but there's questions in the pentagon on whether they hurt security. senior officials like the new navy secretary and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff tweet regularly as a leadership and motivational tool. last month the pentagon launched a study on whether to ban or limit the media on the networks. mike carpenter is here, senior vice president at macafee, one of the leading computer security companies. welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> how do you make the tools safe enough for the military to embrace? >> banning the tools is a very difficult thing to do, right? the access through the port 80, within a technology environment, in order to block it you would have to, not just block the specific protocols but actually shut down port 80 which is internet access. the idea of actually banning it is something i don't think can be done. i think there will be individuals, users will find ways around it, whether it be through their cell phone or whether through other internet access points. >> is that the biggest message you would like the pentagon to b

should pentagon policy follow suit? technology and how we wage war has changed battles significantly. i think the laws will have to be adjusted but incrementally to deal with reality. >> incremental my foot. women soldiers are already ahead of the wars. they don't get credit for it. >> i am all for equal opportunity but i do think that the laws have to be carefully drafted to reflect society's best interest and not any particular group's best interest. >> i just think that congress has to pass a law that reflects the reality of the battle. i'm with irene. women are getting the short ending of the stick if the laws aren't changed. >> bonnie: at least during the bush administration, postles americans question whether women -- polls of americans question whether, the level was lower, the realities of the women combat vets coming home, aren't they change along with it? >> you know, 5,000 deaths so far, 127 women have been fatalities and who knows how many are women. the policy that allows the husband or the wife, because th

no need for alarm according to the pentagon. it's just a russian attack sub hanging off the eastern coast of the united states one of two the pentagon is tracking. one off the coast of green land and one off georgia. it's been years since russia cruised these waters. why now? >> reporter: two nuclear powered russian attack submarines have been spotted off the eastern u.s. coast. one in the southeast waters off georgia, the other around greenland. a top russian military says no need to worry about the cold war mission. it's a routine normal part of regular patrols. >> this is our right. we got tired of making circles on our internal route. >> reporter: russian officials say they resumed the submarine patrols in 2007. analysts say this is clearly aggressive post steering by russia but this type of submarine is generally used to look for other vessels and collect intelligence. >> these are not the type of subs designed with long-range ballistic missiles for nuclear war on cities. >> reporter: this is an unusual post cold war missio

as cnn pentagon correspondent chris lawrence reports, the pentagon finally got the break it needed last month. >> the family expected classified briefings monday or tuesday. they know for sure captain speicher did not die in some iraqi prison. captain scott speicher's children were toddlers the day he disappeared. now his remains are coming home to college students. a nearly 20-year mystery. was he captured? tortured? all this time the answer was buried in the iraqi sand and solved by a single tip. >> it's a bittersweet ending. i mean, it's great that we have finally accomplished an ending. but it is bitter-sweet. >> reporter: last month an iraqi citizen told troops about the crash site. when the marines another iraqi said he was there when bedouins found captain speicher, already dead, and buried his body. searching the site, u.s. troops found multiple ankle tan fragments and bones. military investigators compared captain speicher's dental records with the recovered jaw bone. it was him. >> the whole family is just so grateful that the navy stayed on this. >> reporter: but the military

they were told last night by the pentagon that the remains had been found. today, the pentagon revealed those remains were found after new information from an iraqi citizen that led marines back to the crash site, where it's believed speicher's body had been buried long ago by tribesmen. the pentagon says the remains that were found are enough for a positive identification. and tonight the navy told us they never gave up looking for captain speicher. >> this demonstrates that we will never, ever leave somebody behind. >> reporter: outside a jacksonville church today, a plaque in honor of the captain, and a community grateful for closure for the speicher family. >> i'm just glad that this is over for them. and that they will be able to put it to rest. >> reporter: and tonight the speicher family released a statement calling him a brave and wonderful fathercewho respo without hesitation when his country needed him. >>> the war continues in afghanistan. where militants today killed three more u.s. troops with gunfire. after attacking their con voi with a roadsi

