thanks for getting up bright and early with us. 22 minutes after the top of the hour. some quick headlines. the first u.s. drone strike in pakistan since a border attack in november accidentally killed 24 pakistani troops and left four islamist militants dead as well. the attack was in an al-qaida and taliban strong hold near the afghan border. the man who led fannie mae after the government takeover makes it official. he s announcing that he s stepping down as ceo. he says now is the right time to hand over the reins. he ll stay on until a replacement is named. back to brian and the panel. new poll shows a number of people identifying themselves as independents are at an all time high in this country. is that good news for the g.o.p. or anyone else? we re back with our political panel, joe trippe, julie and mallory factor.
nick. reporter: absolutely. the statement accepts it was highly likely they refer to what was air support strikes. they said there was an operation going on my afghan and nato forces on the afghan side of the border hunting down insurgents. they called in air support and that s when this incident occurred. they won t say whether it happened inside pakistan or talk about numbers. but clearly an effort by nato to try to begin the reconciliation process as the pakistanis come up with angry rhetoric towards washington. so, nick, is pakistan decides it will cut off some of the cooperation it has extended to the u.s./nato, where does afghanistan play in this? how will it choose sides? reporter: well, the afghans have their bed made really here. however much they talk about a future or they want a good relationship with pakistan there s way in excess of 100,000 nato troops. huge amounts of money being poured into by the coalition into afghanistan. also bear in mind what s happ
police officers last month after a border attack by palestinian militants. the swollen sus question what na river is receding. the floodwaters are making life miserable for people along the northeast. this shows a covered bridge more than a century old washed away by rising waters. about 135 water and sewage plants in the state are flooded. that s causing sewage to spill into the streams and rivers. that fill hi water carried off at least ten houses across that state. bill karins has more on the recovery efforts underway amid all the flooding. good morning to you, bill. good saturday morning to you, alex. for once i m not talking about any natural disasters heading our way. no hurricanes, no huge rainstorms. we re still recovering from our last one. that s with we re going to take our attention from binghamton to
pakistan close add key border crossing just last week. some optimism that passage could soon reopen. islamabad shut down the crossing after a nato helicopter attacked and killed two pakistani troops in that border area. a pakistani news agency broadcast this video but we cannot independently confirm that it shows the particular border attack. at any rate, after a joint investigation, the u.s. ambassador to pakistan now has formally apologized for the killings and acknowledged that u.s. forces did, indeed, mistake the soldiers for some militants they had been chasing. and that apology could conceivably pave the way for pakistan to reopen the crossing. we shall see. before companies can start adding jobs they have to stop cutting them. we took a step in the wrong direction last month. out today the business outsourcing firm adp reports private employers slashed 39,000 jobs in september. the number is in line with a separate report that shows u.s.
mexican police foiling a border attack. a phone tip apparently led officers to a shopping center in t city of juarez and they found the explosives in one vehicle and a dead body in another and agents remo dved explosives before detonating the car. no word on the identity of the body. three people were killed in juarez just last july. a rush to prevent more from dying, in a four wheeler race th at s all about the baby, as we go around the world in 80 seconds. kosovo, a french soldier shot in a clash between serbs and ethnic a ethnic albanians. the outcome of a championship basketball game, turkey defeated serbia. police were called in to break up the fighting. the injured french soldier was reportedly shot in the leg and