inside. i appreciate it. th...

The hospital and you get the final word of hes not coming back home again thats hard. >> in light of the circumstances, makes it worse, right? >> absolutely. not only the circumstances that -- >> by the way, you didnt know the circumstances early, right? >> no, we got word or started to hear rumblings about a year and a half two years ago of what was going on from matthew was extremely well liked and a lot of his fellow soldiers have kept in touch. you know, the circumstance of the fact that we ...

The hospital and you get the final word of hes not coming back home again thats hard. >> in light of the circumstances, makes it worse, right? >> absolutely. not only the circumstances that -- >> by the way, you didnt know the circumstances early, right? >> no, we got word or started to hear rumblings about a year and a half two years ago of what was going on from matthew was extremely well liked and a lot of his fellow soldiers have kept in touch. you know, the circumstance of the fact that we ...

Through recompression to get the nitrogen bubbles out of his system. if he comes up too fast, it could kill him. >> now, army officials have told us this is a three-stage process. stage one initial recovery, emergency medical care, thats early psychological support, time sensitive intelligence briefings, thats at a forward operating base in afghanistan bar he was handed over. hes in phase two, the decompression, thorough, psychological treatment. this is a lot of medical and psychological debrie...

Reintegration process designed by the army. phase one is called initial recovery, including emergency medical care, early psychological support and meetings, debriefing him on any specific information he can share about where and how he was held. sources say, thats already taken place at a forward operating base in afghanistan bergdahl is now in phase two in landstuhl called decompression to make sure hes ready for regular social contact. >> decompression, almost as it sounds, is a chance betwee...

Barbara starr who has been all over this and giving us the information as it happens and as shes getting it is continuing to do that. barbara, give us the latest about what youre learning about this absolutely fascinating and dramatic rescue. >> reporter: very traumatic, dana. bowe bergdahl having made that helicopter ride to freedom with american commandos who through to eastern afghanistan to pick him up. all indications were getting it was very peaceful. 18 taliban standing there. bowe bergda...

Him. >> you can certainly see, barbara, that very emotional moment for the parents there. they are, obviously, and with good reason very concerned about their son and his well-being. what do you know about how he is doing at this point? >> reporter: well, what we know is after the commandos picked him up on the border, they flew him immediately to a small so-called forward operating base fairly close by in eastern afghanistan where he got some initial critical medical check to make sure he was o...