he was the only child his mother had with mohammed bin laden before they divorced. , bin laden and his mother, aliyah, moved to jeddah and lived here, apart from the other wives and children. mohammed bin laden died when osama was just 10 years old. >> the school was abuzz with the news that mohammed bin laden had been killed in a plane crash. >> reporter: with so many siblings, it's hard to say how close osama was to his father or how the loss affected him. this photograph from the early 1970s shows some of the many bin laden brothers and sisters on a vacation in sweden. osama was quiet and shy. his teacher says he rarely spoke up in class. >> he didn't show any particular signs of being a leader amongst men. >> he was a shy boy. he wouldn't talk unless he needed to. he would listen more. i'm dr. khaled batarfi. i met osama bin laden in the early 1970s, when we lived in this neighborhood. >> reporter: this nondescript middle-class jeddah neighborhood is where batarfi, then age 12, and bin laden, three years older, became neighbors and best friends, going to the mosq

david: the conflict between these two, i think, came from young mohammed bin salman, the deputy crowne, 30 years old, smart, ambitious, pushing very hard against the person who was nominally his superior, muhammed bin nayef. a key aide for bin nayef was fired from the saudi administration in a way that seemed like a direct shot at the crown prince by his deputy. other ways in which he was seen as being under pressure, i think that has eased a little bit himself. in terms of saudi stability, that is probably a good thing. charlie: is in fact the deputy crown prince a reformer, as michael morrell suggested? david: he has big ideas about reform. his commission from mckinsey very ambitious plans for modernization of the kingdom. i have read through the details of some of those plans. they say all the right things. they talk about privatization of business in saudi arabia. he announced a plan to privatize the airports in the east. they announced plans to tax land that has been held essentially without any compensation to the state by senior princes. that is a good reform. he talks about mo

. >> you have the de facto king is mohammed bin salma. he's very young.emen which we don't believe he can win. a lot of saudis are upset about this. there's instability in the royal family as well. he's going to look at this as an existential threat to saudi arabia, that we're going to go back to the days of the shah. >> so you take two key allies, saudi and israel who hate this? >> absolutely hate it. and let's not forget the republicans. they hate this nuclear agreement. can't understand why. it's a pretty good agreement. 98% of the uranium rich is being sent to russia. >> but to russia, not to a friend -- more of a friend to iran than the u.s. >> it doesn't matter because the iranians can't built any sort of nuclear xaps capacity at this p. with the monitoring, it's a good agreement. for 10 to 15 years. i can't tell you what will happen after that. an enormous shift. the iranians were killing us. they were killing us as late as 2007. now all of a sudden we wander into their waters, two of our ships and they give them right back. poppy, this is huge. >>

mohammed bin atef fought for osama bin laden and is a member of the taliban. said that he posed a high risk to the united states if he was released. nevertheless, he's being released. the second inmate, khalid mohammed al dhuby was trained with al qaeda in afghanistan. he posed just a medium risk to america. both men were transferred to ghanaa. >> a desperate rescue attempt in new york state to free 17 miners trapped nearly 1,000 feet under the earth. they were trapped just before midnight eastern time at a salt mine in lansing, new york. there was an elevator there that stopped working. officials say they're not able to talk to trapped miners but they say that no one is hurt at least not yet. they have sent down heat packs and blankets to keep them warm during that rescue that's now seven hours old. we'll keep you posted on that, as well. a whole lot going on this morning. very busy news day. >> all right, heather, thanks very much. >>> meanwhile new battle brewing over birth certificates. donald trump has launched some criticism at rival ted cruz. to explain

mohammed omar bin atef is described as a highly trained fighter. most troubling the report says quote he has threatened to kill u.s. citizens on multiple occasions, including a specific threat to cut their throats upon release. >> as they looked at their military capability and their intent. this is someone who fought for al qaeda, who was trained by al qaeda and throughout his time in custody. he had this intent to harm americans, these two things together are what made him a high risk in their opinion. what ghana is saying about these two guys isn't accurate. if you look at what the white house and the administration says, they basically are not refuting it, they're not going to knock it down. >> it leads you to the impression that this is what they told but these two guys, it's wrong. >> "weekly standard," steve hayes, pressed the information minister at ghana's embassy in washington, about why ghana agreed to take these yemeni detainees, the minister said the u.s. government provided assurances in writing that quote mr. bin atef was never invol