pictures have become sort of television wall paper if you have been watching it a lot. imagine standing in your home or in the front yard and looking up to ten stories of flames in the middle of a very densely populated sort of bedroom community outside of san francisco. ten miles to the south or so. so we are waiting to hear exactly what happened there, about the number of people missing and the rest and we will get to that live as the news conference begins moments from now. >> shepard: here in the shadows of the statue of liberty ahead of tomorrow's commemoration of the attacks of 9/11, today action in a war started in direct response to the attacks. coalition forces report that nato air strike has killed a high level insurgent commander and we are told the now dead militant leader had been planning a bomb attack in kabul ahead of the pa parliamentary