angles of the president s surprise visit. we have nic robertson, and jill dougherty, and fran townsend, our homeland security adviser, and chris lawrence aour white h correspondent dan lothian, and barbara starr. nic, we heard the president say that things are improving. you have been there for a long time and you were even there on day one of 9/11. are things improving based on your eyewitness account? if you take what the president said reversing the momentum of the taliban where the surge zest the strongest in kandahar, yes, security has improved in that city. the taliban have been pushed out to a larger degree, but force commander there, colonel