it's not going to happen down in helmand province. just because they just don't have that capability. they don't have the leadership. they don't have the capability to orchestrate that kind of an attack. they don't have the capacity because the number of insurgents are not the same as they were two years ago. so i believe that this -- and we'll see pretty soon because the harvest is about to begin. it will take another 30 days. i do believe the afghan national security forces, with their strong capability of gathering intelligence at the human level, that it's a very powerful intelligence, and they'll know ahead of time. and then you combine that with the support of the local nationals. it's going to be very hard for them to swim among the local nationals. because they're not getting the support. so i believe that -- and we'll see. if it's correct, what will happen, though, going back to your first question, is as the main effort does shift, because the hakani network has gotten a lot of attention. the hakani network is a network that

because 12th corps -- as you know, helmand province has pakistan and iran as its borders. helmand and nimruz. on the pakistani border is a place called barum-cha. i know for a fact drugs are moving out through pakistan and lethal aid is coming in on a regular basis. barum-cha is a long way away from the helmand river valley. so in order to provide forces down there to interdict, stop that, it detracts, takes away from efforts that i'd like to be working in upper helmand river valley. if i had 12th corps, if i had the pakistani army support, to at least conduct patrols along the border and limit the amount of movement across, it would really help. that's been my focus. but i haven't been able to really get that kind of support. >> thanks, general. another example of how critical pakistan is to this effort. second row. viola. >> thank you. bloomberg news. general, couple questions. one, you mentioned that it's really important to sideline the sort of actors that you were referring to in -- who is a senator now. how do you think is the most effective way to do that? and how di

that serves as a great statement in helmand province -- helman province for us. i think their strategic partnership between afghanistan and the coalition has had challenges. the big ones are the night raids and detention operations. the president of afghanistan has been working hard to cut out night raids. what we have done to satisfy a desire by the president is that we have taken u.s. forces out of the conduct of might rates and put them in an advisor-trainer will. we're still doing night raids. ,e're doing them with commandos the interdiction unit guys. we had a rate several months ago it was done by an niu that was trained by dea agents. that is how we're doing the night raids. we're not conducting them. we are in any supervisory and -- we are in a supervisory role. the problem is we have insurgents from detention operations that do not fall under the criminal investigative line. it is difficult to allow those insurgents, to turn them over to the afghan government. one area that requires continued attention is the rule of law. the whole system for criminal in

that serves as a great statement in helmand province for us. we've got it. we're here. i think that the strategic partnership you refer to in the beginning between the afghanistan and the coalition has had some challenges. the two big ones are obviously night raids and the tension operations. i think that the president of afghanistan has been working very hard to cut out night raids. what we have done in order to satisfy that desire by the president is, in effect, we have taken u.s. forces out of the actual conduct of the night raids and put them in an adviser trainer role. so helmand province we will conduct night raids almost every night. we're still doing night raids. we're doing night raids with commandos. we're doing night raids with the narcotics interdiction unit that was mentioned earlier. in fact, we just had -- we had a raid several months ago where it was done by the niu. it was advised and trained by a couple of dea agents that were with them. that's how we're doing the night rates. we're not conducting them anymore. we're just in a supervisory/adviser role.

that serves as a great statement in helmand province for us. i think that the strategic partnership that you are referring to in the beginning between afghanistan and the coalition has had some challenges. the two big ones are obviously night raids and detention operations, and i think that the president of afghanistan has been working very hard to cut out the night raids. what we have done in order to satisfy that desire is in effect we've taken the u.s. forces out of the actual conduct and put them in an adviser role so in helmand province we were conducting them almost every night and we still are. we are doing them with commandos, with the narcotics and addiction unit guys that were mentioned earlier, and in fact, we just had a parade of several months ago done by the am i you who was the finest and trained by a couple of the agents. that's how we are doing them. we are not conducting them anymore. we are just in the supervisory role. as far as the operations that's the one that's been the the bigger challenge, and the problem is that we ha

in helmand province for example, the casualties for u.s. forces has dropped dramatically, but the casualties on the afghan side has increased dramatically. it shows the fact that yes the afghans are now in the lead in many of the districts and they are responsible for the security, but those sacrifices are important as we owe both the afghan and the coalition forces, we owe it to them to make sure we stay the course as we are making great arborist. it's not perfect. we tried to bring up some of the hiccups but it's on track and it's moving. and so hopefully between the discussions that we have and others, we will get some supporters to stay the course. >> we have time for one more question. >> thank you. roger kirk, atlanta council. my question is, what kind of training and support do you expect we will need after 2014, and what are the prospects you see a fat? >> i think there are some areas that the afghans will not be able to build capability or capacity over the next two years and so they are going to need our support. as i mentioned ea

