. >> reporter: addressing troops at camp wimbledon, president obama use the formulation about dat normallyes away from kicks we have been at war against al qaeda. >> reporter: while his first comments on the terror threat came yesterday late-night comedy show, the president stressed to the trustee is all over. >> even though the al qaeda leadership that attacked us on september 11th, and al qaeda affiliates and minor extremists still threaten our homeland. >> reporter: earlier used the south got to the tonight show with jay leno to suddenly recalibrate his assessment about the threat from al qaeda joining his -- dropping his record line about the terror arubia on the run to on the road to defeat to now on their heels. >> a reminder that for all the progress we have made, getting osama bin laden, putting al qaeda between afghanistan and pakistan back on its heels, that this radical violent extremism is still out there. we have to stay on top of it. >> reporter: also blunt about trying to use the current threats from al qaeda in the arabian peninsula which has shut down 19 u.s. embassies in