>> all right, martha raddatz tracking changes at the top of the pentagon. martha, thank you. >>> and we are following two stories out of the nfl tonight. first, an emotional moment on capitol hill today. nfl executive and former player troy vincent speaking before a senate committee about his own experience with domestic violence, saying he watched his own mother become a victim, even calling 911. >> i relate to the 20 million victims, survivors of domestic violence, sexual abuse in every community across our great nation. >> honest moment on capitol hill today. >>> and this image tonight, just days after ray rice was reinstated by the nfl, this evening, ootsanother nfl star, e adrian peterson, heading into a hearing today, hoping to overturn his suspension. peterson was suspended for the rest of the season for disciplining his son with a switch. >>> now, to ferguson, missouri, tonight, and there's new fallout after the grand jury decided not to hand out an indictment for the police shooting of michael brown. we all saw the view lens that followed. this even

let's get right to abc's chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz. and martha, we're going to hear some very graphic detail about what happened and in some cases, even when there was no information gleaned? >> reporter: that's right, david. it's why those diplomatic and military facilities around the globe are bracing for potential violence targeting americans. because the report is that explosive. despite the risk, the white house said today it supports the release of the report, described as "extremely graphic" with shocking detail about waterboarding and other interrogation methods the cia conducted during the dark days after 9/11. as one person familiar with the report said, "it will sound bad. it is harsh." torture, sometimes continuing even after interrogators concluded there was no more information to gain. waterboarding, the simulated drowning demonstrated here, was halted years ago, but the majority senate intelligence committee findings conclude that the cia misled the bush administration about the methods and the results of the coercive int

mistake, david, there are things in this report that will shock many americans. >> all right, martha raddatz standing by for that report tonight. martha, thank you. >>> meanwhile, this evening, from the west, stunning imaging. a massive fire. and just look at this. from afar, it looked like a huge partal of downtown l.a. was on fire. that massive blaze engulching a construction site, that apartment complex disintegrating. this picture tells you just how intense that heat was. the road sign melted. hundreds of firefighters rushing to the scene. freeways shut down. and abc's brandi hitt on the ground for us tonight. >> reporter: an entire block of downtown los angeles engulfed in flames. >> heavy fire, multiple floors. >> reporter: the incredible inferno, tearing through an apartment building under construction. the timber affecting as kindling, creating a red hot wall of fire in minutes right across the street from a fire station. >> it was very hot to where you could feel it pinching on your ears and your neck. >> reporter: flames 40 feet above the seven-story building seen from miles away.

>> martha raddatz leading us off. martha, thank you. >>> tonight, there is new fallout in that massive hack attack on a major hollywood studio, those very private and raw e-mails written about actors, about the president. now made public. criticizing angelina jolie's talent, tom cruise, questions about whether he's too old for a certain role. even comments about president obama. well, tonight here, the apologies now pouring in, and the question, is it too late to repair the damage? abc's cecilia vega. >> hello north korea! >> reporter: at tonight's premiere of "the interview," there will be no interviews. >> you want us to kill the leader of north korea? >> yes. >> what? >> reporter: sony blocking press at the red carpet for its controversial comedy about north korea. even trying to shut down our camera. some of the biggest names in hollywood humiliated in this all-out cyber war. newly leaked stolen e-mails reportedly show a studio executive bashing star comedian kevin hart for demanding more money in exchange for twee

abc's chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz live from washington tonight. what do we know about him? >> reporter: david, he was deputy defense secretary up until a year ago. when he left, the chairman of the joint chiefs jokingly called him the most important, least known figure in washington a. with his prior pentagon experience, he does not budgets, bombs and the building very well. what the president is hoping that carter brings to the job that some perceived hagel did not is a real depth of knowledge and focus on isis and the problems in iraq and syria. of course, the drawdown in afghanistan is on the horizon, as well. but this is going to be a very critical period at the pentagon, with very little time for the president to try to turn things around. david? >> martha raddatz, thank you. >>> and we are following two stories out of the nfl tonight. first, an emotional moment on capitol hill today. nfl executive and former player troy vincent speaking before a senate commit eat the about his own experience with the domestic violence, saying he watched his

