the department of the navy and marine corps persists on saying that they did. that miss information was distributed to everyone registered on there website. senator nelson in florida, congressman brad miller, and others sent a letter in april to the secretary of the navy, asking him to rectify this mischaracterization. their response was the secretary of the navy went to the nrc and had the director answer a letter written last october by the astcr. it is a vicious circle. >> thank you for that. >> important questions. thanks very much. >> i want to talk about the heroes, but described it. i have read your testimony in detail. let me describe alaska for a second. in alaska, to get to it, you have to fly from anchorage to battle. -- bethel. it took 2.5 hours of travel air time. state, we have the premier indian health services, because we run it. they want to deliver health care the right way. in order to get to the veteran center, it is $2,000 that the veterans administration pays for. we provide incredible health care. in nome, alaska, we are building a state-

and get the navy's numbers up. the situation in afghanistan and iraq, as it allows us more leeway on how we shape the department of defense budget, we really need to do that. the size of the navy right now is about 282 ships. the ground floor goal of 313 and all of the vital national interests that we have with respect to the stability of east and southeast asia will be very important for us to look at. in that regard, i would like to raise two points with respect to the situation in east asia and i would also like to ask you about the situation in libya. first, when we are looking at the tempo in east asia, we see clearly that the chinese military activities have dramatically increased in the past 15 or 16 months. the most glaring examples of that were the situation with japan about one year ago and most recently, the chinese naval vessels cutting the table of a vietnamese ship that was exploring the possibilities of oil in the south china sea. these are basically related to sovereignty issues. they are not only n

an elite navy seal sniper. to the program howard wasdin, sir. >> thanks for being here. >> a great honor. >> tremendous. >> just like to say hello, take that applause and direct it to the men and women who are serving now. >> serving right now. >> i think a lot of people don't realize seal team six is an ongoing elite subset of the seal teams; is that correct? >> i don't know what you mean by subset. they have a different mission, john. they are the tier 1 counterterrorist units. which means they have the assets, the training, capabilities to deploy anywhere at a moment's notice. >> right. >> and do this type of op that you saw on me first. >> i guess what i am saying is there are other navy seal teams that are not part of six. >> there are other number teams, that's right. >> and how, does their training differ from the other navy seals. i know it differents from let's say the regular navy but how would it different from even the other navy seals? >> let me be very clear on one point here. just because are you

they believe the chinese navy aims to improve its long-term activities in the open sea. china's defense ministry has said the navy fleet will conduct exercises in the west pacific from mid through late june, adding that the drills are routine and comply with international laws. on thursday, three more chinese navy ships were spotted on the same route. >>> vietnam has accused china of harassing its oil exploration vessel for the second time in two weeks near disputed islands in the south china sea on thursday. foreign ministry spokesperson nguyen phuong nga spoke about the incident on thursday. she said three ships presumably chinese fishing boats cut an exploration vessel while they surveyed waters off the southern province of bac lieu. [ speaking foreign language ] vietnam previously criticized china for obstructing another oil probe vessel in the south china sea on may 26th. it also said warning shots were fired at vietnamese fishing boats by chinese ships on may 31st. mounting anger towards china sparked recent rare protest demonstrations in vietnam. observers say the

in february of two thousand and eight the young cooper a navy veteran of the tower of babel and a film crew left los angeles on a journey that took sixty five years. still might. be. on. while doing research for my recent book the war in the pacific of retrospective i happened across a associated press report that said in effect. where hundreds of marines died there are now millions of plastic bags crumpled paper boxes and when i saw that of course. since i had been a party to. our witness to all of the killings that took place i felt a special way. and i need to do something about this. i was. in my parents' apartment building in chicago remember soul well. that the manic announcement. really shook me up as was practically all of them. america including all the big shots in washington imagine a tiny country like japan. attracting our pacific fleet in pearl harbor but indeed roland tresham purpose is making america the giant a people major. world. so i live. life fully was. a lot. closer to the united states. the phone rang it was my brother and my brother said. he was trying to decide

