he's from colorado springs, colorado and worked for the none profit, to train afghans afghand provide free medical care. two of has colleagues were also taken at gunpoint, but they were released. >> amazing news this morning, as we start a brand brand hour inside america's news headquarters, the commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan, ordering the rescue mission, as soon as intelligence showed that the doctor was in imminent danger. peter doocy is live in washington with more. >> reporter: we are told, dr. joseph is undergoing medical evaluation, but the nonprofit organization he works for, morning star development, says the doctor was reported to be in good condition and is uninjured. on wednesday, december 5, dr. joseph was driving back from a visit to a rural medical clinic in the eastern kabul province when he was abducted by taliban insurgent who is held him and two others captive, 50 miles or so from the border of pakistan. general john allen says the mission exemplifies our unwaiverring commitment to defeating the taliban. i am proud of the american and afghan forces that plan

. >>> there's a plumber in colorado springs, colorado, that shows up and does work even if you don't want him to. >> the plumber is a little odd, though, because the plumber is a black bear. >> what is he working in there? >> this is a decorative pond. suddenly this bear started appearing and getting in their decorative pond as a cooling pool. >> he thought it was the reverse jacuz jacuzzi. instead of getting warm, he wanted to cool off. >> you can see this is a small little decorative pond. this black bear thought it's not quite big enough. there's some pesky little obstructions in there. i'm going to do some plumber work and maybe some electrical work and make this a better pool for myself. >> oh, my gosh, he's pulling the wire out. >> watch as he gets the entire thing. he pulls it out. >> that's funny. he's like this thing is totally ruining my groove here. it's jabbing me in the leg when i'm trying to kick back and relax down there. >> and it's like, you know, i don't like those bubbles. they bother me. i don't like the noise. he wants it quiet and peaceful. >> this isn't the onl

the mission on sunday was to save the life of this man, joseph, colorado springs doctor who had beenth two other afghans working for an ngo in afghanistan. the operation was dangerous. >> it was combined operation. in order to rescue this individual. capture or killed. and decided to start the operation. the assessment for us that there was imminent danger of injury, or death to the individual. >> bret: petty officer first class nicolas cck, 28 years old, navy seal, member of seal team six was killed in that operation. our condolences to his family. we're back with the panel. we don't talk about afghanistan a lot, charles, but this mission, doctor is alive. he is well. free. that navy seal is dead tonight. >> the fact we don't talk about it and that we only do when we hear about a mission like this is what makes it doubly tragic. obviously, there is a terrible tragedy we lose a brave soldier who gave us life ultimately to save another american. which is sort of the tradition of the incredibly brave soldiers. the tragedy, double tragedy is why are they dieing? why are they overthere?

military member was killed yesterday while rescuing a colorado springs doctor kidnapped by the talibaninsurgents captured dalij joseph outside of coo kabul. president obama is praising the operation and the departed service members for their efforts. >>> protesters continue to demonstrate outside the presidential palace in cairo. opponents are calling for a boycott scheduled for saturday. they say the new constitution was pushed through the. mohammed morsi has ordered security during the ref republican demonstrate. >>> two office -- referendum. >>> and the dj,s saying they're sorry that a hospital employee has taken her life over the prank call. >> i'm devastated for them. i'm feeling for them. >> it's a shocking turn of e.s. if we had any idea that something like this could be even possible to happen, you know, we couldn't see this happening. it was meant to be a prank call. >> kate middleton is suffering morning sickness once again but she is not expected to return to the hospital for it. >>> with one teammate dead and another accused of killing him, this sunday's victory is bittersw

this morning she's giving a conference in a special place the funeral parlor of colorado springs. she seems to recruit new clients and new investors. people can definitely make this self-made prophecy come true we have mayan calendar at the end of days we also have some very valid threats happening in two thousand and twelve we have solar flares we also have the planets aligning for the very first time we are all very aware that there has been a dramatic increase of natural disasters and just in the last three to five years after reminding them of all the reasons to believe in the apocalypse she offers them her services people ask me what can i do about this well i don't want you to crawl up in a corner cry about it i want you guys to pull your own weight i want you to seek knowledge and get training i am building a big self-sustaining survival community holds about three hundred people it has full power its own water supply self-sustaining food supply it has tactical team security teams in place to protect it are all means a campaign in the rocky mountains structure and also for