and our own martha raddatz asking the cia chief himself, does he think they went too far? so, let's get right to washington and martha, this was unprecedented. you had to give up your smartphone, all of your devices walking in? >> reporter: you certainly did, david. i've never been to a live press conference at the cia where you give up all electronics, cameras are restricted. but the director held this rare press conference to say that valuable information was gained from the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques, though he said the question remains whether the information could have been gained without those harsh methods. inside the lobby of the cia, where 111 stars memorialize those killed in the line of duty, john brennan reminded everyone how this all began. >> it was 8:46 a.m. on the morning of september 11th, 2001. >> reporter: and the extraordinary responsibility his agency took on in the aftermath. >> never again, we vowed. never again. >> reporter: brennan readily admitted that the cia was unprepared to handle a detention program and unauthorized interrogat

here now abc's martha raddatz. >> reporter: the world looked a little different from president obamaominated chuck hagel for secretary of defense with the bush era conflicts seemingly coming to an end, and a peace dividend to be reaped, the president decided reform minded hagel was the right choice for the job. >> as we complete your mission in afghanistan -- >> reporter: guiding the pentagon through tough budget cuts and restructuring. but it was rough out the gate. gaffes at the confirmation hearing. >> i've just been handed a note that i misspoke. >> reporter: and then the deluge of world crises. hagel veering way off administration talking points and hitting the panic button. >> they are an imminent threat turnover interest we have. >> reporter: by last month he sounded a bit awestruck about it all. >> i think we are living through one of these historic defining times. i think we are seeing a new world order. >> reporter: at a thumping in the midterms, the president's approval rating on foreign affairs at a record low 31%, and it was hagel, seemingly the odd man out in white hous

martha raddatz, abc news, washington. >>> new developments overnight in the security threat by hackers sony pictures. the new york premiere of "the interview" which had been scheduled for tomorrow night has been canceled now. the hackers calling themselves the guardians of peace even invoking 9/11 and warning moviegoers about seeing that film. sony leaving it up to theater owners whether to pull the movie. two movie chains are doing just that. the department of homeland security says there is no credible threat, however. >>> in australia, questions are raised about national security and how the gunman behind the terrifying siege managed to slip through the cracks. we're hearing from the first hostage to bolt from the cafe after six hours into the ordeal. 83-year-old jan o'brien saying he never felt so much relief as when he turned the corner and saw the police. abc's david wright has more from sydney. >> reporter: we're learning more about those frantic hours inside that cafe. 34-year-old tori johnson being hailed as a hero. witnesses say in cafe manager died trying to disarm the gunma

abc's martha raddatz has more. >> reporter: despite the risk, the white house supports the release ofhe report described as extremely graphic with shocking detail about waterboarding and other interrogation techniques the cia conducted during the dark days after 9/11. as one person familiar with the report said, it will sound bad. it is harsh. torture sometimes continuing even after interrogators concluded there was no more information to gain. waterboarding, the simulated drowning demonstrated here, was halted years ago. but the majority senate intelligence committee findings conclude that the cia misled the bush administration about the methods and the results of the coercive interrogation conducted at so-called black sites outside of the u.s. the former president is standing by the cia. >> these are patriots. and whatever the report says, if it diminishes their contributions to our country, it is way off base. >> reporter: the cia argues that waterboarding was key, not only in stopping future plots against america but finding osama bin laden. >> there's going to be disagreement at

