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Soldiers against that hillside there. and they are conducting battle drills, react to ieds, react to ambushes and things like that. in terms of square of soldiers. exactly. they look organized. looks like a game of risk. that s me and lieutenant colonel mike lows at the kabul military training centers. brigadier general paterson from nato training center. many of those acres littered with dead soviet tanks. in fact, there are so many dead soviet tanks on this training ground, that they use heavy equipment to move them around, to make them into boundaries for various training grounds. the fact that the soviets used this spot for military training and the british before them used this spot for military training and now we re using it for military training is a bracing little reminder that we are not the first empire to try to swagger or stalk or slog through afghanistan. that said, some of the way we are slogging through is very 21st century. take, for example, efforts to count ....
Of 1,500 or 2,000, those are soldiers against that hillside there. and they are conducting battle drills, react to ieds, react to ambushes and things like that. in terms of square of soldiers. exactly. they city organized. looks like a game of risk. that s me and lieutenant colonel mike lows at the kabul military training centers. all 22,000 acres of that military training center. many of those acres littered with dead soviet tanks. in fact, there are so many dead soviet tanks on this training ground, that they use heavy equipment to move them around, to make them into boundaries for various training grounds. the fact that the soviets used this spot for military training and the british before them used this spot for military training and now we re using it for military training is a bracing little reminder that we are not the first empire to try to swagger or stalk or slog through afghanistan. that said, some of the way we are slogging through is very 21st century. take, for ....
The surrogate, the egg donor. it s a storevy about two guys and their journey to have a baby. it involves doctor visits, money and legal, time spent in courtrooms, legal battles. is there any part of them that wanted to do this to give other couples almost a manual for how to do this? i don t think that s what they were thinking when they went into this. we talked them into allowing us to document their journey. so i don t think that they were thinking that at all. i think now they say this will be something great to show their son one day. soledad o brien, gooed to see you as always. it s coming up tonight. we re looking forward to seeing it. gary and tony have a baby. tonight at 8:00 eastern here on cnn. also we re going to go globe-trekking. for a couple of guys who have been slogging around the grass at wimbledon for the past three ....
They have been slogging through areas that are very slow-paced. today they made it only a few hundred yards. so with all of those obstacles and the rules of engagement which say, even if a taliban fighter is in one of the buildings if they believe a civilian is inside, they are not supposed to fire. with the 12 civilians killed by american rockets over the weekend, that could make them even more cautious going forward. some are making comparisons to the alanbar province in iraq. you were there in 2004. i was there in 2005. i remember what was happening in fallujah as the u.s. was trying to clear out the situation. is this similar? good question. a lot of officers say they learned a lot from fallujah and that they don t want this to end up another fallujah. if you take a look, what we are seeing here let s see here ....
And that is not a cheap prospect. one official estimate it is costing $100 million every day in lost productivity. but the simple problem is, right here in front of the capitol even, even for people who want to get to work, there s just no way. as the blizzard ripped through, dropping at times two inches an hour, even snowplows were pulled off of the streets for safety now and then and the impassable roads made the commute into d.c. all but impossible. i had to strap on cross-country skis just to break out of my neighborhood, where many drifts are running chest-high. well, you can see getting out of the neighborhood is going to be tough at best. my skis are being buried in the snow and they are not real trail-breaking skis. so, i m going to keep slogging down this hill down here and then a bunch of uphills to go, maybe make it to the metro about ....