>>> the navy believes they are the best of the best. meet the men who hope to prove they have what it takes. to join the navy seals. then ride along with the seals unit training along the afghanistan border. when a tanker ship is seized by somali pirates, the navy seals move in. >>> good evening, this is a second look. the navy seal team six completed their mission in 40 minutes then melted back into the shadows. every member of the team began their training near san diego where less than half of those hoping to become navy seals actually make it through the six month basic training. that's where bob mckinzie watched recruits who hope to join the navy's best of the best in 1993. >> to hang with your elbows up in the air until you feel you may black out, until you are sure you can't stand it another second then to keep on doing it, well that's just how these young men start the day. >> if you can't keep up to a simple speed, that's still way down to do then we're going to pull you to the back and we're going to start our secondary little

they said, we are hungry about books on navy seals. >> how long were you in the navy? >> being in the navy reserves cannot be current with what is going on in that community. >> your final grant? >> capt.. >> is that what a seal team looks like. >> that is what they look like. they are robust, healthy young men who started on a long and safe career as a navy seal. >> this was taken in 2009 in coronado. how often do they visit? >> i think they do come in there. classes that never see any politicians. >> it is stick a couch -- dick couch. > > i think it may have some scottish ancestors. good parts what was your reaction when they had killed osama bin laden? >> somebody said, they got bin laden. i said, where did it happen and how did it happen, and as the news came in, it was into pakistan, and then we started hearing a lot about navy seals. i think it did not come from the department of defense. they had killed bin laden and brought out his body. > > what does it mean, special operations? >> we are blessed. they have a lot of different capabilities, intelligence collect

a navy seal? >> that is it right there. it is called the tried it. about 1973 is when it was adopted as the symbol of a navy seal. >> how tall are you? >> 5-9. they seem to be making them bigger nowadays. a lot of these young men seem to be more robust. they seem to be bigger than they were in my day, but then everybody is bigger nowadays than they used to be. i have always felt that the rigorous as of seals training is almost a little man's game. you have to be able to drag your body around all those obstacles and sometimes being a smaller man is your vantage. >> the navy has a lot of pictures you can find on their website. one of these is somewhere in alaska. is this glamorizing what basile team member is? >> i don't think so. the training in alaska is part of field qualification training. they are coming out of that cold water across the beach and up into the mountains. it is very rigorous training to prepare them for what seals often are asked to do, and that is come from the sea. >> there is

call it navy pride. plenty in our area are feeling it. >> just knowing the navy was involved in the operation really sets my heart aflutter. >> they were visiting the navy memorial on pennsylvania avenue. the 24-year navy veteran decided to come on this day to show his wife the navy memorial devoted to those like himself. >> the hairs on my neck for standing up. >> he says he has special respect for the seals. >> i have worked with them for 24 years. i know what they're made of. >> at the naval academy tonight they're back to work and final exams. many will soon graduate. some of them will be off to combat as marines and seals. for them, the admiral had a special message. >> there is only one thing i have to say. man the torpedoes! >> that was brad bell reporting. >>> celebrations show just how much it means to americans. this vote shows firefighters showing their support in times square as word of his death crossed the news ticker. one of them is giving two a thumbs up. >> i can imagine what they're fee

the navy has the navy seals. the army has delta. is there any time that you two units work together on missions? if so, who is in command? thank you. guest: i probably cannot actually speak to the specific units that you mentioned, but what i can say is that there is a real emphasis around joint special operations and we have a lot of wonderful special operations forces in the u.s. military. army rangers, army special forces, jumpers, navy seals, recall on, we do a lot to bring those forces together in a lot of creative ways. there is no set protocol, i would never say, that a navy officer would always be in charge of a unit, for example, it would be the senior officer of whenever service would be in charge of that particular mission. host: officer greitens, as far as we have talked about the navy seal program, what is the one thing that you wanted to mention about the program or its operations that maybe we have not talked about our has not been mentioned this week? guest: i would emphasize that the most important point is that som

the navy says we need 313 ships. but the cbo says that if we continue at the average amount we're putting in ship building, which has been $15 billion a year, we will not only not reach 313. but we'll go down to 240 and maybe even 170. we're right on the average of 14.9 from this budget. additionally we're looking at a $567 million ship maintenance shortfall. a billion dollars of unfunded mandates that the department of defense has given us. and we know $400 billion is heading our way in terms of cuts. now, jeff as always was completely honest with you. nobody asked this up to 2 1/2 years ago. you can't find in it a qdr, not one mention. not in the national defense strategy, not one mention. not in the brac commission, not one mention. where did it originate? not with this committee or with the navy. it originated with this resolution which was from the chamber of commerce for jacksonville t city of jacksonville that said that they called on the mayor of the city council, the governor and the members of the congressi

