>> this is the heart of the pentagon, in washington, d.c. since the early years of world war ii, this building has been the home of america's department of defense. it's one of the largest office buildings in the world. about 23,000 people come here to work every day. a good many of them are not even members of our armed forces-- many are civilian employees from all walks of life. all of them, though, are mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. the men and women who travel these halls every day come here for one purpose only: to help defend our nation and the cause of freedom around the world. it's been that way for nearly 70 years. the story you're about to hear today is a story i hope will reach every american, because it's really a story about america, about ordinary american families, about how we face the perils, uncertainties, and tragedies of life, and about how we, as individuals and a nation, come together to heal the wounds of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for all that we hold dear. it's a story o

thanks for filling us in on that we have to take a break but coming up and appears the pentagon is in dire need of cash and tell you about their latest threat to congress and he's only been in charge of the war in afghanistan for days but we are getting an idea of general petraeus is new strategy will discuss that in a moment. every month we give you the future we'll do you understand how we get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us to know the update on our g. . for the we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. you know i think any washington insider could tell you the pentagon the pentagon has congress by the balls but today we have the perfect story to prove it let me explain to the brass over the pentagon are telling the democratic led congress to pass a thirty seven billion dollar defense bill by august recess or they might be able to pay salaries that's right the pentagon is making this a while demand and they expect congress to write a blank check to continue pa

i agrow with peter berg and this is not exactly like the pentagon papers. his isn't new, i think the guys that leaked it did something wrong. this is against the law to link material like this, it's not proper. the administration at the political level does have to persuade the american people, it's got a winning strategy. it's got an issue. >> anthony schaffer, what do you think of leaks and this whole thing? >> if you want a good narrative of the war, can you buy my book at the end of august, which covers all the issues which we talked about today, and it was cleared flew an army clearance process. with that said, i think all we have here is drama for drama sake. this is a poke in the eye. they talk about accountability, but have you a young private who's probably going to spend most of the rest of his life in some sort of incarceration, so he didn't protect him. nothing is being accomplished here, there are oversight organizations which are in the business to help bring this thing to the surface. my center tries to work with them to bring things to capito

secret study. >> pow, like a thunder clap, you get "the new york times" publishing the pentagon paper, and the country is panicking. >> larry: and we are joined by daniel elsberg. he started that firestorm by leaking to the new york times and other newspapers, a top secret study of u.s. decision-making in vietnam. his story is the focus of the oscar-nominated documentary you just saw a clip "the most dangerous man in america." it's now out on dvd. all right, daniel, what do you make of julian assange. he said the nearest analog of what wikileaks has done is your release of the pentagon papers. do you agree? >> i see what he sees. there hasn't been an unauthorized disclosure of this magnitude since the pentagon papers 39 years ago. i've been waiting for it for a long time. there should have been the pentagon papers of iraq and a lot of other places. and i wish there had been pentagon papers of afghanistan earlier than this. but bitter laetter late than ne. the war is still on. congress is being challenged to vote $33 billion in a war where the opponent we're fighting is stronger

the pentagon assesses the damage from the afghan war documents. >> there does appear to be evidence of war crimes. >> the african union pledges thousands more troops for somalia with stronger rules of engagement against militants. a wave of freezing weather devastates parts of prove, and -- parts of peru, and the man who was given the first phase transplant appears in public -- face transplant appears in public. >> "bbc world news" is presented by kcet, los angeles. funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. and union bank. the pentagon says the damage caused by the leaking of more than 90,000 classified military documents could take weeks to assess. the founder of the whistleblowing organization says it appears to reveal evidence of war crimes. our north american editor reports. >> this is not so much a leak as the hemorrhage. anybody with a computer can now read more than 92,000 supposedly secret documents, reports that paint a picture o

