world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news. reporting tonight, lester holt. good evening. it is a war seemingly without end as we were reminded today with word a u.s. drone strike targeting al qaeda militants along the afghanistan/pakistan border killed two western hostages including an american aid worker the u.s. had spent years trying to free and an italian aid worker. their deaths happened in january but were publicly revealed today by president obama. we also learned today two other americans working with al qaeda were also killed. we have two reports and start with peter alexander at the white house. peter? reporter: lester, good evening. the president today said that he deeply regrets the loss of two innocent lives and that he demanded the information be declassified insisting the victims families deserve to know the truth. in an extraordinary statement, president obama today confessed that the u.s. accidentally killed two hostages,including an ame
good evening. and we begin tonight with new developments. what we now know about that deadly drone mistake, meant to hit al qaeda, those cia drones also killing two innocent men. an american and an italian man. the american on the left there, warren weinstein, a father and grandfather. his transformation after years in captivity. this is one of the last images his family would see. tonight, what his family told me about the last time they saw him. and their message to the obama administration tonight. abc s chief white house correspondent jonathan karl takes us step by step through the dramatic mission and the moment it went wrong. reporter: the two hostages, warren weinstein and italian giovanni lo porto, were hidden deep in the mountainous and lawless region near pakistan s border with afghanistan. the cia had been watching it continuously for hundreds of hours, becoming convinced dangerous al qaeda operatives were living there and that there were no civilians inside. jan
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