Richard Engel's Close Call

Richard Engel, the chief foreign correspondent for NBC News, was intended to be on one of the three helicopters that crashed in Afghanistan on Monday, he revealed on Today. Seven U.S. servicemen and three DEA agents involved in anti-drug efforts in Afghanistan were killed in that crash; the cause of which has yet to be determined, though the military says it was not due to hostile fire, despite Taliban claims. In a separate incident, two Marine helicopters collided mid-flight in the south of the country, killing four troops and wounding two; the death count of fourteen was the highest for U.S. troops in Afghanistan in more than four years.