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Pressure on assad. >> amon, this is such a major change not only in damascus but the national security building in damascus, three defense officials including the brother-in-law. what is your impression from talking to people in syria? >> reporter: well, there's no doubt it is being described as a defining moment in the conflict with president bashar al assad psychologically and tactically. tactically you killed the minister of defense and his deputy, disrupted the command and control structure of the military which has really been the spear of the operations against protesters and countermeas...

off of a glacier this week and scientists say it is probably because of global warming, but too early to say for sure. ♪ >> oh children in south africa singing to nelson mandela on today, his 94th birthday. civil rights icon and south africa africa's first black president turns 94 on what is officially mandela day in the country. and what is most important today is what sis happening in syria and the most important development there. a bomb in damascus that killed four officials who were all part of the president's circle. the first man killed is the syrian defense minister who i...

>> all right. diane, and finally, a horse in kentucky in touch with his inner artist. the horse named justin. there you see him there. throwing around the paint brush a while back, now painting are just, they cannot keep them on the shelves. selling for hundreds of dollars. all the money going to help a local museum which is really nice. he liked to draw shapes in the sand with her whip. gave her a brush and justin started painting. can we get a better name than justin for that horse? three waiting for the same cycling and it is frustrated. a lot of frustrated people coming out. ...

counties across 26 states. the bone dry conditions are destroying farm crops and one analyst estimates that 75% of the corn crop in the drought region is now wiped out. that could drive up food and fuel prices across the entire country and brings us to rob marciano live in bu. >> we have corn that should be taller than it is right now because of the drought and because of the heat. this stalk should be well up and over my head. there's a couple of examples of ears of corn. this was tough to find, a decent one, what you would typically see in a healthy environment but this is what we'...

>> begin with knuckled politics and how the obama campaign framing the anniversary of the u.s. raid that killed osama bin laden. they're asking whether mitt romney would have issued the same order to secretly send u.s. forces into pakistan and based on something romney said back in 2007, team obama claims the former massachusetts governor's answer would be no. the new hampshire today the former massachusetts governor strongly took issue. >> ♪ >> would you have given the order, governor? >> even jimmy carter would have given that order. >> followed that answer a short bit later and ...