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Countries, there is a strong feeling here that the government and the military has been unable to do the job, to get the job done. president goodluck jonathan in nigeria says he has 20,000 soldiers in northeastern nigeria actively looking for these girls, and yet, he also admits he has no idea where they are, christine. also, we know that u.s. intel reports suggest these girls may have been split up, trafficked into neighboring chad, cameroon, niger. it's going to be very challenging, no matter what kind of assets are brought to bear. >> let's talk about the assets, the 80 more u.s. service me...

Country, teachers protesting the lack of progress in finding the girls and also protesting the attacks of the terror group boko haram. they are targets, more than 170 teachers have been killed by boko haram. remember the terror group targets schools it believes girls should not be educated in the first place. it believes boys are legitimate targets and that they have a right to kill them and of course it does kill teachers. also today a big protest here in the capital as hundreds march on the president's office. they say he's just not doing enough in the hunt for the girls. meanwhile, the u.s....

Authority for the u.s. to use drone strikes to kill americans overseas. all republicans will vote againstberren's nomination and democrats initially opposed him as well. but the white house won them over by agreeing to release buyeron's memo on drone strikes. >> happening right now on capitol hill. house law makers holding classified briefings on the nigeria terrorist organization boko haran. this comes as 80 u.s. troops for chad part of a team flying a predator drone to search for hundreds of missing school girls kidnapped by boko haran last month. >> the decision to free a u.s.

Nigerian military has been unable, almost six weeks since these girls have been kidnapped to do anything to find them, president goodluck jonathan in nigeria says he has 20,000 nigerian troops in borno, in northeastern nigeria to look for these girls, and so far, they are coming up empty. so, i think with u.s. technology, with u.s. know-how, they're going to be able to make quite a difference, because they're going to be flying aerial manned and unmanned surveillance flights over this area. it's a very large area, the size of west virginia. and i think with that technology and with other count...

Kidnapped school girls. the white house announced yesterday the deployment of a predator drone and additional military personnel to provide intelligence and surveillance support. it's been more than five weeks since the girls were taken by boka haram. cnn's barbara starr live at the pentagon. what can you tell us about these troops in chad? >> reporter: the pentagon is saying these troops are there to help with the search. certainly there are tantalizing hints that the search is beginning to become more focused. the 80 u.s. troops in chad will be split, half operating an unmanned, unarmed pred...