. >> reporter: the southern afghan city of kandahar was a taliban stronghold. it now plays a key role in military oppression and the distribution of goods for the afghan government. over the past years, taliban militants have been intensifying their offensive in southern afghanistan including kandahar and the neighboring helmand province. afghan troops have been driven out of some areas. the atmosphere in kandahar is tense, as security has been tightened to prevent taliban insurgents from entering the city. our crew obtained special permission to report from an afghan special forces base nearby the city. orders are issued from the base to military units across southern afghanistan. troops spend many hours training every day. the elite special forces are taking on an increasingly important role in missions to destroy taliban targets. >> translator: we are getting weapons and training from u.s. troops. >> reporter: u.s. military officials take part in operational meetings at the base. u.s. military is focusing on southern afghanistan because a massive training ca

the perfect example, when we were in kandahar and balm. ma was elected. my guy i was fighting with, my kandahar security force came up to me and knew we were leaving. >> they knew. >> he came up to me said, you guys are leaving us, aren't you? i said, that's not my call, buddy. >> you knew early on is ynis wasn't the jv team. >> no. al qaeda in the maghreb was there. it goes back to winning elections. political correctness hurts us guys down range and causes death. >> good to see you. kris. >> you, too, brother. >> you want to tell everybody on tv what you did outside my radio studio today? >> should i show them? >> don't show. just tell them what you did. we're friends. what is the first thing you did? >> i gave you the bird. it's ranger love. >> ranger love. >> i'm protecting him. >>> later tonight here on "hannity" -- >> the politically correct policies of the white house are intruding right now in military, terrorism, law enforcement. it's all being politicized. >> the nra's wayne lapierre does not mince words when it comes to his feelings about the o

. >> reporter: dill said training in kandahar took over when he and others took the suspect down. >> we kind of wrestled him to the ground and we held him there until the cops arrived. >> reporter: the suspect first crashed his car into a bus by the lincoln memorial. then when we drove up on the sidewalk, his car broke down. he then allegedly tried to carjack several cars. that's when the construction wo workers detained him for police. police say they had to taser the man to get him into custody. >> it's been transporting to the hospital for evaluation. >> reporter: dill says he hopes the suspect can get the help he needs. was he strong? >> he was a pretty strong guy. very upset. incoherent. i hope that everything is >> reporter: that military veteran took some playful teasing by his fellow construction workers out here today. they were calling him a hero. he said, no, i'm just an average joe doing what he had to do faced with difficult situation. >>> we have some new information about that gunman behind the security scare at the white house. according to court documents, jesse oliv

so that we kandaharness the power and use it when the sun is down. >> part of the state director theility use renubble energy when she could still fight is what left of diablo canyon. >> nuclear waste highly radioactive. lethally for tens of thousands of years. that's going to have to be dealt with. >> in san francisco, jonathan bloom abc 7 news. >> good day to be in the solar power business i suppose. 100 today and even warmer air on the horizon. drew is here with more as we head into the first week of summer. drew. zi7Ñyi this afternoon. a lot of spots in the 90's. 93 lake fort. 94 santa rosa inland near 100 in concord. 98 livermore. 97 fairfield even oakland nice warm this afternoon san jose. up to 90 degrees. current temperatures right now we are still rather warm at the 9:00 o'clock hour.tl"kúbrentwoot 85 degrees right now. 80 in concord. cool off by the bay water.4 off the high of 82. 57 m san francisco. nice little sea breeze kicking in and novato 66 degrees. climate at prediction center which monitors the entire united states for extreme weather has placed much of the west

we're going to hear from him and how he says his training in kandahar helped him tackle and hold that suspect here on the bridge today. we're live in southwest. darcy spencer, news4. >>> the zika virus still isn't a big concern as far as mosquito borne transmission goes here into the continental u.s. local officials will be for the pest over the weekend. they'll start spraying in laurel on sunday. loudoun county officials are ramping up efforts to educate residents about mosquito prevention. 18 virginians have the virus. 17 have it in maryland. 4 have it in d.c. again, none of them contracted the virus here in the u.s. >>> of course, zika is on the minds of a lot of the olympic athletes who will be traveling to rio in august, but so is winning. chris gordon has our report from the whitewater slalom course in dickerson, maryland. >> reporter: they're getting ready for rio and they're not letting the zika virus stop them. >> we're an outdoor sport being in whitewater slalom. we're not unfamiliar with things like mosquitos. we're taking the same precautions, bringing the bug spray, bring

wemand province in which made such as american gains -- to alyssa degree kandahar, have been under enormousressure by the taliban and some districts have been taken back by the taliban. there are some in the north that are very worrisome as well. we have got to watch this or else, again, you could be back in a position where afghanistan is under enormous threat. keeping in mind, again, it was under the taliban, their contro l, al qaeda had the efforts there. with respect to the other locations, i think we have up gunned considerably the resources we are employing in syria, in iraq, in libya. we have actually streamlined the approval under the existing rules engagement for strikes. these are all, a lot of areas of progress. with increased the intelligence surveillance, reconnaissance -- the ability to fuse intelligence that is unique to the united states in an industrial-strength way that we can do that. we see real progress. charlie: there was a change in strategy? mr. petraeus: i think over time there was a recognition we were not achieving, we were not where we needed to be. i said this o

the kandahar bridging solution, this is a plan to provide electrical power to kandahar, should be completed soon. this was a top counterinsurgency priority. initiated in fiscal year 2011, the afghanistan infrastructure fund funded infrastructure projects in afghanistan to lock in security gains and main stain stability by providing -- maintain stability by providing basic essential infrastructure to the people of afghanistan. our appropriations act -- enacted last year was not to extend funding or add any new projects, but merely to have the authority to respond to out of scope adjustments on existing projects so they can be completed and functional for the afghan people. we of course realize we have infrastructure needs here at home in the united states, but what message does it send to the afghan people, yet to the world, that we would leave nine major power generation projects unfinished, including a dam? six of these projects are estimated to be completed by the end of the year, and only three -- with only three completions remaining. may i say the committee opposes the bill, likes to s

