good morning. thanks for joining us. i m michelle miller. president obama is headed home after making a surprise visit to afghanistan. the president signed a strategic agreement with afghan leaders and outlined the end of the war, saying we can see the light of a new day. but this morning the taliban is claiming responsibility for a series of explosions in kabul that killed at least seven people. tara mergener is in washington with more. good morning, tara. reporter: good morning to you. that violence a year to the day after the death of osama bin laden and just after president obama vowed to end america s longest running foreign war. a series of explosions hit kabul just hours after president obama left the afghan capital. a taliban spokesman tells cbs news, the terrorist group deployed bombers once they learned of the president s visit. they say the attack was meant to show that the taliban is still strong and still a threat. the president made a surprise visit to shell
home this morning after making a surprise visit to afghanistan. the president signed a strategic agreement with afghan leaders and outlined the end of the war, saying, we can see the light of a new day. but this morning the taliban is claiming responsibility for a series of explosions in kabul that killed at least seven people. tara mergener is in washington with more. good morning, tara. reporter: good morning to you, michelle. that s right. that violence a year to the day after the death of osama bin laden and just after president obama vowed to end america s longest running foreign war. a series of explosions hit kabul just hours after president obama left the afghan capital. a taliban spokesman tells cbs news, the terrorist group deployed bombers once they learned of the president s visit. they say the attack was meant to show that the taliban is still strong and still a threat. the president made a surprise visit to spell out america s future involvement in afghanistan
bin laden. the president s main stated reason for his secret trip to afghanistan was the signing of a new ten-career deal between the u.s. and afghanistan. it was the request of afghan president hamid karzai that that be signed there in afghanistan. but the timing is all barack obama s. this is happening over there in the wee hours of the morning, 2:00, 3:00 in the morning. so in an hour and a half or so when he addresses the american people from there, it ll be at 7:30 eastern time. president obama flew to afghanistan overnight in secret to enhance security. to be with u.s. forces in this still war torn nation. once the base of osama bin laden on this first anniversary of the raid that killed the terror mastermind. signing a new ten-year agreement with afghan president karzai, mr. obama noted it lets the u.s. continue the war against bin laden s organization. the united states can achieve our goal of destroying al qaeda and denying it a safe haven, but at the same time, we