we just turned over the leadership of the marines in helmand province. command was given to general gainous. the night before was a huge dinner hosted by the provincial governor. i'm confident that you have met them on your many visits in there. at that dinner at that night with all the commanders and the leadership there, there was -- there was much discussion, almost to the point of tears, as the general recanted the last 13 months of general tullen's time in afghanistan in the helmand province. so they talked about how the marines saved the lives of his soldiers. how marines died saving the lives trying to retrieve a drowning afghan soldier. we have not seen the level of violence in helmand that we have seen in other places. my sense is that it's a result of strong relationships, a level of confidence. doesn't mean they're not going to be things that are going to happen, senator, you know this. but i will tell you that there is a great amount of confidence between the afghan national security forces, the provincial governor, the leadership, the prt te

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services were held in the helmand province. they will be transferring authority to afghan forces by 2014. mike wallace, one of the most respected journalists after decades on "60 minutes" has died. he was 93 years old. we take a look back at his life and legacy. >> i am mike wallace. >> he was known for his hard- hitting journalistic style and aggressive questioning. >> how many blacks are on your campaigns death? >> but decades before millions of television viewers watched him on cbs news, mike wallace already had a colorful career. he was born in massachusetts in 1918. after graduating from the university of michigan, he started his career in radio. he worked as a radio host, and that landed him a spot in television as an actor in a police drama, as a program host, and even in commercials. >> that is some apple pie. >> but his love for news led him to drop that type of work in 1963, when cbs news hired him as a correspondent. >> the president of china. >> his feisty style made him a good fit for the network's new magazine sho

panels, the ability to recharge your radio batteries while you're pumping along a ridge line in helmand province. that's what sold it for the marines. the other thing, all of a sudden, they went from being 120 degrees outside in their shelters and now, just with a little bit of ingenuity and some of the energy initiatives, you can actually walk inside these things and it may be 87 degrees, but it might as well be, you might as well be at the north pole. that's what these kids feel like. so they have really gotten into it and it's exciting from my perspective, we're just on the cusp of it. i think there's so much more we can do and we're dedicated to doing that. >> thank you very much. my time is up, but i just want as a final comment, you'll not be surprised to hear that i'm also concerned about our four public shipyards and the fact that this year's military construction budget does not again contain much needed dollars for the portsmouth naval shipyard and we have requests for modernization report that we, senator collins and i included in the defense authorization bill last year and it's due

one of the attacks happened just outside police headquarters in the helmand province.t least four officers were killed. five more wounded. a group of suicide bombers blew up a truck outside a district province in the herad province. >>> today is the deadline for syria to withdraw its troops from towns and halt the 13-month crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators but activists do not see any signs of a cease-fire as military attacks are reported in towns across the country. a u.n.-brokered plan called for a cease-fire after the u.n. estimates more than 9,000 people have been killed in the one-year uprising against al assad. >>> north korea announcing tld it will be ready to launch its controversial long-range rocket as planned. it said all preparations will be made by the end of today. a top government official telling foreign journalists in pyongyang that everything is on track for a launch between april 12th and 16th. the international community is condemning the planned launch, of course. the major concern here is a secret nuclear test. john, though, north korea ins

the helicopter had been called to help the injured after a suicide attack in the helmand province. >>> two years ago today, the deepwater horizon explosion in the gulf of mexico triggered one of the biggest oil spills in u.s. history. this week, lawyers submitted a plan to settle more than 100,000 legal claims that followed. fishing and tourism are recovering in the area. but scientists say an unknown amount of oil is still lurking in the gulf. and environmental effects are still unfolding. >> heard yesterday about the some of the effect bs it's having an fish and shrimp. >> deformed crabs and shrimp. it's scary. far from over. >> it's not good. >>> time, now, for the weather from across the kags. stormy in texas, with golf ball-sized hail and 70-mile-per-hour winds from corpus christi to houston. rain from dallas into little rock, detroit and the ohio valley. sunny and warm in the northeast. thunderstorms from knoxville to the carolinas and miami. mountain snow in the northern rockies. showers in the pacific northwest. >> 55 in seattle. and a hot 95 in phoenix. 58 in minneapolis. and

