boarded air force one. they re about to take off from the west palm beach air fort for the short jaunt down to key west. the president taking part in an anti drug trafficking briefing there. we ll have more for you happening now!
had not happened, or frankly if it had just been better explained by now, if we had fewer unanswered really important big questions about it, if either of those things were true, the ore major news story that the country would be riveted by right now is the historic decision made by the pentagon, the decision that all combat jobs in the united states military will now be open to women. the armed forces have been studying that prospect for three years now. it became a very high-profile prospect when women graduated from army ranger school for the first time in history earlier this year. a lot of people said that could physically never happen. it happened. but even with that, nobody had been sure if all combat jobs would be open to women or just some. now we know as of today it s all of them. the chiefs of the army, the navy, the air fort and the special operations command had all agreed already that all of their combat jobs could be open to women. there was a hold-up, though. the marine
story that the country would be riveted by right now is the historic decision made by the pentagon, the decision that all combat jobs in the united states military will now be open to women. the armed forces have been studying that prospect for three years now. it became a very high-profile prospect when women graduated from army ranger school for the first time in history earlier this year. a lot of people said that could physically never happen. it happened. but even with that, nobody had been sure if all combat jobs would be open to women or just some. now we know as of today it s all of them. the chiefs of the army, the navy, the air fort and the special operations command had all agreed already that all of their combat jobs could be open to women. there was a hold-up, though. the marine corps did not agree. the commandante requested exemptions to keep women out of some specific combat jobs. we now know those request for women has been denied.
were true, the ore major news story that the country would be riveted by right now is the historic decision made by the pentagon, the decision that all combat jobs in the united states military will now be open to women. the armed forces have been studying that prospect for three years now. it became a very high-profile prospect when women graduated from army ranger school for the first time in history earlier this year. a lot of people said that could physically never happen. it happened. but even with that, nobody had been sure if all combat jobs would be open to women or just some. now we know as of today it s all of them. the chiefs of the army, the navy, the air fort and the special operations command had all agreed already that all of their combat jobs could be open to women. there was a hold-up, though. the marine corps did not agree. the commandante requested
and now, this is the man who allegedly strapped that thing in place in hopes of prying money out her parents. paul doug peters, age 51, an australian finance executive. paul doug peters arrested yesterday outside of louisville, kentucky, by a local fbi swat team in connect with the case that has gripped australia for nearly two weeks. let me take you back to august 3rd. this was the scene in a wealthy enclave outside of sidney where this sl-year-old spent a heldish ten hours. she was fearing this mechanism would explode. it turned out to be a hoax. but the assailant s demands were very real. he wanted money from madeline parents. the demands were that it was financial, demands made. again, i can t go into too much detail on exactly what they were and that they needed to be some follow-up contact. and further instructions would be given. like i said, a truly bizarre story. let s go to susan candiotti outside o the federal court in lieu louisville. i know you want to talk a