navy seals by osama bin laden. we havian idea of how this leader was able to hide in plain sight. >> the walls of the compound are 18 feet tall barbed wire the buildings are bricked up or tinted. they never got good photographic evidence of bin laden side. thank to a surveillance safe house it was reported the cia used comings and goings of the compound could be found hard evidence which led to the kill. neighbors we speak with said they november caught sight of him but they were picking up evidence that something was not quite right. one told us those inside must have been security minded balls bounced over the wall never came back. charity was turned away from the door. it was a terrorist atrack. the government would like to blow the pace up. >> they reported selected ties to osama bin laden. they are trying to figure out how one neighborhood went very, very bad. >> thank you very much. continue with commander eric brighton the author of "the heart and the 5th." i think it is impossible for pakistan to not know.

and my guest eric greitens has written a book about being a navy seal. it's 320 pages but last 318 are redacted. they got bin laden's handwritten diary. apparently he thought america was totally stuck up. [laughter] this is "the colbert report". captioning sponsored by comedy central ["the colbert report" theme music playing] >> stephen: welcome to the report. good to have you with us. thank you, nation. [cheers and applause] thank you, folks. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting stephen] [cheers and applause] all right. all right. folks, i -- i will put out. [laughter] nation, i'll tell you something i don't like. i don't like it when people claim a connection to me that doesn't really exist. you hear me lucan. you are not my real father. you found me in the forest and raised me as your own [howls] well someone is dblomming on to me again. i declared that former godfather's c.e.o. herman cain won the republican candidates debate and what do i see on twitter? herman cain tweeting "apparently i got the colbert bump last night." whoa whoa whoa, put your c

s.e.a.l. >> reporter: it was back in '85 when walston joined the navy. he signed up to endure what he called up to endure some of the toughest training on the planet, training to be a navy s.e.a.l. >> the class started with 205 men and at the end of six months, 14 original men graduated. >> reporter: that training is geared to break the weak and mold the strong into our country's most elite teams in special forces. >> h evolution gets harder and harder up to the last minute. >> reporter: the groupie navy s.e.a.l.s called team 6 roped into osama bin laden's compound and killed him, he had a unique appreciation for how they prepared. >> they spent countless hours training each other. >> reporter: the s.e.a.l.s were trained on a full scale replica of the compound in afghanistan. >> it's just like any type of professional sport. you practice and you practice, and you practice, and practice, until everything is right, and that the job goes down as if nobody had ever said a word. >> reporter: we may never know the names of the men who took out america's most w

the navy has the navy seals. the army has delta. is there any time that you two units work together on missions? if so, who is in command? thank you. guest: i probably cannot actually speak to the specific units that you mentioned, but what i can say is that there is a real emphasis around joint special operations and we have a lot of wonderful special operations forces in the u.s. military. army rangers, army special forces, jumpers, navy seals, recall on, we do a lot to bring those forces together in a lot of creative ways. there is no set protocol, i would never say, that a navy officer would always be in charge of a unit, for example, it would be the senior officer of whenever service would be in charge of that particular mission. host: officer greitens, as far as we have talked about the navy seal program, what is the one thing that you wanted to mention about the program or its operations that maybe we have not talked about our has not been mentioned this week? guest: i would emphasize that the most important point is that som

campbell, kentucky, where he's going to meet with the navy s.e.a.l.s, the navy s.e.a.l. team that took out osama bin laden. wouldn't you love to get a glimpse of those guys. >> i would love to be a fly on the wall in that meeting. that is going to be an extraordinary meeting today. >>> we have a story about another star in that raid that we haven't heard much about until now. the four-legged heroes trained to take down terrorists. we'll show you the work that the dogs do and human machines can't do without them. we're going to meet the superdogs of the navy s.e.a.l.s in a moment. >> superdogs with titanium teeth. >> and ear pieces. their own ear pieces. >> incredible. just incredible. >>> you've probably seen the brooke shields ads for longer eyelashes. it now turns out that this could be the solution for men losing their hair. >> not that you need it. >> you never know. you can never be too safe. and john berman has that. >>> we begin with the promise of good news for everyone who drives, finally. in the last two days, the price of oil has plummeted.

