arrival the us in the mideast, establish a stronghold in the mideast for obviously challenge the unitedstates as a new international order, us leadership, or start a knew cold war, marco rubio, challenge the us leadership. rather, is it possible that what is going on, including crimea, including syrian out are these almost bluff like demonstrations we are big and back and you have to listen to us. we tried to tell you. we tried to tell you all the time. you can't make these decisions about nations in theirand there leaders and regime change in stuff without thinking about the consequences, especially without thinking about how it might impact someone else so we have to send the message. for instance, in the case of syria, here is what happens when a country goes around and do something without worrying about the other guy. how do you like it? now we are all obsessed. russia's going to screw us up in the mideast and syria. it is basically that message , how do you like that? but you are not intending to commit big forces. they cannot. russia can't save a sod. they can't defeat ii sil. th

>>> plus -- calls for a day of rage in the mideast and the wave of violent attacks in the mideast show no signs of slowing down. >>> also -- dash cam footage captures the moment a car clips a truck and goes airborne. it's all happening now. >>> well, we begin with the spotlight on the benghazi scandal. hillary clinton's top aide going behind closed doors to face questioning. it left four americans dead including our ambassador chris stephens. welcome to "happening now." >>> huma abedin will be appearing before the committee before hillary clinton. our correspondent ed henry live from the bureau with that. ed. >> a lot of tension from houuma abed abedin's hearing. what i think you really see is the clinton campaign is trying to jump on any little thing the republicans are doing around these very little bits of testimony to try and build on their case that this is all political because of those statements, of course, recently by house majority leader kevin mccarthy and others suggesting that maybe this is not about getting truth of benghazi but it's about beating up on hillary clinton po

>>> plus -- calls for a day of rage in the mideast and the wave of violent attacks in the mideast showwing

easier going into the mideast. they got kicked out.is easier to go back in the mideast then it wasn't ukraine. trish: that is the scary thing. watch out in the middle east. you have a new player. that player is aggressive, smart and does not like the united states. knows he is playing against a weak president. trish: boone pickens, thank you very much. good to see you. weighing in on the oil industry. a fan on crude oil. repealing the ban. it benefits the national security. it could raise gas prices. joining me right now is peter barnes. the whole oil export plan, look, i have to say, this is a global market. we should be able to sell this stuff globally. why will we have a ban on something in the restrictive marketplace? >> passing with overwhelming republican support. trish, the bill faces an uphill fight in the senate. at the white house for the president threatening to veto it. talking about that with boone pickens. thanks to fracking technology. producing nine and a half barrels a day. a 70% jump from just five years ago. critics

as the death toll on both sides continues to rise -- secretary of state john kerry will meet with mideast leaders separately this week -- in an effort to ease tension in the region. jonathan vigliotti cbs news tel aviv. jake>> israeli security officials just identified the person who shot up that bus station sunday as a 21 - year - old arab citizen of israel. jake>> sioux city fire rescue had a busy weekend... just before noon saturday... firefighters were called to a fire in the 2400 block of williams avenue. just before noon saturday... firefighters were called to a fire in the 2400 block of williams avenue. there was a fire in the ventilation system of a vehicle paint booth. turns out sparks from welding inside started *filters* in the ventilation system on fire. no one was hurt. then just after 6 o'clock saturday night... there was a fire in the 1500 block of silver street. it was a home on fire... it didn't take long to get put out... no one was inside at the time. then firefighters had to come back just after midnight sunday morning... the fire had re - ignited. as of now... firefig

with russiall stuck is going to screw us up in the mideast. it is basically that message. commit not intending to big forces to syria. russia cannot save a sod or defeat faisal. there's nothing the russians can do in my opinion that we have failed to do. all they can do is make people think that and get worried about it. crimea, a nice, quick operation. , if you miss calculate, ukraine, that's a different story. is important -- context,agan off you're trying to do things that give people the impression you have a list power -- the potential for miscalculation and --perception that's misperception -- that is a demonstration. we didn't mean to conquer half of ukraine. risk.s a real to avoid?e do is there anything we can do to avoid these misperceptions? steven: i agree with a very important point cliff just made -- where is the silver bullet? that the u.s. military has not been able to apply? that seems to me the whole risk of this venture -- if they cannot predict success and i think most people think they are going to fail, they are starting on a voyage doomed from the sta

