diane sawyer is traveling with the defense secretary in the region. he told her no question the drone strikes have played a quote significant role in the war on terror. more on that in a moment. >>> first the drone strike itself and what we know tonight from mike boettcher in the region. >> reporter: if true, the killing of ilyas kashmiri will be a major blow to the post bin laden al qaeda network. news of his death quickly spread through a rally in pakistan called to protest american drone attacks. kashmiri, a contender to take over the leaderless al qaeda was one of the world's most wanted men. the u.s. placed a $5 million bounty on his head. >> this is one of the most important hits we could have succeeded in doing. >> reporter: a missile fired killed kashmiri in the region of south waziristan. last month's deadly attack against a pakistani naval base near karachi put him near the top of that country's most wanted list. india wanted him dead too. he was a planner of the vicious 2008 coordinated terrorist attack in mumbai that killed 163. and just w

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diane sawyer with the defense secretary in afghanistan.nd diane will be anchoring this broadcast, "world news," from afghanistan tomorrow night right here. >>> we turn now to the tense pictures from the israeli border with syria today. israeli troops killing at least 20 pro-palestinian demonstrators who tried to march into israel with their own message. alex marquardt is in israel tonight. alex? >> reporter: good evening, david. the pictures we've been monitoring all day are dramatic. protesters, mostly palestinian refugees, trying to cross in syria into land occupied by israel with bloody results. they marched by the hundreds, despite repeated warnings from israeli soldiers who responded with tear gas and live ammunition. the dead and wounded were carried back. but the protest continued. they're calling for the right to return to land now in israel. israel says today's demonstration was an attempt by syria's president to divert attention from the bloody crackdown and chaos in his own country. still the palestinian protesters say they've d

talking exclusively with diane sawyer.efense secretary robert gates on his final trip to after began stan in this role said today the main purpose of this visit is to personally thank the troops. and as he stood before them today, noting their sacrifice, he was choked up. >> i just want to come out here to thank you for the last time, for your service and for your sacrifice. more than anybody except the president, i'm responsible for you being here. >> reporter: while traveling exclusively with the defense secretary, diane has talked with troops from all over this country now in afghanistan. the defense secretary telling her, the toll on these troops, their families back home, has made him increasingly cautious over time. >> reporter: too cautious? >> yeah. >> reporter: how do you experience it when you're home at night? >> well, that's when i do the condolence letters. >> reporter: it's just too much. >> yeah. it's time. >> reporter: tomorrow night on "world news," more of her interview with gates, and three main question

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diane sawyer is there with the men advising the president. >>> good evening. i'm terry moran. i don't know what i was thinking. that's what democratic congressman weiner said today in a news conference in which he admitted tweeting an inappropriate photo to a woman over the internet. it was a breathtaking about-face from what weiner said last night here on "nightline." here's what he told abc's jonathan karl then. >> this is a twitter hoax. a prank that was done. i'm the victim of it. this poor girl is the victim. >> that didn't work so well. here is "20/20" anchor chris cuomo with the exclusive interview that set this all in motion today. >> i had made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people i care about the most and i'm deeply sorry. i've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. >> it was the last thing anthony weiner was expected to say a week into allegations of a congressman's online sexual exploits. but there he was, taking full responsible for something he had, until now, claimed was the result of computer h

. >> a mandatory evacuation was ordered for nearby sawyer as residents headed out, levees were shored up. local officials pronounced on saturday that they were holding only a handful of homes in sawyer damaged by the water. but in other areas, the misery is mounting, day by day, inch by inch. >> i moved here to be safe. and then the water started coming, so we moved again to the hills. so three times in three weeks. >> the overhead view of the area shows what the flooding has done, and the nightmare residents face after the waters recede. >> after everyone is safe, that's when things are going to start settling in, that's when things are going to start realizing what they're losing in this flood. >> brian mooar, nbc news. >>> still to come at 5:00, he fought in world war ii, 70 years ago, why is this 90-year-old veteran just now being honored? >>> a world war ii veteran who served nearly 70 years ago is finally being honored for his service. mackenzie wilson reports, the 90-year-old man now has the medals he earned during world war ii, medals he had never seen before. >> it was an awa

