it is being seen as a miraculous escape for all concerned, an american navy jet crashed into a residential building in virginia but there was no fatalities. several people on the ground were injured although not seriously. we have the latest details from washington. >> a scene of suburban devastation, but could it have been worse? the smoldering wreckage of an apartment building and still in gold and flames, the twin tail fins of the navy jet. gulfed in fl ames, between tail fins of the navy jet. >> all of a sudden, i saw the plane come down and then because i'm on the courtyard, it shifts. the whole backyard was on fire. then, things started to explode. >> emergency services raced to the scene. >> they apologized for hitting are complex. they said, don't worry about it. >> both pilots were taken to the hospital along with five other people, none of them thought to be in danger. this was clearly a shocking episode. they managed to dump the fuel moments before the crash, action which may have saved many lives. >> we can speak to a resident in virginia beach who live near the crash site. i k

american navy ships are now patrolling the yellow sea off the korean peninsula in an attempt to recover debris from the rocket. experts worry after yesterday's failure the north may press ahead with another underground test of a nuclear weapon to try to offset the embarrassment with a show of force. >>> at home, the romney campaign is seizing on marks from a democratic strategist. hillary rosen is facing a backlash for saying mitt romney's wife, ann, has never worked a day in her life. rosen apologized to ann yesterday before trying to refocus the debate on economic policy. >> this is not about ann romney, this is about the waitress at a diner in someplace in nevada who has two kids, whose day care funding is being cut off because of the romney/ryan budget and she doesn't know what to do. this is not about whether ann romney nor i or other women of, you know, some means can afford to make a choice to stay home and raise kids. most women in america, let's face it, don't have that choice. they have to be working moms and home moms. >> ann romney hit back against rosen's original comments.

navy in terms of strength, but it's managed to put the americans on high alert. the main reason, the memory of the attack on the "uss cole" in 2000. suicide bombers suicide bombers used a small boat loaded with explosives to target the ship when it was off the coast of yemen. 17 sailors died. u.s. navy commanders are worried iran might use high speed boats to do the same thing should another emergency arise. >> the use of small boats, especially if they're suicidal and they do number in the hundreds, is very difficult to defend against. traditional naval battles have been fought between large ships. >> reporter: and so the u.s. navy is doing something it's never done before. it's using several state of the art unmanned aircraft to survey the persian gulf. the planes keep around the clock watch for suspicious activity at sea. the navy's als the navy's also equipping all its vessels in the gulf with precision cannons capable of shooting approaching high speed boats. the preparatio the preparations don't end there. u.s. military lead u.s. military leaders have a con

iranian general giving my best advice -- it would be don't avertly close the straits because the american navy will kill us, but if we simply drift off every once in a while on

iranian general giving my best advice -- it would be don't avertly close the straits because the american navy will kill us, but if we simply drift off every once in a while on undisclosed attack that sinks a tanker or two, the insurance coapanies will do the rest and we will start this effort of bringing the west to its knees through gas prices in our country, probably in excess of $10 a gallon. so, there are a lot of tools they have that can be used to manipulate us. it's pretty challenging to think about. >> let's open it to the audience for questions and we'll begin with my colleague, director of economic studies here. >> do i need a mike? >> yes, sir. please speak into the microphone and identify yourself. >> you just did. >> i did. >>. >> i've been jousting with conservatives on this question of security. and not just having meet their reaction to the fact that environmentalists want to get us off fossil fuels. i might say mr. lutz that you were as unkindly treated by cnbc this morning as anything fox might have arranged. so you apparently do have a problem selling this to conservatives.

my best advice to the ayatollah or ahmadinejad it would be don't close the straits because the american navy will kill us, but if we simply drift off every once in a while on undisclosed attack that sinks tanker or two in the gulf which is in our backyard, the insurance companies will do the rest and we will start this effort of bringing the west to its knees through gas prices in our country probably in he can ses of $10 a gallon. so, there are a lot of tools they have that can be used to manipulate us. in ways that's pretty challenging just to think about. >> on that ominous note, let's open it to the audience with questions and we'll begin with my colleague, director of economic studies here at hudson. >> do i need a mike? >> yes, sir. please speak into the microphone and identify yourself. >> you just did. >> i did.

