major general noel jones, air force deputy chief of staff for operations plans and requirements, and major general charlie lyon, air combat commander's director of operations. the gentlemen on the panel represent nearly 12,000 flight airs in air force aircraft and extraordinary depth of experience to discuss the f-22 study in the way ahead. they are here to provide an update on the air force scientif scientifst air force study and discuss f-22 operations since flight resumed in september 2011. major general jones? >> thanks. ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. thanks for joining us here. today's update is on an issue of great importance to our air force and you, the media. the progress of the air force's scientificed advisory board stu on f-22 oxygen generation system. we agree with the attention that it's received. we hope today's session will satisfily address your questions. our f-22 aircraft and the people who fly and maintain them are our national treasure. no other aircraft can match the f-22's combination of speed, stealth, maneuverer ability. its integrated avionics make it

you have the air force/army dynamic.the air force is doing a mission that was historically done by the army and now they, the army was scared when the program was transferred to the air force at the beginning and said if you give this to the air force, they're not -- they're going to cancel this program and they're not going to do this mission and we need this mission done. and then you lastly have the air force and the air national guard. a lot of tension there. the air guard is losing a lot in this budget round or is proposed to lose a lot in this budget round and a lot of air guard units around the country could be without flying missions. >> richard, let me go over to you. why is the air force canceling the aircraft and can this mission be done equally as well with c-130s and c-17s as they say it can. >> i think marcus alluded to the issue before. basically the air force has always kind of wanted to smash this program with a rock. the history of jointness is to steal another phrase, is basically unblemished by succes

air force gives us insight into the work of drone operators talk about the technical and moral issues that state and then if you ever heard of nutra loaf common prison food but it made one inmate so sick that a court has agreed to question it would be considered cruel and unusual punishment so we have all of that i'm more feed right including a dose of happy hour but first take a look what the mainstream media has decided to me. all right so it's another tuesday and another primary day and therefore another news day full of nonstop election coverage coming from the mainstream media. it is primary day in maryland washington d.c. and in wisconsin voters heading to the polls in wisconsin maryland and washington d.c. mitt romney's out in force in wisconsin today three primary and in all three wisconsin maryland washington d.c. mitt romney is expected to win he looks to defect rick santorum challenge once and for all in wisconsin in a decisive win to destroy certain forms case for staying in this race rick santorum facing an uphill battle today used campaigning his home state of pennsylvan

was invited to fly aboard the most legendary and difficult to fly aircraft we traveled to beale air force but before we could -- base but before we could get into the air i had to get a checkup and then underwent hours of training on how to handle emergencies whether on the ground or at 70,000 feet. >> all right, let's say chi-chi says bailout, bailout. bailout. yep. >> parachute training id colluded instruction on -- included instruction on fixing your only suit and surviving on the ground until rescued. later i headed to the support squadron for more training on the u2 flight suit. nearly identical to those worn by astronauts but colored gold instead of orange to avoid confusion. >> the primary purpose of this suit is to prevent hypoxia. so if anything happens, you're at altitude, you lose cabin pressure, the suit will keep you at 35,000 feet. >> the higher you go, the less oxygen in the air. without supplied oxygen you have trouble breathing at 15,000 feet. at 30,000 feet you black out and lose control of the airplane. the u2 cockpit is pressurized to 30,000 feet. so the suit is vital

a much larger airfield that was built by the army air force, a little bit northwest. tuskegee army air field, much larger. where the basic flying training, advanced flying training, and the transition flying training to place. that is enough for the transition, but i would like to know just talk about the book as a whole. mainly concentrate on the sources and authors. all of the authors of this book, not the only author. joseph and zero. the three of us worked or have worked because jussive recently retired, but we have all worked at the air force historical research agency at maxwell air force base in alabama. that air force is for research agency is the proper repository of air force historical documents, especially related to air force organizations such as squadrons, groups, wings, number air forces, maj their commands and so on including the world war ii records of air force organizations. just to let you know i got involved in writing about the tuskegee airmen, i had written about other aspects of air force history will for. but i decided to write a paper about t

