president obama is wrapping up a meeting with general petraeus as the u.s. gets ready to begin withdrawing troops from afghanistan this summer. fighting is expected to get worse in the coming months as the taliban moves to break freshly-trained afghan troops in place. today 36 people, including 5 children, were killed in a suicide bombing at a military recruitment center in the northern city of kindu. the surge of u.s. military forces are concentrated in southern and western afghanistan. today, work at kennedy space center shuttle launchpad came to a halt after a worker fell to his death. we do know the engineer was working on the final endeavour mission, the first step at a launchpad fatality since 1981, before the very first shuttle flight. work on the launchpad is expected to resume tomorrow. right now endeavour s launch date is scheduled for april 19th.