it was the same special operations unit that killed osama bin laden. bob orr is in washington with details. bob. >> reporter: scott, for navy seal team six it was yet another daring raid in the dark with commandos parachuting into a remote region of central somalia. sources say about two dozen seals jumped from an airforce transport plane near the desert town of djibouti. moving quickly and quietly, the commandos crept about a mile and a half to a nearby camp where u.s. intelligence had determined american aid worker jessica buchanan, and deignis coworker poul hagen thisted were being held. as the seals closed in on the somali kidnappers, shots were fired. all nine of the suspects were killed, but there were no american casualties. two army helicopters swooped in, picked up the seals and the freed captives, and carried them to safety in djibouti. they were kidnapped october 25 in a lawless region of somalia where pirates and criminal gangs used kidnapping as money-making operations. the two were working in that area with a group clearing mines and unex

it was the same elite team of seals that killed obama bin laden. -- osama bin laden. >> backup special operations forces remained in the air. moving quickly and quietly, the commandos pressed about the mile and half to the nearby camp where us intelligence had determined that danish coworker were being held. at the closing, shots were fired. all nine of the suspects were killed but there were no american casualties. they carried the three captives to cbt. they were kidnapped october 20 fifth in the lawless region of somalia where pirates and criminals can use kidnapping. the senior administration official said president obama decided monday night to watch the rescue after fresh intelligence revealed that buchanan's health was quickly deteriorating. the successful mission came just months after the trek down and killing of osama bin laden. this morning vice president biden praised the rescuers. >> everyone should know, we will find you. we will find you and take care of americans interests. >> one option was to possibly take them alive but another said they were heavily armed with explo

and tonight, the american auto industry is back. >> reporter: osama bin laden is dead. general motors is alive. those points folded neatly into another of the president's goals, to wrap himself in the american flag. >> what's at stake aren't democratic values or republican values. but american values. no american company should be able to avoid paying its fair share of taxes by moving jobs and profits overseas. so much of america needs to be rebuilt. >> reporter: and with polls showing the country furious about the constant partisan warfare in washington, the president took direct aim at congress itself. >> as long as i'm president, i will work with anyone in this chamber, to build on this momentum. but i intend to fight obstruction with action. and i oppose any effort to return to the very same policies that brought on this economic crisis in the first place. >> reporter: it's a good strategy. obama might not be the most popular president. but congress is really unpopular. just 13% of americans approve of the way congress is handling its job. things that are more popul

killing of osama bin laden after a 10 year manhunt sticks out in my mind and the seals found bin laden bedroom, his wife identified him and both were shot and killed. and the u.s. flew his body in the arabian sea where it was wash wrapped in a white sheet and muslim prayers were sad and his body was placod a board and slid in the sea less than three hours after president obama addressed the nation. >> it was unlike any operation we covered. within minutes seal team 6 overtook bin laden and killed his son and obtained a mother load of intelligence from the compound it was the greatest single victory on the war of terror and providing closure for american families whose lives were not the same after 9-11. it was a new kind of war without any lives lost. we broke the news that u.s. started bombing libya beginning the end of qaddafi. i traveled there on a historic visit to see up close the transformation of libya. days earlier, i witnessed the end of another war one that lasted a decade and leaving 10s of thousands badly injured. a million service members were touched by the iraq war. i ar

the united states conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al-qaida. usa. was happy when bin laden was killed. justice had been done and killer had been killed. but i was not comfortable with the cheer my libitarian friend from the freedom watch knows more about the constitution and rule of law and he's a why. and you did call that murder. >> i did call that murder. the government can't take life, liberty or property against any person. it said any person without due process of law. and certainly can't kill someone just because it is it popular to doing so. >> this guy admitted his role in murdering 3000 americans and it makes sense that we should be able to chase him down and kill him. >> it makes political sense. >>> and emotional sense. it was a great relief and release when this monster was dead. but he was not in the act of engaging in war at the time he was killed by u.s. troops. he ought fobe arrested and put on trial. why would we make an exception for him and try richard speck who admitted he murdered 29 nurses in a chicago dormitory. >> because te