air force's capability for the budget. they also mention in the letter that we must oppose the proposal that the air national guard absorbed 59% of the total aircraft budget reductions and approximately six times the per capita personnel reductions. could you talk a little bit about that approach? >> sure. the main thing that we did want to maintain a strong guard and a strong reserve. and the fact is that we are going to be maintaining the guard at basically the same current levels. we're going to maintain the reserve at the same levels. with regards to the air guard, which is an area that the air force focused on, in the past they have made cuts with regards to the active duty force itself in terms of planes. they did not focus on the reserves and the guard operation. they decided to look at those particularly with regards to planes like the a-10s and again, looked at what, you know, are these planes multimission. can they perform the kind of role we need with the new agility that we have as part of our strategy. and thei

i was over at the air force association in arlington right near washington. and i was in their library, and they keep files on prominent air force figures. and someone said to me you ought to look up bernard shrever, so i asked about the file on bernard shrever and she handed it to me and i opened it up, and right there in the beginning of the file was a photograph of this general leaning up against a table with all of these missiles around him. it's in the book. that photograph. and i said, this guy looks interesting. so, when i got home, i asked some questions about him. he was well known -- famous within the air force but not outside, when i got home i looked him up in the phone book. he turned out to be living in retirement eight blocks from my house, so i called him and arranged to come over and talk to him and it began the first of 52 interviews with him. and then i realized that this man had stood at a pivotal point in the cold war. we look at the cold war as one long glacial period. it wasn't. it was a period, there were changes, and particularly at t

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in addition, the air force will eliminate seven tactical air squadrons, but we will still retain a robust force of 54 combat coded fighter squadrons, and maintain our capabilities on airlift as well. the navy, while it will protect its most flexible ships, will lower seven cruisers that have not been upgraded with ballistic missile defense capability. secondly, we felt we have to rebalance our global posture and focus on those areas that represent the greatest threats to our national security. so we will emphasize asia pacific and the middle east. the strategic guidance made clear that we must protect capabilities needed to project power in asia pacific and the middle east. these are the areas where we obviously, as you know just by picking up the newspaper, these are the places that can represent the greatest threats to our security. for that reason, we maintain the current bomber fleet. we maintain our aircraft carrier fleet at a long-term 11 of 11 ships and 10 air wings. we maintain the big deck amphibious fleet. we enhance our army and marine corps structure presence in the pacific, a

a minute, are they going to do something to air force one?ou're like, what is going on here? this is crazy. >> did someone really break into andrews air force base and spray paint or tag the president's plane? >> i think people really want to believe it's true. >> the video hit the internet in 2006 and quickly became a sensation. >> the first reaction is always, is this real? and if this is real, how can this be real? and what does this mean for the security of our country maybe if this video is real? >> so did it really happen? was the video real or fake? >> it just doesn't pass the sniper test really is what it would be. if i were to run up to the air force one in all black with a backpack, i don't think i would survive that run. if i went and did that, i would be either arrested or shot or shot, then arrested. >> i think what we were trying to accomplish was a pop culture moment. >> marc ecko is a designer and a video game developer. the air force one caper was part of a viral marketing campaign for a game called "getting up." >> it was to

our role at air combat command is provide mission-ready forces to conduct operations in this specific case, f-22s flying air superiority missions in support of our combatant commanders across the globe. i returned from a tour of duty as commander of air force forces in afghanistan as we're in the midst of the stand-down. i was asked to get involved to become a part of the effort by general marten and others to propose to return to fly the f-22 fleet. i'm happy to report that since september of last year, we have flown over 10,000 sorties. that's a lot of sorties in a short amount of time. the f-22 provides unrivaled, unmatched, capabilities to protect our friendly forces on the ground and at sea and reassure our allies across the globe. our task force. our task force consists of members from inside the government across different commands, different disciplines, and also with members of industry. collaborative effort. data is shared from every investigation board, every advisory board, every source is sharing data to get to the root cause. we are implementing the recommendations given

any time you want to get into some should leave seems to appear there the navy and air force are very eager to think about what their next conflict might look like they're happy to have the focus back on them about what they can do i thought the navy the air force cited a maybe not so nice the army there but so in that sense as we look at the strategic shift in actually see that happening right now there's actually action in it how much do you think we still are going to have you know how many resources are most of them have focusing on and then. we're going to see a reduction but a lot of the resources that can be applied to conflict which i don't can also in sort of a lesser included case be applied to the middle east so especially naval assets that are part of this is a command pretty easy to shift over to the middle east a place any kind of crisis and this includes carrier battle groups that include submarines and so forth. that could respond to any sort of crisis in the middle east what i doubt you'll have in the middle east after there's been this kind of withdrawn or some kind