and operated by the navy. we continue to build the lh a, and the lpd 17 to address the needs of the marine corps because i think that entities capability, the ability to be offshore is going to increase import in the years ahead where sovereignty concerns are going to weigh so heavily on countries as they deal with different situations. but i think any aviation area is where we are essentially renewing ourselves. joint strike fighter, in the case of the navy, proceeding on with that and airplanes are not too far from your undergoing tests at patuxent river. we have continued to procure the super hornet, which is going to be able to bridge us into the jsf quite nicely. we have and test the g8, maritime patrol aircraft that is the replacement for the piii. that testing is going very well. we have in our squadron in norfolk, the advanced hawkeye, which really enhances the battle space awareness and, when coupled with other systems that we have in the navy, really gives us a reach and an awareness the likes of whi

like former navy s.e.a.l. howard wasdin. >> it's like being part of an elite team that made it to the super bowl. >> reporter: his super bowl came in 1993 during a raid against a somali warlord. shot three times he nearly lost his right leg. >> i started thinking then, i'm not going to make it out of here. this is it. i'm going to die today. >> reporter: the battle better known as blackhawk down left 18 americans dead and scores wounded. a failure, wasdin says, because the security of the mission was compromised. >> we were in there with the united nations and these guys did not know how to keep operational security. >> reporter: painful memories of blackhawk down would trouble the president and advisers. the decision is made to keep pakistan in the dark. >> to not tip them off in order to maintain the secrecy shows, number one, that there is not a lot of trust between the u.s. and pakistan. but number two, it showed this was a bigger gamble. >> reporter: that april morning in alabama, surrounded by the wrecka

his son was a navy s.e.a.l. and tonight we hear from his dad in his own words. >> my name is daniel j. murphy. i am the father of navy s.e.a.l. lieutenant michael p. murphy. he was a navy s.e.a.l. who was killed in afghanistan in june 28th, 2005, and as a result of those actions was subsequently awarded the medal of honor. michael was like all of the other navy s.e.a.l.s that you've ever met. they are extremely unassuming. they're quiet, humble, incredibly brave men who do some of the most dangerous missions in the world. there's only 2,000 of them. they are extremely tight, extremely closed-mouthed, extremely small community that watches over each other. when i had heard about the capture and killing of osama bin laden by a special operations team, they had not reported yet who was involved. i knew myself that it was the navy s.e.a.l.s. just by the operation that took place, how it went down. it was no doubt in my mind that those were navy s.e.a.l.s, those were michael's teammates. michael would be extremely pr

both navy seals. they are lieutenant commander eric who fought in iraq and afghanistan and the horn of africa. a holder of the bronze star among other medals. commander brightens runs a wounded veterans organization called the mission continues. and this is former navy sealle benjamin smith, also a highly decorated come wat combat veteo served in iraq, the middle east and trouble sphot spots arounde world. welcome. you will be mycohefts for the whole program. joined by several hundred friends here at growndz. nice to see everybody out on this beautiful night here in new york. tell me what you will show the people the detailed account of the mission but your assessment from what you know, how did it go? >> i thought it was a flawless mission, geraldo and that came about because these men had been through the hardest mill tawrry training in the world. dedicated public servants who we have to remember they didn't just operate on sunday night. they have been in this fight for nine and a half years. doing

the navy zeile s.e.a.l.s known m 6. you cannot apply to join their ranks -- you are just silently recruited. these men say they are moving in when others flee. chris cuomo is here. chris? >> reporter: diane, as impressive of the details of this operation are, you really start to appreciate how special these s.e.a.l.s are, when you learn that taking out bin laden was just another day at the office. >> the dogs of war were finally turned loose to do what they were designed to do. >> reporter: designed to be the best anywhere, doing anything -- whether sea, air or land -- that's what s.e.a.l. stands for. >> it's a self-contained unit that can go any place in the world and literally do nothing but kick ass. >> reporter: a superhero has nothing on these guys. recruits are trained to swim 350 feet underwater with their hands and feet bound. they're taught to survive in arctic conditions, even submerging in freezing water. they also have to endure exposure to tear gas. only men ranging in age of 26 to 33 try out to become one

