Facebook users. Thank you for joining us. You are watching cnn newsroom. Im rosemary church. Im john vause. Welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Important speech for u. S. President barack obama as he prepares to outline his Foreign Policy goals and addressing graduating officers at west Point Military academy. The speech comes after mr. Obama laid out his plans tuesday for withdrawing u. S. Troops from afghanistan over the next two years. Senior White House Correspondent jim acauosta reports. Reporter declaring the combat mission in afghanistan over by the end of the year, president obama laid out the final chapter for the nations longest war. The bottom line is, it is time to turn the page on more than a decade in which so much of our Foreign Policy was focussed on the wars in afghanistan and iraq. A small residual force limited to Training Afghan fighters and counterterror operations. Under the president s plan. 9,800 u. S. Forces next year, half that by 2016. Embassy security only in the Afghan Capital as president obama prepars es to leave offic. Mr. Obamas proposal stops short of the full withdrawal he promised voters in 2012. Well have them all out of there by 2014. Reporter worried about a repeat of the blood shet thshed followed the pullout from iraq. Commanders pushed for 10,000 troops. The top general in afghanistan cautioned wont beep perfect. You are not willing to state whether it would be an increased risk or not. There would be increased risk. Reporter in a statement, three gop senators called the president s plan a monumental mistake and triumph of politics over strategy. The white house hinges on a Security Agreement with leaders. Karzai refusing to sign it. Leaving it to the two men vying to replace him to seal the deal. Two canned dai dates in the runoff. Each indicated they would sign the agreement promptly after taking office. I am hopeful we can get this done. Senior Administration Official tells cnn the two candidates in the runoff have told u. S. Officials privately they will sign the Security Agreement. Without the agreement signed, u. S. Officials say there will be no forces in afghanistan past 2014. The president plans to make it part of a larger foreign approximately see speech at west point, tomorrow. Jim acosta, cnn, the white house. Even at 9,800, the u. S. Will still have the most troops among foreign nations on the ground in afghanistan. Here is a look at the top five after the United States. The united kingdom, 5,200. As of april 1. Germany has more than 2,700 troops in the country. Italy close behind. The biggest foreign approximately see challenges which are facing barack obama as he heads into the second part of his second term. One of those challenges right now, of course, is syria. U. S. Officials tell us the Obama Administration is moving closer to signing off on a plan to expand training for moderate syrian rebels. Now it would add to the modest cia program, that is working with rebels now. The president would have to approve the plan, for it to go ahead. Warning to americans in libya. Leave the country. Leave now. The u. S. State Department Cites unpredictable and unstable security situation. U. S. Embassy employees in tripoli have not been asked to evacuate for now. Staffing there is limited. If they are asked to leave. A u. S. Warship is heading to libya to assist. Libyas interim Prime Minister and family were not hurt after armed men launched grenades at their home. Guards killed one attacker. The other is in custody. Fears are growing another team of European Security monitors may now be missing in ukraines volatile east. The organization for security and cooperation in europe says it is trying to find them by talking to contacts on the ground. The team of four last heard from late monday. They were on a routine monitoring mission. Just, east of the region, between the city and the border and around 5 00 p. M. Yesterday, local time they were texting that they were heading in that direction. Then communication stopped. Ukraines crackdown on pro russia separatist at the airport has the left 40 people dead. And more than 30 wounded. The military now appears to been control of the terminal after mondays offensive against the mill dants. After sundays election of a new resolve from kiev. Ukraines new government is two days old but riddled with gunfire. And drenches in blood. A military assault on pro russian militants in the east has left dozens of militants dead. Residents lined up to donate blood for victims both sides. A senior official told us the time is now for never to confront a broad insurgency. They must murder, they just abandon. They just a terrorist. Thats the case. If you expected that i will find out the support of these people. No way. No chance. And in no civilized c ed countr the world, nobody have any negotiation with a terrorist. Perhaps surprised by the scope of the operations militants apeld pealed to russir rescue. We have to appeal to the president of the russian federation, vladamir and to the he called on kiev to stop a military operation against its own people. Ukrainian officials blame russia however for direction and supplying the insurgency. They reported 40 trucks filled with arms attempting to cross the russian ukrainian border. Ukrainians Deputy Foreign minister told me it is time for new economic penalties on moscow. The International Community has the to exercise stronger influence on the russian authorities. To convince them to get back to civilized relationship with other nations. Stronger influence more sanctions . I do believe you have toer exsize more sanctions. Two weeks ago the president set the standard for sanctions against