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Hiding place, a police officer helps a terrified woman and her young children get up and scurry through the mall to safety. and this. what's now gaping cavern where -- part of the mall collapsed. cars dangling on the edge. 61 civilians, six security officers, five terrorists died in the siege. officials say the death toll will rise as bodies are recovered from the rubble. here is a question. could americans face a similar threat here at home? brian todd has been investigating all of this. he is joining us live. what are you seeing? >> that attack exposed the vulnerabilities of shopping malls. ...

Captured a high value target? >> i'm not sure when the last time was. i think what the president is expressing is when we are able to capture these high value detainees we can gather intelligence from them and that helps us protect the country. that is always to be preferred. obviously sometimes that's not always possible when you have high value targets in dangerous places as they most often are and it would risk american lives to put boots on the ground to try to capture them. oftentimes it's simply not possible but when we can, that is the preferred practice so that we can gain intelligence...

It's not an indiscriminate program. indiscriminate is really misrepresenting what's happening here. despite the violence and difficult of this, there haven't been that many people killed by drones compared to the pakistani military in pakistan or the taliban. this goes for yemen, as well, drones are happening in an ecosystem of violence. >> josh, it's not a game of who's going to kill more, whether it's the drones or military. this is misrepresentation. we actually know the high value targets in pakistan are no more than 2%. we don't know beyond that who it is we are killing. >> what we do kno...

Like civilians are happy and there's no killing going on, but it's not an indiscriminate program. indiscriminate is really misrepresenting what's happening here. despite the violence and difficult of this, there haven't been that many people killed by drones compared to the pakistani military in pakistan or the taliban. this goes for yemen, as well, drones are happening in an ecosystem of violence. >> josh, it's not a game of who's going to kill more, whether it's the drones or military. this is misrepresentation. we actually know the high value targets in pakistan are no more than 2%. we don'...

Who's going to kill more, whether it's the drones or military. this is misrepresentation. we actually know the high value targets in pakistan are no more than 2%. we don't know beyond that who it is we are killing. >> what we do know is the statistics in this case are attached to individuals and human beings, and one of the things we all can do in the aftermath of the horror in boston is how people feel in the aftermath of watching death of an innocent person, how we all feel about the people who we know who died there and know that feeling everyone around the world feels when they watch someo...