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Felt had been lost in previous years when the focus was shifted from al qaeda and afghanistan to bin laden and iraq. one thing that, you know, that is always important to remember and bears repeat, because i think that a lot of americans dont realize is that more than 100,000 troops have been withdrawn under this president from iraq. that has freed up, and again, part of the refocus of our attention on the af-pak region, and making that our principle goal, and the defeat of al qaeda that. will c...

Job normally done by this time, but now day four, it continues. >> youve given us a dna strand that allows us to do what we do. help us to go forward. >> reporter: a somber prayer at the morning briefing exemplifies the serious nature of search and rescue work. >> from an unofficial capacity we can all realize that after three days in rubble, that potentially this is the last viable day. >> reporter: crews get their assignments and head out. >> remember your safety. watch out for your people. dr...

People trying to blame the oil companies for that else, how do you get to the root of why that perception has changed, basically? >> you know, the thing about -- america likes to blame everybody and i think that comes down to our entitle the issue. you look at, barry, i think would you agree with me, the gasoline price are we have the cheapest prices of any industrialized nation out there in the uk, $8. france, $8, spain it is even higher. and everyone gets by, you know in the point being we are...

Thats going to be my guess. >> at this point do we have any idea of how wide the tornado might have been? >> you know, just from looking at this, its hard for me to gauge and i have been down this street a few times. i would say, you know, you may be looking at a football field width or more, i would think its save to say from this damage, which would be one of the larger tornadoes. it certainly was a circulation which would support that last night on the radar screen we were looking on the rada...

And have more power. and catering to the tea party elements in the congress. the freeway -- freshmen who are pushing americans to make draconian cuts that are unacceptable to the american people. so as the polls show president obama at what now is the highest point of disapproval it is higher than the republicans in congress and guess what, he beats any of the likely candidates running against him in 2012. >>shepard: as the presidents doubt commission talked to us like adults, is there a group o...

Gas prices, this may be the end for obama hes doing nothing to lower gas prices. >> the democrats have been scared of drilling weather in anwr alaska or deep water drilling. if we have learned something from bp there needs to be protections. fail safes have to be in place and you have to check them to protect our environment. 7% of the oil comes from deep water drilling. it is going to continue to grow. it is going to be up to 10% in a few years. we have to continue as a country to look for sour...

Orleans and the pilot apparently realized shortly after takeoff his engine was not functioning and hit a mini-van carrying two children. >> and never seen the airplane coming down, being hit by an airplane, you know. >> thankfully you could see there, luckily, no one was hurt and it was a dream come true for a seven-year-old boy who wanted to join the army. ian fields got the chance to enlist for two days, he has a rare muscular degenerative disease. thanks to the make a wish foundation in fort ...

President i think did a superb in this last ten days. he came out when he should. he brought people together when he should bring them together. he made a great statement last night. he showed serious leadership in this process. he showed one thing that i think that a lot of us who have known him for a while realize, this is not some crazy, wild-eyed socialist. this is not someone who wants to expand government all over the place. this is a very, very solid, reasonable pragmatic president. and i...

Full continuing resolution that would be the full year? >> well, for one thing they have been very successful at driving this idea that our problem with deficits and debts are entirely a spending issue. most of us realize that when you have dramatic reduction revenues because we give tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires, that causes a problem. theyve been successful in saying, pay no attention to the fact that weve funded wars in afghanistan and iraq without paying for them. only when we sl...

Additional cuts is what we understand the number is, that would gets us to the overall number of maybe $70-plus billion for the entire year, but the laits round of cuts, are you okay with that latest round of cuts and would take that deal? >> well, the thing is that realize that these are cuts in proposed increases in spending. so no cuts actually and 2011, we will spend more money than we spent in 2010. what i dont want to have happen is that it is an either/or situation. accept one proposal or...