later, seven policemen were killed in two suicide attacks in southern helmand province. secretary of state hillary clinton issued a stark warning to north korea today to think twice about conducting a long- range rocket launch, which she said would be a direct threat to regional security. the regime, however, has dismissed concerns that the satellite launch, which could happen as soon as thursday, is a cover for developing missile technology. our correspondent has gained rapid access to north korea, then he sends us this report from north korea. and a vast, empty streets -- >> vast, empty streets. welcome to the world's last stalinist state, preparing a party for its debt but eternal president. even the walls are being watched. it is like traveling back in time. today, we were whisked past grim-looking villages and people toiling by hand in their fields to be shown this. 1000-hectare fruit farm, all perfect rows. it is the way north korea wants to be seen. a modern socialist miracle. she says she is very happy working here, and it is thanks to the leaders, the kim family

the military confirms a black hawk went down while in a mission in the southern helmand province. the helicopter was responding to a suicide attack at a local police check point. no word on the exact cause of the crash, but there was bad weather in the area. >>> police forensics teams remain at the scene of a lower manhattan apartment building right now, looking for clues into the decades-old missing child case. clues have emerged that may mean a break in the mysterious disappearance of the 6-year-old boy who disappeared in 1979 while walking to a bus stop two blocks from his home in soho. his case garnered so much national attention, he became the first missing child to appear on a milk carton. new york police say new tips led them to the site where they're now digging and cadaver dogs recently picked up the scent of human remains. >>> talk about possible takeover could take off at american airlin airlines. the company's three major unions are now set for a merger by rival usairways. the move would amount to a hostile takeover of americans. some analysts question whether the unio

martinez died on thursday in afghanistan's helmand province. it was his second tour of duty there.s parents received his remains at the dover air force base in delaware over the weekend. chicago area residents might be able to go camping next year... right here in cook county. the forest preserve is looking at plans to open up some areas of the county's 68-thousand acres of forest preserve to campers. campers used to be allowed in the preserve... they could even build their own cabins. but that stopped in 19-29 when it got out of hand with littering and overcrowding. now, the forest preserve is looking at options for campers... including security, and on-site staffing. a record number of families were expected to sign up on line for summer day camps and other programs at the chicago park district. there have been a number of complaints from people waiting a long time for processing on the website. but it handled the volume. at eleven thirty -- there were 7,600 completed registrations. the website is www.chicagoparkdistrict.com in person registration begins on saturday the 14th. if

four american troops were killed when the army blackhawk went down in the helmand province, which is in southwest afghanistan. defense officials say the crew was responding to a suicide attack at a police checkpoint. the military has not ruled out the possibility that enemy fire also contributed to the crash. >>> and we're learning more about one of the secret supervisors forced from their job in the wake of the agency prostitution scandal. his name is david chaney and he was assigned to protect sarah palin during the 2008 election. police kept reporters away from chaney's home yesterday and greg stokes is also out of a job. the attorney says neither man left involuntarily. lawmakers say more people connected to the scandal could step down or be let go today. meanwhile, the white house is standing by the director of the secret service, mark sullivan. >>> election day is less than seven months away now. and president obama holds a sizeable lead over mitt romney in the latest nbc news/"wall street journal" poll. the president leads the presumptive gop nominee 49-43%. the news isn't all

military the four were on their site to a suicide bombing in the helmand province.transporting them to a nearby hospital. we don't know what brought the helicopter down but bad weather is most likely the cause. the taliban did post responsible on its english website saying they shot down the black hawk with a grenade. the u.s. sources are casting doubt on the claim and the taliban is known to claim responsibility for things they didn't do in the fast. back here at home u.s. service members who served in iraq at the tail end of that war are continuing to trickle home months after the war ended in december. this was the scene this week in minnesota with 80 u.s. soldiers coming home from kuwait. these men and women were responsible for escorting the con voups convoys of supplies and thousands of our american troops leaving iraq and crossing over into kuwait. over the next few weeks nearly 3,000 of these troops from the 34th infantry red bulls will be coming home to minnesota. they were part of the single largest deployment since world war ii. and it is because of those

