. >> today we're getting a look at the photos of the president and his national security team watching it unfold. good afternoon. >> from halfway around the world president obama was monitoring the strike on osama bin laden. we're going to look at pictures inside the president's situation room. for 40 minutes he and his national security team watched and listened to that firefight that killed the leader. each of those minutes, they said, felt more like a day. ones it was over, president obama was heard saying we got him. jessica? >> mary, thank you. please stay with wjz for the complete coverage of the killing of osama bin laden. we'll have more on this still developing story tonight at 4, 5 and 6. >>> today marks one year since the murder of university of virginia student yeardley love from cockeysville. derek valcourt has the report. good afternoon. >> reporter: students at notre dame preparatory school were encouraged to wear special t shirts in honor of yeardley love. it started with a prayer. yeardley love was just 22 when her roommate found her body. her on again off again boyfri

still ahead here, another big shakeup in the president's national security team. does it mean a faster exit or stay the course in afghanistan? >>> and next sarah palin says that she is certain that there will be in entries into the republican race. how does her pitch compare to other republican hopefuls out on the trail today. blah? [ male announcer ] look at this, bridgestone is using natural rubber, researching ways to enhance its quality and performance, and making their factories more environmentally friendly. producing products that save on fuel and emissions, and some that can be reused again. ♪ and promoting eco-friendly and safety driving campaigns. ♪ one team. one planet. bridgestone. >>> we're live tonight from the gettysburg national military park. there's always a crowd here for the memorial day parade, a reflection. and today the town buzzing with word that sarah palin is here. >> are you trying to find her? >> i'm trying to find her, definitely. our daughters are over there and we're looking over here. we need to find her. >> how long have you been h

. >> this week on "inside washington," preside obama orders a major restructuring of its national security team. >> if s prices are $6, he certainly isn't going to win. >> we are not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by sideshows and carnival barkers. >> the president releases his long former bird certificate. why did d he take the bait? >> i feel i have accomplished something really, really portant, and i am honored by it. >> and the royal wedding. but he knows how to throw -- a party like the throw -- nobody knows how t to throw a party likike the brititish. captioned by the national captioning instititute --www.ncicap.org-- as the week ended, americans were glued to their television sets watching princeilliam mary kate middleton. the president was on the road to a alabama. more than 30 people lost their lives in states hit by huge tornadoes. the president was also scheduled to watch the final launch ohe space shuttle in florida mobile 4 he left washington, he shook up his national security team. leon panetta at defense general david petraeus at cia. what is the deci

. >> good john national security team -- job, national security team. proud of you. you did a great job. >> reporter: and the president's cabinet giving him a standing ovation. >> let's get back to work. >> reporter: intelligence official say documents found in the raid reveal the al-qaeda playbook with plans to poison water supplies and bring down planes and trains. and there's a bonus, the names of top al-qaeda officials and locations about safe houses around the world. john hennedrin abc news, white house. >>> and our coverage of the death of bin laden continues tonight locally. congressman dutch ruppersberger is offering insight into the raid that captivated the nation. he visited oak crest retirement community giving the people who live there an idea of what led to that raid. >> you want to come kill americans, we will find you and bring you to justice. >> reporter: that was the message as congressman dutch ruppersberger met with dozens of people at oak crest retirement community in baltimore county. >> he gave greater details to some degree. >> this were bobbed

president obama shook up his national-security team. at the top, cia chief leon panetta to defense, general david petraeus the cia. what is the decision to put a four-star general who is expert in counterinsurgency eighth in charge of the cia mean, charles? >> the most important conference indices in afghanistan and pakistan, and he knows it. if you want somebody who is at the center of something important, he is where you should be. he is a great general and he will make an excellent cia director. >> colby? >> he is a leader, and that is what the cia needs, a leader and a good manager who understands how it works and institutions of government. >> nina? >> it seems to me he is the right person. sometimes you watched events unfold and you like what you see but there's not much you can do about it. we are watching the intelligence community and defense community sort of emerge as one, which means less oversight from anybody outside, but i don't know what you can do about it. >> mark? >> he means he will not be chairman of the joint chief

march and april, the president chairs a series of meetings with his national security team to finalize the plan. and this past friday, 8:20 a.m., minutes before leaving for alabama to survey tornado damage, the president orders the operation to proceed. the day arrives sunday, may 1. 10:06 a.m. the president goes golfing at a military base in maryland as he waits for the mission to begin. he plays only nine holes returning to the white house at 2:11 p.m. at 3:32, he enters the situation room. the president was able to monitor the operation from start to finish as it happened in realtime. >> it was probably one of the most anxiety-filled periods of time i think in the lives of the people who were assembled here yesterday. the minutes passed like days. >> reporter: the operation began when two black hawk helicopters carried about 25 navy seals into the compound. inside, bin laden and his men engaged in a fire fight. bin laden was killed by a shot to the head, another to the chest. video shot the morning after showed a blood-stained compound. there were no u.s. casualties. bin laden's bod