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the latest now from abc's martha raddatz. >> reporter: u.s. facilities are on alert for the release of this still-top-secret torture report. >> the concern is over our military forces, our diplomats and other officials around the world, particularly in areas where there are hotspots in the middle east and north africa. >> reporter: all u.s. facilities are being urged to review security and brace for the reaction. >> this will, in fact, incite violence, and it's likely to cost someone their life. >> reporter: the cia and the bush administration have already faced heavy criticism for post-9/11 interrogation techniques at so-called black sites across the world. the use of waterboarding stopped many years ago, but according to those who have seen this report, ugly new details about those procedures will be revealed where prisoners were sexually demeaned and cia interrogators urged to continue even after concluding no more information could be gleaned. the muslim world has erupted many times before when the u.s. and the west have been accused of re

here's martha raddatz. >> reporter: this was a year the country veered from crises to crises. >> the malaysian flight shot down. >> reporter: from the reemergence of a cold war adversary bent on asserting its super power to the emergence of a new and brutal terror group bent on destruction. >> they have rampaged across cities and villages killing innocent unarmed civilians. >> reporter: brutality aimed not only at iraqis and syrians -- >> the fighting has just begun. >> reporter: but americans and the west. the islamic state isis grew from the remnants of al qaeda in iraq, quickly evolving into one of the best funded and most heavily armed terrorist organizations of all time. >> left unchecked, they've made it clear that they see us as a strategic enemy and they have the capability over time to pose a significant threat to us. >> reporter: despite initial reluctance by the white house to get dragged back into another middle east conflict, the president expanded air strikes from iraq into syria. pounding isis targets relentlessly, something we witnessed firsthand aboard the uss h.w. b

abc's chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz was there. >> reporter: inside the lobby of theia, where 111 stars memorialize those killed in the line of duty, john brennan reminded everyone how this all began. >> it was 8:46 a.m. an the morning of september 11th, 2001. >> reporter: and the extraordinary responsibility his agency took on in the aftermath. >> never again we vowed. never again. >> reporter: brennan readily admitted the cia was unprepared to handle a detention program, an unauthorized interrogation techniques were used that were abherrent. he said there were clear successes through the use of eit, the enhanced interrogation techniques, including finding osama bin laden. >> there was information obtained subsequent to the application of the eits from detainees from the was useful in the bin laden operation. >> reporter: while brennan now says it is unknowable whether information could have been gained another way, i asked whether interrogators ever told cia officials at the time. >> i cannot say with certainty whether or not individuals acted with complete honesty.

. >>> let's bring in martha raddatz and abc security analyst, matthew olson former director of national counter crisp center. martha, let me begin with you. we just heard this area described as the nerve center, really, of sydney. this is the kind of threatta has every capital in the world on edge. >> that's true, george. this is the new terror. one man, one gun, one flag can shut down a city, get presidents called, get worldwide attention. isis may have nothing to do with this. but it's exactly the kind of act they would like to see any radicals carry out. go to a place that not only gets attention with a tv network across from them, but one that everyone can identify with. can look at those images and say, that could be me. that is the definition of terrorism, george. >> and, matthew, as martha said, isis may have nothing to do can this. but they have posed a real threat to australia. >> yeah. this is a bit of concern for some time in australia. back in september, an isis leader and spokesperson called for australian muslims to carry out attacks, lone attacks, something like this. as

let's get right to abc's martha raddatz, leading us off tonight. martha? >> reporter: david, some of these detainees are al qaeda operatives suspected in taking part in the worst terrorist attacks in this country's history. the details of what american interrogators did to detainees are vivid and gruesome. stripped naked and diapered, one detainee chained to a wall for 17 straight days in a standing position, another threatened with a drill, one left to die in a cell from hypothermia. at least five detainees were hydrated or fed through a tube inserted into the colon to give the interrogator, quote, total control over the detainee. >> the interrogations of cia detainees were absolutely brutal, far worse than the cia represented them to policy-makers and others. >> reporter: the first terrorist detained, abu zubaydah, a key al qaeda operative, was waterboarded 83 times at a cia black site. after convulsing and vomitting, in one session he became completely unresponsive, with bubbles rising through his open, full mouth. kept in a coffin-size box for 11 days,