that is what we had no military help in place even though it was a tinderbox in that part of the mideast yet hillary clinton says in her book, we were prepared for 9/11. so either you were prepared or you weren't. if you were prepared, where was the military help? if you weren't prepared, why not? i would want to sort out those conflicting stories. host: we will hear from other clinton tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern time before the select committee's on benghazi and we will have coverage on c-span3, c-span radio and c-span.org. in is expected to be sitting that chair front to eight hours of testimony from her and the questioning coming from those that serve on a committee. "the washington post" reporting libya has failed to agree on a unity government plan. they note the latest turn of post-revolution past comes exactly four years after rebels had told -- hunted down and killed former dictator muammar gaddafi, marking a bloody end to the strongman's long role and punctuating the nato air campaign that is seen at the time as a model intervention in the middle east. and here we are

. >> mideast crisis. >> we don't want troops on the ground in syria. i never said that. >> i believe that a no fly zone in syria at this time actually secretary would be a mistake. >> and benghazi, and clinton private e-mails, bernie sanders to the resident crew. the american people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn e-mails. >> thank you. thank you. >> enough of the e-mails. let's talk about the real issues fairsing america. >> sanders and clinton holding their own in the democrat's first debate. >> social media was on fire during the two hour exchange. facebook says 4.2 million people in the u.s. made over ten million debate-related interactions and twitter released its top moments. the first happened just as republican front runner donald trump tweeted, sorry there is no star on the stage tonight. judge for yourself. >> in my view, secretary clinton, you do not -- congress does not regulate what wall street. wall street regulates congress. and we have got to break off going to them and saying please do the right thing. it is kind of naive

brothers and their interests in oil and gas, of casino magnate sheldon adelson's determination to get a mideast hawk into the white house. we're all onto it. we know the system isn't on the level. we know we get one vote and the people like the koch brothers and shelley adelson get the equivalent of 100 million votes, the amount mr. casino gave to republicans the last election. do you think it doesn't matter when someone puts money in the pockets of supposedly upright presidential candidates? do you think over the table bribery in the hundreds of millions is less corrupting than the passion of envelopes in back rooms? how do we have any idea what the candidates' personal position on new energy source when's that candidate is getting bankrolled by the koch brothers in how do we have any idea what the best judgment of a candidate is on the mideast when their pockets are stuffed with sheldon adelson's casino wealth? we don't. we learned it in watergate, follow the money the guy said, follow the main. in politics it will tell you where the candidate is going to show up singing for his supper. on th

. >> secretary kerry will meet with mideast leaders in an effort to relieve tensions in the region. more than 48 palestinians and eight israelis have died in recent violence. >>> injured airman spencer stone continues to improve after being stabbed multiple times out of a sacramento bar this earlier. kovr caught up with stone at his home on carmichael yesterday. they did not want to speak on camera but tell a reporter he still in pain and doing the best he can. stone has been hailed as a hero for taking down a suspected terrorist on a train to paris. up and down the street, neighbors are flying the american flag in his honor. >> he had a friend that was so excited, she was a girl, she was a woman. so excited. she came down all the doors and said, you know, now you've got to get your flag out. i said, i don't have a flag. [ laughs ] so anyway, i got a flat the next day. >> stone sat with a police sketch artist for hours to come up with these images of alleged attackers. they are the ones wearing the white shirts in a surveillance video from a nearby liquor store that got away in a bl

in the mideast, violent clashes rising. fire. >>> an awesome site of the northern lights and much more. "early today" starts right now. good morning on this wednesday. thanks for joining usx >>> nuclear smuglers in eastern europe trying to sell radio including isis. four attempts have been interrupted in the past five years all in a soviet state. instead of drugs, they are seizing material like bomb grade uranium uranium. there are huge shortcomings. king pins have gotten away while other smugglers escape lengthy sentences. and declining relations between russia and the u.s. means less a cooperation between these two. and a buyer was trying to get information about a materials to >>> the latest flair up between israel and palestinian followed a week of a killings on both sides. palestinianens have violently protested and been met with force. a funeral for a palestinian boy shot and killed on monday p. and they threw rocks a at israel forces. and israel prime minister says he'll use a quote strong hand to quell future violence. >>> it was another nervous night for parts of south carolin