the pentagon says that the pentagon is monitoring the up maneuvers, but it is not alarmed by them. what is moscow up to? >> russian submarines are a rare enough site. -- sight. two nuclear power submarines have been patrolling international waters. russia is flexing its military muscle. uncomfortable memories are being raised of the cold war. then, the u.s. and the soviet union stole military secrets of the coast. the pentagon is monitoring movements of the russian submarines. what is the motivation behind this unusual mission? the russian military says that russia spots american and nato vessels off of its own coast. they say that patrols are a normal thing. >> the fleet should not sit at home, you know. it should not only fulfilled the task to combat piracy, but also international tasks. >> two years ago, russia restarted its patrols of a strategic bombers in international airspace, causing consternation in the west. russian generals say that they're doing it because they were tired of internal routes. there are usually more things than that. >> i do not think it was an anti-amer

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the pentagon only asked for one.he long-range jets are used to fairy vips around, including members of congress. is this really the best use of your $200 million? that's the question. steve ellis is the vice president of tax payers for common sense is joining us from washington this morning. thanks for being here, we appreciate it. what was your reaction when you learned about the house appropriations committee and the fact that they approved only one, at the price of $65 billion per jet, but three in total for the air force. >> well, when i saw that in the bill, i noticed that first off it had specified that these two additional jets go to two particular units that actually just had their squadron named but when you dug into it they were going to andrews air force base and about to smepend $133 million so congress will have nice gulfstream jets to travel in comfort. >> in fact, there was quite a bit of outrage from this same exact committee with the auto executives. let's listen in to some sound from that. >> couldn

>> i think there's a good chance that they'll decide to scale it back to what the pentagon requested. because remember, the pentagon said here's what we need in terms of replenishing old planes to handle the foreign travel or other secure travel you need to do. remember, congressmen generally fly commercial most of the time when they go to and from their zriblths. it's really about these special trips that they take for government purposes. and it's very hard to make an argument that you should be fancier jets than what the pentagon has said is needed to actually take you somewhere. >> let's be the devil's advocate for a second. can we make the argument that they need to fly privately, that they need these planes? is there a way to make that argument? >> i think they could fly business class. they don't have to fly coach if they're going orrn a 14-hour flight to europe. but no, it's a real stretch. if the rest of the country is stretching and making sacrifices, they look frivolous by doing something like that th. >> matt, is there any way to make a argument? with the auto executives i

the pentagon called that item a waste of money. shepard: thanks.ow does this sound -- a car that gets 230 miles to the gallon. that is exactly what gm claims is the gas mileage for its new electric hybrid car, the chevy volt. the ceo of general motors calls it a game changer. if confirmed, it would be the first car with a triple digit gas mileage. the battery, by the way, can be recharged from a regular home out with periodic are expected to hit showrooms late next year. it is expected to have a price tag of about $40,000. fox news is tracking h1n1, and health officials raced to produce vaccines for the virus worldwide. the number of infections and deaths from the flu strain continues to grow. now, india is reporting its first h1n1-related deaths. the country of more than 1 billion people is steering -- fearing a possible surge in cases with its normal full season are arriving at the same time as asian monsoon season. >> in india, people offering prayer is, holding a fire ritual, asking for protection against the worldwide pandemic. this young boy

no problems to report past edsall road past the pentagon and 14th street bridge. on inbound new york avenue drivers are at speed past bladensburg to florida and the third street tunnel. here's the beltway. looking great north of the district. a little volume here at colesville but no incidents or accidents at this time. over to you. >> this this living well headlines the world health organization standing by the claim that 2 billion people could catch the h1n1 flu virus. the who says no one knows how many have already caught the strain because many cases are so mild they go undetected and in more h1n1 news, homeland security secretary, january january says cases will

today the pentagon is confirms the remainses of michael "scott" speicher has been found. he was shot down the first night of "operation desert storm." then defense secretary dick cheney and colin powell made the announcement. they later changed his status to missing in action. over the years there had abnumber of alleged speicher sightings. then just last month an iraqi civil yags came forward and said he had been buried by desert dwellers. just a short time ago we received a written statement from the a family. their statement goes on to say -- >>> the discovery means the long years of waiting and wondering are finally over. >> it's a bittersweet ending. you know, you always hope that he's going to be found alive, yet on that end, if he was found alive, look what he missed. of course there was always speculation that he was, you know, tower further, beaten, you know, so like i said, it's bittersweet. >> and speicher's widow eventually married. senator nelson says he spoke with the family today after the remains were positively identified. >> i spoke to buddy harris at le

