because it became apparent, and particularly now for the u.s., who had a two ocean navy. it needed to have a route to cross from one ocean to the other. and so, in 1903, when panama was fighting for its independence, the u.s. supported the rebels. and it bought the construction rights from the french canal company for $1 million. it began the construction in 1904. but at the beginning, they just took baby steps, because, even though the french had already started, everything was a shambles because the first french company went bankrupt. and it took a while to get it started, because there was no organization. and also, they had to deal with disease. malaria and yellow fever, which were the two main causes of the french failure. it is said that may be up to 20,000 or more people died of disease. and the first american engineer, chief engineer that was appointed did not last very long. but then, john frank stephenson was appointed chief engineer in 1905, and he was chief engineer for two years, until 1907. he created the basic infrastructure and the bureaucracy for the reall

south carolina had a state navy that they go into the ocean. as a matter of fact, the frigate randolph led a flotilla which included a number of state navy vessels from south carolina when it was destroyed in the battle with yarmouth. the state navy vessel got away. the state navies of virginia and maryland were designed to stay mostly in the chesapeake and protect it from raiders and privateers. and gunboats -- >> no ship of the line. >> we were building one ship of the line at the time, and when we finished it, we gave it to france. it was only going to be a 50-gunner, not a big one. we bought frigates. as a matter of fact, there were those advocating, let's not even go for frigates, that's -- let's go for frigs, sloops, fast things that can go in shallow water. the reason they could operate is because it was very shallow and the british could not go in with their navies ships. if you know anything about little egg harbor, it is south toward philadelphia, so you could go to new york and slip back in and the british could not get at you. that i

ocean. today the navy tried out a new technique called sea basing. saw basing uses a moshl landing -- mobile platform. >> we're able to speed up the process, off load vehicles, personnel at a faster pace. >> the navy says it is self sufficient and can support many troops for as long as 45 days. . >>> california corn maize is attracting hundreds of people after earning a spot in the record books. find out where you can find it. >>> just when you've think you've seen it all from google. the record highs the executive went to to gate stellar view. >>> the rain showers moving out of the bay area. temperatures that will be trending and when rain could make a come back. over the next 40 years the united states population is going to grow by over 90 million people and almost all the growth is going to be in cities. what's the healthiest and best way for them to grow so that they really become cauldrons of prosperity and cities of opportunity? what we have found is that if that family is moved info safe, clean, affordable housing, places that have access to

india looks to the indian ocean where the chinese navy is. they control part of the territory they took 50 years ago. he's a democracy. we are no threat to india. he can offer us something and we can offer something. this is not a military ally, we have far more important geo strategic relationships with russia, and china. >> don't forget the britain nations. >> brazil, russia, south africa. >> what's the relationship with russia today. >> they were a cold war alive. this is one of the problems with the indian relationship. the pakistanis are paranoid about india. it's their central concern and this meeting my guess has caused some problems. >> india is peaceful neuroclear power and an emerging economic power house, it will be. business in this country love india and are looking to open more markets. there's tension over india wanting to get around the patent protection. they want to make low cost generic drugs, which i think is a good position morally and ethically but it would cut into the bottom line of american corporations. that's an iss

navy will actually prevent boaters from using parts of the delaware bay this week. the coast guard will set up three safety enforcement zones in the delaware bay and atlantic ocean. e exercises will include the navy, coast guard and canadian. how to board and investigate suspicious boats. those areas will be off limits to boaters from thursday through october 24th. >>> the national weather service will survey damage to see if it was caused by a tornado. the strong storm system twisting metal off of roofs and knocking down power poles. one person was killed when a tree fell on her home. the winds even knocked out the 911 system for a while in madison county, alabama. people in tennessee just across the state line also assessing damage from severe weather. unconfirmed reports of tornadoes touching down in western tennessee and more strong winds expected through that region today. this is the same system heading our way for later in the week could produce some rain for us and let's check in with meteorologist bill henley now. it's later tomorrow that we're going to see the showers take place for us, but ahead of those storms we're seeing a big warm up for our area an