give us osama bin laden. and i thought they were going to give us osama bin laden. ne. when i was in afghanistan and met with military officials, i asked the question why in the world didn't the taliban give us osama bin laden? and the answer was very interesting. they thought that we would never come. they thought that even if we wanted to come, we didn't have the expertise to even get to afghanistan. they didn't think america had the will or the ability to invade their country. and, of course, we have showed them very differently. >> sure. >> i think that the mission in afghanistan is far more justifiable than iraq, because they were using it as a training ground and you can say, well, that wasn't really a threat. but if you have a whole swath of land where you're training people to come over and kill americans, that's very serious. and if you talk to ray kelly, he'll say there have been numerous other attempts to harm america since 9/11. >> michael, respond to this. >> i would not disagree that afghanistan was clearly more justifiable. my main argument in the book

reporter: well, jessica, early yesterday morning, navy seals from that same team that killed osama bin laden parachuted into somalia. they hiked nearly two miles to the kidnappers' encampment, killing nine heavily-armed men guarding american jessica buchanan and paul fisted of denmark. the hostages were then flown out of there. today, buchanan and fisted were taken to a u.s. naval base in italy for medical examinations and a debriefing. government officials say the raid was prompted by concerns over buchanan's health. jessica? >> mary, thank you. butbuchanan's father said he got a call from president obama

it was a dramatic rescue carried out by the same specialists who killed osama bin laden.n all she has been through. after a three months in captivity she is now safe at a u.s. military base in africa awaiting a reunion with her family. tuesday night after the state of the union president obama told her father that his daughter had been rescued from somali pirates and u.s. navy seals. buchanan's family is relieved and thankful. >> now that she is safe, it is a weight off our shoulders, and answer to our prayers. >> the 32-year-old aid workers spoke with her father. her uncle described part of the conversation. >> she said i feel safe for the first time in 93 days. those men risking their lives. i cannot say enough. i really appreciate it. >> the men were the elite navy seal team 6, the same specialists that killed osama bin laden. this mission saved jessica buchanan and paul tested may have been even tougher. >> they do nothing but kidnap people. >> the si team approached a remote encampment in northern somalia. one by one they parachuted silently to within a few miles of

that was needed to carry out the raid that killed osama bin-laden. the total on the left is jessica buchanan. she was the american that was taken prisoner along with a danish aid worker. there were rescued by seal team 6 yesterday morning and said to be doing well. they were taken hostage three months ago while working for a humanitarian group. according to the white house, buchanan is now on her way home. here you can see the president calling her father to give him the good news >>mark: the cruise will be back at telegraph hill at the side of the rock side continuing cleanup efforts. its residents were evacuated but allowed back last night. here is video of the scene. the residence that were infatuated were allowed back into last night and they were allowed to stay the night that it was recommended not to sleep on the side facing the slope engineers are obviously still worried that a rock could come down to do more damage. jackie sissel is standing by with the latest on the cleanup efforts. earlier, we mentioned the department of public works could

telling cnn that the government has not yet decided whether to try a doctor who helped track down osama bin ladenfense secretary panetta talking about the raid on cbs "60 minutes." he believes some pakistani officials must have known where bin laden was hiding. he talked about the pakistani doctor who is now in prison. >> i'm very concerned about what the pakistanis did with this individual. this was an individual who, in fact, helped provide intelligence on -- that was very helpful with regards to this operation and he was not in any way treasonous towards pakistan. he was not in any way doing anything that would have undermined pakistan. as a matter of fact, if pakistan -- i've always said this. they have a common cause here against terrorism. >> cnn's reza is live in pakistan. he has been charged with high treason and is in custody? >> reporter: he has yet to be charged with high treason. a commission here in pakistan that has been charged with investigating the raid on the bin laden compound has recommended for him to be charged with treason, but this doctor has become another bone of content

they're now working on "the hunt for osama bin laden." that film is set to be released next december. >>> china is now seeking to improve military ties with pakistan. chinese premier welcomed in the pakistani army chief in beijing for a six-day visit. there were promises for stronger military exchanges and cooperation. the army chief says developing a china/pakistan partnership is key to the foreign strategy for both countries. >>> and in tokyo, a giant blue fin tuna went on the auction block. the 754-pound fish was caught off the northern coast of japan and sold for just under $400,000. that's roughly $527 per pound. now, expensive sushi, it's more than $90 per piece. >>> a baltimore county man will be sentenced today for the murder of a teenaged girl. i'm sherree johnson with more on this case after three years. >>> a memorial service now set for ron smith. when you can pay your respects to the former iconic radio host. >>> plus a protest planned over the proposed new gas tax increase. details on where you'll see those on your street co

