we understand that, general dempsey, he is echoing your strong commitment. we appreciate the efforts of both of you. it makes a big difference for our men and women who are serving. general, you just said that the world is becoming increasingly unstable, and mr. secretary, you have recently said, you know, every day we're within an inch of war. i think as we look to the issue of syria, we know that russia and china have blocked two united nations security council resolutions with respect to syria. and certainly i think that takes us to an issue when we look to the world and instability of a question with regard to russia and china. with regard to russia, we've seen public reports that they continue to arm the syrian military, have sent russian advisers to syria and have deployed naval forces off the syrian coast. so my first question is, mr. secretary, how would you say that russia is supporting syria's military today? and then secondly, i want to switch to china, which unavoidably takes us to the issue of north korea. north korea's recent ballistic missile

general dempsey. thank you for your service. i appreciate it as a veteran and also as a very grateful parent of a son serving in the military. in the context of the instability that you're reviewing, i'm very concerned about the sequestration of the defense budget which would be a reduction of 8% to 12% beginning next january. you both have correctly warned of hollowing out of military, but people are still confused because they've heard and seen $100 billion cut of $487 billion cut and now a pending $600 billion cut. it's just total confusion. what message do you have to the american people -- what do you want them to know about the effect of sequestration, mr. secretary and general. >> congressman, i've tried to make clear time and time and time again that sequestration and the cuts involved in sequestration would be a disaster for the defense department. and would truly hollow out our force and weaken our national defense. we're already cutting close to a half a trillion dollars pursuant to the budget control act. we made tho

he said, no, this is patrick dempsey. mcdreamy?> i feel i can change their story. >> reporter: mcdreamy, mchero. whatever you want to call patrick dempsey. he lived up to his onscreen persona. and this lucky high schooler should fully recover soon. >> i had faith in him that he was going to save me. >> i'm just super grateful. you know? i can't wait to thank him personally. >> it's a beautiful day to save lives. >> nice. >> reporter: and get this, the injured boy's mom says patrick dempsey even called her up on the phone later that night just to check out and see how her son was doing. mcdreamy, indeed, guys. >> wow. i just had like a 300-pound man respond to my car accident in a tow truck. where was mcdreamy then? i was driving off the wrong cliff. >> you love him more now. i love that. >>> coming up here on "good morning america," the break in the baffling case of the missing 6-year-old girl isabel celis. one of the men on this surveillance tape has now come forward. what does he know? >>> plus, comedian in chief. president obama

>> what we do and what general dempsey does with the service chiefs is to -- is to develop all of the plans necessary for any contingency and whatever the president ultimately decides will be prepared to implement. >> and just to kind of give you the view of the region at large. we're a nato partner with turkey. we have a very strong relationship with jeernd obviously israel. we are still 200 to 300 military strong in iraq. iraq has a piece of this as well on their western border. and webb meeting with leaders throughout the region. the secretary met with the president from the kurdish region and they have a huge interest on -- there's a -- there's kurd populations in northeastern syria in eastern turkey and western iran and in northern iraq. these issues are all intertwined. so right now we're in the business of sharing intelligence, sharing information. building partner capacity where we can and, you know, having the threat, the credible threat of military capability to undergird our diplomatic and economic efforts. >> sure. what i would just add to that is based on comments that ha

secretary panetta and general dempsey, thank you for your service. there are several of us in this congress that have your back when it comes to the sequester. we have your back when it comes to supporting our uniform military men and women. and we also have your back when it comes to not balancing the budget on the backs of our uniformed military because what you do is the number one responsibility for the united states government in this document. one of the quotes that you said, mr. secretary was that this budget and this strategy had no margin for error. so i'd like to ask you this question. what keeps you awake at night with respect to this budget and this strategy given the -- let me give you the second quote comes from general dempsey. we have an increasingly competitive security environment. so in light of those two quotes, what keeps you guys awake at night? >> i worry all the time about the fact that we are going to wake up and we'll be subject to a crisis or an attack, a cyberattack, for example, that we have no idea where it came from and

