the bomb exploded yesterday in southern afghanistan. the first combat related deaths for the u.s. in afghanistan this year. >>> the attorney for five local men accused of plotting terrorist attacks in pakistan denies claims that want his clients have ties to al qaeda or other militant groups. thmen were arrested early last month in eastern pakistan. police say they will seek life sentences for the men. their lawyer says that they planned to travel to afghanistan to help muslims who were being victimized by western forces. >>> people are boarding planes at newark liberty international airport after a security breach that shut travel down for several hours. a man wukd through a checkpoint exit into the secure side of terminal last night and disappeared into the crowd. officers immediately stopped screening and looked through surveillance tapes to try to identify the man. the man was not found but the tsa says the terminal was searched and nothing dangerous was discovered. this comes on the same day that new screening rules are taking effec

i've spoken with who are tracking this issue, is that the drug traffickers and insurgents in southern afghanistan are working so closely together that it's almost impossible to separate them. recent example was a raid in helmand in may when they uncovered a taliban command and control center in the middle of a poppy market -- an opium market and they found more than 90 tons of drugs, precursor chemicals and poppy seeds there under the taliban's control. so they really are working very closely together. i think there has to be more effort to try and interdict the major traffickers who are not -- and money launderers who are not in afghanistan, really the major players are in pakistan, they're in the uae. some of them move between iran and afghanistan. this is a regional issue and it needs a regional approach. >> are you getting, mr. costa, any luck trying to get -- we discussed it briefly a little bit ago, but any luck trying to get some international cooperation on this? >> i think a lot is happening now. now obviously those are seeds which will bear fruit got only knows when in the future. we ha

afghanistan. the bomb exploded sunday in the southern part of the country. they are the first u.s. casualties due to enemy action in afghanistan this year. in a separate incident, a british soldier was also killed on sunday. >>> the u.s. embassy in yemen will remain closed today. the american and britd tesch embassies there were closed sunday following increased threats from al qaeda. kimberly dozier reports. >> reporter: the u.s. embassy stayed closed sunday after the new year's holiday because of ongoing fierce of an imminent al qaeda attack. the deputy national security adviser confirmed there was an active threat. >> there is. al qaeda has several hundred members in yemen and they've grown in strength. >> reporter: senior officials say they believe air strikes on christmas eve headed off a suicide bombing attack on the embassy planned for christmas day. the december 24th joint u.s. yemeni strikes hit targets including two al qaeda training camps. the u.s. and britain have ramped up training of forces and the pentagon is doubling the $70 million it already spend there is in aid.

service members in southern afghanistan. these are the first american combat deaths of the year in that country. one service member has die from noncombat causes. a british soldier on foot patrol was with also killed yesterday in southern afghanistan. >>> washington's largest nightclub, love, remains shut down after a new year's day stabbing there. d.c. police chief kathy lanier ordered the club closed for 96 hours after the stabbing and two other violent incidents in the club. she says club owners are responsible for providing security. the closure will give the police and the alcoholic beverage regulation administration time to review complaints about the club and check for any violations. a hearing to decide when the club can be reopened will be held today. >>> same-sex marriage opponents are taking another step today towards banning gay marriage in the district. the hearing has been scheduled in a lawsuit they filed. opponents want a referendum on the ballot that would allow district residents to vote on whether same-sex

service members have been killed in southern afghanistan. s the four troops along with a british soldier died in two separate roadside bombings. these are the first combat-related deaths for the u.s. in afghanistan in the new year. >>> in canada, hundreds of mourners braved bitter temperatures to pay their respects to four soldiers and a journalist who were killed in afghanistan. all five died when a roadside bomb hit their armored vehicle just south of kandahar last week. among the dead was michelle lang, the first reporter from canada to be killed while covering the war. >>> rescue workers in southeast brazil are searching for survivors of a deadly mudslide. at least 75 were killed in the mudslides. fierce downpours fell on the region last week and one of the mudslides buried a luxury resort. the brazilian government is considering shutning down nuclear power plants as a precaution. >>> wind gusts as high as 45 miles an hour caused damage in washington, d.c. the fierce winds and low temperatures downed trees and power lines. there were scat

