special forces, that has the president once again praising american troops, here is tina kraus with the latest. >> reporter: the same u.s. naive seal team that killed osama bin laden carried out the raid, they rescued them. both were working for a danish aid group. members of seal team 6 parachuted in during the middle of the night and surprised the pirates. officials confirmed they killed 9. the hostages were not harmed and no casualties among the special forces. president obama congratulated defense secretarily on panetta before his state of the union address tuesday night. >> good job tonight. >> but the president made no mention of the raid in the speech. afterward he called buchanan's father to report his daughter was free. intelligence reports indicated buchanan's health was deteriorating and may have added urgency to the mission. >> we followed as we always do the advice of the special operators when they should move. this was daring as your man pointed out, these guys are absolutely mind-blowingly effective. >> they kidnapped them in october. they are both on the way to be reuni