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Immediately and briefed on it and we're monitoring the situation. >> cnn's chris lawrence is live for us at the pentagon. chris, what more do you know, what caused the explosion? >> basically officials are telling us that this 60 millimeter mortar shell detonated in the tube at the firing point. in other words, instead of the mortar flying out, the mortar exploded right in the tube with the marines all gathered around it. normally it would take several marines a mortar crew so to speak to operate this, but this was training, so you may have had support personnel also around the mortar firing. ...

We start with breaking news out of nevada where six u.s. marines have been kill and eight wounded in an explosion that occurred in a training exercise overnight at the army's hawthorne depot and storage facility in western nevada. we go now for the latest. jim, was this an accident or did somebody do something wrong? >> it was clearly an accident according to u.s. military officials who say that the six marines were killed and eight others wounded in a live fire training exercise at the hawthorne army depot early this morning. according to the officials, there several accounts. one that has th...

Rand paul's side for what he's doing. i'm not necessarily agreeing. what he's doing is democracy at its best and he's a kerr courag politician making a stand. here's a thing about the debate. i agree with him completely about transparency and the lack of transparency by the obama administration about drones is unacceptable, but on the issue of whether a government should be able to use a drone against an american citizen in america, to me is slightly muddier, that debate, because you know, the police, the military, are authorized to use extremely powerful weaponry if they wish to. against an a...

Recognizing privilege. the next is battle oppression that prop it up from hulk's companies beginnings to now. to say i'm thankful i have a job and health insurance is to force us to question why that is a blessing at all. and so with that in mind, i am thankful for the opportunity to have spent thanksgiving with my wife and my child and my extended family, a source of joy unavailable to many of our troops including 68,000 americans currently serving in afghanistan and the families both american and afghan of those who have died in the 11 years of war there. i'm thankful to live in a place wher...

Rick: a lot of military activity in the middle east and it may push israel to the brink of war in gaza where militants fired more than 100 rockets in recent days, sparking retaliatory airstrikes from israel. this comes amid fears that israel, by far our closest ally in the middle east could be drawn into syria's civil war. now that its tanks struck a syrian artillery launcher after a stray mortar shell flew into the golan heights. the fighting from syria reaching turkey for the second straight day. leland vittert is live in jerusalem with the latest. leland? >> reporter: rick, right now the bi...