the governor of jamaica sent them after the captain joseph bannister. it was said to be tipped over on the side of the beach so the crew could clean the hall and that is when the war ships arrived and did battle but they could never expect to find bannister and his crew. >> c-span: the word careening is in your book a lot. explain what that is. >> guest: the guy said the only reason they even got close to the golden fleece was she was on the careen and they had to explain with wooden sailing ships barnacles grew on the hall of the ship and they would eat through and slow down the ship. pirate ships had to be fast and clean. so to do that you had to beach them, turn them on their side and scrub the hall down. but that left the sailing ship very vulnerable. >> c-span: the book has several different stories. let's start with the personal stories. first, we will go with mattera and the mafia. >> guest: yes, he grew up in staten island and was the son of a butcher shop worker. he was surrounded by a lot of the people who came across and did business with the

foreign affairs committee recent visit to the middle east who only managed to get back for the bannister's state about these troops we all know and accept you cannot through airstrikes alone. but everybody is having trouble identifying with the ground forces should be and who should actually supply them. we visited those capitals and we spoke to a lot of experts across a wide range of fields and the point that kept plaintiff kept coming across was the belief that there were very few remaining up to five years in the civil war. with the strategy doesn't address i have asked this question before is what is the common enemy, what is stopping them as we saw in libya? we ignore the lessons at all costs because what we were being told on the ground only last week is that they are very splintered. they are not a homogenous group. we should also draw the lessons we are struggling to defeat and that is with the estimates of 800 or 900,000 security forces to finish the job in iraq before we start thinking about any long-term strategies but again we are struggling and that is one of the fundamental d

to bannisters to basement to bathroom. >> reporter: the startling sight is the grand hall, where the banking was once done. >> certainly wow factor when you walk into the building. >> reporter: the biggest wow from the room's pair of opulent sky lights. >> bricks stuck in them and a lot of water damage. >> reporter: the bulk of the work was the kind no one will ever see. seismically upgrading the building. >> we built a new building inside the plaster. it's been preserved. almost like a time capsule. >> reporter: now hoping to fill the building with modern life. the search is phone for a tenant to set up shop. >> very few buildings like this that you could make your own. >> reporter: search for a tenant has drawn interest in tech firms, finance companies, entertainment groups. >> the foot traffic chases away bad problems. >> reporter: expecting the building's finishing touches to be done in a couple of months. that's when he hopes to finally sit back and appreciate the building's new lee on life. joery sato jr. >> sigh of relief. >> nbc bay area news. >>> now it's raining again in sa

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