the pentagon says the remains of navy pilot michael scott spieker have been found near the wreckage of his plane in anbar province in western iraq. kimberlie dozier has more and what it means for the family spieker left behind. >> reporter: navy captain michael scott spieker has been found at last, ending an almost two decade long wait for his family. the first american casualty of the gulf war was found buryed it in the desert west of baghdad near the wreckage of his f-18 hornet. u.s. marines found bone and dental fragment identified by pentagon pathologists, they were led by an iraqi who said he was there when -- >> he remembered a plane going down and he remembered them burying the body. the captain was shot down on january 17th, 1919 two hours after the war began. >> i'm scott spieker. >> reporter: the 33-year-old father of two was not supposed to fly that day. >> i would also like to say hello to my wife. >> reporter: his ship mates told "60 minutes" he refused to be left behind. as the jets approached their target a fellow pilot saw a flash where spieker's plane had been. >> an i

marines in al an bar found bones and dental fragments now positively identified by pentagon. an iraqi said he was there when bedouins found scott speicher dead from the crash. >> he remembered the plane going down, and he remembered the bedouins burying the body. >> reporter: captain speicher was shot down on january 17th, 1991. the 33-year-old father of two was not supposed to fly that day. >> i'd also like to say hello to my wife joanne. >> reporter: his shipmates told 60 minutes he refused to be left behind. as they approached their target, a fellow pilot saw a flash where speicher's plane had been. >> just an incredible anti-aircraft blush. >> reporter: he was first declared killed in action. without remains, doubts brew. officials changed his status to missing in action. >> no matter what, we were committed to finding either captain speicher alive. or if we couldn't find him alive, to find his remains. his status never mattered. >> reporter: after the fall of baghdad, they scoured iraq looking for evidence. all they found were the initials mss carved on the walls, leavin

as chris lawrence reports, the pentagon finally got the break it needed last month. >> reporter: don, the family tells us they expect to get a classified briefing from the military monday or tuesday, but now they know one thing for sure, he did not die in some iraqi prison. his children were toddlers the day he disappeared. now his remains are coming home to college students. a nearly 20-year mystery. was he captured? tortured? all this time the answer was buried in the iraqi sands and solved by a single tip. >> it's a bittersweet ending. i mean, it's great that we have finally accomplished an ending, but it is bittersweet. >> reporter: last month an iraqi citizen told american troops about the crash site. when the marines arrived, another iraqi said he was there when bedouins found captain speicher already dead and buried his body. searching the site, u.s. troops found multiple skeletal fragments and bones, and when military investigators compared captain speicher's dental records with the recovered jaw bone, it was him. >> the whole family is just so grateful that the navy stayed on

ryan bener the pentagon reporter for the "boston globe." john barry the national security correspondent for news week and deputy chief editor. welcome to the show. let's start off with iraq. the security situation there was assumed to be improving and so u.s. forces could do an aggressive pullout and some suggested that schedule to be accelerated to be out of iraq by 2011. security situation there is a little bit rougher. brian, any chance that u.s. forces will stay there beyond 2011? >> i think there are clear signs in the last couple of weeks there are ethnic tensions, very strong ones still simmering just beneath the surface and growing concern that could come out into the open. certainly there are extremists that are trying to stoke those fires again. and certainly the u.s. military expresses concern that this could get out of hand. on the other hand they are encouraged that so far things have been relatively stable. that the shiah population have been reserved in not responding to these more recent attacks. but having said that, with t

they were told by pentagon that the remains had been found.after new information from an iraqi citizen. outside of jacksonville church a plaque in honor of the captain and a community grateful for choeshier for the speicher family. >> i'm glad that this is over for them and that they will be able to put it to rest. >> hopefully they can. here's a look at your weather. heavy rain and thunderstorms in the southeast from orlando to chanceton. scattered thunderstorms, lightning and gusty winds in arizona, new mexico and colorado. >> a scorching 100 in boise, 90 in portland, 85 in sacramento. 93 in st. louis, 88 in chicago, 82 in the twin cities. highs in the 80s in baltimore and atlanta, 91 in miami and 100 in dallas. >> there were a lot of thrills and shrills at a competition in thailand over the weekend. >> cover your ears. >> these folks are trying to belt out the loudest scream ever. 1,500 contenders were whittled down to 11 finalists showcasing their beast screech, yell s and whales. a russian man hit nearly 117 decibels. he took home a check

