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The crisis in Ukraine has br nike dunk ought out a fresh round of critics of President Obama s foreign policy who see a pattern emerging: the president tries to assert his authority and direct events on the world stage with empty threats, which inevitably have no follow through. With each instance, U.S. power grows weaker as foreign powers view Mr. Obama as the president who cried wolf. Ukraine mobilizes as Russian troops control Crimea 02:53 The latest case: Mr. Obama s public warning to Russia to stay out of Ukraine was followed by an invas air max 96 ion just days later. It s just the latest failure, say critics who point to Syria as an example. As the country spiraled into civil war and evidence emerged that President Bashar Assad had used chemical weapons against his own people - a red line the president had laid down in the past - the president went to the Rose Garden and said he planned to seek congressional approval for a military intervention in the region. Less than two weeks later, he had to abandon the option and pursue diplomatic solutions amid low congressional air max 1 interest. Even now, the Syrian regime has missed deadlines for destroying its chemical weapons stock with little more than a public scolding in return. And Russia similarly flouted U.S. warnings by sending troops into the Crimean peninsula over th Dwfl Brazilians come together to clean beaches after massive oil spill decimates coast
CBS News Dozens of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip burned American flags Wednesday and chanted Death to America, protesting an American film that mocks the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.The protest Wednesday in Gaza City was sponsored by supporters of the Popular Resistance Committees, a militant group aligned with the ruling Hamas movement, and comes a day after a protest against the same film turned into a deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.Well-armed protesters overpowered the security staff at the consulate and stormed the compound, leaving four Americans dead, including the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens.There was also a small prot stanley becher est in front of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, on Wednesday, but nothing like the angry mob which breached the building s perimeter walls on Tuesday, hours before the Benghazi attack. There were no injuries reported in Cairo on Tuesday, and the security presence around the embassy on Wednesday outnumbered the protesters, according to CBS News Alex Ortiz.U.S. Ambassador, 3 others killed in Libya attackObama, Romney camps clash over response to Libya, EgyptAP: Anti-Muslim filmmaker in hiding after attacks CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan reports that U.S. officials were gourde stanley monitoring possible protests in Algeria and other countries in North Africa and the Middle East following the fatal attack in Benghazi.President Obama ordered incre stanley cups ased security measures at U.S. diplomatic outposts around the world
The crisis in Ukraine has br nike dunk ought out a fresh round of critics of President Obama s foreign policy who see a pattern emerging: the president tries to assert his authority and direct events on the world stage with empty threats, which inevitably have no follow through. With each instance, U.S. power grows weaker as foreign powers view Mr. Obama as the president who cried wolf. Ukraine mobilizes as Russian troops control Crimea 02:53 The latest case: Mr. Obama s public warning to Russia to stay out of Ukraine was followed by an invas air max 96 ion just days later. It s just the latest failure, say critics who point to Syria as an example. As the country spiraled into civil war and evidence emerged that President Bashar Assad had used chemical weapons against his own people - a red line the president had laid down in the past - the president went to the Rose Garden and said he planned to seek congressional approval for a military intervention in the region. Less than two weeks later, he had to abandon the option and pursue diplomatic solutions amid low congressional air max 1 interest. Even now, the Syrian regime has missed deadlines for destroying its chemical weapons stock with little more than a public scolding in return. And Russia similarly flouted U.S. warnings by sending troops into the Crimean peninsula over th Dwfl Brazilians come together to clean beaches after massive oil spill decimates coast
CBS News Dozens of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip burned American flags Wednesday and chanted Death to America, protesting an American film that mocks the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.The protest Wednesday in Gaza City was sponsored by supporters of the Popular Resistance Committees, a militant group aligned with the ruling Hamas movement, and comes a day after a protest against the same film turned into a deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.Well-armed protesters overpowered the security staff at the consulate and stormed the compound, leaving four Americans dead, including the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens.There was also a small prot stanley becher est in front of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, on Wednesday, but nothing like the angry mob which breached the building s perimeter walls on Tuesday, hours before the Benghazi attack. There were no injuries reported in Cairo on Tuesday, and the security presence around the embassy on Wednesday outnumbered the protesters, according to CBS News Alex Ortiz.U.S. Ambassador, 3 others killed in Libya attackObama, Romney camps clash over response to Libya, EgyptAP: Anti-Muslim filmmaker in hiding after attacks CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan reports that U.S. officials were gourde stanley monitoring possible protests in Algeria and other countries in North Africa and the Middle East following the fatal attack in Benghazi.President Obama ordered incre stanley cups ased security measures at U.S. diplomatic outposts around the world
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PARIS - Vincenzo Nibali won the Tour de France on Sunday, becoming the first Italian in 16 years to triumph in cycling s greatest race by chiseling a lead over his main rivals a few seconds at a time and dominating them in the mountains.The 29-year-old Sicilian, who called himself a flag-bearer of anti-doping during the race, finished in a bunch behind Marcel Kittel, who won the 21st stage in a sprint finish. Tour de France scenery 32 photos Nibali s victory comes after the pre-race favorites - 2013 champion Chris Froome and two-time winner Alberto Contador - crashed out with injuries in the first half of this year s Tour.Astana team leader Nibali is only the sixth rider to win all three Grand Tours - France, Italy and Spain. The last Italian to win the Tour de France was Marco Pantani in 1998.After cruising in 24 seconds after Kittel - a German who got his fourth stage win - Nibali received pats on the back, kis af1 sed his wife and infant daughter, and was mobbed by cameras as race organ adidas originals hombre izers hustled him away to prepare for the awards c airforces eremony. Unbelievable, said Kittel, whose victories bookended this Tour. He won Stage 1 when British rival Mark Cavendish crashed out in the final sprint.Nibali won four stages - a feat not equaled by a Tour w Mttk Escaped kangaroo punches officer in the face before being captured in Canada
