helicopter attack in afghanistan. u.s. officials saying that the chinook chopper like those in this video was on its way to help rescue army rangers when it was shot down. 30 americans were killed. 22 of them navy seals, part of team 6. the same unit that killed usama bin laden. family members are, of course, devastated. i would just want people to know how much love he had in his heart for people. everybody. really loved what he did. and he was doing it for a reason so america could be free. all of the bodies have been recovered and will be flown to dover air force base later on this week. how about some music to get her going? diana nayad playing a little trumpet before swimming more than 100 miles from havana, cuba to the florida keys.
time to go globe tracking and let s first go overseas. this is from yemen. protesters are demanding the end of the president s long, long rule that clashed with security forces in the capital and several other cities. withins tell cnn that they fired tear gas to break up some of the crowds there. 14 people are reportedly hurt and 500 hurt. please keep this in mind. this is an amateur video. we cannot verify the authenticity. i want to take you to the ivory coast. this is west africa. a united nation s helicopter attack fired on the incumbent president that refuses to go, to leave office. a u.n. spokesperson says the camp is a base used for attacks against civilians for u.n. peace
we have some breaking news right now. we want to take you straight to cnn s ben wedeman. he joins us on the phone where he just witnessed a helicopter attack on rebel forces. ben, can you tell us what you saw? reporter: yeah, we saw this helicopter, an old soviet helicopter hovering above the road to tripoli about seven miles to the west of ras lanuf. opened fire with the rockets. huge explosion, huge bang. not clear what they hit. but we did see an ambulance two ambulances rushing toward the scene. so we can presume there were some sort of casualties. that s not the first air raid of the day. we saw another libyan jet dropping a bomb somewhere in the town of ras lanuf. also earlier in the morning over the city.
the city council will say no, not because they don t think manning is a hero. they haven t really looked at that issue as of yet. what they re concerned about, what we re hearing, is at this point these are just allegations. he s not convicted of doing this. it hasn t been proven in a court of law that he actually provided these documents, these videos. so that really is the question. that s the hang-up in front of the city council tonight. all right. we ll keep an eye on what goes on there. let s go over to barbara. what s the feeling at the pentagon about this? reporter: well, ali, it s not going to surprise you the pentagon is not berkeley. they do not believe this man is a hero. there are many who believe he should be convicted of the crimes which he is currently alleged to have committed. bradley manning remains jailed by the army on the accusations that he leaked a video of a helicopter attack in iraq. he s also charged with removing hundreds if not thousands of confidential
others consider heroism. the websites founder julian assange granted bail while he fights extradition to sweden. he s wanted there in a sex crimes case entirely unrelated to the leaking of government secrets but then came word sweden is appealing that decision so assange won t go anywhere for at least another 48 hours. to berkeley. who is the other guy? him. not as big a name but he s been around. a vote is expected tonight on a resolution declaring him u.s. army private bradley manning a hero. he s being held in a military bringing in virginia on charges that he leaked to wikileaks this video. you ve seen it before. of innocent people killed in a u.s. helicopter attack in baghdad in 2007. to many people this is where wikileaks made its name. he s also the suspected source of a huge stack of iraq and afghan war documents and possibly even the state department cables still dribble