pat: in estonia? used to write captive nations resolutions pleading for let these little cups go one of these days. tom: here's a way we can balance it. pat is absolutely right what the european union has done far so little. pull out the bases from germany. put them into poland. it would signal that the united states backs allies who are willing to carry security. i think the nature at the united states in terms of self-determination -- putin is pushing now because he senses he can push. he didn't with george w. bush because he felt he couldn't. i would point to what happened with assad with chemical weapons, which was a fang deal and everyone knows it was. the credibility is such that putin keeps pushing the line. how do you balance against having a war with the russians? you challenge them on a financial front but also challenge their -- pat: you're talking economic sanctions. if russia misbehaves, i agree 100%. as for assad, russia is in there backing the legitimate, recognized government of syria.

when the ussr fell, estonia regained its freedom, and in 2004, it joined the european union. tallinn has modernized at an astounding rate since the fall of the soviet union. its business district shines with the same glass and steel gleam you'll find in any modern city. yet nearby are the rugged and fully intact medieval walls, and the town within these ramparts has a beautifully preserved old-world ambiance. among medieval cities in the north of europe, none are as well preserved as tallinn. the town hall square was a marketplace through the centuries. its fine old buildings are a reminder that tallinn was once an important medieval trading center. today it's a touristy scene, full of people just having fun. through the season, each midday, cruise-ship groups congest the center as they blitz the town in the care of local guides. like many tourist zones, tallinn's is a commercial gauntlet. here there's a hokey torture museum, strolling russian dolls, medieval theme restaurants complete with touts, and enthusiastic hawkers of ye olde taste treats. woman: [ laughs ] steves: but

this week president obama announced a $2.9 billion, spent into nato member states, including estonia, lithuania and laftia. >> john, the question is who started cold war 2, and i think we did. soviets, they gave up all of eastern europe, the whole thing came apart. wanted to be friends of the united states. we moved nato into the baltic republics, three of which they were part of the soviet union. putin is reacting to that. he's got a tremendous, or significant military buildup and now we're reacting to that. my view is, i am not against frankly our next president trying to a real reset, and we get away from this faceoff, and any kind of war between the united states and russia, would be the end of estonia and a disaster every great president of the cold war avoided. of nato happened under bill clinton and was approved of by his successors, including republican president george w. bush, so this is not a policy that barack obama -- no, no, when obama took office he dealt well with putin's predecessor and we had a few good years. and putin came in flexing his muscles. you think obama sh

. >> any country that is more ahead than, say, the united states, for instance, when estonia had the massive hack several years ago, have the hey taken any measures that appear to be thwarting these measures. >> there are any see -- estonians in the audience. >> i'm a huge fan of they estonians, and there's three thing is think are really important here. one is that is d-does attack. a very crude kind of cyber attack. high-end stuff with you see in hollywood screenplay. a straightforward attack. it didn't knock them over. imimpedeed things, slowed things down, few web sites went down but they did not succeed in bridging estonian economy to a halt, didn't destroy their banking system, didn't do the things that the people who launched it thought it was going to do. since then estonia has a whole lot better in terms of defending itself against d-dos and looking at the critical infrastructure. that's easy in a country of a million people, like a small u.s. state, but there's plenty of stuff there to look at. i think the most important thing about estonia, predates this attack, and that i

go going back to estonia. there's no single point of vulnerability. they have a federation of databaseses connected we something called the x-road which works on a very simple but robust challenge and response system. so it will be really hard -- not impossible because nothing is impossible -- something like the opm hack would be really difficult to do. you need the depression of lots -- the cooperation of lots of people and nobody simultaneously at different points for -- and the final point i'd make is why do we keep all this snuff electronic databases anyway? if you look at films -- john he krcarre novel. now, these days you would probably hack in. there you have to physically get into the registry, have to distract the person who is there to stop you copying files. have to get access to a file, logged in and logged out. who looks it's it, how long. i you want to steal all the documents in the registry you have to attack with a major military force and then take the stuff away in trucks, and the omm is like that. only 20-30 years ago, the chinese w