this happened yesterday in southern afghanistan. these are the first u.s. combat deaths of the year. >>> a man is under arrest for the first d.c. homicide. zachery funke was stabbed several times this weekend. he was pronounced dead yesterday. police arrested terrance brooks. he has been charged with second- degree murder. >>> police are asking for help in finding a girl believed to be in danger. lastight a man took his daughter from a hospital. it is near richmond. they're believed to be traveling in a dodge ram pickup truck. >>> the world's tallest building is now open for business in dubai. the $20 billion building has luxury apartments and a hotel. it is believed to be 2,700 feet tall with the most stories of any building. it comes at a tough time for their economy. they are struggling to pay billions of dollars in debt. >> it looks like it needs some companies out there. >> a i think chat is how they once did. >>> 5:07. >> still ahead, is it going to be the end of the road for coach jim zorn? multiple sources said he may be fired. >> snow by the end of

the blast happened yesterday in southern afghanistan on. the casualties are the first u.s. combat deaths this year. >>> a man is under arre with the first d.c. homicide. zachery funke was stabbed several times saturday night on mississippi avenue. he was pronounced dead early yesterday. police arrested terrance brooks who has been charged with second-degree murder. >>> virginia police are asking for your help to find a girl who they believe is in danger. a man took his daughter alexis from a ho hospital near the richmond area. >>> 6:06, and only 23 degrees. >> a first for eight sitting first lady. we will talk about's mo 1 in the spotlight. >> our next chance for a winter storm. crest here are the latest school storm. crest here are the latest school delays on this monday morning have you gotten your seasonal flu vaccination? great - but your work's not done yet. we still need to get the h1n1 flu vaccination. you, me -- we should all get one. the vaccine is safe and proven effective against this highly contagious new strain of flu virus. we can help prevent the spread of th

service members have been killed in southern afghanistan. nato says the troops died in roadside bombings over the weekend. these are the first combat-related deaths so far this year. >>> passengers are boarding their flights at the newark, new jersey airport this morning after a security breach grounded planes and stranded travelers for hours. it happened just hours before new tsa regulations go into effect for passengers flying into the u.s. here's lucy yang. >> we saw security chasing after somebody. everybody was yelling. tsa people were yelling "10-9." >> reporter: jennifer had been cleared through security and was putting her shoes back on when pans inside terminal c were told to freeze. >> couldn't move, they said -- they didn't want us to reach into our bags, we basically stood there. >> reporter: newark airport went into lockdown mode sunday night after officials were informed a man had walked through a security exit into the secure side of terminal c around 5:30 p.m. unable to locate that man or determine if he had been cleared into

. >>> in 2008 anthony amin and his unit were fighting an ambush by the taliban in southern afghanistanhe rushed into fire to save a wounded marine, but was wounded himself. >> reporter: the last two weeks i noticed a big change in my abilities, what i can and can't do, as far as mobility and agility. >> reporter: after 17 months and 23 surgeries, hospital coreman third class, anthony amin hopes to run again one day. >> the morning of july 21, 2008, we set up for an ambush on the taliban. it's a very busy morning. very hectic. and as we approached the enemy our ambush was successful. shortly thereafter, they did a counterattack. and we heard mortar fire, machine gunfire. we had air support helping us o out. >> reporter: amin received a call over the radio from his platoon sergeant to help the wounded marine. >> about 10, 15 feet from getting to him. all i remember is just hearing the loudest explosion i ever heard. it seemed like dirt pushed me off the ground about 3 to 5 feet, doing a backwards cartwheel. >> reporter: he had stepped on an improvised explosive device. and now amin and t

troops were killed on sunday by a roadside bomb in southern afghanistan. they are the first u.s. combat deaths in afghanistan this year. >>> bitter cold grips much of the nation this morning, with temperatures way below the normal for the rockies to florida. we've got nbc's jeff rossen in new york's times square on this. good morning. >> reporter: hey, ann, good morning to you. freezing on the streets of manhattan. just checked the wind chill. it makes it feel like nine degrees, an improvement from a couple of hours ago, when it was only five or six. we were thinking we had it bad, but then we looked up, international falls, minnesota. with a wind chill right now of negative 31. some cities, like new york, dealing with the bitter cold. others are dealing with heavy snow. and some are dealing with both at once. as snow piles up in the northeast and temperatures dip well below zero in the midwest, you have the winter weather lovers -- >> it's like a winter wonderland. >> and the haters. >> it's unreal -- it's a blizzard. >> reporter: in indiana, it's so cold -- even the street salt

