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Under the cover of darkness in the early morning hours of monday, may 2nd, two u.s. military blackhawks with 25 navy s.e.a.l.s descend on the compound believed to be hiding the worlds most wanted terrorist. >> youve got endorphins being released. youve got epinephrine or adrenaline being released. if you control that fear, you fight. >> reporter: an intense mission with no room for error, but as the s.e.a.l.s close in on their target. >> something went very wrong. one of the helicopters lost lif...

Moment for obamas presidency. >> little did we know what he knew, which was that we were just a few hours away from killing osama bin laden. >> reporter: just hours earlier, the president made a final phone call to vice admiral mcraven. >> it was dramatic because the president basically said god speed. weve given all we can to get the job done. now its up to you and your men. >> reporter: 7,000 miles away, at a u.s. military base in afghanistan, a handful of americas elite commandos are gearing ...

Unusual and dangerous, maria molina is in the fox extreme weather center and, maria, it is man against nature, how long is nature going to keep fighting us? >> basically we are looking at mainly flooding areas upstream of the morganza spill way, along the western half of mississippi, also, across arkansas, are still dealing with the major flooding and though cities like new orleans, further downstream, are looking at a bit of a relief from the opening, we are still looking at major flooding acro...

failure, high. >> would rather die than be captured. >> at the end of the day it was a leap of faith. >> reporter: friday, april 29th, just after 8:20 a.m., the mission begins. the president gives the go. >> the president, after a long nights sleep, he basically came in and immediately told his staff you have the green light. lets go. >> reporter: as president obama departs for the tornado-ravaged south, the u.s. militarys best-kept secret is underway. >> the troops were ready and in p...

>> s.e.a.l.s would rather die than be captured. >> at the end of the day it was a leap of faith. >> reporter: friday, april 29, just after 8:20 a.m., the mission begins. the president gives the go. >> the president, after a long nights sleep, basically came in and immediately told the staff, "youve got the green light." lets go. >> reporter: as president obama departs for the tornado-ravaged south, the u.s. militarys best-kept secret is under way. >> the troops were ready and in place....

>> s.e.a.l.s would rather die than be captured. >> at the end of the day it was a leap of faith. >> reporter: friday, april 29, just after 8:20 a.m., the mission begins. the president gives the go. >> the president, after a long nights sleep, basically came in and immediately told the staff, "youve got the green light." lets go. >> reporter: as president obama departs for the tornado-ravaged south, the u.s. militarys best-kept secret is under way. >> the troops were ready and in place....

a re-sounding success. watch or dvr inside the mission, getting bin laden tonight, 8:00 eastern time. topping our news at this hour, louisianas morganza spillway is opening. its expecting to begin burdening the waters away from new orleans and baton rouge. while many homes will be protected, the homes and farms of 2500 people will be expected to be flooded. >> an arrest warrant may be issued for moammar gadhafi. an international close to the courts cells cnn to expect a formal announ...

Begs the question, did he have a support network in pakistan? today we learned he was able to communicate with his terror network, but pakistans interior minister categorically denies he had a support network in pakistan. and pakistans ambassador to the u.s. says his government and the pakistani nation had no interest in harboring bin laden, and that a complete investigation is under way to figure out how that happened. youre going to hear more from him shortly. but just today, pakistans opposit...

Pakistans mixed record on fighting terrorism and their failure to find bin laden. in january of 2002, pakistans leadership said that bin laden was probably said and certainly not in pakistan. in fact, about three years later, not only was bin laden still alive and well, he was living near pakistans equivalent of west point. it begs the question, did he have a support network in pakistan? he was able to communicate with his terror network, but pakistans interior minister categorically denies he h...

Opposition leader, the former prime minister called for another kind of investigation. not into what bin laden was doing in pakistan all these years. instead he wants to know why the pakistani military didnt know about the may 2nd raid. there are reports that the ambassador denies that china may be given access to pieces of that stealth chopper that went down in the bin laden compound. and it was the attempted leaking of the cia station chiefs name to local media. pakistans government has factio...