Nearly ten months ago the u. S. Military and president obama celebrating the homecoming of Bowe Bergdahl his freedom secured in a prisoner swap after five years as a hostage of the taliban in afghanistan. But today military officials formally accuse bergdahl of desertion. Jamie . Reporter the bergdahl said has been controversial from the start when he allegedly walked away from his post in afghanistan. He put his fellow solders at risk, and then the white house ended up making this highly criticized prisoner swap sending five taliban captives to live comfortable lives in qatar. After a lengthy investigation any army is charging sergeant bo bergdahl of violation of military law. The u. S. Army forces command has thoroughly reviewed the armys investigation during the 2009 disappearance in afghanistan, and formally charged Sergeant Bergdahl under the Armed Forces Uniform code of military justice. Reporter there are two counts article 85 of the uniform code of military justice, desertion with intention to sherk duty. The second count, article 99 with the same penalty except for a maximum of life in prison instead of five years. Bergdahl was a private first class when he left his post on june 30th, 2009. He was captured by the taliban and held under brutal conditions for five years. President obama citing the army ethos of never leaving a soldier behind announced last may that bergdahls freedom has been secured in a deal brokered by qatar. This morning i called bob and janne, and told them that after nearly five years in captivity, their son bo is coming home. Reporter byrd dahl was considered a prisoner of war which the president cited of sending five taliban prisoners in return for bergdahls release. The next step is hearing which will determine if theres enough evidence and its Strong Enough to proceed to trial, which would be a full courtmartial. And unlike the civilian grand jury system bergdahl would be able to testify in open court if he desires during this proceeding. In court papers he indicated during his five years in captivity he was held in nearly total isolation, beaten chained, threatened with execution and maiming, and some in the military believe that was probably punishment enough for any crimes he committed. Thank you. We go now to retired air force colonel joining us in washington. How serious is this charge desertion given the fact that there are Different Levels of desertion charges . Its probably the most serious charge that you can expect somebody to receive in todays military environment so to put it bluntly, he is in some serious trouble at this point. What are the implications here, do you expect bergdahl to end up serving jail time. There are going to be some instances where they may look at this as a time served kind of situation because of the number of years he spent in captivity. However, i do think it is at least a possibility he may serve a couple of years in jail just because of the seriousness of the charges. Based on your experience how often does the military accuse someone of desertion . It is very rare. Now there are a lot of cases historically there have been a lot of cases you are looking at the tens of thousands in world war ii and in world war i, there were a few thousand cases as well. In the civil war there, several tens of thousands, but in modern day military efforts there is very littledyer is shun in terms of desertion charges that are actually levied. Most of the time people will levy charges such as awol or absence without leave, and that is a much more common charge. When bergdahl was released there was criticism of the obama administration. Did the president really have a choice . Making that swap if he knew he could get one of americas soldiers back even though he apparently deserted . Well, randall thats a very difficult question to answer because we dont know the exact background of the negotiations and what was given and taken in those negotiations, but generally speaking i would say that to exchange five highlevel taliban members for one sergeant, in this case when he was captured a private, and one who was captured under some tenuous circumstances, its probably too high a price to pay. Just because the equation just doesnt balance out in terms of the you know once side versus the other. So i would say it was a very high price to pay, and ifully a strategic standpoint, it also puts us in some degree of danger, because we have many other things that could go on in terms of being call cap toured by the endmy, so it becomes difficult for us to continue with a policy when there is really no set policy. Thats the problem. Theres no set policy and it becomes dangerous to go from one step to the other in this case. I want you to stick us with for a minute because the pentagon is saying the u. S. Has launched air strikes against isil in tikrit iraq. Military Officials Say the Iraqi Government requested help. The u. S. Led coalition has also been flying Surveillance Missions over the city to provide intelligence. What do you make of this stepped up u. S. Involvement . Randall i think what were seeing here is the fact that the iraqi offensive to retake tikrit has stalled. And the iraqis were trying to get the iranians to help them and the iranians responded. But the iranians dont have the logistical tail to actually go forward and take advantage of the situation on the ground, so what you are seeing here is a situation where the iranians have in essen run out of steam, the iraqis have temporarily run out of steam, and so they need the u. S. To help them with this. And that is exactly what is happening. The u. S. Is coming in with intelligence assets and now apparently they have started striking targets in and around tikrit, and that shows a new phase in this offensive. Thank you for your incite. Now to yemen where shia Houthi Rebels appear to be closing in on the president s base in the Southern City of aden. There are reports of gunfire on the outskirts of the city and the airport is closed because