fox news alert. two former navy seals were found dead at the mersk alabama that it was made famous by the movie captain phillips. peter doocy joins us from washington with more. do we know what caused the death was these two men? reporter: no, they were found dead 4:30 in the stateroom by a colleague who went to check on them. it is just east of the horn of africa and they will perform an autopsy to figure out exactly how the men died so suddenly and that s all we know rit now. it was docked at port victoria a day before they it were discovered. it is anchored and holding in place. as for what the contractors were
when president obama first came into office, he campaigned on a pledge to end the war in iraq and to try to roll back the way that bush and cheney had prosecuted the war on terror. early in his administration he was briefed on the capacity that jsoc had. what ended up happening is that jsoc became the counterterrorism policy, not just the implementers of it, but policy itself. these are guys used to operating in shadows with little or minimal effective congressional oversight and they have a streamlined pipe to the commander-in-chief. president obama is in charge of all u.s. military forces. but often in his administration speaking directly to the commenders of jsoc on the ground. when an american flagged vessel was taken early on in obama s administration in somalia, the mersk alabama, the first time an american vessel had been hijacked in 100 years. obama was directly in touch with the people on the the ship that was going to take out the pirates and s.e.a.l. team 6 was deployed in
it s the race between romney and gingrich that is dominating coverage. new polling shows a statistical dead heat. 36-34. well within is the five-point margin of error. romney there at the 36. that s from the sampling done sunday, monday and tuesday. now, as always, expect those numbers to change. expect tomorrow night s debate to move that the needle, as well. also expect more of what we saw today. each candidate hammering the other. . [ speaking foreign language ] the gingrich campaign today stopped running the spanish language radio spot accusing romney of being the most anti-immigration candidate in the race. they took the ad down after florida senator mark rubio has yet to endorse a candidate took strong exceptions to it calling it inaccurate and inflammatory. the romney campaign meantime angling for the latino vote with an ad slamming gingrich for being the ultimate washington insider, specifically his relationship with freddie mac. romney has consistently described
a number of people killed now at 75 and the death toll expected to rise. more than 300 people are still missing right now. however, there are some signs of hope. applause broke out when emergency workers rescued a woman who had been trapped for more than 24 hours. she s expected to be ok. two cold hearted pirates in somalia bragging they were the ones who ordered the executions of four americans. they told their comrades to kill them before they got killed. 15 other pirates are in custody for the murders. according to a former federal prosecutor, they could face justice here in new york city. the u.s. attorney s office in manhattan wants the case and points to the victory to sentencing the somali pirate for hijacking the mersk alabama. imagine having to give your facebook password to a potential employer. at least two states allow employers to do just that.
piracy, they see it as a line of work, so you really do run into a strange situation where they don t want to kill the hostages, but they also don t want to be taken captive. martha: but they were, and some of them lost their lives, so this scandal didn t work out well for them, either. they know of course about a year ago we had navy seals who took out three pirates, hold on the mersk alabama, so they know when they deal with the u.s. navy there are problems. you also had a week ago 300 south korean soldiers who stormed a cargo ship so they re getting more violent and we re starting to be we we are starting to be more aggressive and i think we re going to see more violence, not less. unfortunately, it s a perilous part of the world now. martha: terrible, awful tragedy for these four people, the first time we ve seen anything like this come out of these situations. mike barrett, thank you for your expertise and for talking with us today, our thoughts and prayers are with the fa