we have a recent fly mission for some marines in southern afghanistan.we have eight bundles made of plywood canvas filled with food and water. we will resupply these marines. they are in a situation where they cannot get the supplies via the road. >> how long as the flight? >> it should take as a little more than an hour to get down there and take care of them and then it will take an hour to get home. >> is it dangerous? >> it should be. today the threat should be fairly low. but we do have extra defensive methods on the airplane to keep its stake. -- to keep it safe. >> the afghanistan war has been a big laboratory for fascinating new methods of delivering cargo. the have gps-guided parachutes. you get into the vicinity of your troops in need of water and food approximately in the right place. then the parachute can steer it to a pinpoint location. it is sort of like precision bombing, but with supplies. >> and basically, we read into the airplane so that it leaves the aircraft then goes into the deployment phase so it will fall down to the troops on t

that changes the economic nature of southern afghanistan.it could get better. >> if i could just add one point. there's no question that the ghost of vietnam haunts this administration. i can tell you from being in it for 60 days. the ghost of what happened to lyndon johnson walks the corridors of this white house, it walks the corridors of this building every day. it's a mistake. we got to get over it. we got to stop fighting the vietnam war. i don't know whether we could have won or not, but it is not relevant to afghanistan. as marc pointed out earlier, there is no superpower supporting the taliban. there are no stingers going to come to the taliban. there's not soviet union and communist china behind the taliban. equally, afghanistan is not iraq. let's not refight the surge arguments of 2007 and 2008 over in afghanistan. general petraeus is the first to say, the lessons of iraq are not going to be applicable to afghanistan. these are two fundamentally different countries. i know all of asia looks like one big thing to america, but we hav

that changes the economic nature of southern afghanistan. it could get better. >> if i could just add one point. there's no question that the ghost of vietnam haunts this administration. i can tell you from being in it for 60 days. the ghost of what happened to lyndon johnson walks the corridors of this white house, it walks the corridors of this building every day. it's a mistake. we got to get over it. we got to stop fighting the vietnam war. i don't know whether we could have won or not, but it is not relevant to afghanistan. as marc pointed out earlier, there is no superpower supporting the taliban. there are no stingers going to come to the taliban. there's not soviet union and communist china behind the taliban. equally, afghanistan is not iraq. let's not refight the surge arguments of 2007 and 2008 over in afghanistan. general petraeus is the first to say, the lessons of iraq are not going to be applicable to afghanistan. these are two fundamentally different countries. i know all of asia looks like one big thing to america, but we ha

that the first american combat deaths of the year in afghanistan, four american service members were killed by a roadside bomb sunday in the southern part of the country. last year roadside bombs accounted for almost half of the u.s. military deaths in afghanistan. >>> five americans are in court this morning in pakistan and deny planning to carry out terrorist attacks. the lawyer for the five young men from the washington, d.c. area says they planned to help their fellow muslims. suspects deny links to al qaeda. they are facing possible life sentences if convicted on terror charges. >>> and the world's tallest building officially opens its doors today in dubai. it's reportedly more than 2600 feet high, twice the height of the empire state building. it has more than 160 stories. it breaks the record for the highest observation deck, which is on the 124th floor, developers said today it cost about $1.5 billion to build. i understand there are some apartments left there in this case you're interested. it is 7:12. write your checks. >> i'm move manage to makiing i. >>> up next, a high-tech way to find missing utah mom susan powell beg

troops were killed on sunday by a roadside bomb in southern afghanistan, the first u.s. combat deaths in afghanistan this year. >>> in china, a highway overpass under construction collapsed on sunday, seven died, 30 others hurt. some critically. rescue workers are looking for possible victims. >>> there was a scare on sunday, for passengers on an air berlin plane from germany to the canary islands. the plane skidded off a runway after the pilot aborted takeoff. there were no reports of injuries. >>> in finland, a passenger train apparently lost its brakes and slammed into the lobby of a hotel in helsinki. despite the damage, no one was seriously injured. >>> overseas markets are starting offer the first trading day in the new year mostly higher. cnbc's melissa lee is at the new york stock exchange. melissa, also higher today -- oil. >> that's right, ann. oil hitting a two-month high, zipping past $80 a barrel. russia, the world's largest oil and gas producers has halted supplies to belarus, there was that out of china showing that manufacturing expanded at the fastest pa

