a broken water line beneath the house saturated the hill side, causing the dirt to slide to the bottom of the held. kabc-tv said that the slide is 40 feet wide, 10 feet deep, leaving the home in danger of collapsing. rand paul issued a statement, saying his stance on drones hasn t changed, but they should be considered an extraordinary lethal situation. paul has been taking heat for comments he made concerning the manhunt for the marathon bombing suspects. here is what he told fox business network. we shouldn t be willy-nilly. but if there is a killer on the loose in a neighborhood, i m not against drones being used to search them out, heat seeking devices being used. he added if someone comes out of a lick correspond store with a weapon and $50 in cash, i don t care if a drone kills him or a policeman kills him. earlier, he argued against drones in a 13-hour filibuster. and david petraeus has been
liquor store with a weapon and $50 in cash, i don t care if a drone kills him or a policeman kills him. we shouldn t be willy-nilly, looking into everyone s backyard what they re doing, but if there s a killer on the loose in a neighborhood, i m not against drones being used to search them out. heat seeking devices being used. but in march, he took to the senate floor to question whether or not they had the authority to carry out drone attacks on u.s. citize citizens. he leased a statement saying my comments last night left the impression that my position on drones had changed. armed drones should not be used in normal crime situations. they may only be considered in extraordinary lethal situations where there is an ongoing, imminent threat. that seems to be what the entire debate is about. so, i thought. a group led by haley barbour and
or so. who was firing those gun shots? it was back and forth. was he firing? my understanding, yes. he was firing. from the boat? right. through the plastic they saw him poking through the plastic if you will of the boat and then gunfire erupted. you say they had sophisticated vision equipment from a helicopter to see through the boat cover if you will to see if there was movement underneath? we knew there was a body in that boat through the state police helicopter. it s heat seeking. he has a higher body temperature than the boat would. we could tell. every time he moved we could see that. as you see from that heat seeking that s sophisticated. you don t have that in the watertown police department. that s federal assistance that you re getting there. sophisticated level. talk about assets bringing in black hawk helicopters and everything else. i got a couple bicycles. you have never seen anything like that. amazing from the president to the governor they said
passenger jet. how accurate are they, trace? well, they are very accurate. these are heat seeking missiles which means they actually lock on to the exhaust. the heat from the exhaust that comes from the aircraft, which makes them very accurate to anything below 11,000 feet, add to that the fact that these things are very light. they weigh about 35 pounds, which makes them as you see right there, very portable. military aircraft have ways to divert these types of missiles, unfortunately civilian aircraft like passenger jets do not have a way to avoid them at all. bill? bill: trace gallagher from l.a. tonight. an extreme sports athlete clinging to life tonight after a nasty snowmobile accident at the winter x games in aspen, colorado. the latest on his condition and new questions about the safety of these sports. plus, it s not niagara falls but the dare devil nic woe linda is at it again. taking his high wire act
skeptical social conservatives. i ll talk about that and more with this former rival who just dropped out of the race newt gingrich. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. formally this week, satellites would have been dominated by the race for the white house and the increasingly heating battle between the obama and romney campaigns. but president obama rewrote the script, catching the world by surprise with an unexpected trip to afghanistan where he marked the one-year anniversary of the death of the world s most wanted terrorist. one year ago from bases here in afghanistan our troops launched the operation that killed osama bin laden. the goal that i set to defeat al qaeda and denied a chance to rebuild is now within our reach. the trip wasn t without controversy, some critics accusing the president of playing politics with the anniversary of bin laden s death, questioning whether ro