professor will talk about where you have the first of the shooting between north vietnam and the american navy. this convinces the chinese that they had to commit troops to north vietnam as well. and they have to do this because they're afraid, well, maybe the americans might come into north vietnam. but for chinese troops there, probably they won't. the chinese also started making preparations to fight the americans if they had to. when the u.s. sent major combat units into vietnam in april of 1965, the north vietnamese leaders also feared that they might get an intervention in north vietnam. again, they're looking at korea. the ghost of korea hangs over both sides here in thinking about what to do. and so in april 1965, the chinese give the order to send troops to north vietnam. and between 1965 and 1969, there are 320,000 chinese troops that serve in north vietnam. at one time there's as many as 170,000. this is critical in many ways. to the north, they want these chinese troops because the more chinese troops there are in north vietnam, that's two things. one, it acts as a trigger. if the

american citizen. and he's going to say, boat swains mate, give that man 30 lashes for insulting a royal naval officer. that's your introduction to the british navy. under american law, merchant captains were required to report impressments to the u.s. government, and the u.s. government did make an effort to accumulate evidence, if you were an american citizen and dispatched out to london. if officials in london found it convincing, they would order your release from the ship you were serving on. but that was a process that had to be done through diplomatic channels, and it could take years. and the rule in the british navy was, if at any point during that service you accepted the royal bounty, the enlistment bounty, you were considered a volunteer no matter what the nationality. we think that something like 10,000 american citizens were by accident or by design impressed into the royal navy between 1793 and 1812. probably between 1803, when the napoleonic wars began in 1812 it was 6,000. that was the number bandied about on the eve of the war of 1812. i actually think that number is a pretty good estimate. >> thank you very much. a quick one, d

within, for that matter the army or navy together broke diplomatic code in late 1940 and early 41. they broke the diplomatic code. the americans did pretty well. the root the diplomatic code and the baroque flute and a navy operational code. [inaudible] >> the reader is acting. >> bouquet. i think it says to me that there are all kinds of heroes hidden heroes himself because for 15 months he battled the state department. in the very beginning this department was very, very skeptical. more than skeptical. what kind of scheme is this man involved in that he wants to bring 25 address to come here? and you could see, over 15 months through the memos and what have you that the state department mello's. it wasn't anything technical that finally won the freedom of these youngsters. it was the integrity and the courage and the patients and the stamina for and to battle the state department's in overwhelming odds for 15 months. so what does it tell to be, that there is something about courage and heroism that is not always so obvious. the heroism of the young people, the courage it must have taken for them to come to this country and s

american citizen. he's going to say give that man 39 lashes for insulting a royal navy officer. that's your introduction to the british navy. now, under american law, captains were required to report impressments to the american government and the u.s. government did make an effort to accumulate evidence. if you were a citizen and if officials in london found it convincing, they would order your release from the ship you were serving on. that was a process that had to be done through diplomatic channels and could take years. the rule was if at any point in the service you accepted the royal bounty, you are considered a volunteer no matter what your nationality. we think that something like 10,000 american citizens were by accident or design impressed between 1793 and 1812. probably between 1803 when the napoleonic wars began. that was a number on the eve of the war and i think that number is pretty good estimate. >> thank you very much. a quick one. do we have a handle on the number of casualties and wounded on each side? >> very, very difficult to get at. the official figures f

americans. president bush and navy seals it was a team effort by our presidency.use this as a political football is not right. he accused mitt romney of not taking the same path or eluding to the fact that he wouldn't. >> i want to get your reaction that john mccain said. the president turned into one decision he got right into a pathetic political act of self congratulations. shame on barack obama for diminishing the remembrance of 9-11 and the killing of osama bin laden by turning it into a political attack ad. what is your reaction to that? >> i don't think it is shameful at all. it is a point to remember president obama put together an opportunity for us to remember what he did. 6 months of training and he did it on the job. president obama is able to make these decisions. if you look at mitt romney we don't know what he would do he has been inconsistent on anything. how will we know for sure he will make a decision. he clearly stated he would not have focused on afghanistan and not focused on pakistan. >> that's not the same thing. the full quote from mitt ro