. >> we're going to take out the aircraft and have a resupply mission down in southern afghanistan withus full of food and water. we will resupply these marines who are in a situation where they cannot get supplies via roads. >> how long as the flight? >> it should take as a little over one hour. and another hour to return home. >> is it dangerous? >> it can be. today the threat should be low. we do not anticipate any activity. we have defensive measures to help out in case we encounter some enemy. it is more dangerous than flying at home, but we do all we can to mitigate the threat. >> the afghanistan war has been a big laboratory for finding new methods to deliver cargo. they had gps-guided parachutes. you try to get within the vicinity, then the parachute can steer it to a pinpoint location. it is sort of like precision bombing, it was supplies. >> basically the army rigs the loads. we revisit that it leaves the aircraft. it will fall down to the troops on the ground. >> so, when you open the door does gravity pull up the load, or be pushed? >> when we come across the drop zone in th

army specialist jason johnson of al byan, new york, was killeded in action in southern afghanistan whilerving on his second tour of duty. he volunteered to return feeling a strong commitment to his fellow soldiers and insisting on joining them for a second deployment. specialist johnson was an elite soldier, the top 1%, according to major general from the u.s. army at fort bragg where jason was stationed. his bravery was without question. and his valor beyond measure. it is because of the sacrifices that our nation's brave soldiers like specialist johnson make each and every day in regions far across the globe that keep americans sleeping safely at night. specialist johnson was one of the nation's finest soldiers. as his family said last week, he was a hometown hero who died serving the country he loved. he will be missed. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? >> address the house for one minute, revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> thank you, mr. speaker. this past week the city of memphis and the world

in southern afghanistan, the u.s. department of state and agriculture is working one to regain its potential. understanding the reality is on the ground in afghanistan and is essential. we urge the president to follow his advice of making strategic decisions. secretary gates has worked to reaffirm our short and long term goals to our troops and continues the sacrifice. this is very important and we thank him. we now know that the u.s. military faces a threat involving forces. instead, terrorist networks employ unconventional uses of force to remain invisible until their attack. to preempt this threat, we rely heavily on our intelligence gathering systems and professionals at home and abroad. this reminded us of the terrorists. the arrest of a terrorist makes clear that there is much to be reviewed in the way intelligence is shared, collected and analyzed. at home, a systemic failure within our intelligence analysis and airport security must be corrected to defeat the ever changing strategy of those who seek to harm ame

the afghan government right now is not the friend of most villagers in southern afghanistan. if not the enemy, it is just this force that has organized a top-down corruption. local officials are paid for their position, and there is a flow upward of resources that are extracted from the people to corrupt politicians farther up the stream. that does not have to continue. hamid karzai was a great hope. everyone who knows him personally, and i am not in that category, respected him. he might change his mind. the pressures that led him to permit and maybe support this corrupt structure could be reversed over time. the people up and down that structure might change their mind. the parliament has stood up against his nominations. who knows what is going to happen up and down that road? peter pointed out the crucial importance of crucialkandarhar -- of the kandahar-kabul road. it could get better. >> there is no question that the ghost of vietnam haunts this administration. i can tell you from being in it for six days, the ghost of what happened, lyndon johnson walks the corridors o

cia add add number of small bases in the southern and eastern part of afghanistan. cia director leon pin netta said because the capabilities improved. it's not just unmanned drones, they handle people on the ground, gregg. >> i'm wondering how big of an impact this will have on the cia. welsh the mission remains the same and we've heard nothing about a pullout from the region certainly, but it's a devastating blow. deadliest attack on the agency since beirut in '83. >> caroline shively in washington. thanks. in the meantime a brazen and deadly attack demonstrating how big a threat the taliban now poses in pakistan. it happened during a volleyball tournament in the northwest part of the country not far from the lawless tribal region where pakistan's military is battling the taliban. police say a man drove his car on to the field which lies in an a crowded neighborhood and report he decimate add side of a vehicle, causing nearby homes to collapse and killing at least 75 people. investigators say this appears to be a retaliation attack after folks in the area formed mi

