and hammid karzi casting a ballot today. and they are deciding who would suck sowed them.u.s.- afghan relationships have been strained sense karzi renowsed to sign a security contract. >> and that is on the moinds of the voters today going to the polls today. and len candidates on that balat and partial results expected tomorrow. and did it go smothly today. it was t snieshgs the rods were closed last night. and 7 million afghans were allowed to go to the polls and the young voters and female voters. and the afghan security forces did a good job of protecting the polling places. there are eight candidates vying for the opportunity to replace hammid karzi and they have all of the candidates trying to replace karzi will sign the bilateral security agreement when they take office. the pentagon announcing how many troops they will leave in afghanistan. 10-15,000 american troops will stay in the next decade and while the election went well, there is concern about fraud and corruption in the counting process. >> conner powell, live in afghanistan tonight. >> the 41st president c

the election marks the end of the hamid karzi's 13 years in power and now, whoever replaces him next will decide whether or not to sign a troop extension agreement. that would have 10,000 u.s. soldiers staying in afghanistan even after nato's combat mission ends later on this year. >> rasul, seen as karzi's top pick to replace him. not only is his vice presidential pick a woman. he is also unmarried, which is pretty unusual for afghan politics. his campaign has been hit by allegations of fraud, which is why he is calling on afghans to put their faith in the electoral process. >> he is up to the commission to decide. i am confident they will look to that very cable. any. >> president obama has offered his congratulations to the afghan people. in a statement, the president said thely represents, quote, another important milestone in afghan's taking full responsibility for their country as the united states and our partners draw down our forces adding, we look forward to continuing our partnership with the new government chosen by the afghan people on the basis of mutual respect and mut

this is the first democratic transfer of power in the country as hammut karzi steps down after 12 yearss president. in california, the ntsb is investigating a report that the fed ex truck that slammed into a bus full of college-bound teenagers was on fire before the accident actually happened. the truck clipped a nissan car and now the couple driving that nissan says the truck was already in flames. the couple survived but five teenagers, three chaperones and the driven of the bus and the truck died. one survivor disputes that the fed ex truck was on fire and said it was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> all i could see was fire, and i could hear the screams of the people who were burning alive and i could hear the boom of the bus when it exploded. >> miles hill has been reliving thursday's bus crash every single moment since it happened. he says it could have been prevented and retraces its steps over and over in his head. our bus was late. it was an hour late. we were supposed to leave at 6:30, all of the buses were supposed to leave at 6:30. >> miles said the bus had be

we'll ask whatsuccor to president hammid karzi.l results could be known a woke away. >>> you may have heard the name of brad ka siowa omi. he noticed that the trades were not going through at the price he was expecting. he anyhow he was think front runned but he didn't know how. he discovered high frequency traders spend hundreds of million to install highway speed footballer cable and allowed their trades to go through faster. this is how it was explained on sect minutes. >> orders were the bats exchange in cross the river. and high frequency traders were lying there in wait. >> that is how i am being front run. it gets there first and they boat me in all of the other exchanges. >> it took a section for his trade to roach the next exchanges and the high spode traders were able to get in and buy the sdpok get the price up and producing a profit of 1 or 2 pennies and it was happening millions of times a day. nbrad's store tore is told in flash boys back by motorcycle meek lewis. plose welcome, brad. >> this has blown up all over ame

it will be civil war and everybody will run to their swiss bank accounts and hammid karzi will be the last guy on the plane out. >> at this point what do we do? >> hiding that this is a real utand they are finding no good news to report over there. what is the next step? >> in afghanistan, there will be a new government. the guy who is running the lec is a good friend of mine, but it is to late. there are other forces that are looking for a civil war. and they know we are leaving and they are biding their time. >> kt mcfarland thank you for joaning us. >> nato stepping up his military resources in eastern europe as rush why gets more aggress you have. masked men sewing yet another government building in the east and this time city council offices. they are supporting ukraine's deposed president and one of their commanders say more men is on the weigh. >> a white house director will join us to repond about the census chaefrjs and resignation of kathleen sebelius and much more. >> and the irs under the spotlight. there are new questions if the tax agency can police itself. >> this the b

but karzi has hesitated to do that, i think partly because he was hoping to bring the tatable some peace process. >> hasn't worked out. i guess that he was trying to keep some of his cards close to his chest. nonetheless, he probably understands, too, that the bsa already signed eventually. >> we have seen a particularly high turnout in this election, 7 million out of 12 million voters reportedly coming out to vote today. what does that say about this election? do you think there will be the fears we had in 2009 of corruption and fraud? >> i think it's a great turnout. it's a great result. after what? 35 years now, a complete turmoil and mahem in afghanistan, there is seven million afghans of voting age who are prepared to not only believe in the future of their country but believe that they have or can have a say in the future of their country by choosing the next president. and i think that's remarkable. sure. there will be all sorts of allegation of fraud and no doubt there will be some proof this has taken place. this is anent fledgling dem democracy. as long as the person has a degr