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We ll be the first to tell you, this is breaking news, halla, and it is history, the war in iraq is officially over. u.s. troops are moving across the border into kuwait now, halla. i remember that evening well when i announced on cnn that all u.s. combat troops had left iraq. that was december of 2011. this week will mark the tenth anniversary of the iraq invasion. march 19th, here in the states, march 20th baghdad time 2003. america s part of the war may be over, but iraq remains a violent and unstable place amptd car bomb killed at least ten people just today in northern iraq. remember this face? it remains one of the most powerful and lasting images of america s involvement in the iraq war. this is a u.s. marine. his photo was taken by a los angeles times photographer in ....
Door tomorrow morning because we re going to see fog in the morning and also plenty of shower activity all throughout the day. a couple of other pick cities. just kind of picked basically the four worst for the morning commute. chicago i mentioned and denver. lots of winds here, minneapolis and st. paul. rain and thunderstorms on and off and especially salt lake city. if i had to pick one location in the nation,halla, that s probably it. on tuesday adoption and child welfare advocates will hold a congressional briefing to bring what they hope will be revolutionary reform to the adoption process. they say national policy should move beyond finding families to helping families after the child is theirs. advocates say the case of a tennessee woman returning a boy she adopted to russia is a prime example of the need for post-adoptive services. we think of adoption as a win-win. you go into a new family and love conquers all the and everything is okay. well, you know, if the kid has ....
Seen protests peppered across the country where security forces in some cases, according to witnesses, fired into the crowd. we ve seen video of people who were hit in the head and other parts of the body. a crackdown on demonstrations across the country. and john, that s what s significant about today, is that people came out on the streets of syria despite the fact that they knew they were taking significant risks. they ve been warned over the last few days not to do it, and they did it anyway. and what s more significant is the protests were not just centered around derraa in the south and latakia on the mediterranean coast. we saw large demonstrations by syrian standards at least in a damascus suburb that killed according to some eyewitnesses nine people today, john. and halla, each country is different. but are there unifying threads? can you connect dots in some way? on this day where we have been reminded again it is not just tunisia, it is not just egypt, it is not just libya ....
The beating heart of this region, it cannot fail to have an impact on the rest of the region. this is so strategically crucial region. that s what struck me. seeing the faces of 18, 19, 20-year-olds, regardless of what side they were on, determined the future of an entire region on this planet, that really matters politically, militarily, strategically, to all of us. when we come back, we re going to also talk with john king and dr. ajami and show you some of what happened on the streets today. halla was roughed up. my team was attacked. we re going to we re getting new pictures i m told. ivan, what s happening in the square? i can t see these pictures. what are we seeing? reporter: we got another pair of ambulances and seeing pictures of another wounded man, his head bandaged that was being brought out and fresh ambulances coming in. ....