of security concerns. There are reports that the president has fled the country. Yemens foreign minister is calling on arab countries to help fight the rebels. The Saudi Foreign minister says countries in the region will do what is necessary to protect stability. Mike viqueira what is the white house saying . Reporter they insist they president hadi is still the rightful leader of yemen. But no one really knows who is leading the country, who is in charge there, but in spite of it all, the u. S. Is insisting that its policy towards yemen has worked. Last september president obama cited yemen as a model in taking our terror. This is one that we have successfully pursued in yemen and somali for years. Reporter five months later u. S. Forces evacuated, its embassy empty for a month. A spokesman is denying reports that president hadi fled from aden. The u. S. Is still calling u. S. Pollty towards yemen a success. We still have a number of successes to point to in terms of pushing back on alqaeda and our successes in doing that in coordination with authorities. Were continuing to push back on Counter Terrorism threats that we face. Reporter u. S. Officials have called that group as the one most intent and most capable of attacking americans worldwide. For years it has been the target of u. S. Drone strikes that killed among others the americanborn cleric accused of plotting against the United States. But it is the shia lead houthis who have lead the insurrection against the Yemeni Government and while the current chaos makes it harder to execute, its policy is still working. What the United States will do and has done is worked to try to support the central government, build up the capacity of local fighters and use our own technological and military capabilities to apply pressures on the extremists there. Reporter but if yemen continues his slide, it could provide an opening. Alqaeda in the arab pence la will explore the current instability to cause further chaos. Reporter and yemens powerful neighbor to the north, saudi arabia may be considering military action. We hope that this can be done peacefully. If it is not done peacefully the countries of the region will take the necessary measures to protect the region from aggression. Reporter the white house insists despite the case chaos, it can still strike within yemenis borders. We have the ability to apply pressure on the extremists in yemen. Reporter and state department Officials Say that their officials here in the administration did speak with president hadi today. They will not reveal where he is or how he left the capitol, they cite security concerns. And many Officials Say no he did not flee by boat did president hadi and they are asking the United States to do more to turn back the houthis. Iran and five world powers have now just six days to reach a framework deal to curb Irans Nuclear program. Secretary of state john kerry is returning to switzerland for the final days of talks. James bayes has a preview. Reporter the place where both iranian and u. S. Diplomats hope there will be a break through in their longrunning nuclear negotiation. Seven different delegations will again be gathering. John kerry put aside all other business and spent all of last week here with his iranian opposite number secretary kerry knows critics in the u. S. Congress are circling and that his window of opportunity to get a deal may be closing. Mr. Zarif also has critical voices at home hard liners who oppose any deal. Analysts say the stakes are high. The domestic political pressure that both sides have been feeling has not reseeded in any way shape or form and as they continue to reach closer and closer to that march 31st deadline, the pressure has only increased. So i think youre going to see a sense of urgency that we havent seen before and greater flks flexibility that we havent seen before. Because the craziest things happen as you approach the 90th minute. Reporter the talks have made some progress. One of the main sticking points is sanctions. Iran wants them all lifted as soon as possible. But the current array, of e. U. U. S. Sanction took many years to put in place. The u. S. Is pressing for what they are snapback sanctions. Among the International Delegations negotiating with iran, france is known to be the most hawkish, almost certainly because of israelis newly elected Prime MinisterBenjamin Netenyahu sent a delegation to paris this past week. And is strongly opposed to a negotiation. And that view is also shared by republicans in congress, the arab gulf nations and hard liners in tehran. Before he left washington, d. C. John kerry in his speech addressed those opponents of the talks. Anybody standing up in opposition to this has an obligation to stand up and put a viable realistic alternative on the table, and i have yet to see anybody do that. Reporter when secretary kerry and foreign minister zarif meet again, they will be well aware that there is a coalition that want to destroy the agreement they are working to hard to reach. French investigators say they are recovered audio from the cockpit voice recorder of the germanwings plane that crashed in the french alps. The state Department Said today, three americans were among the 150 People Killed in yesterdays crash. The majority on board were french german and french. Reporter brought together by tragedy, the leaders of france germany, and spain arrive at this small town in the alps. They have come to pay their respects to the victims of the plane crash and to get the latest on the investigation. Their presence here underlines the International Dimension of this disaster. Translator we need to understand what happened. We must do so. We owe this to the families of the victims and the countries involved in this drama. Reporter all day long helicopters have been ferrying search search teams to and from the mountainside. The wreckage is scattered over an area the equivalent of eighty football fields. Sharded of twisted metal, nothing that can