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this "american morning.". busy weekend. good morning, august 1st. a lot going on today. >> it was an agonizing weekend and we were all up late last night. e-mails flying at midnight. >> it was busy. >> but things are a little brighter today than they were last night and saturday night and a little brighter. >> tiny bit. we start with that possible break-through in the debt ceiling crisis. in a few hours the house and senate are expected to vote on a plan by president obama and congre...

Assessing what the details of the situation was. now as far as nato is concerned on the afghan side, what were hearing from spokespeople there who were saying that the forward operating base tillman had been coming under fire in the early hours of the morning. that may have precipitated this incursion into pakistan air space. all of this is still very, very fluid. what youve touched on is an important point, zain, the context right now. after the raid on osama bin laden, of course, the u.s. carr...

theres no bail for dominique strauss-kahn. one of the worlds top bankers is behind bars on sex assault charges. targeting tripoli, the area near moammar gadhafis compound is hit again. in another night of nato air strikes. and thousands of flooded homes, thousands of people evacuated as the mississippi river levels continue to rise. we begin this hour in ireland where authorities say they have intercepted and defused a bomb on a bus headed for dublin, just hours before an histori...

The peace process has essentially gone nowhere if not backwards over the past two years. there is frustration amongst palestinians at the stag nation of this thing, which now the extremists and state sponsors are taking advantage of. jon: how does all of this benefit iran. >> i think anything that takes the pressure off of bashar al assad the ruler of syria benefits iran. anything that fuels extremism and instability in the region especially direc directed at isl benefits iran. syria is the key ...

Michael? >> team six is a navy seal team, the navys special forces that are trained specifically for counterterrorism operations, and as you can see today, they have succeeded spectacularly in that role, and have killed osama bin laden with the assistance of the cia. the seals are extraordinarily proficient in the killing of people and in the protection of american interests. and you just dont have better than they are. bill and indeed, you dont. this group was founded in october of 1980, and fr...

War, uncut by disinformation and propaganda. photojournalist tim hetherington and chris hondros were killed in libya in the battle for misurata. this is new video of the fighting there. is always with amateur video. we cant say when or where it was taken. somewhere in the chaos, tim and chris was killed. tim by a rocket-propelled grenade. his last twitter posting reads this, in the city of misurata. indiscriminate shelling by gadhafi forces. no sign of nato. this is one of the last known picture...

Somewhere in the chaos, tim and chris was killed. tim by a rocket-propelled grenade. his last twitter posting reads this, in the city of misurata. indiscriminate shelling by gadhafi forces. no sign of nato. this is one of the last known pictures of tim hetherington, taken in misurata just hours before he died. he was no stranger to war, and were proud to say he was no stranger to "360." he accompanied anderson a year and a half ago, documenting life at a marine forward operating base in afghanis...

Misurata. this is new video of the fighting there. we cant say when or where it was taken. somewhere in the chaos, tim and chris was killed. tim by a rocket-propelled grenade. his last twitter posting reads this, indiscriminate shelling by gadhafi forces. no sign of nato. this is one of the last known pictures of tim hetherington, taken in misurata just hours before he died. he was no stranger to war, and were proud to say he was no stranger to "360." he accompanied anderson a year and a half ag...

His reckless endangerment charge considered a felony in texas and governor perry is asking texas be declared a federal disaster area. he says the state doesnt have the manpower or the resources to fight it alone. the record dry conditions stoking wildfires that have affected all but two of texass 254 counties. three people killed in a shoot-out at the defense ministry in afghanistan. militanting snuck on to the facility wearing national army uniforms and carrying fake i.d.s. one insurgent wear...

Headlines, robert gates is in afghanistan. he spoke to troops at a forward operating base and visited with local afghan police. on monday he took the unusual stem of personally apologizing to president ha mide karzai for the accidental death of nine afghan boys. >> this breaks our heart. not only is their loss a tragedy for their families, it a setback for our relationship with the afghan people. whose security is our chief concern. >> the body of a missing american exchange student has now been...