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you re in the cnn newsroom. i m rachel whitfield. we re learning more about the two sailors shot down in afghanistan. sources say they have located the body of one of the service members. cnn s pentagon correspondent barbara starr joins us on the phone from washington. what happened, barbara? reporter: well, the information is being very closely held by u.s. military officials, but according to what they have said, these two u.s. navy sailors friday night for some reason left their compound in the capital city of kabul, drove south and never came back. now, as of today, it is afghan and taliban sources who are putting together the rest of the picture. they are saying, afghan sources saying the body of one of the sailors has been found and the other remains missing and presumed at this point to be in the hands of the taliban. according to government officials in afghanistan, there was some sort of fire fight between the navy personnel and the taliban when they came acr ....