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Ruled out for fear of collateral damage leaving the riskiest game plan of all -- a commando-style assault. >> the risks are unimaginable. everything could have gone wrong, but the reward was if it worked they would come out with a body, they would come out with dna analysis. >> reporter: president obama shared what weighed on his mind in a cbs interview on "60 minutes." >> these guys are going in the darkest of night. they don't know what they are going to find. they don't know if the building is rigged. they don't know if, you know, there are explosives that are triggered by a particular door...

>> reporter: both scenarios are ruled out for fear of collateral damage leaving the riskiest game plan of all -- a commando-style assault. >> the risks are unimaginable. everything could have gone wrong, but the reward was if it worked they would come out with a body, they would come out with dna analysis. >> reporter: president obama shared what weighed on his mind in a cbs interview on "60 minutes." >> these guys are going in the darkest of night. they don't know what they are going to find. they don't know if the building is rigged. they don't know if, you know, there are explosives that ar...

To risk everything. navy s.e.a.l.s, known as team 6, a covert commando force hu-ya! >> made up of the military's best like former navy s.e.a.l. howard watts son. >> it is like being part of an elite football team that made it to the super bowl. >> reporter: his super bowl came in 19939 during a raid against a somali war lord, shot three times he nearly lost his right leg. >> i started to think then, i'm really not going to make it out of here. this is it. i'm going to die today. >> reporter: the battle better known as blackhawk down left 18 americans dead and scores wounded. a failure wattson ...

failure, high. >> would rather die than be captured. >> at the end of the day it was a leap of faith. >> reporter: friday, april 29th, just after 8:20 a.m., the mission begins. the president gives the go. >> the president, after a long night's sleep, he basically came in and immediately told his staff you have the green light. let's go. >> reporter: as president obama departs for the tornado-ravaged south, the u.s. military's best-kept secret is underway. >> the troops were ready and in place. the equipment was ready to go. the plan had been practiced again and again and again. >> re...

>> s.e.a.l.s would rather die than be captured. >> at the end of the day it was a leap of faith. >> reporter: friday, april 29, just after 8:20 a.m., the mission begins. the president gives the go. >> the president, after a long night's sleep, basically came in and immediately told the staff, "you've got the green light." let's go. >> reporter: as president obama departs for the tornado-ravaged south, the u.s. military's best-kept secret is under way. >> the troops were ready and in place. the equipment was ready to go. the plan had been practiced again and again and again. >> report...