. >> patty colhane has more from washington, d.c. >> reporter: this is unusual, the first time michelle obama has taken over the weekly address from her president trying to raise awareness about the plight of the school girls in nigeria. is she said the reason she is doing it is personal. she widen it out to talk about the young women across the world trying to get an education saying 65 million young girls are not in school worldwide. now, this is unlikely to change u.s. policy. it has not exactly been a robust response offering maybe about a dozen or so experts to try to help with the surge. what the white house is saying officially is that they have no intention of doing anything when it comes to rescue operations. right now, they are sending in a handful of experts to try to find the missing girls regardless of what michelle obama said, the u.s. position is not expected to change dramatically. >> the african national congress has won a 5th is consecutive return. this is the sar m ceremony it i pretoria. we saw jacob zuma. he is in power for the next five years. the anc took more tha

. >>> our white house correspondent patty colhane with more from washington, d.c.? >> this is unusual. in fact, it's the first time first lady michelle obama has taken over the weekly address from her husband trying to raise awareness in the united states about the plight of the school girls in nigeria. she said to her, it's personal, she is the mother of school girls. she widened it out to talk about the plight of young women across the world trying to get an education saying 65 million young girls are not in school worldwide. this is unlikely to change u.s. policy. it has not been a robust response offering maybe about a dozen or so experts to try to help with the search but the white house is saying officially that they have no intention of doing anything when it comes to any potential rescue operation. right now, they are just sending in a handful of experts to try to find the missing girls regardless of what michelle obama said, the u.s. position is not expected to change dramatically. >> south sudan's president signed a fees fire agreement ending months of con

live to washington, patty colhane is there to talk us through this one. you went to afghanistan, now laying out a full blueprint. what are you expecting? >> what he is trying to do is recapture the momentum. he has been criticized because of his foreign policy preferences. by my count, this is the fourth time he has tried to clarify what his foreign policy is. so this is what the -- his aides have been telling reporters. i am going to look down because i want to get this right. interventionist and internationalistist not isolationalist or unilateral. probably not going to be a catch phrase. he is going to defend himself against critics who say he is too hesitant to use military force. he is going to say that he always will prefer to build coalitions but the u.s. basically can't afford to go it alone anymore. and then, at the same time, he is going to say in that measure what he wants is $5,000,000,000 from congress to do an anti-terrorism fund basically so that they can train people in other kuntz trees to tackle terrorism in their own borders. so that's