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>> you have seen our top stories, but heres the best of the rest. congresswoman, gabrielle giffords is back in washington, d.c. and all eyes are on the adequateo court and jurywoman. but giffords stroz washington today was all about her husband, astronaut mark kelley. she pinned a medal on him during his navy retirement ceremony. congresswoman giffords looked and sounded great. there is a new tourist attraction in new jersey. people are flocking to see -- a pigpig. it is giving new meaning to th...

Has been saying throughout his stroz washington, the violence is going to get worse. that there will be more casualties on both the u.s. and afghan side. theyre making plans to move into southern afghanistan, marines, u.s. army, british coalition forces leading the way along with afghan forces, but make no mistake. this is going to be very tough and one of the questions certainly many americans ask is why is this war still going on eight and a half years later? having this opportunity to see the...

Im here with marylandry who is leading the area response down here and my deputy admiral. >> i should have known better. of course, youd be out there and youd be on a drilling unit. youre never sitting in an office in washington. forgive us for that mistake, admiral. there you are on the drilling unit. tell us exactly what that drilling unit is doing. >> this is the second unit that will be put into place to drill a second well and thats a risk mitigator in case theres a problem with the first o...

Been a judge on any level, and among those shes meeting today is arlen specter. now hes a democrat. also on capitol hill, attorney general eric holder, defending his decision to try terror suspects in civilian court rather than military proceedings. critics have said that civilian courts afford the suspects too many rights and may be less effective in getting them to talk. just minutes from nawaf gan president hamid karzai due to show his respect for americas war dead at arlington national cem...

For the second straight day trying to convince senators she is right for the job. democrats, sold. republicans, skeptical. she has never been a judge on any level. the u.s. and afghanistan, rather, are putting on a show of warm relations this week for president hamid karzais visit to washington. he will pay respect to afghan and iraq war veterans and speak to the u.s. institute of peace. president obama says there will be a long-term partnership with afghanistan even after u.s. troops begin pu...

Oil slick is still sitting out there, as you know, in the gulf right now and the coast guard is on point for this, keeping an eye on bp and the clean up efforts and also helping lead that investigation in the gulf. coast guard commander admiral fatalen has briefings morning, afternoon and night and weve been lucky to get him to call and he joins me now from washington. let me start by asking you, were seeing the booms and were seeing the oil and were still seeing this massive slick. what are you...