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As emergency workers continue the clean up operation after the Western Capes massive storm, rescue teams are still searching for three missing people.

Individuals. >> general hertling, people have been prosecuted for far less than this. >> well, absolutely. i could name some names. but yes, talking to biographers about classified information, showing pictures without markings on, get taken from satellites, reflecting on recordings that came in from signals intelligence, or a big dumps of things like wikileaks, certainly. there has been a lot of this kind of thing when people dont take care of the kinds of things that we call our nations secret...

West bank and another of palestinians —— a number of palestinians —— a number of palestinians were killed there. thank you, yolande knell. water levels are still dangerously high in parts of kwazulu—natal in south after devasting floods earlier this week. people have been urged to move away from low— lying areas as the province is on a high alert for further floods. more than 400 people have died in the floods. thousands of survivors are living in shelters across durban, after the de...

Been displaced in community halls, and so the government says it is still moving from community to community to assess their needs. but mop—up operations have begun, they have started to restore power and water supplies in some of the affected areas, but this still is very much a state of disaster and the government has announced that recently, which allows more resources to be channelled towards this problem. there is a lot of information about the ukraine war available online. but how do you...

Shelling in kharkiv and probably the mop-up operations in mariupol is key. this keeps from going into donbas. this is critical. you see a couple of large concentrations of ukraine troops, about 40,000 so far. what it appears that russia is trying to do is to move troops down here to attack, join the other forces and this area to try to go around the northern shoulder of developing pocket and then take the troops up from mariupol to try to go in this direction here. if russia knocks those two thi...

Mission accomplished, which the president got heat for even saying? >> mission accomplished, absolutely. those missiles hit their targets. think about what happened, martha. here we were able to carry out a precise strike, literally over the heads of the russian forces in that area. the syrian air defenses were too afraid to activate them and use the full electronic capacity. they took unguided missile shots. britain and france and the u.s. created precision rubble out of what used to be a chemi...

Forces there with them? >> possibly. but lets -- when i left iraq in 09 -- >> possibly is not -- >> thats all i can give you. when i left iraq in 09 we had the war won. iraqi forces were actually acting pretty well. we had the military component figured out and whaten i was flying we were finding bad guys and doing mop-up operations. i went back just six months ago as a congressman and to see what happened there is disappointing. with iraqi forces, when we left in 201 1 maliki basically made the...

Day in the near future when the iraqi forces would actually be capable of driving isis out without u.s. combat forces there with them? >> possibly but lets -- so when i left iraq in 09. >> possibly is not definitive. >> thats the best i can give you. when i left iraq in 09, we had the war won. iraqi forces were acting well. we had the military component figured out. when i was flying we were finding bad guys and doing mop-up operations. i went back six months ago as a congressman and to see what...

Confident that defeating isis is truly possible? >> i do. and i think, again, the forces we saw the other day, again i was very impressed with the way they secured for the iraqi veterans out there, the old route tampa that went north out of baghdad all the way to mosul. they had that secured very well. now its like a ghost town while we traveled north to tikrit, because really, everyone had moved out of the area. and we only saw a few shepherds along the way. but the iraqis have done a great job...

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