that have a good relationship with the marines. despite that good relationship, they still felt obligated, based on their own orders to take one marine, to stand guard with a rifle, while we were playing sports. >> so that was your protection in the event somebody started shooting, that was the guy who would intervene. >> that is the one guy >>> the terms "hero" and "giant" are often overused but not when it comes to senator dan inno way who recently died at the age of 81. barred from the military until 143 because of his japanese heritage, his most famous action was against german machine gun nests. shot in the stomach he refused treatment and took out the second. weak from blood loss, he attacked the third but's prepared to throw another grenade, german fire nearly severed his rate arm. wresting the live grenade from his fist it he hurled it but was shot again in the leg. discrimination delayed his medal of honor until 2000. he was elected to congress in 1959 and the senate in 1963. intelligent, honest, fair, he was deeply devote

we greatly respect navy, marine corps and guard safety policy. cal fire has an aviation policy as well. we work cooperatively with the agencies here at the table to ensure when we are engaged in an aerial fire fighting event we are working within each other's policies. we have trained in a work around, we can do close air support with navy and marine corps aircraft, with the current system we have. would we like to improve upon it? absolutely. we have gone very high up in the organization to try and look at getting the r210 radio modified to the point where it can work on our vhf spectrums, that's one of our challenges we need to move forward with. but overall we're confident when we do call upon dod assets to integrate with civilian aircraft, the training regimen we put forth will keep aircrews safe and also have them be effective. there was a lot of questions from a political level as well as a public level. you've got aircraft sitting at north island, just launch them, get them in the fight. it was hard to explain to them that that's a very de

first marine decision, first marine expeditionary force forward entered southwest afghanistan during 2009. we arrived in 2010 so it was a bit more stable. and we went straight to helman and nimruz province. very complex dynamic environment that we were operating in but before i begin it talk to you about the operational picture, i just want to give you a snapshot of afghanistan. when we got there i want to set the frame here so you understand what we're dealing with. afghanistan ranged 180th out of 1 86 on the world bank list of developed countries. 20 percent of the babies won't reach their first year of life. there is a 44 year life span for your average citizen. it has a less than 20 percent literacy rate and girls in afghanistan will marry by the time they are 15 and will likely birth their second child by the time they are 20. so this is the long-term effects of violence and civil wars within a failed state by every measure. the marines who are currently still in southwest afghanistan, they are surrounded by very conservative culture. in 2010, this is not true now but narco traf

we work closely with cal guard, navy and marine corps aviation. we do that with squadron training. we still have khal lefrpg wills, i'm not going to lie to you. we have issues where tactical to air communication is difficult. cal guard, we purchased the radios for national guard aircraft and they installed them in their aircraft so we have robust communications with california national guard, with navy and marine corps it's still a work in progress. we have a work around with that with respect to tactical communications and we use coordinating helicopters to handle air to ground tactical situations and that is relayed to the aircraft that are in trail. it's not perfect but it's a work around and it keeps everybody in the fight. >> prior to 20011 2011 the navy fire fighting capability was concentrated in one squadron. in 2011 it began to expand to other

marine. when he was driving he was wearing a jacket that covered up his uniform so no one would know he was a marine or is a marine. ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> crews shut down a post office this morning after several workers got sickened by a chemical. it turns out it was pepper spray. investigators say it came from a canister. two people were treated. >>> san francisco woman who was arrested in connection with the death of her daughter has been released from jail. the girl was found lying on a sidewalk and died at the hospital. the mother, 46-year-old heidi heidelberg was arrested on suspicion of felony child endangerment. the district attorney said he she was released and faces no charges pending further investigation. >>> authorities are working to identify the body of a man found in a storage area following a fire. firefighters were called at 1:15 a.m. this morning. crews found the body in the storage area after they put out the fire. police say the death does not appear susp

marine corps infantry officer serving two combat tours his book talks about his marine training and deployment during a the worst of the of war. benjamin busch. [applause] brian castner three tours of duty in the middle east from the ordnance disposal unit in iraq when he returned to life and family he said he began to struggle with an unshakable feeling. "the long walk" shows the toll that war takes. brian castner. [applause] >> enjoy men. >> it is a real honor to be here i want to think they're ready involved especially middle is a true honor to be on a panel with two veterans to serve as the marines and the air force. i don't belong on a panel with people who lived through at. lastly there are veterans who were in my book better here stand and a day for in the book. [applause] one of the things i amassed why did i write a book about this one combat outpost? it is not my area of expertise but i am a correspondent with abc news. i feel i did not pick that combat outpost but i felt like the outpost picked me on 2009 and was in the recovery room with my wife jennifer and a holding our one day o

