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There's no question things are going to be busy on the usns comfort. they plan ten to 12 operations per day. the first group came in yesterday. one of those patients was marlene maxwell. consider this. 24 hours ago, she had never even been on a ship. and today, she's going to have an operation on one. doctors will be removing mar len's thyroid today. for eight years, she's dealt with pain and discomfort that has just gotten worse. for three years, she's been waiting for this operation. a big part of this mission is collaboration between the united states and each host nation. that includes jam...

Cigarette, whether it's a sandwich, it's all negotiating. and that's the bottom line. you get trust, you have to have that conversation of trust between you and the hostage-taker. the longer it takes, the better it is for a successful outcome. now keep in mind also, there's a lot of intelligence involved in this operation today. not just australia. you have new zealand, canada and united states who are all working together. there's a compact that they have where they exchange information. this investigation is just beginning. they are going to hit his house with search warrants, they are going...

They put together a coalition of 26 countries and got an international rescue operation under way. and they did a pretty awful job of getting that message across. i don't think you'd find too many people in government in k.l. disagreeing with that analysis. >> richard quest, stand by. everyone, stand by. we're going to have more on this story coming up later this hour. there's another important story we're following. a breaking story. dangerous escalation of the conflict in ukraine. the ukraine government now saying it killed five pro-russian militants during an anti-terror operation today, ...

Right now, but that number is going to go way, way up. officials expect the death toll to rise dramatically with some 271 people still missing. cnn's pauline chiou live in south korea for us this morning with the very latest. good morning, pauline. >> reporter: good morning to you, john. we have an update on that dive operation that you touched on. the coast guard has given us more details. they said 17 divers were involved in the operation today. two of them were able to enter the ship and they were able to get to a certain area where they could put a guide line in place. this is a line that ...

Politics in those states. >> shepard: democrats are along for the ride here, carl. >> dogging it both front and back. tag team operation today. moveon.org and dnc had companion bus trips going alongside romney and they will continue to do so. the afl-cio is involved in visibility exercises too. don't kid yourself they are not spending all five days on buses. for most part the players are going to fly from state to state and when they get there buses waiting. tailgate politicking, shep. >> shepard: new and serious accusations of secret service agents behaving badly long before that hooker scand...