the city will receive land from the navy in fairly large chunks. there will be an additional chunk that makes up half the island. we, in turn, passed that on to the developer in two block increment. they have given us plans that have been approved to say that they are building things that are consistent with approval. that is to say yes, the infrastructure they are proposing is consistent with our infrastructure program with financial guarantees that the developer will build up. dda also includes housing plans, infrastructure plans, and jobs programs that we talked about. the agreement is our agreement with the treasure island home was developed initiative. we have formulated this plan over the past decade and we owe them a lot of credit. lies with our 1996 agreement with them, the main components being that we provide them with subsidies to build units for new housing. we would also support them in their training efforts, including funding from the project. the navy agreement memorializes the purchase of treasure island made it over 10 years. we p

we went to review the navy clean-up team minutes. even though they are available to the public, they were not made available for 2010 and 2011. that is the nature of a cover- up. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good evening. my name is -- on the executive director of wild equities. i do want to reiterate all of the points made from the attorneys, but i also want to address another point which has not been addressed. we are a membership organization, and several of them actually live on yerba buena island. they have been treated unfairly. they have a wonderful community they have been building out there, and they have been made promises initially and about their ability to retain those times on the islands, and those promises have not been kept, and there is a lot of concern among members of the island about how they have been treated throughout this process. in addition to the arguments made during the ceqa appeal, there is an opportunity to do right by this community. there is an opportunity to do this legally

i warned the city that the 1994 memorandum of understanding with the navy was voided because the navy was withholding information on toxic contamination. in 1999, we want the city not to lease a building of the shipyard because it sat on top of a pcb dump. mr. cohen argued we should move forward with it. the dump broke the surface and burned from august until april 2000. it caused ongoing cleanup for the next 10 years. we have worked very hard to assure you understand this. in response to comments, the city has stated that the navy has accepted responsibility for all the debris found on treasure island, including that related to incineration site 12. on the other hand, article 12 of the economic development conveyance -- i am going to jump ahead. chairperson mar: i would like to ask you to simply try to wrap up, if you can. >> if you look at article 21, the navy says something very different than that. we have a number of cleanup projects on the island. this product is unstable, with many unknowns. we are concerned these will vastly modify the project proposal. thank you very much for

within ninety days civilian leon cooper would become navy ensign leon cooper and begin training as an infamous boat commander. taro was a series of coral reef atolls in the gilbert island group strategically located halfway between the hawaiian islands in the philippines. the go board islands had been under the jurisdiction of the british government to december one thousand nine hundred forty one two days after the attack on pearl harbor japanese soldiers came ashore at bay she told the governing island atoll of towels and proclaim that for the emperor. both sides understood the necessity to control islands across the pacific. the american commands tactical approach dated back to teddy roosevelt's assessment of world sea diplomacy devised for the late one thousand century. roosevelt always believed that if the u.s. was to contain japanese expansion they would need to command strategic island bases across the pacific the basic strategy and worst of all i tell you for a spotless record and. i decided to mess up our selection for the five states or someplace or call a dollar. a ship and

, but those collections on the history, the building of the island, the clippers, the navy, would be the basis of the museum, together with a new way approachable by younger people in this century that deals with the innovation, the fact that this island is built to be green, to be sustainable, and these assets, bringing together this team of innovation past, present, and future, will be very exciting as the program for our museum. also, we might even be able to hire some people. we had wonderful success with a young veteran from the navy who showed up, and he just loved what we were doing, and he was reimbursed and interpreted the little exhibition, which happen to be about c services in the pacific. we are very excited, and we are partnering on this with just about everybody because we all admire what each other are doing, but most of all, we are pleased that the developer has seen the importance of making space available for this museum, which will be in a sense, the soul of the new development called treasure island. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. next speaker please. >> g

