developments from across the country and the world. hanse nickels is at the pentagon. chris jansing is with the president in florida. casey hunt on capitol hill and onset with me, former pentagon senior adviser marc jakobson, jenna johnson and caitlin burniburns. we want to quickly update you on another breaking story this morning out of sweden. police in stockholm confirming investigation into a truck understand accident. we will have much more information as soon as we have it. back now to the news out of syria and the big breaking news of the day. hans nickel is at the pentagon, reporting on this overnight since the strikes first began. i want you to break down what exactly happened and what the defense department is saying about that mission, what went wrong, what went right. we know there were 59 tomahawk missiles. walk us through it. the initial reports is that all of their targets were struck. whether or not they launched 59 or 603 one , one of them may ha failed
verbal commands. he looked very uncomfortable almost anguished. although we would never hear his voice again, within a day the countenance of his face changed. he was at peace. he was home and we believe he could sense that. as for his captors, the north koreans, his family said this. unfortunately, the awful torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the north koreans ensured that no other outcome was possible beyond the sad one we experienced today. when otto arrived in the u.s., his doctor said he suffered severe brain damage. it wasn t clear exactly what caused it. otto had spent nearly a year and a half imprisoned in north kore north korea. he had been sentenced to 15 years hard labor for, according to the north koreans, stealing a propaganda poster. the world watched his tearful confession. he was wearing a jacket that made it home to the u.s. with him. here is his father speaking to reporters last week. i am able to wear the jacket that he wore when
verbal commands. he looked very uncomfortable almost anguished. although we would never hear his voice again, within a day the countenance of his face changed. he was at peace. he was home and we believe he could sense that. as for his captors, the north koreans, his family said this. unfortunately, the awful torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the north koreans ensured that no other outcome was possible beyond the sad one we experienced today. when otto arrived in the u.s., his doctor said he suffered severe brain damage. it wasn t clear exactly what caused it. otto had spent nearly a year and a half imprisoned in north kore north korea. he had been sentenced to 15 years hard labor for, according to the north koreans, stealing a propaganda poster. the world watched his tearful confession. he was wearing a jacket that made it home to the u.s. with him. here is his father speaking to reporters last week. i am able to wear the jacket that he wore when
tour of that country. at 9:00 a.m., a discussion about the resignation of mel martinez. washington journal is next. this morning, we received additional signs that the worst may be behind us. though we lost 247,000 jobs in july, that was 200,000 fewer than were lost in june. today, we are pointed in the right direction. we are losing jobs at less than half the rate we were when i took office. we pulled the financial system back from the brink. we have enabled families to reduce payments on mortgages making homes more affordable and reducing the numbers of foreclosures. we have opened up loans for families in small businesses. we passed an unprecedented recovery act and did so without any of the earmarks and pork barrels that are so common in washington. host: unemployment numbers talked about the president. still dominating the headline this is morning. welcome to the program. we want to show you a couple headlines. job less rate dips slightly. called a good sign. some caut
in hard copy if you have to be in the big apple. next up is austin, texas, on our line for democrats. caller: i want to make a comment about what the last caller said about giving money to foreign countries. helping out foreign countries goes way back to our early history. that is a non-issue. we went into iraq. we need to clean it up before we leave. but besides that, i hear callers giving barack obama and congress flak about what is going on with the economy. there are great things that are going on. you can look at the list of products that are going on online. the state legislature has been tracking on what is going on and what they will spend on. host: thank you very much. we have to move on. we had people buying those a could not afford them. now we are starting to repossess them by the thousands. these things will take a while. we are seeing signs of recovery a little bit. we will never get back to the way things were before. we just need to keep things in mind. we alw