the unexploded ordnance teams are finding weapons that they can't identify and there are people when they going to fuse them have been seriously injured. we invite visited with one of those young women, a young woman working for five years and she does not receive assistance today and yet you can still see the burn marks on her entire body. something exploded and burned her very badly and no one could explain what it was. to this day. that happened in the year 2000. to this day we don't know what kind of weapons. there is a definite need for cooperation and i am very pleased to see that vietnam has a lot of scientists is now able to assist the lao and understand more the data behind this and the consequences. it also has to participate in this as a goodwill gesture. >> these areas are very remote. the herbicides were sprayed on the ho chi minh trail are very remote these stories that we are taking crossing river after river to get to in the dry season in a four-wheel drive truck is the only way you can get there. we have to get the stories and the information. that information is not

and legacy of were issues where we do a lot of work on unexploded ordnance and cooperation in finding remains of our missing in action. president obama will travel where he will hold a town -- a town hall with young leaders of laos. very similar to the youth engagement, the town only did in malaysia last year or for those of you who may have seen, this was covered live on television, and it's a really good example of a free flowing exchange of ideas with the president of the united states and youth leaders in southeast asia. i think it's a very meaningful especially for them to be able to have that kind of exchange. and as mike said this going to be a wide ranging speech that will attempt to capture all the progress that the obama administration has made under the rebounds and look towards the future of our relationship. on the second day in laos, president obama will meet with all 10 of the leaders of asean. this would be the ninth time the president obama has met with asean leaders of u.s. policy in, which is pretty remarkable in eight years. the last time you met with him was in fe