dad suddenly passed away and he matured quickly in a setting like that with a family that surrounded him and a community that helped him regain his footing. he began with interest in public service not because of personal ambition, but because of his passion and faith for america and a beef that america needed individuals who would put the country first and who would put the issues of america ahead of the issues of their personal concerns and so he went to washington and for 14 years, he s been battling in washington as a leader and he s found some extraordinary capacity there which is one to be an intellectual leader in the pay. he s one of those that understands how government works and how it can be tamed and how we can restore to the people of america the rights and powers of the people and how states are the places where new ideas are developed and tested and grown. he understands the constitution and he s done something that very few people in washington learn how to do
from now on, we re going to look for a brighter fuehrer. we re going to look for a united community, a prosperous community, and the negativity over the last two years will go away in no time. in afghanistan today, three american service members were killed by a gunman wearing an afghan military uniform. it happened here in the unstable helmand province. we heard a few details and about a couple of attacks on coalition forces this week alone. chris lawrence is at the pentagon. chris, what happened today in the helmand province? we re told the soldier was part of a coalition force working on stability in the helmand province. they were going to meet some of their local afghan contacts when they were shot and killed. right now the isaf, the u.s. military is looking for the gunman, the man who shot and killed these troops. the taliban claims that the troops were lured in by an afghan police commander under the ruse of having dinner and being friendly when he turned on them
candidates. the response, huge. and komen bombshell. a huge shakeup at the breast cancer foundation, the president stepping down. the founder moving out of management. did planned parenthood funding change komen s focus from pink to green? and history on the track. an american breaking a record 44 years old. leo manzano bringing it in the 1,500 meters. newsroom begins right now. good morning, everyone. i m fredricka whitfield in for carol costole this morning we begin with a political competition this morning called the veep stakes. and any day, we are expecting the answer to this very critical question. who will innit mitt pick? let s bring in cnn reporter. tim pawlenty. a familiar name on the trail, says he is honored to be considered but that 2012 is about more than mitt romney s number two. let s listen. the main issue here isn t the vp process or who s going to be the vp. the main issue is what do we do to get this country and economy moving again and provide
air bags and cushion them with air bags and land it on the surface. that was the tried and trued method. but this rover is the size of a car, 2,000 pounds. it s too big to do it any other way than what they re going to attempt in 36 hours. never before happen. and what they will do is hit the atmosphere at 13,200 miles an hour. they ll begin to slowdown. they ll be maneuvering through the atmosphere and then at some point will deploy a parra chute which will further slow the vehicle but not enough to get it on the ground safely. at that point they will fire some rockets on the spacecraft and it will begin to line itself up with the martian surface then they ll use a sky crane where the rover will actually dissend from the bottom of the landing vehicle and the two will dissend on the surface together. then they will fire off the other part of the vehicle that they no longer need. so that will all take place in a matter of seven minutes, from the time they hit the top of the at
earlier i spoke with dr. olympia de la rosa. she s the emergency coordinator for doctors without borders. she s on the ground in uganda and has been treating patients. i asked her if some of them can work through it and survive. yes, of course. in case in ebola outbreaks we don t speak of 100% mortality rates. we are speak of very high mortality rates and it can run from 50% to 90%, but there are survivors. in fact, in these outbreaks, the mortality we re facing is about 60%. this means there are 40% of people who have been surviving and overcoming these diseases. okay. so the positive the positive report that you re giving us is yes. patients who we re concerned for these deaths, so we know there are ebola patients who are surviving and that is also why we set up treatment centers and not just the centers. understood. we believe there are people that can overcome the disease and even though there is no treatment for this disease, we can provide supportive tre