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Nancy pelosi or a democrat talk about the dreamers. remember? that's what this was about. we're not hurt democrats talk about human beings for so long. they could have gotten so much in exchange for anything along the border but instead they seem to have forgotten all those people they were supposed to be fighting for and i wonder if those people feel forgotten and will show them at the ballot follow that their night fighting for them at all. steve: timmy, that relates to the early point that in the end they don't care about that but it's an ideological obsession with doing anything to hurt pr...

2001, over 15,000 people involved and at least 5,000 u.s. marine combat troops, as well as 1500 afghan soldiers. betty? >> you say there's a lull in the fighting right now. let me ask you. how difficult has it been to get down to these particular areas in marjah, because we've been told that the taliban fighters have been setting up for months, land mines and booby traps and stuff to make sure this is a difficult fight. >> reporter: absolutely. the city of marjah is actually surrounded by what's called an ied belt, improvised explosive device belt, because the taliban have had time to prepare ...

Meet enemy fire when the sun came up. that's when the taliban started shooting, that's when we started running. the taliban has been sporadically firing at the u.s. marines here in the city of marjah. but the marines have been firing back as well. we do know that there have been taliban casualties. and right now the firing seems to have stopped for the moment. just a lull. we do expect more fighting in the evening time and tomorrow and in the coming days. in fact, two civilians who were injured actually came to the u.s. marines, treated by the u.s. troops here, and medevaced out. but they were...

She gjoins us by phone. atia, bring us up to speed on the progress so far. >> reporter: betty, it's been a very, very long day of fighting. it all started at 2:00 a.m. when the first battalion regiment involved in this operation called moshtarak, it was from this team. they came in at 2:00 a.m. in the dark hours of night. they landed in a field, a farming field. it was a pretty rough terrain compared to what most people are used to. this is an area that has canals, that has irrigation systems. and the dark hours of night, four people were wounded. minor injuries but still had to be medevaced o...

A string of shootings in tampa. it happened at a convenience store yesterday when police say 53-year-old andre watkins stole a pickup truck. he then drove to a house and killed a 19-year-old woman. watkins is suspected in dilling two other people in separate shootings. right now we want to update you on the latest from afghanistan. the u.s. and nato forces are rolling out a monumental fight against the taliban this hour. here's why you need to watch this one play out. one, it's happening in the city of marjah which is an area considered to be a key role in the taliban's opium smuggling netwo...