Former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet was placed under house arrest and indicted for the first time on torture charges over abuses at a secret detention center where President Michelle Bachelet and her mother were once held, the judge handling the case reported stanley flask Monday.Two court officials notified Pinochet at his suburban Santiago mansion of the decision by Judge Alejandro Solis, who on Friday had charged Pinochet with one homicide, 35 kidnappings and 24 cases of torture at Villa Grimaldi, one of the most infamous detention centers in the early years of his 1973-1990 dictatorship.Pinochet has been indicted four times before mdash; three on human right stanley cup s charges, one for tax evasion mdash; and three times was held under house arrest, but this is the first time he faces torture charges.Pinochet s chief defense lawyer, Pablo Rodriguez, had said he will appeal Solis ruling all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary. We will use all the legal means at our disposal. Rodriguez insisted the 90-year-old former military ruler is unfit to stand trial because of poor health. Pinochet has been diagnosed a mild dementia, has sustained several minor strokes, suffers from diabetes and arthritis and needs a pacemaker. Those conditions have led courts to drop charges against Pinochet in previous attempts to try him, but this time, after questio stanley cup ning Pinochet for more than an hour, Judge Solis said he is convinced the general is not mentally alienated and can stand trial.Pinochet c
PARIS - Vincenzo Nibali won the Tour de France on Sunday, becoming the first Italian in 16 years to triumph in cycling s greatest race by chiseling a lead over his main rivals a few seconds at a time and dominating them in the mountains.The 29-year-old Sicilian, who called himself a flag-bearer of anti-doping during the race, finished in a bunch behind Marcel Kittel, who won the 21st stage in a sprint finish. Tour de France scenery 32 photos Nibali s victory comes after the pre-race favorites - 2013 champion Chris Froome and two-time winner Alberto Contador - crashed out with injuries in the first half of this year s Tour.Astana team leader Nibali is only the sixth rider to win all three Grand Tours - France, Italy and Spain. The last Italian to win the Tour de France was Marco Pantani in 1998.After cruising in 24 seconds after Kittel - a German who got his fourth stage win - Nibali received pats on the back, kis af1 sed his wife and infant daughter, and was mobbed by cameras as race organ adidas originals hombre izers hustled him away to prepare for the awards c airforces eremony. Unbelievable, said Kittel, whose victories bookended this Tour. He won Stage 1 when British rival Mark Cavendish crashed out in the final sprint.Nibali won four stages - a feat not equaled by a Tour w Mttk Escaped kangaroo punches officer in the face before being captured in Canada
Former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet was placed under house arrest and indicted for the first time on torture charges over abuses at a secret detention center where President Michelle Bachelet and her mother were once held, the judge handling the case reported stanley flask Monday.Two court officials notified Pinochet at his suburban Santiago mansion of the decision by Judge Alejandro Solis, who on Friday had charged Pinochet with one homicide, 35 kidnappings and 24 cases of torture at Villa Grimaldi, one of the most infamous detention centers in the early years of his 1973-1990 dictatorship.Pinochet has been indicted four times before mdash; three on human right stanley cup s charges, one for tax evasion mdash; and three times was held under house arrest, but this is the first time he faces torture charges.Pinochet s chief defense lawyer, Pablo Rodriguez, had said he will appeal Solis ruling all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary. We will use all the legal means at our disposal. Rodriguez insisted the 90-year-old former military ruler is unfit to stand trial because of poor health. Pinochet has been diagnosed a mild dementia, has sustained several minor strokes, suffers from diabetes and arthritis and needs a pacemaker. Those conditions have led courts to drop charges against Pinochet in previous attempts to try him, but this time, after questio stanley cup ning Pinochet for more than an hour, Judge Solis said he is convinced the general is not mentally alienated and can stand trial.Pinochet c
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BOGOTA, Colombia -- A mystery illness has overwhelmed a small town in northern Colombia as scores of teenage girls have been hospitalized with symp nike af toms that parents fear could be a adidas campus n adverse reaction to a popular vaccine against cervical cancer.Authorities say they still don t know what caused adidas samba more than 200 girls in El Carmen de Bolivar to come down with symptoms ranging from fainting to numbness in the hands and headaches. Some have hinted that the town of 95,000 near Colombia s Caribbean coast could be experiencing a rare case of mass hysteria.Parents are on edge, however, because all the girls, ranging in ages from 9 to 16, were injected in recent months with the vaccine Gardasil. On Wednesday, residents marched peacefully to demand a thorough investigation.Francisco Vega, the town s mayor and a trained physician, told The Associated Press that illnesses first appeared at the end of May and have been steadily increasing since. Over the weekend, 120 girls were rushed to hospitals, collapsing the town s limited medical facilities. None of their symptoms were life-threatening and all have since been released, he said.Echoing the assurances of national health and toxicology experts, who have traveled to the town to collect blood samples and investigate possible environmental hazards, he said there s no evidence the vaccine, which has undergone extensive testing and regulation globally, is to blame. Meanwhile, Health Minister Alejandro Gaviria is criticizing hyped coverag Parh More Tragedy For Afghanistan
AP Photo/Julie Jacobson An eldery woman whispers a prayer while sitting outside her quake damaged home in Port-au- Prince, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. The woman was one of more than 100 older victims living outside the home with no food or care other than an occassional bath from two orderlies who remained to help. stanley uk AP Photo/Jae C. Hong People pray at a refugee camp located near a forward operating base for the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division in Port-au-Prince, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. Troops, doctors and aid workers f stanley thermos lowed into Haiti on Monday even while hundreds stanley cup of thousands of Tuesday s quake victims struggled to find water or food. AP Photo/Gregory Bull A woman prays during Mass held outside of the city s main Cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. About 100 people celebrated Mass Sunday morning on one side of the Cathedral, which was totally destroyed in Tuesday s earthquake. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert People pray during a mass outside the collapsed St. Louis King of Spain Catholic Church in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. Deeply religious Haitians see the hand of
