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geen, everyone. out front tonight, we have breaking news. new details are coming out about the army staff sergeant accused of killing 16 afghan civilians, including nine children. now, this is that house to house rampage that happened yesterday. and here is the very latest about the suspect. we have learned that the staff sergeant is in his 30s and was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury after a vehicle rollover accident in 2010 in iraq. now, he was treated for that and then found fit for duty. he has served several tours in iraq. this, though, was his first deployment to afghanistan. now, we also know that he s a qualial qaeda qualified infantry sniper, which means he s trained to kill at 800 meters. he remains in nato custody tonight. we do have some new details about how the u.s. military learned about the i think ncide what happened as soon as they found out. chris, what more can you tell us? one of the biggest tipoff was when these afghan villages showed up ....
out a plan palatable to both sides, and there s a separate push for the balanced budget amendment. the president suggested this morning that the u.s. doesn t have time have for any proposals. we don t need a constitutional amendment to do our jobs. the constitution already tells us to do our jobs and to make sure that the government is living within its means and making responsible choices. so it this notion that we re going to go through a multi-year process instead of seizing the moment now and taking care of our problems is a typical washington response. we don t need more studies. we don t need a balanced budget amendment. we simply need to make these tough choices and be willing to take on our bases. everybody knows that. so august 2nd is the looming deadline. that s the day when the treasury warns the u.s. will have to decide which bills it will pay and which ones won t get paid. with no talks scheduled at the white house today, house republicans offering up t ....