vladimir putin's army was able to reach latvia and estonia's capitals in less than three days.ato's infantry couldn't retreat for the most part. it was destroyed by the russian attacks. why the dramatic defeat for the most powerful military alliance on earth? rand says russia has far more firepower and manpower in the region. in the 1980s there were 300,000 u.s. army soldiers in europe. today there's 30,000. russia has 22 according to rand, while nato has 12 baltic ba it. talions. russia has vamped up their military maneuvers to a point unheard of since the cold war. what does nato need to do to face down this renewed russian threat? the obama administration's budget proposal this week would add one brigade for europe that rotates in from the united states, bringing the total to three brigades. rand says there needs to be more forces to prevent a quick takeover of the baltics. as rand points out, president obama made a solemn promise to baltic nations in 2014. >> we'll be here for estonia. we will be here for latvia. we will be here for lithuania. you lost your independence onc

. >> warner: estonia's ambassador to the u.s., eerik marmei, echoes all three baltic nations in insisting need the protection. >> it a very clear sign of the u.s. commitment to enhance the deterrence in europe, especially in the eastern part of europe in the coming years. >> warner: why do you need more? >> what we have seen in recent years is the change of security environment in europe. we have seen that russia has violated main principles of international agreements, law. >> warner: he's referring to russia's 2008 invasion of the former republic of georgia, capturing two pro-russian territories. it triggered the deepest rift between russia and the west since the fall of the soviet union. tensions exploded anew in 2014 when russia invaded and annexed the crimean peninsula of the former soviet republic of ukraine. >> ( translated ): this strategic territory should be under strong and stable sovereignty which in fact could be today only russian. >> warner: the kremlin then provoked war in mainland ukraine's east between pro- russian separatists and government forces. with more than 9,000

the money supports the choir's upcoming tour in latvia, estonia, and finland. high pressure will remain in place through the overnight hours, which will keep skies clear but cold. wind chills will dip way below zero, so a wind chill advisory is in place for those north of hwy 30 until 8am on saturday. because we will start the day below zero on saturday, highs will only get into the middle teens at best. we'll see an increase in cloud cover from the west as the next system approaches quickly. snow will make another appearance late saturday night into sunday morning. we'll get a light dusting to half inch late saturday with an additional inch expected before sunrise on sunday. the highest amounts will fall in the northeast part of the state, so the farther north you go along interstate-35, the more snow you will see. likewise, the farther southwest you go, the less snow you will lentine's day plans in the after a productive week of practice iowa state center jameel mckay will play tomorrow nigth against texas. head coach steve prohm confirmed the news today. mck

the money supports the drake choir's upcoming concert tour in latvia, estonia, and finland. the singing valentines will continue tomorrow. a husband in indiana, might even put a singing valentine to shame. patrick sullivan surprised his wife patty with the billboard this week. it reads... pat and patty forever... 27 years and counting... you complete me.. love pat. she wasn't prepared for the grand gesture... patty told her husband to just write a note or get a card.... patricia sullivan, wife "and i just started gasping and crying just like oh my gosh i can't beleive it." patrick sullivan, bought a billboard "she just started crying and she just totally lost it and it was really exciting that's what i wanted to surprise her and let her know how special she is and let her know that these 27 years have been great for me." the pair married in 1988.. and stick around, we'll get another the breakhere's what we're working on for the channel 13 news at six... a metro school district is changing how it celebrates valentines' day. the reasoning behind a ban on homemade, and even sto

they've got a guy from estonia who comes on-- you know, who-who kicks it and says, "hey, me kick make touchdown." right? kick just made a touchdown. uh, what do you think of all this? i mean, the specialization. >> well, first of all, you mean they gotta go to estonia-- [ laughter ] >> or they gotta go and get all these sidewinders to kick a ball. there isn't a kid in college that can kick the ball? >> yeah. i don't know. >> and it seems like they have to go all over the world to get, uh-- they got [deleted] japanese and-- [ laughter ] >> i don't know. they got all kinds of things-- they'll get on somebody about saying [deleted]. now when you played-- you played in the days when-- nowadays, athletes-- i think the myth is gone that athletes are all-all heroes and all nicey-nicey. because it's come out in recent years that athletes are human beings, and they have their-- they like to go out. in your days, a lot of the guys went out drinking, right? after the game. or before the game. or bobby lane-- >> uh-huh, we played bobby lane-- the quarterback for the lions-- and man, you know, he-