BOGOTA, Colombia -- A mystery illness has overwhelmed a small town in northern Colombia as scores of teenage girls have been hospitalized with symp nike af toms that parents fear could be a adidas campus n adverse reaction to a popular vaccine against cervical cancer.Authorities say they still don t know what caused adidas samba more than 200 girls in El Carmen de Bolivar to come down with symptoms ranging from fainting to numbness in the hands and headaches. Some have hinted that the town of 95,000 near Colombia s Caribbean coast could be experiencing a rare case of mass hysteria.Parents are on edge, however, because all the girls, ranging in ages from 9 to 16, were injected in recent months with the vaccine Gardasil. On Wednesday, residents marched peacefully to demand a thorough investigation.Francisco Vega, the town s mayor and a trained physician, told The Associated Press that illnesses first appeared at the end of May and have been steadily increasing since. Over the weekend, 120 girls were rushed to hospitals, collapsing the town s limited medical facilities. None of their symptoms were life-threatening and all have since been released, he said.Echoing the assurances of national health and toxicology experts, who have traveled to the town to collect blood samples and investigate possible environmental hazards, he said there s no evidence the vaccine, which has undergone extensive testing and regulation globally, is to blame. Meanwhile, Health Minister Alejandro Gaviria is criticizing hyped coverag Parh More Tragedy For Afghanistan
AP Photo/Julie Jacobson An eldery woman whispers a prayer while sitting outside her quake damaged home in Port-au- Prince, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. The woman was one of more than 100 older victims living outside the home with no food or care other than an occassional bath from two orderlies who remained to help. stanley uk AP Photo/Jae C. Hong People pray at a refugee camp located near a forward operating base for the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division in Port-au-Prince, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. Troops, doctors and aid workers f stanley thermos lowed into Haiti on Monday even while hundreds stanley cup of thousands of Tuesday s quake victims struggled to find water or food. AP Photo/Gregory Bull A woman prays during Mass held outside of the city s main Cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. About 100 people celebrated Mass Sunday morning on one side of the Cathedral, which was totally destroyed in Tuesday s earthquake. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert People pray during a mass outside the collapsed St. Louis King of Spain Catholic Church in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. Deeply religious Haitians see the hand of
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Londonmdash; A study conducted in the U.K. offers some of the first large-scale, real-world data on how well vaccination protects people against catching a breakthrough COVID-19 infection, and how well it protects breakthrough patients from becoming seriously ill. The results are encouraging. The peer-reviewed study published Wednesday inThe Lancet medical journal will help policy mizuno laufschuhe makers and epidemiologists fill in a significant gap in the understanding of the true efficacy of three of the major vaccines being used worldwide.The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for instance, doesn t have good data on how many people catch COVID-19 after being vaccinated, as it decided in the spring to track only serious, symptomatic breakthrough cases. The British study, on the other hand, used mass-testing data to determine how many breakthrough case air force 1 s there actually are and how sick those people get.The vaccines were never intended to prevent infections completely, but to reduce the rates of infection within a population and, most importantly, to reduce the severity of illness in people who air max plus do catch it. The study found that people who contracted the coronavirus despite being fully vaccinated were almost twice as likely to have no symptoms at all, compared to the wider population.Crucially, the odds of a fully-vaccinated person who does catch COIVD-19 ending up hospitalized with severe symptoms were reduced by more than two-thirds compared to an unvaccinated coronavirus pat Giio World s largest democracy votes
Defense Secretary Robert Gates asserted Tuesday the increase in U.S. forces in Iraq is not the last chance to succeed and conceded he s considering what steps to take if the buildup doesn t work. I would be irresponsible if I weren t thinking about what the alternatives might be, Gates told the Senate Armed Services Committee.Gates was grilled on the war as the full Senate remained stalled over Democratic leaders efforts to begin a debate over President Bush s course for Ira stanley mugs q.Gates did not say what other options he was considering if the addition of 21,500 troops fails to control the violence in Baghdad and western Anbar province, where the Sunni insurgency is based. We at this point a stanley mug re planning for success, he said. Gates and Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sought to assure lawmakers the additional troops pegged for Iraq will go there with sufficient equipment for the fight.They said that a shortage of armored vehicles in one phase of operations will be remedied by July, and troops who need them will not be deployed from their compound in Iraq until the vehicles are supplied.Republican Sen. John Warner of Virginia pressed Gates on the question of what happens if Mr. Bush s plan doesn t work. I water bottle stanley have to believe we re thinking beyond the Baghdad operation, the senator said. It is not the last chance, Gates replied. Despite divisions over the troop buildup, lawmakers on the committee voted 16-0 to approve Adm. William Fallon s n
Londonmdash; A study conducted in the U.K. offers some of the first large-scale, real-world data on how well vaccination protects people against catching a breakthrough COVID-19 infection, and how well it protects breakthrough patients from becoming seriously ill. The results are encouraging. The peer-reviewed study published Wednesday inThe Lancet medical journal will help policy mizuno laufschuhe makers and epidemiologists fill in a significant gap in the understanding of the true efficacy of three of the major vaccines being used worldwide.The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for instance, doesn t have good data on how many people catch COVID-19 after being vaccinated, as it decided in the spring to track only serious, symptomatic breakthrough cases. The British study, on the other hand, used mass-testing data to determine how many breakthrough case air force 1 s there actually are and how sick those people get.The vaccines were never intended to prevent infections completely, but to reduce the rates of infection within a population and, most importantly, to reduce the severity of illness in people who air max plus do catch it. The study found that people who contracted the coronavirus despite being fully vaccinated were almost twice as likely to have no symptoms at all, compared to the wider population.Crucially, the odds of a fully-vaccinated person who does catch COIVD-19 ending up hospitalized with severe symptoms were reduced by more than two-thirds compared to an unvaccinated coronavirus pat Giio World s largest democracy votes
