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outfront tonight we have breaking news. a surge of the day. stocks just jumped to the moon. dow and s&p had their single best day for the entire year. the dow jumps 287 points. so you can say why, the sheer excitement. have we suddenly solved all of our economic problems? have we stumbled upon a machine gun of silver bullets? have we found our terminator? not so fast, arnold. today we got shot up with rubber bullets. it was an arsenal of talk but no concrete action. in europe, the cent...

Benefits at a historic rate. here are the facts. more claims are being filed by those who served in theee serves in the national guard, women are also serving at a higher rate and men and women alike are suffering injuries from ied attacks. now improved emergency care in the battlefield pushing the survival rate to more than 95%, and the increase in claims creating a huge backlog at the veterans administration, and widespread frustration. >> youre running us around in circles and you should be a...

controversy dogging president obama. did top aides, including the vice president joe biden warn him about it beforehand? new information coming in. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." our national political correspondent jim acosta is following it for us. >> reporter: it sounded like he was referring to mitt romney as mr. burns, the villain from "the simpsons" who once said release the hounds. thats because in the race for the alpha dog, the fangs are out. rick santorum...

assistant basketball coach. zach tomaselli claims he was fondled when he was 13 years old. he plans to discuss these allegations very shortly. going to bring you his remarks live. we should note, however, that shorts are questioning tomasellis credibility based on records from the syracuse basketball teams travel as well as hotel. also tomaselli announced this week he is going to plead guilty to sexually assaulting a boy in maine. the syracuse district attorney says he cant prosecute...

Thats from the army. last summer we began extensive reporting on this rogue platoon. speaking specifically with jeremy morlocks former defense attorney, who was trying to explain why his ex-client was accused of killing innocent afghan civilians. >> your defense is that your client was mentally incapacitated? that the army either knew it or should have known it? >> the army knew he had been blown up in two ied attacks, the army chose instead of treat him, give his weapon back and load him up on ...

>> you have the -- you have the -- from what i understand, the case file. you know what the witnesses of that file say. and what they say in their videos. but i -- thats what it sounds like. >> reporter: to defend the client, mike waddington will try to prove the corporal already injured in two separate ied attacks was suffering from brain damage. and instead of treating him, waddington says the army drugged him. >> so your defense is that your client was mentally incapacitated, that the army ei...

>> reporter: we have very little information coming from isap, international security assistance force. what they are saying is that two isaf service members left their compound in kabul city where they and their vehicle went missing. they said that they have sent out search vehicles to look for them but still have not been found. this coming on the same day that we are hearing that five u.s. service members were killed in southern afghanistan after two separate ied attacks. four were killed dur...

Cnns atia abawi joins us on the phone from kabul. what more can you tell us us? >> reporter: its been a very rough day for the americans. nato confirming those two service members who are gone missing are americans, coming on the same day were finding out that five americans were killed in southern afghanistan in two separate ied attacks. what were hearing from nato is that these two service members left their compound in the capital of kabul friday afternoon. they went missing and right now a s...

As nato forces push into taliban strongholds in the south, eight americans have died in the last 24 hours. nbcs jim miklaszewski joins us from the pentagon. mick, tell us what happened. >> were barely into the middle of -- as many as 33 americans have been killed so far this month, as you said, eight of them today. four of them in one of those deadly ied attacks. one soldier who died of wounds suffered in an earlier gun battle, but the most troubling of the incidents occurred during an attack on...

General stanley mcchrystal had decided some time ago he wanted to broadcast the news that this operation was unfolding, to say to the taliban its inevitable, ear going to lose, you need to go away, we will provide security, we are going to take this area. whether that strategy works and what price we have with our young lives on the line, in terms of ied attacks, sniper attacks, that sort of thing, remains to be seen. >> clearly theres very much a prop ganta aspects to this mission? >> absolutel...