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Course, he's the young man whose body was not found for 48 hours. the big question, also, how is it that rescue forces did not come into the area for over an hour. how are they sent on a mission with no medevac and no rescue forces readily available to help them. these are all the questions the pentagon is supposed to be answering. but let me underscore something, what we learned a few minutes ago is we're getting a briefing, we're getting the summary, we will be able to ask questions. after seven months, we are not getting the full report. that full report still being declassified, no indicat...

The way to the site to see who they can rescue and what the state of the helicopter is. there are no reports at this hour it was hostile fire. but again, these are very initial reports about what has happened. of course, this helicopter was flying alongside another. they always fly in pairs. they'll be talking to other crew about what they may have seen. was there any indication of hostile fire. this has just happened in the last couple of hours. details are very sketchy now. again, u.s. military helicopter, black friday crashing in the words of the u.s. military in western iraq. rescue forces...

Rescued by helicopters. so clearly within research of rescue forces. still, of course, the search goes on. they were not able to rescue or recover three on board the plane and the work goes on to try and find them and rescue or recover them. those families, of course, facing an agonizing thanksgiving holiday, waiting for word about what has happened to their loved ones, jim. >> no question. the tempo of operations in the pacific is particularly high now. you have additional aircraft resources. you have additional flights, much of this centers around the activity in north korea. with an acciden...

But this is -- biblical catastrophe? you bet. this now requires high-volume, continuous, 24 hours a day capability rescue power, pure and simple. so that means you have to have helicopters with infrared sensors. you have to be able to scan wide areas, see who is out there, get to them quickly. you can't have elderly people sitting for 24 hours, you know, with their feet in the water at a nursing home. the problem is this. the floodwaters still rising in some areas. these helicopters, and there's more than a hundred of them out there from a number of agencies, including the military, work incid...

Significant manner. they will have their own helicopters, their own rescue forces. if they run into trouble. so at the end of the day, that could put another 200 troops into the arena, even as an additional 50 special operations forces are scheduled to arrive in northern syria. it is a brush-up in the u.s. effort. but officials are telling us, it could still be weeks before troops arrive, what units will go and exactly how they will operate. allison, christine. >> barbara, thank you. there is concern this morning of a new united nations report of a report warning that isis has succeeded in b...