afghanistan. the explosion ahead happened yesterday in the country's southern region.he deaths are the first combat- related deaths for u.s. service members in the new year. >>> five virginia students detained in pakistan on allegations of terrorism are due in court today. pakistani prosecutors are expected to ask the judge to officially charge all five men with terrorism. the charge would carry a maximum sentence of life in prison. >>> new security measures regarding airline travel went into effect at midnight. the stricter rules stem from the attempted bombing of a flight on christmas day. janet choi has details. >> reporter: passengers departing pakistan are being patted down before heading to the u.s. it is part of a new policy requiring intensive screening for travelers flying to the u.s. from 14 countries. they include pakistan, somalia, yemen, cuba, sudan and syria. passengers must undergo full body scans and pat downs and hand checks of all carry-on luggage. it follows the arrest of a nigerian man, abdulmutallab who allegedly smuggled explosives on a flight fro

afghanistan. the explosion happened in the country's southern region. deaths are the first combat related deaths for service members in the new year. >>> five virginia students detained in pakistan on allegations of terrorism due in court today. pakistani prosecutors expected to ask a judge to officially charge all five with terrorism. the charge would carry maximum sentence of life in prison. >>> now to images you will see on 9 news now. rescuers wearing protective suits chipped away at the ice in attempt to reach 22-year-old josh coleman. his car plunged 20 feet down embankment into walk creek. he was given advanced cpr, but didn't make it. park police sergeant spoke with 9 news now about the investigation. >> right now, we haven't determined where the vehicle came from, whether it came off rock creek or through the park. so that's part of the investigation. >> according to his facebook page, he graduated from johns hopkins in 2009 and recently worked in acquisitions for the u.s. navy. >>> our region spent over $41 million dealing with last month's re

it is geopolitically complex -- its relationship with afghanistan and its southern neighbors heard the -- southern neighbors is almost impossible to fix or even describe. it is culturally and politically complex in ways that every time i lifted the place i found another level of social organization i did not know about before. in this complexity -- i am going to go to a recent development activist in afghanistan who said you cannot analyze it. you have to experience it to the point to develop intimacy, and in that intimacy, numbers are not often useful. it is just repeated experience and reflection. my experience brings me to a couple of memories, and one comes from of pop psychology both in the 1960 pasquale "games people play." 1 games people play is let's you and him fight. in my government experience, that was the essential game of the cold war. we fought five proxy's. afghanistan -- every time it is invaded, everytime it reacts, there is a complex game of lets you and him fight going on. in order to not be brought into it you have to develop into the sea. my sources for intimacy a

these southern whites back into the government but ended up losing what they did in the first place. the jim crow laws were worse than what had been there before. given the size of afghanistan's security forces today and plans for expanding them there is definite leadership void we need to fill some how so they are not terrorizing people forgetting involved with drugs and so forth. this rules out the possibility that we will use in command of those units, there have been many instances, the defect 0 leaders whether they are advisers, partner arrangement because the afghan -- the american calls the shots. afghans have decent leaders but you need to have americans to do technical things. we have heavily armed americans, and makes them more comfortable to get things done. and see that they are going -- they are not setting up these roadside checkpoints where they check people down. this need for american forces to bolster the afghan forces, compelling argument to why there ought to be more americans in afghanistan. lastly i am going to talk about the u.s. side of the equation. the u.s. army and marine corps. the army and marine corps is tolerant. a survey of american officers wh

southern california. i'm betty nguyen. >> i'm t.j. holmes. >>> just out this morning, a new video from the taliban in pakistan. it shows the suicide bomber believed to have killed seven cia employees last month in afghanistann this tape imam al balawi vows revenge for the killing of a taliban leader in pakistan. his brother confirms to cnn that the man seen in this video is, indeed, him. >>> two men are under arrest in connection with a new york terror plot. one of them is a new york city cabdriver. the other is a bosnian immigrant expected in court today. he was caught after a traffic incident. cnn national correspondent susan candiotti with the story. >> reporter: law enforcement sources say he crashed into another car while the task force was tailing him. the sources say he was going faster and faster before he rear ended another car. just before the wreck, sources tell cnn he inexplicably called 911. before the accident, the fbi had served a search warrant at his home. after the fbi left, his family says he took off. agents were following him. his attorney says he does not know why authorities moved against his client. do you have any idea why they wanteded to seize his passport now? >> i have absolute