pentagon asked for four planes.ports surfaced for congress wanting four more of more than twice the price, there was an immediate backlash. the pentagon said we did not ask for those. john murtha said last night -- megyn: i understand that there was backlash on this not just from republicans and the general public, but from the and cutdems as well? >> some senate democrats did not want to address it. >> i am embarrassed and disgusted at the idea that they would add money for private jets right now to the budget. [applause] >> you herded that applause. it was not too popular with the public. democrats are having enough troubles with the public right now. megyn: but now? >> they will have this four airplanes that the pentagon had requested. some of the lawmakers had said that we need the newer air plans to replace the older ones. they are more expensive to operate and maintain. megyn: thank you very much. bill: that did not last very long. that was about one day and was gone. $500 million. megyn: remember when nancy p

. >> the pentagon and white house say they don't have d.n.a. evidence masood was killed. >> we can't, with 100% certainty verify that. >> but fox has learned a national security meeting was called at the white house tomorrow to determine how to engage the pakistanis after this strike, to ensure that the pakistani army doesn't shy away from efforts it has begun to make into south warastan on the border with afghanistan, and then there is how this affects the search for bin laden. one intelligence head says it will free the predator assets to continue looking for him. others say this is a significant step forward in intelligence sharing with the pakistanis that down the road could lead to eventually getting the man that the c.i.a. simply refers to as number one. chris: jennifer griffin reporting for the pentagon. thanks for that. by the way, national security advisor general james jones is my guest this week on fox news sunday. we will ask him about the situation in pakistan and bill clinton's trip to north korea. check local listings for when we

pentagon correspondent chris lawrence is tracking these developments. he is joining us from los angeles. chris? >> reporter: frederica about a month ago, an iraqi citizen came forward and told the u.s. military about the possible location of captain speicher's grave. and it was in an area very close to where the military had found pieces of his shattered airplane way back in 1993. now the marines went to that part of the desert where another iraqi citizen told them he remembered an american jet crashing and told them he was there when the bedouins found captain speicher's body near the crash site and buried him there. so the u.s. military went out to that site and it took several days over the past week, but they did find captain speicher's remains. they found bone fragments, skeletal fragments, multiple skeletal flagments, actually. and then those were flown to dover air force base where the military medical examiner was able to match his jaw bone with captain speicher's accidental records and that's how they confirmed his positive identification. the

the reason that the white house and the pentagon and everyone else is reluctant to say anything about this is that they don't want to do anything to jeopardize it. you're dealing with a state that is extremely close, one of the most -- they don't call it the hermetic kingdom for nothing. it's one man rule there, king jiang ill. he makes all the decisions. think the concern was he could change his mind at the last minute. what we're seeing now is the state-run media has put out a statement saying that kim jong il, known as the dear leader, has pardoned the two american journalists so it looks as though this is all going as planned it looks as though those two journalists, those two americans, laura ling and euna lee, will be on the plane with president clinton sometime in the coming hours. shepard: jennifer griffin, thank you for that breaking news. i'm going to legality you go back -- let you go back to your sources, meantime, ambassador bolton, thanks for being here. it was president carter, i guess, who last was visiting with the north korean leader and if memory serves, it was his

though the appearance of the russian subs came as a complete surprise, the pentagon today played downhreat. >> while it is interesting and noteworthy that they are in this part of the world, it doesn't pose any threat. >> reporter: a far cry from the days when a cat-and-mouse games between u.s. and russian subs were the stuff of hollywood. including a classic cold war spoof, "the russians are coming." >> the russians have landed. they're here. >> reporter: following the cold war, the soviets conventional military broke and out of cash fell into serious disrepair. fleets of russian warships were abandoned to rust in port. when the russian navy did venture from shore it some times ended in disaster. nine years ago an explosion aboard the ship sent the submarine to the bottom of the sea taking all 118 russian sailors to their death. now flush with new found oil money, russia is trying to regain that old superpower status. >> to establish themselves as a major voice in international relations. and you do that with clearly some amount of military muscle. >> reporter: russian prime minister