. >> reporter: -->> secretary kerry will meet with mideast leaders in an effort to relieve tensions in region. more than 40 palestinians and eight israelis have died in recent violence. >>> in a few hours, san francisco police will hold a community meeting about an officer involved shooting that left one man dead. a sergeant shot and killed 27- year-old herbert benidas your twitter headquarters in the midmarket area thursday. police say he was trying to arrest benidas for throwing bottles in the street, when he fought back and went for the sergeants gun. they plan to get more details today at noon at bill graham civic auditorium. >>> san francisco police chief gre suhr is discussing violent crimes involving stolen guns. he told anne makovec gun crimes -- conduct is harder to punish than people think. >> reporter: if someone is caught on the street with a stolen gun -- >> they would get a ticket. >> reporter: san francisco police chief gre suhr explained the rules on kpix 5 sunday morning explaining the punishment depends on how much the gun is worth. >> since prop 47 in november last y

new evidence that russia is taking its military campaign in the mideast to a dangerous new level.mlin not only increased the number of air strikes over the weekend, but reports suggest that russian ground troops are now scretreaming into syria, as well as. it's not just troops crossing the border. those rocket systems are considered extremely accurate and lethal and four are now in syria under russian control. russia has been insisting a large ground offensive is not likely, but one u.s. official told fox news you don't bring that kind of stuff unless you plan to use it. colonel tony shaffer is a senior fellow at the london center and pete heckseth is a iraq war veteran. what we've seen in terms of the russian effort is similar to what we saw last week. we'll put the board where you can see the targets. see that yellow area? that's controlled by the rebels. that's where all the little red strikes are, mostly in that rebel controlled area. the green is controlled by isis. two. two efforts there. everything else is focused on the rebels. so the thought, colonel, is they did a couple

what it might take to calm mideast tensions after intense conflicts ones that go back generations. we're struggling. my schedule is erratic. my hours cut. and so are my benefits. we can't survive on these wages. we need change now. real change. to improve the lives of millions of workers. to rebuild the middle class. because our families deserve better. so hillary! bernie! and trump and republicans, you too! are you with us? are you? >>> welcome back to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we're going to continue our politics lead on the republican side now. we have a brand new cnn/orc poll out of nevada. and another one out of south carolina. they both show donald trump holding a double-digit lead. trump is registering at 38% support in nevada to dr. ben carson's 22%. in south carolina trump doubles carson's support 36% to carson's 18%. there are other candidates there as well. they're all in single digits. let's get right to cnn's sara murray at a donald trump event in richmond, virginia. sara, these are some big leads for mr. trump. >> reporter: absolutely. i'm sure when donald trump ge

he said it might be better if some fallen dictators in the mideast, gadhafi, hussein, were still in powerhis own words. >> libya, look what we did there, it's a mess. look at saddam hussein with iraq, look what we did there. it's a mess. >> you think the middle east would be better if gadhafi, saddam -- if saddam and gadhafi were still there -- do you think it would be safer? >> it's not even a contest, chuck. iraq is a disaster. >> peter, can you set the record straight on that one? what does history tell us? >> i tremble before saying this but i think there's something to what donald trump is saying. in fact, the person who said it before was rand paul. what's interesting about trump is even though he's often way off in left field or right field, he kind of marches to his own drummer. what he's doing here is criticizing obama on the one hand for the libya, toppling, and attacking george w. bush for iraq, and basely saying we would be better off if we intervened in the middle east less. it's a complicated summ ed subj. i frankly don't think donald trump on the specifics knows what he's t

. >> does russia really want to get embroiled in the mideast lined up against the u.s., turkey, and the islamic state? >> putin doesn't think there's really any real beef behind this coalition beginning in washington. he thinks as he bullies his way forward, everybody's going to fall back. putin's a guy all about intentions. he doesn't think that president obama intends to do anything but back down. >> thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> in other news now, the oil company b.p. is to pay the u.s. government and american states $20 million to pay for damages arising from the oil spill five years ago. it's the largest settlement in american histories. oscar pistorius must remain in jail and not transferred after a decision to grant him parole was delayed. he was jailed in 2014 for the culpable homicide of reeva steenkamp. his release has been blocked. >> nine people have died in floods in the u.s. united states, the u.s. state of south carolina. rain continued to fall and roads were closed. torrential rains were made worse by connections to hurricane joaquin. u.s. coast gu