welcome, general dempsey. welcome undersecretary hale. thank all of you for your dedicated service to the united states of america. and please extend our thanks and appreciation to the men and women who serve in our military. our country is secure and free because of the sacrifices they and their families make every day. the president, the department of defense, our armed services, armed forces, along with the state department, intelligence community and law enforcement deserve a great deal of credit for the important work they have done over these last many years. we have successfully redeployed our troops from iraq. captured or killed countless terrorists actively planning attacks and greatly diminished al qaeda's capabilities. we forged a coalition that successfully helped the people of libya end dictator moammar gadhafi's brutal 40-year reign that included the lockerbie bombings that killed innocent americans. and of course we concluded the master mine mind that helped support 9/11. we must continue to support the strong military that

general dempsey,to be your perspective, we see what is happening in syria. we also see the arab spring. efforts by assad in syria? maybe moving to other areas in the middle east --what is your perspective on what potentially this holds this effort continues? >> i do not see this body. -- i don't seethe assad model spreading, quite the opposite. i think the model is that it was privily suppress populations was them. -- seeing what is happening around them are beginning to rebel against the traditional strong man who, in many cases, have been from the minority side of the demographic occasion. i agree that change in syria is inevitable. long it willhow take to occur but it will occur. i have concerns about that becausei think we are all eager to see these populations that have long not been a reaping the benefits and have been suppressed. in some cases, they have been suppressed in terms of their religious freedoms and women's rights. i think that long term this will become a stabilizing influence. i think getting from here to there will be a wild ride. i thin

patrick dempsey did not hesitate when a teenager crashed his car in front of dempsey's home. >> i was scared for my life. >> reporter: lucky to be alive, 17-year-old westin describes his rush with death. he flipped his mustang. barely conscious and trapped inside the wreck, he had one piece of good luck. it happened in front of the home of a very famous tv doctor. >> you paged? >> reporter: yep, dr. mcdreamy himself, patrick dempsey of abc's "grey's anatomy" saw the car flip three times. he sprang into action. he used a crowbar to pry the doors open, pull the teenager to safety and called paramedics. >> he shouldn't be walking. he should be paralyzed. dead. >> reporter: he suffered only a concussion and an eye injury. his first words with dempsey, a classic exchange. >> are you famous? and he's saying, yeah, i'm a doctor. >> reporter: not a doctor, but he plays one on tv. life imitating art. dempsey called the boy's mom, calm and cool, just like his character. >> he had a certain authority to his voice. i asked if he was a paramedic. he said, no, this is patrick dempsey. mcdreamy? >>

general dempsey. >> thank you, mr. chairman, congressman smith, other distinguished members of this committee. i appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today and discuss the evolving situation in syria. the situation is tragic for the people of syria and for the region. real democratic reform should have been the assad regime's response to last year's peaceful protesting. instead, the regime responded with brutality. syria's internal convulsions are having consequences for a region already in turmoil. refugees are fleeing, spillover into neighboring countries is an increasing concern. and, of course, we also need to be alert to opportune niistic extremists who may seek to exploit the situation. as well as the need to be especially alert to the fate of syria's chemical and biological weapons, they need to stay exactly where they are. with other conscientious nations the united states it applying diplomatic and economic pressure on the regime to compel assad and his accomplices to stop the killing on their own.

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the moments when patrick dempsey pulled a teenager from a car.sing a crowbar and fire extinguisher. how he saved a life. >>> and good morning, everyone. from times square. george? you are on top of the world right now, my friend. what a spectacular sight. >> boy, i'll say. i am loving my job this morning, robin. it's absolutely awesome up here on the 100th floor of one world trade center. this view is so magnificent. look at this. i think we'll show you right now, spreading out all of the way uptown. you see most of midtown manhattan right there. i think in the distance, right in the middle. you should be able to see the empire state building. here's what is going to happen today. later today, this building is going to become the tallest building in new york city once again, inching above the empire state building. as you see here, you could not ask for a better day. the sun is shining, the wind has calmed down right now. and we're so high up, take a look down there. down there, you can see, barely, the statue of liberty. it's a tiny, little lady

when a teenager flipped his mustang in front of dempsey's home in malibu, dempsey jumped into actiona rivero. >> reporter: known for taking control in that seattle e.r., it turns out mcdreamy did the same thing without his scrubs. right in front of his house when a 17-year-old flipped his mustang, it was patrick dempsey to the rescue. >> i was scared for my life. >> reporter: no joke. within seconds the tv surgeon trades his scalpel for a crowbar, prying the boy out. the teenager looked up and asked -- >> are you famous? he said, yeah, i'm a doctor. i had faith in him, getting me out of the car setting me on the side of the road. >> reporter: after he got the boy out he called the teen's mother. >> he said this is patrick dempsey. i thought, mcdreamy? >> reporter: just the latest star turned super hero as if they don't have enough going for them already. >> seriously? it is like you are photo shopped. >> reporter: there was no special effects it was the real thing when ryan gosling plucked a woman from the path of a speeding taxi this spring. and there was that fight he broke up last