russia as evidence of impeding. There are ukrainian officials who say the standard has been met with instability inment east. Spokesperson for the house says their reaction to the election and no new sanctions at this time. We take a short break now. Just ahead, tragedy at a hospital in south korea. More than 20 are dead after a fire. Ahead, why police think a patient is response bum. Plus, long sought data about Malaysia Flight 370 is released. Why many loved ones on the plane are not satisfied. And geico gave me that opportunity. Now naturally, we wanted it to be powerful, innovative and we built this bike as a tribute to those who are serving, those who have served and their families. And i think we nailed it. Geico. Proudly serving the military for over 75 years. Female narrator sleep train challenged its manufacturers sleep train challenged its manufacturers to offer even lower prices. But the mattress price wars ends sunday. Now its posturepedic versus beautyrest with big savings of up to 400 off. 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Officials say the search will not resume until august at the earliest. Just yesterday the malaysian government released information about Satellite Communications with the illfated airplane. The data was supposed to provide answers for people with loved ones on the flight. But it is also raised more questions. We have more on that. She joins us live. The initial reaction from family and loved ones and those on board flight 370 was disappointment and confusion. Now 24 hours or more, than 24 hours after its release, what are family saying . And what more are they learning from this information . Well, rosemary to be honest, not a lot just yet. The simple answer. It is going to take a while for experts to take a look at the data. Experts are saying this is very dense. A lot of data to got through. They might not have enough data to come to the same conclusions that they did. What theyre saying there is a lot of data that is missing. Thats the disapin themepointme by families immediately yesterday. Thats to duo with other flight. Led to comparisons. Led them to searching in the indian ocean. A northern. And southern arc. And some how through, the very comb ply kate e e ekated com formula that you or i wouldnt understand led them to the southern indian ocean. They now will take time to look through this. It could take a few weeks at least before we hear anything of any relevance to, to where, whether they are or not. Searching in the right place. Rosemary. Back to the search. For flight 370. What more are we learning about the plan to map the ocean floor in the search zone sfl zone . Yeah, this is going to be going on over the next few months we think. While the search itself is on a pause. Rosemary, which has taken everyone by surprise. Thats because theyre going to have to wait for the next phase, and the equipment to come in. Fir taste have to invite people for tenders to say, we wanted to carry out the search. We have the right equipment for it. So all this is going to take a few months. The search is on pause. There is a chinese vessel. That is just gone into the area. Just last weekend. Few days ago, actually. Theyren that area map the ocean floor. Never been done before. Such a remote part of the world with depths as we know, 4,500 kilometers. Theyre going to be frying to map the 60,000 square kilometer search zone. Theyre going to collect the data. A lot of it. Then they are going to send it once a week to australia. Theyre going to have to fly it in from the vessel to australia. To geoscience australia which will process the data. Take a look at it. Hopefully maybe find something. And also, simultaneously, map an ocean floor that nobody has ever mapped before. And nobody really knows. Quite whats don there. Rosemary. Yeah, incredible. Reporting there live. Many thanks for joining us. Police say a young pakistani woman was stoned to death with bricks on the steps of the high court tuesday. A group of 20 men including members of00er own family among her alleged attackers. Police say, family members called for zhana ikmails death. An honor killing. Her offense marrying the man she loved instead of her does sivenlt you are looking at a photo of her husband sitting in the ambulance next to her body. The 25yearold had been due to give testimony in court to defend her husband against charges by her family that he kidnapped her. So far, only her father has been arrested. Take a short break here. You are watching cnn newsroom. Ahead a University Town tries to copy with last weeks killing rampage. The witnesses tell how they survived. Face book ce. Mark zuckerberg has been ordered to appear in court in iran. That accusation coming un. Edward snowden any first interview is frying to ru is g to do to ruin his reputation. You have got to see this. Images the moment the twister touched down in north dakota. The strong winds tore through a mobile home park, damaging more than a dozen homes and injuring several people. The man who shot this video says the tornado caught everyone by surprise. But, still he took a shot of it didnt he. Some how survived and took cover in a car with a friend. All that beeping gives me an indication that they were a little shocked by awful this. There tip its. Running out in their bare feet too. Sudden lely it was upon them. More on the tornado and storms heading east across the United States. Standing by for all of that. Hey . Scary set up for folks across the region. 14 tornados since 1950 have impacted that area of Western North dakota. Unusual to see one. This was an ef 2. 