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Jenna: an investigation is underway today after an explosion during a training exercise kills at least seven u.s. marines. the caveat there, at least. were still watching as people recover in the hospital. hi, everybody, im jenna lee. jon: im jon scott. investigators are to figure out what caused a mortar shell to go off as it was being loaded. the tragic accident happening at a base in hawthorne, nevada monday night sending shrapnel into troops that were there from camp lejeune, north carolina....

Mortar shell. why? nobody knows for sure just yet. thats under investigation. as you said, significance marines were killed and the number of injured has been bumped up to eight but none of those injuries appears to be life threatening. these marines were from the second marine division out of camp lejeune here on the east coast. out there at twentynine palms and the hawthorne army depot for their training. now, those eight that are hospitalized, one has already left the hospital. the seven othe...

Their fellow marines. >> straight to nbc news, pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski joins us live. >> theres a rigorous investigation underway. u.s. marine officials and other military officials are at this right now at what appears to be a tragic accident. we know a group of marines were conducting nighttime live fire exercises at the hawthorne army depot in western nevada. and this group happened to be using mortars. they were exercising with live mortars. and at one point, it appears that ...

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More to say the day after the debate. and that is coming up later on "the fox report." but, first, the u.s. state department standing by turkey as it strikes back at syria. the turkish military fired artillery into syria both today and yesterday, after a syrian mortar shell killed 500 people or five people, rather, in a turkish border town officials in damascus have apologized. so far sorry is not cutting it in turkey. the prime minister says his country has no plans to go to war with syria and ...

Example is a foiled attempt. we will continue to follow this. clint van zandt, always good to talk to you. the fighting along libyas coastal cities rages on as the bodies of two veteran photographers make their way home. there are more reports of mower far fire in misrata where rebels have been in constant contact with -- constant con flift with gadhafi forces and reportedly forced back in attempts to gain ground toward tripoli. the bodies of journalist tim heathering ton and chris hondros are...

Hetherington and hondros who we know was also killed in that incident, they went to an area near the front-line area with a couple of the rebel fighters. that group was hit by an rpg. there are some reports it was a mortar shell that hit. tim hetherington was brought to one of the few clinics still functioning. he was pronounced dead on arrival. chris hondros pronounced dead a couple hours later. getting medical attention is difficult because of the circumstances there. its also pretty much impo...

Shortly. moammar gadhafis ground forces are coming down hard on misrata right now. this amateur video appears to show a mortar shell that is landing near civilians. an opposition spokesman tells cnn the city will fall within hours unless the coalition helps. >> the carnage is too much to bear. this is the fifth day of shelling and destruction and carnage. we already have 77 deaths and we have a countless number of injuries and almost the whole center of the city now is unsafe because of sniper...