veronica bowers was already dead from a bull let through her chest.nfant charity died from a bullet in the head. >> it's a terrible, terrible thing to see your child being killed and to see your daughter and your granddaughter being murdered. to me, that's what it was. for a mistake? oh, of course it was a mistake. but why? how come it was a mistake? >> right there. >> yeah. >> reporter: not long after the plane was floating upside down in the river, the cia director in washington was telling white house officials it was just an unavoidable error. >> when the cia director comes to you and you know him and trust him and he says, we followed all the procedures, you believe him. the problem was, that the cia was apparently lying to its own director. >> reporter: in congress today, the cia was accused by a top republican of running a nine-year-long effort to stonewall and mislead congress, fafling to reveal how long and why all the program's strict rules were ignored by the cia. >> if the rules as outlined had been followed the bowers' plane would not hav

they were american missionaries from michigan, jim and veronica bower. also on board the plane was the bower's then 6-year-old son, cory, and their infant daughter, charity. over the course of one hour and 49 minutes, the cia personnel would never correct their mistake, and in fact, would violate again and again what was thought by the white house to be strict rules of engagement, including verifying the tail number of the plane. that did not happen. >> we can go up and attempt the tail number. but if he is dirty, makes a right turn immediately and we can't chase him. >> reporter: but the air force arrived and issued a warning in spanish, "we will shoot you down," it was on the wrong radio frequency, so the missionary plane never heard it. and even when the cia pilots began to have doubts -- >> this guy doesn't fit the p profile. >> reporter: they did not wave off the gun ships, later saying they did not have the authority to do so. >> i think we're making a mistake. >> i agree with you. >> reporter: a minute and a half later, the gun ship opened fire, a

matt wolfer and paul bowers are planning to spend a week being homeless in columbia, south carolina. but before going for a week, they decided to go on a test run. and that's when they ran into some trouble while trying to sleep in a park. three men with guns tried to rob them. >> wasn't quite sure what was going on until we saw the guns and realized more of their intent. >> he had it pointed at me at my chest. they were asking for cell phones, wallets. we don't have anything. >> i heard paul get slapped and then shoved. >> matt looked over and he got pistol-whipped a couple of times. >> wolfer and bower says their experience shows how vulnerable the homeless are. they also say that they still plan to follow through with their experiment to be homeless for a week. >>> the state of maryland may begin recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states. in an opinion issued this week, state attorney general said that maryland could recognize the marriages but also said that his opinion was meant to guide the courts and is not the law of state. >> much like a driver's license. peop

. >> woodruff: for more on the battle in marjah, we turn to todd bowers, a staff sergeant in the u.s. marine corps reserves. he served in afghanistan from april until december of last year. he's now deputy policy director at iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. and james kitfield, who covers military affairs at "national journal." wz gentlemen, thank you both for being here, james kitfield to you first, seven days in, do we know how far along is this offensive. >> they are saying it will take probably 25 to 35 days to clear marjah. so we are just at the front end of this. what is interesting to me is that you can tell, it reminded me of iraq, the bush surge in the winter and spring of 2007 where they finally had the surge troops in hand and they started to do the clear hold and build strategy. it's why everyone is looking at this to see if this same template works in afghanistan, there are more challenges there, greater illiteracy rate. the security forces aren't nearly as large as the iraqis are. so a lot is riding on this but it is going by the sort of counterinsurgency play bo

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this car belongs to a gentleman named john bower. he is from fairfax county and sports the license plate "bad weather wagon" on his four-wheel drive subaru outback. he spent quite a time getting out from being stuck. >>> we saw an unconventional approach for snow removal. he used a saw. where to put it though? that is an issue. >> we know of one four-legged animal enjoying the snow. the first family's dog bo obama has been out playing in the snow covering the rose garden at the white house, having a good time. the rest of us are worried to what's going to happen overnight. >> time-out, time-out, give us a break, nature. this one for us in washington and especially the western southern suburbs, nowhere near what the impact of the blizzard. you folks in howard county, columbia and into baltimore, philadelphia, it could be over 20 inches again. we are getting a respite, a break, a little bit of freezing rain. our temperature outside right now in washington, 26. our total amount of snow made it the second winteriest weather. it is beginn

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mat wolfer and paul bowers planning to spend a week being home unless columbia, south carolina. before going for a week, they decided to take a test run, so to speak. that's when they ran into trouble. while trying to sleep in a park, three men with guns tried to rob them. >> until we saw the guns and realized kind of, what was their intent. >> he had it pointed me at my chest, asking for cell phones, wallets, we don't have anything. >> i heard paul get slapped and shoved. >> matt looked over and got pistol-whipped a couple of times. >> the two guys say their experience shows how vulnerable the homeless are. they also say they still plan to follow through with their experiment to be homeless for a week. >>> an extremely powerful earthquake hit coast of chile overnight, truck while most were in bed asleep. details just beginning to roll in. >>> the northeast is trying to dig itself out from a massive winter storm, and this one is a record-breaker for some areas. >>> just days after 12,000-pound orca killed a trainer at sea world, crowds will get to see the killer whales perform a

it seems like the republicans, who are always the, you know, jack bower, 24 tough guys macho, they should be the ones who want to try this guy in manhattan. that to me seems like the breast-beating macho position. yeah, we're going to try him right where the crime occurred. we're going to stick his nose right in it as opposed to their argument that, oh, he's going to mock us. oh, mock us, really? that's cowardly to me to be afraid of. no. >> larry: we have a blog question for bill maher. do you think it's socialism for the government to take over health care to make sure every american can afford to have it? do you think that's socialism? >> of course it's not socialism. oh, god. americans have no clue what socialism is, they just know it's something super terrible. no, first of all, we have socialism already in this country as does every modern democracy. of course it is, so is the marine corps, so is the mail. every modern industrialized western democracy is a hybrid with elements of socialism in it. it's not evil. again, the democrats have done a rotten job of selling health care. ther

