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>> crouching behind colliers white pickup truck, officer slocum clutches his neck, a relfex reaction caused by the head injury. as he provides cover, the wounded officer tries to run across the street. but slocumb veers to the right losing balance and collapsing into a chain link fence. mcfarland, knowing every second counts, runs across the street to get to his partner, putting himself directly in the cross hairs of colliers rifle. >> its a chance ive got to take. >> he must holster his gun in ...

Killing six americans. the military says there was no enemy activity in the area at the time of that crash. the troops on board may have been attacked after the chopper went down. its unclear if any casualties were the result of enemy fire. and rebel groups and the government are getting ready for peace talks. now, that will be held come the new year, but that is not stopping the forces of president bashar al assad from launching harsh attacks against syrian civilians. abcs terry moran surveys...

Not the unanimous feeling was that these stories would do more harm than good. the family apparently doesnt see it that way. >> thank you so much, pete. thank you very much. >> you bet. >> people are feeling wintry weather now around the world. secretary of state john kerry was welcomed on his trip to israel with a new england-style winter storm. weather forecasters are calling snowfall in israel historic. the most jerusalem has seen in december at least in 60 years. thats pretty extraordinary. ...

It struck again. and the race is on hold for yet another 24 hours. perhaps even more. >> you never know with the weather there. no one said getting to the bottom of the world is easy. so why is he headed to one of the planets most hostile environments? as i said, it is a good cause. heres max foster. >> harry is part of the british team racing against a team from the u.s. and a team of canadians and australians. the 40s in line to the british throne an afghanistan veteran is the patron of walkin...

Its certainly going to hamper the relief efforts and cause a great deal more hismisery on th ground, anderson. >> you talked to a woman who is searching for her family members. in terms of recovery efforts is there heavy equipment on the ground? how are people searching through rebel? -- rubble? >> at the moment, the focus is just on the survivors and getting aid and supplies to them. we are going into the fifth day of this disaster sin super typhoon haiyan sit the central philippines. yesterday...

Correspondent dr. sanjay gupta is joining us now. youve covered a lot of these horrendous stories after these natural disasters if you will. what kind of problems potentially are the folks in the philippines facing right now? >> the basics really do apply, especially in the first several days after something like this. no surprise there, wolf. weve seen this in many places around the world, but simply getting drinkable water to people is of high concern, trying to prevent diseases which typicall...

Theyre too big to land at the close at the airports. the desperation mounting for hundreds of survivors left homeless. thousands are dead and treating the wounded is an ever growing challenge. doctors are saying theyre helping as many injured as they can using battery powered torches and rain water. >> we have no water here and then we just took all the resources, like rain water just for the use pf -- of our ers. we need generators because our laboratory, we cannot do nothing without power. >> ...

With the relief efforts, but obviously will cause more misery on the ground, anderson. >> reporter: in terms of, you know, you talked to a woman who is still searching for her family members. in terms of recovery efforts, is there equipment on the ground? how are people actually search ing through rubble? >>. >> reporter: yes, looking at the moment, anderson, i really believe the focus is just on the survivors and getting aid and supplies as to the them. you know, we are just going days into the...

Country. gabe ramirez introduces to a group of wounded warriors in california who soar into the sky to forget the physical and emotional trauma suffered on the battlefield. >> my experience in afghanistan its a favorite question of people and you know, sometimes i ask do you really want to know, because sometimes its not good stuff that goes on out there. after my first deployment i had a couple of my close buddies, they died and the corpsmen, too, theres nothing you can do. you feel guilty, i h...

>> okay, now get ready to speed read your way through the news. first to los angeles and new information about the lax shooting. tonight paul ciancia is hospitalized in critical condition. police shot him four times in the head after he opened fire in the airport. one of the wounded is tsa officer tony griz buy. >> i was injured trying to get a man to a safe area. turned around and the gunman shot me twice. i was shot in the foot. >> and today attorney general eric holder saying more investigati...