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She had told investigators she had been wronged by doctors and wanted president obama to provide her with medical assistance. the flight crew was under the impression she had a bomb implanted in her body. a very tall structure which stood higher than the empire state building has come tumbling down. the aging tower was brought down in the nevada desert. the bare reactor experiment nevada tower, or bren, has been standing since the 60s when nuclear testing was part of the future. now nearly 50 ...

And rocket fire in gaza for the second day in a row. israel says it is retaliation for almost 100 rocket attacks in the last two days and there are reports the strikes have killed at least 15 people and wounded 22 more. egypt is actively trying to mediate a cease fire. the u.n. is also condemning the violence. turning to iran now. the head of the u.n. nuclear watch dog not ruling out that iran may be pulling a fast one by covering up potential traces of nuclear testing. world powers are demand...

>> heather: thank you very much. >> gregg: israeli warplanes hammering gaza strip. its retaliation for nearly 100 rocket attacks in two days alone. palestinian officials report that the strikes have killed at least 15 people, wounding 22 others, four of the dead are believed to be members of the popular resistance committees that has launched rockets toward israel and fired mortars. >> heather: turning to iran, the head of the nuclear watchdog not ruling out that iran may be pulling a fast one t...

satellite images and trying to show iran clean up something at the military base believed to have been a test site for explosives used to detonate a nuclear weapon. it is not exactly sure at this point what theyre trying to clear up. this is on the heals of iran allowing u.n. inspectors to visit the base after repeatedly denying access to the same inspectors in the past. the director general of the agency tells matthew chance that he believes iran is hiding something. >> iran is not te...

Were talking thousands of years. heres the other concern. when we first spoke about this yesterday, the concern was that well, maybe, this had come from nuclear testing back in the 70s and 80s. its come from one of the reactors at the site. that indicates theyve had a much more severe rupture at the containment vessel. indications of very bad things. no definite eyes on. >> martin savidge keeping it real for us. we have three stories all covering issues that hit home for millions of americans....

Whoser to make sure theyre always safe and reliable. safely. >> reporter: can we actually look in? >> sure, sure. >> it vibrates the atoms at the rate of a million billion per second. that is so fast that heat cannot be conducted, shock warvts cant be conducted. >> reporter: theres a big debate right now where people say is this testing really sufficient to be absolutely sure that that nuclear device will go off? how do you answer thatty. >> well, we probably look at these weapons today more ext...

Be conducted, shock waves cant be conducted. >> reporter: theres a big debate right now where people say is this testing really sufficient to be absolutely sure that that nuclear device will go off? how do you answer that? >> well, we -- we probably look at these weapons today more extensively than we did even when we were doing nuclear testing. there are hundreds of ways that a nuclear weapon could fail. weve found failure modes in the stockpile that we could never have found with nuclear testi...

Half of those are in the active stockpile. half of those are deployed. i dont think anyone can imagine what military circumstance to require us to fire 1,000, 2,000 nuclear weapons. we need to get away from the 1940s thinking into the 21st century. how to stop nuclear terrorism. we can do that with fewer numbers of weapons and we can keep those weapons safe and secure without nuclear testing. this posture review puts the joint chiefs of staff in favor of ratifying the nuclear test ban treaty tha...

Happen, and as the president himself i thought very interestingly said earlier in the week. maybe yesterday. there might not be one summit. maybe it will take two meetings or three summits in ways dangling another carrot out to chairman kim saying that more is possible. more of these benefits, political benefits are possible, if youre serious. so i think theyll be some -- i would expect at a minimum well have some sort of announcement that locks in the freeze on missile testing, nuclear testing....

Right now for this summit in singapore with north korea is because this administration canceled what was the policy of the obama administration, the failed policy of strategic patience and put on maximum sanctions and those sanctions frankly have created a circumstance where the pressure is so great and weve got to keep that pressure up that north korea is in discussions with the administration. the administration deserves credit for that, bill. >> bill: i think youre probably right about that a...