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Im also here because after more than a decade of war, were in -- the last year marked a major milestone. for the first time the armed forces took the lead to secure their own country. toted youre in a support role helping to train and assist afghan forces. for many of you this will be your last tour in afghanistan. and by the he wanted of this year the transition will be complete, and afghans will take full responsibility for their security, and our combat mission will be over. americas war in a...

I would imagine the experts in canberra would have discounted it straight away, had they had the piece of metal in their hands. >> pamela, you reported that the malaysians now are going to create an investigatory committee to look into this. whats taking so long? >> well, this was an expected step in the process, wolf, similar to what would happen in the u.s. if there was a crash here, a special committee would investigate the cause of the accident. important to sort of specify here, theyre not ...

>> depressurization, 12,000 feet, most people could continue breathing pretty normally. at 12,000 feet, but i dont even see why you would raise that issue because we dont thinkerize arpressurization issue at this point. >> okay, only because when it was pitching up, you know, above 45,000, thats where the conversation went, but now, potentially, and again, fox news has not confirmed this, this is a report were seeing and well do our own journalism to shore this up. let me now turn to the investi...

We can provide a level of assistance because we do have a very good laboratory if they do recover the data recorder, flight cockpit voice recorder. we have the fbi working on the computer hard drives from the pilots. so were in a support role just like the australians are. they may be out front in examining or searching that part of the world that theyve been given responsibility for. but they, too, are in a support role of malaysia. now with regard to the parts. once they get a high resolution ...

Growing in these rough, remote waters that are deeper than where air france 447 turned out to be. its a mess. >> greg, i was hoping you could speak to that as well. if and when they are able to identify these pieces of debris, how will they go about confirming that this actually came from this airplane. and what is ntsbs role in all this? >> the ntsb, like these other countries, theyre technical advisers to the malaysians. the malaysians are responsible for the conduct of this investigation. and...

They could have been putting in alternate route to an airport that they would need in case of an in which. and these kinds of cases, as weve heard in the past, there are many things going on in an aircraft we may not understand. heres cnn aviation analyst mary schiavo. >> ive worked on many cases where the pilots were suspect, and it turned out to be mechanical and a horrible, horrible problem. i have a saying myself, sometimes it an erratic flight path is heroism, not terrorism. and i always re...

Happened with the ethiopian airliner several years ago. the hijacker commanded the pilots to fly them to a certain place. the pilot said were going to run out of gas, we wont make it there and tried to do it anyway. >> wouldnt they have a moment to push a may day button to let the ground know whats going on. >> there isnt a may day button. would you have to put in a discreet transponder code of 7600 or 7700, depending on what the circumstance, is and then push the ident button so the air traffic...

Tonight, because of the extraordinary troops and civilians two risk and lay down their lives to keep us free, the united states is more secure. when i took office nearly 180,000 americans were serving in iraq and afghanistan. today, all our troops are out of iraq. more than 60,000 of our troops have already come home from afghanistan. with afghan forces now in the lead for their own security, our troops have moved to a support role. together with our allies we will complete our mission there by ...

Secretary of state john kerry and afghan president ma mid karzai agreed to have u.s. forces stay in afghanistan after the combat mission ends next year. under this plan, u.s. forces would play a support role until 2024. karzai says he will respect the elders decision. afghans parliament must also weigh in. some parties think a preliminary agreement could be reached on irans nuclear program and sec. stare of state john kerry ready to jump into the negotiations if significant progress is made. h...

Unless they come through this body or from the fbi. so what unfortunately happens is law enforcement sources will hear something. as that gets passed around, it oftentimes is not accurate and then is reported in the press. if its not coming from this official body or the fbi, it is not confirmed. theres a lot of misinformation getting out. we are trying to make sure factual information is being pushed out through the sources and on the twitter and all of our contracts. if you have sources report...