carolina. >> their mission will be train, advice and assist iraqi security forces, this deployment is part of the additional 1,500 troops that the president authorized in november. >> reporter: there are currently 1,860 troops in iraq. the new deployment will nearly double that number and u.s. involvement will not end any time soon according to the u.s. general overseeing the mission. >> i think you're at least talking three years. >> reporter: the current strategy reelys on air strikes like this one that targeted an ied never mt. sin jar. >> they need more forces to assist those indigenous forces and we're going at that very incrementally. that's a pattern they have seen before that's very disturbing to them. >> in fact five months after the u.s. relaunched military operations in iraq, the pentagon says there are still yazidis p trapped on mt. sinjar.
was expected to be released very soon. >> outrage from the family and friends of the south african hostage, pierre korkie. >> there is a lot of anger and understanding on the other side, too, so there are mixed comments on the process. >> after months of being held by al qaeda in yemen, his family thought he would be freed soon. u.s. officials say however after seeing this video of american hostage luke somers late last week, the pentagon concluded somers was in strong danger of being killed. the u.s. scrambled for a last-minute rescue. by thursday, the u.s. had satellite images of the compound where somers was being held. by mid-morning friday the mission was a go. it would not succeed in the end. >> the president does not at all regret ordering this mission to try to rescue mr. somers. >> i commend the president for
down by the end of the year. >> we are on track to get down to the prescribed level of forces of about 10,000 by the end of this month. >> no at 22 it is as in iraq, wesley president obama reversed a ban on airstrikes in afghanistan to allow u.s. forces to keep pressure on the taliban as the u.s. reorganizes the mission. martha. martha: thank you very much. bill: four-star general for fox news military analyst, good morning to you be at you saw this coming, didn't you? >> pretty much. i did a bunch of them, we predicted we were going to have major problems with the network
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>> it is northerly successful mission. we are still under way. for us the mission is not complete until the patient is transerred to a medical facility in the san diego area. the family is expected in san diego wednesday. the one year old had salmonella poisoning before the trip and was cleared to go on a dangerous adventure on a small sailboat. though erica is a trained sailor, public opinion was swift and harsh. on day six they wrote. we are the nut balls who decided to set to sea, trust me, we have no one else to blame for bring
to happen. so the california air national guard launch as c-130. the rescue crew parachutes into the ocean. rescues the family from a sinking sailboat. they spend three nights on a life raft until the navy frigate arrives on sunday that should return to san diego by wednesday. >> it is a nearly successful mission. we're still underway. for us the mission's not complete until we transfer the patient to the next highest level of medical care which will be a medical facility in the san diego area. >> reporter: the kaufman family, eric, and charlotte, three-year-old, cora, an one-year-old, lyra were helpless. their sailboat adrift, no steering or no communication and taking on water in a eight foot sea. apparently shy had salmonella poisoning before the trip was cleared to go. on wednesday, rather than an attempt to dock the huge frigate, patti ann, they may send out a fast boat to get them
as dawn is about to break, crews from 26 countries, including the united states, are preparing to restart the search for the missing malaysian airliner off the coast of australia. we're joined for the latest from perth and nbc's ian williams. >> reporter: hi, karen. monday's search will begin in a couple hours from now, day five of what has been a frustrating mission. there have been eight aircraft out there saturday. today, monday, they'll be bolstered by japanese and chinese aircraft as well as more ships beginning to arrive in that area. they'll be searching once again in that southern corridor, an area about 28,000 square meters, about 105,000 miles from perth. once again, the weather is likely to be a factor out there. on sunday, the mission was impaired by thick cloud and fog early in the day, although it did begin to clear later. there have been warnings of a
>> and snowden made news again in a new interview published christmas eve in the "washington post" that said for me in terms of personal satisfaction the mission's already accomplished. i already won. as soon as the journalists were able to work everything i had been trying to do was validated. because, remember, i didn't want to change society. i wanted to give society a chance to determine if it could change itself. i'm joined by "the washington post" reporter who interviewed snowden, barton gelman who's also a senior fellow at the century foundation and harvard law professor allen dershowitz who has written a book called "taking the stand." how can he say he won where the programs he protested against and leaked about all continue at least as of this moment? >> well, it's the second half of the quote you just read. he is not saying he wanted single handedly to change society or undo the nsa's
ever imagined. >> we have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go. think what it means for the privacy of the average person. a child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. >> reporter: today edward snowden is in moscow, reportedly living on rahman noodles and chips. while that is a lot different than the life he had in hawaii as a high-paid intelligence contractor earlier this year he tells "the washington post" this. quote, for me in terms of personal satisfaction the mission's already accomplished. i already won. as soon as journalists were able to work, everything that i had been trying to do was validated because remember i didn't want to change society. i wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself now the reporter who met with snowden in moscow last week gave as you preview yesterday of what we may learn in 2014. >> he has no control over and no desire over to control what new
and lives under asylum in russia but claiming victory this morning. in an interview with "the washington post" snowden said quote for me in terms of personal satisfaction the mission's already accomplished. i already won. just last hour i spoke with the reporter who conducted more than 14 hours of interviews with snowden, among the quotes i asked him about, snowden describing himself as an indoor cat who rarely ventures outside. >> he doesn't talk a whole lot about his life or any personal questions. but i have the strong sense that he's not in the sort of confine. ment that some people imagined even in hawaii he spent a lot of time indoors. he's a guy that spend as lot of time on the screen. he doesn't have a lot of needs. he sort of eats ramen and chips and is deeply interested in promoting his cause now which means communicating on the web. >> interesting. you know the former nsa and cia