martha raddatz, abc news, washington. >>> investigators return to a maryland neighborhood later todayt what caused a small plane crash. six people were killed including a mother on maternity leave and her two sons. police say they found the woman huddled over her children in an upstairs bathroom. the three people on the plane were also killed. >>> another night of outrage over the deaths of eric garner and michael brown thousands of miles from where they were killed by police. angry protesters jammed the streets of berkeley, california, for a third straight night marching on to a busy interstate and backing uptraffic for miles. they also descended on a b.a.r.t. train station forcing officials to temporarily shut it down. >> things got a little rough at similar protests in new york. >> demonstrators interfered with fans heading to the brooklyn nets game against cleveland. some even got into brief shoving matches with police. the protesters -- the protests happened as will and kate were making their way to the game. abc's marci gonzalez is on the scene. good morning. >> reporter: good m

martha raddatz now. >> reporter: for nearly a year, say investigators, as the nuclear submarine "uss wyoming" went from deployment to deployment, a male officer on board secretly recording female officers as they undressed to enter the showers. and once he made the videos, says the navy, he passed them around via text. only one sailor reported him, 11 others watched the videos and said nothing. >> it runs counter to every value that we stand for in uniform. and i think navy leadership feels exactly the same way. >> reporter: especially troubling because the women are among the first to ever serve on submarines, the last warships to be integrated, largely because of the tight living quarters. we saw first hand, spending the night on a sub when the idea of integrating women was first discussed. >> woman and people it could be -- >> reporter: some subs so small they still haven't been integrated. the l.a. class submarines, just 33 feet wide, that's about the width of four parking spaces. the "uss wyoming" just a little bit bigger, but keep in mind, it can be at sea and underwater for at

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martha raddatz joins us with details. >> reporter: tom, it's a report described in shocking. and the very graphic descriptions of secret interrogations, some details never heard before and many people fear that revealing them will lead to violence. tonight, u.s. facilities worldwide are on the alert for a release of a still top secret torture report. >> the concern is over the military forces, diplomats and other officials around the world, where there are hot spots in the middle east and north africa. >> reporter: all u.s. facilities are being urged to review security and brace for the reaction. >> it will incite in fact violence. and it's likely to cost someone their life. >> reporter: the cia and the bush administration have already faced heavy criticism for the post-9/11 interrogation techniques at black sites across the world. the use of waterboarding stopped many years ago. but according to nose who have seen this report, ugly new details about those procedures will be revealed. where prisoners were sexually demeaned and they were urged to continue. even after the concl

martha raddatz, abc news, washington. >>> u.s.sies in high risk countries and americans living in those countries have been told to be on alert following the release of the cia report. president obama was asked if americans are in danger because of the new torture details. >> we've taken precautionary measures in our embassies and around the world. there's never a perfect time to release a report like this. but it was important for us to recognize that part of what sets us apart is when we do something wrong, we acknowledge it. >> the president, anyone using those torture methods today would be held accountable for breaking the law. >>> the northeast is in for another day of powerful weather as it brings downpours and dangerous rains from delaware to boston. there was a 17-car pile-up. ugly and messy as this appears to be, only sux people suffered minor injuries. this chain reaction crash, a similar pile-up in upstate new york, however, killed at least one person. the storm brought a mix of precipitation to new hampshire as well,

more from abc's martha raddatz. >> reporter: only a handful of gunmen, but the damage they inflictedstudents, sons, daughters, gone. the youngest, 2 years old, a visitor. the others, first graders through high school. this young man among the more than 120 wounded, but his mother, a teacher, one of many teachers killed. the taliban going room to room lobbing grenades, hunting the students down. pumping bullets into child after child as they lay on the floor. >> then what happened? what did you see? >> they were fighting. i was hiding. >> all the people, all the students, they're scared. they were getting down to hide theirself, but they couldn't. >> reporter: when the pakistani troops stormed the building the taliban set off suicide vests. desperate parents waited outside. many of them the very troops who came to help. these were mostly their children, singled out by the taliban to punish the pakistani troops for going on the offensive against militants in the nearby tribal areas. but this horrific attack on the innocent will likely backfire on the taliban. pakistan's government vowi