ocean. next, four navy divers are lowered down.em by the legs, and finally rescuers are onboard. >> and i can clearly remember hanging on the railing with these two navy divers in their black frog suits absolutely ready to -- you know, trained guys who know what they're doing and then saying, right, there's a lot more people on board than we thought. we don't think we're going to be able to get everybody off. >>> coming up, rescuers have made it onto the ship. >> by then the water was up to the portholes. >> but time has finally run out. >> passengers just had to jump in. >>> and -- >> all of a sudden i realized i couldn't breathe. and that's when everything changed. >> an experience of a lifetime turns in an instant. i have the worst cold with this runny nose. i better take something. dayquill cold and flu doesn't treat your runny nose. seriously? alka-seltzer plus cold and cough fights your worst cold symptoms plus your runny nose. oh, what a relief it is. but when we start worrying about tomorrow, we miss out on the things that

ocean and real potential. the devil is in the details and we will wait to see what happens. >> mort, india borders china. its navy has access to open waters through the indian ocean and it a nuclear power. a strategic alliance with india is far better than nonaligned to india. >> for sure. india is a power. they are going to be, i think, exploding in terms of their economy under the leadership of this man. i suspect they are going to have an increased, shall we say, military capability, but that's not the issue. political and economic strength that will be much more tilted on our side and will be a very good counter balance to whatever china may want to do. it's a plus, plus, it seems to me. for them and for us. >> the united states committedded to go to war for india, if we get in a fight as they did 50 years ago. the job has strategic partnership. you can sell weapons to them and the rest of it. as for nato-type alliance. it will be insane. >> i don't think that's what is involved. i think we can give them a certain kind of, indirect support at a lot of levels. >> they are a friend, but a problematic friend, bu

ocean. the annual training exercises include the navy, coast guard and canadian military.rt of the training will include how to board and investigate suspicious boats. the areas will be off limits to boaters from thursday through october 24th. >>> another child has died after getting diagnosed with enterovirus d68. this time, it's a little girl from michigan. it all comes just a few weeks after 4-year-old eli waller of hamilton township, mercer county, died from the virus. as nbc's erica edwards reports, enterovirus d68 has infected hundreds across the country, primarily children. >> reporter: michigan toddler madeline reed died friday in her parents' arms. doctors say she'd been battling enterovirus d68 when her heart failed. >> her symptoms started like they do for all children with enterovirus d68 with symptoms that look like a common cold. >> lab tests will have to confirm theç enterovirus was directly responsible. >> those investigations are still under way but i must say, at the top of the list of possibilities is that this enterovirus may have produced those illnes

we red in the paper that the german navy had two radars operating in the atlantic ocean.new they were out there but nobody told us what to look for or how to avoid them. >> consider to be grand admiral secret weapons, they appeared to be neutral merchant ships but were armed vessels. ten of them were in operation during world war ii. >> they operated in the indian ocean and they operated in the atlantic. >> these guys were pirates. they flew anybody's flag they felt like. one of them diagnosed as a japanese ship. she approached ships and boom. >> it just looked like an ordinary merchant ship until it went into action. >> september 7th, 1942, the american leader and her crew of 58 left cape town, south africa bound for new york. >> for this radar hit us at about 10:00 at night. >> we were headed due west, 270 degrees. up out of the dark came another vessel and bang, bang, bang. they expended about 150 four inch and nine-inch shells into the ship. >> they hit storage fuel tank and when they hit that tank and set it afire when that oil just run all over us. fire in the sea a