it was a team, navy seal team squadron of 40 navy seals on board blackhawk helicopters and chinooks taking off from a base undisclosed in afghanistan. flew 30 to 60 miles west of islamabad, the capital in the northwest province, a hill station well-known because it is a garrison town, a main military town of the pakistani military. highly secure town and a lost former army generals live there. unthinkable a compound of this size was unnoticed. the compound was eight times the size of any compound in that area. we are told five years ago they looked at the trusted couriers sent by osama bin laden, they got information from detainees held at gone bow including khalid sheik mohammed and another man who is at gitmo and the interrogations revealed there were two couriers, two trusted couriers. they only had the nickname of the two courier brothers, and four years ago they figured out the identity of one courier. the c.i.a. intelligence honed in on one area of pakistan and figured out it was in this area and they looked at the compounds there and this drew their attention because it was three st

dice jaime garcía. >>> este es el centro de e entrenamiento de las fuerzas na vea les conocida como navy seal, reconocido como los mejores preparado y encargado de realizar misión secreta por orden directa delero un presidel país. >>> son gente que tiene que someterse e a un entrenamientoh súper riguroso, de lo mental, de lo físico, de todo sicológico por 30 meses, más de la mitad no llega a ser. >>> fue esta unidad que con secreto y precisión asombrosa penetró a pakistán en dos e e e helicópteros para e e ejecutar en 40 minutos el operaciero uni otros 4 personash@noti dejando a otras 18 que habitaban en el bunker. >>> ellos practican, preparan cualquier con tino origen jay, cualquier escenario ynoticiuniv e ellos son escogidos para misiones secretas el carácter secreto de e ellos impide que se sepa de las mksz en que partoed parpan y que ba inteligencia quenoero un daiv ero un non unoorta tunivnotio univnarmv eco antibalas visor nocturno, arnés y un bote de humo equipo que sin incluir un respirador submarino pesa 70 libr libras, esta misión de navy seal hubiese sido similar

new details of what happened during the navy s.e.a.l.s raid on osama bin laden's compound. what his last moments were like. and what we now know about that final showdown. >>> home with bin laden. the wives, the kids, the living room. the medicine chest. what the neighbors saw and heard. a surprising look at daily life with the world's most wanted man. >>> and, the toughest call. in the final moments, with the target in doubt and lives on the line, the go ahead decision came down to one man. so, how did he make the call? a special edition of "nightline," starts right now. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," may 3rd, 2011. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. what did they know? was pakistan involved in harb harboring osama bin laden? quote, either they're involved or incompetent, cia director leon panetta reportedly told lawmakers today in a classified breeching. pakistan called the u.s. strike an unauthorized unilateral action. it's easy to forget, meanwhile that the navy

a former navy seal tells us about a man who cleared out a black ops mission -- who carried out the black ops mission. >> complete bay area news coverage starts right now. this is bay area news at 7:00. >> good evening. it is monday, may 2. i am gasia mikaelian, and this is bay area news at 7:00. >>> president obama calls it a good day for america. tonight we are learning details about the elite navy seal team and the persistence shot above the eye that killed osama bin laden. we begin at ground zero with our coverage. >> reporter: he was one of the most wanted men in the world. after an operation in pakistan the fbi has marked al qaeda leader osama bin laden as "deceased." in a word, "geronimo," that was used to indicate that osama bin laden had been killed. >> i want to recognize the heroes that carried out this mission as well as all of the military and counterterrorism professionals. >> reporter: the operation which involved four helicopters and two dozen commandos was praised by president obama's political opponents, some still urging caution. >> it is important to remain vigilant to

turns out navy s.e.a.l.s used a stealth helicopter. the s.e.a.l.s made sure that they blew up that chopper before leaving so that it would not fall into the wrong hands. the helicopter is nearly silent. it's designed to evade detection also by radar. >>> and there is also a new version of the facts surrounding the raid on bin laden's compound. this morning's "the new york times" reports that there was no firefight. the only shots fired at navy s.e.a.l.s, according to published reports, were at the beginning of the raid. with more now on bin laden's last moments, here is abc's martha raddatz. >> reporter: he was the most feared terrorist in the world, but there he was huddled in a third floor room with his youngest wife listening to the bursts of gunfire in the approaching navy s.e.a.l.s for nearly 40 minutes. he was trapped. abc news has learned that sewn into his traditional clothing was an emergency stash of money 500 euros. that's about $800. and two emergency phone numbers. not much but maybe he thought he could bribe his way out i

now all will be in the navy and operated by the navy. we continue to build the lha and the lpd-17 to address the needs of the marine corps. i think amphibious capability and the ability to the offshore is going to be increasingly important in the years ahead when sovereignty concerns are going to weigh so heavily on countries as they deal with different situations. but i think in the aviation area is where we are a essentially renewing ourselves. joint strike fighter, in this case of the navy proceeding on with that. airplanes are not too far from here undergoing tests. we have continued to procure the super hornet, which is going to be able to bridge us into the jsf quite nicely. we have tested maritime control aircraft that is the replacement for the p-3. that testing is going very well. in norfolk, we have the advance toch hawkeye, advances the battle space awareness. when coupled with other systems we have in the navy, it really gives us an awareness of the likes of which we have never had before. i might also point out that the e2d