in the mideast, violentlashes as tensions rise between israelis and palestinians. an awesome sight of a whale enjoying the northern lights. that and more. "early today" starts now. >> i'm dara brown. a chilling new investigation is shining light on an underground black market. trying to sell radioactive materials to terrorists, including isis. four attempts have been interrupted in the past five years. the videos look almost like drug busts but instead of drugs fbi and authorities. kingpins have gotten away while others escape lengthy sentences. and there is another concern. declining relations between russia and the west means less cooperation from the two on this front. that is a scary thought and here is why. in the most recent case in february a smuggler was specifically seeking an islamic state buyer for a radioactive material that could be used to make a dirty bomb. the fbi and white house declined to comment. >>> and right now escalating tensions and violence across the west bank. the latest flare up between israel and palestine follows a week of killing on

pointman on the mideast peace process for george h.w. bush and bill clinton.he brand new book available at bookstores and amazon. this is not organized. >> that's right. the problem is in the first intafada, you actually had what was called the children of the stones and it was organized by a group, the fatah activists. they created a network throughout the territories and the west bank and gaza and they were the ones largely responsible. the second intifada which was characterized by bombings more than anything else, that was organized largely by arafat to begin with but also hamas. very structured, everything was planned. you had something that took on a life of its own when you had funerals that fed a lot more of this. but it was organized. this is not organized. here you're looking at individuals, and the ages are typically between the age of 15 and 25. >> 15 to 25. >> 15 and 25. yesterday you had ha 15-year-old stab an israeli kid that was 13. >> what's feeding this? >> a combination of things. a lot of frustration. a lot of anger. for all those basically

apple is opening its first stores in the mideast. arab emirates in. tesla updated thousands of its new cars with featuresover night owners of the model s. will find it stocked with self-driving features. it can steer itself, change lanes and drive at highway speeds and even slow to a stop if the driver false asleep. the new featuressures are not behind to replace the driver behind the wheel but you feel like it's headed in that direction. >> then take naps on your way to work. >> ahead here on. news, two retail giants going head to head in time for the holiday shopping season. what the this could mean for you. >> it's being called cell phone c.p.r. how you can use your mobile device to save a life. >> tough love in connecticut. the aunt that sued her nephew is speaking out about why she really filed the lawsuit. >> president obama making a major announcement about the car in afghanistan that. is -- that is all coming up on 7 news at 5:00. stay with us. we need to disrupt the old order in washington, dc. we can do a lot better by applying conservative

mideast policy. the f.b.i. and secret service are investigating. in the newsroom, jadiann thompson, 7 news. >> a plot twist in the case of former palestinian oscar pistorius who is free from prison after serving a he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for quilling his girl friend. he was sentenced to five years in prison and served less than one year. >> the family pants to make the point that oscar sentence continues. and that is the key point here. >> will be allowed to go to church, work, no social functions. he won't be able to consume alcohol. no drugs. and definitelily no guns. >> sources close to the victim's family say they're upset pistorius was released so early. prosecutors are appealing the verdict looking for a murder conviction. >> still ahead digging for history, scientists searching for clues in the city's past. what they're hoping to uncover on the common. >> some of boston's most iconic athletes with a big surprise at children's hospital. >> a case of road rage in rehoboth, a man accused of pulling a hatchet on a fellow dri

the state department says kerry was planning to visit europe this weekend; the side trip to the mideast was added because of the attacks. heather: pam crois here with the growing trind. disturbed by repeated mass violence who wants a simple tool in every cool school and a empowers school workers to save lives. >> hard lay week oar month goes by, that there is not enough mass shooting event or mass casualty event. david king never thought he would be here preparing school nurses for the hov rick are incident. the mass general surgeon finished in 2013 before the explosion then spent hours treating the wounded. >> we learned it at the navy yard. we can and should do something. if he is teaching school nurses to use soldiers they car fly bat. >> the nurses believe the nothing and the tight save a life if they are confronted with that situation. mary: the movement is growing. >> they are the first responders. right? they are the immediated responders to those incidents. >> we're in a society that is not as simple as it onces a. guns are going to be there. violence of course to exist in the c