now look at air force. air force had 367 suspension or debarment actions in a single year last year. the state has had six in five years. the air force suspension and debarment officer is independent from the acquisition chain. so somebody who is involved in acquiring stuff is not involved in determining whether or not there should be a suspension or debarment. the state department sdo does not have those attributes. the state department suspension and debarment officer has other duties involved especially also in acquisition. why don't you speak to that, secretary kennedy, about any resistance or reluctance you might have to separating out the suspension and debarment officer from any duties, particularly related to acquisition. it's kind of hard to be in charge of buying something or buying services and then turning around later and say, you know, i really screwed up and gave it to a bad guy. it seems to me that separating that duty makes so much common sense. and i'm curious as to your input on that. >>

vice president biden continued his schedule using another air force plane. the most dramatic example came three year ago with the most famous save in aviation history. in what will forever be known at the miracle on the hudson, sully sullenberger brought his flight down on new york's hudson river after flying into a huge flock of birds, losing power in both engines. airports have long struggled to keep birds away from airport. some fire cannons to frighten them off. others use dogs to patrol the runways. the builders of jet engines, including ge, a part owner of nbc, test their ability to withstand this problem that is as old as the jet age, by tossing frozen birds into the turbines. sometimes they come too fast and in too large a number for even the most modern jet engine to handle. compounding the problem is this fact, many of the nation's busy airports are located next to rivers, lakes, or the ocean, places birds consider their hubs, too, brian. >> what an incredible turn of events in the last 24 hours. pete williams starting us off in washington, pete, t

because if he fails to engage the japanese will overwhelm the cactus air force, land their troops and the party is over. if callahan in cages, well, all his ships will probably be lost, point-blank range at night, it's not a happy order of battle if you're on the american side. but one of the men i interviewed -- callahan is coming in for loans because once that battle begins, there's no evidence -- as if there ever could have been. but he comes in for loans because he didn't leave behind a nifty battle plan that apple scott had prepared. the last tactical or callahan gave was straight out of, straight out of lord nelson, as the forces are engaging his last command to his column is odd ships fire starboard, even ships fire port, as it is going to do anything, when suppose you're a captain and your engaging a ship and you just been instructed to fire starport, find a new target, turn us around. the people, you know, the loss, the blood, the death that falls on both sides at night, is really to the credit of neither commander, but what was the alternative? callahan knew he had but one a

i think the navy the air force. maybe not so much the the army there but so in that sense as we look at this strategic shift and actually see that happening right now there's actually action in it how much do you think we still are going to have you know how many resources are we going to have focusing on in the least. we're going to see a reduction but a lot of the resources that can be applied to conflict with china can also in sort of us are included case to be applied to the middle east so especially naval assets that are part of pacific command are pretty easy to shift over to the middle east if there's any kind of crisis and this includes carrier battle groups that includes submarines and so forth. that could respond in a sort of crisis in the middle east what i doubt you'll have in the middle east after there's been there's some kind of which are all more some kind of drawdown in afghanistan and as you probably don't have large scale deployments u.s. ground troops in that region but you know instead you'll ha

he continues his schedule using an air force plane. the most dramatic example came three year ago with the most famous save in aviation history. in what will be known as the miracle on the hudson, sully sullen brg brought his flight down after flying into a huge flock of birds. airlines have long strugglied t keep birbds away. the builders of jet engines, including g erb, a part owner of nbc, test their ability to withstand this problem that is as old as the jet age by throwing frozen birds into the turbines. sometimes they come too fast and in too large a number for even the most modern jet engine to handle. compounding the problem is this fact, many of the nation's busy airports are located next to rivers, lakes, or the ocea ocean,plices birds consider their homes, too. >> pete williams starting us off in washington. thanks. >>> in a florida courtroom, a surprise move today from a man who has been at the center of news of late. george zimmerman took the stand in the killing of trayvon martin and took a chance, speaking directly to ma