navy. under american law, they were required to report and the u.s. government did make an effort to accumulate evidence. if you were an american citizen and dispatched that information, if officials in london found it convincing, they would order your release from the ship you were serving on. but that had to be done through diplomatic challenges and could take years. the rule was that if at any point during that service, you accepted the royal bounty, the enlistment bounty, you were considered a volunteer no matter what your nationality. we think something like 10,000 american citizens were by accident or impressed into the royal navy. probably between 1803 and 1812, it was 6,000. i think that number is a pretty good estimate. >> thank you very much. a quick one. do we have a handle on the number of casualties and wounded on each side? >> very, very difficult to get at. the official figures for the united states were something like 2300 killed and 4500 wound. based on statistical work i have done, the u.s. probably sustained about 20,000 deaths. tha

the american public did not know what the plans would be. there was resistance from our navy, who felt that there was nothing they could do in the atlantic, and they went to the government of the japanese and they were warned that we didn't have enough ability to [inaudible] of the japanese because of our destination of our fleet at pearl harbor. we had to rebuild our fleet. meanwhile, we had to show the germans that we really were serious and go to war in the atlantic. so it became an atlantic war first, until we could rebuild our efforts in the pacific. >> yes. >> do you have a new book in the works, and will it have the same being? >> i have two more books in the works that will deal with president roosevelt. i got fascinated by president roosevelt activities during this period at pearl harbor, and decided that i would write about it more. because this is a president election year coming up, i am preparing a book that will come out during the election year when the wartime campaign of 1944 -- the first wartime campaign in the presidency since the civil war -- when roosevel

grand strategy in asia that echoed in a lot of ways to navies of american grand strategy and it was very you know obviously she was telling her to be something they would want to hear in a place where the navy was but nevertheless the grand strategy she put forward was almost identical to how the navy thinks about politics and how the navy thinks about its approach to the station and it was very interesting that it came from the secretary of state and it seemed to me to indicate. that the navy really is sort of the premier strategic service of united states right now you know there are probably people in the air force who would disagree maybe the army but the same to indicate to me that that's what secretary clinton gave it was really central to how she thought about grand strategy especially in the asia pacific if that's the case what do you think the chances are and why it's danger and reported on this there was a market survey at the navy released and it showed that they were asking defense contractors for their candidates for strike fighter aircraft in

the american public did not know what the plans would be. there was resistance from our navy, who felt that there was nothing they could do in the atlantic, and they went to the government of the japanese and they were warned that we didn't have enough ability to [inaudible] of the japanese because of our destination of our fleet at pearl harbor. we had to rebuild our fleet. meanwhile, we had to show the germans that we really were serious and go to war in the atlantic. so it became an atlantic war first, until we could rebuild our efforts in the pacific. >> yes. >> do you have a new book in the works, and will it have the same being? >> i have two more books in the works that will deal with president roosevelt. i got fascinated by president roosevelt activities during this period at pearl harbor, and decided that i would write about it more. because this is a president election year coming up, i am preparing a book that will come out during the election year when the wartime campaign of 1944 -- the first wartime campaign in the presidency since the civil war -- when roosevel

so the royal navy reserved the right to stop american merchant vessels on the high seas, muster the crew, inspect the crewmen, and remove those who were deemed to be british subjects. now, the problem with this was, first of all, it was very difficult to tell the difference between a u.s. citizen and a british subject. the differences in language and the like was not as great as it is today. so sometimes by accident, american tars were impressed into british service. in addition, sometimes it was no accident. you get a 16-year-old british naval lieutenant boarding an american merchant vessel, and simply musters the crew and says you, you, you and you, you come with me. he doesn't care who you are. he needs men, and he's not even going to interview you. and maybe you protest, i'm an american citizen. and he's going to say, boat swains mate, give that man 30 lashes for insulting a royal naval officer. under american law, merchant captains were required to report impressments to the u.s. government, and the u.s. government did make an effort to accumulate evidence, if you were an american c

