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[ gunfire ] a con cussive blast then a marine fires through a door. riveting footage from the mexican navy of the raid on a safehouse which led to the capture of the worlds most wanted drug lord, joaquin "el chapo" guzman. from the helmet cam of a mexican officer, marines are seen firing up a staircase. [ gunfire ] our analyst art roderick the most dangerous moment in the raid. >> youre in a fatal funnel basically what youre in. so anybody can pop around that corner. you got three, four people s...

But with incredible toughness and resolve, resubsequently took control of the observation post and returned fire on the enemy. as the enemy drew nearer, sergeant pitts threw grenades, holding them after the pin was pulled and the safety lever was released to allow a nearly immediate detonation on the hostile forces. unable to stand on his own and near death because of the severity of his wounds and blood loss, sergeant pitts continued to lay suppressive fire until a two-man reinforcement team ar...

Incredible toughness and resolve, he subsequently took control of the observation posts and returned fire on the enemy. as the enemy drew near, sergeant pitts threw grenades, holding them after the pin was pulled and the safety lever was released, to allow a nearly immediate debt nation on hostile forces. unable to stand on his own, and near death because of the severity of his wounds and blood loss, sergeant pitts continued to lay suppressive fire until a two-man reinforcement team arrived. ser...

Used against our officers. >> this is one of the things you would see on the back of the humvees in iraq of afghanistan. apparently the drug cartel had the weapons. and heres what we are learning now. on friday night, late sometime, these guys used this firing it in the direction of the border patrol agents. the border patrol agents were forced to take cover because of this. and then one of the border patrol agents was saying this appeared to be some sort of suppressive fire. that was being laid...

No choice but to take these people in and start to bring t processing. of course, thats what we are all paying for right now. >> heavy weaponenry and suppressive fire keeping the border agents pinned down to get their people smuggled across the rio grande. >> according to reports, its the first time theres been fire coming from across the border into america. border patrol agents encountered illegals with weapons but not shots are fired from mexico across the border into the united states. >> it...

To something. >> wouldnt that be nice? >> we get one plus two, that equals four. and then a third theory, that doesnt equal five. and then one here doesnt even go near the arcs. >> show us what we know. show me what we know. >> heres what this theory is talking about. its all over twitter, all over google. the plane left kuala lumpur, it came up here, and it made a hard left turn. that was programmed into the computer. not just grabbed the yolk and turned the thing left or step on the rutter, li...

Are. tell me what that is. >> yeah, its a lot of people talking about this here in kuala lumpur. it comes from a pilot. its a simple theory almost, brooke. it ties in with just about everything we know so far. and that comes back to a catastrophic mechanical failure. probably in the form of a fire. perhaps even in the form of an underinflated front tire on takeoff. slow burn there. the cockpit fills with smoke. in the situation like that, the pilot mantra really is aviate, navigate, and then com...

Going to be before the fire burns through the flight control services and makes the airplane completely uncontrollable. thats the problem. >> forgive me for cutting you off. im no pilot. im just trying to wrap my head around what you said. thats number one. number two was what? >> well, its hard to wrap your head around. you think its hard to wrap your head around for you. as a pilot, conditioning yourself that theres a fire, youre not going to try and go to an airport. the second one is that if...

Hugely advance our sum of understanding. they may well have told the malaysians about this earlier in the week. its just -- its another nugget on the table. another piece of the jigsaw on the table. ive -- this interesting idea -- i mean, this chris goodfellow article about the fire. well, lets row back just a little bit and not put it down to a fire. because lets just say a mechanical issue. because once you start talking about a fire, that raises a whole other raft of other issues. but lets sa...