you know i think i'm starting to believe you on that because you figure if these guys work for the pentagon and i say they're going to know how to hide the stuff you tell them hey you know no other thing i don't know the computer to the rich they make like millions of dollars they got no laptop on the plane they've got not phone i know you carry out of the pentagon is boring sometimes yeah right yeah. i have to shower for right now all right well i bomb a country you know come on. whatever makes you feel better you know so child would know to look at this if you will have or whatever i bet i'm not going to stand somebody called her oh man i have not heard child before but i do support the government of china finally allowing their population to watch regular legit porn on line let's clap but that's just to make this is nothing but china i feel so happy for that man that friday night before the weekend or he stumbles upon it like i did not know and i feel so sorry for his coworkers that monday and i'm just so happy that china doesn't have a hand shaking culture and balance thank god because

something that any military tries to keep under wraps civilians killed during an operation this april the pentagon saw one of its skeletons walk out of the closet a secret video of american soldiers opening with looks like indiscriminate firing in baghdad suburb three years ago more than a dozen people were recruited dan including two reuters news staff also two children were wounded the incident was investigated in the us military concluded that the actions of the soldiers were in accordance with the law of armed conflict and its own rules of engagement so while the us military is ok with causing some collateral damage it's when civilians die in the course of action a number of soldiers who were involved in those killings now speak out and say this shouldn't be a norm of warfare you can see in a decent record a soldier with the unit that's shown in the video said it hadn't been a one time experience who went as far as to say soldiers in his unit were ordered to kill civilians in certain circumstances mccord said the message they got from their commander was if someone in your line gets hit with a

a huge leak of military secrets has the white house and pentagon scrambling to tighten security and save face. >>> and up in arms. after getting rid of three top officials, angry voters in california go after the city council. >> you failed to do your job. you failed to listen to us about our taxes. and you guys do not deserve to be running the city. >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for tuesday, july 27th, >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for tuesday, july 27th, 2010. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning, everybody. thanks for joining us. i'm betty nguyen. we begin with a change of command at the top of bp forced by the oil spill at the bottom of the gulf. tony hayward who said he wanted his life back will have a chance to find it in russia. he'll be replaced by an american. let's get the latest from charlie d'agata in london. good morning, charlie. >> reporter: good morning. bp has finally given boss tony hayward the boot, though the company said it was deeply saddened hayward would be stepping down, but he walks away with a year's salary plus benefits plus a retirement worth a

more documents than the pentagon papers during vietnam. a group online, called wikileaks, along with three major newspapers, has published 92,000 classified intelligence documents about the war in afghanistan from 2004 to 2009, the largest leak in history. in a moment, we'll tell you about the american soldier. allegedly he copied the files from the pentagon computer. first, our martha raddatz, just back from afghanistan. spent the day reading the documents to tell us what's new. >> some of this is really quite stunning to me. i certainly knew a lot of the information in general terms, but the sheer volume and specificity is really astonishing. the leaked records give precise accounts of missions gone horribly wrong. helicopters shot down and supposed alleys, the pakistanis, playing a deadly double cross with the americans. no wonder the leaks have created a firestorm in washington. >> there are names. there are operations. there's logistics. it poses a very real and potential threat. >> reporter: perhaps the most damning reports concern pa

troops as well as concerns pakistani intelligence help the taliban insurgency pentagon chiefs a bit it will take weeks to assess the damage to us that operations in afghanistan after these revelations well all too has gone h. khan has been hearing from soldiers volved in the last major wiki leaks exposé which struck at civilians and not insurgents. but me knowing something that any military tries to keep under wraps civilians killed during an operation this april the pentagon saw one of its skeletons walk out of the closet a secret video of american soldiers opening with looks like indiscriminate fire in a baghdad suburb three years ago more than a dozen people were reported dead including two reuters news staff also two children were wounded the incident was investigated and the u.s. military concluded that the actions of the soldiers were in accordance with the law of armed conflict and its own rules of engagement so while the u.s. military is ok with causing some corporal damage it's when civilians die in the course of action a number of soldiers who were involved in those killings