. >>> secretary of state john kerry heads to europe and the mideast today hoping his meetings with israeli and palestinian leaders can help stop the rising violence there. >>> russian president vladimir putin and syrian leader bashar al assad have held a secret meeting in moscow. their discussions yesterday centered on the continuation of russia's military campaign in syria. >>> and taking a look at today's weather, heavy rain in the southwest all the way up to deer. showers around the great lakes and much warmer than usual along the mid-atlantic states. >>> and d finally is morning we've already told you about some of the stuff that they got right and they got wrong in "back to the future ii" but we >> oh, the delorean. you can have one just like the one in theilm but it comes at a price. darren rovell explains. >> we're just heading towards hill valley, california, at 4:29 p.m. on wednesday, october 21st, 2015. >> reporter: well, we're finally here. the future as imagined in the 19 film "back to the future ii." the are no flying cars, and "j"jaws" stopped way before 19. but the cubs c co

. >>> in the mideast tonight at least four palestinians are killed after attempted knife attacks on israelis. for the first time in more than a decade israeli soldiers are being deployed to city centers. hebron is the latest flash point of violence. >> reporter: troops stepped up patrol after a wave of violent attacks in the west bank. attempted knife attacks on israeli civilians and police have left several palestinians dead. the latest point of unrest is the city of hebron where a few hundred jewish settlers live in close proximity to tens of thousands of palestinians. scenes like this are not uncommon but have flared up in recent weeks. we've seen a lot of palestinians throwing stones, but they are little match for the israeli army. the violence began more than a month ago and has been fueled by rumors that israel was planning to restrict palestinian access to the reveered mosque. meanwhile hundreds of pro- palestinian supporters protested outside the israeli embassy in london. in a sign of unity, jews and arabs marched through the streets calling for an end to the blood shed. funerals fo

. >> happening today, secretary of state john kerry is headed overseas to try to calm the mideast crisis on two fronts. kerry will meet with leaders and officials from israel, the palestinian authority, and russia. some of those meetings will be held in europe. kerry is trying to restart talks between the israelis and the palestinians who engaged in deadly violence over the last month. it's unclear if he will also try to convince russia to stop supporting the syrian government. >> congressman paul ryan says he will run for house speak fer the republican party unites behind him. >> if you can agree to these requests and if i can truly be a unifying figure then i will gladly serve. >> ryan outlined his conditions for taking the job last night. in addition to calling for the party to unify he stressed he would not give up time with his family if elected speaker. ryan gave republicans until the end of the week to decide if they can agree to his terms. >> today we could learn the plans of pennsylvania's top prosecutor kathleen kane's law license will be suspended the end of today. kane says

. >> reporter: secretary kerry will meet with mideast leaders later this week in an effort to ease tensions. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, tel aviv. >>> 4:43. a pair of weekend shark attacks in hawaii could lead to beach closures in the wahoo. one of the victims -- ohahu. one of the victims was swimming when he was attacked by a nearby tiger shark. he suffered injuries to his feet and legs. the second attack happened eight hours later on a server at waikiki beach. >> it took me a second to realize it was a massive shark on my leg. i kind of had to push him off with his hand. i lost some fingers and stuff, and then punched him with my other. >> the surfers friend managed to pull him out of the water. besides his fingers, doctors also had to empty take most of his last -- left leg. there have been more than half- dozen shark attacks in hawaii this year alone. >> there is a plan in the works in the san anselmo to turn a popular park into a flood pond. as kpix 5's emily turner shows us, some don't agree on the plan. >> reporter: the san anselmo playground and park that it's in is up for vote in

conor powell has the latest from our mideast bureau. what's the truth here, conor? >> reporter: the u.s. military says they've opened an investigation into the attack on the doctors without borders hospital, an attack that some are calling a war crime. now nearly two dozen people were killed, including ten patients, several which were burned alive in their own beds and 12 hospital staff. there are no reports of any taliban fighters among the dead at the hospital. that's a really key point. the pentagon says u.s. and afghan troops came under heavy fire in the vicinity of the hospital and coalition forces responded. but representatives of doctors without borders say there were no taliban fighters inside their building or in their compound and that it was a completely calm and normal night until coalition air strikes began about 2:00 in the morning. now, doctors without borders said they were hit at least four times throughout the night over several hours, even after they called the u.s. military to tell them what was going on. the issue of civilian casualties has real