Defense Secretary Robert Gates asserted Tuesday the increase in U.S. forces in Iraq is not the last chance to succeed and conceded he s considering what steps to take if the buildup doesn t work. I would be irresponsible if I weren t thinking about what the alternatives might be, Gates told the Senate Armed Services Committee.Gates was grilled on the war as the full Senate remained stalled over Democratic leaders efforts to begin a debate over President Bush s course for Ira stanley mugs q.Gates did not say what other options he was considering if the addition of 21,500 troops fails to control the violence in Baghdad and western Anbar province, where the Sunni insurgency is based. We at this point a stanley mug re planning for success, he said. Gates and Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sought to assure lawmakers the additional troops pegged for Iraq will go there with sufficient equipment for the fight.They said that a shortage of armored vehicles in one phase of operations will be remedied by July, and troops who need them will not be deployed from their compound in Iraq until the vehicles are supplied.Republican Sen. John Warner of Virginia pressed Gates on the question of what happens if Mr. Bush s plan doesn t work. I water bottle stanley have to believe we re thinking beyond the Baghdad operation, the senator said. It is not the last chance, Gates replied. Despite divisions over the troop buildup, lawmakers on the committee voted 16-0 to approve Adm. William Fallon s n
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Washington mdash; President Biden on Monday said the United States stands firmly with the people of Cuba and their clarion call for freedom after thousands of Cubans mounted the biggest protests against the communist government in decades. The Cuban people are bravely asserting fundamental and universal rights. Those rights, including the right of peaceful protest and the right to freely determine their own future, must be respected, Mr. Biden said in a statement. The United States calls on the Cuban regime to hear their people and serve their needs at this vital moment rathe adidas campus r than enriching themselves. The president said the U.S. stands with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief from the tragic grip of the pandemic and from the decades of repression and economic suffering to which they have been subjected by Cuba s authoritarian regime. At a White House meeting with state and local leaders to discuss gun violence later in the afternoon, Mr. Biden said C nike dunk uba has not seen anything like these protests in a long, long time if, quite frankly, ever. The U.S. stands firmly with the people of Cuba as they assert their universal rights. And we call on the government of Cuba to refrain from violence in their attempt to silence the voices of the people of Cuba, he said. The protests against the Cuban government erupted Sunday, as thousand adidas original campus s took to the streets of Havana and across the island amid the country s ongoing economic crisis and as it b Urgo Packaged corpses sow terror in Colombian capital
Although some were wounded or, after their captures, beaten, all seven rescued American prisoners of war are in good enough condition to be on their way home to the U.S. without a stopover at the military hospit stanley mugs al in Germany.More details of their rescue surfaced Monday.Marines kicked in a door in Samarra, Iraq, Sunday and shouted: If you re an American, stand up! We stood up and they hustled us out of there, said Pfc. Patrick Miller, 23, of Park City, Kan.Grungy and bedraggled in t stanley cup heir blue- or yellow-striped prison pajamas, they did not know that Baghdad had fallen, that their comrade Pfc. Jessica Lynch had been rescued or that U.S. commandos had been trying to find them for weeks. The rescued POWS told their story to reporters for The Washington Post and The Miami Herald aboard a plane as they were flown to Kuwait for a medical checkup and a debriefing.They said they were kicked and beaten when were captured, and were taunted and interrogated by their captors. But they were given medical treatment and did not complain of torture. Nevertheless, some were certain they were going to die. We were a hot potato, said Army Spc. Shoshana Johnson, a 30-year-old cook from Fort Bliss, Texas. It was getting to the point where I believed they were going to kill us. I thought I would never see my wife again, a sobbing Chief Warrant Officer David S. Williams, 30, of Orlando, Fla., said. Back in the States, Athol Riley of Pennsa stanley cups uken, N.J., said he spoke to his son
Washington mdash; President Biden on Monday said the United States stands firmly with the people of Cuba and their clarion call for freedom after thousands of Cubans mounted the biggest protests against the communist government in decades. The Cuban people are bravely asserting fundamental and universal rights. Those rights, including the right of peaceful protest and the right to freely determine their own future, must be respected, Mr. Biden said in a statement. The United States calls on the Cuban regime to hear their people and serve their needs at this vital moment rathe adidas campus r than enriching themselves. The president said the U.S. stands with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief from the tragic grip of the pandemic and from the decades of repression and economic suffering to which they have been subjected by Cuba s authoritarian regime. At a White House meeting with state and local leaders to discuss gun violence later in the afternoon, Mr. Biden said C nike dunk uba has not seen anything like these protests in a long, long time if, quite frankly, ever. The U.S. stands firmly with the people of Cuba as they assert their universal rights. And we call on the government of Cuba to refrain from violence in their attempt to silence the voices of the people of Cuba, he said. The protests against the Cuban government erupted Sunday, as thousand adidas original campus s took to the streets of Havana and across the island amid the country s ongoing economic crisis and as it b Urgo Packaged corpses sow terror in Colombian capital
Although some were wounded or, after their captures, beaten, all seven rescued American prisoners of war are in good enough condition to be on their way home to the U.S. without a stopover at the military hospit stanley mugs al in Germany.More details of their rescue surfaced Monday.Marines kicked in a door in Samarra, Iraq, Sunday and shouted: If you re an American, stand up! We stood up and they hustled us out of there, said Pfc. Patrick Miller, 23, of Park City, Kan.Grungy and bedraggled in t stanley cup heir blue- or yellow-striped prison pajamas, they did not know that Baghdad had fallen, that their comrade Pfc. Jessica Lynch had been rescued or that U.S. commandos had been trying to find them for weeks. The rescued POWS told their story to reporters for The Washington Post and The Miami Herald aboard a plane as they were flown to Kuwait for a medical checkup and a debriefing.They said they were kicked and beaten when were captured, and were taunted and interrogated by their captors. But they were given medical treatment and did not complain of torture. Nevertheless, some were certain they were going to die. We were a hot potato, said Army Spc. Shoshana Johnson, a 30-year-old cook from Fort Bliss, Texas. It was getting to the point where I believed they were going to kill us. I thought I would never see my wife again, a sobbing Chief Warrant Officer David S. Williams, 30, of Orlando, Fla., said. Back in the States, Athol Riley of Pennsa stanley cups uken, N.J., said he spoke to his son