lester. >> jim miklaszewski at the pentagon. thank you. >>> now to an act of terrorism that happened 21 years ago and new fallout that is beginning tonight. the only man convicted of the bombing of pan am flight 103 over lockerbie scotland is about to be released from prison. our chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell, with details from washington. andrea. >> reporter: the u.s. has been notified the convicted lockerbie bomber will be released from a scottish prison. horrifying victim's families. more than 259 people on board the doomed flight were students returning home to syracuse university. now the scottish justice minister has informed the families of the victims, former libyan intelligence agent, sentenced to a minimum of 27 years will be released on so-called compassionate grounds because he has advance prostate cancer. the families are outraged. >> what is this compassion, compassion for him? my heart is broken, my daughter's birthday is soon, she would have been 41. it's just been living in hell. >> report

the pentagon wanted only three. now, we don't know which lawmaker asked for these additional planes. with an earmark that type of information has to be disclosed, but this wasn't considered an earmark, but an expansion of an existing budget program. so, lou, we just don't know who is behind this request. lou? >> well, i think we can begin by just asking, simply, who is the speaker of the house and who is the majority leader of the senate? would that be a reasonable starting point? >> yes, and to be completely fair, most of the rank and file members of congress are not flying in style in these luxury. but you hit it on the head. it is the elite in washington, the leaders in congress. but those are the folks who are generally flying in style here. >> lisa, thank you very much. lisa sylvester, i'm sure they're going to be reviewing all of that videotape of those auto company executives. thanks very much. >>> up next here, another look at tonight's top stories. among those stories, the tearful homecoming of two american

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this would be on 95 stretching from pentagon to the spotsylvania county. the state is facing deep financial straits. the hot lanes project on the beltway will continue. construction around tysons corner is leaving some drivers confused. a ramp to chain bridge road will be closed for about a month. tall weeds are growing over some signs. other signs are only visible from certain lanes. you are advised to get into the left lane to avoid backups. >>> 813-year-old is in the hospital this morning -- a 13- year-old is in the hospital this morning, hit by a bullet and might have gone through a window. she is reportedly in stable condition. >>> there are new details about a recent series of some dumpster fires. sources say there have been more fires than previously reported. at least 12 in the past month have broken out in an area of south east. investigators believe the same person or people are responsie. >>> investigators want to know what sparked a fire in gaithersburg. a fire broke out on the third floor around in a clock 30 last night. it took firefighters a

using the brakes again from the pentagon to the 14th street bridge. next up, what's up here on 66, better news, an accident at route 28 is clear. however, going westbound another accident there off to the left shoulder so all lanes are getting by. wrap it up with 95 northbound and switch that camera to virginia. our buddy alex tells us near lorton to watch for construction. right now volume light. no incidents or accidents to report along the way. that's a quick look at traffic. andrea, over to you. >>> some residents of an apartment building in capital heights, maryland are back home after a run in with bad weather. last night's storm sent a tree crashing through the side of their building leading to a mass evacuation. armando trull is live in the 41st block of southern avenue in capital heights with more on the story. >> good morning. the apartment building you see behind me here in capitol heights has some beautiful large ma churr oak trees. a combination of heavy rains that loosened soil around the roots and strong winds that pushed on the canopy

shepard: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. jen, thanks so much. a couple of notes you may not have heard about this story. former president clinton apparently was not the only man considered for this job. "the new york times" is reporting now that the white house list of potential candidates included some other big names. among them, the former vice president al gore. again the women worked for his cable network. and the new mexico governor bill richardson who traveled not once but twice to north korea in the 1990's to secure the freedom of other detained americans. but as jen griffin reported just a moment ago, former president clinton jumped to the top of the list after it became evident he was the first choice of the north koreans. one more thing, and it's about the plane. this wasn't an official government flight at all, so the jet that carried the journalists home was not an official government jet. in fact, it belongs to a friend of bill clinton's, a man named steven bing. he is a top democratic donor, a movie producer and incidentally the f