. >> tom: blocking foul called on rob bower -- lowery, under four minutes to play and that is right, folks, 68 points to -- these two te >> tom: wostill in our immediate time out, the 10- point lead for the owls, 29-39, 3:59 to play in the second half. this is not the onlygam going on. charlotte is all over saint jose avenue. gw with a four-point lead over la salle and they're battling for the final spot in the atlantic 10 tournament. fordham without a win and lead bona venture by two. if the season ended today, this is how the turn 5789 would look. we could see a rematch between temple and dayton. >> that was it, i think and an exciting case. richmond comfortably right now, first, they have tough games here the last week and a half and you can see st. louis, your host, xavier and temple. >> tom: richmond would be the gw duquesne winner. you said that about that last year. ion john yeah. >> tom: faced them laster. >> >> john: ron everhart and richmond, temple, xavier and st. louis. the first-round games with the host and charlotte, rhode island and probably dayton. >> tom: it's still

this car belongs to john bower from fairfax county. he has a license plate on his vehicle that says bad weather wagon. maybe that's a bad weather wagon, it's his four-wheel drive subaru out back. he spent quite a while trying to dig it out after getting stuck in burke. not far from there, this guy was using a saw to cut ice blocks next to a blocked-in car. he says it's the best way to deal with the walls of snow that the plows leave in front of the driveways and sidewalks. where to put it? that, of course, is another issue. >>> all the snow can cause big problems for homeowners. the weight has caused roofs to collapse. according to the institute for business and home safety, most of the roofs that collapse are flat ones like this one in prince george's county. experts say residential rooftops are designed to handle about 30 pounds per square foot. we performed our own test and found out that the snow and ice we received prior to yesterday came out to about 20 pounds. most roofs can also actually withstand about twice that weight. so mo

the video shows when american missionaries ronnie and jimmy bowers plane was shot down killing ronnieatives were in contact and watched the shooting happened even though they questioned it. >> tell them to terminate. >> no, i won't shoot. >> tell them to terminate. >> congressman is calling for a complete accounting from the c.i.a. the c.i.a. says it's protested the shooting and blames the peruvian air force for executing it. >> john edwards' former aide on the show yesterday revealing some shocking voice mails from his former boss on hannity last night. he asks andrew to play along with deceiving his wife elizabeth. >> the reason we're calling is because elizabeth is standing there. i'm calling saying what happened? how did this happen? what's going on? that's because elizabeth is standing there. >> dr. phil mcgraw tried to explain why young was complicity in that scandal. >> he was very, very involved in this and i guess thought at some point that america is just stupid. that they're going to believe the stories even though they know that people around them, 10, 20, 30 people maybe

pennsylvania, and two other americans who have been imprisoned in iran with him, sarah shard and shane bower. these are three americans who have now spent more than seven months in solitary confinement in iran's evin prison, for allegedly crossing a poorly marked border, the border between iran and iraq. since their detention along the iran-iraq border on july 31 of 2009, the iranian government has refused requests from their attorney for visits. the government of iran has delayed due process, rejected requests from family members to call or visit them. the iranian regime has also delayed requests for iranian visas for the families and stonewalled the swiss embassy's attempt to carry out diplomatic visits. the longer the detainment of these young americans continues, the more clear it becomes to the international community that the iranian government, the iranian regime is engaged in political games rather than seeking to grant them a fair and timely judicial process. so on this basis, i request that supreme leader khamenei, president ahmadinejad and judiciary chief larijani and other irania

im kenneth bowers. i am representing the spacex. we have a construction facility in hall for california and two sites one in the marshall islands and a site and florida. but on -- one of the exciting things to me about the nasa budget is has one of the barriers to space and of that barrier is how you pay for it. one of the things you have to work to fix that issue is the relationships between the government and the contractors that provide the services. the government hopefully will set the destination. the contractors with their flexibility and creativity should be able to come up with new and innovative ways to get the job done. how work has had the privilege working with nasa in partnership agreement since 2006 to provide cargo services to the international space station and i can tell you from firsthand experience that it is a really great thing to watch what happens when you plant the skills only available in the government with flexibility and creativity in the industry. >> folks, if we could do one thing -- yes, absolutely, g

in my state that would dramatically affect the bower ban industry, which is an incredibly important economicaffects the wine business and many other businesses that -- in which aging of the inventory is a factor. think president, and i applaud these goals, said we want to expand our exports, increase our manufacturing base and we obviously want to add jobs. by eliminateding lifo and doing it not just prospectively but retroactively and requiring the businesses that have been using it legally for many years would have to make up these incredibly large reserves, which essentially would be an enormous tax cuts, would put some of these companies out of business have you thought about the impact in regard to those three goals the administration set of something like the distilling industry and others where it would seem to be something that would run counter to the goals of the -- the other economic goals that you have, that we all have? >> the purpose of that proposal is that some firms use last in, first out for tax purposes, sometimes they use different accounting in different settings. there