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LONDON -- Britain has spoken, and its people want out of the European Union. Within several years, it will be a reality.It would be hard to overstate the shock and the consequences of the vote -- and not just in Britain, and not just in Europe.The British currency, the pound, fell like a rock Friday, witnessing its biggest one day fall ever, before rebounding slightly. Stock markets plunged, but also managed to re airforces cover a little. crocs And Britain s prime minister -- a beaten man -- announced his resignation.How will Brexit actually happen Why Brexit Matters 01:21 The British people have made a very clear decision to take a different path, and as such I think the country requires fresh leadership to take it in this direction, said Prime Minister Dav nike dunk low id Cameron, announcing that he would resign his role within three months.One by one, as the voting districts reported overnight, the shocks started to come. People inside Manchester Town Hall cheered as their votes tallied up to a result in favour of the Leave camp. The scenes would be repeated across the country.The opinion polls had suggested a close race, and even a narrow victory for the campaign to Remain in the EU. They were wrong. The City of London, Britain s booming financial district, and financial markets across the world, had bet o Hkjk Chile landslide leaves 5 dead and 15 missing, officials say
Hundreds of civilians fled Muammar Qaddafi s hometown of Sirte on Monday to escape growing shortages of food and medicine and escalating fears that their homes will be struck during fighting between revolutionary forces and regime loyalists.Anti-Qaddafi fighters launched their offensive against Sirte nearly two weeks ago, but have faced fierce resistance stanley flasche from loyalists holed up inside the city. After a bloody push into Sirte again over the weekend, revolutionary fighters say they have pulled back to plan their assault and allow civilians more time to flee.NATO, which has playe stanley cups uk d a key role in decimating Qaddafi s military during the Libyan civil war, has kept up its air campaign since the fall of Tripoli last month. The alliance said Monday its warplanes struck eight military targets near Sirte a day earlier, including an ammunition and vehicle st stanley cup orage facility and rocket launcher.Special Section: Anger in the Arab WorldMass grave reveals 1996 Libyan massacreLiving with Libya s rebels: U.S. student s storyHowever, some Sirte residents fleeing the town Monday told a reporter for British daily The Times that NATO s bombing of the besieged city amounted to a genocide of those within its boundaries. Nato bombing is killing civilians, a man who identified himself as Mohammed Ali Alum Sekily told The Times. Where is the United Nations Where is the Muslim world to stop this genocide of the people of Sirte Sekily said six members of his family had been killed, but he decli
LONDON -- Britain has spoken, and its people want out of the European Union. Within several years, it will be a reality.It would be hard to overstate the shock and the consequences of the vote -- and not just in Britain, and not just in Europe.The British currency, the pound, fell like a rock Friday, witnessing its biggest one day fall ever, before rebounding slightly. Stock markets plunged, but also managed to re airforces cover a little. crocs And Britain s prime minister -- a beaten man -- announced his resignation.How will Brexit actually happen Why Brexit Matters 01:21 The British people have made a very clear decision to take a different path, and as such I think the country requires fresh leadership to take it in this direction, said Prime Minister Dav nike dunk low id Cameron, announcing that he would resign his role within three months.One by one, as the voting districts reported overnight, the shocks started to come. People inside Manchester Town Hall cheered as their votes tallied up to a result in favour of the Leave camp. The scenes would be repeated across the country.The opinion polls had suggested a close race, and even a narrow victory for the campaign to Remain in the EU. They were wrong. The City of London, Britain s booming financial district, and financial markets across the world, had bet o Hkjk Chile landslide leaves 5 dead and 15 missing, officials say
Hundreds of civilians fled Muammar Qaddafi s hometown of Sirte on Monday to escape growing shortages of food and medicine and escalating fears that their homes will be struck during fighting between revolutionary forces and regime loyalists.Anti-Qaddafi fighters launched their offensive against Sirte nearly two weeks ago, but have faced fierce resistance stanley flasche from loyalists holed up inside the city. After a bloody push into Sirte again over the weekend, revolutionary fighters say they have pulled back to plan their assault and allow civilians more time to flee.NATO, which has playe stanley cups uk d a key role in decimating Qaddafi s military during the Libyan civil war, has kept up its air campaign since the fall of Tripoli last month. The alliance said Monday its warplanes struck eight military targets near Sirte a day earlier, including an ammunition and vehicle st stanley cup orage facility and rocket launcher.Special Section: Anger in the Arab WorldMass grave reveals 1996 Libyan massacreLiving with Libya s rebels: U.S. student s storyHowever, some Sirte residents fleeing the town Monday told a reporter for British daily The Times that NATO s bombing of the besieged city amounted to a genocide of those within its boundaries. Nato bombing is killing civilians, a man who identified himself as Mohammed Ali Alum Sekily told The Times. Where is the United Nations Where is the Muslim world to stop this genocide of the people of Sirte Sekily said six members of his family had been killed, but he decli
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President Biden on Wednesday announced his administration is imposing san adidas samba ctions on Nord Stream 2 AG mdash; the company behind the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, now halted, and its corporate officers. This announcement comes as a senior defense official says Russian forces are uncoiled and ready to invade now, and the new sanctions complement thoseimposed by the U.S. and Europe this week. Today, I have directed my administration to impose sanctions on Nord Stream 2 AG and its corporate officers, Mr. Biden said in a statement. These steps are another piece of our initial tranche of sanctions in response to Russia s actions in Ukraine. As I have made clear, we will not hesitate to take further steps if Russia continues to escalate. Through his actions, President Putin has provided the world with an overwhelming incentive to move away from Russian gas and to other forms of energy. On Tuesday, Germany announced it is suspending the pipeline that would bring natural gas from Russia to adidas campus Germany, a move the U.S. has strongly encouraged. Mr. Biden also announced sanctions against Russian financial institutions and elites. He called Russia s latest actions the beginning of a Russian invasion of Ukraine and pledged more sanctions could come if Russia becomes undertakes more acts of aggression against its neighbor.The senior defen airmax plus se official says 80% of Russian forces arrayed near Ukraine are now in what the Pentagon considers forward positions, and Russian President Vladimir Putin h Iibm Supertyphoon Nanmadol kills 7 in Philippines
