when not if. president assad isn t listening, pressing a crackdown on the south keeping that city from south keeping that city from anti-government rebels. captions by vitac www.vitac.com first some major international news tonight. a scary moment as the defense secretary leon panetta arrived to afghanistan. an afghan vehicle drove onto the runway area of a military base and set it afire. just as panetta s plane was landing. another major security breach but pentagon officials say no explosives were found in the vehicle and secretary panetta went on with his schedule, which includes a face-to-face promise to the afghan president hamid karzai for a thorough investigation of the shooting rampage blamed for the deaths of 16 afghan civilians this week. military officials confirm the suspected gunman, an army staff sergeant, was flown out of afghanistan tonight heading for another detention facility in kuwait, and that afghan officials were alerted to this transfer beforehan
whitney houston could have filled the stadium with a public memorial. instead she d have a private funeral in newark. her body was flown home yesterday. from a plane to the golden hearse to the funeral home. we re told houston s mother was waiting inside. jason, you just had a chance to speak to the pastor there. what did he tell you about the funeral arrangements? reporter: right. that would be pastor joe carter, john. pastor carter was very gracious. he allowed us inside the very same sanctuary, inside the church where the services will be held on saturday. when i asked him about the service, he told me he would be officiating over the particular service on saturday. i asked him what are the words that he s going to use to try to bring comfort to those who are going to come here to pay their respects. he said i m going to have to find a way to acknowledge the pain and acknowledge the pain that everyone is dealing with here but also to celebrate the life of whitney houston
the housing meltdown took down with it countless homeowners. in fact i m probably talk about many of you. today federal and state officials announced a $26 billion foreclosure settlement aimed at righting some of the wrong. the settlement was made with five of the nation s largest home lenders. let s bring ali velshi. what will this mean for homeowners? citi group, bank of america, wells fargo and it s $26 billion and it s going to spread out the pot this way. first of all no more robo signing home foreclosure. if you were foreclosed on you may get $2,000. if your home is underwater you could get an average of $20,000 in principal reductions as long as your loan is not with fannie or freddie or backed by them. these are private loans. the lenders get immunity from future state claims. they don t get immunity from criminal investigations. homeowners can still pursue claims against the banks even if they take either the $2000 or the $20,000 in reduction. and states still ha