pentagon considering clarifying him as a p.o.w.e years one thing that was complicated about his story he was initially listed as having been killed and then later on that changed as there were new questions and new theories and new thoughts about what may or may not have happened to him. so his status actually as i'm seeing here changed several times over the years. missing in action, captured and back to being deceased. after all these years we have some answers and we can hope this brings some comfort to so many people including his family. back to you. >> josh, thank you. again to our viewers, many just joining us, finding out what's going on. news breaking this morning from the u.s. military giving us official word that, yes, the remains have been identified positively of the first american who was lost in the first gulf war. he went down. his name was scott spiker, a picture of him there, went down in anbar province. a place much different today than it was then. over the years a lot of speculation and conjecture about exactly

bret: courtney kealy live at the pentagon. thank you. what is believed to be a u.s.mmed into a suspected taliban camp in pakistan today in the same area of lawless south part of the country where a top taliban killer was killed last week. between six and 14 people were killed in today's attacks. intelligence officials say they with with all militants but a taliban spokesman said the missile hit a home and killed civilians. the u.s. military is confirming that an al qaeda plot to attack an american base in kuwait has been foiled. kuwait initially announced that its personal had stopped the mans and arrested six kuwaiti nationals. officials say the group was planning to attack state security offices in other government buildings. in iraq, forces are settling into a did different routine now that come combat troops have withdrawn from the sit tizz. david piper shows us what these changing times are like in u.s. >> for years, u.s. forces have been on the offensive. now with the june 30th agreement in place, they are out of the towns and cities in this country and many so

lanes are open out of fredericksburg to get to the pentagon. nothing to report along 66. >> thank you. >>> we continue our coverage on the death of senator kennedy with a look at the legacy of the liberal lion leaves behind. >> he left his work on thousands of pieces of legislation. >> good morning. his imprint is far and wide. the death of senator kennedy begs the question of succession. the political dynasty informed before our eyes. ted kennedy was the one we watched grow old, the one who shaped legislation, who saw his successes and his failures. >> i do not think the next generation could ever measured up to the first. >> the dream will likely continue through nieces and nephews, possibly even his wife of 17 years. vendor is kathleen kennedy townsend and patrick kennedy, who has been a leading voice in congress on mental health. there is caroline kennedy. she played a visible role in the obama campaign. it is unclear who will take the helm of the kennedy clan. the dream will go one. >> the work will go on. the hope still lives. the dream s

the p pentagon has asked for about $65 billion for afghanistan and $61 billion for iraq. u.s. marines entered new territory today with guns blazing. correspondent greg palkot has exclusive pictures from afghanistan at the start of a new operation against militant forces. >> the taliban took an explosive hit in northern helmand province today. gulf company 23 marines is leading a force of 500, aiming to cheer all the taliban from the town of dahna, a crucial resupply and reroofing base for the militants. the marines reached the cam much and ran into a barrage of taliban fire. small arms, r.p.g.'s and mortars and the marines answered in kind and then some, putting up with relentless sniper fire and the searing heat. >> the marines have been on the ground for about four hours now. they say that they have killed some of the taliban, but there are several others out there and they are ready for the kill. this is a lot of ammunition you got. there >> yeah, it is. >> according to the marines, the talibans are victimizing the locals in this town, threatening and extorting them. if the

losses are one aircraft and one individual. >> the pentagon has identified a united states navy pilotserviceman missing in action in the persian gulf war. >> reporter: some in the military thought speicher had ejected and might still be alive. in 1994, they proposed a secret mission to survey the crash site, but according to senior defense officials in the room, chairman of the joint chiefs scrubbed the plan and said quote, i do not want to have to write the parents and tell them their son or daughter died looking for old bones. in 2001, the pentagon changed his status to missing in action and there were accusations he was being held captive by saddam hussein. after the invasion of iraq, some thought they found speicher's initials scratched into the wall of an iraqi prison. investigators even excavated a grave site in baghdad. but it was not him. now the vigils can end but one fact remains. >> we walked away from a downed pilot. it was done by mistakenly declaring him dead and then they didn't go and search for him. and that was a mistake and that is very important that we never repea

