abad abad was 162 miles there, but the complexity of the mission we have done and both in iraq and afghanistan much more complex missions. the real credit in the bin laden raid goes, as i said before, to the president, his national security team and the central intelligence agency and the national security agency and those in the intelligence agency that located the compound and the president making the tough decisions for us to go do the mission. i am very proud of my guys. i think they did a marvelous job, but this mission was something that we had been trained and, obviously, all of these seals were hand-picked to do the job and they had been on many missions before. i won't call it routine. nothing about it was routine, but it was not the hardest part of the bin laden raid. the hardest part was the decision by the president and the intel community -- >> rose: and the day the helicopters lifted off, they did not know if he was there. >> no, we did not. this was part of the intel buildup. we were trying to figure out whether or not -- >> rose: hadn't been confirmed? >> right. there were arguments on both sides as to whether or not it was bin laden. so we split it down the middle and thought it was a 50/50 chance. the president called me on friday. we had thought about doing the mission on saturday, but we had weather in a couple of the valleys so i elected to roll the mission 24 hours. friday he called me in afghanistan, said what do you think, i told him 50/50 and said we'll get him if he's there and if not we'll come home. >> rose: is that what you told him, that's what we do, ride a helicopter, go somewhere, get people and come back. >> if you look at the profile in afghanistan and to a lesser degree iraq, but afghanistan because of the distances, most of our missions were seals, delta operators, rangers, special forces, getting in helicopters, going to the target, patrolling the target, taking care of business, getting on helicopters and coming back. so the profile for the bin laden raid wasn't a lot different, just the distances were further. >> rose: we remember and note how dangerous it is because we recently saw the loss of a member of delta force in the rescue of some hostages held by i.s.i.s. >> absolutely. i mean, every mission has its risks. i mean, the training missions we do are very realistic. so whenever you are training as a special operate around i'd say it's true in the infantry and the marine corps, the risk is always high and potential for loss of life is out there. in a combat situation where the enemy gets a vote and you can get into a gun fight, the risk rises exponegligencely but we're well trained and deal with the situations. >> rose: the enemy gets a vote. >> they're part of the calculations, that's right. >> rose: what remains to be told about that mission? >> not much. >> rose: that's the point i'm asking. >> absolutely. you know, you've seen the recent article in the "times" magazine. >> rose: the "times" today or yesterday about the four lawyers looking at that operation. >> and certainly that's an aspect of the mission that is interesting. but in terms of the tactical aspects of the mission, there is nothing left to be told. the way it has been portrayed and provided in terms of the books that are out there and the movies are pretty close to reality. what i can tell you is we got approval to go do the mission. we got on the helicopters, made the transit through abad abad, raided the compound, got his remains, transported the body to the arabian gulf and buried him in accordance with islamic tradition and that's where he lays today. that's the story and nothing else. >> rose: when people raise these questions, what do you think? >> i'm baffled, absolutely. some of the accusations are bizarre, and, you know, i don't even know where to take it. you know, when they talk about the seals were cutting off body parts and throwing them off helicopters, you begin to ask yourself who does he think these soldiers and seals are? this is not the way we treat anybody. there is sort of a moon landing conspiracy about the way he portrayed this. it was a straightforward mission authorized by the president of the united states and, again, unfortunately today, there really isn't anything left to tell about the mission but they continue to rehash it a lot. >> rose: but you were not happy those stories got out. >> you know, i wasn't happy but, frankly, i think in ligh

abad says his client may have been drugged. at a hearing today he asked for access to abad's blood samples so it contested for ghb. abad and three other linden police officers had been at a strip club on staten island before the march crash abad driving the wrong way down the expressway killing two of the officers. >>> police in the bronx searching for a suspect accused of attempting to rape an 8-year-old girl. surveillance video captures the suspect in mount hope saturday. police say the suspect approached the child from behind as she was going into her building. he restrained her and assaulted her. the girl started screaming. he ran off. she was treated at the hospital. >>> a new jersey school bus driver caught on camera using a cell phone while driving. a student on the bus recorded the female driver taking a photo of a stuffed animal state parkway on tuesday. later she is seen texting and looking into her phone. the student from the academy charter high school school in lake como sent a text to her mother saying she feared the bus would get into a crash. the school says the substitute driver has since been fired. >

attorney for linden police officer pedro abad telling a judge today a stripper may have slipped a drug in his drink to money. after leaving a club last month, police say abad drove the wrong way on the freeway and hit a tractor-trailer. two people were killed. >>> prosecutors say they've busted a lucrative oxycodone ring run by the owners of two small neighborhood pharmacies. pharmacist lillian and her husband distributed more than half a million pills of the highly addictive pain killer often using fake prescriptions. they own chapen chemist in green point and ridgewood. millions made were used to buy a house in greenwich and to lease a porsche and a land rover. >>> we're learning more about the runaway military blimp. the military slowly dismantling that blimp tonight, wanted to remove the wreckage as soon as possible after the blimp crashed in two pieces yesterday, cops fired shots at its nose to drain the heel the -- >>> and the mets tonight, they're looking for a comeback. they're back on home turf resting up for tomorrow's big game. they trail the kansas city royals two wins to zero. the mets have to win four of the next five games. it can be done. s

