force pilot. two woman soldiers have broken through a tough barrier. barbara has the story. for military woman history is made. for the first time two female soldiers have passed the grueling 62 day army ranger training program. secretly sense of pride. we can not really cheer the females on. it s a humbling experience and get a chance to see the woman come through. even after all of the hard training the pentagon won t let woman join the elite 75th ranger regiment. one of the most special operations unit. army woman say that they won t no special treatment. amber smith flew held comicopte
in the 75th ranger regiment. he was wounded three different times and he eventually had to have that leg amputated. when he went to the va they wouldn t take his word that his leg was gone. we are learning more about the jetblue pilot and this midair rant on religion. we have israel, we got iraq. now that pilot is suing jetblue for nearly $15 million. he claims a seizure caused by childhood injuries is what led to that incident. his lawyer even says that jetblue should have seen the red flags and kept him from flying. friends of the pilot now saying they are shocked that he filed that lawsuit. is this the best way to drive out a loose tooth? you ready? yeah.
obama. veterans did support john mccain. is there any surprise in those numbers for you? hard for me to sort it out. you know, it s an intensely political thing. the country s very divided. there is tremendous opposition, a continued engagement in afghanistan. so, this is, we re probably reflecting other issues as much as foreign policy, national security policy. the economy. you know, the jobless rate. concerns about deficits. i would argue that s probably more like it. i think when the president appears and the 75th ranger regiment or aboard a navy ship, there s uniformly, i believe, a tremendous sense of confidence and trust in him. we re going to take a break. we will have the remarks of the president of the united states as the tomb of the unknowns
reporter roulette. tell me what happened 20 years ago on sunday? i can t tell you what happened yesterday. the perfect storm happened 20 years ago. the storm, yes. the movie, hurricane in iraq we don t have a hurricane this time but we have a significant weather event. for new york city. let me show you what is going to happen here. i m talking about all of the western suburbs just to the west of the city. part of an i-95 10 to 20 miles west of there. zero inches of snow to 15 or 20 right along. along the water, it s going to snow a lot in new york city. it s just not going to stick. there s going to be slop. there s going to be a raindrop and snowflake that comes down at the same time. you don t get accumulation with that. what you do get with that, patterson, up into northern bour ban county, snow on the leaves are going to make it break. all of the power lines are going to come down. 15 inch ts of snow. rapidly, though, as you get past the delaware water gap. t
at an ungodly hour to be with us tonight. richard, thanks so much for joining us, appreciate it. it s a pleasure, and it is, i think, a very important story. not just for the loss of life, which is in itself very tragic, but it says a lot about the war itself and how it s going, that ten years, nearly ten years on, you can have the single deadliest incident that would involve so many of these elite troops. i think it says a lot about where this country is going and where the u.s. mission is going as well. richard, what do we know about the mission that resulted in the crash, the specific mission, and why so many elite troops were involved in this. what does it say to you? effectively, you had a mission underway by the army rangers, and this is not the people who go to ranger school who wear the tab on the uniform, this is the 75th ranger regiment, which itself is an elite group that operates covertly and does a lot of the deadly missions in this country