these official white house pictures show president obama and members of his national security team as they watched a live feed of the operation. you can also see secretary of state hillary clinton, secretary of defense robert gates and vice president joe biden. >>> the commander of the navy s.e.a.l.s involved is giving strict orders to keep quiet about the details. but we are beginning to learn more about the operation this morning. news 4's kimberly suiters is collecting that information from our newsroom. good morning, kimberly. >> good morning, joe. the white house has access to photos and video of the raid and is weighing whether they should show a precision shot above his left eye. now, these are the only images the public has seen of bin laden's compound outside islam bad in pakistan. there's a lot of evidence the public has yet to see. many may never see it. we know a monitored phone call involving bin laden's most trusted aide led to the hideout of the world's most wanted terrorist. information about that courier was gleaned from captured terrorist suspects. the operation was

. >> president obama and his national security team watched as the raid happened. however, cia head leon panetta says mr. obama did not see the moment when bin laden was shot dead. panetta says there was a heart- pounding period of 20 minutes in had they didn't know exactly what was going on. >>> the debate over releasing the photos of bin laden continues this morning. the white house describes the photos as gruesome. if they are released, some say they could spark even more anti- american sentiment in the muslim world. on the other side of the argument, many in pakistan openly question if bin laden was actually killed. white house officials don't want to inflame anger. >> there are sensitivities here. >> we're in the going to put out another image into this debate that will put at risk our troops are our intelligence professionals, our diplomats or especially or private citizens. >> the cia director lee other than pan eight says photos will ultimately be released to the public. >>> a former playboy may mate and b movie star at the center of an investigation after

i met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin laden, hiding within a compound deep inside pakistan. finally, last week, i determined that we had enough intelligence to take action and authorized an operation to get osama bin laden and bring him to justice. today, at my direction, the united states launched a targeted operation against that compound in pakistan, a small team of americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. no americans were harmed. they took care to avoid civilian casualties. after a fire fight, they killed osama bin laden and took custody of his body. for over two decades bin laden has been al qaeda's leader and symbol and has continued to plot attacks against our country and our friends and allies. the death of bin laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al qaeda. his death does not mark the end of our effort. no doubt, al qaeda will continue to pursue attacks against us. we must and we will remain vigilant at

. >>> this morning on "the early show," the latest on president obama's overhaul of the national security teamd a look at some of the biggest summer movies coming soon to a theater near you. i'm terrell brown. this is the "cbs morning news." orning news." woman: till all the books are read... man: and all the pens are put down... woman: and everything there is to learn is learned. man: till the heroes retire and the monsters return to their dens... woman: and all the plots are wrapped up. man: till that day... boy: by hook or by crook... girl: by book or by nook... woman: i will read. ,,,,,,,, >>> all right, so every year, 13 years, cicadas invade yards across america. they're loud, creepy, and turn some neighborhoods to what looks like a sci-fi movie from the '50s. wdef in chattanooga, tennessee put together this video of the invasion of 2011. >> i heard them the first time they came. >> 4 years old. >> like they're coming to take over the earth. >> aliens. >> little aliens crawling over you. >> they're scary, very scary. >> interesting noise. >> they make that funny sound. >> it comes in wav

the president's national security team, the special ops team, men and women in uniform and our officers in the intelligence community. it's a testament to their professionalism, their precision, their talent, that no american lives were lost in this action. but it is, again, indicative of, again, their contribution that they and their families make to help us uphold our oath of office, to protect and defend. that's what we take in our oath of office to do. we recognize that this achievement was not just the goal of president obama who said as candidate obama and as president, if i have actionable intelligence on the whereabouts of osama bin laden, i will act upon them and act upon them he did. i called both president -- former president george w. bush and president clinton to thank them for their work in this regard after -- in the 1990's, president clinton declared osama bin laden america's public enemy number one. he saw that danger long before 9/11. and of course 9/11, following that, president bush tried to pursue osama bin laden. and their work was important. but i am here to comme

and speaking with one of the members of our national security team it this morning, i want to put up was not a political appointee. he said to me that president obama throughout the preparations and deliberations and decision making that preceded the successful attack on bin laden yesterday, that president obama was cool and decisive. and that the decisions that were made were not easy ones. so i want to express my personal gratitude to president obama for the leadership he gave this great team of ours. notwithstanding how well the team performed yesterday, i simply want to say briefly that our senate committee on homeland security will continue to monitor and investigate every element of what our government is doing to protect the homeland security of the american people because the enemy is out there. and the enemy will continue to try to attack the american people here at home, where we live and work. in that regard, let me make this point. there has been much commentary on the fact that there may now be a heightened level of danger for a limited period of time, as or individuals

