Why we cheat and not entirely unrelated to cheating you have former governor mark sanford sitting down with piers morgan tonight. Hes Just Announced hes running for congress. Dont miss it tonight. Thats it for me. Be back here at the same time tomorrow. Im brooke baldwin. Lets go to wolf blitzer in the situation room. Breaking news the fate of american captives in an engineer yeah clouded in chaos. An operation to free the foreign hostages has reportedly ended amid word that some were forced to wear explosive vests. A star Football Player says hes the victim of a sick joke but some taken in by the joke say manti teo has some explaining to do about his dead girlfriend who never existed. And president obama will take the oath of office on the same bible that Abraham Lincoln used. Well give you a close look at this extraordinary piece of american history. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Lets begin this hour with the breaking news. Algerias official news agency has Just Annou
used. we ll give you a close look at this extraordinary piece of american history. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s begin this hour with the breaking news. algeria s official news agency has just announced the end of a rescue operation aimed at freeing hostages, including americans held by islamic militants. u.s. government officials tell cnn that may not necessarily, though, be the case. let s get straight to our pentagon correspondent chris lawrence working this story for us. chris, be what is the very latest that you re hearing? wolf, the latest that we re getting from u.s. officials is that some americans may have escaped but some may still be held by those hostage takers and they are still seeing signs perhaps of some intermittent fighting, suggesting that perhaps this isn t over yet. as the hostage situation stretched to a second day, u.s. officials scrambled to find a resolution and determine the state of the americans still in militant hands