about an hour later, another exploded 40 miles west of kirkuk. another exploded in central baghdad killing one person and injuring nine others. they believe insurgents targeted a convoy, and another exploded in a village market south of baghdad. no one is claiming responsibility for these attacks. >>> d.c. police trying to learn what led to a triple shooting at a gas station. this happened at the bp on benning road in east capitol street northeast last night. two men and a woman went to the hospital. police say someone fired shots inside the convenience store and took off. so far, no arrests. >>> former d.c. council chairman kwame brown will be spending the next six months in his home. a federal judge sentenced him to six months of house arrest yesterday. brown pled guilty earlier this year to bank fraud. he admits to lying about his income when applying for loans. brown apologized for his actions yesterday. he must also complete 400 hours of community service. >>> and a former maryland state delegate convicted of stealing from the general assemb

a similar bomb hit an iraqi army patrol west of kirkuk. >>> japanese television crew captured a rare funnel cloud in japan today. it was hovering near the port city of arita. it did not reach land. public broadcaster nhk says there was no damage, just some really cool pictures. >>> yesterday, nancy pelosi was asked by the media but says sorry, you're going to have to wait. >> while i love you all very dearly, i thought maybe i would talk to my own caucus before i shared that information with you. >> 72-year-old democrat easily won re-election in liberal san francisco district but party failed to score enough house seats to regain a majority so she may step down from her leadership post. the news conference in washington set for 7:00 our time. >>> president obama will speak with reporters. he plans to discuss the deadline for democratic and republican leaders to reach a budget deal that addresses the nation's debt. today he will talk to labor leaders including members of general electric, walmart and ford. >>> thea pharmacy in massachusetts distributed silicon injections that have bee

police said at least six devices exploded in baghdad and kirkuk on the eve to mark the best is these -- the festivities. >> the defense raised questions about robert bales' psychological problems and possible alcohol and drug use. he could face the death penalty. >> united nations has reviewed it demand for the u.s. to lift its embargo on cuba. the general assembly voted overwhelmingly to adopt a non- binding resolution calling for united nations members to consider the embargo illegal. only the u.s., israel, and an island state voted against. >> rome has been put on alert as the flooding has now reached the country's capital. >> meanwhile, people are beginning to clean up. the extent of the damage from the record flooding is becoming apparent. >> there was no rain on wednesday in central italy, but that was a small consolation to those affected by damage from the flooding. some areas in the region have not seen flooding is bad for 200 years. but back then, the river valleys were not built up. >> i have never seen anything like it. completely unexpected. it is breaking us. >> the reg

deadliest attack this morning, four bombs planted and went off one after the other in the city of kirkukblast killed seven and injured 24. at the news 4 live desk, angie goff, news 4. >>> and new from overnight, we learned a small plane crash killed three people in mississippi. the single engine plane crashed last night into a house in jackson causing a huge fire. all three pilots on board died. the person inside the home escaped with minor injuries. investigators say the plane had just taken off from a nearby airport on its way to an faa safety conference. the pilot asked permission to return to the airport shortly after takeoff, b it never made it back. >>> investigators believe gas fueled appliances may be the cause of the explosion in indianapolis. the women says she does not believe the furnace was the cause of the blast. she replaced the furnace recently and it was fine. she also smelled a strange odor but doesn't know if it was natural gas. citizens utility says they found no leaks in the neighborhood. >>> as of this morning, more than 10,000 people in long island, new york, are s

of at least twenty six people and injuring more than one hundred the deadliest blasts occurred in kirkuk where three car bombs killed nine and injured dozens another car bomb targeting a number called boy blew up in baghdad while a police station and an army patrol were attacked in law school the state of deadly assaults the spate of deadly assault i should say happened in iraq as a rock prepares to celebrate the islamic new year. the you are skum pain in afghanistan has suffered a military grade blow with at least two generals and veterans of the intervention falling from grace after the resignation of former commander and cia chief over there where the current are going campaign commando is now under investigation over e-mails with a woman linked above a man. reports. in the papers here in afghanistan for transit star on battlefields a failed cia by an affair the situation the reaction on the ground has been one of outrage people are really quite confused by this this whole scandal one of the comments that i heard from a person who wish to be anonymous in the foreign ministry is office

