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When bergdahl was swapped for five detainees they cut a deal they had to stay in the u.a.e. for one year. >> in qatar. and my office worked with other countries and state department to craft these transfer agreements where the receiving country would mitigate the threat they posed. those mitigation efforts span ad whole series of things, clipping their wings in their passport, monitoring them, to house arrest. the taliban five who were exchanged for bowe bergdahl are in qatar for a year where th...

That 4-year-old boy there were many rescues in that first hour after the mudslide. that boy was pulled from the wreckage. robin youngblut was pulled out. she described the terrifying ride. >> we were flying and we were tumbling and then it was done. it was probably done in less than 30 seconds. >> she fears the death toll will go much higher as 250 personnel are now combing through the debris. we are also hearing anger from survivors and family members from thot killed. they are upset the county...

We interviewed a neighbor of that 4-year-old boy there were many rescues in that first hour after the mudslide. that boy was pulled from the wreckage. robin youngblut was pulled out. she described the terrifying ride. >> we were flying and we were tumbling and then it was done. it was probably done in less than 30 seconds. >> she fears the death toll will go much higher as 250 personnel are now combing through the debris. we are also hearing anger from survivors and family members from thot kill...

Dollars of work. the objective was to shore up the side and to allow control of the channel so the channel didnt move anywhere else. part of it also that it would essentially catch small land slides sluffing off one side or the other that would come through. that was in 2006. we have been through, good grief, a lot of floods, and that community felt safe because of that mitigation effort. it was extensive. people knew this was a landslide prone area. sometimes big events just happen. sometimes l...

They are battling steep and rugged terrain to try and find their bodies and get them off the mountain. stephanie elam has more. >> reporter: the special avalanche advisory says it all. back country avalanche conditions are very dangerous. we are in the midst of a historic avalanche cycle. >> as long as it is here and it is snowing, we are going to continue our mitigation efforts. >> reporter: tragic circumstances sunday afternoon after an extensive search, search and rescue workers found two bod...

In colorado the bodies of two sear e y skiers have been l. searchers have located beacons from the two before the bodies were located. stephanie, what is the latest in the recovery operation? >> reporter: they are racing against the clock today. once the sun goes down, they wont be able to do anything to recover the bodies. this winter it has been a deadly one when it comes to avalanches:baavalanches. we are in the midst of a his tore yik avalanche cycle. >> we are going to continue our mitigati...

Mitigation efforts to ensure the security risks were not there. we dont understand how you can go from that position four days before the rollout to now saying there are no security risks. >> two things. this is not the only confidential information the executive branch of the government has of yours. what is happening to these data? theres a lot that could be exposed. i agree with both julie and steve. they dont have a lot of time. the backdrop to all this is they need to sign up an awful lot -...

President obama, or femas fault. he thinks its john boehner for not pushing through onle fema-- the sandy relief bill when they had a vote on the fiscal cliff. does he have a point. >> its a bad week to be a republican. this has been a debacle, this is a self-inflicted wound on the part of the house leadership. they were so busy capitulating on the fiscal cliff, they bother to explain to the american people why they werent going to capitulate on this pork-laden bill. they have chris christie and...

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