he traveled with diane sawyer and visited a troop baseboard pakistan. more the plans expected to pull out to begin this summer. >> with the war in afghanistan in the tend year, robert gates it's combat troops that should come home last. >> if it were up to meet i would leave the shooters for last. >> as he told diane sawyer, the central mission is combat and trigger pullers should be the last ones coming back. >>> from the thousands of troops in afghanistan and pakistan, had his final trip to the region, gates says it isn't nation building but the combat mission that could take top priority. >> i would look for support people that we no longer need. we have a lot of construction. i would maximize my combat capability as long as this process goes on. >> general david petraeus will offer a range of options on a withdrawal that begins in july and goes on over 18-24 months. >> i have confidence that we'll strike the right balance. it's really not so much about where you start but what is the next year and a half will look like. >> they expect to announce th

our own diane sawyer just had it on a supersecret u.s. military plane. wonder what they served for food onboard. >> probably better than what we get. i would imagine. >> it's to respond to a catastrophic attack. diane takes us onboard. >> reporter: eit feels like we'e inside a monsoon in singapore, as we run to meet defense secretary robert gates and get our first look inside night watch, the doomsday plane. think of it as an airborne ark. if a nuclear bomb hits the united states, the most powerful survivors will board this plane. the plane will take to the air so they can consider retaliation, assess the damage. the plane is on permanent high alert, the flight team sleeping nearby, ready to scramble in five minutes. so, everybody is standing by, ready to fly. >> all the time. constantly, there's at least one alert airplane waiting to get airborne. >> reporter: it has shields all alongside the walls. they are thermal radiation shields and electromagnetic pulse shields. in the event of a nuclear attack, this plane is defended. this plane can command a nuc

our diane sawyer has been traveling there with outgoing secretary of defense, robert gates, and general petraeus. they're offering the president several withdrawal options. mr. obama says now is the time, especially with the, quote, big chunk of the mission accomplished. >> with respect to afghanistan, i'll be making an announcement soon. what i said this summer is the summer of transition, where we start handing over more responsibility to the afghan government. i intend to follow through on that commitment i made to the american people. >> there are about 100,000 americans in afghanistan. that's three-times as many as when the president took office. >>> former imf head, dominique strauss-kahn pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulted a hotel maid. outside the courtroom, dozens of mads in their uniforms jeered the expert. >>> more high winds are fanning flames as a wildfire stretches all the way to iowa. 5 buildings and 230,000 acres have been destroyed so far. and thousands more people may be forced to evacuate. firefighting choppers have been forced to wait in the wings because the wi

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for diane sawyer and all of us at abc news, thanks for watching tonight.sure to check out "nightline" later. i'll see you tomorrow morning on "gma." have a good night. see you tomorrow morning on "good morning america." have a good night. >>> tonight a summer storm giving mean together phrase "june gloom". >> developing news. a new headline in the oscar grant shooting. we're live as bart reaches a settlement with his mother. >> and i'm michael finney with a law that could change your next rent acar. >> evidence after kus by a major pork supplier, what happens before it ends up on your dinner table. >>> a typical winter's day at the golden gate bridge, except it's the end of june. a summer rain storm roll as cross the bay area, good evening, everyone. today's storm turned out to be more than just a passing cloud or two. it brought down pours to a number of places including novato. san francisco got so much rain, this is now the second-wettest june on record. the weather also brought down the huge tree in the hays valley neighborhood you're looking at here,