so, let's get right to abc's chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz, with us here in new york tonight and martha, the lebanese authorities are now pointing to dna tests? >> reporter: they certainly are. the mystery really deepens tonight about this woman and her relationship with al baghdadi. but lebanese officials are telling abc news that a dna test shows that the child who they say is a 9-year-old girl, is the biological daughter of al baghdadi. the officials say that dna from baghdadi had been obtained from his time in u.s. military custody in iraq in 2004. but a u.s. military official denies that, telling us tonight that they did not gather dna from prisoners at the time and we still don't have any solid evidence that the woman they are questioning is a wife or a former wife or a common law wife. but clearly, they are gathering whatever information they can that might put them one step closer to baghdadi. >> but no question, they are pressing her for answers. >> reporter: they certainly are. >> all right, martha, always great to have you in new york. >>> now to the white

tonight, the white house calling this a heinous attack and abc's chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz leading us off. >> reporter: it began just after 10:00 this morning and would not end for eight terrifying hours. there were only a handful of taliban gunmen, but the damage they inflicted is almost inconceivable. those 132 students, sons, daughters, gone. the youngest, 2 years old. a visitor. the others, first graders through high school. this young man among the more than 120 wounded, but his mother, a teacher, one of many teachers killed. the taliban going room to room, lobbing grenades, hunting the students down. pumping bullets into child after child as they lay on the floor. >> then what happened? what did you see? >> they were fighting. i was hiding. >> all the people, all the students, they're scared. they were getting down to hide themselves, but they couldn't. >> reporter: when the pakistani troops stormed the building, the taliban set off suicide vests. desperate parents waited outside, many of them the very troops who came to help. these were mostly their children, singled

. >>> let's go to washington now and abc's chief global affairs correspondent, martha raddatz. this is actually the second failed attempt to rescue luke somers. what kind of intelligence did these special operations folks have going in? >> reporter: it's obviously never perfect, dan. the raid in november was the best example of that. somers had been moved nearly a week before the raid took place, but this time they had the intelligence from drones, from communications intercepts and possibility human intelligence as well. but the s.e.a.l.s were on the enemy's time line. they felt they had to go in before the deadline and that put them at a disadvantage, not being able to choose a better moment for the operation, clearly the hostage takers expected a raid which is why they opened fire as soon as the s.e.a.l.s were detected. >> we're talking about al qaeda here not generally known for executing their prisoners. are they now ripping a page out of the isis playbook? >> reporter: it's very unusual for this branch of al qaeda. usually they use hostages for ransom. this does make you

. >> martha raddatz, abc news. thanks for taking the questions today, sir. say it's unknowable be whether eit's in fact led to useful information or it was just detainees who were subjected to that. was this a question that was asked at the time? this went on for five years. or were senior officials told, you couldn't get any information except through the eit's that was so valuable? and also, my second question, to you, back to thinking about those methods of interrogation that we all read about in the report. you say some are abhorrent. can you tell me when, to you, the officers or interrogators crossed the line? >> on your first question, which is a good one, what was the nature of the discussion and how did people decide to continue to go forward with these eit's. do they feel as that was the only way they were able to ob tape information. those are good questions. and i wish the committee took the opportunity to ask cia officers involved in the program at the time, what were you thinking. what did you consider? what was the calculus that you used as far

martha raddatz is tracking it. good morning, martha. >> reporter: george, this is a city used to violence. but nothing like this. there with children from 6 years old up to 18 years old. and many more than 100 dead. it began with a small number of taliban gunmen storming the school, going room to room, opening fire. suicide vests also used. the pakistani military began responding. parents flooding to the school to try to find their children. most of the dead are children of military officers. this morning, malala yousafzai, the pakistani girl who survived a taliban attack, issued a statement saying i'm heart broken by this cold blooded act of terror. but we will never be defeated. george? >> why this school, why now? >> reporter: the taliban quickly claimed responsibility, saying the attack was in revenge for the pakistani authorities going after the taliban and clearly they wanted to go after the military and their children. >> okay, thanks very much. this standoff continues. we're going to track the latest. >> we