baghdad kabul targeted a senior general killing a guard and his envoy in the multiethnic city of kirkuk nine were killed in four civil tenuous blasts ten were also killed in a marketplace in a village south of the capital and there were more detonations in other villages though without any fatalities the attacks come on the eve of the islamic new year festival a special date for shia muslims who are the prime target for al-qaeda. jordan has seen mass protests after the country's prime minister announced fuel prices would rise at least two thousand people flooded the main square of the capital supported by demonstrators and other cities across the country they were calling for a popular revolution on criticizing king abdullah the second which is punishable by jail under jordan's new laws. very quickly here on our team back to our top story here we having what appears to be and is ready defense forces strike on gaza reports coming in now of several large explosions this apparently in response israeli defense forces responding to the killing of another of a leading hamas commander also rep

a car bomb targeting a senior general killed in the garden his convoy in the multi-ethnic city of kirkuk knowing killed in four civil ten years the last ten were also killed in a marketplace in a village just south of the capital and yes there were more detonations in other villages without fatal the t. s. and the attacks come on the eve of the islamic new year festival a special date for shia muslims who are the prime target of al qaeda. but this just in gaza is the governing party hamas says its military leader ahmed jabari was killed today they say it was a targeted assassination by israel which has been staging airstrikes on gaza for the past week or certainly more on this as we get it here on. our tour here we are out to you in just a couple of minutes our special report business but you can stay with us for that i'm. looking at some talks you simply do not believe the const baek and goodness how they can run oh. it's an international sled dog race with those driving the dogs. coming from as far away as a strength in canada and the us they come to russia and everybody is so very fri

four bombs planted in cars exploded one after the other in kirkuk. another exploded in central baghdad. that killed one person and injured nine others. iraqi investigators believe insurgents targeted a military convoy. no one has claimed responsibility. >>> a soldier accused of going on a rampage and killing 15 villagers could face the death penalty. he slipped away from his remote village in afghanistan and attacked people living in the kandahar province. the defense argued there is not enough evidence in this case. bales did not testify in the preliminary hearing. a three-star general will decide if a death penalty case can go forward. >>> a new survey shows that most afghans believe their country is headed in the right direction but still worry about a lack of security from the 11-year war. most backed efforts to negotiate and reconcile with armed insurgent groups. only 30% sympathize with guerrillas. the international nonprofit group asia foupdation conducted the poll with more than 6,200 people across afghanistan. >>> a small plane crashed killi

a multiple explosions were reported in at least four different areas, including baghdad and kirkuk. israel and palestinian leaders in gaza have agreed to attack -- agreed to a tacit truce following days of violence in the gaza strip. at least seven palestinians have been killed in israeli attacks on gaza since saturday. eight israeli civilians have also been wounded by palestinian rockets. the temporary ceasefire was brokered by the egyptian government, but both sides say they're prepared to resume attacks if it fails. the united nations general assembly has voted overwhelmingly to condemn the u.s. embargo against cuba for the 21st year in a row. the final vote was 188 to 3, with only israel and the pacific island state of palau joining the united states. u.s. envoy abroad -- robert goddard urged fellow general assembly delegates to reject the measure. >> this resolution also serves to distract the real problems facing the cuban people, therefore, my delegation will oppose it. we encourage this body to support the desires of the cuban people to determine their own future freely. by

so i did a tour in balad in '05, and i did a tour in kirkuk in '06.mal day is you're there at the base, and you get called, and you take apart one, two, three ieds a day. you take apart car bombs n. kirkuk we had, we went through a stretch where we had a lot of car bombs. we had two a day that came every afternoon. out of the 50 something that we had over the course of those couple weeks, we managed to take apart one. 49 of them detonated. so then there's that other part of the job which is being a little bit like csi. you go, and you look at the scene, and you try to figure out what it was and who the target was and what kind of bomb they used. you just collect this evidence day by day, and you put it in the report, and nobody seemed to care, and it was groundhog day, and you did that every day until you went home. so your mission was if we can't stop the car bombs and the ieds from being put out and if all we're doing is reacting like the fire d., then our job is to everybody comes home. all 30 of us went together, and all 30 of us will come back. s