/pakistan relations with diane sawyer who's in afghanistan. we'll have that later in the program. and this week, just as the race to the republican nomination shifts into high gear, the economy has dominated the headlines, and it makes the very grim reading. high gas prices, disruptions caused by the effort earthquake in japan and uncertainty about government debt made the road to recovery a rocky one. here's abc's john berman. >> reporter: the american road to recovery, just one month ago, along with the strongest private sector growth in five years until suddenly -- >> there will always be bumps on the road to recovery. >> reporter: bumps on jobs, 54,000 new jobs added last month, unemployment back up to 9.1%. bumps on manufacturing, new factory orders fell to the lowest level in two years, bumps in housing, a double dip in home prices all of the way down to 2002 levels, and if the economy hit a bump, for the white house, something else hit the fan. >> when you look at the extremely high unemployment numbers, they still aren't coming down as fast as they should. >> this is now h

he told diane sawyer. the commander should leave combat power intact. >> it is important as we did in iraq to have a strategy behind the numbers and not just pluck a single number out and say that is the number. >> the u.s. has been fighting the war in afghanistan for 10 years now. gate and it is obama administration are under pressure from members of congress to end the war that cost the u.s. 10 billion a month. gates understands the concern but said the u.s. can't afford to just pack up and leave either. they report tonight on world news at 5:30. >> unrest is esicating in the hot spots in the middle east. yemen. there is a fragile seize fire . on the syrian border, pro palestinian protesters clashed with soldiers. here's more in the flare ups in the spring. >> demonstrators filled up the yemen capitol today . their cause for celebration, the hasty departure of the long-time president they have been trying to oust for months. president saleh was secretly flown to saudi arabia this weekend after he was wou

our own diane sawyer is on the ground in afghanistan. she had a conversation with secretary of defense gates. about just that. let's listen to what he had to say. >> first of all, it has to be acknowledged that these drones have played a significant role in taking a lot of taliban leaders and trainers off the table. >> so how instrumental are these drone attacks, and how are they being received by the pakistanis? >> the cia says, look, this is the only game in town, the only way for us to get into the pakistani tribal areas because the pakistani military isn't doing it and the u.s. military isn't doing it. in pakistan it's very controversial. the government said, look, you doing this, you going into our airspace makes us look weak, and that makes the whole country more susceptible to militants who are trying to take over the government, but the fact is, the only way to go after kashmiri are drones. >> we appreciate your time. you've been on the forefront of this story. thank you so much for coming in, nick schifrin. of course, diane sawy

now people in the nearby small town of sawyer are being told to evacuate. >>> at least two people wereilled when a tractor trailer slammed into an amtrak train. this is the scene in sarino yesterday. it's not clear who was killed 200 people were on the train. >>> the judge in the casey anthony case called a recess this morning after having a discussion with the attorneys. >>> and both williams sisters make the last 16 at wimbeldon. this serena williams easily discatching maria kirilencareeks weekend. both have been away from the official tennis circuit due to health problems. >>> new york's new same-sex marriage law. just as the city's gay pride weekend was getting underway. david, it sounds like the gay community will have plenty to celebrate this weekend. >> that's right, fred, it is sort of ironic, the passage of this bill occurred on the same weekend as the pride weekend, it will meander down sixth avenue. it will meander past the stone wall in, what sparked really the beginning of the gay rights movement. new york now obviously being the most populous state is joining the list of

these traveled with diane sawyer and visited a troop base in a dangerous part of the country.that and the plan to pull out that is expected to begin this summer. >> with the war in afghanistan in the 10th year, defense secretary robert gates says it's combat troops who should come home last. >> i believe the shooters should be last. >> as he told diane sawyer, the central mission is combat and trigger pullers that should be the last one out. >> of the thousands of troops in afghanistan and pakistan, in his final trip to the region, it's a combat mission that should take top priority. >> i would look support people that we no longer need. we have a lot of construction and try to maximize my combat capability as long as this process goes on. >> general petraeus will offer a range of operations that starts in july and goes over 18-24 months. >> i have confidence we'll strike the right balance. it's not so much where you start but what is the next year and a half will look like. >> the obama administration is expected to announce plans in july. >> president obama will meet with se

