kevin fortuna and martin lamb from first battalion the rifles. marine samuel alexander and lance corporal martin gill from 42 commander royal marines and corporal mike pike from the fourth battalion the royal regiment of the scotland. all of them were dicated professionals serving our country. their deaths are a reminder of the very high price we are paying to stop afghanistan for being a haven for terrorists. we honor their memory. we will support their families. we will not forget their service d their sacrifice. >> here, here. >> mr. speaker, i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others, i will shall have further such meetings this morning. >> can i associate myself with the prime minister's tribute to our fallen soldiers. we do indeed owe them a great

two engines, one truck that we are going to position over san francisco to assign to one of our battalion chiefs so if we have working fires or anything, car accidents, multicasualty incidents, the trained crews from around the bay area will come in and stay at our fire stations today. >> reporter: these are good men and woman. no need to worry about the safety? >> no need. we train together. these people are going to be assigned with our engine companies and truck companies.

go back to our nert staging area, go back, tell the battalion chief, get whatever you need. eliminate your hazards first, make sure you can work safely, remove the victim quickly but bottom line, safely. lifting procedures, we're going to show you a demonstration what you do but when you do it, make sure you treat the patient and tell them what's going on. you want to crib the object. again, cribing goes underneath the object or the load to make sure it stays off the patient. that's the idea of cribbing. lift the load the height of one piece of cribbing. you want to lift a little at a time. you'll understand when we actually do this. whenever the object is set down, it never rests on the patient. it rests on the cribbing. here is the i-beam, here is the patient right here. they're going to build it high enough so the i-beam is resting on that cribbing right there because that would take the weight, hopefully take some of the weight off of the patient. so now here is the patient, here is the load right here on the patient, there's cribbing right here, there's a rescuer standi

after waiting nearly twenty hours in their boats the first battalion eighth marines attempted to land ashore almost half of them never made it to the beach a large number of the all the kids were knocked out of action in the first day and after that they had to use primarily hagan's beds in the hagans boats were dropping the marines off at the fringing reef because they couldn't make it all the way up to the island and the marines had to go about seven hundred yards across a title flat and in doing so they were basically wading through waist deep water all along this area from red beach three to and one in the face of tremendous japanese fire. the battle had many own some heroes in the midst of the landings a young naval officer was on board a higgins boat in the horrible calmly rescuing wounded marines from the water while several enemy machine gunners tried to knock him out. that young lieutenant j.g. was a d.o.b. and he was a rising hollywood actor before in this thing in the navy he had stored in several movies and with major headline television shows including the popular series

by the end of the day the marine second battalion was holding on to the seventy to three hundred foot stretch of sand and fifteen hundred to five thousand americans a paycheck dead. i'm just. i can't stand it. look at that look at this sand here i couldn't get anywhere near the sand i was going up on the reef. there was a tank right about here half in the terminal. gone. we got stuck in the early am i with all the guys on my boat i think i remember saying i was going to let go and i said no because i knew these guys would have drowned because we were over a hundred yards from the sand and they would have gone with their heavy packs of the best and i don't know i think i did i think i had no say in the boat they were trying to climb out of the boat by the janitors shooting i said. skyward and we found an access through the reef and that's when i landed these guys obviously i don't know i don't know but i think i did i think that. however despite the heavy casualties a further disaster was averted a coordinated japanese counterattack might have overrun the exhaust arenas but there was n

the third battalion. they were talented, brave, and dedicated soldiers who made the sacrifice overseas for the safety of british people at home. we send our deepest condolences. in addition to my duties in the house, we will have further such meetings today. >> thank you. i think the prime minister for that response, and can i associate myself with attribute that he just said? to deliver his first budget, one year ago today, the chancellor stood up in the house. given that on the government's own assessment, their efforts will have a statistically insignificant impact on child property, can recommend that they prime minister watch the bbc documentary "poor kids" to find out how the other half lives? does he regret allowing his chancellor to take money away from families with children rather than from the bankers to cause the financial crisis in the first place? >> i will certainly look at the program the honorable lady mentioned, but even in a difficult time, this government put more money into child-tax

