jose? yeah. that press conference expected to start in about 15 minutes from now. we ve been talking about the regulations that exist. the protocols that exist ak when people get in and out of the cockpit. tom costello is with me. tom, tell us a little about exactly that. what are the protocols and the regulations? reporter: jose, give me one second. i m reading something just in to me. literally five seconds to read it. go ahead and read that. reporter: nbc news is we can report according to the faa this pilot had a single engine private pilot s license issued by the faa. on january 6, 2012. three years ago. wow. the license had some restrictions. he had to be english proesht and accompanied by his german s pilot s license. according to the faa. let me repeat that. this german copilot did have a single eng s private pilot s license issued by the faa. for a foreign pilot. so this was not a commercial pilot s license but it was an faa private pilot s license issue any othe
illinois. we ll tell you why. take a look at this, would you? now, all right. i can t snowboard, but apparently this pos sum can. we ll have more of the best video of the morning later on this hour. level-headed and experienced. words that an attorney for staff sergeantent robert bales say accurately describe the soldier, and now those closest to bales are sharing their thoughts about the rampage that killed 16 afghan civilians and the man accused of committing the act. a statement reads in part, sergeant bales family is stunned in the face of this tragedy, but they stand behind the man they know as a devoted husband, father, and dedicated member of the armed services. bales is currently being held in kansas at fort leavenworth. his attorneys say they will meet with him next week. susan canned eon they will have more later. the outrage sparked by the shooting is being felt in the streets of afghanistan and also back here in the united states. we want peace! we want p
sadr s movement. no active duty military personnel have been missing in iraq. we ll continue to update this story when we get new information as it becomes available here on cnn. the army soldier accused of killing 16 civilians in afghanistan is in fort leavenworth, kansas. it has stunned people in and around washington s joint base lewis-mccord they are having a hard time understanding how the man could be accused of this atrocity. dan lewis has more now. reporter: don, this is a soldier who served four tours of duty, three in iraq and one in afghanistan. there is speculation that all that time in a war zone may have contributed to him being emotionally unstable. his attorney tells cnn that two years ago robert bales suffered a traumatic brain injury when his vehicle went over a roadside bomb and the day before the alleged rampage that bales saw a soldier get seriously injured. the neighbors who live in that community where robert shared a home with his wife and two chil
our goal was to take out one-third of the delegates and possibly slightly better than that. i think we will exceed that goal. your goal wasn t to win one of these states? i don t think that anyone expected to win alabama or mississippi. as mitt said early on in the campaign, this was an away game for him and i think that is true. this is a delegate contest. like i said our goal was to come in, take a third of the delegates. keeping them honest on the claim that nobody expected him to win alabama or mississippi. at least one person did expect, mitt romney in mobile, alabama. we re going to win tomorrow. we need your help. that was the night before the primaries. not to single out governor romney, listen to newt gingrich spin the results. i want to tell you this. we will have throw or four days in the news miedia. these are the same people that said why isn t he dead. they raise this every few weeks. i don t know if you heard about him wanting to finish second
that. i think we will exceed that goal. it s important to your goal wasn t to win one of these states? i don t think anybody expected mitt to win alabama or mississippi. as mitt said early on in the campaign, that this was an away game for him. i think that s i think that s true. look, this is a delegate contest and like i said, our goal was to come in, take a third of the delegates. keeping him honest on that claim that nobody expected him to win alabama or mississippi. in fact at least one person did expect, mitt romney in mobile, alabama. we re going to win tomorrow. we need your help. that was the night before the primaries. not to single out governor romney. of course listen to newt gingrich spin the results. i want to tell you this a second. what will become a challenge is we ll now have three or four days of the news media and they ll a say why doesn t gingrich quit. these are the same people that said last june that i was dead. they recycle this every