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Immediately and briefed on it and were monitoring the situation. >> cnns chris lawrence is live for us at the pentagon. chris, what more do you know, what caused the explosion? >> basically officials are telling us that this 60 millimeter mortar shell detonated in the tube at the firing point. in other words, instead of the mortar flying out, the mortar exploded right in the tube with the marines all gathered around it. normally it would take several marines a mortar crew so to speak to operate ...

We start with breaking news out of nevada where six u.s. marines have been kill and eight wounded in an explosion that occurred in a training exercise overnight at the armys hawthorne depot and storage facility in western nevada. we go now for the latest. jim, was this an accident or did somebody do something wrong? >> it was clearly an accident according to u.s. military officials who say that the six marines were killed and eight others wounded in a live fire training exercise at the hawthorne...

Rand pauls side for what hes doing. im not necessarily agreeing. what hes doing is democracy at its best and hes a kerr courag politician making a stand. heres a thing about the debate. i agree with him completely about transparency and the lack of transparency by the obama administration about drones is unacceptable, but on the issue of whether a government should be able to use a drone against an american citizen in america, to me is slightly muddier, that debate, because you know, the police,...

Recognizing privilege. the next is battle oppression that prop it up from hulks companies beginnings to now. to say im thankful i have a job and health insurance is to force us to question why that is a blessing at all. and so with that in mind, i am thankful for the opportunity to have spent thanksgiving with my wife and my child and my extended family, a source of joy unavailable to many of our troops including 68,000 americans currently serving in afghanistan and the families both american an...

Rick: a lot of military activity in the middle east and it may push israel to the brink of war in gaza where militants fired more than 100 rockets in recent days, sparking retaliatory airstrikes from israel. this comes amid fears that israel, by far our closest ally in the middle east could be drawn into syrias civil war. now that its tanks struck a syrian artillery launcher after a stray mortar shell flew into the golan heights. the fighting from syria reaching turkey for the second straight da...

Scored direct hits on targets in syria as israeli tanks opened fire after a syrian mortar shell landed at an israeli base in the golan heights. israel warning the united nations that while the response is measured this time, it will respond with greater force if is syrias civil war continued to spill over the border into israel. the israeli strike was the first direct engagement with syria in nearly 40 years. this image shows the destruction in the goal hahn heights during the 1973 yom kippur wa...

Something they knew was bogus from the beginning? >> you are both nodding your heads in agreement. nice to see bipartisan agreement that there is a lot more to this story and you will keep gig digging and we will be right there with you. thank you both for your work on this and your work on the hill. >> thanks. >> for more, keep it here, fox news sundays exclusive interview with senate intelligence committee member dianne feinstein, right after americas news headquarters. israel, it appears that...

Machine gun on the river. at that point, they decided to evacuate the annex and head to the airport. there was also a group of special operators in central europe that was moved to southern italy at the air force base there. they removed and put into position. f-16s and other airplanes and apache helicopters, they remained at the airbase. they were too far out of range to help with the initial consulate attacked, we are told. a group of marines of about 50 of them moved from spain in the first h...

Seals tyrone woods and glen doherty were killed at the c.i.a. annex a mile from the consulate by a mortar shell at 4:00 a.m. local time. the president met his defense secretary and vice president in the oval office within an hour of the attacks on set. the pentagon began moving military assets. eight special operators sent from tripoli, a fast team of marines from spain were sent to guard the embassy but remained in the capital. special operations force was moved from central europe to the air b...

>> and welcome back. its the bottom of the hour and time now for the the torch the news. can you believe it, jame which, exactly one week away from election day and president obama taking time off the campaign trail this weekend and governor romney is scheduled to speak at a campaign rally in the battle ground of florida tonight. >> jamie: a passenger full of tourists overturns on a new jersey exit ramp over turns. >> kelly: and syrian mortar shell landed near a turkish villa and turkey has been...