if you consider who they were up against, it beat out waterloo and d-day in being considered the greatest british battle. >> reporter: hugo's grandfather led the allied forces on this very battlefield in 1944. he said the treacherous and wet conditions killed many soldiers. >> we're surrounded by trench where is many young men would have crouched and day after day had to fight off wave after wave of japanese attacks trying to break through these hills. >> reporter: today those who survived are being honored. this commemoration recognizes the sacrifices made by so many to protect india. but ultimately it's a somber reminder that in war every side loses. al jazeera, imphal, india. >> still ahead on al jazeera america, the troubling statistics that reveal why college costs so much. >>> plus what has these teachers behind me so excited? here's a hint. math, science, and a little rock and roll. that story is coming up. >> today, retired senator george mitchell. >> not every problem in the world is an american problem. >> shares his unique perspective on the future of america, home and abroad.

graham strong, a professor of optometry at waterloo university, was asked to determine whether the crimene glasses were the same as those worn by jim brown in a police mug shot taken several years earlier. >> the problem that we had with the mug shots is that they really weren't a frontal mug shot. he was angled relative to the plane of the film. >> to solve the problem, dr. strong mounted the glasses on a styrofoam head and tried to approximate the angle in the mug shots. >> we didn't get it quite right. it was compelling, but it didn't rise to a level that was significant in our mind. >> then, dr. strong enlarged the mug shot photographs and noticed something important. tiny white dots, reflections from the photographer's flash in brown's corneas. >> you actually use the reflection from the front surface of the eye to make a very standard measurement when you make a pair of glasses. namely the distance between the two eyes. so what you do is you measure the difference between the reflection from the right eye to the left eye and that's the interpupillary distance. >> from medical recor

along the front severe weather south of waterloo in yeah. some tornado watches and warnings, hail damage. pushing east towards chicago. it is weakening and it will continue to weaken. we will not see that severe weather with the front. as the front arrivals it sparks its own down pours and thunderstorms for midweek. but prior to the front arriving from the west. tuesday and wednesday the high pressure will be just to our east. this is a heat pump with the winds coming out of the south. heat indices tuesday and wednesday between 95 degrees and 105 around here. true oppressive humidity. then wednesday afternoon into thursday, downpours and thunderstorms arrive with the front. and if that isn't enough to watch here this weekend, at the end of the week for the 4th of july we will be watching for the possibility of a tropical system that develops off the carolinas and moves just to our south and east. in fact, as we look at what we call the spaghetti plots later this week, every single line is a different computer model looking out into the futur

if you consider who the battle was up against or judged against, it beat out waterloo and d-day and being considered the greatest british battle. >> hugo's grandfather led the allied forces on this battlefield in 1944 and says the treacherous and wet conditions killed many soldiers. >> we are surrounded by trenches where young men, indians, had to crouch and fight off wave after wave of japanese attacks coming in, trying to break through the hills into the plain. >> those who survived are being honoured. this commemoration recognises the sacrifices made by many to protect india. ultimately it's a sombre reminder that in war every side loses. >>> and the legendry american singer song writer dies at the age of 70. his career spanned six decades and turned out hit songs like "it's all over now", and "looking for love." he's credited with inspiring many acts, especially the rowling stones and was inducted into the rock'n'roll hall of fame in 1995. womack was diagnosed with alzhiemer's two years ago. >> teachers unions in cal have been dealt a big plow. teacher tenure, protecting jobs through

nine city pool are 0ing today, that includes max myers, scan lon, schmidt, houseman, dendy, waterloo,, baker and shepard. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. >> have to get good use out of the pools over the next few days. the temperatures this morning are in the 60s for most of the area. we have clouds that are moving through. some spots are running a little bit warmer. but hotter weather starts tomorrow. a three-day heat wave. we'll have temperatures into the 90s but it will feel at times like it's more like 100 degrees. we're watching the tropics, what may be the first tropical storm of the season coming together off the coast of florida. right now, a few scattered clouds over center city but dry. no sign of any showers and getting ready for sunshine at the shore. you can see clouds in the distance. this is a live view from cape may. we are less than a half hour away from sunrise this morning. at this hour, the temperatures are still cooling down. now down to 67 degrees in wilmington, northeast philadelphia, philadelphia international at 68 degre

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and if you consider who the battle was up against or it was just against, it beat out waterloo and d-day in being considered the greatest british battle. >> his grandfather led the allied forces on this very battlefield in 1944. he says the treacherous and wet conditions killed many soldiers. >> they were surrounded by trenches where many would have crouched and day after day would have had to fight off wave after wave of japanese attacks coming in trying to break through these hills:. >> reporter: today those who survived are being honored. ultimately it's a somber reminder that in war every side loses. karishma vyas, al jazeera. >> arresting eight suspects who they say was involved in fueling anti-muslim raids. four people were killed. >>> some breaking news now. a suspected leader in the attack in the libyan city of bengahzi is expected to arrive this weekend. khatallah is being transported on a transport ship after he was seized in libya on june 15th. he's expected to be charged under the u.s. justice system. we'll bring you more on that story when he arrived in the united states. >>