at some point, the air force decided that hughes was a liability to his own company. >> right. >> and air force came and delivered an ultimatum. >> well, it was at the beverly hills hotel, and the secretary of the air force came and demanded to see howard hughes, who kept him waiting for an hour and a half. the secretary of the air force came in and said, "you either put control of this company under somebody that i'm going to tell you to hire, or we are removing every single contract from hughes aircraft." he gave him 90 days. >> so what happened? >> well, in exactly 90 days to the day, he created the howard hughes medical institute. >> this was one wily move. by giving the new institute 100% ownership of hughes aircraft, hughes got out from under the air force ultimatum and built a giant tax shelter for the company's profits. >> because it was a medical institute, it was all tax-free. it was a charity even though, of course, they did no research. >> they did no research? >> there were no personnel. the only trustee was howard hughes. >> this is how this medical institute started? >>

mubarak came in, air force pilot. nothing against the air force pilots. he wasn't a navy pilot. but no one's perfect, right. air force pilot and he's been in there a long time. he could sit back and say gee, shouldn't he have moved faster to move toward freer systems so that turmoil under him wouldn't have bubbled over so fast. and so furiously. where are we today? well, where we are is that he was thrown out, and the impression in the arab world is that if you're a friend of the united states don't count on the united states because the feeling is we threw him under the truck, that our government, our white house, said he's been there too long and so forth. that's the impression in the arab world which makes other friends of the united states step back and wonder gee, are they allies and friends or aren't they? along with the muslim brotherhood control i think 73% of the parliament. i could be wrong by 3 or 4% but that's good enough for government work. what does that mean? you've got -- you have i'm going to guess, 60%, 70% of the men under 40 are probably unemployed in that c

nasa has also utilized air force launch support. such as the mission that required the performance of the air force titan 4. our partnership with d.o.d. in the development and use of the current involved expendable launch vehicle or eelv fleet is helping to sustain the industrial base necessary to ensure that d.o.d. has access to space that it needs. at the same time we're encouraging and facilitating the development of domestic commercial launch providers. nasa and d.o.d. have a long-standing practice of sharing facility. as some of you know, a number of nasa centers are colocated with d.o.d. bases. the relationships between langley research center and langley air force base, dryden flight research center and edwards air force base, the kennedy center are all very strong with nasa and d.o.d. organizations sharing facilities, operation support contracts and flight operations mission support. goddard space flight center just east of d.c., not very far from here, has a global network of satellite communications and downlink facilities

retired brigadier general carl reddel from the air force who is executive director of the eisenhower memorial commission. mr. howard who is the director emeritus of the national arts society. mr. rodney cook junior who is president of the national monuments foundationment and mr. bruce cole who is the past president for the endowment of the national humanities. and we barely got you in there. once again, the same rules will apply. your written testimony will appear in its entirety in the record. we ask for oral comments this time to supplement the written testimony. again, the clock in front of you, i hope you can all see it there, has a timer on it. the yellow light means you have a minute left. we would ask you to stay within the five-minute guidelines so we can leave this room before we have to be evicted from it. 10 with that, mr. whitesell, if we can just start from my left, looking down, and go down the row. five minutes each, if you're prepared, we would love to hear from you. >> mr. chairman and members of the subcommittee, i appreciate the opportunity to appear before you to

one of my students who just finished his dissertation last summer was an air force fighter pilot, and he went in and did an anthropological study of these remote systems. and none of them actually said what samuel dana green said, but they said very many things that are very, very similar to that. and a few summers ago the air force held a symposium which i was invited to give the keynote for, called the future operator. who are we going to be, they asked themselves. because pilots are no longer the social -- who have always been the social backbone of the air force have suddenly -- they're changing into something and we don't know how our entire social structure will be organized. and this was about 350 -- basically mid-career lieutenants and above. many of them fighter pilots, bomber pilots. missilers. remote pilots. spent three days debating exactly this issue that had been raised in the 1860s surrounding the monitor." and i opened with that talk. so i'll close then with nathaniel hawthorne's really prophetic response. he actually did visit the "monitor." he came down. his college

command, the air force research and development command. but he was -- although he was lamay's protege, he was not locked in and schreiver recruited him to the idea of building these. >> but you also mention in here charlie wilson. >> he was the secretary of defense who was opposed to the program but they overcame him. they had enormous obstacles to overcome. they had to intrigue their way into this briefing. because they knew they had to get to see the president and get the president to give his impra m imprimatur to this thing and get the thing done. but you don't just ring up the president. they went through an elaborate amount of intrigue. they leaked classified report to a senator henry "scoop" jackson, the big hawk in washington. and he held a hearing in the atomic energy committee. and they fed him information for these hearings. and gardner appeared, they were closed hearings, secret hearings. and then jackson and another prominent senator wrote president eisenhower and said you've got to look in to this thing, this is important and

