[Blitzer:] We have re-established contact with our Brian Todd. He's at a secret location in northern Virginia, the command center of the DEA, the Drug Enforcement Administration. Brian, what are they doing right now?
[Todd:] Well, right now, Wolf, this is kind of a simulated operation. This is typically what they do in a takedown operation. The video you see behind me was from a recent takedown of massive proportions. We're going to get to that in just a second. At any given time, there are about 12 agents in the room during a takedown, in constant communication with agents in the field. Right now I'm joined by Kevin Lane. He is the DEA assistant special agent in charge. He runs this operation. Kevin, you've been at both ends of this. You've been in the field. You've been in this operation quite a few times. First, let's go through the bank of monitors and agents here. What are these agents doing along this bank here?
[Lane:] These agents and analysts here are coordinating the information that's coming in from different field entities, so we can identify, you know, what we need as far as arrests, what kind of seizes we have, if we have any usable intelligence or evidence. And then we can then disseminate to other officers, both foreign and domestic.
[Todd:] OK, and then we have another bank of agents just over here. I'm going to ask my cameraman Reggie to pan over here to these two gentlemen at their monitors. What are these agents doing?
[Lane:] They're basically corroborating information that we have received, trying to get it out to the other federal agencies that we work closely with and then try to see if those other agencies have additional intelligence that we could use to support what's going on in the filed.
[Todd:] OK. And Reggie, we're going to take a little bit of the image of the monitors in the back here. This is from a recent DEA operation called what you guys call the Caribbean Initiative. It was a massive undertaking. Tell us what that...
[Lane:] There were five years' time where there approximately six countries, including the United States, obviously, involved. We targeted the highest level of the drug trafficking organization that was shipping through the Caribbean.
[Todd:] And about how much of the you had a staggering figure for me, but how much of the cocaine that comes into the U.S. was covered just in that one operation?
[Lane:] Approximately 10 to 12 percent of the cocaine that's brought into the United States was transshipping through this organization.
[Todd:] OK. And that operation is ongoing, we have to say, Wolf. So there's a lot of that, the Caribbean Initiative, that we can't tell you. But, obviously, as you can see, there's a lot of important work that goes on in this room.
[Blitzer:] All right. Brian Todd reporting for us from the DEA from their room to the CNN sit room. Let's bring in CNN's Zain Verjee. She's joining us now live from the CNN Center. She's taking a look at some other stories making news Zain.
[Verjee:] Hi, Wolf. In Afghanistan, a U.S. service member and six insurgents are killed in separate incidents. Now, both happened yesterday. The U.S. service member died in the attack near Ghazni, which also wounded another U.S. service member. The six insurgents were killed during a joint offensive involving Afghan and U.S. forces. In Denver, an Air Force Reserve lieutenant colonel could face charges for allegedly engaging in anti-President Bush vandalism. Lieutenant Colonel Alexis Fecteau is accused of defacing cars with pro-Bush bumper stickers. The cars were parked at the Denver Airport. Police say they believe Fecteau defaced at least 10 cars. And an update on a story we reported yesterday the shooting of singer Marc Cohn. Cohn is said to be recovering in New York today, and he's not well enough to make a scheduled concert in Ohio on Saturday. Meanwhile, the shooting suspect appeared in a Colorado court today, where his bond was set at $1 million. On Sunday, Cohn survived being shot in the head during an attempted carjacking Wolf.
[Blitzer:] All right. Zain Verjee, we'll get back to you. Thank you very much. I want to immediately go over to the Pentagon. CNN's Barbara Starr standing by. She's developing a story. What are you learning, Barbara?
[Barbara Starr, Cnn Pentagon Correspondent:] Well, Wolf, there has been a new piece of purported al Qaeda video, propaganda video, out today on Arab television. We have been looking at it most of the day. Some of it shows what you would typically expect purported al Qaeda elements in Afghanistan, training in a classroom, firing their weapons, that sort of thing. But we have been able to confirm now what is perhaps a very disturbing part of this video that involves a U.S. Navy SEAL who died in June in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan part of that four- men reconnaissance team, you may remember, in which three Navy SEALs where killed. They tell us, indeed, this is the I.D. card and the weapon of Danny Dietz Petty Officer Second Class Danny Dietz who was one of the SEALs killed in the mountains. They have every reason to believe this is his I.D. card. His death was announced at the time. His family was notified. They have every reason to believe that is the M-4 card of one of the Navy SEALs' , perhaps even Danny Dietz's. That is the type of weapon that U.S. Navy SEALs take into the field. We showed you a moment ago a laptop computer. In the video, the insurgents claim that is a U.S. military laptop. We have talked to the SEAL community. They say they can't confirm that's Danny Dietz's laptop, but that on those type of missions SEALs often take laptop computers into the remote mountain areas. They use them for getting maps to see where they are going, for targeting, for identification of insurgents. Wolf, one piece of video we are not going to show you, it also shows the body of what may be one of the American servicemen. But U.S. Navy SEALs looked at that video, and what they told us is that picture of that U.S. Navy serviceman who is basically wearing a helmet and his face is obscured, they say that is not the way a U.S. Navy SEAL would have dressed to go on a secret reconnaissance mission in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan. So, some of this insurgent video confirmed by the Navy, some of it not just yet Wolf.
[Blitzer:] All right. Barbara, we're going to get back to you. We're going to get some more information. What a disturbing story this is. We'll also try to find out what the propaganda value for al Qaeda may have been. Coming up, the "Cafferty File." Plus, our eyes are on gas prices. What is driving them sky high? Sixty-five dollars a barrel. A record right now. But the pain going beyond the pump. Ali Velshi watching the bottom line. And when we go "Inside Politics," the highway bill President Bush signed today is about much more than simply roads. Do jobs win out, or lawmakers' pet projects? And college teams with native American mascots are facing penalties. And the president's brother is crying foul. You are in the SITUATION ROOM.