general dempsey, it looks like it's a real possibility that a post-assad government might potentially be dominated by a muslim brotherhood, as we saw, seems to be coming to pass in egypt. what do you think the major likely impacts will be on security of israel and other u.s. interests in the region, if that occurs? >> yeah. i wouldn't personally predict that it would be muslim brotherhood, but what we do know for a fact, just demographically, is that 70% of the syrian population is of the sunni confessional of islam and, therefore, you would have a pretty dramatic shift in, from a minority government and a majority outer power to majority in power, and i think there will be some -- some combination of conservative islamic parties secular. syria has quite a tradition of secularism that i wouldn't discount. and among the minority, you know, the kurds, the drus and the christians, who have been supported by the assad party, but i think they could be persuaded to become part of the government, and that's the point, i think. it's that in terms of looking towards helping identify the opposi

he said, no, um, this is patrick dempsey. and i thought, mcdreamy?cene dempsey has played out before. >> can we fix it? is it fixable? >> i'll see. he'll be free of pain. >> reporter: and just like most hollywood endings, the boy should make full recovery. escaping with just a concussion and an eye injury. dempsey's reps refused comment. >> i feel like i can change their story. >> reporter: but is one. >> i owe it to them to try. >> reporter: i'm happy he was there. things could have been a lot worse. >> you paged? >> reporter: for "good morning america," abbie boudreau, abc news, los angeles. >> he's a great guy. one of the good ones. >>> coming up, josh back in charge of "play of the day." thank goodness. >> by popular demand. >>> are we saying too young, too soon. a mom who says why letting her child wear makeup is just child's play. >>> remember the guy working in paradise. was it nirvana? a nightmare? go nowhere. [ heartbeat ] tell me i'm ready. that you look up to me. tell me you like spending time with me. ♪ that i'm doing this right. even if

secretary and general dempsey. i wanted to ask you more about the opposition groups and i think you have been quite clear that it is a diverse group and hard to read them in many ways, but is there one particular or several issues that you see them either fragmenting or coalescing? particularly as it would relate to trying to broker any kind of agreement with the assad regime short of eliminating it. >> as i have indicated, there are a number of groups involved in the opposition. it has not always been easy to get those groups to be able to coalesce. there are some outside syrian troops that are making an effort to do that. there has been better progress by other countries that have tried to, one way or another, provide assistance, to try to urge those groups to coalesce. there has been little more progress on that front, but it is still a difficult challenge. >> it read back to an earlier question about what is it seems so difficult to get the countries in the region to coalesce around a single, unifying idea. i t

secretary and general dempsey. we certainly appreciate your being here and all of your dedicated service. i wanted to ask you more about the opposition groups, and i think you've been quite clear that it's a diverse group and probably a little hard to read them in many ways. but are there -- is there one particular or several issues that you see them either fragmenting or coalescing? and particularly as it would relate to trying to broker any kind of an agreement with the assad regime short of eliminating it. >> as i've indicated, there are a number of groups that are involved in the opposition. it has not always been easy to get those groups to be able to coalesce. there are some outside syrian groups that are making an effort to do that. there has been better progress by other countries that have tried to one way or another provide assistance to try to urge those groups to coalesce, and there's ban little more progress in that front. but it's still a difficult challenge. is that fair? >> yeah. what i would add, c

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secretary and general dempsey. i wanted to ask you more about the opposition groups and i think you have been quite clear that it is a diverse group and hard to read them in many ways, but is there one particular or several issues that you see them either fragmenting or coalescing? particularly as it would relate to trying to broker any kind of agreement with the assad regime short of eliminating it. >> as i have indicated, there are a number of groups involved in the opposition. it has not always been easy to get those groups to be able to coalesce. there are some outside syrian troops that are making an effort to do that. there has been better progress by other countries that have tried to, one way or another, provide assistance, to try to urge those groups to coalesce. there has been little more progress on that front, but it is still a difficult challenge. >> it read back to an earlier question about what is it seems so difficult to get the countries in the region to coalesce around a single, unifying idea. i t