march and april, the president chairs a series of meetings with his national security team to finalize the plan. and this past friday, 8:20 a.m., minutes before leaving for alabama to survey tornado damage, the president orders the operation to proceed. the day arrives sunday, may 1. 10:06 a.m. the president goes golfing at a military base in maryland as he waits for the mission to begin. he plays only nine holes returning to the white house at 2:11 p.m. at 3:32, he enters the situation room. the president was able to monitor the operation from start to finish as it happened in realtime. >> it was probably one of the most anxiety-filled periods of time i think in the lives of the people who were assembled here yesterday. the minutes passed like days. >> reporter: the operation began when two black hawk helicopters carried about 25 navy seals into the compound. inside, bin laden and his men engaged in a fire fight. bin laden was killed by a shot to the head, another to the chest. video shot the morning after showed a blood-stained compound. there were no u.s. casualties. bin laden's bod

he consulted members of his national security team, there's reasonable arguments to be made.e president felt very strongly and made the decision he made. yes? >> jay, you talked yesterday a lot about the firefight. who was it that was shooting back at the u.s. commandos? z>> we have, as you know, since the moment this operation became public, been has helpful as we can be, to provide as much information as we can. in terms of the operational details, we have gotten to the point where we cannot cross lines because of the necessity for preserving the methods and operational techniques and capabilities of the kinds of forces that were used in this case. you know, we have gone to limit of our able to do that and still maintain some of the things we need to maintain and be kept secret. that's a long way of beginning my answer to say we've revealed a lot of information, we've been as forthcoming with fact as we can, a lot of information came out quickly when we needed to clarify the information that we had, as more information came in, we provided that. but in terms of further deta

casualties, and president obama and his national security team monitored the raid in real time from the situation room. again, mike, i want you to give us a sense of how it worked. >> this is a classic special force hostage rescue type of operation, but this case you're taking down an enemy, but normally it entails a long-term helicopter flight landing in a difficult spot. that's the most difficult part of the operation to begin with. you don't know what's on the other side of the door. these operatives, in this case u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s are trained both in infiltration, and in clearing the target, be able to clear rooms, take out enemy targets, protect civilians and get out of there quickly and effectively. it was textbook operation. that has always not been the case in the past, chris, so a big victory for the u.s. and for special operations forces. a classic operation done perfectly. >> great, michael. bob behr, do we have a sense of how much they were caught by surprise? were they confronted with gunplay? a shootout from the second they got there? >> no, they came in quietly. they ha

>> host: i know you're on a national book tour but the president announced a national i security team robert mueller ty still in place and makes the ake point he is the longest servingt , been there since 9/11 h the two presidents and lots of changes presidents and lots of changes. how has the fbi changed? >> robert mueller started work september 4, 2001. he was actually sitting in, basically, his first briefing on al-qaeda and the threat of al-qaeda on the morning of 9/11 still getting up to speed on that. and he is now the longest-serving fbi director since j. edgar hoover himself and the last of the president's national security team still in his same job since 9/11. he's on his second president and is about to finish out his ten-year term this september, thept -- september 3, 2011. and what he has done is really remarkable. he's on the cover of "time" magazine this week which is one of the first times he's gotten any recognition for the work he's done sort of leading this evolution of the fbi towards an agency much more focused on counterterrorism and national security than a lot

. >> good job, national security team. thank you. i'm proud of you. >> experts sabin hundred dollar's demise will not mean the end -- say bin laden's demise will not mean the end of al qaeda, but they may be on the run, more dispersed and carrying out fewer strikes. >> is there any talk about who may assume control of al qaeda? >> the conventional wisdom is it will be al-zawahri. bin laden was thought to be the mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks. >>> they came to say thank you, president obama and vice president biden met with 2,000 troops at ft. campbell kentucky, many just back from serving a year's tour in afghanistan. before speaking to the troops the president and vice president met privately with the navy seals team that carried out the raid on osama bin laden bin's compound. the president praised their heroic actions. >> they trained for years. they're battle hardened. they practiced tirelessly for this mission and when i gave the order, they were ready. >> the navy seals and other military units involved

edgar hoover himself, and the last of the president's national security team still in his same job. he's outlasted four cia directors, four attorney generals, he's on his second president and is about to finish out his ten-year term september 3, 2011. and what he has done is really remarkable. he's on the cover of "time" magazine this week which is one of the first times he's gotten any recognition for the work he's done, sort of leading this evolution of the fbi towards an agency much more focused on counterterrorism and national security than a lot of the traditional crimes that we still think of the fbi as being involved in. >> host: this is what the book looks like, and this is a participatory interview, so we would like to have your telephone calls. we'll put the phone numbers on the screen, and you can also send us a tweet if you would like with a question for garrett graff. our twitter address is at booktv. get involved with this discussion about the role of the fbi in national security, and we'd very much like to hear from you. is -- was, well, first, a detail question. the

