the timetable now is to leave at the end of 2014, chuck. >> and let me ask you this, mik, with otheruropean countries, and we'll i think hear from cameron later today more formally about when they expect to be with withdrawing their troops, we know the french want to speed up, we know other parts of the coalition would like to speed up their withdrawal from troops from afghanistan, what kind of pressure does that put on our troops? >> particularly it does, because particularly most of those foreign elements are allies who are there putting troops in afghanistan are involved in the training up of the afghan security forces so that they can take over the country's security which is absolutely essential to any success in the u.s. mission there, chuck. >> and, mik, another i think question that i think -- and it keeps coming up and we're hear it in the republican primary debates a little bit frankly when it comes to afghanistan, this issue of the mission, and if we transferred the mission of trying to stop al qaeda in places like yemen and frankly even in africa and the way the mission t

hey, mik, thank you very much. >> thanks, mik. >>> let's make the turn to politics.nsas even as the romney campaign is claiming mommy it entumomentum. saturday, santorum won by 30 points, 51% support for him. romney swept the contest in guam, the u.s. virgin islands and the northern mariania islands. also won in wyoming's county conventions saturday. all together, romney added 39. santorum 36. romney leads santorum by more than 200 delegates. rick santorum, though, is rejecting the argument his rival's edge in delegates makes him inevitable. >> romney needs about 50% of the delegates to be able -- and on the current track we're on right now, the fact is, governor romney doesn't get to that number. so the idea that you just make projections, i mean, this isn't a mathematical formula. someone who is outspent 10-1 who has all of the establishment behind him, yet he can't close the deal -- i've got my home state yet to go. governor romney has had three of his home states already. so it's important for us to look to the future and see the opportunities we have. that's how

. >> from 18th and market right on down and emptied into what was a trib tear of butary of mik and becauseited and these loose sands were under the water in 1906 who the violent earthquaking occurred, the santdz lick -- sands liquefiedd flowed laterally. half a block up from this spot was the valencia hotel the famous picture where you see the second story became the ground floor. >> we'll walk up there in a second. frank, what happened to the creek? did it get filled with sand when people built the mission? >> it's still there. actually, the city and county of san francisco filled many the creek and put in large sewers and the large sewers underground that actually collect the water and of course, valencia point -- >> so it's channelized underground and dumps out towards mission. >> not all of it. the issue is still the same. the loose sand is still present so in the next major earthquake, we can expect to see the same types of movement that occurred in 1906. >> people say what kind of effect are we having from the earthquake and it's going to be the same types of things that happened in

i have two miks on me. i'm here to tell you a story you heard before. we're going to talk about george washington. and in light of the frame that everybody else has been bringing to this occasion, that is the troubles of our time, i wanted to talk about washington and some of the troubles of his time and how he dealt with it. and i want to do it by story telling. the great attraction for me to history are these wonderful stories. i think of arthur snobl who sat down to play beethoven and he stopped and turned to the audience and said, this music is better than it can ever be played. i think that's the way it is with these stories. they are better than they can ever be told. i want to do that also with regard to a picture that you've seen before. this is washington crossing the delaware. and next time you're in new york city, go to the metropolitan museum of art. they have just opened a new american wing. it's gigantic. it's 60 galleries of american painting. just opened a couple weeks ago. and at the center of it is this painting. when i visited, my wif

michaelle finney will bring us -- mik michael finney will g us that. you can also go online and get some answers. >>> let's go back and talk about the weather. spencer christian here following a series of storms. as you said, a lot of rain. >> ten inches at ben loma mountain so far and growing. we are in an active rainy wintery period of weather. a live view from the high definition east bay camera in emeryville towards the port of oakland. raining there right now. lightly but raining nonetheless. live look at doppler 7 hd. what was a big storm earl shrunk into a light area of rainfall. pushing across the bay towards oakland and berkeley. the santa cruz mountains pockets of rainfall from boulder creek to santa cruz and that is about it for now as the system continues to weaken. current temperature readings mainly mid 50s. 55-56 in most locations around the bay area and these are the highlights. rain will continue to diminish overnight. stormy conditions develop on friday, late friday and right on through the weekend. satellite radar composite shows the

mik, good morning. >> good morning, natalie. u.s.ilitary officials say that stop sergeant robert bales has indeed been charged with 17 counts of murder. and also, six counts of attempted murder in connection with that massacre in the afghan village there in afghanistan earlier this month. now, in addition to that, we're told that bales will be presented the charges where he's being held, in the prison there at fort leavenworth, kansas. at the same time there are new reports that while on leave in 2008, bales allegedly assaulted a man after molesting the man's girlfriend, and that same year faced charges of a hit and run driving case in florida, and in 2002, allegedly assaulted a casino security guard. and in all three cases, witnesses reported that at the time, bales appeared to be extremely drunk. now according to u.s. military officials, on the night of that massacre there in afghanistan, bales had been drinking with other soldiers. natalie? >> all right, jim miklaszewski at the pentagon. thank you. >>> the gunman suspected of kill

mik, thank you for joining us. details on thisins zpent conflicting reports on the number of dead. what do we have confirmed so far? >> you know the most consistent reporting in terms of numbers, casualties here, come prosecuting the afghan government themselves including president karzai. who said that 16 civilians were killed and five wounded in the shooting rampage. and among the dead, according to president karzai, nine women -- nine children and three women. if in fact this was a pre-dawn shooting in a village can -- occurred inside at least one, if not two or three homes inside, one or two villages all still very confusing. and that would indicate in the predawn hours that these would have been groups of families in their sleep when this lone gunman reportedly allegedly walked into those houses in the villages. and opened fire. now, according to the u.s. military officials, the soldier walked back to base and immediately surrendered himself to house superior officers and back at the military base. and militar