the pentagon says it happened in southern afghanistan.he camera mounted on the helicopter's gun. we'll talk more about how the pentagon is trying to turn things around in afghanistan. we have author peter bergen joining us from kabul. >>> gasoline prices rose more than 15 cents in the last couple of weeks. aaa reports the average price for a gallon of unleaded is $2.65. demand for gasoline is actually down so far this month but the price still getting higher because oil prices keep going up in anticipation of an economic rebound. >> all right. weather across much of asia, typhoon battering japan, five people reported killed, ten others missing. you see buildings literally falling into the water. a second typhoon forcing a million evacuations in china. taiwan has been hit with its worst flooding in 50 years. at least 22 people reported dead. so bad that this historic six-story hotel toppled over. floodwaters washed out the soil and land from underneath the building's foundation. >>> it's a boy for elisabeth hasselbeck. the view co-host gav

chris lawrence tracking the story live at the pentagon.ittersweet has been used to describe what the family is going through. i would expect nor bitter than sweet. >> they expect a classified briefing from the military either today or tomorrow. they now know one thing for sure, captain speicher did not die in some iraqi prison. his children were toddlers the day he disappeared. now his remains are coming home to college students. a near 20 year mystery. was he captured, tortured? >> it's a bittersweet ending. it's great that we have finally accomplished an ending, but it is bittersweet. >> last month an iraqi citizen told american troops about the crash site. when marines arrived another iraqi said he was there when bedoins found his body. when they compared dental records with the jawbone, it was him. >> the whole family is so grateful the navy stayed on this. >> reporter: the military made mistakes starting hours after speicher was shot down when the pentagon declared him dead. >> the total u.s. losses are one aircraft and one individual

jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon tonight. jennifer, according to this paper, there this may be an attempt by the military to manipulate the kind of stories that reporters cover is there anything to this? >> well, we have been able to confirm, shep, that, in fact, the military did hire a pr firm based in d.c. called the renden groupment and they provide the military with assessments like the ones you see here of journalist work. this one was written on august 14th. and it was based on the work of a freelance journalist based in jordan. and the accusation by stars and stripes and others is that they were using this assessment of the journalist' work to basically engage them and possibly influence the way their stories would turn out in the end. shepard: what's the military saying about this? >> well, the military is not denying that they hired this group, the renden group and that they were getting information about stories and ratings of stories. but they say that there was no mall intent. that they weren't trying to influence

, westmoreland had moved from running the war in vietnam to being the army chief of staff in the pentagon. it was under him that this records collection effort began. he received a letter, a private letter from an anonymous soldier. let me read you from it. dear general mes west poland, im a -- westmoreland, i am a u.s. g.i. in germany and i am worried about the wrong we are doing there to the vietnamese people and the g.i.'s myself. i was in the 9th division as a grunt. i know i had information about things as bad as melie and i don't want to tell any congressman for fear of hurting anyone in the army and fear of losing rank. his fear esplanades was intense pressures troops had to get body counts. he was referring to army kills. the army collected the numbers to measure military success. there was a growing perception in the success and the military ranks that the figures were greatly inflated by commanders who wanted to win promotions and justifying an unpopular response. in response, its then secretary of defense required actual bodies to be counted. an exaggeration wasn't the anonymou

in an unprecedented display of unity and support national security advisor and pentagon acquisition chief together visited brazil to advocate a security relationship with latin america's largest and most influential nation. that brazil buy f-18 fighter. international weapons sales are not just but bringing home dollars and jobs. they help shape security relationships that span connect decades. india's relationship with russia, is a key factor driving new delhi to turn toward washington. but the system is in need of reform. obama administration seems to want to re-engineer it and while still keeping u.s. systems from those who shouldn't have them and do so in a manner that gains kregsal support. thank you for joining us, i'll be back next sunday morning at 11:00. have a great week. fios tv, internet and phone for just $79.99 a month. oh, all right, see... you're just moving your fingers aren't you? i've gotta cut my nails. (announcer) now get three amazing fios services for the price of two. tv, internet, and phone for only... plus a free multi-room dvr for three months. record shows in on

