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Though there is a crane there, they simply can't lift these slabs. it is like a puzzle. every piece that's pulled out -- >> and they're brittle. the idea of knowing that there are at least three people alive in there changed the dynamic entirely, because now you have to make sure that every little thing you move doesn't cause a collapse. >> and it's also a risk for the rescuers themselves. any one piece, which you can't engineer. you don't know how these large plates of cement -- the fact that these kids perhaps are protected by a concrete table or some sort of slab is unique. there are air bu...

Than the situation on the ground? is there changing in the targeting, are we having intelligence problems, or are we just hitting the wrong targets. so i think that the investigation that centcom will launch will try to answer those, but i think that this is a situation that will continue as i said as we get closer into this urban filgt. urban fighting is the most dangerous for civilians and as we know, isis is using all of these civilians as shields as we get closer to the final battles. >> but here is the thing as this investigation continues, there will be no pause in the efforts there on t...

His stepmother and his father on an egypt airliner that went down. he talked about the financial cost to these families. he said he wanted to say to the government of malaysia, help these people economically. soon they're going to begin hurting in that sense. have you heard anything about that? >> there's been no discussion of compensation yet. i think part of the reason for that is we simply don't know what happened to this plane. if for example it is a confirmed part of the plane, that may be a part of the discussion. for many families here, they're still hoping in some sense that my racko t...

One of the extraordinary successes of egypt was the full ownership that the egyptain people felt. it serves the egyptain people well. it serves u.s. citizens well. we didn't see anti-american sentiment rising out of that movement in egypt precisely because they felt we didn't engineer or impose a particular outcome. rather, they owned it. the same is happening in tunisia. and the region will be watching carefully to make sure we're on the right side of history and also that we're doing so as a member of the world community and being willing to act on behalf of the values and doing so in a way ...