papers which thirty five years ago were released by the new york times and by a pentagon insider in that instance the nixon administration went to court to stop the release of those documents it was a narrative from the highest levels they were white house memos this is about the opposite you're seeing raw data pushed out from the field and it's in the fog of war so there's really not a coherent story that's told here it's more as if you had a thousand pieces jigsaw puzzle tossed in the air and you can only see about fifty of the pieces it's partial information so it won't run if occasions missed it but if you think we're likely to see this all information leaks like this in subsequent independent investigations are they capable of pushing the u.s. towards ending its missions in iraq and afghanistan. i think what it does is get the public more engaged and i think that's a welcome development because the american people have one hundred thousand of their sons and daughters out there right now in afghanistan one of them is one of my family members and we need the whole country to reall

. >> reporter: but the pentagon says it's still assessing the damage. >> are there any things in there that could jeopardize our operations or our nation's security? we just don't know at this point. >> reporter: the man who published the papers say it's a true picture of the war. >> it is the most significant history of a war to have ever been released during a war. i -- at the time where it can make some difference and shape policy outcomes. >> reporter: meanwhile the pentagon is calls pfc bradley manning, a 22-year-old intelligence officer, a person of interest. he's being held in kuwait on suspicion of a separate leak. brian mooar, nbc news, washington. >>> senate republicans have blocked legislation requiring fuller disclosure of the money behind political campaigning. yesterday's vote, which fell three short of the 60 needed to advance the bill, helps pave the way for corporations to spend as much as they want on attack ads during this year's midterm elections. democrats said the bill was needed to force special interest groups to disclose their donors, but republicans maintained

a captain in the pentagon who is working on the budget should not speak to it. he should keep his mouth shut and go through properly channels. >> warner: chris hanson, does that sound like the right line there to you? i mean do you find that reassuring? that if you are embeded with a unit in the field and you have been cleared to do it that they will be free to speak about what they know? >> no, i don't find it reassuring at all. the issue here is what are national and international implications. i mean you had a segment recently on -- sebastian younger's documentary about a year in afghanistan with troops. the company commander there had a lot of trouble in his relations with the local afghan leaders. he spoke about that. that has national and international implications. >> but i'm telling it you here right now, we're not trying to restrict that kind of speech what sof ever. >> but it's going to happen. >> it's to the going to happen. if we do this right t should not happen. we should empower people to make wise decisions. all we're asking for is when something

tonight, the president defends the war called into question by thousands of secret field reports as the pentagon opens an investigation into who leaked them. i'm katie couric. it's day 99 and tax pa wind up sharing the cost of that oil spill after all. b.p. says it will take a $10 billion tax credit for the clean-up. a tax payer revolt in bell, california. the former city manager's pension could cost them tens of millions of dollars. and for one small village in japan, a rice field is their canvas. captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. the leak of those secret field reports has reignited the debate over the war in afghanistan. how well it's going and whether it's worth fighting. in its first public comment since the documents were posted online, president obama defended his war strategy and urged congress to approve his latest funding request. the president also said the leak could jeopardize individuals or operations. and the pentagon promised, quote, "a very robust investiga

the pentagon has lost track of almost nine billion dollars which was meant to be spent on reconstructing iraq that's ninety five percent of the money given to the development fund the american military was given the money raised from the c.e.o. of rocky gas and oil by the u.n. after the invasion in two thousand and three a u.s. audit found poor control over where the assets for spend in a country still suffering a way to fill tricity and other a basic services former cia analyst roy mcgovern says the lack of oversight needs further investigation. there were doubtless people who were supposed to be supervising overseeing these funds the fact that as it's said here that they have sort of disappeared and that they were liable to have been per law and you know that's no explanation and we have to find out who provided them and what happened to these funds you know most reminds me of of the search for weapons of mass destruction in iraq the so-called. judging from who didn't get sacked last time there probably will be people promoted despite all this doesn't seem to be much in the way of acco

