odierno, the commanding general of the multinational force in iraq, and asked whether u.s. forces are prepared to handle any violence during the months that it could take to form a new government. we re working very hard with the government of iraq and their caretaker government in order to ensure that security will continue during this time. and i think they have a good plan in place. we re working closely with the iraqi security forces in order to sustain security during this key piece of time as they form the government. president obama praised the iraqis for their courage yesterday and reiterated that, quote, by the end of next year all u.s. troops will be out of iraq. a few days ago, a man with two guns, plenty of ammo and vendetta opened fire at the gate to the pentagon. three officers on duty at the time didn t flinch. they took the gunman, john patrick bedell, down with lethal force and may have prevented many others from getting killed. they re all with us this morning f
there was a lot of chaos. fortunately for us, our training kicked in. and let me ask you, officer richards, you talked about this being almost surreal, you didn t know at the time whether it was even a prank. i mean, you know, must have just really caught you by surprise. i mean we talk about the thousands of people that go in and out every day that come up to your guard post, show their pentagon i.d. and keep moving. yes, ma am. everything happened in a split second. the shooter was like so close, like when he shot, i was surprised that he missed because i thought he hit me or officer carraway. so training kicked in. i ran for cover. and that s what happened. it could have turned out very differently. you guys are all very heroic for what you did and for what you really do every single day. it s just that on most days, this doesn t happen. the worst case scenario doesn t happen. let me ask officer amos first,
confronting officers outside of the pentagon? i guess that s what we were athere for. they train us for the job and we re there to do the job. well, as we said before thank goodness you guys were not hurt more severely and you re back on the job and we re certainly glad to have you there. thanks to all of you for joining us this morning, marvin carraway, jeffery amos and colin richards, all pentagon police officers that certainly did their duty that day, thank you very much. thank you for having us. thank you. we ve got 37 minutes after the hour now. same-sex marriage becomes legal in the nation s capital today, but one prominent charity is taking some pretty drastic measures to ensure that it doesn t have to pay benefits to the same-sex spouse of one of its employees. we ll tell you all about that coming right up. stay with us. okay. $65 for tonight. you can t argue with a big deal. introducing big deal days, get an exclusive sneak peak at recent winning hotel bids to help y
carraway, jeffrey amos and colin richards. thanks for joining us this morning. good morning. i m glad to see i know that both officer carraway and richards, you were shot. thank goodness everybody is okay and able to talk with us. i want to start with you officer carraway. you were a marines for eight years and you said when you made eye contact with this suspect you knew right away he might be up to something. explain how you first saw him and what went through your mind at the time? well, i recognized the individual, the shooter walking up towards me, and in my mind i said, okay, it s time to get up and acknowledge this person coming in. when i looked at the shooter, he looked at me, and i recognized he had a certain look on his face. once i saw that, what went through my mind was like, this is it. something is about to happen. and so what did you do from there? well, the shooter continued to look at me. he drew his weapon and he started firing. once he started firing, i
he ll be hosting town hall meetings in st. louis and philadelphia to try to convince americans and even members of his own party a measure must be passed this month. does he have the votes to get it passed? a live report from the white house just ahead. they re still waiting for the hangover in hollywood. the party continues after the biggest night in showbiz. it was the hurt locker taking home the big prize, best picture. the film s director kathryn bigelow made history as a first female best director. all of those firsts and a look at the fashion as well ahead. i ll tell you, sandra bullock looked beautiful last night. she did. that was quite the gown she was wearing. first we re sorting out the details of what could be a major blow against al qaeda. yesterday pakistani officials claimed they captured the terror group s american born spokesman his name adam gadahn, the u.s. face for al qaeda for years and he is the first american to be charged with treason since