again, the same organization that took out osama bin laden.ot of times in cases like this what they deal is if they have enough time they'll build a mock-up of the operation, the buildings, the encompment they're going into so they know exactly where the doors and windows are, where the tents are so when they go in they already know exactly where they're going to be going. we don't know if it happened in this case. often times that's how they do it. a lot of training and preparation goes into this operation. >> brown: you said in this case one of the determining factors was her health. so was it... how much do we know about the preparation and the reason for the final go-ahead from the president? >> we don't know a lot about the preparation at this point. people i talk with at the pentagon and elsewhere say we don't even have any pictures yet of what this place looked like. they're calling it an encomp some that would lead you to believe maybe some tent there is, probably not any buildings. but... so we don't know how much preparation time the

eran de la misma unidad que matÓ a osama bin laden.de entrar al congreso para dar el discurso de la uniÓn. por eso felicitÓ al secretario paneta sin dar demasiada explicaciÓn. >> las fuerzas especiales por su valentÍa. dijeron que esto definitivamente habÍa sido un milagro. >> muchas gracias por traernos de informaciÓn. >> dÍas despuÉs de que el gobierno de washington expulsarÁ a la cÓnsul de washington se da a conocer que otra diplomÁtica de ese paÍs estÁ pidiendo asilo polÍtico en los estados unidos argumentando que se siente perseguida por el gobierno de hugo chÁvez y su vida corre peligro. >> quien ocupa el cargo de primer secretarÍa en la cancillerÍa en caracas confirmÓ a univisiÓn que presentó una solicitud de ha sido en agosto del aÑo pasado. >> tenemos entendido usted es una diplomÁtica venezolana que estÁ pidiendo asilo polÍtico en estados unidos. nos puede confirmar? >> a estas alturas, >> la vÍa temÁtica no quiso ofrecer mayores detalles sobre las presuntas actividades de persecuciÓn de las que ha sido vÍctima por parte del

that was the case with osama bin laden. at means the minute that you see osama bin laden, he's a hostile enemy. in other cases, they actually say that there has to be aggressive action before the enemy is hostile. we don't know what the specific rules of engagement were for this operation yet. >> you know, we're hearing more about situations like this, of course, the osama bin laden situation and this one, do you think this will be useds is a more prominent tool going forward? >> absolutely, going forward we'll be relying more on units like this, more on special operations than we have even in the past. when you think about what's happening, not just in somalia and afghanistan but you think about threats in yemen, for example. all of this is dependent upon the use of special operations and teams of intelligence professionals who can come together and eliminate threats like this with surgical precision. >> can you just talk a little bit before we go hear about the training that take place in order to become a navy s.e.a.l.? i

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also, killing osama bin laden -- was to keep obama up in the ratings.is ratings were down the toilet. wake up. >> sean: you are 21. sorry. >> you are making a good point, though. >> i want to say, on foreign policy, we have a chopper left in pakistan, and we have a drone in iran. so how can anyone feel safer when two top-secret military technologies are left in foreign countries that want to discus destroy us. how does that make us safer? >> but he says, oh, please, please, give it back. please, give it back. i mean, how kitrust this man? >> sean: that's a great point. >> he said pretty please with sugar on top. >> because some people are concerned about foreign policy, some are concerned about economics, jobs, but everybody's got something that makes them afraid. and it's scary times. >> that's the challenge for 2012 for obam amount of here's the things. ronald reagan asked the question when he was running against jimmy carter. how many of you think you are better off than when you were before obamma was electd? wow. how many of you think we can afford

also, killing osama bin laden -- was to keep obama up in the ratings.is ratings were down the toilet. wake up. >> sean: you are 21. sorry. >> you are making a good point, though. >> i want to say, on foreign policy, we have a chopper left in pakistan, and we have a drone in iran. so how can anyone feel safer when two top-secret military technologies are left in foreign countries that want to discus destroy us. how does that make us safer? >> but he says, oh, please, please, give it back. please, give it back. i mean, how kitrust this man? >> sean: that's a great point. >> he said pretty please with sugar on top. >> because some people are concerned about foreign policy, some are concerned about economics, jobs, but everybody's got something that makes them afraid. and it's scary times. >> that's the challenge for 2012 for obam amount of here's the things. ronald reagan asked the question when he was running against jimmy carter. how many of you think you are better off than when you were before obamma was electd? wow. how many of you think we can afford