this trust in the media of the pentagon and the pentagon's motives so the idea that you could go to the actual data the actual reports by soldiers in the field of what happened and make that available to the public so that people can judge for themselves is quite a step and then not just doing it because of a belief in media or a belief in being against war they're doing it out of a belief in democracy you know that the founder of wiki leaks told the german magazine der spiegel that he likes to crush bastards that is motive he wants to try to get the truth out and of course in their view the truth here is that this war is not only unwinnable but it's been savaged it's taken a many many innocent lives and that's what they're really trying to show with this . filmmaker and blogger danny schechter talk to us there from new york now in a few moments in the program. once latvia was the fastest growing european economy now many people their own charities for the bare necessities we report. for that fresh e.u. sanctions against a round of come under fire from moscow russia's foreign ministry s

and the pentagon, ah, gent who was a cybernaut said, "we'd been hit six-million times in one day." and then the goldman sachs guy piped up and said, "well, we've been hit one million times in one day." >> who's doing it? >> anything from a 14 year old to the chinese government. it's very difficult to tell who's doing it, and of course, they will not tell you how many times it's been successful. ah, we heard from one of our sources at the pentagon that they managed to shut down one of their systems, internal system, for four consecutive days. >> and what are they after? >> ah, insofar as dod is concerned, the defense department, obviously secrets, anything to with the war in afghanistan, ah, orders, the defense industry, anything they can pick up. and also, i think they are preparing for the day when the--what they did in estonia a couple years ago, is to shut down the whole country. >> vanda, organized crime covers a lot of other areas as well, such as? >> indeed, ah, drugs are one of the most obvious ones and the one that gets a lot of attention, especially because afghanistan and

the justice department is joining the pentagon in the investigation. >>> united airlines has apologized to the parents of the boy who was stranded in the airport for eight hours. united employees fail to get the boy on his flight to canada. he was on his way to his mother's hour from his father's home here in san francisco. the boy was taken to an airport facility but airline workers failed to pick him up for his flight. >>> almost 200 new meters are being installed in hayes valley. eventually 5,000 of them will be placed around the city. in addition to coins, the meters also accept debit and credit cards. and starting next year, wireless sensors in the streets will determine whether a parking spot is vacant and the fee will fluctuate based on demand. for example if there's a special event in the area or based on the time of day. >>> these are good times for whale watchers after the bay area coast. huge numbers of big whales are being reported. while the whales are stirring a lot of attention, they are also stirring a lot of concern. so much so, that officials are asking boaters here in

katie. >> couric: david martin at the pentagon, thank you. chief foreign affairs correspondent lara logan lived in afghanistan for a year at the beginning of the war. she's been back many times since. she's in the east african nation of uganda tonight on assignment for "60 minutes." lara, one of the revelations in these documents is that pakistan's intelligence agency is aiding the afghan insurgency, even planning attacks on american troops. how big a setback will this be for u.s.-pakistani relations? >> well, it's potentially a setback, katie. clearly the white house is concerned about that. because their relationship with pakistan is very sensitive. it's a complicated one. on the one hand pakistan is important ally. on the other hand, pakistan has known to be harboring al qaeda and the taliban from the beginning of this war. but the obama administration has been quick to point to the fact that pakistan has been taking more action than in the past. these documents only go up to december of last year. at the same time, it is clear that al qaed

a research lab funded by the pentagon and housed in the department of physics. at three forty two am on the twenty fourth of august nine hundred seventy an explosion destroyed the army math center. hundreds of f.b.i. agents from all over the united states were sent to wisconsin this was of extreme interest to the white house was that this yellow explosion absolutely it went all the way to the director's desk there was daily contact with the the oval office as to what was happening out here and why it happened and we had to come up with some answers real fast as to what was what was going on so anyone killed yes. as a young physicist by the name of robert foster not was killed in initial blast. the f.b.i. team immediately focused their investigation on a car spotted flaying from the scene at high speed. the bombers were led by a twenty two year old college dropout carl armstrong. this is the route you came up from the y.m.c.a. armstrong agreed for the first time to return to the building and talk about the night he's bombed wisconsin. where did the idea come from