many of them went off to war and became part of the 442nd, the 100th battalion, the mis, military intelligence, and were extraordinarily heroic and died in very high casualty rates in europe. and so when chet comes back to san francisco, those people who signed no no were looked upon as cowards. they were traitors. they sat out the war where these other people died. everyone a friend, an uncle or somebody they knew who had died, lost an arm, or was killed in service. chet comes back and he is literally spit on by his own community. so my protagonist is someone who is an ex-jazz musician, who spent his adult years playing with black groups, he comes back to san francisco at a time when japan town is still sort of unraveling from this sort of who lives here, who doesn't live here, and he wants to find japan town again, find his own sort of home while at the same time around him his own community is looking at him as if he is a traitor. so as he says and used to say in the play, i'm on the outside of the outside. my country thinks i'm a criminal, my own community thinks i'm a traitor. how does he

i just smoke with the battalion chief.ell you what he had to say, coming up in a live report. >>> and a live look behind the scenes. this is our own control room. of the heart of where it all happens. it's friday, june 3rd, 2011. this is "today in the bay." >>> from nbc bay area, reporting what matters to you. this is "today in the bay." >>> i get the easy job compared to those folks in there, hard workers. good morning, i'm laura garcia cannon. it is 5:29 right now. let's get started with a look at the forecast with christina loren. >> good morning to you, laura. you know, take a look at this live picture first before we get to your weather. this is what it looks like right now. a beautiful, live picture. you see we have some sunshine coming in. but that there is the leading edge of a very, very strong system of low pressure that is going to dump rain over the bay as we head through your saturday. i'll let you know what areas are going to get hid the hardest as we head through the next 48 hours and show you the system tha

now as i said, there was this marine security guard battalion, but it wasn't really a battalion. it was between 50 and 60 people. and three days before the seventh fleet which was cruising the waters off south vietnam, international waters off the south china sea, they sent in a platoon of fleet marines. they came in wearing leisure -- according to the paris peace accords, we weren't allowed to have more than x amount of soldiers in south vietnam, and the msgs pretty much took up that quota. so they sent 50 young men with haircuts like mine, and they had them wearing leisure suits and carrying their guns and uniforms in duffel bags. the nco in charge of the msgs in sigh gone, oh, yeah, they're never going to know we're here. so we got saigon, and there's all kinds of americans still in there. not only civilians, but state department, spooks, cia, there's army advisers, air force advisers, navy advisers, but let's face it, the two main players in saigon right now are the ambassador, graham martin. an elegant man. tall, shock of white hair, always had a jaunty cigarette dangling fr

san francisco is divided into nine battalion districts, each one of those districts is getting a crew outside san francisco. hayward taking care of things at 19th and folsom streets. this is something that no one has seen before and are praying that we never see it again. >> under a flag, they came to help. firefighters from fremont, oakland, san jose and el cerrito vallejo, cal fire and elsewhere. dozens of men and women folks that understand what their brothers and sisters are going through today. >> we can't imagine what it's like to lose one of your own. any chance we can get to help out san francisco fire department we're all about it. >> in the streets of san francisco today, you can find fire trucks and crews that have never worked here before, like this hayward fire crew, their briefing was eye-opening. >> this mission district, one of the toughest areas as far as i'm concerned in the nation to ladder. we have overhead wires and buildings set back. >> it's not like the visiting firefighters are being told to fend for themselves. some city firefighters are staffing the stations

san francisco is divided into nine battalion districts, each one of those districts is getting a crew outside san francisco. hayward taking care of things at 19th and folsom streets. this is something that no one has seen before and are praying that we never see it again. >> under a flag, they came to help. firefighters from fremont, oakland, san jose and el cerrito vallejo, cal fire and elsewhere. dozens of men and women folks that understand what their brothers and sisters are going through today. >> we can't imagine what it's like to lose one of your own. any chance we can get to help out san francisco fire department we're all about it. >> in the streets of san francisco today, you can find fire trucks and crews that have never worked here before, like this hayward fire crew, their briefing was eye-opening. >> this mission district, one of the toughest areas as far as i'm concerned in the nation to ladder. we have overhead wires and buildings set back. >> it's not like the visiting firefighters are being told to fend for themselves. some city firefighters are staffing the stations

