want want to go back to the pentag pentagon and david martin. david david you talked about how nobody nobody there is answering their their phones and it has been a a very busy time there tonig tonight. we've we've gone on the air, been on the on the air for about 20 minute minutes. what d what do we know, anything new new at this point? >> we >> well, cbs producer howard rosenbe rosenberg has talked to former former cia officer hank crimpt crimpton and crumpton was one of one of the man in charge of the the cia war in afghanistan and and pakistan. so he so he was once intimately involve involved in the hunt for osama osama bin laden. and h and he said that he had been hearin hearing for the past three or or four weeks that the u.s. was was getting close, getting some s some sort of location on bin laden. laden. probab probably searching first with with a drone and trying to correl correlate what the drone was seein seeing with reports they were were picking up from agents on on the ground. and th and then obviously, at some point, point, that a

presid president obama will speak to to the american people in a few few moments but now to the pentag pentagonn. what ar what are you hearing? >> >> well, russ, right now we have have two sources from the hill hill say tag that bin laden was was shot and killed and steven steven hadley, the former in additi addition security advisor for for president bush says he has has been author at that timive timively told by the white house house that bin laden is dead so so certainly all indications are th are that this announcement by th by the president is going to be be that after all these years years, has succeeded in the u.s. or somebody ucs s osama bin osama bin laden. >> mit >> mitchell: it is at 10:47 eastern eastern time. we we just got news about an hour a hour ago from the white house t house that the president wanted wanted to speak to the americ american people. obviou obviously this is unusual. sourc sources from the white house are are telling us initially this w this was a quote, unquote, big dea big deal. and dav and david this certainly would would fall into that catego category, corr