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navy seals. what it takes to become the best of the best. and nearly a quarter of a million new jobs, but the supply can't keep up with demand and the jobless rate jumps back to 9%. captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> smith: good evening, katie is off tonight. al qaeda finally acknowledged today that osama bin laden is dead and the terror group vowed revenge, saying it will turn america's happiness into sorrow. but it appears bin laden left al qaeda's remaining leaders with a big problem: he left behind clues to where they're hiding. in fact, sources say bin laden has unwittingly given u.s. intelligence their best chance in years to dismantle the heart of al qaeda. but first, bob orr has breaking news about a u.s. strike against another al qaeda leader in yemen. bob's with us from washington. bob, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, harry. cbs news now has confirmed that the u.s. on thursday tried to kill another leading al qaeda figure, anwar al-

a team of elite navy s.e.a.l.s storms a compound on pakistan and kills al qaeda leader osama bin laden. we've got the incredible inside story of that raid. from exclusive footage inside his compound to the white knuckle moments in the white house situation room, until that message came, we got him. catharsis. nearly ten years after the 9/11 attack shattered families and shook a nation, the mastermind behind the plot is killed. building an outpouring of emotion. celebration and relief. we're live from ground zero as new york rejoices. and what now? so, does bin laden's death make the u.s. safer? is this the end of al qaeda? and can we finally leave afghanistan? target bin laden. a special hour-long edition of "nightline" starts right now. >>> good evening. i'm terry moran. we're here tonight at ground zero in new york city. hallowed ground. which is coming back to life. behind me, you can see where construction proceeds on reflecting pools there which will honor the memory of the nearly 3,000 victims who died here almost tenures ago. the towers, about 68 stories tall, replacing the ones

we speak to a navy seal about the secrecy surrounding his work. plus the raid on osama bin laden's compound was captured as it happened on twitter. the role social media sites played. live team coverage coming up at 6:00. >>> they took over an oakland park today. >> oh! >> we are talking about dogs today. they kicked off a month long celebration. in oakland that meant a fashion show today. >>> a lot of short sleeves and sun glasses. according to bill martin we should keep those things around. >> it will continue to warm up. temperatures fell off today because of the fog at the coast. tuesday, wednesday, that's going going to warm us up. outside, notice this buoy out here. look that wind gusts. it is howling. gusting to 36. that's a big wind. the winds are howling through the golden gate bring right now and that is transporting cooler air into the inland valleys. that wind backs off the next couple of days. when that hanans temperatures will come back up. overnight lows tonight are cool again, low 40s. the blues represent low 40s. the off color, th

names its newest warship for a navy seal who died in combat in the afghanistan war. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. >> mitchell: and good evening, floodwaters are rising tonight and so are anxieties up and down the mississippi valley with memphis most immediately at risk. take a look. this is the mississippi and its tributaries in normal times. these are the waters this evening. and these are the counties facing flood warnings. the waters are expected to crest in just two days in memphis which is where randall pingston is standing by live. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, russ the u.s. army corps engineers flood control system cost billions of dollars and decades to build. as an engorged mississippi river moves south that system faces its biggest test yet. from the sky the mayor of memphis sees his city under attack by the mississippi river and its tributaries. >> notice how close this is getting to the interstate highway, that's another concern. >> reporter: the rising waters are creating havoc on the roads. a s

naval academy swells with pride when they learn navy s.e.a.l.'s took out the terrorists.   >> usa! i >>> believe it or not, there was live coverage of the operation that killed osama bin laden bin hours before president obama ever made the announcement. turns out a pakistani man broke word of the raid on twitter unknowingly giving a play-by- play account what was going on. he tweeted helicopter hovering above abbottabad at 1 a.m., a rare event and later a huge window shaking. i hope it's not the start of something nasty. last night's news broke on twitter before president obama even announced the death and then it spread like wildfire through facebook. the story sparked an incredible spike in internet traffic, fox 5's will thomas in the web center tonight. >> normal traffic on twitter is about 600 tweets per second. last night we're toll from twitter itself between the hour -- told from twitter itself between the hours of 10:45 and just after midnight we're talking about more than 4,000 sustained