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A young Emperor penguin took a rare wrong turn from the Antarctic and ended up stranded on a New Zealand beach 151; the first time in 44 years the aquatic bird has been sighted in the wild in the South Pacific country.Local resident Christine Wilton was taking her miniature Schnauzer dog Millie for a walk on Peka Peka Beach on the North Island s western coast when she discovered the bird Monday evening. It was out-of-this-world to see it ... like someone just dropped it from the sky, Wilton said. It looked like Happy Feet 151; it was totally in the wrong place, she said, referring to the 2006 animated musical featuring a young penguin who finds himself far from home.Conservation experts say the penguin is about 10 months old and stands about 32 inches high. Colin Miskelly, stanley termohrnek a curator at Te Papa, the Museum of New Zealand, said the bird was likely born during the last Antarctic winter. It may have been searching for squid and krill when it took a wrong turn and landed stanley romania about 2,000 miles from the Antarctic coast. Emperor penguins are the tallest and largest species of penguin and can grow up to 4 feet high and weigh more than 75 pounds.Their amazing journey to breeding grounds deep in the Antarctic was chronicled in the 2005 documentary March of the Penguins, which highlighted their ability to survive t stanley cup he brutal winter.Miskelly said Emperor penguins can spend months at a time in the ocean, coming ashore only to molt or rest. He doesn t k
President Biden on Wednesday announced his administration is imposing san adidas samba ctions on Nord Stream 2 AG mdash; the company behind the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, now halted, and its corporate officers. This announcement comes as a senior defense official says Russian forces are uncoiled and ready to invade now, and the new sanctions complement thoseimposed by the U.S. and Europe this week. Today, I have directed my administration to impose sanctions on Nord Stream 2 AG and its corporate officers, Mr. Biden said in a statement. These steps are another piece of our initial tranche of sanctions in response to Russia s actions in Ukraine. As I have made clear, we will not hesitate to take further steps if Russia continues to escalate. Through his actions, President Putin has provided the world with an overwhelming incentive to move away from Russian gas and to other forms of energy. On Tuesday, Germany announced it is suspending the pipeline that would bring natural gas from Russia to adidas campus Germany, a move the U.S. has strongly encouraged. Mr. Biden also announced sanctions against Russian financial institutions and elites. He called Russia s latest actions the beginning of a Russian invasion of Ukraine and pledged more sanctions could come if Russia becomes undertakes more acts of aggression against its neighbor.The senior defen airmax plus se official says 80% of Russian forces arrayed near Ukraine are now in what the Pentagon considers forward positions, and Russian President Vladimir Putin h Iibm Supertyphoon Nanmadol kills 7 in Philippines
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A young Emperor penguin took a rare wrong turn from the Antarctic and ended up stranded on a New Zealand beach 151; the first time in 44 years the aquatic bird has been sighted in the wild in the South Pacific country.Local resident Christine Wilton was taking her miniature Schnauzer dog Millie for a walk on Peka Peka Beach on the North Island s western coast when she discovered the bird Monday evening. It was out-of-this-world to see it ... like someone just dropped it from the sky, Wilton said. It looked like Happy Feet 151; it was totally in the wrong place, she said, referring to the 2006 animated musical featuring a young penguin who finds himself far from home.Conservation experts say the penguin is about 10 months old and stands about 32 inches high. Colin Miskelly, stanley termohrnek a curator at Te Papa, the Museum of New Zealand, said the bird was likely born during the last Antarctic winter. It may have been searching for squid and krill when it took a wrong turn and landed stanley romania about 2,000 miles from the Antarctic coast. Emperor penguins are the tallest and largest species of penguin and can grow up to 4 feet high and weigh more than 75 pounds.Their amazing journey to breeding grounds deep in the Antarctic was chronicled in the 2005 documentary March of the Penguins, which highlighted their ability to survive t stanley cup he brutal winter.Miskelly said Emperor penguins can spend months at a time in the ocean, coming ashore only to molt or rest. He doesn t k
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People have been diving to the Titanic s wreck for 35 years. No one has found human remains, according to the company that owns the salvage rights.But the company s plan to retrieve the ship s iconic radio equipment has sparked a debate: Could the world s most famous shipwreck still hold remains of passengers and crew who died a century ago Lawyers hoka for the U.S. government have raised that question in an ongoing court battle to block the planned expedition. They cite archaeologists who say remains could still be there. And they say the company fails to consider the prospect in its dive plan. This 2004 image provided by the University of Rhode Island s Institute for Exploration and Center for Archaeological Oceanography and the Na salomon zapatillas tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration s Office of Ocean Exploration shows the shoes of one of the possible victims of the Titanic disaster. AP Fifteen hundred people died in that wreck, said Paul Johnston, curator of maritime history at the Smithsonian s National Museum of American History. You can t possibly tell me that some human remains aren t buried deep somewhere where there are no currents. The company, RMS Titanic Inc., wants to exhibit the ship s Marconi wireless telegraph machine. It broadcast the sinking ocean liner s distress calls and helped save about 700 people in lifeboats. Radio operators on board th adidas originals donna e Tit Gjbh Official: Pakistan Holds at Least 2 in Bomb Case
A slain lawyer s videotaped and posthumously broadcast accusation that President Alvaro Colom ordered his murder threw Guatemala into an uproar Tuesday and prompted the government to call for a U.N. agency and the FBI to investigate the killing.Colom vehemently denied the allegations made in a videotape left by lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg, who was shot to death by unidentified assailants while riding his bicycle Sunday. But opposition lawmakers called for the president to step aside while the killing is investigated. If you are watching this message, it is because I was assassinated by President Alvaro Colom with help from Gustavo Alejos, the president s secretary, Rosenberg said in the video distributed at his funeral Monday.The Guate stanley cup mala City newspaper Prensa Libre said the rec gourde stanley ording has created the greatest political crisis for this democracy, because never before has a democratically elected president been accused of murder. Television stations repeatedly aired the video and so many people watched it on Guatemalan Internet sites that some temporarily collapsed. More than 5,300 people joined a Facebook group called Guatemalans for the dismissal of Alvaro Colom. On the video, Rosenberg says officials might want to kill him because he represented businessman Khalil Musa, who was slain in March along with his daughter. The lawyer says Musa, who had been named to the stanley fr board of the Guatemala s Rural Development Bank, was killed for refusing to get involved in purported i