finished her training the section was the germany ocean liner it was sees during world war i and she served in world war i as a transport for the navy 20 for two years and the army for one year as at 11 years they served as a steamship and renamed for serving in world war ii the third ship to bear the name was one of four super carries built for the navy in the 1960 he served in 4967 in the earn may be seated transparenceburg the arab israel aware war near the coast of vietnam where they disrupted the flow of the supplies san francisco south vietnam in 1970 medical examiner deployed begin to vietnam the light craft into gnat for of first time america completed over 6 hundred capacitates and delivered we're pleased to have the expanding officer who became the chief of the navel officer please join me in welcoming the units retiree (clapping.) >> following the mediterranean employment in 1981 he fluid to vietnam and america received 5 battle scars and america aircraft sank a road site and had nurmsz missions in early 1991er mernl america had might want strikes in desert storm and disruption of much of theicic army it was did he commis

heat stored in the ocean accounts for most of the excess heat that's associated with global warming. >>> the u.s. navy released new video of unmanned navy boats that could be crossing the seas within a year. they are like driverless cars. they are called the autonomous swarm boats. they use algorithms, advanced computer programs and sensors to determine how to navigate the seas and coordinate their efforts. they can even surround enemy ships to deter them from advancing into restricted waters. while the boats move on their own, their weapons systems are operated remotely by humans. >>> early risers can expect to see a rare sight. a total lunar eclipse that coincides with the sunrise on wednesday morning. it should start to become visible about 3:25 a.m. nasa expects that sight to be colorful even for cities with lots of artificial light. the moon will turn a dim red because of sunlight scattered through the earth's atmosphere with a band of turquoise visible just before the moon is fully eclipsed. >>> when we come back, we update the condition of an injured eagle. >> rescued by a bay area wild life gr

navy. i was on destroyers the whole time, in the pacific ocean. i had what was called a good war. i got a lot of action. important forly my life. i am sometimes embarrassed to admit it. >> why? disputest believe between nations should be resolved by war. and traveling old in a destroyer around the pacific ocean. and wondery kids now how they could possibly get that kind of responsibility that early in their lives. or 21 and a greek major, driving destroyers around. it was a formative thing for me. i loved it. i guess i was pretty good at it. >> you grew up in boston? >> grew up in boston. sort of a bent silver spoon. mother came from new york but my father was an all-american football player at harvard. of as a vice president bank until the depression when he went broke. very typically of him, he thought he wanted to repay the people whose money that had invested. that took about 15 years to do, but he did it. >> why in the world did you study classics? >> iran into a greek professor -- i went to a prep school in the middle of massachusetts -- he got me interested. i don't know wh

ocean, but in, yes, a lake. at more than 4,000 meters above sea level it's the world's highest and a half gal lake. having its navy relegated to this body of water is a humiliation endured by bolivia since 1879 when it lost its coastline for neighboring chile in the war of the pacific. at the navel base, sailors learn the basics so they will be ready for the day when that i land locked country recovers a corridor to the pacific. in the capital, we visit a school with a patriotism challe klas is undeclassis under way. >> translator: when the chileans arrived they told him to vendor and what did our hero answer? let your grandmother surrender answers this boy. >> reporter: as you can see from a very early age, these children are taught that chile took way bolivia's rightful access to the sea. and when they graduate the boys at least will have to do the obligatory military service and there they will march around the lake and this is what they will chant. i want to bathe in the blood of chileans. i want to bathe to drowned my sorrow such deeply rooted anger and senior owe explains why bolivians see this as a wound th

maintain a navy then as now our navy and our marine corp uniquely provide presence around the world we - their joined by tens of thousands of our sailors in the worlds oceans they're there far from home far from families standing to watch doing everything gnat operations special operations living the humanitarian assistance and their performing magnificently if you ever become concerned about america do talk to a young sailor or marine you'll not be concerned anymore (clapping) something i'm reminded of that was reinforced in me everyday i serve as secretary is that although our technology gives us an edge the heart of our navy and marine corp and accident thing that gives us the greatest advantage is the skills and also faithful united states sailors the united states marines today as i look around in this crowding crowd you'll see did veterans that have served our nation in far places from the veteran of world war ii greatest generation to our current great generation they join us here to honor this ship and all she stands for you'll also see sailors and marines in uniform today, you'll see them today but most of the time you don't see them when their do