much knowledge was there within the country that we were actually firing the german navy and the american navy attacked a let war? was there an american cruiser or something? >> there were both commercial and naval vessels that were fired upon and sunk in the north atlantic. ever since back in the spring of 1941, of course fdr as you know had the least of great britain to help churchill. upon at action, adolf hitler ordered a shoot on sight order that were patrolling the north atlantic but the american people knew about it and it wasn't a spur to them to get involved in the european war even though this was active, the war was in fact going on in the north atlantic. and of course roosevelt ordered the naval ships to defend themselves against the u-boats. lusitania wasn't the spur to go into world war i either. >> in some respects we forget a free period what time japan was already at war and asia for 37 so it had been for years. >> the invitees china. islamic as part of the books, and then we were at two years and three months with germany and europe, so it's not totally isolation and then it

to the ayatollah or ahmadinejad, it would be hey, don't overtly close the straits because the american navy will kill us but if we simply have a mine adrift out there every once in a while, undisclosed attack, that sinks a tanker or two in that gulf which is in our backyard, the insurance companies will do the rest and we will start this effort of bringing the west to its knees through gas prices that our country probably in excess of $10 a gallon. there are a lot of tools that they have that, again, can be used to manipulate us in ways that it's pretty, it's pretty challenging just to think about. >> well on that ominous note let's open it to the audience for questions. we'll begin with my colleague irwin stelzer, director of economic studies here at hudson. >> do i need a mic? >> yes. >> please speak into the microphone and identify yourself. and everyone else. >> i'm irwin stelzer. is that working? i've been jousting with conservatives of this question of security and not just having reaction to the fact that environmentalists want to get us off fossil fuels. i might say, mr. lutz, that

thing we've got to do in the military is not only get these young, diverse americans to sign up, but also to remain and make the navy and marine corps a career so that the diversity at our higher ranks will mirror the ones at our lower ranks. >> thank you very much, secretary. admiral, good to see you, too, and first i applaud the decision to fully fund a ship and depo maintenance accounts. the navy is taking steps to improve maintenance work on its surface ships so as to mitigate problems and material readiness that have come to light in recent years. admiral, can you talk about some of the improvements, how they will affect some of the ship maintenance work? particularly talking about pearl harbor and other shipyards as well. >> hello, senator. the biggest change is called the surface management program, and we have it in this program, actually reinstituted it into the surface program. it's laying out the key and critical maintenance procedures that need to take place when we bring a surface ship in for maintenance to ensure that it gets to its expected service life. it involves going into the tanks looking at the

misrepresented the strength of the opposing ships and some of the ship duels that the royal navy lost, or the 19th century american benjamin j. losse who traveled some 10,000 miles looking at battlefields, other sites, sketched them, interviewed veterans and others who had been around during the war, and repeated uncritically what he heard from them, and that served, i think, to propagate a lot of the myths. and finally, the great henry adams, arguably the first historian of the war who examined sources to try to piece together what had happened. and about half, more than half of his nine-volume history of the united states during the administrations of jefferson and madison really deals with the run up to and the war and the war itself. adams was a very unhappy man, and he also was determined to make everybody except his own ancestors look bad, and this combination led to a lot of misconceptions, and adams was very, very clever. he often portrayed facts, or i should say, misconceptions, as facts or commonly held opinions that no one would disagree with, so you'll read through his history and see statements like t

also, tremendous praise for the every day americans who saw this navy jet disaster and responded andike heros with there own homes on fire. they rushed in to save others. now, we're learning more about how their efforts made the difference in this life or death situation. >> it was citizens that dragged our air crew to safety out of the fire zone. it was citizens that stepped up and helped move those hoses. it was citizens who evacuated the other inhabitants of the apartment complex and got that going and saved them from the fires that went through those buildings. copd makes it hard to breathe, so i wasn't playing much of a role in my own life, but with advair, i'm breathing better so now i can take the lead on a science adventure. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator, workintogether to help improve ur lung function all day. advair won't replace fast-acting inhalersor sudden symptoms and should not be used more than twice a day people with copd

