At the midpoint of the week, we're starting with news about Iran.

The Middle Eastern country tested out a number of ballistic missiles yesterday

That has the international community including the US

concerned because it might break the United Nations resolution.

It calls on Iran not to develop missiles that could carry nuclear weapons.

Iran says it doesn't have a nuclear weapons and

that this missile launch only tested conventional weapons.

But a US government source said the UN Security Council

might investigate the launch and consider action against Iran.

The Obama administration says the test did not violate

a controversial nuclear deal with Iran that the US led last year.

Our next story, the US military says a terrorist group in Africa

took a major hit over the weekend.

Al Shabaab which is based in the East African nation of Somalia

was the target of the US airstrike.

American officials say the Islamic Militant group

had about 200 fighters at a camp and that

they posed an imminent threat because they were planning some type of major attack.

Possibly targeting American and African Union military forces in Somalia.

But in Saturday's airstrike, US authorities believe as many as 150 Al- Shabaab members

were killed by drones and manned aircraft.

An official from Al- Shabaab disputes that number saying

only a few fighters died in the assault.

Either way, the strike while destructive,

is not expected to eliminate the threat from these terrorists.

The terror group Al- Shabaab is becoming deadlier and more ambitious.

Al- Shabaab means the Youth in Arabic,

and it's a group that's risen out of the chaos of the failed state of Somalia.

The irony is, as it's gained more international prominence,

it's actually lost ground at home due to infighting in the group,

successful operations by government forces, but also

drone strikes by the US. At the same time, though,

it's become more aggressive abroad,

particularly In September 2013 when in carried out

the Westgate Mall attack which killed more than 60 people.

More recently in April, the attack at Garissa University in Kenya

that killed more than 150. Like ISIS,

Al Shabaab has a powerful presence on the web,

particularly in terms of recruiting.

An added threat are Al- Shabaab's deep ties to the US

a number of Somali Americans have gone to Somali to join the ranks of Al- Shabaab.

Some of them have become suicide bombers. A man from Alabama,

Omar Hammami became the rapping Jahadi.

Powerful in their recruiting videos though he was later killed.

US counter terror officials are seeing more communication

as well as the sharing of know- how and technology

between Al- Shabaab and other A- Qadea type groups

such as AQAP in Yemen.

And they say a credible next step would be cooperation

on joint terror operations abroad. For a long time

Al- Shabaab has been seen primarily as a domestic threat in Somalia.

But more and more, it's seen as an international one.

International Women's Day is a worldwide event

that's been sponsored by the United Nations since 1975,

but the holiday itself has been celebrated on March 8th since 1921.

Women's suffrage, their right to vote was a major catalyst for the event.

Today the holiday continues to promote women's rights,

focusing specifically this year on gender parity.

Achieving worldwide equality for women in areas like education,

politics, and health. Musical performances, marches, rally's,

all part of the event yesterday.

The UN Says it organized International Women's Day events

in dozen's of countries from India to Albania.

In many public areas of Saudi Arabia, women and men are separated.

It's a country that's been criticized for women's rights,

but things there are changing.

I've spent years covering the Middle East and the Gulf region,

and the issue of women's rights in Saudi Arabia often comes up.

The kingdom is an absolute monarchy, ruled by the Al- Saud family.

Now they govern according to a strict interpretation of Sunni Islam.

Women need the permission of a male guardian to travel, to work,

to attend higher education, or to marry.

But Saudi Arabia does have a very young population,

the median age there just 26, many that I've spoken

to say that the role of women in the country is evolving.

Now, 2015 marked the first year that Saudi women

were allowed to campaign for public office and to register to vote

at the municipal level. And that came two years

after the former King Abdullah decreed that women must make up

at least 20 % of the Shura council.

Now, that is an appointed body that drafts laws and

advises the king on major issues.

More Saudi woman are also joining the work force.

Only about 19 % of them currently perform paid work,

but the Saudi government says their numbers have risen considerably,

between 23, 00 in 2004 to over 400, 000 in 2014.

Now, women are still required to cover their hair

and wear long clothing in public, but in many malls and hotels these days,

women are seen without head scarves.

Perhaps the most visible sign of women's rights in Saudi and not,

as the case may be, is that they are not allowed to drive.

All the women that I've met there tell me they are often frustrated

by the west's focus on this topic and they feel it ignores

the other positive steps they say have been made.

But proponents for change say allowing women to drive

would be a big step towards opening other doors of opportunity.

From Atlantic to Pacific, it's time to set sail on the roll call.

We'll start in Lake Worth, Florida. Watch your step.

The Cobras are online at Park Vista Community High School.

Moving northward to Virginia, we've got the Vikings today.

Hello to Lake Taylor Middle School in Norfolk.

And bordering another ocean in the northern Mariana Islands,

great to see everyone at Kagman High School. It's in Saipan.

US military is working on a type of brain implant

that could help people connect more closely with computers.

The implant would be the size of two nickels stacked together

it cost tens of millions of dollars to develop

but researchers hope it would help people who have disabilities

in seeing and hearing. It could aid veterans who been Injured in combat, for example.

The technology is still a ways away according to scientists,

and some critics say brain implants are just a bunch of hype

that would waste taxpayer dollars, and possibly

cause health problems like brain inflammation.

Still it's another example of the search for technology

that enables people to exceed their natural limits.

Take a good look at the smart arm

the latest example of mind over matter.

Developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology

that uses motion capture technology to respond to human gestures like drumming.

The founder of the Georgia Tech Center for Music, Gil Weinberg

says it's completely versatile.

We let the arm move to different drums by following

where the drummer is and where the arm is with sensors on the arm itself,

some of them are embedded to make it oriented correctly

and some of them is from afar to know the whole environment in general.

And that's where, based on new gestures,

the arm can move to the different drums that you are interested in.

Researchers hope to link the arm's movements to a drummer's brain activity

by way of a headband. And what you see here may be the start

of much more to come. The US military is taking an interest

in wearable technology that can be controlled by implants.

Sorry about that. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced

it plans to spend up to $ 62 million on a project

designed to help injured veterans have more of an open channel

between the human brain and modern electronics.

Some even see the potential for enhancing the abilities

of soldiers in combat.

But regardless of how cyborg technology is applied,

the lingering question is will it catch on in the real world.

It would for me be an add- on to a kit. I could trigger a sample or

a different instrument. This professional drummer is interested,

but says it might take some getting used to.

In the future, technology may help to provide that needed extra hand.

George Howell, CNN, Atlanta.

Anyone can take a camera, start a YouTube channel,

give a glimpse of a day in the life, here's a spin on that.

The animal care staff at the Oregon Zoo gave a camera

to Chloe and just let her go bananas.

Chloe is 46 years old. She had the camera for two days.

She toted it, tested it, tasted it, she even found out how to turn it off.

And just like some people take pictures of their food,

Chloe got some footage of herself snacking.

Kinda risky to do that with a $ 300 camera,

but for Chloe, that's just chimp change.

She seem to film everything in primate orders.

She jungled the responsibility very well just goes to show

the extent of her ape ability.

I'm Carl Azuz and it's time for us to shut down.