navy? >> guest: i was in destroyers in the pacific ocean for three and a half years, from '42 to '45. and it turned out i was good at it. i loved it. at 21 years old i became qualified for officer of the deck, which means that you run a destroyer for four hours. three hundred and seventy-five men and this ship 360 feet long, it goes 40 miles an hour and a 21-year-old greek major was giving the orders. it was heady and it was a great break for me. c-span: you were married. >> guest: i was already married i was married when i was 20. c-span: jean... >> guest: i had to have my dad's permission. c-span: without your dad's permission? >> guest: no, i had to have it... c-span: oh. >> guest: ... to get a license. c-span: jean saltonstall. >> guest: jean saltonstall. c-span: that's a famous name. who was jean saltonstall? >> guest: well, she was a cousin of leverett saltonstall, who's the well-known politician -- senator from massachusetts. we were both awful young. c-span: how long were you married to her? >> guest: thirteen years. c-span: did you have any children? >> guest: one child who's

navy's newest vessel. it aims to restore america's dominance on the high seas when it takes to the ocean.he uss america was intimate in mississippi. it -- built in mississippi. it took nearly 3,000 workers working for nearly five years in order to get that ship built. brian? >> it's a massive ship. it's about a sixth of a mile long. and you learned today what's inside. right? >> reporter: absolutely. amazing what's inside. all the bells and whistles. they have nine launch pads for airliners and an entire hospital with two operating rooms and enough room for 2,000 marines on board. the navy referred to it as a modern ship to fight today's global threats. >> all righty, mark kelly live at the embarcadero. appreciate it. >>> a lot more activities coming up for tomorrow including another blue angels' show for a complete list of events, go to kpix.com. >>> president obama is back in washington tonight after another quick withdrawal from the bay area cash machine. the president boarded air force one shortly before noon today. waving to the crowd gathered at sfo to see him off. it was here for l

. >>> part of the atlantic ocean and delaware bay off cape may will be off limit for just over a week. boaters will need to avoid certain areas so navy can performing training exercises. coastguard and canadian military will be involve. the scenario will be boarding of the canadian vest that he will supposedly mind the delaware bay. officials say the demonstration will include live mine counter measure operations. >>> and those boxes contained new, coats that will help thousands of kids in the philadelphia area stay warm during the upcoming cold, winter months. "eyewitness news" at northeast ymca on knights road, auto dealers caring for kid foundation donated 6500 new coats, for children, and, program new in the seventh year will deliver 37,000 coats, just this month. >>> those coats, will come in handy sooner i think rather than later, kathy, it is nippy out there. >> we have had a couple chilly nights in the 40's and 30's to the north and it won't be the case tonight. tonight we are talking about some fog but that could be a cause for a slow down come tomorrow morning. outside we are looking at conditions that are not so great, mor

to stop, because i can't -- i don't actually really believe that the navies have been able to patrol such a large part of the oceanhether there's been any ground attacks by or government and military in somalia. >> did you talk to actual pirates about their motivations? >> we spoke to some actual pirates, we spoke to some hostages. we spoke to some people who were involved in handling the ransom payments and negotiating. we spoke to a variety of people to try to make this authentic. we spent years researching. so we -- the authenticity of this film is important both from the protection of the somalis, and being true to the whole situation. >> thank you, cutter, so much. >>> up next "the cycle" comes full circle. to tour tourre's teak on to quarantine or not to quarantine. hi, are we still on for tomorrow? tomorrow. quick look at the weather. nice day, beautiful tomorrow. tomorrow is full of promise. we can come back tomorrrow. and we promise to keep it that way. driven to preserve the environment, csx moves a ton of freight nearly 450 miles on one gallon of fuel. what a day. can't wait til tomorrow. on my journey

