and good morning to you. it is tuesday, december 13th. i feel like it s a homecoming. a long time since the three of us have been together. good to see you. as usual a busy, busy news morning. breaking news now. four soldiers are dead after two army choppers went down during a training exercise. it happened a joint base lewis-mcchord in washington state. crash investigators are trying to find out what went wrong right now. pliv on the pholive on the phon crash site. what do we know? i m watching the lights of the recovery teams that have been looking throughout the night to go in the grim task of recovering those bodies of the four aviators that lost their lives. still don t know what went wrong. at about 11:00 p.m. eastern last nim, sometime after 11:00 p.m. two helicopters crashed killing everybody aboard both helicopters. these are small observation helicopters, ali. the eyes and ears of what s on the ground. flying maneuvers over a training area when this crash to
that better place beyond the horizon, but i know we ll get there. i know we will. we do big things. there is no challenge too great, no mission too hard. as long as we are joined in common purpose. so the new york times is out saying that they are watching and what to watch for, the signs of president obama. take a listen to this. many will watch as well for the signs of the state of barack obama. he is relaxed, more voluble, and even more confident than usual. these people say, freer to drop profanities or dismiss others ideas, enough that even some supporters fear the potential for hubris. do you think we ll see a different kind of self-confidence? something the president has never lacked, but do you think we ll see a different kind of self-confidence in this state of the union address? i think since the election, we have seen a more muscular president obama. he seems less wearier, i guess, of washington ways. less thought that he can change the way washington works.