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helicopter carriers will sail to russia to become part of its navy in a couple of years it's the first time after the second world war moscow is buying foreign weapons but what's more it's buying made to mildred acknowledges this has been strongly opposed by the french military like the diplomats everyone. thank you for being with us on the show good morning thank you thank you well first question is about is about the past actually when sarkozy was elected in two thousand and seven he was considered to be in atlanta just like a pro us politicians and their way expectations that the relations of france with russia may have probably be facing problems but these predictions were wrong the relations are pretty good today and so i knew a new set of expectations is being is being born today because we're facing elections a new election cycle both in france and russia so do you expect any changes that may. influence the current positive trend in the relations between russia and from zero i don't expect any change whatever this result yeah i don't expect you to write to to remind sarkozy was

navy wants to spent to clean up a shoreline are treasure island. stevenson tells us which feathered friend is at risk if the investment is not made. >> reporter: baseball owner remembers the days when sailing from treasure island meant watching out for friendly fire. >> used to be over here in the hangar area and we had to sail around that. >> reporter: sailors used the portion of clipper cove as a range from 1941-1989p to date the navy is planning to reduce lead shot that may endanger diving ducks. >> they go down and eat the shot. >> reporter: is is accessible to the deaths. they are now proposing to spend between $2,000,000.22 million to clean the code in the most expensive plan includes dredging times of lead contaminated sediment. the cheaper plan simply buries the contaminated sediment in the landfill. >> i am looking at the animals that actually dive into the sediment where a lead shot has fallen down into its. >> reporter: a public meeting to remove the lead and protect the diving ducks is set for june 14 here on treasure island. >> the san

rather than taking these concerns seriously, the navy entirely. there has been a consistent practice of environmental racism. black, latino, samoan, and lower-income children have been impacted by the health effects. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you very much. >> i want to thank you all for having this hearing today. we released a report as part of a coalition. 30 organizations nationally signed on. we did a freedom of information act request that went back to 2006. we reviewed hundreds of females that were going back and forth between the department of public health related to environmental review of the shipyard. i brought videotapes. hundreds of people were coming down here. we were door-knocking. people were getting rashes, nosebleeds. it was literally plumes of dust coming over the community. it has been documented that throughout that time, lenar was not monitoring the dust. they did not have data. they said they forgot to put batteries in air monitors that were supposed to record how much asbestos was being released into the communit

in february two thousand and eight the on cooper a navy veteran of the tower about and a film crew left los angeles on a journey that took sixty five years. to. be looked. down on. while doing research for my recent book the war in the pacific a reference back. i happened across a not so she had a press report that said in effect. where hundreds of marines died there are now millions of plastic bags crumpled paper boxes and when i saw that of course. since i have been a party. or a witness to all of the killings that took place i felt especially. and i need to do something about this. i was. in my parents' apartment building in chicago i remember seoul well. that dramatic announcement. really shook me up as well as practically all of america including all the big shots in washington i magine a tiny country like japan. attacking our pacific fleet then pearl harbor but and indeed for all intents and purposes making america the giant a people mention. of the world oh oh. some of the. stuff like. the. law. but you want i did. and looked out for me. at the law for iraq with my brother. my br

the navy vacated the 3,300-acre site in 1994. now it's being incorporated into the san pablo bay national wildlife refuge. the site restored to tidal wetlands. >> speaking on behalf of the navy, we are very pleaseded to be to be standing on official wildlife property. >> the san pablo bay national wildlife refuge lies along the north shore of the bay in sonoma, solano, and napa counties. >>> all right. let's talk about this bizarre weather that we're having. rob mayeda joins us now. it's like it's winter all over again. >> it is. if this was a winter storm scenar scenario, we'd be seeing an inch of rain in spots and even for january or february that would be impressive. the other thing that's impressive, temperatures 20 to 30 degrees below where they were. breezy as a cold front slowly heads slowly out of the bay area. when i mean slowly we're talking at times this afternoon only ten miles per hour. so we had all that moisture out there, and it kept raining and raining and raining, even sent the spider there in the san jose city

that the russian navy. official be rich to buy something without any in the u.s. so i think there is an interest. but who will see for france but very important in the industry in terms the doc about guns because it's a way to jump through some walk in seoul but that's one reason this is going to reason is this idea that. the transformation of nato is very important and that russia should not be seen as a rebel but should be seen as a partner a partner but it is seen as a country with. which it's possible to make some strategy convergence on the front issues not on all of these shows but on the front visuals says tell my government i will be russia and act as senator and the french institute of international relations spotlight will be that shortly after a break we'll continue definitively so don't go stay where you are. the a. man louis loses. the sense to. the. innovation cluster in the center of siberia one sees as revolutionary and as for the automotive industry your expenditures then soaked in fiction

