he was just fighting. reporter: the children s hospital where anthony is staying said this a heart transplant evaluation is an ongoing process based on the patient and his or her family s ability consequences of getting this wrong, of not taking your medications, not coming to clinic when you need to is that person is probably going to die. and, and the organ that could have gone to somebody else would be lost with them. reporter: now the hospital has had a change of heart. they decided to put anthony back on the heart transplant waiting list giving him a second chance at life. john, diana. thank you. a drone strike killed four suspected al qaeda militants associated with the threat that closed u.s. embassies across the middle east and north africa. the anticipated attack never materialized and all embassies and consulates reopened except in yemen. official tell abc news the threat remains real and serious. a federal investigator who responded to the 2009 shooting
undercover agent and turned over to the cia. so, all of our explosive detection equipment which screens over a million checked bags in the u.s. wasn t calibrated to detect that. reporter: officials consider the drone killings a tactical victory and u.s. embassy in yemen remains closed except for emergency business. and the threat from al qaeda remains very real and serious. brian ross, abc news, new york. it is to be expected while we are sounding all the alarms and this is incredibly serious and need to take it seriously, an anonymous leader in yemen claiming all recent u.s. terror alerts to all various embassies are all fake. conspiracy theories. not buying it on that one. the new york times reporting nine strikes in yemen in two weeks attributed to the drones. the attacks have killed 38 suspected militants according to yemeni officials. there you have it. lot of activity. yes, absolutely.
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successful u.s. strike against terrorists who targeted the american embassy in yemen. the strike among the latest in an aggressive counterterrorism campaign waged by american drones. with the details here is our chief investigative correspondent brian ross. reporter: a small but significant sigh of relief from u.s. counterterrorism officials. with a senior u.s. official telling abc news four al qaeda terrorists connected to the latest threat stream against the american embassy in yemen had been killed in a drone strike over the weekend. yemen has become the center of the latest al qaeda plots against the u.s. according to other u.s. officials, about three dozen al qaeda operatives have been killed in drone strikes in yemen over the last two weeks. not among those killed according to u.s. officials is the mastermind bomb maker, al siri. al siri created the underwear bomb meant to bring down a u.s. airliner and last year devised a bomb with ingredients u.s. officials admit would go t