135 miles per hour. By the way, this area, Booming Oil Field in place there. A lot of the workers in that video. Take day look at the footage. A lot of the workers live in the mobile homes down below. When you look at the color, changing in the color of tornados. A lot of times,ment surface of the ground is what the color, derifz from. Red clay. Mixed scanned. Then you see the storms move over grassy lands. This instance right here. Same exact tornado. Moments earlier. You could see the color different as the moisture there, the lack of sand at the surface to change the color around. Interesting setup out there. Across receipt under. Across tornado alley. The numbers peak here in the funth of mfu fun month of may. In january, four. Arctic air in place across that part of the world. Very little in the way of tornado activity in the early portion of the season. At this point. Next couple days weather in place. 60 of the weather scattered. With some of the stronger storms across the southern u. S. State of texas hammered hard. Take they look at footage out of lubbock. Exceptional drought across the United States. When you seep it come down with this much force, very little in the way appreciation given to the rein rainfall when damage is left behind. The forecast. More wet weather going to bush through. Model indicating several inches left in the forecast here. 4 1 2 or so. Came down in texas. Houston picked up more than four minths. Since monday afternoon. If your travel plans are taking you to new orleans. Portions of mississippi. 4, 5 inches. With that much water in the forecast. Ice lift, lake superior. 90 ice coverage in february. Down to 5 for superior. As far as the lakes set up. There is superior in february, with the 96 . 1 of the great lakes have ice on it. Take a look at the footage. How about folks getting out there on memorial day. Enjoying the temperatures, 70s, 80s, in spots. Water temperatures, check there, 32 degrees. Celsius. 32 1 2 to 33. Thats what happens. Yes. Still funny. Changes pretty quickly when you step in there. Guys, the latest we have seen this much ice in the great lakes. For late may. Very, very unusual. Again weep started off with the this old care. You see a lot of people. 65 days. Temperatures were below for a fahrenheit. 17 below. 65 days this winter you. Get theyre going to get outside if the walters are well these. You wouldnt expect tight be unusual. Summer fever. Yep. Yep. Went beep in southern califo Community Shaken by last weeks killing rampage trying to come to term with what happened. Tuesday students at the university of californiasanta barbara, held a memorial service. Some witnesses are coming forward with their own accounts of the rampage. Many risked their lives to help others. Cnns gary tuchman has their stories. Reporter the sound of chaos. One of the shots you just heard fired by the gunman, hit a female student ride herring bicycle on this corner. Elfen cotton the student who caught it on video. Heard three eight to ten, maybe 12 gunshots. Very loud. Bigt low our balcony. Below the balcony, a 711. Running into the store to seek shelter all. Off the owner and one of his employees were worried some body may have been shot outside. Amid continuing gunfire, ventured out and found the cyclist. Did i you went inside the store. Back in here. You then, what dpid you id you . We got a tool. Put her down right here. Sat her down. You can see she had two gunshots right here. You can see the bullets. They were heroic, seven 11 employees kept her comfortable and toll her she would survive. They were right. Before panicking. If i get back there and i was trying how to think of a blan. I told them, look if any body comes through the front door here is our emergency exit. Right now, silt tight. Everything is fine. Now that you look back at it, scary as hell wasnt it . Very terrifying. Wont lie. The gunnman that fired outside the sorority house. A waited. I heard more gunshots. Then after 30 second. I came around the corner right here. One of the women was already dead. He watched the second female student. Then he came up to and comforted the third victim. She was like laying down, crouched. She was still crunching, she was talking. She immediately got on the phone with her mother. Then was telling her mother how much she loved her. And she wasnt sure she was going to make it. She did make it. That young woman one of the survivors. Gary tuchman, aislea vista, california. Florida cannot use a convicts i. Q. As the sole basis for determining eligibility for execution. Decision favors a florida death row inmate who supporters say is intellectually disabled. Joe johns has more. The court has been struggling with how to measure the point. When a person is so intellectually disabled they dont know what theyre doing when they murder someone and this was a tough case for the tort. 5 4. Its not okay to apply a rigid i. Q. Cutoff in who gets the Death Penalty and who doesnt. The law in california took the person avenue evidence of a dependents capacity. There need to be some wiggle room there. What do you say, media reporting, facebook, ceo has been ordered to appear in port. Arising from Facebooks Instagram and whatsapp media applications. Zuckerberg or his attorney must appear in court in iran to answer the charges and possibly pay a penalty. Zuckerberg is not expected to comply. No kidding, huh . Yeah. Okay. Well u. S. Intelligence liker, Edward Snowden says the American Government tried him as a spy. Now trying to downplay his experience. Snowden spoke with rye Brian Williams for t. I was trained as a spichlt in traditional senls of the word. I lived, worked, undercover. Overseeds pretending to do a job that tie am not. Being assigned a name that is not mine. But i am a mek ni cal speciali