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it's announced that diane sawyer will conduct the sbusmt she was abducted from her south lake tahoe area in 1991 and held captive and sexually assaulted in a bay area home. the two have been sentenced to life in prison. the interview can be seen here in the month of july shortly before her book is published. >> anthony wiener has called former bill clinton to apologize for his growing sexting scandal. he officiated to the personal aide last summer. they take a look whether the marriage could survive. >> abc7 has learned that she made one thing clear, she remains committed to her marriage. >> we're now learning from friends just how trying that marriage has been in the past few days. she initially believed his story that his twitter account was hacked and when the congressman finally came clean she was devastated, say friends, it was her decision not to stand by his side but she watched it on tv from new york. >> people that know her that she has been leaning on her sister a new york fashion designer but getting advice from hillary clinton who fails the painful sense of devadeja-vu. >> i

it's announced that diane sawyer will conduct the sbusmt she was abducted from her south lake tahoe area91 and held captive and sexually assaulted in a bay area home. the two have been sentenced to life in prison. the interview can be seen here in the month of july shortly before her book is published. >> anthony wiener has called former bill clinton to apologize for his growing sexting scandal. he officiated to the personal aide last summer. they take a look whether the marriage could survive. >> abc7 has learned that she made one thing clear, she remains committed to her marriage. >> we're now learning from friends just how trying that marriage has been in the past few days. she initially believed his story that his twitter account was hacked and when the congressman finally came clean she was devastated, say friends, it was her decision not to stand by his side but she watched it on tv from new york. >> people that know her that she has been leaning on her sister a new york fashion designer but getting advice from hillary clinton who fails the painful sense of devadeja-vu. >> i can sa

diane sawyer is there interviewing military leaders.dliest day there in two years. >>> back in this country, heavy winds are spreading one of the largest wildfires in arizona's history. smoke so thick people have to wear masks to breathe. 220 people have-- 2200 people have fled their homes. >>> the republican field in the white house just got bigger. former senator rick santorum announced here on "gma" this morning that he is running. he's known for his opposition to gay marriage and abortion. >>> the family of a missing student are asking for more help. our david wright is following her case. >> reporter: the last time anyone saw 26-year-old mick shell lee alive was when she took break from her job at this bay area hospital and never came back. that was may 27th ten days ago. her family is distraught. they're asking the fbi to take over the case. >> if the fbi helped getter back would be good. but the best thing is to have her walk through that door. i just want her back. >> reporter: that night, le told coworkers she was going to get

he told diane sawyer, commanders should leave combat in power intact. >> it is important to have a strategy behind the numbers, not just to pluck a single number out and say, okay, that's the number. >> the u.s. has been fighting wart in afghanistan for ten years. gates and the obama administration are under pressure from some members of congress to end the war that is costing the u.s. ten billion a month. he understands the concern but the u.s. can't just pack up and leave either. you can watch more of the interview. she reports tonight on world that airs at 5:30. >> rick santorum is the latest republican to announce he is running for president. he says he is ready to lead and do what is necessary for the next generation. he told supporters western pennsylvania that president obama has worked to undermine american freedom and pursue a healthcare plan that reduces individual choices. she hopefully going to capture the support of the tea party. >>> in new york, a woman is reported n critical condition in the hospital following a weekend accident where several inflated houses took flight. 13

he told abc diane sawyer commanders should leave combat power intact as long as possible to press down the taliban finance fencive >> it is important to have a strategy behind the numbers and not just pluck a single number out and say okay, that is the number. >> the u.s. has been fighting the war in afghanistan for 10 years at a cost of 10 billion dollars a month . gates briefed the president today from afghanistan. mr. obama is expected to announce the draw down plant. you can watch the interview with gates tonight. >> and coming up. a trade off for a chance to see u 2 to perform in the bay area. >> also, i haven't told the truth. congressman weiner holds a tearful news conference to explain the sex-ting indescretion. >> steve jobs has the benefits of taking apple to the cloud. >>im meteorologist sandhya patel. get ready to say farewell to the winter storm and holoto >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. the miracle on the hudson plane is on the move but without captain suli sullenberger in the cockpit. it is truck to north carolina and put on display in the avia

