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find the kidnapped girls. they heard some dramatic testimony wednesday from a 15-year-old girl whose father and brother were both killed by boko haram. nina jones has our report. reporter: members of the house foreign affairs committee had a lot of questions from two officials in the pentagon. they wanted to know what more can the u.s. do to help the nigerian government do to find and arrest these girls. before the committee they heard from deborah peters who is a survivor from the same town in chibuk. she came under attack in december of 2011 when she was 12 years old. they were targeted because they were christians, her father who was a pastor and her brother were killed by three members of boko haram. she spoke to reporters after that private meeting. here s part of what she told us about what happened on that scary night. they shoot my brother twice
schoolgirls in nigeria. deborah peters talks about those who took her. leaving at least 118 people dead. boko haram may have been responsible for that attack. vladimir is live. let s talk about the missing girls. what do we know about the government effort to find them? reporter: morning john. hey, so we know that president goodluck jonathan has 20,000 troops in nigeria dedicated to looking, searching for the girls. we learned from the summit that was held with the leaders along with nigeria that each of those countries were put into place, an action plan. they will contribute one battalion on the borders.
spoke to the nation to defend his choices and also to announce that nato will take over the lead role tomorrow. emily schmidt is joining us from washington with all the details. good morning, emily. reporter: peggy and rob, good morning to you. before president obama used the word libya last night, he said the words international effort. and he said the world had had a responsibility to act. president obama, explaining the u.s. involvement in libya, said it was the right thing to do. the united states and the world faced a choice. gadhafi declared he would show no mercy to his own people. it was not in our national interest to let that happen. i refused to let that happen. reporter: mr. obama said in ten days, the coalition stopped moammar gadhafi s advance, doing so without u.s. ground troops and with a full transfer of power to nato tomorrow. in fact, just hours after the president s speech, secretary of state hillary clinton arrived in london, for an international co