his client may have been drugged at the time. blood of officer pedro abad for the date rape drug known as ghb. prosecutors contend abad was drunk when he drove on to the west shore expressway and slammed head-on into a tractor trailer. two friends died in that crash back in march. the accident happened after a night of partying at a local strip club. >>> on long island, a hempstead police officer has pleaded not guilty to misconduct, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child. 49-year-old was arraigned yesterday. he's an accused of following a woman into her car, grabbing her breast and thigh all in front of her children. june. he's due back in dourt n in court on november 13. >>> and nearly three months after a connecticut couple vanished, police are looking for evidence. still hoping to find clues in jeffrey and jeanette's disappearance. their 27-year-old son kyle is a person of interest. he's currently in custody on federal gun charges. >>> the man released from police he is on after serving 25 years for notorious subway stabbing may be facing a new legal challenge. prosecutors are appealing the judge's de

prosecutors say abad was drunk when he drove on the west shore expressway and slammed head-on into a tractor trailer. two friends died in that crash. it was black in march. abad's lawyer is hoping to get a blood sample tested for the date rape drug known as ghb. >>> on long island, a hempstead village police officer has been arrested for misconduct, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child. 49-year-old lewis arcillo accused of grabbing a woman's breast and thigh in front of her children. it happened in june. he's pledded not guilty. he's due back in court on november 13th. >>> police continue to search for connecticut couple who vanished nearly three months ago. last night state police were in weston looking for evidence along north field road. investigators are still hoping to find clues in jeffrey and jeanette's disappearance. their 27-year-old son kyle is a he is currently in custody on federal gurp n charges. >>> today row than polanski could appear in court in poland .they are deciding on a u.s. xa extradition request in a 1977 sex abuse case. it's part of a plea bargain, but he fled the country fearing a longer prison sentence. >>> just ahead,

at a club where abad may have partied may have drugged him before he slammed head on into a tractor-trailer. his two friends died in the crash in march. his lawyer is hoping to get abad's blood sample tested for ghb, a known date rape drug. >>> an update on the a story news 4's eye team has been following. helping isis. today ala sadeh admitted he paid people to help them join isis. he also admitted he and several associates talked about forming a small isis army inside the united states. sadeh could get up to 15 years in prison when he's sentenced in february. >>> well, three years ago tonight, superstorm sandy slammed into the jersey shore. it then stormed ashore here in neighborhoods and plunging much eerie darkness. today mayor de blasio marked the anniversary by celebrating the success of the building back program that began under mayor bloomberg, but for many families that success has been excruciatingly slow in coming. according to stats obtained by 4 investigates, 1200 reconstruction projects have been completed all since april of last year and another 800 are still in progress. that includes stephanie argento's home in ocean breeze section of staten island. >>

. >> reporter: abad appeared for a hearing thursday morning still in a wheelchair from the crash. >> what we did today, we requested a blood sample from mr. abad from the day of the accident so our own toxicologist could review the blood sample to see if he could find ghb in his blood sample. >> reporter: i talked to the general manager of curves over the phone. he strongly questioned why it wouldn't have been found in the initial toxicology test and said that's actually a ridiculous claim. this is a lawyer using a defense that has been common in the papers last week because of what went on with scores. >> we know from the scores case that it's a drug that dancers have been using in these clubs to drug men or patrons or whatever they were and encourages them to spend more money, get lap dances. general manager of this club is strongly defending the integrity of his staff and the other clients here and says they will be following this case very closely. i will have more on "eyewitness news at 6:00." reporting live in staten island, darla miles, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you. >>> a substitute school van driver in new jersey has been fi

abad says a stripper may have slipped a drug into his drink to get him to spend more money. >> shortly after leaving the strip club last march abad drove the wrong way on the west shore expressway heading crash -- crashing head on into a tractor trailer. two people in his car was killed. >> darla miles is at the club on staten island with our lead story. >> reporter: pedro abad junior faces a 27 count indictment that includes aggravated vehicular homicide and

abad has a message for worried swedes. >> i hope to one day see you when the war is over, everybody is hoping to go back to syria when the war is over. >> reporter: abad hopes to be an asset to sweden but amongst the growing number of skeptics, there is a feeling many of his fellow newcomers will be a drain on society. malcolm brabant, prbs pbs "newshour" in sweden. >> woodruff: he took on perhaps the most important job in the financial world, a year before a global economic collapse. former federal reserve chairman ben bernanke reflects in a book, the courage to act, a memoir of crisis and it's aftermath. welcome. >> thank you for invite meg. >> woodruff: you write in the remarkable book that takes us inside your life and inside the fed where we don't hear about very often, that if you and your colleagues had not acted as you did in 2008, that we could have seen something like 192 1929 ag. do you really believe that might have happened? >> nobody can know for sure but as an academic, i studied the great depression and how financial panics affect the economy and i was very concerned about that, you know, even before lehman brothers, even before the fi