dilip joseph of colorado springs was taken wednesday outside cabull. one u.s.rker was killed in the operation. and it comes as the u.s. shift morse responsibility for the country's security to the afghan military recently cbs news producers erin lyall and nick turner spent times with what both sides hope becomes a model for the future. >> my name is sergeant major richard burdette and i'm the senior enlisted advisor to the afghan national army special operations advisory group. the end goal is to have an afghan face, as it were, on everything. because it's their country. they need to be leading the attack. they need to be fighting the insurgents. >> my name is fayez mohammed wafa, i'm the special operations of the afghan command. we have almost 12,000 soldiers on the ground, they're fighting. do you remember we were talking about the computer class and english class? >> sergeant major wafa is my afghan partner. i think of him as a rock star. he can speak irdu, pashtu, uzbek, dari, english. he is very comfortable in front of his men. i'm very lucky that i get to

mass shootings have been brought to an abrupt halt like the woman who did this at a church in colorado springs colorado, as well as an assistant principal in mississippi. >> josh, what's your response? >> i thinof juvenile fantasy we should have teachers prepared to face the type of weapon the bushmaster ar15 they had to face. the truth is these are weapons of war, weapons designed for the battlefield and they're just not appropriate in our schools, in our society and instead of thinking about how you stop someone who has broken into your school with these types of terrible weapons, we need to deescalate the arms race in america and make sure these weapons are banned. i thought joe manchin said it best. he said i'm a deer hunter. i've hunted all my life, but i've never needed more than two or three rounds in my chamber. these bushmasters this guy came with this weapon with 30 rounds, multiple 30 round magazines, a pistol grip designed to kill. no teacher should have to face that. >> eric, let me ask you for a second there as josh pointed out, we heard from joe man thin talking about that today

eagle scout, from colorado springs helped out and there is. the crowd in cheers and the u.s.air force played " a christmas tree " and other holiday classics. this is a spruce tree from call rental white river national forest. it has 10,000 lights, ornaments and will be let in each night until the day after christmas. >> we are going to take a look at the golden gate bridge. dry roadways. the bulk of the wet weather is to the north. it is going to pick up in intensity, overnight. it will impact certain areas to more with moderate/heavy downpours. it could try out at night and it looks like that we will have a drying trend with the workweek. taking a look at the stormtracker 4 some pretty widespread rainfall in the north bay. the pat tillman/1 0 1 towards the santa rosa is wet petaluma- increasing in intensity, overnight. by midnight, the orange. moderate/heavy. and by 6:00 a.m., more widespread if for the morning hours. and it will pressed down into the evening hours. as we take a look your kron 4 7 day around the bay 6:00 a.m., widespread in the north bay. fairfield, antioch,

he is ryan shuster from colorado springs and he is a high school senior, more importantly, he's an eagle why don't you come up here and join me. hot if we can only find ryan -- if we can only find ryan. there he is. there he is. button your coat. come on. [laughter] >> ryan, pictures last forever. now, here's the switch. lead us in a countdown starting with five. >> five, four, three, two, one. >> yay! >> good job. [band playing o christmas tree] >> thank you so much speaker boehner. thank you, ryan. thank you, everyone, for joining speaker boehner. the colorado congressional congressional delegation and the united states air force band and for all of us of this year's lighting of the u.s. capitol tree. i wish you a merry christmas and a good night. [cheers and applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] ♪ >> explore the history and literary culture of new york's capital city, albany this weekend on c-span2. next, a ceremony marking the attack on pearl harbor. after that, a forum on modern- day slavery and tra

colorado springs cares.rea. >> gretchen: that's fantastic. that's at least -- >> brian: kids are doing it. which is amazing. >> gretchen: $620? >> brian: over to the red cross. >> steve: from kids, that's great. every little bit helps. hey, good morning to you. >> gretchen: hi there. >> steve: how are you? >> gretchen: what are we talking about? >> we've sad story to tell you about over the weekend. you may have heard there was an american doctor who had been captured by the taliban five days ago and was being held in a particularly dangerous part of afghanistan. this doctor from colorado was rescued over the weekend, but in this raid and the raid was conducted by seal team 6, one of the members of seal team 6 died over the weekend from injuries that were sustained during that raid. this is a picture right here of that doctor who lived in colorado. dr. joseph is his name. he was working for an organization out of colorado called morning star development. they basically send doctors and other people out into

