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falls, what happens to that cash? we're also seeing some new video of a violent train crash. time to play reporter roulette. miguel marquez, straight to you in yuma, arizona. you were briefed. have you even more information on what's happened there. the two helicopters colliding in the skies over yuma. snfrl yeah, we just spoke to the base commander. the most stunning thing coming out is the picture of that crash. it occurred around 10:30 p.m. eastern standard time on the california side of the base here. the entire crash was there. if you look at those pictures, what is very, very clear is it was in fact, a mid-air collision. there may have been an explosion as well because there's not much left of either of those helicopters except for a rotor that you can make out. the terrain says the base commander is very much like afghanistan and in iraq. the only differencing between that it's not the altitude isn't quite as great. commander also told us that there was a training pilot in the huey. there were two pilots in the cobra that crashed and then there was one -- there were five individuals in the huey, a yankee class huey, the newer one the marine corps uses and there was a trainer in there from yuma. the other six individuals killed were all from pendleton in california. it is interesting there was a trainer in that huey. it is not clear what happened. it was dark. they were in a very big exercise out there in the california desert. and there were a lot of aircraft in the air at the time. there was a lot of coordination going on. the investigation is under way as are next of kin notifications of those families and we expect to get more information as to who the individuals were that died, and it it will probably be days if not weeks and even months before we know exactly what happened in the air. brooke in. >> what a tough day i know for marines and for you know families. do we know if -- you mentioned they were training. were they headed to afghanistan? >> reporter: well, most likely. this it was a fairly high level of training that they were doing. the both the birds or both helos that crashed yesterday were carrying live ammunition. it's not clear if they were using the live ammunition but they were loaded so they were in a full training mode. as marines tell you, they are always training to deploy. the only place marines are going these days is afghanistan. so it's not clear how soon these individuals would have been going to afghanistan. but the fact that there was a trainer in with perhaps the huey pilot indicates that that pilot was being trained up either on a new weapon system or a weapon system he wasn't familiar with or with some sort of flight training in the bird itself. brooke? >> miguel marquez in yuma, thank you. next, barbara starr is in washington over u.s. concerns over syria's chemical weapons stash. with all this insecurity we see day in and day out in syria, is the u.s. military concerned this cache of chemical weaponry could be looted? >> very concerned. it's part of the military planning going on right now ket getting the options ready for the president if, if he was to ask for them or if it became necessary. and guarding syria's vast chemical weapons complex is really going to be a very difficult job if it came to that. they have sites spread out across the country, dozens of sites. and we are told that some of the very internal analysis is, in the worst case scenario, if troops had to go in to secure those facilities and it was a hostile environment, it could actually take tens of thousands of troops to do it. now, look, the military always comes up with high troop level numbers when it's trying to look at what it needs to do almost anywhere. the reality is you're not going to see tens of thousands of troops deploying to syria. the press is really on. the pressure is on for a diplomatic solution to this crisis. but the military is doing the planning, making it very clear how tough any job would be for them to do in syria. it's an environment they hope they don't have to step into, brooke. >> who could forget just even in libya, i know it's a different story. but ben wed man's pictures, the warehouses looted there were stashes of chemical weapons, as well. with regard to syria, do you know specifically what kind of chemical weaponry we're talking about and how closely is it being guarded now? >>. >> reporter: right now the u.s. intelligence community does believe the syrian regime is guarding the facilities. what if the regime were to collapse and fall, what if the guards walked away from it given the current unrest? there are al qaeda operatives inside syria, hezbollah lurks everywhere in that region. it is felt. and would like to get its hands on some of those weapons. what a threat to israel that would pose. what do they have? they have things like chlorine, like fos jean, these are the world war i era type of chemical agents and they have more advanced nerve agents. they have a very large arsenal, again, spread out across the country. so at the becomes very difficult to protect. it is something the u.s. intelligence community is watching now around the clock, brooke. >> it's concerning. barbara, thank you. next on reporter roulette, i want to go to buenos aires, argentina, where more deaths have been linked to that train crash right aroundern rush hour yesterday morning. marcos, what are the latest numbers and what more do you know? >> well, we had an update from the authorities