it s coming around, it s coming around. here we are. now it s bigger, now it s bigger, welcome back. thanks for joining us here on new day. i m chris cue woe ma, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. it s tuesday, june 18th. ahead in this half hour the first lady gets a history lesson as she explores the obama family heritage in ireland. and the story i wanted to talk about most this morning, why is fabio carrying men through grocery stores and why am i not one of them? this pressing concern. so many thoughts. a lot of news, look at my man. i didn t know that was on your bucket list. we learn more about each other every day. michaela what do you have? good morning to the two of you. in the news at the g-8
when we saw another suicide attack in the city of kabul. politician was targeted, he was unhurt but three people killed. again the big story today, a milestone day, afghan security forces now in the driver s seat in the months and years ahead. chris? reza, thank you very much. stay safe over there. kate? some 65,000 u.s. troops stale there, the combat levels are going down and will be done, the combat mission in 2014. that s the hope. that s right, we ll be watching that closely. another big story for the pentagon in a few hours the pentagon will unveil its own plan for moving women into the front lines of combat roles. barbara starr has been tracking this. from the beginning we ve talked about this many times since the announcement has been made. what are the details you re learning this morning. good morning, kate. if you re a young woman and want to become an army ranger or navy s.e.a.l., you ll be able to compete for those jobs,
sometimes reach out for help. if it can happen to super rich mega people who seemingly have no problems than normal average people have got t can affect anyone. why didn t anyone intervene? the restaurant says it did not see the alleged incident nor was anybody alerted to it at time. lawson hasn t pressed charges but scotland yard is investigating and police said a 70-year-old man was officially cautioned in regards to the incident but they haven t identified him as saatchi. saatchi is opening an art exhibition in london this week. the couple is expected to make an appearance together so it will be very telling if one or both of them do not attend that exhibition. we ll see what happens. it s a strange story. there s more questions than answers, and there s a lot of differing opinions about what exactly was happening there. but isn t that always how it is. now all of this around it,
what does this switch do? did you turn the magnet off? i knew i was forgetting something. it s time to turn away from the toothbrush for this next story, a terrifying rescue caught on tape, in california two teens stuck on a cliff s narrow shelf, 8,600 feet up, 30-mile-an-hour gusts swirling around them. the situation seemed ill fated but miguel marquez has the story of how they made it home. rescue like none other, 8,600 feet up, two boys trapped on the rocky spine of a ridge only a few feet wide. as we went up there, we made decisions to get up that ended up making it so we couldn t get back. reporter: bad decisions they will never forget, in gorgeous but unforgiving nature biting off more than one can chew all too easy. we thought we could walk across the ridge. when we saw the other side it
inches and the heaviest rain looks to be around texas. indra thanks so much. now this is a pretty unexpected story. singer melissa etheridge criticizing angelina jolie for jolie s decision to undergo a double mastectomy. jolie says her decision, she decided to have the surgery after learning she carried the breast cancer gene which put her at high risk of developing breast cancer but etheridge is taking issue with that. nischelle turner has been tracking all of this. it s a very interesting twist in this story. jolie had so much support when she came out with that op-ed in the new york times about why she made her decision. indeed and this is the first real kind of backlash that we re hearing from her decision. i don t know if i d call it backlash. melissa etheridge is a breast cancer survivor. she has a little bit of a different view so maybe this is the first time we re hearing a different view to the decision that angelina jolie was making