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on top of it all, thank you very much. thank you. and a sad day in afghanistan. nine americans dying today in a helicopter crash in southern afghan mountains. the deadliest chopper crash in four years. nbc s john yang is live in kabul. john, do we know yet whether we re talking about an accident or whether this was actually, as the taliban claiming responsibility, which you know better than i they do all the time, for something that happened where there might have been a shoot-down? what do we think happened? reporter: well, the military, andrea, is saying there was no shoot-down. they say there was no evidence of any hostile fire before this helicopter went down. it went down about 4:00 this morning local time, late monday night walk time in zabul province in the southeastern part of afghanistan. this is a taliban stronghold, the taliban control s much of te territory on the ground, also where coalition fors have been ral ping up their efforts to try ....