martha raddatz has new information about this report. >> reporter: yes, good morning, george.it is a graphic descriptions of the so-called enhanced interrogations that will stand out in the report. and one section in particular that a person familiar with it says goes beyond even water boarding. that interrogation method that simulates drowning. this section describes methods there are sexually demeaning. but at the heart of the release is the conclusion for the majority democrats on the senate intelligence committee that the interrogations did not make the country safer. and that the cia misled the bush administration about the program, george. >> as, you know, martha, a number of former cia directors set to rebut the report. and we have seen former vice president dick cheney come out. >> reporter: as to the allegations that it was a rogue allegation, vice president cheney told "the new york times" i think that's all a bunch of hooey, the program was authorized. and to charges that president bush was misled by the cia, he says that is a crock. but u.s. officials remain very c

martha raddatz is tracking it. good morning. >> reporter: george. this is a city used to violence, but not like this. there are about a thousand children in the school, and more than 10% are gone this morning and many more suffered grievous wounds. it started with a small number of taliban gunmen storming into the school and opening fire. some were wearing suicide vested as well. the parents began flooding to the school while there was a massive shootout. while this is a private school, most military officers send their children to the school. the heartbreaking stories from the scene, the parent over a 14-year-old boy saying my dream has been killed. >> this school, why now? >> reporter: the taliban quickly claimed responsibility, saying the attack was in revenge for the pakistani authorities going after the taliban and clearly they wanted to go after the military and their children. >> okay, thanks very much. this standoff continues. we're going to track the latest. >> we will. >>> but now to the urgent manhunt outside of philadelphia, former marin

and martha raddatz is here with the very latest. >>> deadly plane crash, a small private jet goes downcrashing into three houses, sending them up in flames, killing a mother and her small children trapped in their home. investigators on the scene right now. did a bird strike cause the

. >> okay, so, let's bring in abc's martha raddatz who's in washington this morning, hosting "this week." this sounds like a guy who's pretty sure he's going to run. >> it certainly sounds like it. he releases e-mails, about there's more, beside that e-book, he's releasing e-mails. about 250,000 from his time as governor. he's trying to beat the opposition researchers. his family seems to be supportive in all of this. he's leaning in the direction of running. >> very quickly, will he have a problem winning the primaries? >> that's really the trickiest part of all this. one on his adviser's minds and his own, he doesn't want to annihilate the conservative base. he doesn't want to stray too far from his more centrist views. he said the republican nominee might have be willing to lose the primary to win the general. pretty tough do. >> tricky balance, martha, thank you. big show this morning. she'll be interviewing the former cia director michael hayden about that so-called enhanced techniques used after 9/11. that's coming up on "this week" later this morning right here on abc. >>> we're

. >> okay, so, let's bring in abc's martha raddatz who's in washington this morning, hosting "this week." martha, is it fair to say that this sounds like a guy who's pretty sure he's going to run? >> it certainly does sound that way, dan. there is more, besides that ebook he's releasing a trove of e-mails, about 250,000 of them from his time as governor. why you might say? he says it's transparency. but avid 2016 watchers say he's trying to beat the opposition researchers. also his family seems to be pretty supportive in all of this, as you know. so it does seem he's leaning in the direction of running. >> very quickly given that he's a centrist is he going to have a problem winning the primaries where there are a lot of very conservative voters? >> that's really the trickiest part of all this. one on his adviser's minds and his own, he doesn't want to alienate the conservative base but doesn't want to stray too far from his more centrist views. he said the republican nominee might have be willing to lose the primary to win the general. without violating your principles. pretty tough to