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. >> reporter: abc's diane sawyer asked bob woodward, author of "obama's wars" about the atmosphere at the time. the meetings. obama felt -- you're writing in a general way, too, but obama felt disrespected and trapped and at different times he felt that the military was maneuvering around him. did they think they could take a young president? >> some of them might have thought that. so the president, who is supposed to be the decider, who is supposed to have choice, and you've got these blocks of granite out there saying, oh, no, you really don't have a choice, this is the way to do it. and he was not happy. >> reporter: do you think there has been a transformation of sorts with the president since that time? >> he's grown in the sense that, you know, the more you make these decisions, the more you deal with military commanders, the more you feel the weight of the oval office. you grow. as a result, he feels comfortable and confident that he's making the right decisions. >> reporter: while tonight's decision about troops may have been easier, the timing of it couldn't be more critical

in sawyer, it was a scramble. >> we need to get the rest of the sandbags to the back of the house. >> reporter: sawyer residents, seeing what was happening in minot, were forced to evacuate with the determination to wall off of the water. >> cowboy's corner, trying to save my business. what are you doing? come on. let's go. >> reporter: honey was not going to let her steakhouse flood. some of her customers brought truck loads of dirt and built a five-foot berm. you think it can all go if you don't get the berm built? >> i don't know. if not, it's just dirt. >> reporter: water barriers were filled by the national guard. the brandt family was in danger of being cut off. >> seems they're building this dike up pretty high around here. >> reporter: this is just instant moving, the fastest you can go? >> the fastest way to wake up i've ever had. >> reporter: just up the road. harriet was cut off by the rising water. is it time that you get out? >> i don't know. if i don't get out now, i'm not going to get out at all. >> reporter: but for bill and ruth bender, the water has already filled th

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diane sawyer shows us what it is like inside and how it can withstand a nuclear attack. >> think of it bomb hits the united states most powerful survivors will board this plan plane. plane will take to the air so they can consider retaliation. assess the damag damage. the plane is on permanent high alert. flight team sleeping nearby ready to scramble in 5 minutes. >> everybody standing by. ready to fly. >> all the time. constantly there's at least one alert airplane wait to go get airborne. >> has shields all along the walls thermal radiation shield, in the event of nuclear attack this plane. >> it can travel 40 miles per hour faster than the commercial counter part at 6 20 miles per hour. and it never has to land to refuel. fichlt what is the calculation of how long this plane could stay up and surviving it is classified but it stays. sfivrjs plane was last airborne in crisis situation during the 9/11 attacks. in the center of the plane a flying command post. teen woman engaged in real time worldwide surveillance from the plane. this could command retaliation big on electronic and sho

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and in an exclusive interview with diane sawyer on the ground there he says it e he knows it is time him to go. david muir has the story. >> reporter: defense secretary robert gates on his final trip to afghanistan in this role said the main purpose of the visit to personally thank the troops and as he stood before them, noting their sacrifice, he was choked up. >> i just want to come out here to thank you for the last time for your service and for your sacrifice. more than any body, except the president, i am responsible for you being here. >> reporter: while traveling exclusively with the defense secretary, diane has talked with troops all over the country now in afghanistan. the defense secretary telling her the toll on the troops, their families back home, has made him increasingly cautious over time. >> reporter: too cautious? >> yeah. >> reporter: how do you experience it when you are home at night? >> well that is when i do the condolence letters. >> reporter: it's just too much. >> reporter: yeah. it's time. >> reporter: more of her interview and three main questions answered