nice day and time for my shout out which goes to colorado springs, colorado where they are celebratingf cultural and artistic programs performance, other festivities out there. highlighted by this evening's colorful festival lights of parade and this year's theme is home for this holidays and they are accepting donations for temple at the stocking fund because every single dollar they get will be double we want to thank everybody for watching cbs "this morning saturday" only on kktv-11. make it a great day. rebecca, over to you. >> right now you're busy with your holiday plans but with the new year just one month away it's just one month away it's time to think ahead. like where to go on vacation next. cbs news travel editor peter greenberg is here with ideas both exotic and close to home places where you'll get the most bang for your buck in 2013. so, the first one, we were talking about this yesterday, tasmania. huge surprise. >> when i first went to australia, bit of history, australians want to go to tasmania, why do you want to go there? nobody goes there. that's my reason. only 1

. >> upper 70s in miami. 50s in colorado springs and 15 in fargo.our time is up, we want to rest in peace one day. but who said anything about resting quietly? >> that's going to bring us to our favorite story of the day. a swedish company is selling hi-fi coffins for $30,000. the sound system is designed to pipe non-stop music six feet under. surviving friends and family can update your play list at any time. i think they're going to sabotage this. >> i love this story. the coffin comes with delux speakers and a screen displaying which song is playing at the time. i love that story. people like to enjoy their music, why not for eternity? not bad. >> they're probably going to be pipe in some songs that should be playing in hell, though. >>> new questions about reality tv and whether one popular show is actually rigged. >> shock and awe. >>> today's magic number for brides and grooms. they want to get married today on 12-12-12. you're watching "world news now." 3q lysol believes no toilet is complete, until it's completely clean. lysol toilet bowl cl

the leaders of the nra wanted to retreat from political lobbying, move the organization to colorado springsere it could focus on outdoor activities and hunting. that angered the group of hard liners who thought that guns were about personal protection, not hunting ducks. those members staged a coup, manipulating the rules of the membership, took over the organization, and recommitted it to the hard line political activism and an extremist view of the second amendment and the rest really is history. >> eliot: in a fascinateing tidbit prior to that coup in the mid 70s the second amendment has not even factored in their analysis and critique of gun control legislation when they were supporting it. they never cited the second amendment and no one worried what would run afoul of the second amendment because the second amendment permitted the reasonable steps that you were just describing for us. >> that's right. could you go back through decades of volumes of american rifleman the signature publication in the 1930s 40s, 1950s. you won't find any mention of the second amendment. today you'll see

joining from us colorado spring.t general, thank you for joining us. >> the operation is going full swing since 4:00 this morning, tracking santa all over the world to deliver the gifts to all the good boys and girls out there. right now we see that santa has been spotted last in perth, australia. >> so what does the timing look like? >> after australia, he's now heading toward the settlement christmas aisle and should be there in approximately 26 seconds. everybody can track santa via various means. first of all we have our website at www.noradsanta.org. you can call one of our 1200 volunteers at 1-877 -ia-norad. 1612,000 on twitters, and we have received so far over 13,000 calls at our command center. >> it is serious business there, lieutenant general. some have hats, some without, but tracking sandy for us, as he makes his way toward the united states. thank you very much, sir. >>> next grab the popcorn or candy, or grab a burrito. it's holiday movie time. we'll tell you what to see an what to skip. rest tends to

. >> bill: colorado springs doctor working in afghanistan for a humanitarian organization was kidnapped last week by the taliban. over the weekend the navy seals attempted to rescue dr. dilip joseph. they succeede succeeded but in e process a seal was killed. joining us from washington is lieutenant colonel ralph peters and colorado david hunt, fox news military analyst. how did the operation go down to rescue the dr., colonel hunt? >> sure. you said five days ago there was three people kidnapped working to help the afghan knee people just north of kabul. two afghans and dr. joseph. they were followed by satellite and also followed by drones, and we had some assets on the ground. there were negotiations between morningstar which is the company for whom they worked, and the taliban. there was a $12,000 ransom paid and the two afghans were let go. there wasn't any ransom being paid, and his life was being threatened, dr. joseph's, and they were considering moving him across the pakistani border. an order was given for afghani special forces and seal team 6 to do a raid on the fly, much mo