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pray not by attacking the baltic states, but it could well be that and if i were in lithuania or estonia, i'd be nevis right now. zpl we see that in north korea. nothing distracts like military engagement. >> two things. there was a report out last week that nato cannot protect the baltic states. to ben's, what is happening. the siege of aleppo, it's carpet bombing, it's devastating, all russia. assad is retaking property land, whatever. throngs. hundreds of thousands of people fleeing. he's already playing this out. unfortunately, the world's not looking or ignoring it on goes what he'll do next. i agree with the great american ben stein. it has to be watched going forward. >> do you think, hear all this, and we have seen leaders who do this, who are distressed, just distract them with a raid or invasion, something to get their minds off. >> let me tell you about my friend vladimir putin. he's fighting a two front war. propping up his part of the ukraine, propping up the insurgent. >> is he popular at home? >> he is, but it's the insurgent war. he is so far. but he's propping up eastern

. >>> estonia firefighters say a man escaped a house fire things to his daughter. the fire broke out overnight. it took firefighters 10 minute to put out the flames in the kitchen. they tell us there was an electrical malfunction in the heating system. the home had no working smoke alarm and gastonia fire cannot stress enough how important they aref you cannot afford an alarm call 704-866-3355. that gastonia fire busy with a rack this morning and i 85 exit 17. as semi truck, and suv collided to merge after another vehicle rear ended that semi. officials believe the driver was distracted at her phone and did not break. she has very serious injuries. the driver of the suv, junior santos is charged with having no license, dwi and unsafe lane change. >>> another really serious accident on our roadways, two helicopters were flown out to this accident, highway patrol confirms the crash involves two motorcycles. it happened on miller bridge road, dust a couple of hours ago and we are working to learn stay with us, warnings after this break vo: know you have a dedicated ad

particularly lath via aand estonia.e going to build up cs they will train with the baltics and they'll go home and we'll put equipment into warehouses so that if we ever had to get there we could fly the people in, the equipment would already be there. that makes aa statement to the russians about u.s. commitment. because the problem is if the russians could get to riga in three days which is what the estimates are, csis did a study on this, so did rand, and they essentially kick us out of the baltics, fighting our way back in is much, much more costly. it's much better to defend forward. >> in conversations that go on around this is there somebody in the room that is saying, come on they are not only in nato, they ar have europeans in their pocket. the idea that russia is in riga is off the charts, not going to happen. >> it's as unlikely the russians being in the crimea. >> isn't it different than russians being in the eu? isn't that right rudy de leon? >> historically, the american presence has been to deter conflict

we're talking about the baltic states, lithuania, latino villa, estonia. there was a report from the think tank rand corporation the way nato is set up at the moment, in less than three days there would be pretty much nothing that nato could do about it. they come with several items on the agenda to consider. one is to enhance the forward presence of most military personnel and military hardware closer to the russian border to provide both a fast response and deterrent factor as well. because the concern of the nato secretary germ, he said this was the most challenging security environment in a generation. we have to make sure that we're always able to defend allies against any threat. therefore we have increased our presence because we are faced with a more challenging and demanding security moment not least caused by more assertive russia. and investing heavily in defense, and also a russia which has used military force to change borders in europe and to intimidate neighbors. >> the meeting will continue on thursday and then defense ministers will abrupt