in argentina. we have 50 people dead because of this accident. one of them is under age, a kid. we have 703 passengers injured during the crash yesterday in the morning. and we also have 11 passengers missing. their family, their loved ones are trying to reach for these passengers. they looked at the papers and the hospitals to see the names of the injured passengers. these missing people are not in those papers. they also went to the police to see their names were coordinated with the names of the dead people and also they couldn't find those names. all in the hospital either in the names of the dead people from the crash. we know that these 11 passengers that are missing could be in private hospitals. so authorities right now the are trying to reach them on these private clinics. we also know that justice is investigating this case. today a commission of the justice went to the station and to the remains of the first carriage of this train. they took the black box from the train that contains the data. actually from the conversations and the communications between the driver, which -- the driver had an excellent record in buenos aires and they took more video foot and because each train has a camera inside the driver's cabin. and also a camera that shows a view of the driver at the moment of the crash. >> speaking of cameras, marcos, before i let you go, you and i were talking about surveillance video there actually at this station. here it is. can you tell me? this actually shows the moment of impact? >> yes. >> that video shows the moment of the impact. this surveillance video from the once station shows the first carolina of the train and the second carriage slamming into the first one like 20 feet into the first. that's the place where almost everybody of of the 50 people that were -- that died on this accident were found by the rescuers. >> still passengers under the canned for, thinking of those family. marcos, thank you so much in argentina. there's your reporter roulette. coming up here, two american troops are dead, killed on a base in afghanistan. coming up next, we'll tell you what a possible link between the killings and the burning of korans this week by nate toe troops. forty years ago, he wasn't looking for financial advice. back then he had something more important to do. he wasn't focused on his future. but fortunately, somebody else was. at usaa we provide retirement planning for our military, veterans and 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on all charges which include aiding the enemy, he could face life in prison. a third gang member has been taken into custody in the beating of a 20-year-old gay man in atlanta. the fbi says 17-year-old dareal williams now in custody in erie, pennsylvania, two other teens were already in the cowsed to in the beating which attracted nationwide attention after this video was posted online. the new york police department accused of spying on muslim college students at schools like yale university say police went too far in surveillance of american muslim groups but new york city mayor michael bloomberg says the police work was indeed justified. >> it's very cute to go and to blame everybody and say we should stay away from anything that smacks of intelligence gathering. the job of our law enforcement is to make sure that they prevent things. >> meantime, governor of new jersey chris christi says this surveillance is and i'm quoting disturbing and newark mayor cory booker called for an investigation. president can obama has issued a rare written apology to afghanistan's president hamid karzai over the burning of afghan korans, but president's show of remorse has not quelled afghan outrage which may have sparked the killings of not just one but two american soldiers in the afghan capital for us. nick paton walsh. >> america's got no one more senior left to apologize to the afghan people. president barack obama has had his ambassador hand deliver a letter expressing regret to the afghan president saying hale hold someone connecticaccountab. this has done nothing to stem the violence, two american soldiers shot dead by a man in afghan army uniform on a military base outside that base. there was a very angry protest against this koran burning. two demonstrators shot dead and seven injured. violence popping up around the country. great concerns there could be more aroundaround friday prayer. the afghan authorities are rushed forward an investigation, the first results of which we heard today. they appealed for restraint but also suggested perhaps that the u.s. soldier behind the burning of this koran might have the to face some kind of trial. that's going to cause u.s. military officials here a huge problem. people are still asking how did this come around. i understand from military officials that these religious texts were being used inside a detention facility to pass messages between what they said were extremists. these papers were gathered up and meant to be disposed of differently but ended up being passed down the chain to the normal incinerator for trash by local afghans. they saw they had been partially burn and began to alert people causing these protests. in the third day, not showing any signs of stopping and marring a time when nato is desperately trying to convince the world and afghans that security here senior improving. >> thank you. back in 1986, the space shuttle "challenger" exploded killing all oven astronauts on board. today 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