Your first post had the entire story, including the interview with the general afterward.
And the soldier with the impact contusion, along with the video of him being shot and getting back up.
I watched it again before I posted back to you, below, to look for the telltale signs of sandbagging, in case I missed it the morning before. The entire was still there online at about 8:00 AM Eastern Time.
That was while today's Today Show was being broadcast, live. It could be that the day's show is made available for 24 hours -- you know, "today" -- until the next day's show -- which by then would be "today" -- is available.
That has nothing to do with making a specific story go away, or with judging one story to be more important than another. It has to do with the ongoing business set-up of a news show whose name is not "Yesterday".