in 1955, there was an advertisement in a colorado springs news and it invited kids to call santa. wrong so the kids called norad which is really a group of people kind of watching the skies. the officers on duty all played along. and the rest is history. so that's norad. there's a lot of cool things to do on this. you can look at all the holiday activities and look, scroll through the village, and santa has a hidden activity in each village to show you. but google is in on the action this year as well. there's a little discrepancy where the google santa is and where the norad santa is. google is flying from south to north. so i think they're kind of mingling right now in greece. so in santorini. this is his dashboard. you can see where he is. there's a lot of games. kids having a ball with it. it shows you where santa is. he's leaving his presence as he moves. he's moving from africa north. so now they kind of just bypassed each other in greece. and now google is now in finland where the other guy is. or similar santa was earlier. they're kind of meeting in the middle. just around

military member was killed yesterday while rescuing a colorado springs doctor kidnapped by the taliban. insurgents captured dillon joseph on wednesday outside kabul. this is home of his -- video of his home in colorado. president obama and defense secretary leon panetta are praising the operation and the service member who was killed for their efforts. >>> protesters continue to demonstrate outside the presidential palace in cairo. opponents are calling for a boycott of the constitutional referendum scheduled for saturday. they say the new constitution was pushed through without input from any group other than the islamists. >>> former south african president nelson mandela is in the hospital this morning. those around him are giving few details about the condition. a statement over the weekend revealed that the 94-year-old antiappar tide hero had been admitted to the hospital. he became south africa's first black president. >>> children who are deprived of oxygen in the woman are more likely to develop attention deficit disorder. a new study says children of these women have a 16% hig

he is ryan shuster from colorado springs and he is a high school senior, more importantly, he's an eagle. so ryan, why don't you come up here and join me. there he is. there he is. button your coat. [laughter] >> ryan, pictures last forever. now, here's the switch. lead us in a countdown starting with five. >> five, four, three, two, one. >> yay! [band playing o christmas tree] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> thank you so much speaker boehner. and thank you,the colorado congressional ryan. united states air force band and for all of us of this year's lighting of the u.s. capitol tree. i wish you a merry christmas and a good night. [cheers and applause] captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] ♪ [joy to the world] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> here is what is coming of this christmas day -- next it is the national christmas tree lighting ceremony and today's edition of "washington journal." we will take a look at the biggest policy events from the past year. after that, first lady michelle obama shows the children the white house holiday decorations. >> th

joseph, a medical adviser for colorado springs based morning star development, was rescued after intelligencenent danger of injury or even death. >> a hostage rescue mission is really, really dangerous and carries a very high risk that the hostage, him or herself could be injured or killed. so you need somebody at a very high level to say i am authorizing this mission. >> the doctor was not hurt, but one of the navy s.e.a.l.s in the raid died yesterday of his wounds. president obama praised the fallen warrior, saying he gave his life for his fellow american. >>> former south african president nelson mandela is in the hospital this morning as people across that country and around the world send wishes to the anti-apartheid icon. mandela, who is 94 years old, was admitted to a hospital in pretoria over the weekend for tests. there are reports his health is rapidly deteriorating. a spokesperson for the south african president says there is no cause for alarm. that is an icon of all icons. >> exactly. i think one of the reasons people are talking about this is because he really hasn't made any pu

military member was killed yesterday while rescuing a colorado springs doctor kidnapped by the talibantured dr. joseph on wednesday outside kabul. he was e working for a missionary group in the area. president obama and leon panetta are praising the operation and the service member killed for their efforts. >>> protesters continue to demonstrate outside the presidential palace in cairo. opponents are calling for a boycott of the constitutional referendum scheduled for saturday. the constitution was pushed through without input from any group other than the islamics. >>> the noble committee chairman is presenting the the prize in oslo hall. the european union was this year years winner for its work fostering peace. >>> john mcafee says he wants to return to the united states. mcafee is accused o of killing his neighbor in beliz. >> our intent is to return to america and settle down to whatever normal life we can settle down to under the circumstances. >> he answered reporters questions during an internet broadcast from the detention center over the weekend. >>> the effort to avoid the f