be recognized as a plane. It may take weeks for investigators to examine of the whole of the crash site. It is still unclear what caused the flight to plunge from the sky, but this shattered black box may hold some clues. It is the voice recorder from the planes cockpit. Translator there has been some difficulty reading the data, but it is great that we have found this. We have been able to exact some information from it, but its a little bit early to say what happened. Reporter 150 people were on board the aircraft at the time of the crash. No one survived. Retrieving and identifying the bodies is a grim and painstaking task. Translator the identification of the victims is essential, and we have to start with that because we owe that to the families of the victims, but it wont be done in five minutes. It will take weeks, and i believe that everyone should be aware that this will take a long time. Reporter darkness has descended on day two of this operation. But were still no closer to answering the crucial question why a well maintained plane with an experienced pilot flying in good weather crashed into these mountains, killing all on board. Justin green is an aviation attorney. He has represented many families from many crashes. We know that the cockpit voice recorder has been found. They are saying that there is usable data but how long will it take really to figure out what the data is and what is it going to tell us . The data is really a recording. The investigators probably already know what the data says and now they are probably analyzing what it is. Would it be voice, sounds . It will be voice and sounds. You can listen to what the pilots are talking about, and its actually one of the saddest things to do as you listen to pilots discuss an emergency knowing it is going to end in tragedy. How long would it take for them to analyze this before they will say anything publicly about it . I think the question is what is on the tapes, and then the next question is they may want to get they may want to get the flight data recorder tapes. Thats going to tell you exactly what the airplane did. What the flaps were what the speed was exactly. So you put those two together you want to know what the pilot inputs were and what the pilots were talk about. So one of the Big Questions is what happened in that eight minutes from the point it was at 38,000 feet to the point of impact. Nothing as far as we know back to ground control. A lot of airplane crashes come up with a, woeing theory pretty quickly. If its weather or landing emergency, but this is a long time to be in a relatively steady rate of decent a little bit more than a normal rate but not an airplane out of control. And pilots were taught tooff avie at it navigate communication. Could it suggest a loss of consciousness . That could be. And if it doesnt have come communication that would tell you the pilots were overcome. There was an warning placed on airbus planes on a nosedown pitch. Thats right. What happens is airplane is a fly by wire airplane. What that really means is the pilots put inputs but the computer actually takes those inputs and sends out messages to the different control surfaces. And in this case what happened on takeoff, climbout the angle of attack probes which are basically devices that tell the airplane what the angle of attack, pitch attitude is froze on on approach im sorry on on the takeoff and climbout. So when they got to altitude, the airplane thinks the angle of attack is different than it actually is and puts the airplane in pitch down put it into a dive. So what the European Agency came out with was a fix, which was a procedure for the pilots to fix that. So these pilots should have known how to fix this problem if this problem was the initiating cause. And i suspect it will be a point of litigation if it ever comes to that. It will be. Thank you. Tonight new tensions in missouri about the treatment of Police Officers black officers. [ shouting ] well hear from the citys interim police chief next. Plus the final assessment of security steps taken after 9 11, where improvements still need to be made. And were monitoring Severe Weather in oklahoma where there are reports of tornados, the first twisters of the season. This evening were hearing for the first time from the interim police chief in ferguson missouri. He is condemning video of a Ferguson Police officer being harassed. Duarte geraldino sat down with the interim chief today and join us now. Tell us more about this video, and why its so controversial. Reporter for months people have been saying the solution to what is happening here in ferguson is for more black officers to get on that force. So what this video does is it literally shows you what officers face in ferguson. In the video, we have one officer who is responding to protests and once he gets there, he is being taunted. [ shouting ] [ censor bleep ] this video was shot by a protester over the weekend, and it has been circulating over the internet. In it you see one of very few black officers in ferguson right now there are only five. He got to the scene. He was called there before other officers arrived. When the protesters saw him, apparently some recognized him and started yelling why are you on that side of the fence. It really highlights to the chief the problem that he has in getting more officers to join the force and in particular African American officers. He says his officers are treated particularly bad in ferguson because they are black, and some people believe they are on the wrong side of the divide randall. What else does the chief say are his biggest fears right now . Right now the Ferguson Police department is not just trying to reform, but it is fighting for its very survival randall. And so it has to keep its numbers up. So the chief is concerned that he may lose officers whether by resignation or by injury. Well when you leave at night, you worry about the officers, your sergeants, your lieutenants, a lot of these distur