brian. >> jim miklaszewski on duty at the pentagon for us. jim, thanks. >>> news on the economic and job situation in this country as we ait tomorrow's report on o tf oyme f mor theon july. bear with us here, these numbers la r fost week, fewer people filed new claims for unemployment benefits down r 38,000 tjur stve a olfha million. bunut otherermbf ame icans continuing on the unemployment rolls was up by 69,000, to 6.3 million. that does not count the 140,000 who exhausted their regular benefits and were rolled over into the government's extended benefits program. >>> movie fans across this country are startled tonight by word of the sudden death of a major force in the motion picture industry for over a generation in this country. john hughes made a lot of movies about kids that appealed to kids and then some. from "planes and trains" to "vacation" to "ferris bueller" to "home alone. he made some icons in his time. tonight, nbc's george lewis has a look back. >> ahh! >> reporter: he was the guy who had movie audiences roaring at films such

. >> a month ago the pentagon says they received information that bedouins had had buried speicher near the crash site. wjz, eyewitness news. >> earlier this year the speicher family pressed the pentagon to find out exactly what happened, saying they opposed any decision to change his status from missing to killed in action. >>> still to come, a frantic search. an underground train station collapses in china. >>> a new form of hiv. in tonight's healthwatch report, the alarming discovery by doctors j. and too brave for the bank. why a teller was fired after confronting a robber. >>> i'm alex did he meet trining anne arundel county. coming up, goats to the rescue. that story as eyewitness news continues. >>> i'm meteorologist bernadette woods. another round of severe storms again today. and we may not be finished yet. your complete forecast coming up when eyewitness news returns. >>> two people are dead two, more missing in china tonight after an underground railroad collapsed. chinese officials say it happened in western china. it was apparently still under construction. two workers were

and the pentagon said that's probably who high. the question is how many more troops mcchrystal is going to ask for. >> it's interesting for me, where we started, this drone taliban chiefsman. the american people didn't seem to notice a great deal, this interesting, good progressive movement. the american people, i think, have been under the impression that afghanistan and iraq are sort of quiet and sort of secondary at this point, but i think it's coming back in a big way. it's coming back in britain where they've taken some real losses in people. front page story now, afghanistan. >> and so many people very concerned about afghanistan. >> you can see it in normal conversation now. people are really starting to talk about it. so it's going to shape part of our future. obama does own it now, in part, because he took it on himself to implant his face on the age. the past six months. he owns everything. >> what he's going to do is what you've suggested, this has become, as you suggested, not just his war, his war of choice. he's deci

. >> reporter: the pentagon asked for one plane for its new africa command. but it was congress that ordered the two that will be used to fly members of congress. >> congress would be the one who would best be equipped to answer why it is they've added additional gulfstreams to the budget. >> reporter: the planes were not in the pentagon's budget. but were pushed by two congressmen from georgia, where they will be built. one, a democrat. the other, a republican. they have each received more than $10,000 over the last two years in campaign contributions from gulfstream's parent company. congressman kingston's office says buying the jets support local industry. and means jobs in his district. the house passed it. if the senate follows, it will mean members of congress flying in style, with your money. jonathan karl, abc news, capitol hill. >>> an update, now, on that wrong-way crash that killed eight people, including four children here in new york last month. the husband of the driver now says he wants his wife's body exhumed for an independent autopsy. he say

. >> senator bill nelson of florida said the pentagon should have ordered a search and rescue mission at the time and would now. >> once captain speicher had been declared dead by the secretary of defense and no search and rescue mission sent, then it just got lost in the beaurocracy. >> in florida a wall was erected to deep -- to keep up the search for speicher. >> we owe a do you thinkity to the person who puts himself in danger for defense the country. you just do it. >> never give up. >> never give up. >> almost two decades later an end to the most prominent mystery of that war. question dozen remain about exactly how and when speicher died. the pentagon says an iraqi citizen claims he was there years ago when tribal iraqis buried speicher's remains as required by muslim law. in washington, brook hart, wbal-tv 11 news. >> in today's "project economy" report, some good news for a change on the economic front. it appears the economy is showing some early signs of recovery. economists report the nation's gross domestic product is improving but white house advisors forecasting a turna