people here in pakistan who still struggle in poverty and also struggling with the war on terror because they can point to thousands of lives that have been lost as a result of the pakistan military going after the militants. now, with the killing of osama bin laden being asked about the u.s. saying, how come the u.s. carried out this operation unilaterally without going through the authorities here in pakistan invading pakistan air space and invading pakistan s sovereignty or not showing enough respect to pakistan s sovereignty. we re seeing this debate about the u.s. role and how pakistan should perceive that. a joint seating of parliament here and after that they called for another investigation into what happened and a warning that if these unilateral angctions, you say, including drone strikes, there will be consequences and that will damage this relationship even further. t.j.? stan grant for us in islamabad today. stan, we appreciate you, as always. to our viewers at nine minu
expected to be open in maybe just the next few hours, leaving residents in low-lying areas preparing for the worst. we have a live report coming your way in just a second. also, can i tell you about some surprising discoveries at osama bin laden s compound and the intensifying diplomatic fallout. then a little later, so happy to share with you a candid conversation with baseball legend hank aaron. the home run king. some say still the home run king talking about what it was like breaking babe ruth s record. why it wasn t necessarily the career highlight that it should have been. we do need to start with what s happening to a lot of folks in the south. louisiana, so many cities sitting on the banks of the mississippi river. happening right now, the road over the morganza spillway north of baton rouge is closing in just a few hours from now, the u.s. corps of engineers will open the flood gates, literally open the flood gates. the plan is to divert the flood waters away fro
80 people dead. and in claiming responsibility, the pakistani taliban calls the attack retaliation for the american raid that led to bin laden s death. reza sayah is live for us in islamabad. does the pakistani government view that has a singular message from the taliban, or do they believe there ll be more attacks? reporter: they believe there will be more attacks and the pakistani taliban says there will be more tobaccoattacks. this was a coordinated attack designed to kill a lot of people, and it did just that. 80 people killed, the deadliest attack this year. twin suicide attacks targeting hundreds of military recruits that hd just finished an extended training program. apparently, the night before, they were celebrating. morning came, they came out of this the training facility, ready to board vans to go home. that s when a suicide attacker walked up to the scene, blew himself up. there was chaos, commotion, people came to help, and that s when another suicide attacker came on t
another, so indications are the most likely scenario is that these two partners are going to move forward pointing fingers at one another, plotting through a very uncertain volatile relationship. reza sayah, live for us tonight in islamabad, thanks. let s get some important perspective now from congressman peter king of new york. the republican who s the chairman of the house homeland security committee, and a member of the house select committee on intelligence. congressman, i want to start with this deadly bombing in pakistan today. any doubt in your mind or from the intelligence you have been briefed on that this was a retaliation for the raid that killed bin laden? from all that i know and from all we ve learned, this clearly was an attack by al qaeda and done, again, in revenge or in retaliation for bin laden. that s clearly what i ve been led to believe, yeah. and when you talk to folks at the cia, when you do your own reporting, if you will, what is your sense right now
pornography. this in the hideaway of a self-described religious warrior who says the united states and the west are immoral and godless. let s assess the importance of these new revelations with michael shoier, and with our national homeland security adviser, fran townsend. michael, let me start, i guess it s no surprise that the leader of al qaeda would want the president of the united states dead. but it s startling and jolting a bit to hear what written communications, plural, in which bin laden discusses his desire to have the president of the united states assassinated? i don t think it s surprising. and i think it s probably even worse now. they ll be looking to exact an eye for an eye. i suspect the secret service is very much en garde, because obama put himself in the bull s-eye. is assassination in the playbook? bin laden was very much involved in the early 90s in yemen in arranging the assassination of socialists and marxist yemeni politician. so it s not out