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That's not what we are talking about here. >> correct. i think the correct term for it is embassy property it wasn't fortified. >> libya october 20th, 2011, colonel qaddafi is captured and killed by rebels in his home town. with qaddafi gone even stevens officially named ambassador. he will come to benghazi often. the state department upgrades the physical security at that property. charlene lamb of the state department. >> we extended the height of the owed outer wall with mason ry concrete barbed wire. >> inside the large residents fortified safe haven is built. you enter through a heavy met...

>> let's hope. wednesday at the earliest. has to be approved by 26,000 union members. >> that's right. overseas now to afghanistan where there's been another deadly attack on u.s. troops by afghan security forces. four american soldiers were killed by an afghan police safer at a checkpoint yesterday. the military's top general says that these kinds of attacks are a serious threat to the war effort. general martin dempsey says the afghan government needs to take the problems as seriously as do u.s. and nato commanders. and we're learning new details about an earlier attack on an air base wh...

50,000 workers. >> yes, i understand that. >> we have no real floors on fire t. looks like the plane was aiming towards the building. >> i was on the 67th floor when the first plane hit. it took me a second or two to catch my breath. >> i am walking on "b" floor, going toward the parking lot. all of a sudden... the whole floor, the whole building just rocked. it just rocked and threw you and just threw you. ure didn't know what happened. >> at 8:46, when boom! there is a loud explosion, noise, somewhere. didn't know exactly where. i all i saw, right up against the glass was fire, flame. just a...

Was about to die, there is pain and suffering. >> north side of the building, heavy smoke's all over the top of the building. >> i stepped off the elevator on 78. two steps and the plane hit. had no idea what it was. the walls just disintegrated. flames shot out. so, a few minutes after this happened, it was obobvious that this was something a lot worse than what i originally thought it was. >> 10th floor, we have units on the way up. there is a fire on the 78th floor, uncorm confirmed. >> i worked my way over to what i guess was the main exit stairwell. i was probably in the middle of the bui...

[sirens] >> and the place where that plane hit, the outer wall of the building and the building is a series ever concentric rings, so when you hit the outer wall, you are only affecting that part of t. but those walls are down and you can see the gutted areas. >> the whole place, everything came down. couldn't see. couldn't breathe. terrible. i never seen nothing like it. i went through vietnam, i never seen anything like this. >> can they go in, based on the conditions of the building? >> somebody's going to have to. that's what we get paid for. soongz as soon as we heard the explosion, we ra...