Students. Bill during a visit with troops yesterday president obama said the military had reached quota turning point for the mission reached a turning points for the mission in afghanistan. This month Americas Mission in and already will be over. This month americas war in afghanistan will come to a responsible end. That doesnt mean everything is great in afghanistan. Afghanistan is still a very dangerous place. Martha byron york on the potential political impact. What are we learning about all this now . Reporter we spent a lot of time in peshawar and we have seen a heard about a lot of taliban brutality, but this has got to be the cruellest act these militants have ever committed. The word we are getting is the militants stormed the school and shot away student by student. The school specifically picked because its for the children of the Pakistan Army staff. They have been waging war against the taliban. The death toll we are told is now at 130. Most of them children and young peop
In addition he will establish a leadership pac which a lot of other wouldbe candidates already have done. It allows them to start doling out money to downtickket candidates, build Financial Support and build Political Support among other republicans. Looks he makes this announcement by end of the year which advisors had been suggesting he might do. It comes just a die after he gave a speech in south carolina, after making a courtesy visit to the governor there. Clearly he is starting to think about this signals to the others get ready, a bush might be getting in. To your point he has not made a final decision. His spokesperson put out a statement that he has not yet put out a final decision. This represents a next phase of governor bushs consideration process but the other point you brought up that is so significant here is the money. A lot of big donors i talked to and bundlers saying they will not make any commitments. They will wait until jeb bush make as decision. Does this buy him
Deceased. This crisis unfolding at a militaryrun school in peshawar, with dozens of others injured. It was just before 12 00 p. M. When a group of gunmen stormed the school after scaling the walls. The Pakistan Taliban claiming responsibility. Calling this a revenge attack after they say pakistans military launched a Major Military against them. The military runs a number of schools, they call them the army public schools. Clearly this was chosen because of its affiliation with the military and also because it was a soft target. There are children there. A taliban spokesman claiming six suicide bombers were ordered to attack the school, their goal to shoot older students. A security official says 700 students and staff were in the building when the attack began. The students are aged 1018. Pakistan military Officials Say Paramilitary Forces are now on school grounds. Confirming they exchanged gunfire with the terrorists. Most of the students and staff have now been evacuated, but this
Hello, everyone, im john berman. Michaela pereira is on assignment today and we have breaking news at this hour. A bloodbath at a school in pakistan. The taliban gunned down children, they murdered teachers, they killed at least 137 people. So many of them children. The armyrun school in peshawar was a scene of sheer terror. Pakistani troops launched a huge operation to try and rescue hundreds of students trapped inside. President obama has been quick to condemn this attack. The white house issued a statement saying by targeting students and teachers in this heinous attack, terrorists have once again shown their depravity. Mow knee that tank has the details of this attack. What are we learning . We are getting latest numbers, 137 dead. We also have more than 180 injured. And the really horrifying aspect of those numbers is that at one stage as we were beginning to get figures on the number of fatalities from this horrific attack, we also knew that between 300 and 400 students and teach
Happen as early tomorrow. The u. S. Is expected to point the finger at north korea in this. My sources tell me that an early december there was a growing sense of confidence within the government and within sony that north korea was responsible for this. Sources say that the tactics, techniques, the procedures used as well as motivation behind this was right out of the north korean playbook. We know some of the coding used was written in korean. And part of the hack mimic of the same type of hack against south korean banks last year. There was a growing sense that north korea was responsible. As this investigation was continuing. There were these closed door, meetings here in washington, with high level government officials about thisser t eissu. They were trying to decide. Strong suspicion it was north korea. If we out them and point the finger of what are we going to do next . We will find out what the decision is we do believe, according to sources the government will call out north