. >> pelley: secretary of state john kerry began a new mideast peace mission today when he met with israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu. kerry will meet with palestinians over the weekend. this is following weeks of gun and knife attacks by palestinians and barry petersen is in the west bank. >> this is where they came with a knife, and the man who saved my life shot him. >> reporter: tzipi schlisel thought she could have been stabbed by a man. the jewish man in white shot the >> i feel that it could be my blood here, and i bless god that it is my enemy's blood and not me. >> reporter: it is not her first taste of violence. an arab stabbed her father to death in his bed 17 years ago in this same neighborhood. she is among about 800 jews under constant watch, living in the midst of 170,000 arabs in hebron. this one place is so much what the arab-israeli conflict is about, both sides vow that their claim to this land goes back thousands of years. just down the road palestinian protesters face the israeli military protecting the streets [explosion] the kids have no advantage here. they

. >>> happening today secretary of state john kerry is headed overseas to try to calm the mideast crisis on two fronts. he will meet with leaders from israel, the palestinian authority and russia. he will try to restart talks between the israelis and palestinians, who engaged in deadly violence the last month. is unclear if he'll also try to convince russia to stop supporting the syrian government. more death and violence is plaguing palestinians and israelis in the west bank. yesterday a palestinian ran down an israeli with his truck. another palestinian who stabbed an israeli solder was shot dead. nine israelis and 42 palestinians died in the latest round of violence. >> koungman paul ryan says he will run for house speaker if the republican party unites behind him. >> if you can agree to these requests, and if i can truly be a unifying figure, then i'll gladly serve. >> ryan outlined his conditions for taking that job last night. in addition to calling for the party to unify behind him, he stressed that he will not give up time with his family. if elected speaker. ryan gave republican

. >>> to the mideast now. secretary of state john kerry says the violence between israelis and palestinians must stop. but israel's prime minister says he'll take a series of aggressive steps to stop at tacks against israeli civilians. abc's alex marquardt is in jerusalem. >> reporter: out of nowhere the white car careens onto the sidewalk, ramming into pedestrians, who go flying. the attacker a palestinian man then gets out of the car and starts attacking bystanders with a meat cleaver. an israeli security guard rushes up and shoots the attacker, who collapses. but as a crowd gathers he tries to get up again and keep fighting before being taken down. in the end one victim died in what has been one of the most dramatic incidents in two weeks of relentless violence in israel and the palestinian territories. the fear now, that this is no ordinary spike in violence. palestinian anger being fueled by israel's crackdown. responses like a bombing in gaza that left a palestinian mother and her young daughter dead. a

connor powell has the latest from our mideast newsroom. >> reporter: the bloodshed showing no signs of letting up here. at least one israeli is dead and more than a dozen injured after one attacker opened fire in the central bus station sunday night. police killing the assailant but also shooting a man from the african country of air tray ya who was mistaken for an attacker. introducing a series of new measures, erecting dozens of check points in east jerusalem and placing large concrete walls between arab and israeli neighborhoods. violence erupted a month ago as jewish groups push for more access to jerusalem's holiest sites. the effort enraging palestinians. john kerry announcing he will meet with palestinian prime minister and then travel. what exactly the secretary of state can do to ease tensions is unclear. police have described the attackers as young lone wolf individuals who are influenced by social media, makek it extremely difficult to stop. >>> connor, thank you. >>> syrian government troops making gains on the ground as russian revelers. air strikes hit more than a dozen t

. >>> in the mideast, violent clashes are escalating as tensions are rising between israelis and palestinians. >>> plus fantasy football under fire as new york attorney general gets involved. >>> and awesome sight of a whale enjoying the northern lights. "first look" starts right now. >>> good morning, on this wednesday, thanks for joining us today, i'm betty nguyen. a chilling new investigation is shining a light on an underground black market. nuclear smugglers in eastern europe trying to sell radioactive materials to terrorists, including isis. according to the associated press, four attempts have been interrupted in the past five years, all in the former soviet state of moldova. the videos show almost like drug bust there. but instead of it being drugs, fbi and moldovan authorities are seizing materials like bomb grade uranium. these things seem -- but there are huge shortcomings. kingpins have gotten away while other smugglers escaped lengthy sentences. one reportedly served barely three years in moldova. there's another concern declining relations between russia and the west means less