given the green light on friday night and implemented on sunday and executed brilliantly by 40 navy seals. 24 who actually repelled down on the ground from four different helicopters. they choppered in. he was actually shot? the head. i said certainly a drone must have taken out the compound in which he was living. no, in facted, they were up close and personal. they got into the house and they said is that osama bin laden? and they asked him briefly if he wanted to surrender. he didn t take them up on it and he got shot in the head. that s right. and ollie north was with us a little while ago. one of the guys that said yep, that s bin laden right there who was a resident could be the recipient of the $25 million bounty on the head of the world s most wanted terrorist. since then, the u.s. military has taken possession, custody of bin laden s body and in a in islamic custom, he has already been buried at sea because they didn t want any sort of a shrine that people co
reporter: katie, this operation has been in the planning stages for more than eight months and president obama was deeply involved every step of the way. our country has kept its commitment to see that justice is done. the world is safer. it is a better place because of the death of osama bin laden. reporter: the operation began over seven months ago. august, 2010, president obama is briefed about a rare lead after a bin laden courier is traced to a massive secure compound in pakistan. mid-february, the 2011, after months of surveillance, u.s. officials conclude there s a strong likelihood bin laden is living at the compound. the president orders operational plans to capture or kill him. march and april, the president chairs a series of meetings with his national security team to finalize the plan. and this past friday, 8:20 a.m., minutes before leaving for alabama to survey tornado damage, the president orders the operation to proceed. the day arrives sunday, may 1. 10
in itself will contain costs, and they believe that insurance providers will compete for the fewer medicare dollars that are out there. but fundamentally, if there is less money, and if there is less medicare money available, the state don t have the funds to make up the difference. the states are going broke, so it is up to the individual, and just keep in mind one last thing, brooke, this is the first play in a negotiation and not end point, but starting point. so the next turn goes to the m democra democrats. okay. starting point is a good point to make. jessica yellin, my thanks to you. and a couple of stories we are watching. a man lost his son in the 9/1 1 terror attacks and he said it is time to see justice be served and david beamer talked about it on capitol hill. and hisson, todd beamer, is one of the passengers who tried to overtake the hijackers, and his record words let s roll have
detroyed? 2007, so nasa is expecting this come to close to the station in the next two hours. we are monitoring this situation and we will go live to florida and i was speaking to ans as s astrona astronaut, and this is the size of the debris hurdling through space. firsts, i want to take you to the developing story to capitol hill, and that is that we are getting closer and closer to government shutdown. everyoneb, get the picture here. huge meeting at the white house, closed door, and last-minute talks involving the president and the members of congress. a short time ago the president came out and surprised appearance at the white house briefing and the message was clear from mr. obama, no deal yet, and here he was. myself, joe biden, my team, we are prepared to meet for as long as possible to get this resolved. my understanding is that there is a meet beg tween speing betw boehner and harry reid at 4:00, and the speaker did not want our team involved in that discussion
coming through. you can see where it is right now well off the coast. again, there it is coming right through the area between 3:30 and 6:30. there was some damage reports around chevy chase, st. mary s county and into baltimore county reports of damage. but a lot of the damage reports in terms of wind damage as well as hail and even tornado reports were down through the tennessee valley and deep south. this was one big system. and over a 24-hour period, 1,142 severe weather reports in a 24-hour period. and, folks, since records have been kept at severe prediction center, that is the most that s ever happened in a 24-hour period since going back to the year 2000. as far as temperatures go out there right now, we are in the 40s. mid and upper 40s. we ll drop to 44 by 11:00 p.m. get ready for more clouds to move back in. our wind will be picking up tomorrow with yet another weather system. that one will be weak but we could have some stronger storms coming our way before the we