and because a little known marine colonel went out with some corpsmen and some marines over the course of several days and pulled in a lot of wounded he found wandering, staggering around mindlessly on the ice while chinese soldiers, by the way, just watched them. they could have shot them at any time. i kind of like this marine colonel because at one point he was a relief pitcher in the minor leagues. i think on the hagueerstown blue socks or something before he went back into the marines. >> so in the later years, in the stories of vietnam, iraq, afghanistan to a lesser extempt, i think that's really where this question of politics and civilian oversight versus what you can lay at the doorstep of the military really comes into play. you recount tales of generals who are much less heroic than those you just talked about in those later wars. where do you feel the balance lies between the accountability that should have been there but was missing for the generals in vietnam or in iraq in its early days versus the problem of political leaders setting impossible goals or murky goals and t

the marine corps officer had a cover jacket on. his uniform was invisible. >> reporter: we captured two marines on camera at the scene. it is not clear which one if either was the driver. >> is the public at risk? >> not at this time . there's no other victims as far as we know. there was no injury to the one solo victim in this case, thankfully. >> reporter: and technicians will try to recover the bullets and calculate their trajectory. if you saw anything, the sheriff's office wants you to give them a call. >>> and a shooting death in east oakland. a woman was hit by gun fire in the 9,100-block of international boulevard. she was walking to the store, found herself in the middle of a running gun battle. she was pronounced dead at the scene. no suspects in custody yet. >>> in connecticut today, families buried four more victims. family came to honor daniel barden who wanted to be a firefighter someday. they also said goodbye to caroline and charlotte. officials say some wounds will never heal. >> the teachers and the parents have

in many places, paint peels off, taking with it any attached marine life. and many organisms shun such insecure surfaces in the first place. meanwhile, us biologists have observed that wrecks also lure fish away from their natural reefs. in some cases, wrecks were covered in organisms just a couple of hours after being sunk, with fish never returning to their original reefs. thomas zurawski has been tasked by biologists with counting and collecting the marine life forms and plants that form the biotopes on his sunken wrecks. they're not the same as ones that develop on natural underwater rock formations, for example -- they tend to be more species that mostly live in the open ocean. it remains to be seen just how beneficial artificial reefs are for marine life. >> we had hoped to see an explosive development of new biotopes with the marine life that developed there then leaving the wrecks and heading into other biotopes, creating new stocks. unfortunately this didn't happen on the scale we'd hoped. >> the wrecks are sunk in controlled conditions on sand ban

so some marine small sea life in there absolutely disappeared. that's another effect you can see a lighthouse in there before tsunami and where is the lighthouse in the middle of the island down there after the tsunami. so the bottom is absolutely came up. another example. another effect of -- global effect. because of the change of the mass of the earth, because it moves so it change slightly the configuration, it has an effect in the axis rotation of the globe. it moved 8 centimeters north pole to the east and that means rotation increased 1.26 millions of seconds so you work less because of chili right now, but it's an impact you have to take into account that happened because of that earthquake. here i can show you a set of photographs of the destruction in the coastal villages, most of them was because of the tsunami. the waves came in there and destroy everything. it goes about 300 meters inland, so nothing was safe. in the port activities, the containers, it's impressive derelict, you have it take that into account in places where you put

we work closely with cal guard, navy and marine corps aviation. we do that with squadron training. we still have khal lefrpg wills, i'm not going to lie to you. we have issues where tactical to air communication is difficult. cal guard, we purchased the radios for national guarrc

i'm with first marine briged. i've been coming to san francisco since may for the planning efforts and i got to participate in the com drill with 6 marines and we were dispersed from all 3 different sites. >> good morning, everybody, my name is michelle geddis, i'm with the san francisco department of emergency management, i'm responsible for the project management ofrs and one of our major programs is the interoperatability program. so i was more than delighted to be part of this com exercise, i was able to be an evaluator at the ocean beach location and we have a lot of lessons learned to talk about. thanks. >> one of the challenges that we have in civilian and also you as military is that common operating picture. how do we make sure that all of our resources in the field, back in the command post, have the same operating picture and we can ensure that we have an unity of effort of everyone. and with the command and control exercise that we started with, this was one great opportunity for the military and the c

corps and barry newman was a very energetic officer in the marine corps. he has gone over to afghanistan, i went over and saw him there, he was attached to the kabul police chief. i think he's going to have some interesting perspectives about working in the police department in a war zone. lieutenant commander patricia serrano, her assignments have been varied includes working as a immediate vaek core man, a legal clerk and a tqm instructor. she completed a 7-month deployment. captain mike napolitano is serving with the navy's expedition training group. while deployed in 2004, he spearheaded maritime patrol relief efforts toing the 2004 indian ocean tsunami, as well as numerous theater cooperation efforts throughout the pacific and in 2009 captain napolitano reported as commanding officer of the expeditionary training group. this is a fabulous panel and i know you're going to appreciate what they have to say. rear admiral, i think you'll start. >> first of all on behalf of the chilean navy i would like to thank so much to san francisco fleet week,

