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>> and your reporter right there just about 40 miles outside of baghdad. i don't know what happens next. if you can roll in a bit of animation here, i'll show you right now what the sunni fighters have been able to do. they've taken the easy territory to be honest with you. there's a bit of relationship there anyway, these towns have fallen, the army's fallen and they run away. what does the government in baghdad do? do they fight back? and if they do, are they victorious? how well dug in are these insurgents? what are we doing on behalf of the united states? >> 275 military personnel were ord...

Have cleared what was one potential obstacle. then you get ready to move on to the next one. here is the other problem that comes with the moving on to the next one. jeff, what i'm going to ask you to do is lift is on. jeff, the pilot, he's going to announce like top cyber lifting off. then you are going to see something that is going to be a problem. >> it will happen now. we engage the thrusters, the bottom gets a tremendous blast of water from the vertical thrusters and stirs up the bottom. every time you move, whether it's with an r.o.v. or a sub like there th where there's a lot of bottom...

On corruption, transparency, budgets. >> this is what they need. i believe if ukraine would adopt these standards of accountability it would gravely help these nations. >> reporter: given the fact that any financial help for ukraine will have to come from the west and not its biggest neighbor today eato the east, russia. u.s.-russia tensions over crimea have not impacted two nations cooperation in out of space. >> five, four, three, two, one, ignition. and we have a liftoff. liftoff on a six-hour journey to the international space station. >> you heard the names there. lifting off. they were...

South lawn. he would often what erv to his friends and family. one of my favorite things about president bush, he didn't change at all. the presidency didn't change him. >> give me the high points for you and low points. worst memories. >> my worst memories because being in the white house on september 11th. i mean, you know -- the book i'm writing right now is about a fictional day of a domestic terror attack. it's taking me this long to even want to write about it in the fictional sense. but i remember sitting in my office and watching the "today" show i had it on when the second plane hit. ...

Bible, and as long as it's done in an objective and academic manner it's very appropriate for a school to do that. as a matter of fact, there are almost 600 schools in the united states in 43 different states that are teaching this program. >> but they are not going to be doing it at your schools. >> no, unfortunately, not. >> sandy minard, thanks very much for joining us and telling us about the vote down there this delaware. >> thank you for having me. >> you bet. >> 27 minutes after the top of the hour. detroit doesn't have any horses, but the broke city has a horseshoer on the payroll. how...