president barack obama says the united states is committed to standing by israel. he talked to the largest american jewish lobbying group today amid concern from israel about where the u.s. stands on threats from iran. the president said while he prefers peace, the possibility of military action is not off the table. israel and the united states have an interest in seeing this challenge resolved diplomatically. after all, the only way to truly solve this problem is for the iranian government to make a decision to forsake nuclear weapons. a vintage helicopter in flight during the shooting of a television show crashes and amazingly no one is killed or even hurt. it happened in arizona. oh, my god! the pilot and crewmen on board that vintage military chopper were able to walk away. the aircraft was being filmed for an episode of top gear korea. the cause of the crash is still under investigation. in selma, alabama, today a huge crowd will walk across the edman pettis b