seals before they return to afghanistan where bin laden's body is flown to the aircraft carrier karl vincentn the arabian sea. prepared for burial. >> muslim prayers are said. >> i can't think of anything better for osama bin laden than to have met his end at the hands of the american military and to be buried at sea. that is exactly where he belongs. >> geraldo: it is 2:00 a.m. eastern time on the morning of may 3, 2011 when osama bin laden's body is committed to the sea. >> hold it. hold it. bin laden is dead. confirmed. urgent confirmed. bin laden is dead. multiple sources. osama bin laden is dead. happy days. happy days, everybody. >> yes! >> this is the greatest. this is the greatest night of my career. the bum is dead. the savage who hurt us so grievously and i am so blessed, i'm so privileged to be at this desk at this moment. >> the american people did not choose this fight. it came to our shores. and started with the senseless slaughter of our citizens. we will be relentless in the defense of our citizens and friends and allies and be true to the values that make us who we are. and

bin lauds's bullet riddled body is transferred to naval aircraft and thrown to karl vincent in the rarianh and wrap with a white sheet muslim prayers might be. >> i can't think of anything better for osama bin laden to meet his end at the hands of the american people and to do it at sea. >> it is 2 am eastern time when os lynn baud's body is committed to the see. >> bin laden is dead. bin laden is dead. confirmed urgent confirmed. bin laden is dead. multiple sources osama bin laden is dead. happy days. happy dayings everybody. this is the greatest.dy. this is the greatest night of my career. the bum is dead. the savage who hurt us so grievously. i am so blessed. i am so privileged to be at the desk at this moment. >> the american people did not choose this fight. it came to our shores. started with the senseless slaughter of our citizens. we will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. we will be true to the values that make us who we are. on nights like this one we can say to those families who have lost loved ones justice has been done. >> we have navy seals

. >> reporter: bin laden's body is flown to the uss karl vincent. hours the body is washed, wrapped in a white cloth and buried at sea. at 11:35 p.m. eastern time on sunday night, president obama speaks to the nation, delivering the news americans have waited a decade to hear. >> tonight, i can report to the american people and to the world this that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. >> reporter: a risky decision, a daring mission and soon the world would see bin laden as they never seen him before. uilds network all across america. we're adding new cell sites... increasing network capacity, and investing billions of dollars to improve your wireless network experience. from a single phone call to the most advanced data download, we're covering more people in more places than ever before in an effort to give you the best network possible. at&t. rethink possible. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i know what works differently than many other allergy medications. omnaris. omnaris, to the nose! did you know na

so he was brought on to the aircraft carrier karl vincent which was out in the north arabian sea.gious practices. he was wrapped in a white cloth. prayers were said. and translated in to arabic. the body was weighted, put on a planning and basically tipped out into the sea in terms of the physical. that's the end of osama bin laden. his pail to the militant world still remains to be seen. >> the helicopters, how far did they travel? was there a via point? because that's a long way to where a ship might be. >> reporter: i'm going to be very candid and say we didn't really know the answer to that yet. there has been discussion they came from the sea, there is also discussion they came from afghanistan. or even inside pakistan. inside pakistan is not likely because the military and the intelligence community is going to great lengths to say they did not inform pakistan about this assault mission. it there has been continuous drew, and you've report a lot on this, that the pakistani int intelligence services are infiltrated and that the word might have been leaked and bin laden might

the rights were conducted on the deck of the uss karl vincent in the arabian sea and we're told that all this will was done under islamic law. that bin laden's body was washed, that it was then wrapped in a white sheet, that prepared remarks were made by a military official and then translated into arabic by a mate difference speaker. at that point, bin laden's body was placed on a flat board, theboard was slowly raised and typed up and bin laden's body was allowed to simply slide off into the sea. >> chris, thank you. as i mentioned, i'm here at ground zero. we're actually inside ground zero, the site of al qaeda's biggest attack bringing down the twin towers on 9/11. an as you can imagine, the we could motion here has been incredible since word first spread that owes bisama bin lad dead. there were celebrations here overnight. we also saw them many other places where people were touched by these latest developments. less than an hour ago, some family members of 9/11 victims spoke about their feelings. >> he will not live to inspire anymore terrorists as a living person. and i plugs