Overseas now to Somalia where two aid workers are free this morning after a raid by the U.S. military. Personnel came in on helicopters in the dark of night in the Horn of Africa. The raid freed 32-year-old American Jessica Buchanan and a 60-year-old Danish worker who were taken hostage by Somali pirates in October.
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