>> jim miklaszewski starting us off at the pentagon. jim, thanks. >>> part of the damage here is to diplomacy and the behavior of other nations, especially pakistan. that part of this story from our chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell, in our washington newsroom tonight. andrea, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. u.s. diplomats are scrambling to reassure pakistan's government that the leaks were not authorized. that does not mean that they don't reflect what washington really thinks about pakistan's shadowy spy agency. hillary clinton today with israel's defense minister ignoring questions about the leaks. >> how damaging are the afghanistan document leaks to our regional policy? >> i'm looking forward to my meeting with the defense minister. >> reporter: only a week ago clinton was putting the best face on meetings with pakistan's president, prime minister, and foreign minister, but the real substance was her tough talk behind the scenes with the country's real power brokers. the military chief, general kay

and the pentagon's hunting for the sources behind the biggest leak in u.s. military history the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks published some ninety thousand classified documents exposing cover ups over the war in afghanistan reports include details of civilian casualties at the hands of american and allied troops as well as concerns that pakistani intelligence helped the taliban insurgency several files track osama bin laden despite the u.s. claims it received no reliable information on him in years pentagon chiefs admits it will take weeks to assess the damage caused by the revelations he's going to teach it comes been hearing from soldiers involved in the last major wiki leak. you know something that any military tries to keep under wraps civilians killed during an operation this april the pentagon saw one of its skeletons walk out of the closet is secretly video of american soldiers opening would looks like indiscriminate fire in a baghdad suburb three years ago more than a dozen people were reported dan including two reuters news staff also two chi

. >> reporter: recent base closures saved the pentagon almost $7 billion. of that money was supposed to be used for clean-up, but the money to clean up hunters point and the money to clean up much of the old bases has been slow in coming. >> the department of defense's perspective, cleaning up old base sans obligation, but it's not a top priority. this is the top priority, the war in iraq, building new weapons, looking ahead, not cleaning up things left behind. >> reporter: the military has spent about $350 million in the past 31 years to clean up parts of hunters point. sounds like a lot, but the pentagon spends that much every couple of the days in iraq. >> we have been an afterthrough the. >> reporter: the "we" referred to is the african-american community in the hunters point. >> my father and my brothers and my uncles, everybody worked in the shipyard. >> reporter: the bay view was already in drine when the shipyard closed and the bottom fell out. >> the shipyard closed down and it destroyed a lot of people. >> reporter: and few have invested in an are

the u.s. army. we begin tonight with our pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski. jim, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. based on this new report, the army promises to fix its mental health problems and put its soldiers first, but it's got a long way to go. as a specialist in the army jennifer crane was sent off to afghanistan. >> two weeks after we landed there, we were attacked for the first time. >> reporter: the war took a heavy personal toll. once back home, she got hooked on cocaine and ended up on the streets. >> unfortunately, didn't cope with anything fairly well. >> reporter: jennifer got the necessary counseling and is back on her feet, but a devastating new report from the army today reveals that after nine years of war, thousands of soldiers never survive their own personal battles. >> we have an army that's been fully engaged for almost nine years now. i don't think that we fully understand the toll that that's taken on the forces. >> reporter: the numbers are staggering. last year, more than 1,700 soldiers attempted suicide. 160 succeede

officials say this leak could be bigger than the release of the pentagon papers in the 70s. administration officials are condemning the development but bill it impact the united states efforts in that region? fox's jennifer davis reports from washington. >> reporter: it could be the largest leak of classified u.s. information ever. more than 90,000 documents of raw intelligence relating to the war in afghanistan now available for anyone to see on the website. the founder of the antiwar group says the document reveal abuses by u.s. and coalition forces and perhaps even war crimes. >> if governments don't like populations being upset they should treat them better, not conceal abuses. >> reporter: a official is calling the documents a mix of rumor and second hand information. they detail a variety of assessments about incidents over the last six years involving friendly fire, civilian casualties and intelligence officials from pakistan, a u.s. alley cooperating with taliban extremists. >> it is not the content as much as it is there are names, there are operations, there is log

