gone on for 16 years nearly, we have lost more than 2200 service members, thousands have been wounded, over the years, as wel well, and representative jones, you think that the president overstepped his bounds here? yes, i do, and he made a promises to him before he was sworn in that he would look seriously as at not staying in afghanistan, and he is not making his promise to the american people, and i tell you, i have a marine base in my district, i know many of the marines, i know the former, don s, who has been my unofficial advisor for five years in afghanistan and then in a recent email, he said afghanistan is unwinnable. it is a tribal nation, it is a country, a tribal country, with a multitude of tribes, they have
memorial for michael jackson, one year after his death, one year to the day. this is the forest lawn cemetery, members of the jackson family, don lem season there. he said over 1,000 people are there already. members of the jackson family arriving. janet jackson, we understand other members of the family are arriving as well. tonight, 8:00, don s got a special. he interviewed members of the jackson family. some very interesting things that they ve said, including the fact that they feel that there were people around michael jackson who felt that they might profit from his death. you ll hear about that tonight 8:00 peern on cnn. the race is on to save the unique wildlife along the gulf coast. you would think that animal activists would be as terrified as the rest of us as more oil creeps to the shore. but some of them are actually excited about it. tom foreman is in tallahassee, florida, with today s building up america. reporter: as we ve traveled the gulf coast all week long, we
reporter: let s not hug the camera, pal. you know, let them. the worse you try to stop them, the worse they ll get. usually during mardi gras people do some pretty bad things. so i think this is pretty light the treatment you re getting. and again, ed, it s good. it s good that people are celebrating in new orleans. reporter: oh, absolutely. and the amazing thing is we ve been asking the officers. no reports of any problems. these people aren t fighting. they re not turning anything down. they re just happy. one of the officers told me here a little while ago. they re incredibly excited to see that. and you can t overstate what we hear repeatedly over and over here in new orleans, don-s what this team means to this city and what it has meant to the rebirth, the coming back of this
is to give them a chance to get that out of their system here as quickly as we can. you know what, ed? reporter: let s not hug the camera, pal. you know, let them. the worse you try to stop thernlgs t them, the worse they ll get. usually during mardi gras people do some pretty bad things. so i think this is pretty light the treatment you re getting. and again, ed, it s good. it s good that people are celebrating in new orleans. reporter: oh, absolutely. and the amazing thing is we ve been asking the officers. no reports of any problems. these people aren t fighting. they re not turning anything down. they re just happy. one of the officers told me here a little while ago. they re incredibly excited to see that. and you can t overstate what we hear repeatedly over and over here in new orleans, don-s what this team means to this city and what it has meant to the rebirth, the coming back of this city. yes. reporter: after hurricane katrina. and you hear that over and over agai