later, in the south, two more bombers blew themselves up outside a police station in helmand province. the taliban claimed responsibility for both attacks. in yemen, army officials reported heavy fighting between al qaeda militants and government forces has killed 127 people in two days. it started monday in the town of lawder in abyan province, which sits on a strategic highway. today the fighting spread along the borders of two more provinces, shadwa and marib. the european human rights court has ruled that britain may legally extradite terror suspects to the u.s. among them is egyptian-born cleric abu hamza al-masri. the one-eyed radical is suspected of trying to set up an al-qaeda training camp in oregon. the european court rejected claims that their rights would be violated in the u.s. justice system. but a court official said they can still appeal the ruling. >> he now has three months to ask for the case to go to the chamber. if and when the judgment does become final it means that as far as the european court of human rights is concerned they can be extradited to the u.s. >> s

the military confirms that black hawk went down while on a mission in the southern helmand province. leaders in the area say the helicopter was on its way to respond to a suicide attack on the local police check point. no word on the exact cause of the crash, but there was bad weather in the area at the time. >>> 6:15, uc davis has a new police chief this morning. the university's chancellor swore in interim chief matthew carmichael in as the new head of the department yesterday. now carmichael believes rather he replaces chief annette spacuzza. >> i promise you to expect nothing but professional and excellent service which we have always given and will continue to give. >> carmichael will have the year for one year while a national search is launched for a permanent replacement. >>> it is 6:15 right now. giants back in action tonight. barry zito gets a start. pitching a complete game shutout. follow that up with a solid appearance last saturday against the pirates. tonight's game starts at 4:15. >>> a's are back in the bay area wrapping up a four-game series with the angels. suzuki

army blackhawk that went down in helmand province in bad weather. it was en route to the site of a suicide bombing at an afghan police checkpoint. the presidential candidates in france wrapped up their campaigning today ahead of sunday's first-round election. socialist francois hollande is the current front-runner in the ten-candidate field. incumbent nicolas sarkozy has been hurt by high unemployment, but in nice today, he argued his policies kept things from getting even worse. >> look simply across the borders right next to us, to what has happened to countries whose governments have not wanted to make the choices that needed to be made when they needed to be made. is there one frenchmen who wished for france, the current situation in greece, portugal, spain, ireland, iceland? >> the top >> sreenivasan: the top two vote-getters in sunday's voting will meet in a run-off on may 6. in syria, there was more heavy shelling of the embattled city of homs today, leaving a u.n. cease-fire in tatters. government troops blasted away at two rebel-held neighb

we're going to pull out two-thirds of the marines in helmand province and turn the rest over to afghanead this is going to be the first time we will know for sure whether the afghan national security forces are up to the task. we think they are. but as i told one of the afghan generals who will take over in kandahar province in july, i said the truth is, you don't know whether you're going to be able to do it and neither do i, nor does anybody else here, but we're going to find out in a few months whether you're going to be able to sustain the gains that have been made. and listen. they're not just showing up there. they've been in the fight all along, with nato forces, since we went in there in 2010. jenna: sounds like an important time to keep our eye open on a lot of different things. general keene, thank you. we're going to have a story in a little bit on this one soldier that caught our attention, travis mill, i mention his name because you need to know his story, coming up on "happening now" in ten minutes. rick: a team of u.n. observers arriving in syria today, they're there to

helicopter in afghanistan were killed when the chopper crashed on thursday in that country's helmand province. initial reports indicate that poor weather may have caused the crash. >>> a bird flying into a plane's right side engine shortly after takeoff forced a jetliner to make an emergency landing in new york. take a look at this cell phone video taken by passenger grant cordone. it shows birds flying into the engine. it rattled the flight. he filmed his version of this ordeal. >> plane shook, i felt we were coming down, i choked from the video, and closed it. and went to grab my phone to see if i had reception because i was really calling my wife to say, hey, this might be my last flight. i was that scared. >> the delta flight to los angeles was carrying 179 people and the pilot managed to land the plane safely at jfk airport. >>> they definitely needed a bigger boat. two mexican fishermen couldn't believe what they caught in their net. that right there is a 2,000 pound great white shark. lucky for them, it was already dead when they found it. another boat towed them back to shore and it t

served this the united states marine exoarmt on april 12, lance corporal taro was killed in hell helmand province, afghanistan. in a memorial service will be held saturday to honor his self-sacrifice and he'll be laid to rest in his native liberia. when he was 7 years old, he left liberia and started a new life in the united states. he was one among thousands of liberians who came to the united states seeking safety from a civil war. we are proud that so many of these brave individuals and families now call rhode island their home and our state continues to be enriched by this strong community. lance corporal taro enlisted in the united states marine corps in june, 2009. he was other than-on his second deployment to afghanistan, assigned to the second bat battalion, second marine division of the second marine expeditionary force, serving as a mortar man and had additional duties as a military dog handler. each generation of americans has called upon to protect and sustain our democracy. and among our greatest here are the men and women who have worn the uniform of our nation and have sacrificed f

