. time now for a quick check of the headlines. in south korea, military officials say an army private opened fire on his comrades, killing five soldiers and wounding five others. the army private is still at large. the shooting happened at an p outpost near the border with north korea. in ukraine, clashes injuring nine ukrainian troops just before and after a cease-fire began. but the large-scale fighting there after ukraine s president ordered a 6 1/2 day standdown. russian separatists are dismissing the cease fire as fake. back here at home, the search continues for an outdoors writer who went missing while hiking in washington state s mt. ray near national park. karen sykes disappeared late wednesday while working on a
story. fireworks on capitol hill at a congressional hearing into how the irs lost thousands of e-mails covering the time period from when the agency was accused of targeting tea party and conservative groups. the house ways and means committee chairman blasting the irs chief for not alerting congress more quickly about those lost e-mails. what i didn t hear in that was an apology to this committee. i don t think an apology is owed. there is not a single e-mail that s been lost since start of this investigation. every e-mail has been preserved that we have. we have produced or will produce by the end you don t think t time period between january 2009 and april 2011 is relevant to this investigation? it is a very relevant time frame. elizabeth fran live for us in washington with the very latest. i find it interesting that he said since the investigation has begun. elizabe elizabeth? hi, heather. and you heard there lieu makers want to know why the agency
their children. so long as we have close to a million names on waiting lists to attend charter schools, my dream is never fully realized. again, we ve discovered a silver bullet, but we haven t been able to really expand it as broadly as we possibly can to make a difference. nina rees s dream to make a difference in education is very much alive. her personal journey through life provides her with a unique perspective on the world. her experience at the higher levels inside washington will help the charter school movement remain a great option for families. well, the iraqi army struggling to maintain control of the country, as sunni militants seize two more strategically located towns. now shiite militiamen are taking up arms. amid the raging battles, there are growing calls for prime minister nuri al malaki to step down as sectarian violence
sea level, the titanic. where it still rests today. turned upside down and 14,400 is where you hit the iconic peak of washington state s mt. rainier. only after all that would you reach the spot search teams believe the pings are coming from. 14,800 feet into the abyss. if that doesn t capture the magnitude of this search, imagine what one oceanographer described to ed for us. picture yourself standing on top of one of the highest peak ps of the rocky mountains looking all the way down and trying to find a suitcase, in the dark. uh-oh. not good. got a lot of failures. a problem. reporter: only a handful of problem have traveled to these staggering depths or even beyond. one is movie director james cameron using a state-of-the-art vessel, he dropped 35,000 feet or about seven miles to the deepest place on earth.
you d find the wreckage of the titanic which took 70 years to discover and where it still rests today. if it were turned upside-down, 14,400 is where you d hit the iconic peak of washington state s mt. rainier. even there, 14,800 feet into the abyss. if that doesn t capture the magnitude of this search, imagine what one oceanographer described for us. picture yourself standing on top of one of the highest peaks in the rocky mountains looking all the way down and trying to find a suitcase, in the dark. uh-oh. that s not good. got a lot of failures here. we got a problem. reporter: only a handful of people have traveled to these staggering depths or even beyond. one of them is movie director james cameron using a state-of-the-art vessel he dropped 35,000 feet or about seven miles to the deepest place on earth.