the extent it has syria as a partner that is willing to do this, has an ability to jeopardize israel s security really at any given moment. one lebanon expert called to say bold move by hezbollah and iran. to test the capacity of the obama administration to find allyies in the region and in the u.n. security council. the u.n. is where the u.s. could turn for a resolution to try to disarm hezbollah. bret? bret: mike emanuel live on the north lawn. thank you vice president joe biden is in iraq at this hour. he is scheduled to meet with iraqi leaders including the prime minister and the president. they are expected to discuss the future of u.s. troops in the country. biden traveled to baghdad after a brief stop in pakistan. he told leaders there, the u.s. is not imposing its will on pakistan. and is not an enemy of islam. hours later, a suicide car bomber struck a police station and adjoining mosque in the northwest, killing at least 16 people. flooding in australia has submerged an
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deadly explosion in cache chi. dominic cache chi. dominic is joining us live. reporter: jenna, here s what happened just over two hours ago, a suicide car bomber drove himself up to the headquarters of the criminal investigation department in the southern port city of karachi and blew himself up killing 12 people and as many be as 90 people injured. this happened very close to an area that includes the u.s. consulate and two big western hotels, the marriott and scherr tan, however, no indication that westerners have been injured in this particular blast. it left a crater 10 foot wide and is, apparently, one of the biggest blasts that we ve actually seen to hit pakistan in quite some time leveling much of the police building. as many as 40 people still believed to be beneath the rubble. we believe it could be militants who are trying to actually spring people from the police headquarters. the headquarters known for being a detention center, an interrogation center for the militants
mission last week, today there were two more attacks in the baghdad area alone. in one, a suicide car bomber detonated his explosives near the iraqi army convoy. and in another, militants detonated a car bomb and then followed up with a roadside bomb when people gathered at the scene. we re told the attacks killed at least three people and injured more than two dozen others. in afghanistan, the taliban s leader claims afghan fighters are winning the war and the united states is wasting money and lives. mulla muhammad omar making those comments in an internet message to mark the end of ramadan, he also says american forces will be out of afghanistan soon and tells his followers to help avoid hurting civilians in the meantime. u.s. commanders point out that taliban fighters don t always follow that advice. three more suspects face charges for the failed times square bombing. they ve been in custody in pakistan since the botched attempt in may and now the cops
come in, absolutely. and we re alert and ready to get it up. meanwhile, a sand cleaning operation is in full swing here on grand isle today and every day under a scorching hot sun. they re scraping the oil sand off the surface of the beach. they re piling it up and bringing it into this operation here where they re scrubbing it and separating it. from the oil. and then piling up the clean stand sand. they ll redistribute it on the beach as soon as they re convinced no more oil is washing on shore, julie. julie: rick leventhal, thank you so much. great report. back-to-back days of deadly attacks in iraq. the death toll climbing after an attack in iraq s second big s city, at least 43 people died after explosions ripped through a market yesterday. and today, a suicide car bomber targeting a police patrol west of baghdad killed eight people. the latest spike in violence coming as all, but 50,000 u.s. troops prepare to withdraw from iraq by the end of the