american servicemen, now under investigation. officials tell nbc news that they include five from the army, two from the navy, two from the marines, one from the air force, all connected to the secret service advance team. americans are frequently seen here traveling to this area specifically for sex, drugs, alcohol. >> last week the 2012 session of the general assembly ended with legislators failing to come up with a budget compromise. it automatically triggers a so- called doomsday budget, featuring $512 million in cuts from public schools, law enforcement, and services marylanders use every day. while many expect the governor to call a special session of the general assembly, lawmakers said that maryland will do fine with austerity measures, and it will save taxpayers $20,000 a day to not have legislators brought back to annapolis. >> it is an extraordinary expense. people around here are seen and not to care about expenditures of the citizens of maryland. >> not exactly the budget i introduced, so "happy"is not a word i would use. but the budget we ended up agreeing upon was better than the huge cuts to public safety and publ

just need a small navy that needs to be able to beat the spanish armada and navies are less threatening. my fellow americans, we need to emulate the model of england and scotland forming an indivisible union and here is what we're going to do. we will have this 3,000-mile-wide moat times 50 and it will keep the old powers at bay. we'll kick the brits out. a very small army, so small it won't threaten domestic liberty, kick the brits out, kick the spanish out, kick the french out. we'll kill the indians. we'll control the continent, manifest destiny. no one will screw with us. that is andrew jackson. by the way, you look at a map of the world in 1943, who is free. it's basically the brits and von trapps in switzerland is the same thing because it's hard to charge up a hill and hitler hesitates to launch an amphibious invasion because that's not so easy to do. it's what our friends in israel would call defensible borders. more democratic, more slave-ocratic. more about national security, more about -- andrew jackson's world. he can beat the brits, battle of new orleans. he doesn't like black people so much. h

the men and women of america's navy do some amazing things to make the world a better place. but, then again, so can millions of everyday americansrought to you by america's navy. it's the beginning of the big chill ... >>we have another frost and freeze warning end another red flag warning any fire is a risk with the wind and dry conditions be careful if burning the outdoors today ... march was a record breaker across the united states will have more on that in just a moment but we are settling into a cooler regime ... the air is moderately on stable and that means the temperature will be dropping faster than it typically does. we are 17 degrees cooler than 24 hours ago we have double-digit changes from 24 hours ago ... this is late-season arctic air coming from canada. the weather service reports that there were 15,272 record set in march alone it was the warmest by more than eight degrees ever recorded in whether history and that goes back to 1895 the opening three months in 2012 are the warmest ever since record-keeping started. that's across much of north america ... the suburbs around chicago was pretty much in the 30's thi

the shooting used racial slurs in describing his father's killing by an african-american man two years ago. >>> the navyg no time in compensating victims of friday's fighter jet crash into a residential area in virginia beach. payments will begin at around $2,300 per person and that amount will increase based on the number of family members. in a statement the navy wrote we owe it to everyone affected by friday's accident to help them get their lives back together. amazingly, no one died in the crash. facebook is going to buy the widely popular photo sharing service instant gram for $1 billion. it let's smartphone photographers customize pictures and share them with friends. this is facebook's biggest buy yet. insta gram has 30 million users. mark zuckerberg broke the news on his facebook page saying it will offer users the best photo sharing experience. >>> another mega millions winner claimed their prize. we still don't know who it is but maryland lottery officials say they will share the story in a public news conference this morning. no word if it is the mcdonald's workers that made waves saying she