People have been diving to the Titanic s wreck for 35 years. No one has found human remains, according to the company that owns the salvage rights.But the company s plan to retrieve the ship s iconic radio equipment has sparked a debate: Could the world s most famous shipwreck still hold remains of passengers and crew who died a century ago Lawyers hoka for the U.S. government have raised that question in an ongoing court battle to block the planned expedition. They cite archaeologists who say remains could still be there. And they say the company fails to consider the prospect in its dive plan. This 2004 image provided by the University of Rhode Island s Institute for Exploration and Center for Archaeological Oceanography and the Na salomon zapatillas tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration s Office of Ocean Exploration shows the shoes of one of the possible victims of the Titanic disaster. AP Fifteen hundred people died in that wreck, said Paul Johnston, curator of maritime history at the Smithsonian s National Museum of American History. You can t possibly tell me that some human remains aren t buried deep somewhere where there are no currents. The company, RMS Titanic Inc., wants to exhibit the ship s Marconi wireless telegraph machine. It broadcast the sinking ocean liner s distress calls and helped save about 700 people in lifeboats. Radio operators on board th adidas originals donna e Tit Gjbh Official: Pakistan Holds at Least 2 in Bomb Case
A slain lawyer s videotaped and posthumously broadcast accusation that President Alvaro Colom ordered his murder threw Guatemala into an uproar Tuesday and prompted the government to call for a U.N. agency and the FBI to investigate the killing.Colom vehemently denied the allegations made in a videotape left by lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg, who was shot to death by unidentified assailants while riding his bicycle Sunday. But opposition lawmakers called for the president to step aside while the killing is investigated. If you are watching this message, it is because I was assassinated by President Alvaro Colom with help from Gustavo Alejos, the president s secretary, Rosenberg said in the video distributed at his funeral Monday.The Guate stanley cup mala City newspaper Prensa Libre said the rec gourde stanley ording has created the greatest political crisis for this democracy, because never before has a democratically elected president been accused of murder. Television stations repeatedly aired the video and so many people watched it on Guatemalan Internet sites that some temporarily collapsed. More than 5,300 people joined a Facebook group called Guatemalans for the dismissal of Alvaro Colom. On the video, Rosenberg says officials might want to kill him because he represented businessman Khalil Musa, who was slain in March along with his daughter. The lawyer says Musa, who had been named to the stanley fr board of the Guatemala s Rural Development Bank, was killed for refusing to get involved in purported i
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ISTANBUL -- Turkish authorities were moving to block access to YouTube on Thursday following similar action against Twitter, the country s state-run news agency said. While the Anadolu Agency said the national telecommunications authorities had instituted the block, the website was still widely accessible following the announcement. The block against YouTube is likely to provoke further outrage in Turkey, where social media is wid salomon xt ely used. Key allies, in nike dunk cluding the U.S. and the European Union, had criticized the earlier move against Twitter as a restriction of free speech and a step backward for Turkish democracy. That ban came shortly after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to rip out the roots of Twitter, which has been a conduit for links to recordings suggesting government corruption. Turkey holds crucial local elections Sunday, widely regarded as a referendum on Erdogan s rule. A telecommunications authority webpage gave the following adidas samba og information for YouTube: After technical analysis and legal consideration based on the law, an administrative measure has been taken for this website. The ban comes after an alleged audio recording of a meeting between the Turkey s foreign minister, intelligence chief and top military and Foreign Ministry officials was leaked on YouTube. The four are allegedly heard discussing a military intervention in Syria, a sensitive political issue in Turkey. However, the context of the conversation is not clear. Seyk King Charles, William and Kate surprise coronation well-wishers outside of Buckingham Palace
Residents of Haifa, Israel s third largest city and a major port, were ordered into bomb shelters as evening fell Friday, following rocket attacks throughout the day, even though Haifa is some 18 miles south of the border with Lebanon.Residents were shocked when the first attacks hit Haifa Thursday: No guerrilla rocket had ever reached that far into Israel.Throughout the c stanley cup ountry, two Israelis have been killed and about 50 wounded by the more than 60 rocket attacks since Wednesday.Along Israel s northern border, at least 220,000 people now are living in bomb shelters, reports CBS News correspondent Richard Roth. Hundreds of Hezbollah rockets have fallen there in the last two days, and Israelis are stocking up. They don t expect it will end soon.Israel and Lebanon continued to exchange warnings mdash; and shells mdash; all day Friday, reports Roth. Israel has widened its offensive on Lebanon, with fighter bombers blasting the airport for a second stanley cups day, residential buildings in the southern suburbs of the capital, igniting stanley thermoskannen fuel storage tanks and cutting the main highway to Syria.President Bush promised Lebanon s leader Friday that he would urge Israel to avoid civilian casualties and damage as it steps up attacks on its neighbor. President Bush affirmed his readiness to put pressure on Israel to limit the damage to Lebanon as a result of the current military action, and to spare civilians and innocent people from harm, a statement from Lebanese officials said. But Mr. B
ISTANBUL -- Turkish authorities were moving to block access to YouTube on Thursday following similar action against Twitter, the country s state-run news agency said. While the Anadolu Agency said the national telecommunications authorities had instituted the block, the website was still widely accessible following the announcement. The block against YouTube is likely to provoke further outrage in Turkey, where social media is wid salomon xt ely used. Key allies, in nike dunk cluding the U.S. and the European Union, had criticized the earlier move against Twitter as a restriction of free speech and a step backward for Turkish democracy. That ban came shortly after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to rip out the roots of Twitter, which has been a conduit for links to recordings suggesting government corruption. Turkey holds crucial local elections Sunday, widely regarded as a referendum on Erdogan s rule. A telecommunications authority webpage gave the following adidas samba og information for YouTube: After technical analysis and legal consideration based on the law, an administrative measure has been taken for this website. The ban comes after an alleged audio recording of a meeting between the Turkey s foreign minister, intelligence chief and top military and Foreign Ministry officials was leaked on YouTube. The four are allegedly heard discussing a military intervention in Syria, a sensitive political issue in Turkey. However, the context of the conversation is not clear. Seyk King Charles, William and Kate surprise coronation well-wishers outside of Buckingham Palace
