Im fredericka whitfield. The u. S. Is standing by its decision to order a Hostage Rescue Mission in yemen. Even though it ended with the deaths of american photojournalist luke somers and pierre korkie, south after can teacher. They were killed by their al qaeda captors as navy seals closed in on the militants compound. It was the United States third attempted rescue mission in recent months, and today during a visit to Afghanistan Defense secretary chuck hagel was asked by a reporter if the pentagon needs to take a sharder look at how it conducts these raids in light of the outcome. Heres what he said. Theres an immense amount of focus and time and review that goes into each of these operations, so i dont think its its a matter of going back and having a review of our process. Our process is about as thorough as there can be. Is it imperfect . Yes. Is there risk . Yes. But we start with the fact that we have an american thats being held hostage and that americans life is in danger. Th
four syrians, a tunisian and the united nations will eventually repatriate them with their home countries. all six men had been cleared for release nearly five years ago, but it took years to find the country willing to accept them. we now know the makeup of the new u.s. senate. louisiana senator mary landrieu, the last democratic senator from the deep south, lost her bid for a fourth term in saturday s runoff. republican congressman bell cassidy swept to victory. he gets the republicans a 54-seat majority when the new congress convenes in january. the government of the philippines is blaming typhoon for at least two deaths. the slow-moving storm is losing strength as it moves northwest across the country and dumps heavy rain and that is the has the increasing risk of flooding as well. about 40 million people are in