navy, the marine corps, had something that we really needed. it's called logistics expertise. and we recognized that and with the help of our fleet week association, with the help of our honorary chair, former secretary of state george scholtz, along with senator feinstein who started fleet week, we began to appreciate in addition to appreciating the men and women in uniform and the wonderful attributes of having fleet week and the blue angels and the parade of ships, we could also be working on something very important to this city. all across the world there are examples after example and i know the men and women and leadership of the uss macon know this after their tour of duty these past months, all over the world there are disasters and emergencies that we are responding to and that you have become the humanitarian assistance and the disaster relief that is absolutely needed. why not practice that here? and so two years ago we gathered with our own departments from the port of san francisco to our sheriff to our police and fire, led by our emergency management division, g

when we lost so many marines at that time.ran. >> off the set, he is constantly on the road with his lieutenant dan band. >> my television show is very supportive. sometimes i have to be places on friday, saturday, sunday, which means i have to work around the television schedule to be able to do that. >> they have done over 40 uso tours and countless charity concerts. fox files was recently invited on board the band private plane supplied for free by american airlines to ft. bragg. >> it is going be a good welcome home for them. ♪ >> meeting a lot of people. shaking a lot of hands. taking a lot of pictures. signing things. >> ♪ >> we have just thousands of people there that were really in need of a great morale boost and a show of appreciation. >> it was awesome. i totally enjoyed myself tonight. >> i have played hundreds of these shows. and every time it's great. >> coming up. >> i get all choked up when i think about it. and we are trying to help as many as we can. >> that is next. [ male announcer ] this december, remember

the absolutely found his niche with those marines. he took leave the first of july and secretly married theresa. july 10 was the last time i saw him. he arrived in afghanistan the end of july and wrote these final words in his journal on august 2. mom, dad, i can never repay you for all you have done for me. you made me into the man i am today. i hope that i have made you proud. that has always been my goal. i love you both so much. tell the girls i love them and couldn't be prouder older brother. i have always tried to be an honorable man and i truly believe in what we are doing here. i am doing this for my family so that they need not fear. my country so that can be a beacon of light for the entire world. the men around me because no one could ask for it better company than the u.s. armed forces and finally, i do this for myself so that i might know the measure of myself and in and not be found wanting. i believe that it is my duty to fight and having done all that i can to simply stand against this and all the evil work that is upo

the marine was in an unmarked government vehicle.ut we're told he may have been followed from a gas station. no arrests have been made. >> and not too far away. sunnyvale police have called off the search for a burglary suspect. earlier their search resulted in a school being locked down in cupertino. teams of officers with dogs. scoured a neighborhood off homestead road near cupertino village. for one of three suspects in connection with some recent home burglaries. two other men were arrested after a brief chase. police say they found jewelry and several wrapped gifts in their car. as a precaution, the "good samaritan church preschool" was locked down for several hours. the church pastor says, the children were never in any danger. >> nearly one week since the tragic shooting at an elementary school in newtown, connecticut, the community is coping with a steady stream of funeral processions. rene marsh has the story from newtown. >> another day brings heartbreaking funerals in a town try to figure out how to heal. >> the teachers i

when we lost so many marines at that time.t veteran. >> off the set, he is constantly on the road with his lieutenant dan band. >> my television show is very supportive. sometimes i have to be places on friday, saturday, sunday, which means i have to work around the television schedule to be able to do that. >> they have done over 40 uso tours and countless charity concerts. fox files was recently invited on board the band private plane supplied for free by american airlines to ft. bragg. >> it is going be a good welcome home for them. ♪ >> meeting a lot of people. shaking a lot of hands. taking a lot of pictures. signing things. >> ♪ >> we have just thousands of people there that were really in need of a great morale boost and a show of appreciation. >> it was awesome. i totally enjoyed myself tonight. >> i have played hundreds of these shows. and every time it's great. >> coming up. >> i get all choked up when i think about it. and we are trying to help as many as we can. >> that is next. >>> one organization was founded by

marine not been identified was wearing a coat over his wearing a coat over his uniform and thebg] marinepatrol shut down southbound lanes to begin the investigation. their primary goal to find shell casings. attack happened just after 1:00 and the sheriff's office is hailing the investigation. >> the call goes to chp. sheriff's office gets sometime as well in the city of we respond. we're going to take over the investigation because of the type of crime the marine corps officer not injured. we don't have information at this time.>& ok >> investigators hoping someone driving along the freeway might have witnessed this shooting with no description of a4 suspect or vehicle, they'd like to hear from someone, anyone with information that could help pin down who shot at the marine