house armed services committee with questions to defense secretary panetta as well as general martin dempsey. >> mr. secretary, according to media reports this morning, the french president stated that action should be taken to establish humanitarian corridors. what are your views on this option. have you been aware of that? >> mr. chairman, you know, we've looked at a variety of options as to what could be done, including the possibility of developing humanitarian corridors, and, you know, again we're prepared to do whatever the international community ultimately agrees ought to be done, but clearly we had made plans along those lines. >> general dempsey, you stated that syria's chemical and biological weapons need to stay exactly where they are. what can be done and what success done to ensure that syria's chemical and biological stockpiles are secured? >> at this point, chairman, we are as i mentioned in my statement sharing information and intelligence with our regional partners and in the aggregate we feel we have a good understanding of the disposition, the current disposition of syria

general dempsey has made similar statements in the past. i want to ask you because last year's budget, republican budget, cut 280 -- around 2$240 billion from did i diplomacy and development assistance which your predecessor and admiral mullen and others said are important to our overall national security. if you can comment on whether you share the views of secretary gates on this issue. >> look, i think we all understand that a strong national security can't be just dependent on our military power and military weaponry and our military men and women. a strong national security is dependent on having a strong diplomatic arm, a strong development arm, a strong intelligence arm, and a strong capability to try to have a strong economy in the world. all of this is related to our national security, and i think if any one of these areas suffers cuts above and we understand yo others, it is going to damage our security just by virtue of the kind of broad approach we need to have to maintain the leadership position we have in the world. >> thank y

secretary and general dempsey, thank you so much for your testimony and thank you for your service. i join many others, i'm sure in appreciating your recognition that the unacceptable level of debt is a threat to our national security. and i hear that back at home as well. and thank you for making proposals that will implement efficiencies while keeping our military strong and our nation safe. i wanted to ask you about overseas contingency operations. the budget includes $44.2 billion per year from 2014 through 2022 as place holders for future war costs. now, mr. secretary, and general dempsey, you've stated that the forces are on track to take the lead responsibility for afghanistan's security. and you talked about that today. by the end of 2014. so assuming that that timeline holds, is it possible that we could have significantly fewer deployed troops in 2015 and beyond and could our costs be dramatically less than the $44.2 billion in those upcoming years? >> well, there's no question. i mean, we're running almost how much a year now for the war? >> we asked for 88. >> it's about

i totally missed it was it not the impression i meant to give i talked to general dempsey and it. pressure that that sentiment. arthur was exactly as good as rick santorum claiming that he said blog people instead of black people but i would like to think of this is paul ryan's bleier moment now surely afterwards rise made a far less scrutinized statement curious remarks about the white house's plan the called into question his own reputation take a look at this. my issue is i think that the president's budget on the pentagon is a budget driven strategy not a strategy driven budget he announced the number of the cuts you wanted for the pentagon and then he began the strategy review to conform to that number. and so there are two problems with this statement for one ryan is undermining his apology by calling dempsey a liar again on friday the general said the following about the white house plan he said this was very much a strategy driven process to which we map the budget if he still thinks of the generals lying their lives i'm just saying it now the second problem is the paul ry

. >> dempsey's brew pub is named after 1983 world series, rick dempsey. >> things from fish tacos to fish and chips and everything. oh, my god, you have never seen prepared as well as it has been here. and it's just a magnificent menu for everybody. >> reporter: on opening day, fans will eat some 53,000 hot dogs. drink 52,000 sodas and buy 15,000 soft pretzels. and chefs can't wait for you to try it all. >> it's opening day. it's like the best day of the year, fresh season, fresh start, fresh concept. so i can't wait. i can't wait. it's a great day. >> reporter: now, just to give you some perspective, we have been out here all week. and there was massive amount of construction taking place right where we're standing. unbelievable. they are clearing everything out. just putting the finishing touches on the bar. but guys, we can't wait to get our hands on all of that yummy and healthy food. back to you. >> we will sample some of it tomorrow, jessica, for sure. >> yeah. and then we'll go running. >> and then we'll do a -- yeah, we'll do a lap around the field there. how about that? >> y

