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Carry it live. also on the agenda, a prime time speech on tuesday to discuss the formal end to u.s. combat mixe missions in iraq. u.s. troop strength dropped below 50,000 this past week. the president says remaining troops will assume a backup and training role. folsom state prison and lockdown and could remain that way for weeks. police are investigating a code three riot that took place in the prison yard. earl has strengthened into a category one hurricane and is heading to several islands in the eastern caribbean. danielle is causing dangerous rip currents on the u.s. east coast. those...

Its own forces. that means u.s. forces and the other international coalition forces here will be able to step into the background, into a more training role. it is a very optimistic goal. the police here remain a very corrupt force and seen as such by the afghan people. and the army here remains too small and too weak to really take over security. nonetheless, u.s. is hoping that this will turn into a date that everybody is looking forward to and everybody works towards so that u.s. troops can slowly begin to move out of the country beginning next summer. now, just one more note about this con...

Arrangements that we have, responsible draw-down that is taking place. the iraqi security forces have continued to improve. we will continue that training role with them through 2011. we'll continue to do counter terrorism operations with them. but we are pretty much on schedule. >> greta: we are on track to do our draw-down and leave. there continues to be violence there. you hear terrible stories about being people blown up by suicide bombers. >> sure, and it is clear it is al-qaeda. al-qaeda trying to come back. trying to show they still matter. trying to turn the sunnis again the governmen...

Arrangements that we have, responsible draw-down that is taking place. the iraqi security forces have continued to improve. we will continue that training role with them through 2011. we'll continue to do counter terrorism operations with them. but we are pretty much on schedule. >> greta: we are on track to do our draw-down and leave. there continues to be violence there. you hear terrible stories about being people blown up by suicide bombers. >> sure, and it is clear it is al-qaeda. al-qaeda trying to come back. trying to show they still matter. trying to turn the sunnis again the governmen...

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