. >> good job, national security team. >> this video shows the initial reaction from the white house. the president congratulating his team. >> the reason i'm calling is to tell you that we killed -- >> reaction has been heated. several hundred protesters -- al qaeda confirmed the death. the former president expressed disappointment that he was not discovered sooner. >> he called pakistan not uncovering osama bin laden a diggs look up. all qaeda says it has a pre- recorded audio message from osama bin laden that it is going to release. >>> u.s. officials said they also went forward with a mission to kill american tourist trade sources said it missed the target there. he once served as an imam in falls church. he helped inspire the massacre at fort hood and the attempted bombing at times square. >>> we're learning more about some much-needed relief at the gas pump. right now drivers in virginia are paying $3.89 for regular parade the ravaged in the district is $4.17. we are live in montgomery county with the latest. >> one-tenth of a cent, that is how much gasoline dropped today. we kn

president obama is making over his national security team.ted general martin dempsey for chairman of the join chiefs. in 2004, dempsey led the battle against the insurgency in baghdad in the iraq war. he has three masters degrees, including one in english in duke university and one from the national war college. his hobby is singing. ♪ start spreading the news ♪ i'm leaving today ♪ i'm going to be a part of it >> general dempsey apparently loves to sing and has been known to perform "new york, new york" frequently. ♪ new york, new york ♪ it's up to you new york, new york ♪ >> yea! >> not bad. holding that note reasonably well. nine minutes past 8:00. chris, you disagree? >> no, i like it. >> find a person that tells him he doesn't sound good. sounded great, sounded great. >> we should book him for a summer concert. i mean that seriously. >> why not? all of the sinatra hits. >> i'm in. "summer wind." ♪ >> can't even speak today let alone sing. marysol castro, i'm handing it over to you. >> i will take it from here. good morning everyone apt ho

. >> the white house released photos of the nail-biting tension as the president and national security team watched live video of the u.s. military attack on bin laden's compound. >> the minutes passed like days and the president was very concerned about the security of our personnel. >> 40 minutes into the operation, it was over and osama bin laden was dead. for a successful killer catcher, the code word was "geronimo" but they transmitted "for god and country, geronimo, geronimo, geronimo." the code name itself was "jackpot." >> osama bin laden would not surrender and security agents had been told to kill him if it looked like they would lose him to a snatch operation. >> one option, to drop 2,000 pound bombs on the compound because it would object literate any dna to prove that bin laden was killed. they sent two teams of navy s.e.a.l.s and when a choeper went down, another was there to take its place. they cornered bin laden on the third floor of his residence. one commander recognized bin laden and immediately put two bullets into his head. >> this is what we call an a clean hit and a

. >> from washington, the president and his national security team watched through video as operators went from room to room, engaging in gunfire, waking neighbors. >> i heard gunfire at around 1:00 a.m. followed by a huge blast. >> likely a u.s. helicopter that stalled and made a hard landing, but it did not stop the mission. when the navy seals breached this room, they found osama bin laden. he resisted and was shot in the head and chest. today in pakistan, residents are surprised that the man wanted world wide lived next door, feet from retired pakistani military officials and close to a military academy. this man says that if he lived there, he never went out. officials believe that the head of al qaeda stayed here for five years, no phones or internet, just carrier delivering videos and messages, it was a career that led the u.s. to the compound. in the end the u.s. said that they received a mother lode of information. >> plans of attack that were submitted for his approval. where the money comes from and where the money might now be sitting. >> we know that navy seals killed fiv

circle back to something we spoke about earlier which is why the obama administration and his national security team really are putting the pressure on the cia to try to get osama bin laden bin now more than ever. this has to do with what could happen there in that region when we pull our troops out. >> that's right. while we're in the phase of pulling troops out of afghanistan the last thing in the world this country needs, the last thing in the world this administration wants is the return of osama bin laden bin and making it look like, you know, another vietnam mistake that we spent blood and treasure only to get right back to where we were when we started and having accomplished very little or nothing. you never underestimate the symbolic importance of this but also in a real and practical sense as we're moving into a withdrawal from afghanistan that both yak and i support to make sure that osama bin laden bin -- jack and i support to make sure that osama bin laden did not return and set up shop there. john f. kennedy once asked what are you doing as a priority and he said we're doing everything