and then out to andrew's air force base. the president got off the helicopter and got on air force one. and it was the first time in as his plane took off, a guy in a french coat came out and he laid it on the the ground in front of us. i was there with the military assistance and so forth. the guys that worked with him as chief of staff. he said, okay, i need your radios. he said it's been great working with you guys. we stopped at the air force base and had a leisurely lunch. big macs. it was interesting because at that moment i was out of work. had two looks. lynn, my wife, was finishing up her ph.d. she finished and i didn't. we had to decide what to do. that's when i made the basic decision that i wanted to go home to wyoming. if i was going to run for office, that was the place to do it. so that spring as soon as school was out, we loaded up a u haul truck and hauled off to wyoming and that fall the congressman announced his retirement. everybody thought he was going to run for re-election. he didn't. that was my openi

. >> might expect with don't ask, don't tell is very interesting i tried with an air force academy in 2009 and shortly after went to my training, and was blacked out by my instructor there, changing my test scores, harassing the constantly and with help of service members network i turned in my instructor and that instructed turned around out of me but i was removed from a job, my ability to access computer i was working in the chaplain's office during this time, and secretary gates came out with his new policy, that third party outings were not allowed anymore, that can stop the process against me personally. what kind of during this process i get so frustrated with don't ask, don't tell that i decided to turn around and help create outserve, kind of building network where we could start to network together and act collectively voice our concerns to the military and to the public. and a lot of people that contribute to the book are outserve members and what we did was just using hidden social media we started to connect day soldiers around the world into the state right now. with ove

because pilots are no longer the social -- who have always been the social backbone of the air force have suddenly -- they're changing into something and we don't know how our entire social structure will be organized. and this was about 350 -- basically mid-career lieutenants and above. many of them fighter pilots, bomber pilots. missilers. remote vehicle pilots. spent three days debating exactly this issue that had been raised in the 1860s surrounding the "monitor." and i opened with that talk. so i'll close then with nathaniel hawthorne's really prophetic response. he actually did visit the "monitor." he came down. his college roommate -- hawthorne had two college roommates. one of them was franklin pierce, who became president of the united states. and the other one was a guy named horatio bridge, which with a name like that, you have to go into the navy, right? and he was the head paymaster of the navy. so he was keeler's boss. and hawthorne had a rough time just personally during the war, and a friend said why don't you go down and visit the battlefields? that'll make you feel

boehner finds so many words to ache the president for his use of air force one.n it come to bombeding to a question about federal funding, sorry, funding of the federal government, this is how he responds. listen to this. >> bla bla bla bla bla. all right? so? yes. >> incredible, isn't it? >> yeah. the over articulateness of the leader is remarkable. t.s. elliott is in the grave. the reality is this is all the republicans say is when the speaker is bla bla bla. the bad news of the ability to identify with the average american. here they are remonday straighting against president obama using air force one and you've already proved they were being quite hypocritical because boehner and bush got together and did so when he was running for re-election. even beyond that, they're trying to practice the politics of distraction. they're giving with one hand and taking back with another. this seems to be that we will go along with begrudgingly, a praf acknowledging the legitimacy of the president's views but will take back something else from another side that is equally

southern california, and the approach and landing test which enterprise flew were done at edwards air force base where nasa drieden is. i talked to my best friend and said we need to drive out there and take a look at this space shuttle because i'd like to fly it some day. we drove out to the middle of the desert and drove up to the gate and said we'd like to go see the space shuttle. jon: the figure in bell bottoms

and one of those, the major one, is actually about three miles from here at langley air force base. another three miles to hampton road. so it's particularly fight fitting in a way that this issue is something we're dusting here in this particular place. i'll just leave it at that, say a little bit about for any of those in the room, my nephew sam is here, who's having a great time, and just getting interested in history. one of the things that's so satisfying about it is that it doesn't change. it hasn't all been figured out before. and the "monitor" as we know it is constantly changing and evolving, very much thanks to the efforts of a lot of the people here at the museum and at the marine sanctuary. and again, maybe all graduate students feel this way but 20 years ago i certainly felt like i was the only person in the world interested in the "monitor" and the "merrimack." it felt like such an old story. and now a lot of people have become interested in it and the wreck sort of continues to evolve. so it's great to be here. and thanks for your attention. >> happy to take questions

