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Up a vote on chuck hagel on panetta's replacement pressed the pentagon to have panetta go up on to capitol hill to testify before the senate armed services committee next thursday. that is the same day that the senate is expected to vote on hagel's nomination. meanwhile, secretary of state john kerry was sworn in today during a private ceremony on capitol hill. he made headlines telling the boston globe president obama picked him for the job a week before susan rice withdrew her name over the benghazi controversy, which is a different timeline of what we have known before now. bret? jennifer g...

Frightening scene. we'll take you to one of the spokespeople for the sheriff's office there when we come back. bill: think about the 6-year-old boy and what he is going through. women in key combat positions, maybe not so fast after all. we'll explain.

Don't belong in the military at all and much less in combat zones and i wasn't sure if they would ever be prepared, but once we were serving for a while and i went in combat foot patrols and realized the only thing that mattered was to help them accomplish the mission i started to think, okay, maybe some day down the road eventually things will change and these young guys as they move up into leadership positions having served alongside women in combat they may be ready for this type of change and here we are today. that change is happening. >> colonel, here ate thing. women in combat situatio...

It, of the women that took part in this marine infan industry officer training, only two. one failed day one with other guys. the failure rate for men is 25%. you don't see a lot of the women in the programs already. there is not a lot of interest in it. do you see more women getting in to it? >> andrea: colonel ralph peters who is a military analyst was on my radio show this morning and he said there is probably not a huge influx of women trying to get the combat positions. they are tougher than the guys i know. they're my heroes. kudos to them. at the joint chiefs think they should be in. if...

>> what about that? as i said, there are men who cannot qualify. that has never been a point. mostly because it is how it was related to how the american ment uses the draft. every man that was drafted was drafted for a combat position and there were other positions that became available. but there was never a discussion about are all men qualified for combat now there is a discussion about whether women are qualified for combat positions. but in 2003 there was no discussion about deploying women to iraq for this combat situation about whether they would be physically capable