but osama bin laden is dead. al-qaeda is all but gone from the country, and the afghan government is negotiating with the taliban. okay. best government dollars spent, pat? >> keys off you, john. i think seal team six taking down bin laden and the targeted hits on al-qaeda itself. but i agree with you on afghanistan. >> eleanor? >> best government dollar i would say unemployment insurance in this time. >> rich? >> every penny spent on hell fire missles. >> i was going to say killer drones, which is exactly what you were referring to, rich. but i would also add the salaries of the people in the counterterrorism unit of new york city police who have done an unbelievable job in taking care of the terrorist threats to new york. >> the best government dollars spent, the money spent to bury osama bin laden in accord with muslim traditions. killing bin laden was a spectacular feat, but it would have been marred if the handling of the corpse offended devout muslims. also, a land burial would have created a shrine for al-

terrorist threats to new york. >> the best government dollars spent, the money spent to bury osama bin laden in accord with muslim traditions. killing bin laden was a spectacular feat, but it would have been marred if the handling of the corpse offended devout muslims. more importantly, a land burial would have created a shrine for al-qaeda. the outcome burial at sea was brilliant and it was money well spent. okay. bold exist political tactic, pat? >> newt gingrich saying that actually the palestinian people don't exist. they are an invented people. they are all arabs. >> horrible? >> no. i mean, he spun this thing. i got give him credit. >> he was talking as an historian. and his views happened to match those of the evangelical christians he is courting in iowa. there is always method to newt's madness. >> i wouldn't go that far. >> well, i would say stripping the collective bargaining rights in wisconsin and ohio. bold political tactics. back firing to a certain extent. >> eleanor stole mine. scott walker is the boldest tactic. plowing through even after democrats fled the state. >> what d

. >> osama bin laden is not a threat to this country. >> reporter: mentioning the death of osama bin den brought bipartisan applause. but he quickly turned off republicans with promises to ensure millionaires pay no less than 30% in taxes. >> now, you can call this class warfare all you want, but asking a billionaire to pay as much as has secretary in taxes, most americans would call that common sense. >> reporter: promising to fight, president obama announced a special group of prosecutors to investigate risky mortgages and new opportunities for homeowners to save up to $3,000 a year by refinancing. >> no more red tape. it's time to aply the same rules from top to bottom. no bailouts. no handouts. no copouts. >> reporter: he picked some efforts that failed before, ending oil subsidies, getting rid of underperforming teachers, and he warned colleges to put the brakes on rising tuition. >> if you can't stop tuition from going up, the funding you will get from taxpayers will go down. >> reporter: that, plus eliminating tax breaks for companies that send jobs overseas. >> use half of it

still missing. >> carolyn: leon panetta is revealing new details about the navy seal assault on osama bin laden compound.a doctor providey information in advance of that assault. he ran a vaccination program and helped collect dna to verify that bin laden was in the compound. >> dan: highway 50 should be reopen in yosemite. huge boulders crashed down. crews have been working to clear the road driving in the north entrance of the park. it will have a gravel surface for the weekend and then have to close again to be paved sometime next week. >> carolyn: snow is not the issue there. there isn't much of it. >> dan: maybe not anytime soon. sandhya patel is here with the forecast. >> no snow for the yeosmt area but snow up in the tahoe area. weekend plans are fine for outdoor activities. highs were very spring like. 73 degrees in santa rosa. upper 60s, san rafael, concord, down to the morgan hill area. well around normal for this time. 66 degrees in oakland and 65 in san francisco. we'll do it again tomorrow. carbon copy conditions minus the fog. you probably remember how dense it was. the air mass h

after osama bin laden's killing, the popularity of the army has gone down. it made pushed the government over the brink. a charismatic leader could bring a new radical leader to pakistan and promise new hope and dignity and don. that may be one truth. >> the broader issue is the effect of the government of this is going on. can it still within insurgency? >> exactly. these are the huge problems facing pakistan on the horizon. you have the international crisis on the borders. america is withdrawing its troops. you have internal problems. you have a simmering civil war situation in 44% of pakistan. pakistan needs to be led by people who are wise, who have compassion, who have a vision and can bring people together in a way that gives them hope and dignity. the last thing they need is this kind of wrangling taking place in islamabad. people are extremely apprehensive. >> thank you very much indeed for joining me. >> thank you. >> for other news -- the huge u.s. military says it has identified the four marines who were seen in video apparently urinating on dead