. >> a good job, national security team. you guys did a great job. >> the newly released white house video shows president obama congratulating his team and a vice president wyden calling bimembers of congress. >> the reason i'm calling is to tell you that we have killed osama bin laden. >> al-qaida now confirming that bin laden has been killed and releasing a new threat that the american happiness will turn to sadness. these are referred to an outside of playbook including plans for water treatment plants, trains, shopping centers. >> al qaeda is still alive. any place where an alerted citizen is important. >> today, a new look at a now dead mastermind still upset for striking terror in the u.s. involved in tactical planning than previously thought. the defense department is stripped away all of the audio for security reasons. and in one part he appears to stumble over some words which is at a reception at of a carefully tended public image. live in the satellite center, abc7 news. >> richard thank you for that report. >>>

and president clinton, i congratulate the president, the national security team and the members of ources on bringing osama bin laden to justice after more than a decade of murderous al qaeda attacks. >>> usa, usa, usa! >> and many people reacted with pure joy and jubilation. hundreds of new yorkers flooded the streets after news of bin lad laden's death. >> and crowds joined to sing the star spangled banner, god bless america and even held a moment of silence. as new yorkers took to the streets near ground zero at the news of bin laden's death, so did chris gordon. >> chris gordon caught rio from the city that bin laden attacked nearly 10 years ago. >> usa, usa, usa! >> i'm standing at the base of the world trade center, ground zero. i'm surrounded by hundreds if not thousands of young people who all converged on downtown manhattan, ground zero, with american flags flying. somebody climbed up a street pole at church street with a sign that said, obama, 1, osama, 0. they've been singing god bless america, america the beautiful, star spangled banner, god bless the usa. they have lit can

press secretary jay carney will be joined by members of obama's national security team.ould get new information on the operation to kill osama bin laden and more details on that. also in the next 20 minutes a fox news exclusive, vice president dick cheney will join me live with his thoughts and reaction to all of this. we'll find out how he first learned about this operation in pakistan. stay tuned, dick cheney, former vice president coming up right here on "america live." you don't want to miss that. also the news cameras have been trained on ground zero all throughout today. crowds gathering at the very sight where thousands of people lost their lives on september 11th. here is what it looks like when that news started to hit this part of new york last night. [hoorah ] hoorah ] martha: a lot of enthusiasm. bill hammer has been down there all morning, and he joins me once again, hey, bill. >> reporter: it's an extraordinary day, martha. everybody in new york city has a story as it relates to 9/11. you're about to hear two of them again. this is ryan w-rbs yker. ryan wor

"today" takes you inside the situation room where president obama and his national security team mapped out the strategy to kill mastermind osama bin laden. >>> and matt lauer sits down with steven tyler to talk about his revealing new memoir. >>> now keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports and more. i'm lynn berry. thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. have a good one. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

national security teams are aware that the threat of attacks is high right now is they are keeping everyone on alert. >>> george miller is among those who disagree with the president's decision to withhold those photos. >> no matter if it's gruesome or not, people want to see. it is kind of like his birth certificates. they are asking for it, why not get it? >> as for the president he says he did not think that's a photo would -- did not think that a photo would convince conspiracy theorists. >>> sarah shourd said that she suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder. she and two friends are accused of espionage by iran. shroud was free last september. >>> bay area temperatures warmed up today and we did not hear too many complaints about its. we saw some people taking a dip in the 51-degree water. john fowler reported it was 83 degrees this afternoon. we will get the lowdown from mark tamayo. >>> intel says that its computer chips are going 3-d. the new transistors take up less room. intel says it also uses half the energy of 2-d transistors. >> we will be able to provide better performance

. >> president obama and his national security team acted on the intelligence when it came in and theyerve a lot of credit. >> reporter: but as the nation celebrates. >> justice is served. >> reporter: this was shanksville, pennsylvania, law enforcement tonight is on extra alert. >> it's a key moment because al qaeda has to avenge. >> reporter: and osama bin laden's organization is not dead. so how did the world's most wanted man hide in plain sight? not in a cave, not in the mountains, but in a mansion? lawmakers up here and officials at the white house say the pakistan military has a lot of explaining to do. i'm steve handlesman, nbc news, washington. >>> we have more on the long hunt for osama bin laden and the commando raid that led to his death. we are joined by national investigative correspondent michael isikoff. i want to follow up on what steve mentioned at the end of his speech is it remotely possible that nobody in the pakistani government could know that this guy is living large where he was? >> anything is possible, but one of the more notable comments today is when john b

against a release, really it is leon panetta at the cia who has been the most outspoken in the national security team of being in favor. andrea, you know, we love to have our little spidey senses come up sometimes. we know the president is doing an interview with another network for an interview that will air later this weekend. something tells me we're going to hear from the president about this decision pretty soon. >> i know from my conversations with white house officials, you certainly have heard this, they're very frustrated. they have scored a huge victory in the warren terror by anybody's count. i talked to republicans and democrats in the last 24/48 hours. at the same time, all the questions being asked because they did rush to get the story out. they wanted to get it out before it was leaked from pakistan, from all of the spin we get all the time from the pakistan intelligence services. and you can understand their frustration. the other thing, joe biden speaking at the atlantic council last night, pointed out there is another victory here in terms of being able to trust congress. let's wat