continues its two-week recess, all this week we're showing you american history tv programming in primetime. tomorrow, programs from the civil war navy conference as it marks its 150th anniversary of the battle of hampton roads. that event was the first time in history that iron clad ships faced off in battle. see those events tomorrow beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span3. >>> april 15th, 1912, nearly 1500 perish on the ship called unsinkable. >> once the lookout bells were sounded, the lookout, once the lookout sighted an iceberg ahead, they struck the bells in the crow's nest three times, ding, ding, ding, which is a warning saying that there's some object ahead. doesn't mean dead head ahead. and it doesn't say what kind of object. what the lookout then did after they struck the bell. he went to a telephone in the nest and called down to the officer on he bridge to tell them what it is that they saw. and when the phone was finally answered, the entire conversation was what do you see? and the response was, iceberg right ahead. and the response from the officer was, thank you. >> samuel halpern on the truthss and myths of

plundering mexican and spanish and american ships, until 1819, the american government says that's enough -- enough's enough. and they send a navy expedition over. they hang about nine pirates. it's amazing. you hang a few pirates and that stopped it. literally all at once. well, at the same time lafitte is there at galveston, there's also a group of french napoleanic officers. they create a settlement and what they envisioned is that they would liberate napoleon from st. helena, and he would have this empire along the gulf coast. well, napoleon dies at st. helena, and the empire, well, there's that here, and if you ever go out east into alabama, there's a place called demopolis, which was founded by the french emigres. that was to be the foundation of napoleon's empire here in north america, and it doesn't play out. in the aftermath of the war of 1812, this border land between louisiana and texas is a hotly contested area. and one of my favorite characters in all of american history -- it's not john smith -- latour. how many of you guys have heard of latour? my wife has. she's lived with me all these years. latour is kind of th

army and the navy and the marine corps and the british navy and the thing that most struck me in is americans have said that there was a second front in world war front along the potomac of washington, d.c. with army versus navy but in tokyo the enter service rivalry was a full contact sport. the imperial navy and the japanese army cordially detested each other. they spoke to each other as little as possible and institutionally they were so far removed that it makes my brain hurt. the air force was heavily influenced by the french from about the per goal for one. in the french aircraft of the era you pull the throttle back to accelerate, the japanese navy was heavily in influenced which was the common sense standard pushed to go throttle so i couldn't help wondering how interesting must have been at the joint aviation conference when the japanese pilots were hopping cockpits. [laughter] schenectady want to answer questions? >> anybody have questions i would be delighted to reply. >> what would be the navigation pilots use early in the war before they had their radar to basically buy it themse

. >> the trial of the brothers accused of beating an african- american teenage continues after testimony yesterday. a retired navyess, saw the brothers follow and yell at cory osby from a convertible the night before he was beaten up. the brothers are accused of assaulting the 15-year-old while on patrol for a jewish neighborhood watch group. >>> the ravens are still waiting to make their first pick in the nfl draft. last night, the team decided to trade out of the first round. they sent their 29th overall pick to the minnesota vikings for trade for a third pick in the second round and other picks. they can make three picks today. stay with wjz news. up next, the former head of the cia defends the interrogation techniques used on al-qaida detainees at guantanamo bay, cuba, of course. ,,,,,, >>> vice president biden gave a speech on foreign policy at nyu this morning. he's the best. >> now is the time to heed the timeless advice from teddy roosevelt. speak softly and carry a big stick, end of quote. i promise you the president has a big stick. >> trust me, i found out the hard way. >> he said, trust me, i found ou

presence in asia part of that cooperation could see a possible royal navy submarine deployment in the region the u.k. is joining the american buildup in asia pacific a strategy critics say is aimed at challenging beijing's growing and fluence archly cyber bennett reports from london. for britain this is a highly lucrative opportunity first because it means big business when it comes to defense japan is an untapped market in britain is very keen to exploit that prime minister david cameron is unashamedly touting britain's military hardware on this trip taking with him over thirty executives from the u.k. aren't arms industry he's defended that move as being perfectly responsible and respectable despite the region being highly sensitive to any kind of military maneuvers whatsoever and tensions or particularly high at the moment with north korea planning a rocky launch for later this week but on top of that and more importantly for britain is the chance to exert its influence with a physical presence in the region a region that traditionally and certainly geographically is china's the main because part of the could mean the re