the government list of co-conspir ators made their way to osama bin laden.his compromised our intelligence ability and ability to stop the next terrorist act. >> i don't know if that is the case. we have an imperfect system. it is not based on punishing the guilty. but based on those that are proven guilty. if the government can't prove guilt and the person is not worthy of punishment no matter what the crowds think. that is the reason we have the constitution. they call it star chamber. you argue that the new defense authorization act gives the president more power than king george. explain. >> for the first time in the end of reconstruction period. the federal government can use the military for ordinary law enforcement purposes. they are not going to be directing traffic. they will arrest people that the president want to arrest x. so this statute purports to give, i believe the courts will inval date it the president a reason to arrest and ship them to cuba and they can't see a judge or lawyer or jury and they will at a there as long as the president wan

"seal team 6," the same special navy operation unit that killed osama bin laden, freed the hostages yesterday. president obama called jessica's family to give them the good news. her father tells c-b-s news jessica is doing ok. republican presidential candidates will take center stage in their final debate in florida tonight before the primary. right now, newt gingrich is drumming up support with voters. here's a live look out of mount dora, florida. gingrich is supposed to give a short speech, followed by questions. tonight's debate is expected to be a two man battle between mitt romney and gingrich. they're using their time on the campaign to take swipes at the president and his tax plans. arizona's governor ended up in a heated exchange with the up in a heated exchange with the president on the tarmac. at one point, brewer pointed her finger at the president. apparently, the president expressed his disappointment with her book. later - brewer skipped a phoenix event with the president. she later told tv news stations that she would never be disrespectful, and that the president walked away

time of 9/11, but also was put fully on display, i think, in the successful operation to kill osama bin laden over the summer which i think of as president obama's greatest foreign policy and national security achievement in the last two and a half years. there you saw intelligence provided by people who had been detained under the laws of war, electronic surveillance producing more intelligence, all pulled together to locate where osama bin laden had been hiding. and then the use of military force to go out and kill him. under the rules of the criminal justice system which administrations of both political parties had used in their approach to terrorism before 9/11, we would have instead indicted osama bin laden and sent out people who tried to arrest him after he had committed a crime. they switched to the approach of war made our policy forward looking to try to stop people like osama bin laden and terrorist groups from attacking the united states before they could attack. the second lesson i would draw from the last ten years and also helps us to look forward is that after 9/11 we treated

team 6, the same elite navy team unit that killed osama bin laden, had just performed another incredibleitary feat. rescuing that kidnapped american aid worker, jessica buchanan, from a gang of somali thugs. he told me what it was like to deliver the good news to jessica's father, just after the speech finished. >> i cannot imagine what he went through, you know, given, you know, malia and sasha. and for him to be able to stay strong and then for, you know, our incredible men and women in uniform, to do what they do, it makes you proud about this country. >> reporter: but despite praise for the raid, and what many see is a string of bold foreign policy decisions -- >> for the first time in two decades, osama bin laden is not a threat to this country. [ applause ] >> reporter: the president faces some daunting statistics at home. unemployment at a painfully 8.5%. 61% of americans saying the country is on the wrong track. numbers that make president obama one of the most vulnerable incumbents in history. watching the debates? >> you know, i don't watch the debates, i got to say. i read the

still missing. >> carolyn: leon panetta is revealing new details about the navy seal assault on osama bin laden compound. a doctor provided key information in advance of that assault. he ran a vaccination program and helped collect dna to verify that bin laden was in the compound. >> dan: highway 50 should be reopen in yosemite. huge boulders crashed down. crews have been working to clear the road driving in the north entrance of the park. it will have a gravel surface for the weekend and then have to close again to be paved sometime next week. >> carolyn: snow is not the issue there. there isn't much of it. >> dan: maybe not anytime soon. sandhya patel is here with the forecast. >> no snow for the yeosmt area but snow up in the tahoe area. weekend plans are fine for outdoor activities. highs were very spring like. 73 degrees in santa rosa. upper 60s, san rafael, concord, down to the morgan hill area. well around normal for this time. 66 degrees in oakland and 65 in san francisco. we'll do it again tomorrow. carbon copy conditions minus the fog. you probably remember how dense it was. the air m