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Two rounds of what the embassy calls indirect fire hit the building. that normally refers to things like mortar attacks. nobody was hurt. the taliban though posted on a website that they did it. and the u.s. military is still on stand by to evacuate all americans from the troubled new nation of south sudan. hundreds of people have been killed in a rebel uprising and ethic fighting put that number in the thousands now. right now, u.s. marines getting into position to help get americans out in c...

He opened fire. -arrested at the scene of the second attack. california, police now searching for clues after a woman who works with death row inmates vanishes. on sunday sandra koch reportedly told her 15-year-old daughter she was meeting somebody who found her missing dog. she said shed be back in 30 minutes, she never returned. jenna: well, right now the outgoing second in command at the cia says the biggest threat to our national security today is syria. mike morrell telling the "wall stre...

Town in mont. you sign up for the air force. what did you think you were going to be doing? >> i was told that i would be working behind the lines. i passed all the tests, i got a a score -- scored really high on the az-fab, and my recruiter made a james bond reference. you know the guys that sit in the back and give james bond the information he needs to execute the missions? i said, yeah, he said youll be one of those guys. thats really cool. i didnt think id have to pull the trigger. i knew p...

Documents of which nothing of the kind has ever been disclosed before. but lets start with the interview. with the u.s. air force drone pilot speaking with richard engel. this is remarkable tape. watch this. >> you were from a tiny little town in montana, you sign up for the air force. what did you think you were going to be doing? >> i was told that i would be working behind the lines. i passed all the tests, i got a -- scored really high on the az-vab and my recruiter made a james bond referen...

No one is fighting. the consulate is quiet, but at 4 a.m. the second round, the mortar attacks happened, and doherty and woods are killed. so theres a lot of time, it only takes an how t hour to get there from tripoli, a couple hours from italy. theres a time loi line of lifeo save those two americans. the political time line starts with well, it was a video, it was a spontaneous attack, it wasnt a terror attack. that lull in activity may mean that there could have been lives saved. >> i think t...

Special report, and joins us now. bret, i was just reading some of the testimony from gregory hicks who says that he couldnt believe that the military response was not forthcoming and that he thinks if they would have done something as simple as flying an f-15 over the compound it could have ended the attacks right on the spot and basically saved the lives of many of those who were ultimately killed. >> reporter: hes not alone. there are many in the military who believe that that fly over could ...

Benghazi or tripoli that this attack on september 11th wouldnt have happened? >> the fabric would have been completely different. im not trying to brag about this. the number of individuals on the ground could have taken on 150, had you had those additional resources, were talking about essentially an eight-hour fire fight that could have been mitigated greatly from the beginning if you had better force. these guys, the two over there, talked about the the fact the cia device had to scramble to ...

people driving away from home as smoke and flames engulf nearly everything. listen to evacuees tell what they managed to escape with. >> everything else can be replaced, but my babies cant be replaced. they just cant. >> its my moms moms and and these were real important to her, my sisters wedding dress in the back. >> i have oklahomas governor on the phone right now. mary fallon who just finished touring some of the hardest-hit areas. whats the toughest challenge that youre incurring ...

>> we start in iowa where investigators are saying that they have evidence that leads them to believe two cousins who vanished last week are still alive. the search expanding beyond the state for the two. this announcement coming a day after authorities said they believe the girls were abducted while riding their bikes. and in texas, u.s. air force staff sergeant lewis walker sentenced to 20 years behind bars in a sex assault scandal involving one of the nations biggest military training centers...

Surge in damascus using mortar attacks to drive the opposition from an area that has seen some of the heaviest fighting this week. syrians in one city trying to escape the violence after witnessing two of the bloodiest days in the uprising. dominic has more now from jerusalem. >> the l assad regime found itself on a troubling back foot after a series of brazen gains by the rebels this week. the government responding with helicoptery gunships and tanks firing mortar rounds at the key position the...