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>> reporter: this is where the restoration work is happening. can you see the damage from the pollution still today? >> yes, on the surfaces, conservation yin gang told us, he is overseeing an ambitious effort to save the artwork in these ancient buddhist caves. >> reporter: what is it supposed to look like it doesn't look like much right now. >> imagine yin said, stunning and colorful paintings, a complete temple. we can hardly tell what they are now. 1600 years ago sculptures carved the grottoes into the sandstone cliffs of china. for centuries the soft sandstone was eroded by blasting winds...

Grover norquist that threat, the caucus if they even think about voting for taxes. i do think the u.s. public has seen the differences between the parties. >> i think a lot of people and certainly a lot of our viewers would agree with you on that. it's not necessarily equal blame right now. congresswoman bass, you have a safe trip back over to washington, d.c. and absolutely good luck over there. and if i don't talk to you again before next week, happy new year to you. >> happy new year to you as well. >> all right. and with an in-depth look at what all this cliff dwelling means, our nation's ...

Activists say helicopters, tanks and heavy artillery slaughtered 57 people. but the regime is also known to deploy the shabiaha, meaning ghost in arabic, armed thugs loyal to president bashar al- assad. this amateur video reportedly shows shabiah beating and torturing an unarmed man. residents say the houla massacre on may 25th that u.n. observers confirmed began with shelling from the u.s. army, but it was shabiha, they say, who plunsdered the town at night, committing most of the murders. villagers also blame shabiha for wednesday's massacre in qubair and the killing of nearly 80 men, women ...

>> reporter: from the air, thick smoke stretches for miles, the largest wildfire in the country, the biggest in the history of new mexico, is tonight on the move in all directions, raging out of control. >> tree coming down! >> reporter: sparked by a lightning strike two weeks ago, now clearly visible from space, the whitewater-baldy fire has consumed more than 200,000 acres. the burn zone is roughly 340 square miles, the size of new york city. >> it's going to get hotter and drier and that lower humidity is going to make the columns, the fire stand up and make the big fire columns. >> reporte...

People that maybe the taliban is promising they can deliver. there's no question about it that there's a dimension here wholly apart from the military strategy. it's political, it's engagement with people on the ground and develops trust. that's not easy to do. >> could you defend a loss of a service person over there? i'm sure we've lost them. in pennsylvania. lost them all over the state. can you defend when you look into the eyes of a parent or a spougs someone killed in afghanistan right now is actually making this country safer? can you make that case right now? >> i think we can, chris. ...