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Operatives and one of the helicopters went down, and there was -- there was a lot of nervousness, and tell our viewers what happened. >> that is right. well, the helicopter has what they describe as mechanical problems, and mr. brennan saying that was what he viewed as the most tense moment throughout as all of this was playing out, because he says that when you plan an operation like this, you always hope that you can accomplish it through step one or the a-operation, but sometimes you have to go through the backup plan and in this case when the second helicopter was not operational they had ...

>> i wanted to ask about the specific goal of the raid. were they trying to taken by * alive or was eight mission to kill him on site. >> it was to prepare for all continue general is. if we had the opportunities to taken by latden alive and it didn't present any thoughts and the individuals were able to do that. we discussed that at meetings with the president. the concern was bin laden would oppose any type of capture operation. indeed he did with a firefight. he therefore was killed in that firefight. and that's when the remains were removed. but we certainly were planning for the possibili...

There was somebody from the city where osama bin laden was hiding out who was tweeting about this operation even as it was going on. tell the viewers what you know. >> well, it is an interesting facet to the story that speaks to the pervasiveness of social media in a world event like this. these are some of the most read tweets around the world today and this is all coming from the i.t. consultant living in abottabad in the neighborhood where they found osama bin laden and he provided the first accounts of the raid that went by in the nearby compound. i want to blow through a couple of the twe...

That. and before they conducted this operation, that suggests that there is still some issues there, wolf, to say the least. >> he went one step further actually and also said that the u.s. would discuss this with the government of pakistan until the u.s. helicopters and all of the u.s. troops and the body of bin laden were out of pakistani air space. they didn't want the pakistanis to know anything that was going on. that was a pretty dangerous decision because pakistani military forces could have scrambled, launched jets to take out those helicopters and how worried u.s. officials are that t...

They have all taken more of a turn to the left. none of them at this current time, alex, take the storm into the northern gulf. so we're happy it's not going to hit the leak site and make that worse and the cleanup take longer. but we still have friends in texas to worry about. they could have a hurricane in four or five days. >> thank you, bill karins. let's head now to venice, louisiana, and nbc's charles hadlock. in terms of the tropical storm, what do you see the biggest concern now as the crews try to dig the relief wells? >> reporter: well, that's a very encouraging forecast from bill....