acceptable. with these suicide bombings you re talking about were awful. one in the eastern city of kost with eight of nine killed and the first one in central kabul, a lone bicycle-riding suicide bomber setting off exmroed pleases ives 30 yards from the entrance of the afghan defense ministry. now, hagel was across town but the blast could be heard from miles away. the briefing he was in continued uninterrupted as did his itinerary for the rest of the day. he went up to bagram air base where he spoke with commanders there and then went to south had a chance to talk to and listen to troops from the 101st airborne. tomorrow will be the big day, alex, he ll come back to kabul and talking with and meeting with afghan army training center and that s important because and then he ll have a series of meetings with afghan economic and military leaders
we begin with breaking news. we re just learning vice president joe biden made a surprise visit to afghanistan, his first trip to the country since becoming vp. he s going to meet with afghan leaders including the president karzai, also with some of the u.s. service personnel there. he ll also go to an afghan army training center. part of the reason he s there is to assess the progress to a transition to security by the afghans. we ll continue to watch that for you. surprise trip to afghanistan by the vice president. here in arizona, doctors will be updating us on the condition of congresswoman giffords and the other victims at the university medical center here in tucson at a midday press conference. i ll speak with one of the key surgeons on jansing & company.