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we need to be doing military exercises if not only estonia but latvia and lithuania.y the saber rattling. i think we ought to put in our missile defense system. i think we ought to give ukraine offensive weapons and i think we ought to fight them on the economic basis because putin is a one-horse country, oil and energy. and we ought to fight them on that level. we ought to be helping in terms of the technology for fracking keeping the price low, quite frankly, because that's what's keeping him contained. so, yes, i'd absolutely would go in if he attacked, i think article 5 of nato, we would definitely protect all of our allies. >> gentlemen, you've all said that the iran nuclear deal is a bad one. senator rubio, you're among the candidates who've said you would tear it up on day one. but as you know, iran has already received tens of millions of dollars, tens of billions of dollars in this deal and has quickly reestablished ties economically with europe. the major concessions, in other words, are up front in this deal. so should you win by the time you take office, t

we have someone braver than this, in estonia those individuals were busy with their own version. short steps, short steps. this sauna marathon took place on saturday and it sounded warmer than it was. first you spend three minutes in a sauna like this, how lovely. but then you jump into the ice cold water. then you do it again for three hours. you' ve got those hands in the air now. just wait for another hour or so. more than 900 people participated. the course includes 20 saunas like this one. wonder how warm that was. the winning team finished in two hours 55 minutes, suggesting that the other teams took more than three hours to finish this semi-torture, that' s what i' d call it. but good video at least. all right, let' s talk local weather. elise: -- jennifer: how do you feel the next day after that? jonathan: glad to be alive? number? a headache? elise: maybe stop, have something. jonathan: talk about dangerous. but i could do this on a part. elise: we know. -- jennifer: we know. [laughter] jonathan: it' s going to feel like today is a sauna compare it to where we are headed

pray not by attacking the baltic states, but it could well be that and if i were in lithuania or estoniaght now. zpl we see that in north korea. nothing distracts like military engagement. >> two things. there was a report out last week that nato cannot protect the baltic states. to ben's, what is happening. the siege of aleppo, it's carpet bombing, it's devastating, all russia. assad is retaking property land, whatever. throngs. hundreds of thousands of people fleeing. he's already playing this out. unfortunately, the world's not looking or ignoring it on goes what he'll do next. i agree with the great american ben stein. it has to be watched going forward. >> do you think, hear all this, and we have seen leaders who do this, who are distressed, just distract them with a raid or invasion, something to get their minds off. >> let me tell you about my friend vladimir putin. he's fighting a two front war. propping up his part of the ukraine, propping up the insurgent. >> is he popular at home? >> he is, but it's the insurgent war. he is so far. but he's propping up eastern part of ukraine,

and then we went to estonia and latvia. there is great concern, why won't the united states stand behind them? especially in border states. they are concerned. we have concerned. we have to let them know and let the world no we are the strongest military in the world. i am wondering if there are strategies we might consider. you need to get them around these countries. putting troops on the border that is your call. we need to show we are strong and will not tolerate the aggression of russia and especially with our allies. >> i will start 1st. the reason we are quadrupling is precisely for the reason you say, to signal the determination of the united states and nato to defend nato territory. we do that with activity sets the permanent presence, exercises and so forth and russia should know that what they see in europe on a daily basis is not what we used to defend europe. we have plans to do that, the defense of nato territory and we would do it with the full weight of the united states as has always been the case. it will

and then we -- then went to estonia and latvia.there is a great concern in talking with representatives from other countries in the european area, poland and romania, there's a great concern, will the united states stand behind them if the aggression of putin continues to go on. especially in those border states. they are concerned. i think the fact that we're going to put about 4,000 or 5,000 troops in that area will help them, but i think we have to let them know and let the world know and let putin know, we're the strongest military in the world and we-kñ need to let people know that. you don't want to escalate but you want to stand up and show you are strong and you need to get the morale of these countries. something putting troops on the border if that's the case. i'm not saying to do that. that's your call as far as the military, but i think we need to show that we're strong, that we're not going to tolerate the aggression of russia and especially with our allies that are right on the border. >> i'll start first, then chairm

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