lee searching for that victory of annihilation or american waterloo. his thinkings only on the subject after 1863 in no of involved or changed many his peers especially the union side, they have adjusted to the reality of warfare and recognize that civil war or means our virtual that our virtual indestructible. -- are virtual indestructible. lee has these grandiose plans. the expectation that grant would be destroyed in a single battle. what is up rising in is the southern press and people were modest and realistic. this is not the case in the north. brooks simpson has written a good piece called "great expectations." fine volume of essays on the wilderness campaign called the wilderness. that is where brooks' article appears. work sometimes that northern , grant would deliver a knockout blow in the overland campaign. the same kind of pressure that grant the dead. he had the political clout in richmond, the latitude to take a more strategic conservative approach. grant simply do not have that option. i want to suggest this. lee should've abandoned. he

lee searching for that elusive victory of annihilation or you can call it an american waterloo. what's odd is that lee's thinking on the subject after 1863 in no way involved were changed. many of his peers especially on the union side had adjusted to the reality of several war warfare. they recognize the civil war armies were virtually indestructible and the battlefield almost never resulted in decisive strategic results. lee as these grandiose plans in 1864 and the expect tatian that grants would be destroyed in a single battle. what's surprising is that the southern press and the southern people were modest and realistic in their expectations. this is not the case in the north. greatsimpson wrote a these called "great expectations." this is a fine volume of essays of the wilderness campaign. it is edited by gary gallagher. finds that northern editors promised their readers that grant would deliver a knockout blow in the overland campaign. lee never faced this same kind of pressure that grant did. he had the political clout in to take, the latitude, a more strategically conser

and if you consider who the battle was up against or judged against, it beat out waterloo and d-day insidered the greatest british battle. >> reporter: general william slim lead the forces on this very battlefield in 1944. he says the treacherous and wet conditions killed many soldiers. >> we're surrounded by trenches were very young men would have crouched and day f after day had to fight off wave after wave of japanese attacks. >> reporter: today those who survived are being honored. thisment commemoration recognizes the sacrifices made by so many to protect india, but ultimately it's a somber reminder that in war every side loses. >>> officials in india say at least 15 people were killed and dozens of homes flattened when a gas pipeline exploded. witnesses say flames leapt more than 24 meters high as a thick plume of dark smoke billowed into the air. the fire burned for more than five hours before it was brought under control. >>> pakistan's prime minister has promised a financial aid package for displaced families. hundreds of thousands have fled a military offensive. during his vi

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. >> after a wild campaign, the establishment made mississippi a tea party waterloo.had cochran beat back chris mcdaniel delivering a defeat to the tea party in a runoff race that just monday mcdaniel deemed unstoppable. in his not exactly a concession speech, mcdaniel's bluster spun rapidly into sieging resentment. >> there is something a bit unusual about a republican primary that's decided by liberal democrats. so much for bold colors. >> amen. >> so much for principle. i guess they can tape some consolation in the fact they did something tonight by once again compromising, by once again reaching across the aisle, by one against abandoning the conservative movement. >> reaching across the aisle, oh, no, to be clear, what mcdaniel and his supporters consider compromising and abandoning the conservative movement is anything that resembles constructive governance. mcdaniel and his people are also peeved to put it you've mystically that thad cochran had the audacity to ask for support from black voters and actually got it. the nine counties were heavily african-america

, waterloo, but a political thorn in her side because it's been made such and for sure there are manyponsibility, but what does that mean? why weren't people fired? for instance, in our business, in other businesses, you know exwhen you have egregious lapses, you take, you know, you take action, you fire some people, right? that didn't happen, so that's one thing that people still question why. you know, the bigger issue to me is this is the result, probably, from leading from behind. again, in her book, she talks about how the united states supported europe in the iraq mission, did not lead. and this was -- this was -- i remember very sort of controversial comment that apparently came out of the white house. look, we led from behind in libya, look how well it worked out in the immediate aftermath. well, it didn't really, because only american leadership can actually try to shape the postwar reality. it's one thing to bomb the heck out of the militias and liberate libya from gadhafi. then what? and the united states would have been in a position, had it led, to at least have been able

the last time was 99 years earlier at waterloo. 40 years later we have poison gas, heavy bombs bombingmachine guns artillery, tanks. it's like technology on steroids. >> when you look at this historically then what lessons you do thing we can learn from all the way back? >> i think lessons you have to be careful because there's so many variables. but once you push the go button on war it's so hard. maybe you want to back up and as you said pull the pin up and put the pin back in the grenade. there's an attitude that the terrorist attack caused all. this you can make the case that it was the response of the terrorist attack that led to everything after this. >> no world war ii without it, no modern middle east without it. >> amazing. 100 years ago today. dan carlin thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. >>> coming up the fashion of the future. turning virtual reality into everyday reality. >> how virtual reality is becoming reality for consumers. i'm bigad shaban with a sneak peek at the new technology that's the top of the tech world. we'll have that coming up on "cbs this morn