working with john bender, charlie gibson, the tradition carried on by diane sawyer, it was a particular piece that she thought was powerful. you're given a license to do these stories and spend some time to try to bring them home . that story touched me in a way. that gang member was so direct. he was so honest. have you been shot at? yes. have you shot at people? yes. i thought i brought them home to people. imagine living in a neighborhood where that guy is walking around. while the country is dealing with the economic issue, there is a whole other side that some communities are dealing with. >> tell us as much as you can about the mechanics of doing something like that? where do use it every day on a normal day, week basis at abc? >> i have an office a few blocks from the white house. what i tried to do is talk to sources on the phone. and visit people. that particular story, we got it by talking with law enforcement officials. i had done a previous story with the u.s. marshals on how they have been able to drive down crime in certain communities by focusing on what they call "the wo

a reminder, diane sawyer is on the ground in afghanistan. she'll be reporting on "good morning america" and tonight on "world news." >>> tensions high this morning on the border of syria and the golan heights. thousands of people marched yesterday and drew fire from troops. at least 20 people were killed. the protest marked an anniversary. >>> high winds and lightning are fuelling a wildfire in arizona. cruise are making very little headway. the third largest fire in state history. >> reporter: fires have burned through nearly 400 square miles. more thanthe 2,000 people have been forced to flee their homes. >> it was frightening. unbelievable. the expansion of the smoke. >> reporter: there are two large fires burning. the smoke has spread to new mexico and colorado. prompting warnings for people with respiratory problems to stay indoors. the fires continue to spread. hundreds of people in the potential path have been told to get ready to leave. >> it's scary. i see black smoke and i panic. >> our thanks to dave muir. we'll have a live update

he told diane sawyer commanders should leave combat in power intact. >> it is important to have a strategy behind the numbers not just to pluck a single number out and say okay, that's the number. >> the u.s. has been fighting wart in afghanistan for ten years. gates and the obama administration are under pressure from some members of congress to end the war that is costing the u.s. ten billion a month. he understands the concern but the u.s. can't just pack up and leave either. you can watch more of the interview. she reports tonight on world that airs at 5:30. >> rick santorum is the latest republican to announce he is running for president. he says he is ready to lead and do what is necessary for the next generation. he told supporters western pennsylvania that president obama has worked to undermine american freedom and pursue a healthcare plan that reduces individual choices. she hopefully going to capture the support of the tea party. >>> in new york a woman is reported n critical condition in the hospital following a weekend accident where several inflated houses took flight. 13 peo

i'm diane sawyer with george stephanopoulos at abc news headquarters in new york. we are awaiting the president, who is about to speak about troop withdrawals in afghanistan. george and i were saying, there is one graphic that says it all. take a look. for ten years now, we have watched the numbers of troops in afghanistan skyrocket, spiral and skyrocket again. tonight, the president saying no more. >> this is the turn point. 10,000 troops home by the end of this year. 23,000 more by the end of next summer. that's right before the election. but that will leave twice as many troops there as when president obama took office, at a time when congress and the public are clamoring for the troops to come home. >> they are. incredible numbers across the spectrum, too. we will be watching to see how the president answers two questions americans always ask. are we winning, and it is worth it? are we safer at the end of the day? and, the president is going to be speaking in the east room, he's going to be walking in -- >> the last time we spoke there, it was the night he anno

diane sawyer and george stephanopoulos will be here with live coverage and analysis.p.m. eastern, 7:00 central. >>> former house speaker newt gingrich says his presidential campaign continues despite its second shake-up this month. this time gingrich's top two fund-raising advisers resigned. word is they stepped down because gingrich's campaign is at least $1 million in debt. earlier this month, 16 of gingrich's top advisers resigned at the same time. >>> first lady michelle obama continues her visit to south africa where she delivers a keynote speech today at a leadership forum for young women. mrs. obama and her daughters had an unscheduled meeting with nelson mandela yesterday. when they visited him the 92-year-old former president sent word that he wanted to meet them. now the first lady's mother was also there to meet mandela. >>> another violent scene in greece after lawmakers gave the embattled prime minister a vote of confidence. police set off tear gas and used stun grenades to keep a few hundred protesters away from the parliament buildings in athens. the vo