president obama defended drone strikes as a justified means in the war on terror chris woods from the center for investigative journalism joins me live now from london chris we're hearing about precision drone strikes taking out terrorists but emerges civilians have also been killed with all the technologies involved one day precise. i think the missile is a precise in that the americans land them where they want the question is who they're actually killing on the ground in countries like pakistan with these kind of strikes these targeted killings and of at least two and a half thousand people the bureau of investigative journalism thinks that killed in pakistan for example we think the cia has killed more than four hundred civilians i think that all concerns the the the u.s. defines civilian in a different way than is normally understood the international community but nevertheless they have proved to be effective in what the at high profile targets in this so-called war on terror. absolutely and the u.s. has rightly pointed out that al qaida central as they are called them the core

bush and chris wood so from the bureau of investigative journalism he says there is little transparency about these continued drone operations with so many civilians reported killed and yet the cia claiming that it's killed no more than fifty or sixty civilians i think there is a need for an open not only an open inquiry but also for the cia to share the information meet her as one who believes it's killed in places like pakistan president obama's speech the other week did seem to promise more openness but unfortunately we're not seeing signs of just yet in pakistan we now have an incoming government that's making absolutely clear to the united states that it doesn't want these drone strikes i don't think they're going to stop most of the strikes there in pakistan these days are really not related to al qaida to those terrorist activities but really to the war across the border in afghanistan and the drone war has changed quite significantly over the ten years or so it's been running we see the united states talking about using drones in syria for example we have heard of course from ir

chris says that he lived his senior year upstairs. that's gone. and a lot of the furniture there, it's down here. i see a bed here, and i see a lot of wood and debris. all the things that used to be upstairs. chris tells me when he got back there, he had to get up there to turn the water off because it was causing flooding into the home. you look at something like this and you really get a sense of how strong the tornado was. i want you to pan over here and see this. we will reposition so you can see more of it. look over there. just across of what used to be the fence over there, what used to be a home, it's gone. what used to be another home is gone. you can go down the street and count them. this house was sort of the lucky house. it's still standing. this is where chad meyers said he saw the tornado that came through here, the same tornado that crossed over i-40, and we passed through the debris field from the tornado and we saw semis that were knocked over and they looked like boxes that were knocked over. you get a sense of how strong this storm was as it came through the area. >> yeah, we certainly do. george howell, thank you. >>

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chris stevens. state department officer sean smith and two former navy seals. tyrone woods and glen doherty.lity and deadly antigovernment rallies rage on in turkey. a key u.s. ally in the middle east. and the turkish prime minister today threatening to use military force on protesters as several hundred union workers joined in the demonstrations. today's scenes in anchor are a and istanbul not nearly as chaotic as what went on there over the weekend. [siren. [. >> jon: riot police fired water canon and tear gas on protesters yesterday in the capital city. marking nearly three weeks since the clashes broke out. at least five people, including a police officer reportedly have died. protesters say they are unhappy with a variety of issues, including what they sees a the prime minister's attempt to impose a religious lifestyle on what's currently a secular society. turkey shares borders with iran, syria and iraq among others. the biggest clashes have been taking place on the other side of the country. leland vittert live with more from istanbul. leland? >> and right now, jon, quarter till 3:00

generosity of local vendors who had been so touched by their story and joining us now are newly woods samantha and chris>> yeah. how did it happen? >> once your home was destroyed by sandy and you didn't have the money for the wedding, who all came together to make it happen? >> so after the storm i had entered a contest through theknot.com to win a dream wedding. i was like our luck can't get any worse, so this may lead us somewhere. >> you won? >> we didn't win. >> it went to a vote, we didn't win the vote. the pr director for the knot just, you know, fell in love with us and wanted to make sure that she didn't leave us out in the dust after everything, and she managed to pull a bunch of people together using her contacts. >> it looked like a beautiful ceremony. i know it's not aruba and all that, but you got married, chris. >> it actually felt like aruba. it was 95 degrees. it was really hot. >> stuff like this sometimes tears a couple apart. what happened with you. >> it actually brought us closer. >> you think? >> i do. >> how so? >> we just kind of went out on the front porch and sat there in shoc

woods to see me. >> stephanie: it looks like -- chris, what are we hearing the latest?l thing if you both got to discuss it. i would hate for this to be the straight guy gets to discuss gay marriage and the gay people are away. it is a little too republican white man discussing vagina issues. >> stephanie: thank you. thank you. appreciate it. >> not that i'm not capable of doing it. i think i have a little more qualifying -- qualifiers and standing. >> you've had gay sex on camera. >> i've simulated it. >> but to the viewer, they thought it was real. >> i've had teen gay sex which is just the rubbing part. before you -- dry humping. >> stephanie: i simulated great sex in high school. >> on your way back from band camp. it might look like it from a distance but when you get up close, you're like we still have our pants on. >> stephanie: i did that in high school. to the soundtrack many times. [ ♪ "nbc nightly news" ♪ ] hal, the fight over legalizing gay marriage in california may go back to the ballot box in 2014. california voters asked once again to settle the matter.

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