BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Without question, the White House watching all these quite closely. Live there, we'll check in now with CNN's John King. John, what are we seeing thus far today from the White House?</s>JOHN KING, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Bill. Well, the president waiting for more updates, some bit of frustration here that there's so little information available on that investigation, on who is ultimately responsible for the this apparent terrorist attack. The White House, as it waits, the president ordered all federal agencies, of course, to lower flags to half-staff yesterday. Those at the White House at half-staff, lowered yesterday afternoon. The president receiving periodic updates from his national security team. We're also told some talk here at the White House of a memorial service, most likely some time next week. As we heard from Chris Burns, the first of the bodies of those killed in this attack just now making their way to Ramstein, Germany. When all are back here in the United States, U.S. officials telling us it is most likely the president would take part in some form of memorial service, although that planning just beginning as these events unfold -- Bill.</s>HEMMER: John, any discussions on the military side based on what you're hearing if the policy of refueling in Yemen should be revisited?</s>KING: No, the U.S. does expect some criticism for this. But as one senior administration official put it yesterday, what are we to do? Pull our troops out of -- pull our ships out of the Persian Gulf and leave the gulf to Saddam Hussein? So while there will likely be some criticism of this stop, U.S. officials say that it is a very important policy and while again they're still waiting for reports from the scene, they believe that this ship, the USS Cole, that the personnel on board were following all of the requirements they were supposed to take for their own security.</s>HEMMER: All Right, John. John King at the White House. Thanks,
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