. >> after six tours of duty in iraq and afghanistan these are the physical wounds farmer navy seal jimmy hatch lives with. the psychological wounds run just as deep. >> i had a lot of drugs run through my system and a difficult time adjusting to it and i was embarrassed about it. so much so that i isolated myself. >> shell shock, fatigue,posttraumaticstress diso fatigue,posttraumaticstressdiso rder. asmanyas20%. ptsd is not just an illness that haunts the mind, it affects the entire body. former congressman patrick kennedy now a healthcare advocate was on hand for today's announcement. >> for many of our soldiers the war is just beginning. the question is, are we going be there for them just as they were there for us?

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and get the navy's numbers up. the situation in afghanistan and iraq, as it allows us more leeway on how we shape the department of defense budget, we really need to do that. the size of the navy right now is about 282 ships. the ground floor goal of 313 and all of the vital national interests that we have with respect to the stability of east and southeast asia will be very important for us to look at. in that regard, i would like to raise two points with respect to the situation in east asia and i would also like to ask you about the situation in libya. first, when we are looking at the tempo in east asia, we see clearly that the chinese military activities have dramatically increased in the past 15 or 16 months. the most glaring examples of that were the situation with japan about one year ago and most recently, the chinese naval vessels cutting the table of a vietnamese ship that was exploring the possibilities of oil in the south china sea. these are basically related to sovereignty issues. they are not only n

converse the four year old henderson heads into the fight on a too much winning streak the american navy ten kilograms lighter but there are no weight limits for this heavyweight encounter in stating that should not be consistency of. conditions i don't think that tonight's riposte easy anyway easier to deal with i've usually drawn up against fighters who are heavier than me but i don't know trying to do my best to give someone who's a bit lighter is normal weight is about ninety seven kilograms and i've been to some great before the fight. and i felt they are plexi is a free man again after serving almost two years behind bars on gun charges the thirty three year old who famously called became winning touchdown in the zero seven super bowl will not try to recapture former glory on the gridiron arrests accidentally shot himself in the thigh with his own concealed handgun while visiting new york nightclub in

i am a veteran of the navy. i am stunned. i look around this room. it is full of accountants and lawyers and developers. i cannot see one document with the cost. san francisco is obviously paying for its. you cannot find one document related to the project. this has been part of the problem. you have undocumented expenses. i am part of the public. i cannot find one document that spells cells a name. -- that spells out a name. i do not see one supervisor here that will answer that question. this is a massive project. this is a good price. i would like to see some numbers in documents with names, phone numbers, a statement to what each project will cost. you guys handed 34 $5 million. we cannot even produce a business card for me. you have to start looking at all these projects. you are not paying for it. the city and county is. it goes toward properties like this. thank you for your time. >> thank you. next speaker. >> i am a resident. i strongly support this project. i urge you to support this. thank you. >> i am a practicing architect. i am a member

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the navy wanted to board the ship but was refused. the ship was forced to return to its home port. >>> in new zealand, a pair of earthquakes rocked the devastated city of christchurch. the quakes hit yesterday afternoon, the strongest measures a 6.0 magnitude. buildings rocked and some collapsed. thousands of aftershocks have hit christchurch since the february quake that killed 181 people. >>> on the "cbs moneywatch" some nervous investors on wall street, and a solid day at the movies for steven spielberg. ashley morrison is here with more. good morning to you. >> a mixed day on asian markets with increased concern about the u.s. economy. tokyo's nikkei fell almost 1%. the hang seng edged up a fraction. today on wall street the dow jones opens below 12,000 for the first time since march. last week the blue chips got hit hard. the dow lost 1.5% while the nasdaq was down more than 3% and lost all of its gains for the year. that was the sixth down week in a row for the market, its longest losing streak since 2002. the s&p 500 had lost a