provide security to the president have been relieved of duty. it hap when in colombia where the president is a attending summit of the america s. jackie benson is at the white house trying to get answers. jackie? doreen, these allegations if true are a real black eye for this law enforcen t agency. what we have heard sound like the things that college students do on spring break. not people assigned to protect the president. now, just a short time ago, we received a statement from ed donovan, a spokesperson for the united states secret service based here in washington. it confirms there have been allegations of misconduct made against secret service personnel in cartagena, colombia prior to the president s trip. because of this those personnel are being relieved of their assignments, returned to place of duty and are replaced by other secret service personnel. the secret service takes all al ainvestigations of misconduct seriously. this matter has been turned over to the of
new york rejoices. and what now? so, does bin laden s death make the u.s. safer? is this the end of al qaeda? and can we finally leave afghanistan? target bin laden. a special hour-long edition of nightline starts right now. good evening. i m terry moran. we re here tonight at ground zero in new york city. hallowed ground. which is coming back to life. behind me, you can see where construction proceeds on reflecting pools there which will honor the memory of the nearly 3,000 victims who died here almost tenures ago. the towers, about 68 stories tall, replacing the ones brought down in the 9/11 attacks. my co-anchor cynthia mcfadden is here at ground zero as well. our colleague bill weir is in our studios uptown for this special edition of nightline. last night, as we all discovered, president obama brought the country the news it s been waiting for for ten years, osama bin laden, the maniacal mass murder, religious fan pastic, responsible for the tragedies that took pla
so, does bin laden s death make the u.s. safer? is this the end of al qaeda? and can we finally leave afghanistan? target bin laden. a special hour-long edition of nightline starts right now. good evening. i m terry moran. we re here tonight at ground zero in new york city. hallowed ground. which is coming back to life. behind me, you can see where construction proceeds on reflecting pools there which will honor the memory of the nearly 3,000 victims who died here almost tenures ago. the towers, about 68 stories tall, replacing the ones brought down in the 9/11 attacks. my co-anchor cynthia mcfadden is here at ground zero as well. our colleague bill weir is in our studios uptown for this special edition of nightline. last night, as we all discovered, president obama brought the country the news it s been waiting for for ten years, osama bin laden, the maniacal mass murder, religious fan pastic, responsible for the tragedies that took place here, at the pentagon and on f
thank you so much. as we were watching there, as he was speaking to us we were watching celebrations happening at different part gs of the country tonight. i think it was the bottom of the ninth at the mets phillies game and we have some video as the reaction of the fans learned this news. [ chanting [ chanting ] we are going go wnb krc frome
now the workers are coming in. it s a historic day in lower manhattan. here s what we know now about the secret mission that took out the world s most notorious terrorist, osama bin laden. the al qaeda commander was shot in the head during a fire fight with american forces early sunday morning. one of bin laden s sons and two of his couriers were killed and a woman described as a human shield. the operation was carried out with the cooperation of pakistani officials. osama bin laden was not found in a cave, on a mountain in that region between pakistan and afghanistan. instead, he met his end in a million dollar mansion in a compound in abbottabad, pakistan. this is about 60 miles north of islamabad. officials believe this, indeed, was a compound built to house bin laden. the cia had been monitoring this location for months. what you re looking at it is video from geo news in pakistan showing the compound engulfed in flames after u.s. helicopters and about two dozen navy