. >>> the national security team pouring through the information seized from osama bin laden's compound says it has his personal journal. the journal contains handwritten notes believed to be his thoughts about future operations and possible terror targets. dianne feinstein says she will be among members to look at the osama bin laden death photos. they are offering house intelligence committees a chance to view the photographs. >>> san francisco is taking a softer dance on young offenders who are illegal immigrants. the new rule aflies to first time offenders enrolled in school and have local family ties. the mayor says the policy is meant to keep families together. >> we think that that will end up being a partnership to make sure we are not removing kids that might have had a chance to defend themselves. >> the new policy strike as compromise between the hard line approach and the board of super visors law. >>> amazon is threatening to cut ties with affiliates that require them to charge sales tax. they announced plans to cancel in illinois in response to a new law there targeting on

the national security team considered several plans ranging from air strikes to a high risk special forces assault. >> there were defenses of use, and that's what the president wanted to know and different coas, courses of action. >> friday morning, before leaving for alabama to tour the tornado devastation, he gave the final order to send in the small team of special operatives. saturday afternoon, the president and special operatives monitored the video. it lasted 40 minutes, but to the president and his national security team, it was nerve-racking, especially since no one was sure that bin laden was really there. >> it was probably one of the most anxiety-filled times in the lives of the people who were assembled here yesterday. the minutes passed like days. >> reporter: there was even a full scale replica of the compound built for practice runs. >> needless to say, when they hit the compound, they had already trained against it numerous times. >> reporter: both were supposed to hover, not land. the team talked about the firefight, too. bin laden was killed as was a young woman and thre

a major development that the president, his national security team have been working on.te house after 9/11, this was a figure wanted dead or alive. but chuck, before i go to you, let me bring in our chief correspondent, richard engle. your reaction from a part of the world tonight that will take this news as a huge development, as it is throughout the world. >> this is nothing less than breathtaking. this ends a chapter, the global war on terrorism which has defined a generation, which has defined the u.s. military missions in afghanistan and iraq. so many people, so many soldiers have been waiting for this moment. i know incredible numbers of troops who have been wondering what they're doing in iraq, wondering what they're doing in afghanistan year after year, deployment after deployment. and now when they hear that osama bin laden is dead, they will feel that their sacrifice has been for something. and they will say that the united states -- mabt's not saf safsaf safer, maybe it's a symbolic moment, but the reason they signed up for military service, and so many young

he consulted members of the national security team. there's reasonable arguments to be made. decision he made. yes? >> jay, you talked yesterday a lot about the firefight. who was it that was shooting back at the u.s. commandos? >> we have, as you know, since the moment this operation became public been as helpful as we can be to provide as much information as we can. in terms of the operational details, we have gotten to the point where we cannot cross lines because of the necessity for preserving the methods and operational techniques and capabilities of the kinds of forces that were used yuused in case. we have gone to our ability to do that and still maintain the things that we need to maintain and be kept secret, and that is a long way to begin the answer by saying that we have revealed a lot of information and been as forthcomeling with the facts that we can. a lot of information came out quickly, when we needed to clarify some of to information that we had and as more information came in, we have provided that, but in terms of the more details of the operati operation,

at the white house, an anxious president obama and his national security team watched the mission play out in realtime. the military buried the al qaeda leader at sea. pentagon officials say a videotape of the event could be released soon to refute any claims that the body was not bin laden. >> it is going to be likely mounting pressure to prove that bin laden was killed especially now that there is no body. >> reporter: sources say the military also discovered a significant amount of data at bin laden's compound. intelligence officials are now digging through those documents searching for any new leads for attacks or high ranking members of al qaeda. >>> so bin laden's death offered some amount of closure to 9/11 victims. president obama is going to meet at ground zero on thursday. >> we talked about the fact there could be pressure to release photos. what are you hearing in washington? >> well, you know, it's a grisly photo military official took a picture after -- after bin laden was killed. it's got to be a grisly picture. bin laden was shot in the face above the left eye. i think

official that the president and his national security team in the situation room was able to monitor events on the ground in pakistan in real-time with audio and visual updates. that's how it was put to me. this official tells me there were two heart stopping moments as this happened. the two helicopters approached the compound. the initial plan was not for the helicopters to land, as i under it, but rather to lower the seals on to the ground. however, for reasons we still don't fully one, one of the choppers stopped working. it was able to land. it didn't crash on the compound, chuck but landed on the ground. the seals went forward with the operation. when they came back, during that time, a third helicopter that had been there for just such an emergency came. the seals came out, they had the corpse of osama bin laden with them, they made a split second decision to detonate that first helicopter that was disabled. it resulted i was told and i massive explosion. i'm told in the situation room as they were hearing and some seeing to the extent they could this unfold it was incredibly

