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Here's a look at five weapons-related programs Military.com has reported on this year: Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division used the latest prototype of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) during a trench clearing exercise in October at Fort Pickett, Virginia. The event was part of a larger Soldier Touchpoint, the third major milestone in the development and testing of the IVAS, which will undergo one more STP in the spring before initial fielding next year. (U.S. Army Photo by Bridgett Siter) 1. Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS). In October, Army modernization off...

How will that impact that? >> we don't want people operating heavy machine. i am a hypocrite. you smoke when you are younger but you don't want your kids smoking. i think is the direction this country is headed in, though. i like the idea of the taboo around weed because it might repel people on the fence. i agree with something schumer said, if you are black and you walk around with a dime bag, they might book if you are that. if you are a preppie white kid in the suburbs and you are caught, they will say all right, run along. there is a double standard there. i understand people are upset ab...

Mud that took out that entire town. so as -- right next to the information board, you see the "daily herald" you can see the headline today. hope starts to dim. but we did talk to the governor, jay inslee in the state of washington and this is a small town, a lot of people know folks, third and fourth generation washingtonions there. and that's all they can have is open right now. people are giving everything they can. food, water, tears and prayer. and the folks in this area of the country will take everything they can get, wolf. >> are they bracing for more landslides, bill? >> reporter: it ...

Said gave ideal coverage for insurgents to attack. cop keating, the investigation found, was tactically indefensible. but that's what these soldiers were asked to do. defend the indefensible. the attack came in the morning. just as the sun rose. some of our guys were standing guard. most like clint were still sleeping. the explosions shook them out of their beds and sent them rushing for their weapons. and soon, the awful odds became clear. these 53 americans were surrounded by more than 300 taliban fighters. what happened next has been described as one of the most intense battles of the entir...

Workers got him to the hospital, doctors realized he was in far worse shape than he appeared. jonathan hunt is here. tell me what happened to him? >> reporter: well, this is the kind of trick that he has performed many times before in practice and in competition. but frankly, this time, he simply got it wrong. take a look in slow motion. he's trying to do a back flip here. but he gets the landing wrong, coming up short. the skis dig into the slope there, he goes over the front and then that machine lands on top of him. that particular one, is a modified snow mobile, it weighs 450 pounds. an ex...