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American hostage makes plea in newly surfaced video

The U.S. State Department is trying to authenticate a video that surfaced of an American held captive by al Qaeda. Warren Weinstein was kidnapped two-and-a-half years ago in Pakistan, where he was working as an independent contractor for a private U.S. company. In the video, Weinstein asks President Obama to help negotiate his release. Holly Williams reports.
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