. >> president obama and his national security team acted on the intelligence when it came in, and they deserve a lot of credit. >> reporter: but as the nation celebrates. >> justice was served. >> reporter: this is shanksville, pennsylvania. law enforcement is on extra alert. >> this is a key moment, because al qaeda has to avenge. >> reporter: and osama bin laden's organization is not dead. so how did the world's most wanted man hide in plain sight, not in a cave or mountains but in the mansion? senior lawmakers and aides at the white house say the pakistani military has got some explaining to do. i'm steve handelsman in washington. now let's go to new york. michelle franzen's reporting. michelle? >> reporter: thanks, steve. certainly a lot of people here in the new york area have been streaming down here at ground zero. it's been a steady stream throughout the day. it's sort of quieting down now, but the mixture of tourists, of residents here and those commuting in and out of new york city certainly a different twist today. a new purpose, some coming to celebrate, others coming here

it shows the cia director, vice-president joe biden, and members of the national security team the most jobs added in five years. the labor department says that private companies added 268,000 jobs last month, better than expected, but the unemployment rate rose from 8.8 to 9%. employers reported gain in retail, construction and manufacturing. president obama says that now is the time to invest in the technology of the future to keep the economy growing. >> i don't want the new breakthrough technologies and the new manufacturing taking place in china and india. i want those jobs here in indian skwashgs right here in the united states of america with american workers. >>> the president visited a plant in indianapolis and has received close to $63 million from the energy department. >>> that news put a charge into wall streets snapping a four-day slum. dow gained 54. the nasdaq rose 5 points. >>> a major record labor is being sold. warner music group is home to artist like eric clapton and expect the new owner to cut staff and expenses. the deal comes as music sales begin to fall and just

he and his national security team are to be commanded.we reach a moment where the american people might conclude, the war in terror is over, we don't need to be in gans. i thought secretary of state hillary clinton did a remarkable job to help the american people understand that this is an important victory from an ongoing struggle. and we must not and cannot step back from the struggle. jenna: that is an interesting point. one chapter is closed yet the story is not over when it comes to the war on terror. since hunting down and killing osama bin laden was such a part of the jenna: the f.b.i. updating its list of most wanted terrorists, putting a big red and white deceased level on osama bin laden's picture. but the terror leader's death isn't the end of al-qaida. his second in command is expected to take over amid new warnings al-qaida will try to a srepbg the death of its founder. peter brooks is a former cia operations officer. author and fellow at the heritage foundation. peter are we safer than we were yesterday? >> that's an interes

at the white house, an anxious president obama and his national security team watched the mission play out in realtime. the military buried the al qaeda leader at sea. pentagon officials say a videotape of the event could be released soon to refute any claims that the body was not bin laden. >> it is going to be likely mounting pressure to prove that bin laden was killed especially now that there is no body. >> reporter: sources say the military also discovered a significant amount of data at bin laden's compound. intelligence officials are now digging through those documents searching for any new leads for future attacks or other high ranking members of al qaeda. joel brown, cbs news, washington. >>> live look at ground zero. >>> president obama plans to go to new york thursday to mark the death of bin laden, visit ground zero and meet with 9/11 victims' families. >>> we are learning more about americans who pulled off the raid. they left bin laden's compound in flames. they are the navy seal team 6 based in virginia they are officially known as naval special warfare development group

jay carney is expected to be joined by members of the national security team.ect new details on how they got osama bin laden overnight. so we'll have much more from ground zero. stay with us. "you just beat the widow-maker." i was put on an aspirin, and it's part of my regimen now. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. go see your doctor now. >>> it was the mission from the beginning. get osama bin laden dead or alive. well, yesterday almost ten years after the deadly attacks on t t september 11th, 2001, the al qaeda leader was killed inside a mansion in abbottabad, pakistan. it they swept into the compound by helicopter and bin laden was among the five killed. so what does his death mean for the future of al qaeda? a lot of folks are asking that. joining us now from the time warner center here in new york, cnn terrorism analyst. paul, appreciate you being on the show. first, with bin laden dead, what's left of the terrorist organization? >> al qaeda without bin laden, but al qaeda without bin laden is not the al