policy focussed on finding the source. a pentagon spokesman said a robust investigation is underway. >> we get the reactions of two united states senators, move republican kit bond is vice chairman of the select committee on intelligence. democrat jack reed of rhode island serves on the senate armed services committee. senator, welcome. senator reed first. do you agree with president obama that these documents didn't reveal anything that wasn't already part of the debate about afghanistan? >> they did not reveal any new revelations. we have known for a long time that there was corruption in afghanistan. that there was the issue of collateral civilian casualties. we also understood that there was an ambiguous relationship between the isi, the pakistani intelligence service and some of our opponents in afghanistan. it did not reveal anything that was not known and responded to by the president in his policy announced at west point last fall. >> senator bond, do you agree with that? >> yes, i do. frankly, we had been following what went

reaction from the pentagon. >>> starting over. after months of speculation, ceo tony hayward given the boot. replaced by american bob dudley as the company reports a whopping $17 billion loss. >>> hospital mix-up. new details of the tragic case of mistaken identity. two families, their lives turned upside down. we will speak to the aunts of one of the survivors. >>> chelsea's big day. four days until chelsea clinton's lavish wedding that will now reportedly cost as much as $5 million. we are live from the spot where the wedding is set to take place "early" this tuesday morning, july 27th, 2010. captioning funded by cbs >>> good tuesday morning to you. i'm erica hill. >> i'm harry smith. good morning, everybody. >> lot of activity. couple of hours away from us here. rhinebeck, new york, where it is all but official, i guess, chelsea clinton and mark mezvinsky will be getting married. potential cost for a media consultant, $100,000 which sinning because it is not a lot of talking going on. >> don't people have to sign confidentiality

that a billion here a billion there nine billion billion is a drop a drop in the lake or what the pentagon spends now to the degree that the mass media choose to play this up all the. you will get a lot of very angry americans americans angry at the expenditure of phones in this way abroad and. afghanistan but also the expenditure of seventy five billion a year on the so-called security intelligence industrial complex which is a two and a pair of fold increase from the time before nine eleven and when people say after nine eleven everything changed well yeah it sure did but not to the good. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and on going to rancho rays in china have triggered a landslide which left more than twenty people missing thousands of civilians were evacuated from their homes many houses roads and bridges collapsed almost a thousand people have died so far this year in the worst flooding to hit the country in a decade forecasters say more heavy rains are expected this week. and the foil giant b.p. suffered a record loss of seventeen billion dollars in

the pentagon says navy petty officer justin mcneley of colorado was killed and he was scheduled to come home next month. >>> moving on now to the news from the gulf tonight. 99 days into the crisis, fishermen are fighting back, almost a quarter of the gulf is still closed to fishing, even though there's no oil to be seen in much of that area. the fishermen insist that they're pulling safe fish from the water right now tonight, and they'll eat it to prove it. and here's jeffrey kofman. >> reporter: just how safe are gulf fish? one way to check is the oysters because unlike fish and shrimp, they can't swim away from the oil. mitch jurisich and his brother frank are third generation oystermen. more than half of their oyster beds are closed, but government inspectors have reopened these. and what did they find? >> nothing, the water samples are good. that's why we're open. it's coming out of good, clean water. >> reporter: and this is safe? >> safe. i'm still standing here. >> reporter: but will i be standing in 12 hours? >> you'll still be standing in 12 hours. i guarantee you. >> reporter