week ryan said that he didn't think of generals were quote giving their true advice general martin dempsey chairman of the joint chiefs he didn't like one bit he fired back at ryan for calling military leaders collectively liars and you know i know generals aren't exactly renowned for their truth telling but in this case i want them to lie about having enough money so with the national spotlight right attempted to roll back from his gap and naturally the blogging class does absolutely love this one after all who doesn't like hearing politicians say that they misspoke so i think we have a clip of what he said here. i totally missed it was it not the person i meant to give i talked to general dempsey and i made an expression that that sentiment. art was exactly as good as rick santorum claiming that he said block people instead of black people but i would like to think of this is paul ryan's bleier moment now surely afterwards ride made a far less scrutinized statement curious remarks about the white house's plan but called into question his own reputation take a look at this. my issue is i

called the teen's mother. >> he said, "this is patrick dempsey," and i thought, mcdreamy?> reporter: it's just the latest star turned superhero. as if they don't have enough going for them already. >> seriously? it's like you're photoshopped. >> reporter: there was no special effects, it was the real thing when actor ryan gosling swept a woman from the path of a speeding taxi just this spring, and there was that fight he broke up last summer. >> danger. >> it's only part time. >> reporter: but it's not just the boys. >> jack! >> reporter: she was the one in distress in "titanic," but when billionaire richard branson's caribbean estate went up in flames last summer, it was winslet to the rescue. visiting, she swooped up his 90-year-old mother and carried her to safety. >> you think you're big tough men. let's see you do this. >> reporter: all of them real-life heroes, even without scripts. tanya rivero, abc news, new york. >> that is the broadcast for tonight. "good morning america" first thing in the morning and my pal diane sawyer right back here with "made in america" to

pendleton, dempsey got rid of long term seg in favor of a short-term segregation policy. >> in some casesgate an offender in the best interests of everybody else, to keep people safe and keep people from getting hurt. you have to find a balance between keeping people safe, yet also finding a way to offer treatment programs that will make a difference to turn that particular kid around. what are the options out there? what new ideas and creative programming can we come up with? you have to think outside the box and take risks, unfortunately. >> coming up, abel villegas struggles to come to grips with more time behind bars. >> it makes you miss your family a lot. you don't have that much freedom in here. you have people telling when you to eat, when to go to the restroom, when to sleep. it is not right. it is not nice. what makes the sleep number store different? the sleep number bed. the magic of this bed is that you're sleeping on something that conforms to your individual shape. wow! that feels really good. you can adjust it to whatever your needs are. so whatever you feel like, the slee

. >> superintendent mike dempsey is in charge of keeping staff safe while rehabilitating and educatingven the toughest teen offenders. >> juveniles are much more challenging and much more frustrating on a daily basis. >> when i walk away, that's it. so are you choosing for me to walk away? okay. >> they have a thought or an emotion and they will act on it immediately. and most times you can't, you don't ever see it coming. >> after he refused to come to the door and cuff up so we could get him out, we had to gather together an extraction team to get into his room so he wouldn't hurt himself. >> are you ready to cuff up? no. >> this generation of juveniles, they're a lot more reckless. they're probably ten times more reckless than an adult offender. they explode. they have their aggression moments. there's fighting and then it'ss over. and then they'll even apologize. all within a three-minute period. >> while cell extractions at pendleton are rare, the procedure is used in extreme circumstances to guarantee the safety of offenders and staff. >> everybody's in good shape. nobody's hurt?

patrick dempsey raced to rescue a teenager who became trapped in his car. >> and challenging kashi's all-natural labels. >> and we are going to summerlike tempe >> the john edwards trial and today andruw young's wife taking the stand. edwards used campaign money in order to hide his pregnant mistress is alleged. he used a guard portion of that money for himself. >> a small camera landed a california driver in big trouble. >> two bicyclists were taking a ride in berkeley when a car swerved into their path. the driver might have gotten away from it but the camera captured the license plate number. the police charged the driver. both of the bicyclists are said to be ok. and an actor turned real life hero after saving a teenager from a car crash. >> i had faith in him that he was saving me. >> "grey's anatomy" actor patrick dempsey took the teenager from his car. he flipped the mustang three times. the tv doctor used a crowbar pried the teen from his car. the teen suffered a concussion and eye injury but is expected to make a full recovery. >> adam is with us now as we get a look at the