there are a couple of bases in helmand province.ll but they run almost entirely on solar technology. >> i think it is fascinating. they don't have a green agenda. >> not at all. >> they have a cost-saving agenda an efficiency agenda and that really i think is the answer. yes, folks are going to have a green agenda but there seems to me, there is a way this is a model from the pentagon of all places, we can't get the democrats to take action on it. >> bill: it is a green agenda in the terms of saving money agenda. it is green green if you will. >> here's what's difficult about it. some of these technologies are more expensive at the outset and so -- >> bill: that's the point. >> the pentagon has to make the case to congressional appropriators who control the purse strings, it is worth while to buy these technologies at the outset because you're going to save money you know, over five or ten years and not having the fuel costs which is the same -- >> bill: there are also certain economies of scale. >> yes. >> bill: which the economy -

the police are feared and hated in the south and for good reason. 90% of crime in helmand province ishe good news. it's no wonder that the pashtuns are saying, if you want us to choose between the taliban and these guys, we choose the taliban. >> well, because we know you're going to leave, and the taliban will still be here. even though they hate the taliban. >> they don't all hate the taliban. the taliban in the south are not the taliban of 2001. they are just angry local farmers who want the foreigners and the corrupt afghan government out of their backyard. that's who we're fighting. >> you say the taliban are angry local farmers. i had somebody very high up in the united states government tell me a year ago that the taliban are just pissed off pashtuns, and they have been there since the time of alexander the great and they will be there long after we leave. so how do we win that war? >> well, you don't win it by enforcing an unwanted -- to them, the northern alliance, who control the police, the army, and the intelligence. and i think the biggest mistake we made was in the rush

eight policemen were killed in the southern province of .ellman's -- helmand and nine people were killed in an explosion outside a district headquarters. a court-appointed psychiatrist in norway determine the man who killed 77 people into an attack from the country last year, anders breivik, is sane. an earlier evaluation said he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. both assessments will be continued at his trial, which begins next week. a chinese court sentenced the stable -- disabled activists ni yulan to prison for creating trouble and destroying property. her husband received a shorter sentence. they are known for providing legal help for people whose homes have been seized by the government. 5 terrorism suspects living here in britain have lost their battle to avoid extradition to the united states. they include the radical cleric who is facing 11 terrorism- related charges. and also another, accused of raising money for terrorist groups. and two men allegedly involved in u.s. embassy bombings in kenya and tanzania in 1998. the ruling is that suspects must not be treated inhumanely

helicopter in afghanistan were killed when the chopper crashed on thursday in that country's helmand province. initial reports indicate that poor weather may have caused the crash as the blackhawk raced to the site of a suicide bombing. >>> a bird flying into a plane's right side engine shortly after takeoff forced a jetliner to make an emergency landing in new york. this cell phone video taken by passenger grant cordone shows birds flying into the engine. the pilot managed to land the plane safely pat jfk airport. >>> a plane circling for hours crash into the gulf of mexico on thursday. the strange flight path caused concerns and two fighter jets scrambled intercept the plane but could not see the pilot in the cox pill. the windows were iced over. the coast guard is now searching the wreck site for him. >>> they definitely needed a bigger boat. two mexican fishermen couldn't believe what they caught in their net. that right there is a 2,000-pound great white shark. lucky for them, it was already dead when they found it. another boat towed them back to shore and it took 50 bystanders to get t

have inflicted heavy damage on the taliban in the southern and eastern provinces of afghanistan, and many areas and strongholds in helmand, kandahar, and other provinces have been lost. despite all of their destructive efforts, they have not been able to recapture the ground that we took away from them and the refuge we deny them. dear friends, we do have information that shows a great weakening of the taliban's strength during the past two years, and this group, in order to continue war and violence, is facing a great threat to its war-witching hours. i firmly believe that during the next year, alongside the concentration and focus given to the transition process, we must redouble our efforts on military pressure and focus our efforts on the reintegration process, and also worked very hard on the road to a long lasting peace. a great deal of pressure must also be brought to bear on the sources and resources given to the taliban. and we must redouble our efforts and focus on fighting against the institutionalize crime, as well as the rule of law and good governance. and given all of these efforts, if we are successful, t