facility in colorado, he was serving time for the mayhem he and a friend caused on the streets of colorado springs>> when i approached bruce, he was outside of his cell, and i said, bruce, you know, i'm with the camera crew, what do you want? i know why you're here, and we'd love to get your story. he said, well, why wouldn't you want my story, look at me. i'm like a movie actor. >> bastian accepted a plea bargain on two murder charges that resulted in a 60-year sentence for accessory and conspiracy to commit murder and aggravated robbery. the crimes occurred over a four-month period and were committed by bruce who was home on leave and a discharged army buddy. their two murder victims were fellow soldiers, one of whom served in their unit. >> it just kind of came out of nowhere one night really. i mean, we were sitting there, we were drinking at my house. so we decided to go out and leave the house and the next thing you know, there's a dead guy lying in the parking lot and we're driving away. and after that it kind of just escalated after that, you know. >> why do it again? why commit another cr

joseph should be back home in colorado springs in the next few days.to bagram airfield after his rescue and is undergoing evaluation today. dr. joseph apparently made frequent trips to afghanistan and the doctor described his goals there in a video posted last year. >> in doing community development we're really hoping that we kin still hope into a country that -- can instill hope into a country that has been dealing in conflict the last 30 years. >> reporter: at least six insurgents were reportedly killed during the operation that saved dr. joseph's life. the operation reportedly netted two arrests of taliban leaders. peter doocy, fox news. >>> venezuelan president hugo cav saez back in cuba for a third cancer -- chavez is back in cuba for a third cancer surgery. chavez has not said what kind of cancer he has. his treatment has been taking place in cuba because that's where he was when he was diagnosed. chavez is scheduled to begin a new six year term january 10th. he was first elected in 1999. >>> former president george h.w. bush remains in the hosp

i'm down here in colorado springs. i went to a gun show.t he did but he did background checks on them. you can get the assault rifles any day of the week. i ran the drug awareness program trying to get the kids off the streets and these kids can get guns quicker than we can. they can do it in texas california florida, you can go to any gun show -- >> that one is the no-brainer. that's ridiculous. >> stephanie: they say huge majority of nra members think there should be background checks for anybody -- who thinks anybody should be able to get a gun? okay. >> they should be able to set up one booth at every gun show where you go and get your background checked. that should be really easy. >> i think the people who want to have a lot of assault rifles are precisely the people who shouldn't be allowed to have them. >> stephanie: vanessa in california. that's the only question, do you want one? you can have one. vanessa in california. hi vanessa. >> caller: i was trying to think of a clever intro like the transvaginal virginia. i'm a vegetarian

dilip joseph of colorado springs was rescued by u.s. and afghan troops overnight after intelligence showed he was in danger of eminent danger or possible death. dr. joseph was seen in the video posted, there you go, by "the morning star" earlier this morning as the medical director of the colorado-based humanitarian organization, he was in afghanistan overseeing a medical clinic. >>> south africans are praying for the health of former president nelson mandela. he was amitted to a hospital saturday for tests. mandela is 94 years old,'s in frail health. he hasn't made public appearances for a few years now. president jacob zuma visited mandela today and said he's doing well and there is no cause for an alarm. >>> in an attempt to defuse the escalating crisis in egypt, mohamed morsi is rescind iing h new law. >>> a new report says new york routinely ignored warning to prepare for a catastrophic hurricane. the warning started back in 1978 when a law was passed requiring the creation of a disaster plan. never happened. largely because of tig

i met with folks here in colorado springs who are working on this right now because the a-b-cs of education for agitation, b for brain washing, and c for capitalism bashing. you've got howard zen material that's championed by matt damon. this access is to powerful that we on the right need to unite and join against. you've got this axis of hollywood culture, social media, big labor, and the entire teacher organization infrastructure. that is what we have to fight against. look. we need to expose these teachers unions. this organization, cft, rakes in $21 million a year. you want to talk about paying taxes and your fair share? they're a tax-exempt 501c5 organization. where is ed asner's rage about their escaping and evading their fair share of taxes? i don't hear it. also, let's have a balance. if they're going to show this in the california classrooms, how about an eight-minute video narrated by clint eastwood or my favorite right thinking actor adam baldwin that exposes the truth about occupy and the teachers alliance? they have to make up this urinating image? well, you've got occupiers w