i'm martha raddatz, and we're tracking stories developing on several fronts, including nationwide protests against police brutality. saturday, tens of thousands hit the streets in new york and washington. the mother of michael brown taking part. events were mostly peaceful. although 23 people were arrested in boston. >>> but also, breaking this morning, alarms raised after a mid-air scare involving a russian military jet, a very close call putting a passenger plane at risk, the latest sign of that high-stakes tension growing between russia and the west. abc's terry moran on how it happened. >> reporter: russian military jets like these have been probing deeper and deeper into nato air space over europe in recent months and yesterday, a near-disaster. 11:15 a.m. local time, a flight over the baltic seas gets an urgent warning from swedish air traffic control. >> that unidentified traffic a russian military jet, flying with its transponder switched off. making it almost invisible to commercial traffic. the scandinavians can't see the russian in the skies and seconds later, a mid-air collisio

more from abc's martha raddatz. >> reporter: the mystery about this woman and a child who crossed out is deepening. lebanese officials say they now have dna proof that the child who they say is a 9-year-old girl, is the biological daughter of baghdadi. they say they got the dna sample from the u.s. when he was in a u.s. military camp, a prison, in iraq in 2004. but a u.s. military official says they did not gather dna samples at the time from any of the prisoners. but they are continuing to look at this woman, look at this child to see what kind of relationship they may have had with baghdadi. trying to gather any information they can that might give him more information about him. martha raddatz, abc news, new york. >>> the supreme court entered arguments in a case which could have far-reaching implications for pregnant workers. peggy young worked for u.p.s. when she became pregnant in 2006. with a note from her doctor, young asked for lighter duty to avoid lifting heavy packages. u.p.s. refused. young spoke to reporters after sitting through the court's arguments. >> i just want all

military bases on high alert, and martha raddatz is here with the latest. >>> deadly plane crash, a smallree houses, sending them up in fl flames, killing a mother and her two young children.

. >>> let's bring in martha raddatz and matthew olson. martha, let me begin with you. the nerve center of sydney. this is a threat that has every capital in the world on edge the. >> that's true, george. this is the new terror. one man, one gun, one flag can shut down a city, get presidents called, get worldwide attention. isis may have nothing to do with this. this is the kind of take that would like to see any radicals carry out. go to a place that gets attention with a tv network across from them, but one that everyone can identify with. can look at the images and say, that could be me. that is the definition of terrorism. >> isis may have nothing to do with this. but they have posed a threat to australia. >> this has been a concern for some time in australia. back in september, an isis leader and spokesperson called for australian muslims to carry out attacks like this. we know that for example 70 australians have actually travelled to syria to join yis isis according to security officials. >> how about here in the u.s.? have u.s. officials identified individuals h

abc's martha raddatz inside the press conference yesterday. martha, this was unprecedented and he was walking a very fine line. >> reporter: he is in a tough spot. he works for a president who does not support the extreme methods used on detainees and yet he wants to stand by his cia officers. but he readily admitted some of the harshest techniques were unauthorized and should be repudiated. but as to the authorized methods, the so-called eits or enhanced interrogation technique, one of which is waterboarding, he said the methods were successful. >> there was useful intelligence, valuable intelligence obtained from individuals who had been at some point been subjected to the eits. whether that could have been obtained without the use of those eits, is something, again, that is unknowable. >> reporter: now senator dianne feinstein who's committee released the report this week, welcomed brennan's comments but disagreed with that characterization, insisting that the information could have been obtained through other means, george. >> yeah, she dis

chief global affairs anchor martha raddatz has the latest. >> reporter: there is great concern this morningut potential for violence after the release of this shocking report. cables september to all diplomatic and military facilities urging them to review all security procedures. the cia and the bush administration have already faced extensive investigation and criticism for interrogation techniques that included waterboarding that was stopped years ago. this report coming out provides far more detail. never heard before. which is described to abc news as very graphic, george, and very disturbing. >> which is why there could be such a backlash. on the failed rescue attempt over the weekend, tragic details. the south african prisoner may have been on the verge of release. >> so sad. a south african humanitarian group was just hours away from pierre korkie's release. having negotiated for months. of course he, like american luke somers was executed in this raid by the al qaeda terrorists. this morning, the u.s. ambassador to south africa told the associated press that american officials were