dempsey wasn't done yet. you'll love this.hing was okay. she thought that he was just a paramedic or something until he identified himself. the first thing she thought of was mcdreamy. not the way he identified himself. he didn't say ma'am i'm not a doctor but i play one on tv. >> on to not such a nice story. mel gibson is talking about his temper. what so saying? >> yeah. i don't know how this will go for him. mel is trying to repair his image yet again. for the first time he's speaking out publicly with the audiotape where he loses his cool in such an uncool way at screen writer joe esterhouse. he joked maybe you don't know about this about me i have a little bit of temper. if you ask me, carol, mel is trying revive a career that doesn't seem to be surviving that temper he has and i think he may have well surpassed the three strikes and you're out rule by now. >> watched his previous movies and all i can think about is him yelling at people. it's just in my head. >> yeah. >> that's an actor's worse nightmare and i have exact

slide into dempsey's brew pub, a new addition. and we have been monitoring this, we can't go in, we need to have hard hats, we are looking to see what is happening. that is the newest edition. very cool, we want wait to come out here on friday, we'll definitely have to stop by on dempseys and check it out. >> we'll just look, jessica, since we'll be on the clock, right? >> yes, maybe after the game, we'll stop in. >> sounds like a plan, thank you jesse. >>> and will the orioles open with a victory? the complete opening day coverage this friday, the special live coverage of the orioles and the twins begins at 2:00 right here on wjz then. and guess what everybody? now a look at the new uniforms, here they are, nike showing the new version today with purple trim on the front of the collar instead of the black trim all the way around. so the big change purple on the collar. >> and we found other shots you can see actually on the nike website as well. lots -- >> yes, you can see it ends up there. >> and the cool gloves up there. >> yes

he temperatured along side jen martin dempsey, chairman of the joints chief of staff for an hour and 45 minutes. >> we will come to order. i was just informed that first votes could happen between 10:10 and 10:25. secretary has a hard time at 12:30. so we're going to be as expeditious as we possibly can here. good morning, ladies and gentlemen. the house armed as much as committees meets today to receive testimony on the security situation in syria from the secretary of defense, the honorable leon panetta and chairman of staff martin dempsey, form perp gentlemen, thank you for your distinguished service to our nation and thank you for being here today. the syrian conflict is in its second year and the situation sun certain and dire. as we continue a cease sfooir in place coming on the heels of horrifying violence at the hands of the assad regime yet even though assad is committed to the cease-fire, reports indicate that he continues to infrequent violence on the people. assad's crackdown has been including human rights violation, use of force against non-combatant civilians including

according to superintendent mike dempsey, jacob has no one or no place to take him in. >> it could beere being no parent, to there being no guardian, no relative that's willing to take the offender in.ç it could be that they've exhausted all of the other community placement treatment programs that were out there, and we're having to dig and try to find as best we can somebody else to take him. >> in his final comments about what he sees for his future, jacob reveals one last wrenching detail about the life he left behind. >> normal, good life for me? going back to school so i could finish my high school diploma, take care of my little girl, get married to my girl's mama. take care of them. pretty much normal.

general dempsey, thanks for our years of service and for being here. you've been in front of quite a few committees and have done this. i'm sure it's your favorite part of every single week. >> it is. >> i'm sure. >> secretary panetta yooufr, yo been on both sides of this. must be interesting to answer testimony looking at yourself looking back at you. i appreciate your decades of service as well. you stated a fact that many of vus stated in other areas as well. you can't just education, for instance. years and years of just throw more money at it and that will fix the problem. because there are issues. but continuing to throw money at it doesn't necessarily give you better outcomes. it takes some reforms of the systems and structures. i hear you are both saying the same thing with defense. there need to be some things that occur and that may not necessarily mean throwing more money at it. it may mean reforming systems and structures. so when i ask you about a couple of those. where are we as far as the total number of uniform when you mentioned force

so to that extent we let him down. >> reporter: chairman dempsey and secretary of defense leon panetta promised to hold people accountable if they violated the military code of conduct. >> whether our forces are in colombia or any other country or here in this country we expect them to abide by the highest standard of behavior. that's a requirement. >> reporter: tonight, a u.s. official tells cbs news that those members of the military that are accused of misconduct are actually heading home to the u.s. today and, scott, they say none of those under investigation will be allowed to do any future presidential travel. >> pelley: norah, thank you very much. in syria today, we saw that the cease-fire isn't holding. cell phone video posted online appears to show the city of homs under fire again from government artillery and tanks. bashar al-assad has been trying for more than a year to crush a popular uprising against his dictatorship. the u.n. has sent a small number of observers to syria to hold assad to his promise to stop the violence. elizabeth palmer is one of the few foreign journal