. >> charlie: the pentagon is obviously concerned about the source of the leaks.dministeral mullen, general of the joint chiefs -- admiral mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs spoke today. >> i am appalled by the leak, and i believe there is potential there to put american lives at risk. >> charlie: the pentagon has said that it is launching a criminal investigation led by the army to determine the source of the leaks. there are also questions about the information and controversy arising from these documents, about what impact it might have on the public conversation about support for the afghan war. also, there is the question of the reaction in afghanistan and in pakistan. joining me now from washington, pakistan's ambassador to the united states, husain haqqani. i am pleased to have him back on this program. welcome. >> thank you very much. >> charlie: tell me what you would add to what the president said. and do you agree with what the president said? >> i fully agree with what the president said, and i would only add one thing. there is mountain made out fro

he's a former army officer who served in humanitarian reconstruction at the pentagon and in iraq in 2003. and ambassador dennis jett, professor of international affairs at the school of international affairs at penn state university, former u.s. ambassador to peru and mozambique, and former senior director of african affairs at the national security council. thank you both for being with us. what's the difference between peace building and peacemaking? a lot of people have heard about peacemaking. is there some difference between those and how does it differ from nation building? ambassador? >> well, peacemaking is the initial phase. you have to have the peace before you can build on it and that peace can be negotiated through diplomatic means or it can be imposed, but once the shooting stops, you have to build on that peace. you have to create a society where the peace is stable and that can be the tricky part. the, um, parties that were at conflict in the past don't always agree to how the future should, should unfold, who should have what share of political power. and so, you need to

. >>> pedophiles with ties to the pentagon and you're paying for it. >>> without my dad. he zen deserve to go to prison. >> the father of a 2-year-old mauled by the family pit bull comes to the defense of the man being held responsible. >>> go ahead evening, everyone, i'm jessica aguirre. >> and i'm lisa kim. compassion in the midst of unbearable tragedy. tonight the father of the boy mauled to death said his father deserves forgiveness. it's a story of heartache and healing. our vicky nguyen is in our newsroom with how the family is pleading for mercy. >> lisa, the family heartbroken tonight. 2-year-old jacob is gone. the family's five pit bulls have been euthanized. and his step grandfather is in jail facing serious charges. >> i hope that we get him back. because my family needs him to heal. it's not just the loss of my son. my family needs him to heal. we can't heal without my dad. he doesn't deserve to go to prison. >> reporter: michael defending his stepfather tonight. he says no one ever meant for 2-year-old jacob to walk into the garage where three pit bulls were w

as well as nato fears that pakistan and iran are fueling the insurgency or the white house says the pentagon files and field reports are no surprise but threaten national security. joins us live from london for more on this. give us some more of the details that have emerged from this major league. well as you mentioned kyra it doesn't really come as a huge surprise but it is more additional information that we the public now have about exactly what's going on in afghanistan these ninety thousand documents relate to the beginning of two thousand and four and the end of two thousand and nine detailing. bits of the afghan conflict that we previously had no idea about of course during the entire war more than three hundred twenty versus streets between killed and more than a thousand american troops there's a lot in these documents about the toll that the war has taken on afghan civilians there one hundred forty four separate incidents details in these files all of those deaths come from controversial asteroids that the afghan government's already complains about but some of them come from just

taliban attacks as well as nato feels that pakistan fueling the insurgency the white house says the pentagon files on the field report surprised but they do threaten national security. and it has more from london. it doesn't really come as a huge surprise but it is more additional information that we the public now have about exactly what's going on in afghanistan these ninety thousand documents relate to the beginning of two thousand and four and the end of two thousand and nine detailing. bits of the afghan conflict that we previously had no idea about of course during the entire war more than three hundred twenty bush is treated been killed and more than a thousand american troops there's a lot in these documents about the toll that the war has taken on afghan civilians there one hundred forty four separate incidents details in these files all of those deaths come from controversial as afghan governments already complained about but some of them come from just troops shooting and killing random posters by most serious cyclists just to protect themselves. from the fear of potential suicide

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