absolutely i think that they are they navy and the air force has for a very long time one had to move away from the focus on the middle east and wanted to move away from the iraq and afghanistan. under robert gates gates was very clear that the united states had to fight the wars that it was fighting right now before it moved on to the next war but now that we've moved on to secretary of defense panetta and we've moved mostly out of iraq at. the time want to get into some certainly seems to appear there the navy and therefore very eager to think about what the next conflict might look like and they're happy to have the focus back on them and back and look they can too. i saw the navy the air force are excited maybe not so much the army there but so in that sense as we look at this strategic shift and actually see that happening right now there's actually action in it how much do you think we still are going to have you know how many resources are we still going to have focusing on the middle east. we're going to see a reduction but a lot of the resources that can be applied to conflic

the president got off the helicopter and got on air force one. it was the first time, in most of the time i had been working for him, first time he got on air force one all by himself without me, and that was a bit disconcerting, and as his plane took off, a guy in a trench coat came out and had a big aluminum suitcase that he laid open on the ground in front of us. i was there with my staff, my advance man and military assistance and so forth, guys that had worked with me in my capacity as chief of staff and he said, okay, gentlemen, i need your radios. everybody had the ear pierses and took it off the aluminum belt and threw it in the suitcase. he closed it up and said it's been great working with you guys. my family was there and we went to the mcdonald's across the street and had a leisurely lunch. big macs. it was an interesting time in part because at that time i was out of work. i had two kids. lynn, my wife, was finishing up her phd. she finished and i didn't, and we had to decide what i was going to do, and that's when i made the basic d

so some homes affected, some at mcconnell air force base.nfirm, but those reports are coming into us at this point. >> what about the airport? we thought it was mcconnell and also reports of -- are we talking about the airport or talking about another airport here with the damage? >> mcconnell air force base is at this time the one that's being reported as having some effects from the storm. there's also some scattered reports of other damage. we want to get more information to confirm the extent of that damage. >> still nothing as far as injuries or anyone hurt at all? >> not at this time. fortunately throughout the state, we have not had any reports of injuries. >> jacqui? >> yeah, we're just getting reports now. i wanted to mention this is near andover, where the tornado is now. still on the ground, still a large wedge tornado that's moving to the north and east. so here you can see wichita proper over here. here is augusta. here's el dorado. i-35 intersects and the location of the rotation is right in here. so that's right around andover

so several degrees above the average high of lower 60s, even at andrews air force base 69, annapolis the lower 70s. here's how your next three days are looking. a little warmer wednesday as well, lower 70s, chance for showers and on thursday we are looking at cooler conditions, but dry in the lower 60s.

this handed out side a bar not far from travis air force base.just spoke to police, alex what are they saying? >> reporter: and in fact the shooting scene is across the street from travis air force base but they don't believe anybody from the base was involved. it handed out side of a bar last night and an argument inside the bar is what started it all and now investigators are looking at surveillance videos to see what happened. gunfire broke out and police tell me two men were both shot in the head. a man died at the scene and a 31-year-old fairfield man is stable at northfield medical center. homicide detectives worked into the night collecting evidence and upper viewing witnesses as they watched the fight escalate to a shooting. >> any time somebody opens fire it is subject to hitting anybody else specially by standers. this was a conflict between two groups and the people shot were the intended victims or part of the fight that ensued outside. >> and police are now ready to give out the names of those two men who were shot. again one died an

it handed out side not far from the air force base.ge has been talking and joins us now with an update, alex? >>> it led to p-'s place bar. one man killed, another injured outside the bar. police are checking the surveillance cameras as they working to track down the shooter. it happened just before 9:00 last night, a 24-year-old and a 34-year-old is now in stable condition. homicide investigators worked through the night. and they say this all started when two groups of men got into some sort of a dispute inside the bar. >> we don't know if this spilled over, police are putting it together as we speak. >> and the shooting happened very close to travis air force base and we are just across the area and police tell us they do not believe anybody from travis was involved in last night's shooting. police have some leads and feel positive about the direction it's taking but at this point they are not ready to put out any sort of a description on the shooter here. alex savage ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> overnight we learned new informa

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