Residents of Haifa, Israel s third largest city and a major port, were ordered into bomb shelters as evening fell Friday, following rocket attacks throughout the day, even though Haifa is some 18 miles south of the border with Lebanon.Residents were shocked when the first attacks hit Haifa Thursday: No guerrilla rocket had ever reached that far into Israel.Throughout the c stanley cup ountry, two Israelis have been killed and about 50 wounded by the more than 60 rocket attacks since Wednesday.Along Israel s northern border, at least 220,000 people now are living in bomb shelters, reports CBS News correspondent Richard Roth. Hundreds of Hezbollah rockets have fallen there in the last two days, and Israelis are stocking up. They don t expect it will end soon.Israel and Lebanon continued to exchange warnings mdash; and shells mdash; all day Friday, reports Roth. Israel has widened its offensive on Lebanon, with fighter bombers blasting the airport for a second stanley cups day, residential buildings in the southern suburbs of the capital, igniting stanley thermoskannen fuel storage tanks and cutting the main highway to Syria.President Bush promised Lebanon s leader Friday that he would urge Israel to avoid civilian casualties and damage as it steps up attacks on its neighbor. President Bush affirmed his readiness to put pressure on Israel to limit the damage to Lebanon as a result of the current military action, and to spare civilians and innocent people from harm, a statement from Lebanese officials said. But Mr. B
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London mdash; London s traffic camera adidas campus donna s are under attack. Police say hundreds of license plate-reading adidas campus beige cameras have adidas samba adidas been damaged, disconnected or stolen by opponents of an anti-pollution charge on older vehicles that comes into force across the metropolis on Tuesday. The vandalism by vigilantes calling themselves the Blade Runners shows that emotions are running high over the city s Ultra Low Emission Zone. London s mayor says the measure will cut air pollution that is linked to about 4,000 deaths a year in the British capital. Critics say it s a cash grab that will penalize suburban residents who depend on their cars for work and essential travel.Landmark coroner s ruling blames London girl s death on air pollution The cameras are going to keep coming down, predicted Nick Arlett, who has organized protests against the clean-air charge and says he neither condones nor condemns the sabotage People are angry. People attend a protest at Tooting Broadway, in South London, against the extension of the Ultra Low Emission Zone ULEZ and also Low Traffic neighbourhoods LTN by London Mayor Sadiq Khan and some London councils, on August 26, 2023. Guy Smallman/Getty Moves in the U.K. to cut air pollution and reduce car use have become a political flashpoint. Supporters say cynical politicians and conspiracy theorists are exploiting opposition to the plans. The Conservative go Otzd Russian curler stripped of Olympic medal over doping
The Vietnamese say that every bullet that kills a soldier first passes through his mother s heart. I was reminded of that phrase this week when I received a phone call from Karen May, the mother of Sergeant Kenneth May, from Kilgore Texas. Sgt. May was one of two Marines from 3/1 battalion who was killed on May 11th by an IE stanley cup D explosion in southern Helmand province in Afghanistan. The other man who died was Corporal Jeffrey Johnson. My producer/cameraman and I happened to be staying at the same base as Sgt. May and Cpl. Johnson, and we filmed the aftermath of the explosion. Understandably tensions were high at the scene of the e stanley cup xplosion. Initially some of the Marines were not entirely comfortable with having a television crew there, but we kept a respectful distance and in the end the Marines understood we were not trying to sensationalize nor intrude on the somber scene. But in our minds we had even greater concerns about how the families of the two fallen Marines would react to having footage of the aftermath of the explosion shown on national television.Watch CBS News Videos OnlineWhen I got back to the U.S. last month, I got in touch with the May family directly - Sgt. May s wife Krystal, who in turn talked to h stanley france is parents, Ken and Karen. I also contacted a Casualty Assistance Calls Officer CACO who was assigned to the Johnson family, and asked both families how they felt about having the stories of the two Marines told on television. Both families readily
London mdash; London s traffic camera adidas campus donna s are under attack. Police say hundreds of license plate-reading adidas campus beige cameras have adidas samba adidas been damaged, disconnected or stolen by opponents of an anti-pollution charge on older vehicles that comes into force across the metropolis on Tuesday. The vandalism by vigilantes calling themselves the Blade Runners shows that emotions are running high over the city s Ultra Low Emission Zone. London s mayor says the measure will cut air pollution that is linked to about 4,000 deaths a year in the British capital. Critics say it s a cash grab that will penalize suburban residents who depend on their cars for work and essential travel.Landmark coroner s ruling blames London girl s death on air pollution The cameras are going to keep coming down, predicted Nick Arlett, who has organized protests against the clean-air charge and says he neither condones nor condemns the sabotage People are angry. People attend a protest at Tooting Broadway, in South London, against the extension of the Ultra Low Emission Zone ULEZ and also Low Traffic neighbourhoods LTN by London Mayor Sadiq Khan and some London councils, on August 26, 2023. Guy Smallman/Getty Moves in the U.K. to cut air pollution and reduce car use have become a political flashpoint. Supporters say cynical politicians and conspiracy theorists are exploiting opposition to the plans. The Conservative go Otzd Russian curler stripped of Olympic medal over doping
The Vietnamese say that every bullet that kills a soldier first passes through his mother s heart. I was reminded of that phrase this week when I received a phone call from Karen May, the mother of Sergeant Kenneth May, from Kilgore Texas. Sgt. May was one of two Marines from 3/1 battalion who was killed on May 11th by an IE stanley cup D explosion in southern Helmand province in Afghanistan. The other man who died was Corporal Jeffrey Johnson. My producer/cameraman and I happened to be staying at the same base as Sgt. May and Cpl. Johnson, and we filmed the aftermath of the explosion. Understandably tensions were high at the scene of the e stanley cup xplosion. Initially some of the Marines were not entirely comfortable with having a television crew there, but we kept a respectful distance and in the end the Marines understood we were not trying to sensationalize nor intrude on the somber scene. But in our minds we had even greater concerns about how the families of the two fallen Marines would react to having footage of the aftermath of the explosion shown on national television.Watch CBS News Videos OnlineWhen I got back to the U.S. last month, I got in touch with the May family directly - Sgt. May s wife Krystal, who in turn talked to h stanley france is parents, Ken and Karen. I also contacted a Casualty Assistance Calls Officer CACO who was assigned to the Johnson family, and asked both families how they felt about having the stories of the two Marines told on television. Both families readily