, every time i went to afghanistan, the chances of seeing something bad in kandahar were high, no matter. it is one of the things i look back and really -- i would have had more preparation. but it is part of the reason why i'm so excited to see some of the work that is being done either through the kdr or organizations like cameron's or other organization and ngos. i think the reverse is true, there is a lot we can learn from the ngo community and private sector on things they do for their employees that can then be applied in turn to civilians. >> justin, we hear a lot from service members and veterans that when they come home, they miss the battlefield, they miss the conflict. if you're familiar with sebastian younger's wojunger's talks a lot about that. it is not the war they miss, but they miss the brotherhood and the camaraderie and the sense of purpose. do you think there is a similar sense of purpose within frontline civilians in the sense of becoming addicted to conflict zones? >> absolutely. i wouldn't frame it that way, but i think it -- i think the general principle is true.

i gave that sermon on veterans day, which was on a sunday in 2012 at kandahar airfield to gathered community desperate community and other for worship it might tradition. that was about six weeks into my deployment when i had witnessed drones. i had learned about practices that violate my sense of what is right. and i decided it was my prerogative as a religious leader to address that in the context of a religious service, a form of limitation, a confession. and on that is what i did. and because i think the issues i raised are of concern for a larger audience for the all nation, i made that available through a church website that is sponsored in my denomination. amy: and talk about what happened then. how was it discovered and what was the response by the military? clucks two days after it appeared online, i was contacted by an army lawyer you had read the post. you forwarded it to my commander. i was summoned to the commander's office. he told me that my message doesn't support the mission. he told me that i make us look like the bad guys. he asked me to take it down -- which i did immedia

and a ground control station at an air base in germany flew an unarmed predator over a place near kandahar, afghanistan, called tarnac farms. the cia believed bin laden was living there as a guest of the taliban and, indeed, the air force predator crew found him. at that point, big safari's product to arm the predator -- project to arm the predator went into high gear. they quickly figured out how to put a missile called the hellfire on the predator and wired it so that the ground control station could aim and fire the missile from the other side of the planet. starting with a test launch from a predator strapped down to a concrete pad on january 23rd, 2001, the big safari team, the predator team, launched test shots from the air and at a target tank and then into a building the cia ordered constructed to find out whether hellfire missiles -- which were designed to destroy tanks -- would kill osama bin laden if fired into his residence in afghanistan. the arizona contractor apparently misread the specifications and built an adobe brick structure that bore little resemblance to the mud hous

helleman-- hellman province which we made such significant gains, kandahar and some of these others have been under enormous pressure by the taliban and some of the districts in those provinces have been taken back by the taliban. there is some in the north that are very, very worrisome as well. and we've got to watch this, or else again you could be back in a position where afghanistan sunday enormous threat. keeping in mind again it was under the taliban, their control that al-qaeda had the effort there. with respect to the other locations, i think we have actually up gunned very considerably the resources that we are employing in syria, in iraq, in libya. we have actually stream-lined the process of approval under the existing rules of engagement for strikes, these are all a lot of areas of progress. we have increased the intelligence surveillance, reconaissance aspects, the ability to infeuns intelligence that is almost unique to the united states in an industrial strength way that we can do that. so we see real progress. >> rose: why do you think there was a change in strategy? >> i

i was in ca kangahar trying to build up capacity of a particular area of kandahar. the judges were being killed in large measure. it was pretty hard to find anybody that wanted to be a gunnel. so we hardened a site. we put some american troops along with afghan soldiers to try to get a judiciary up in running and we had a couple police stations that wering overrun and we were trying to get people to go back into these police stations, and the night letter was delivered to some of the leaders who were buying into what we were doing. and it was -- you know, i don't speak their language, but these night letters were from the taliban saying we're watching you. the americans will leave you. they will leave you, and we will remember you. i know what the night letter looks like, because i saw one. but here's the difference: i never got one. can you imagine what it would be like if you woke up tomorrow and the enemy of your country trying to take your country down is telling you and your family, we're watching you. the we're coming after you, and you're hiding behind the gr

you expect this to take place in kandahar. not orlando. stuart: you interview donald trump this morning on fox and friends come on fox news literally less than three hours ago. they got the main points. let me tell you. reporter: he wants to double down even though this guy is an american citizen. he believes the president is sending the absolute wrong message because we are not aiming isis. we are talking about guns. he has doubled, tripled down. i asked these are major terror speech today around noon but hillary clinton and corruption. and that ties at the clinton foundation. he has switched. i asked him specifically who is the person consulting you. he spent 30 years in business, 40 years in business. you can't possibly be a terror expert. he's going to be specific and it will be interesting because he has been somebody stepping out front. hillary clinton came on this morning and i'm looking at her comment on "good morning america" talking about guns and assault weapons. you think that's a problem? stuart: it is islamic terror. this is