that when microphones caught him saying that. turns out as the president was heading in the state of the union, navy seals had wrapped up a rescue of two hostages in somalia. american and danish relief worker kidnapped in october. approximately 20 members of seal team six, once again, parachuted in somalia 1:00 a.m. local times a couple miles from jessica buchanan and paul thisted were being held. brief firefight, they killed all nine of the people. the seals and hostages sustain nod injuries. u.s. military blackhawk and cobra helicopters flew the hostages to a u.s. military base in jabuti. mission successful, mission just completed, defense secretary panetta made it over to capitol hill in time for the speech and for the good job tonight, that from the look on his face, he seems not have totally expected
saying that. turns out as the president was heading in the state of the union, navy seals had wrapped up a rescue of two hostages in somalia. american and danish relief worker kidnapped in october. approximately 20 members of seal team six, once again, parachuted in somalia 1:00 a.m. local times a couple miles from jessica buchanan and paul thisted were being held. brief firefight, they killed all nine of the people. the seals and hostages sustain no injuries. u.s. military blackhawk and cobra helicopters flew the hostages to a u.s. military base in jabuti. mission successful, mission just completed, defense secretary panetta made it over to capitol hill in time for the speech and for the good job tonight, that from the look on his face, he seems not have totally expected
heading in the state of the union, navy seals had wrapped up a rescue of two hostages in somalia. american and danish relief worker kidnapped in october. approximately 20 members of seal team six, once again, parachuted in somalia 1:00 a.m. local times a couple miles from jessica buchanan and paul thisted were being held. brief firefight, they killed all nine of the people. the seals and hostages sustain nod injuries. u.s. military blackhawk and cobra helicopters flew the hostages to a u.s. military base in jabuti. mission successful, mission just completed, defense secretary panetta made it over to capitol hill in time for the speech and for the good job tonight, that from the look on his face, he seems not have totally expected to hear from the president. as we prepared for the
the president personally congratulated leon before the state of the union? good job tonight. good job tonight. that tipped off our man jim miklaszewski, now with the details, mick, in all honesty, would we have this story yet this morning had it not been for the overheard com from secretary panetta? when i started making phone calls as a matter of fact, i didn t hear a single word of the speech. after i heard what president obama said, i was working the phones and working them hard. it took several hours to actually get all the information, because the operation was still ongoing. this morning what we re learning now from d.o.d. officials is that because jessica buchanan, the 32-year-old american who was taken hostage, along with that 60-year-old danish relief worker, her health was failing.
hour. in the new york times, there s word that navy s.e.a.l.s have pulled off a daring nighttime mission to free an american and danish relief worker held hostage since october. gunfire broke out as the s.e.a.l.s entered the compound. the s.e.a.l.s grabbed the hostages and flew them to safety. no word if any americans were wounded in the mission. the two hostages, including 32 american jessica buchanan are said to be in relatively good condition. president obama was the first to tip off the rescue mission when he openly congratulated defense secretary leon panetta prior to his state of the union speech. good job tonight. good job tonight. wow. moving on unbelievable. another one, huh? you know, a lot of people watching and hearing this