fred pleitgan. he came here to britain as a refugee from syria and ended up living right here which is, of course, the building that caught fire in the night from sunday into monday. now, mohammad lived on the 14th floor and while the building was on fire he managed to call his brother who was standing on the outside and he told him on the phone the ordeal and how he was struggling to stay alive. i managed to speak to his brother and he told me about what he witnessed. i said, mohammad, leave everyone. you make it out, you make it out yourself. then he said, i can t. he was speaking slowly and slowly. then he was shouting from the window. he shouted water, water from the window here. help, help, he was shouting from the window. and he felt the water. he said because i was speaking,
all my dreams and hopes have collapsed. from this vantage point, you can see just how badly the tower was damaged in the fire. while on the bottom floors, we see some of that cladding that some believe may have been responsible for accelerating the fire is actually still in tact. the worst burns you see there. now, hashem says that with his brother having died in that fire, his entire world essentially collapsed. and the last thing he now wants is for his mother, who lives in damascus, to be able to come here and see her son for the very last time and bury him here in britain. fred pleitgan, cnn, britain. we ll continue to follow that investigation. what in the world started that. coming up here, he is supposed to take a break from the white house, but the president slamming a so-called witch-hunt, instead. the man who opened fire at a
commander in afghanistan general david petraeus that the taliban was in contact with the government about possible peace talks. it sounds complicated and it is. we ve got it covered on several fronts. ivan watson is in kabul, afghanistan. fred pleitgan. and let s start in kabul with ivan watson. ivan, bring us up to speed on what we know. reporter: let s see. i just lost audio connection, ali. if i understood you correctly, what took place here was an air strike. an air strike according to nato and isaf spokesmen that took place saturday in a turbulent corner of eastern afghanistan in kunar province. u.s. military spokesmen have said a senior al qaeda operative was killed by the name of