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I'm also here because after more than a decade of war, we're in -- the last year marked a major milestone. for the first time the armed forces took the lead to secure their own country. toted you're in a support role helping to train and assist afghan forces. for many of you this will be your last tour in afghanistan. and by the he wanted of this year the transition will be complete, and afghans will take full responsibility for their security, and our combat mission will be over. america's war in afghanistan will come to a responsible end.

I would imagine the experts in canberra would have discounted it straight away, had they had the piece of metal in their hands. >> pamela, you reported that the malaysians now are going to create an investigatory committee to look into this. what's taking so long? >> well, this was an expected step in the process, wolf, similar to what would happen in the u.s. if there was a crash here, a special committee would investigate the cause of the accident. important to sort of specify here, they're not looking into the criminal side of things. the police in malaysia are still taking a lead on that. ...

>> depressurization, 12,000 feet, most people could continue breathing pretty normally. at 12,000 feet, but i don't even see why you would raise that issue because we don't thinkerize arpressurization issue at this point. >> okay, only because when it was pitching up, you know, above 45,000, that's where the conversation went, but now, potentially, and again, fox news has not confirmed this, this is a report we're seeing and we'll do our own journalism to shore this up. let me now turn to the investigation itself, because the ntsb leads the world in its ability to look at these situations and ...

We can provide a level of assistance because we do have a very good laboratory if they do recover the data recorder, flight cockpit voice recorder. we have the fbi working on the computer hard drives from the pilots. so we're in a support role just like the australians are. they may be out front in examining or searching that part of the world that they've been given responsibility for. but they, too, are in a support role of malaysia. now with regard to the parts. once they get a high resolution picture, we may be able to tell if it's aircraft parts depending on the resolution. there are spec...

Growing in these rough, remote waters that are deeper than where air france 447 turned out to be. it's a mess. >> greg, i was hoping you could speak to that as well. if and when they are able to identify these pieces of debris, how will they go about confirming that this actually came from this airplane. and what is ntsb's role in all this? >> the ntsb, like these other countries, they're technical advisers to the malaysians. the malaysians are responsible for the conduct of this investigation. and so the united states and australia and other countries are all in a support role. we're all prov...