>> we looked at several options that were discussed by the president and by the national security team. the details behind the mission. the team methodically cleared the compound moving from room to room in an operation lasting nearly 40 minutes. >> and an impact on an already rocky relationship with pakistan. >> we believe that that partnership is critically important to breaking the back of al-qaeda. >> and of course, the political fallout. >> it's an unmistakeable trance to our personnel. it's also a credit to our commander in chief, the present one and the former one. >> peter baker of the new york times. james kickfield of the "washington journal." and john babbington of "the "associated press"." >> live from our nation's capital, this is "washington week" with gwen ifill. corporate funding is provided by -- >> we know why we're here. to connect our forces to what they need when they need it. to help troops see danger before it sees them. >> to answer the call of the brave and bring them safely home. >> around the globe the people of boing are working together to protect. that's w

national security adviser. what a picture to be with the president there. and there's the president and his national security teamllary clinton. the secretary of state, obviously, with her face covers there. getting an update on the mission -- look at the faces. this is in realtime watching the action. the surprise news showed confidence by the president, many of us think and his team. what's the impact politically? does this news reshape the 2012 outlook we've been covering all these days on "hardball"? john harris, politico's editor in chief. i wanted two heavyweights on tonight. i mean it, gentlemen. i want to have a sense of this. we see our presidents through different windows and sometimes through the window of how much gas cost or the latest scandal or whatever else. here we see the president as operational. a president leading an operation. in a way we've rarely seen one before where he's calling the shots month by month then we get the replay. what's your sense, john harris, how this will shape how the republicans are thinking about mo moving ahead to focus on what president they want rather than what ki

and president clinton, i congratulate the president, the national security team and the members of ourrmed forces on bringing osama bin laden. >>> the state department put u.s. embassys around the world on alert warning of possible anti-american violence. >> the state department warned u.s. citizens travelling and living abroad of the potential for violence. we spoke with kathy lanier. >> this is a high security environment for us. even though there's a lot of very happy people here and celebrating we have to make sure everybody is safe and keep our guard up. yeah. there's still a lot of threats here. i think washington, d.c., like most major cities, it is every day, ongoing. >> chief lanier said everyone celebrating near the white house has been on their best behavior but she feels bad because of those in nearbyll t lou and honking. i'm sure they can understand on a day like this why so much noise. the news has spread quickly across the country. >>> the emotion is not lost even in the ninth inning of a close. >> bob: game between the mets and the phillies last night. >> it's an odd fe

after the speech, he congratulated the national security team. >> you did a great job. >> reporter: today president obama travels to kentucky to thank the u.s. service members responsible for taking down al- qaeda's leader. he is meeting privately with them at fort campbell addressing soldiers back from afghanistan. new details are emerging about how the u.s. tracked down bin laden. the cia reportedly kept a safe house near the count -- compound where a small team of agents kept a watchful eye. intelligence gathered from the compound shows al-qaeda was considering attacks on u.s. trains, on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. handwritten notes listed major american cities like new york and los angeles as targets. and suggested that al-qaeda might strike on a holiday. >> july 4th, and new year's eve new year's day potential target dates. that's interesting because al- qaeda usually attacked when it's ready to attack and not governed by the calendar. >> reporter: but officials stress that the idea is only in the planning stages and was not operational. at the white house, danielle nottingham, wjz

suarez: but in the end, white house spokesman carney said the president consulted with his national security team and they all agreed. >> every member of the national security team is aware of and expressed the downside of releasing which has i think weighed heavily on the president in terms of the potential risks to americans serving abroad and americans traveling abroad. so, the idea that this was 100% obvious, the president never gets to make a decision that's 100% obvious because those kinds of decisions never get to his desk. >> suarez: amid the focus on the photos, more details trickled out about the u.s. raid on bin laden's compound in abbottabad, pakistan, on sunday night. it was widely reported the terror leader apparently made provisions for escaping, if cornered. he had two phone numbers and 500 euros-- the equivalent of more than $740-- sewn into his clothes. back in washington, the debate over the bin laden death photos seemed likely to simmer on, despite the president's decision to withhold them. and, it was not the first time the u.s. government has made such decisions. in 2003, th

. >> good job, national security team. i'm proud of you. >> and new video out of the white house showing president obama and vice president biden congratulating their team and calling former presidents clinton and bush with the good news that bin laden is dead. mr. obama heads to fort campbell,en c ken this afternoon to personally congratulate the navy seals behind the operation abc's "20/20" gives the most complete picture of the raid on bin laden. you can see the special report on abc7 tonight at 10:00. >>> you won't believe where a baby made his arrival into the world last night. that story is just ahead. and a woman's secret weapon for longer eyelashes may now be a man's best friend. and later, happy >>> federal regulators are going after on-line ticketing servicesthat don't tell customers booking a flight that a leg of their trip will be operated by a separate regional carrier. fair portal, american travel solutions, air gorilla, whole sair travel center and automobile bill club of new york are being f