and operated by the navy. we continue to build the big deck am ampphibs to address the needs of the marine corp. because the amphibious capability and the abilities to offshore will be increasingly important in the years ahead where sovereignty concerns will weigh so heavily on countries as they deal with different situations. i think in the aviation area is where we are essentially renewing ourselves. the joint strike fighter in the navy and proceeding on with that and the airplanes are not too far from undergoing testing. we have continued to procure the superhornet which will bridge us into the jsf quite nicely. we have, in test, the p8 maritime patrol aircraft which is the replacement for the p2. that testing is going well. we have in our scwawn drone the advanced hawkeye e2d which when coupled with other systems in the navy rave -- really gives us a reach we never had before. i point out that the e2d does not reside in the aviation portfolio, but rather resides in our information dominance portfolio. two

government releasing them, five tapes in all, confiscated by the navy s.e.a.l. team in the raid on osama bin laden's compounld. >> this one wasn't meant for release. it's showing the slain leader watching a television with pictures of himself. there are others showing bin laden in a pose, intended for broadcast. the u.s. government edited these videos and deleted the audio to omit spreading any message they might contain. >>> other big news now, the mississippi river in the u.s. here, continuing to swallow neighborhoods and towns with flood levels we haven't seen in more than 70 years. parts of tennessee under water. people in the memphis area obeying more than 1,000 evacuation notices. the mississippi is supposed to crest in memphis, nearly 14 feet above floot stage. that will happen on wednesday. so far, about eight states have been impacted by this historic flooding which meteorologists say won't recede until the end of june. mississippi and louisiana have yet to feel the full brunt of the flooding, and jacqui jeras is checking the severe weather. first, why

these dogs help navy seals during the bin laden raid. dominik garcia shows us what they can do. >> reporter: in some parts of southern colorado, the terrain is harsh. so is the weather. and that's the point. german shepherds always lived up to their name. shepherds, they were meant to guard the flock. guarding families is what alex dunbar trains them to do. dunbar knows war, he is an ex- marine. when seal team six raided osama bin laden's compound, they had a dog with them. these dogs are trained to wear breatheable body armor. they are also outfitted with a camera to stream live video to soldiers in other positions. >> they are going in and searching in case there are any bad guys. >> alex thinks there's good chance bin laden came eye to eye with a canine. >> dog was on him and we are here because the high altitude makes the dogs perform better and stimulating things. >> alex deals with german shepherds. training is done day and night tracking intelligence work. >> they can swim. they do high altitude parachute jumps. >> then there's th

john, you spoke to a former navy seal? >> reporter: this is the marine's memorial club where there is a benefit. i talked to retired military and two navy seals seals. >> reporter: marines speak with a frank voice about the elimination of osama bin laden. >> this was justice and justice for the families of 9/11. and it sends a message. >> people who are our enemies need to realize that somebody is going come up and get rid of you. >> reporter: in this case it was navy seals. we talked by phone with a former navy seal who just returned from afghanistan. >> they built a mock up of the target and a secret compound where the teams practice assaulting it all day, all night for two weeks. >> they are terrific. they live, eat and breathe what they are doing. >> reporter: he did similar missions and said osama bin laden very likely had little warning. >> surprised by the time they figured out what was happening. >> i don't wish any man's death what there are some obitiaries i like reading and this is one of them. >> he said the me

the navy s.e.a.l.s are trained to shoot for the head. in this case, it's because they feared people in there might have suicide vests on and blow themselves up so they shot him in the head and did what's called a double tap. they shot him twice to ensure that he was dead. later came the dna recognition. they went room to room, as nick schifrin reported in the beginning, there was blood in the one room where they found him and they quickly removed the body after that. >> martha, that is incredible news that they recognized him. we had imagined he would take precautionary measures to disguise himself. let's go to robin, at ground zero. i can only imagine what the electric feeling is going to be as the day progresses there. you're there with chris, i know. >> we're feeling that electric feeling right now. and chris has been here all night long. saw your reports last night. at first, it seemed like police were trying to keep people at bay. the police were then like, come on in. >> we knew. the police knew. we needed this right here. ground z