ships and navies moved in on the waterways. that was true on the ocean and true on it in land environment. it pains to begin the discussion with the outbreak of the war of 1812. i love talking about benedict arnold. that will be for another day. today, it is all about the final war on lake champlain, at least from military point of view. the war of 1812. in the war of 1812, if you look at it, as i did as a student, the war of 1812 was not about lake champlain. it was not about even really north america. it was about europe and dominance in europe, and it was about napoleon and his expansion of protocol that the british found very threatening and felt they needed to stop. so great britain went to war with france and their allies. and the key from the british point of view was there naval strength. they could control the waterways. they could blockade ports. keep the french off balance, and at a disadvantage so they can maintain that naval superiority. if you do that, you need big ships and men. so they were in a bond, in a constant effort to make those sh

ocean but yes a lake. at more than 4,000 meters above sea level the world's highest navigatible lake. having it's navy relegated to this body of water is a humiliation endured by bolivia since 1979 when it lost its coast line to neighboring chile in the war of the pacific. at the naval base sailors learn the basics so whe. in the capitol we visit a school where patriotism class is underway. >> when the chilean ride they told him to surrender, and what did our hero answer? >> let your grandmother surrender. >> as you can see from a very early age these children are taught that chile took away bolivia's rightful access to the sea, and when they grad rate the boys will have to do their obligatory service and there they will march around the lake, they will chant i want to bathe in the blood of chile ans, a want to belate in their sorrow. this is a wound that refuses to heal. after decades of frustrated attempt to resolve the corridor to the pacific. they have gone to the court of justice in the haig. using his speech before the united nations to make his case. his aggressive approach has angered neighbor

ocean, they call themselves the silent service. for 110 years a dedicated brotherhood of mariners, no women's allowed. >> this is a popular place? >> this is a popular place. >> until four years ago, when the u.s. navy allowed women board a submarine. >> we asked her whether that concerned her? >> we are all professional sailors, i'm respected as a sailor -- lieutenant in the united states navy. >> 560 feet long, the submarine space is at a premium. every room here serves more than one purpose. this officer's rec room doubles as an emergency surge karl center. >> this is what we call the supply shack, this is where our logistical supplies people manage their supplies. we have up to four people, i like to keep it to two or three. for obvious reasons. i'm probably in here a solid ten hours a day. >> long hours in tight spaces are the reality of submarine life. ten months at sea with no windows and no privacy. here is an example of the living quarters, the hallways are about two feet wide. around the corner here is a stateroom. this is where the officers often sleep and spend personal time. here is one of their beds. they're often three of them to a room. now when enlisted women are allowed on board th

ocean for the hover craft to easily get on and off. if the new ship does well during the testing, the navy says it might purchase two more. >> human remainsing several weeks ago. jessie matthew junior has been charged in the case. police are investigating evidence that may link matthew to the 2009 murder and abduction of another student. he's charged with a 2005 sexual assault in northern virginia. >>> a hatchet attack on four new york city officers was a home grown terrorist act. he has a history of antiamerican online postings. he was killed after charging with hatchet while they posed for a photograph. one officer is still hospitalized with a head wound. >>> a 99-mile section of santa clara county is under quarantine after a threat was found to citrus trees. a asian bug infestation was found on the trees in san jose. >> they're hoping that the quarantine will keep the bug from spreading, but they're worried. >> the bug itself doesn't make us nervous, but the disease makes us nervous. >> if they're carrying citrus greening disease, it will cause the trees to produce bitter diseased fruit. >> they are hoping to keep the quarantined trees

its about how colonies then the called the continental navy ought not just in the atlantic but saw action in the mediterranean sea and indian ocean. the society red by of cincinnati, it took place in the anderson house in washington, d.c. garden. >> good evening. my name is kendall casey and i am the museum education manar