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I don't believe our goal any more is to defeat the taliban. i think it's no outlast them with our presence in the region. >> maria: doing that, the troops already on the ground need the backup, isn't that right? >> well, exactly. my.being, 11,400 troops, 12,000 troop, 15,000 troops is not enough to defeat the taliban. so someone that's deployed and is a boot on the ground, has a little bit issue knowing there are 12,000 of my brothers in harms way without any political will to support them and give them a mission to win. 100,000 troops could defeat the taliban. we saw it happening. but politic...

>> what appears to be a random crime in this washington, d.c., suburb is only the beginning. the next day, terror takes hold. >> 911 emergency. >> this guy's lawn mower did something, man. it chopped him off. he's bleeding real bad. >> around 7:30 this morning, a man was riding a lawnmower in rockville pike in the 11400 block. he was just doing his job, cutting grass. >> the victim is identified as 39-year-old james "sonny" buchanan. he also ran a small landscaping business. that is what he was doing here today when he lost his life. >> it started out early in the morning. sonny buchanan was m...

Navigating. germanwings flight 9525 with 150 people on board went down in the snowy french alps where peaks are as high as 10,000 feet. what seemed like a routine flight from barcelona to dusseldorf suddenly turned deadly. the flight took off at 10:01 a.m. local time. flight tracking sites show the plane climbed to a cruising altitude of 38,000 feet before starting an unplanned descent, dropping to 11,400 feet over eight minutes. >> it seems to me it was still a controlled descent. >> around 52 minutes after takeoff, air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane. its last known altitude ...

Movement. he wants to see federal background checks and stronger gun tracking bill. they believe they are going to make that change. >> poppy harlow, thanks so much. in the days after newtown we heard a lot of talk about how everything would change. well, everything didn't. there have been at least 11,400 gun-related deaths since then. and in mother jones magazine, mark fullman writes about 194 children who have died in gun violence. and he joins me right now. you know, mark, since the sandy hook tragedy, you have been covering this issue of gun violence and children. what have you found out...

A proven technology that can significantly reduce fuel. we have proven to reduce fuel on forward operating bases by 65% and which reduces the fuel burden tremendously, the logistical burden of convoys and security and then troops to support the security. jon: we had the video up of what has happened to so many of the convoys in iraq and afghanistan and elsewhere, many times they are sitting ducks and if you hit one even with small arms fire, you get something like this. so napoleon said an army runs on its stomach or he's credited with saying that. these days an army runs on petroleum, basical...