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>> harris: a new rocket launcher unveiled, by top military prays at fort mccoy in wisconsin and we can cite fsee it for the fir time. check this out: >> harris: the rocket launcher called the n-142 artillery rocket system, the wisconsin army national guard's first battalion will be the first soldiers to use the new rocket system, and the new setup is more light weight and instead of being on tracks it is on wheels, making it easier to get around and rockets will launch faster. faster than the speed of sound... >> harris: you think the world cup lasts a while, the four week stretch is nothing c...

>> harris: a new rocket launcher unveiled, by top military prays at fort mccoy in wisconsin and we can cite fsee it for the fir time. check this out: >> harris: the rocket launcher called the n-142 artillery rocket system, the wisconsin army national guard's first battalion will be the first soldiers to use the new rocket system, and the new setup is more light weight and instead of being on tracks it is on wheels, making it easier to get around and rockets will launch faster. faster than the speed of sound... >> harris: you think the world cup lasts a while, the four week stretch is nothing c...

In our pentagon correspondent right now, chris lawrence. he joins us. you know, the new nato offensive is under way in afghanistan. it's a huge political issue as well. so chris, we report on this terrible accident earlier tonight, killing 12 civilians. what can you tell us? >> reporter: don, the marines say they were taking direct fire from the taliban so they used a highly sophisticated mobile artillery system to aim two rockets at the taliban holed up in that compound. the rockets missed. went about 300 yards off course. hit that home, killing 12 civilians. the u.s. has now apologized and s...

Here is where u.s. troops are positioned throughout the country. here is the level of taliban influence. the dark red. this area has been controlled by the taliban for a long time. u.s. forces have never, never really had control of this area until now. what we're seeing now is a major, major offensive into the area of marja. what happened was u.s. marines were taking fire, direct fire from a compound. they used this very sophisticated rocket system to launch two rockets at that compound. something went wrong. they went about 300 yards offcourse. they hit a home, 12 civilians were killed, don....

Get to some headlines first and begin with the fox news alert. nato troops are moving forward with their offensive against the taliban in southern afghanistan today. they are preparing to link up with other -- excuse me, u.s. and afghan troops who have been airdropped into the area. u.s. commander in afghanistan, general stanley mcchrystal had this to say earlier. >> when president karzai approved the conduct of this operation, he gave us some very specific guidance and that guidance was to continue to protect the people of afghanistan. and so this operation has been done with that in mind. ...