Chuck hagel talked about that today in kabul. We will maintain a limited Counterterrorism Mission against al qaeda and its remnants, because as we draw down the combat mission, we have not forgotten, not forgotten what brought america to afghanistan over a decade ago. Meantime, in yemen, a desperate attempt to rescue a hostage from al qaeda and failure. Al qaeda terrorists killed luke somers and another western hostage during the raid yesterday. President obama ordered the rescue mission after u. S. Intelligence learns that somers could soon be executed. Our pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr joins us now by phone. Barbara, explain what went wrong here. What we are learning is they lost the element of surprise. Reporter poppy, by all accounts, the navy seals did lose the surprise at the very last minute. Something like 1 humidity yards from the compound they were about to assault, where they believe the hostages were being held. They were discovered. A firefight broke out. And it bec
Cops as possible. So the country here certainly is on edge. Theres a heightened alert, a terror alert has been set up. And out of precaution the jewish schools all over this country, like in some other countries by the way as well have been closed for the day. Chris . Fred that use of uniforms you and i have seen that with greenonblue attacks that have happened in iraq and afghanistan. Thank you for the reporting. Lets go to france where all the recent activity started. In paris we have new and troubling developments 12 people now in custody, suspected of helping in the recent attacks. Just this morning, a new attack many of frances media sites hacked. Taken offline. Lets get to john berman live in paris. John . Good morning, chris. Yes, 12 suspects in custody. These 12 individuals officials tell us are linked to amedy coulibaly, the man who attacked the kosher market killing four french jews. This is some kind of logistical network, a support group that perhaps helped him plan fund ca
Seeking suspects that they believe are connected to the attacks here last week the one behind me at Charlie Hebdo and also at the kosher supermarket. We learn yesterday that one man had been arrested in bulgara on the border with turkey. He was picked up on january 1st. He was arrested now, believed to have some kind of connection to a terror group. And there are reports that he had contacts with at least one of the kouachi brothers before the attacks here. There is other new evidence coming into public view. New video of the chilling moments immediately after the attacks on Charlie Hebdo. You can see the kouachi brothers cherif and said declaring vengeance in the name of muhammad. They get out of their car so calmly eerie calculated calm and then confront police are automatics weapons fire. All of this is happening, the release of the magazine happening as there has been a spike in violence against french muslims. A prominent french Muslim Group Says there have been more than 50 viole
Abroad but sejs sources tell cnn these are the nations where terror cells could be ready to strike in france germany, belgium and the the netherlands, as many as 20 sleeper cells and between 120 and 180 people said to be ready to attack. What does that mean here at home . Fareed zakaria put that question to a man who would know former cia director leon panetta. It sounds like secretary panetta, you are more worried based on what has happened over the last few weeks and particularly in paris and you feel that this could happen in new york. This could happen in many many places in the world. I dont think theres any question. I think what were seeing as i said is a much more aggressive chapter, and a much more dangerous chapter in terms of the war on terrorism. What happened in paris, what happened in ottawa what happened in belgium is something that we need to understand that these terrorists are now engaged in a much more aggressive effort based on recruiting. Based on whats happening i
Since july, oil prices have lost half their value since july falling from 100 to even below 50 a barrel today making up a little bit of ground still falling over 4 however. The way wall street sees it this is unsettling when one particular area of the economy is in free fall that leaves a lot of uncertainty. Uncertainty about where the bottom is. Theres really no sense of where and when oil prices will stop falling this much. Now at the same time wall street is uncertain about it and its unsettling for wall street. For us who use gas to drive in our cars and to use it for our home heating oil, were really enjoying it. Right now the average price for a gallon of regular is at 2. 20. Thats down from a high of 3. 68 over the summer. If you look at gas stations across the country, wolf, almost 40 of the gas stations in the u. S. Gas is below 2 a gallon. Wolf. Alison as you know Goldman Sachs put out a warning saying professional investors may be unduly bullish. The market has been expectin