a state i called a corpsman the corpsman came and got the three bodies and took them back to the battalion surgeon. corpsman came back dump the bodies on the side of the road and i went over to the corpsman i asked him i said what were you doing how can you bring him back and me to get him out you need to get him back to an area where they can see a surgeon. there's nothing we can do for him so. you can leave you know you can leave the bodies on the side of the road and i said yeah we want to do steps or so i want to go and pass them up so they dumped him on the side of the road and. and the guys brother he come running over to him and he just said they're holding them while they roll around on the on the asphalt on a highway. and rolling around in pain they didn't even give many morphine. the guy's brother he kept he kept running around and he had his hands in his and his and his face. and he's was crying and sobbing and he's saying why did you kill my brother. we didn't do anything to you we're not terrorists. remember i remember i just want to i wanted to close my years i didn't want to

it well and viet cong snipers have done most of the damage today was no exception on the second battalion twenty seventh and factually it framed well founds moved out to exact the snipers over not from such perfectly camouflaged positions but most of the a copy not the whole day with a c. and not of the enemy a sergeant was hit in the shoulder and leg as a vault over at the. rep to its back. a medic broke for the call of and rushed to his it as he dropped to his knees to be gay and given a bullet smashed through the stomach. of the sergeant in the medic guy and out till a bump was laid out to screen a squad go out after the wall that a specialist for what he wanted and help cross the deadly fifty yards without a fight on t.v.'s he was head again this was no. you're there yes it's howard it. and bring him back to him and. well down all. this bill no pressure certainly we're building up to go until right now so i think obama grandson. they were probably aware if they had to craft they would be traffic tickets so i start thinking of what i could do to protect them to keep them from growing.

-- and the tree battalions as being able to operate independently.a fairly large group, about five different levels that they use to evaluate these. there is a large group coming in behind it. you can see the progress of improvement in need battalions out there as they move along. we specifically have looked hard at the end the trade -- infantry each month since that will be a key indicator to us. when somebody asks me, are they going to be ready by december of 2014, if the afghans maintain a commitment that they have today, and the international support is still there, i say, absolutely. they will be ready to take the lead for security. i do not even question it. >> right next to james. >> i was at npr when you were at baghdad. when you began your comments, you said that the afghan forces will be challenged internally by all propensities of how to act on what to do. i was wondering if you could talk a bit more about that. three months into your time there, before acting on the list receipt issue, we did literacy issue, why is it taking so long? >> g

in your view, are these legitimate religious sanctuaries or battalions as they are actually describedn some of the islamic writings that were uncovered at the holyland foundation trial, or i even know the prime minister of turkey had a poem that he used to quote before he became a legitimate -- >> guest: president obama's great friend. >> host: great moderate, but said mosques are battalions. are these now a place for a moderate muslim can be brought into the fold and become a potential terrorist or someone like carlos without connection at all can be brought here, radicalized, and turned on his own family and country? >> guest: fred, absolutely. look, in the book i describe how i have been in mosques from coast to coast in america and in europe. i've been in the mosques. i interviewed the emaums. i'm on the ground, firsthand observations and experiences. i have to tell you far too many times in american mosques, and by the way, it's estimated some 80% of the mosques have saudi funding behind them. that's problematic. saudi arabia is the globalist center. 15 hijackers, yet they fund a

think not a full regimen battalion of eight. i believe the south carolina and union looking at these numbers. what happens of course is lee is going to be criticized why did you fight there? and the's explanation is a was better to for the maryland than to leave without a battle but if you go to the sharpsburg it's a wonderful place in the sense that it is not any of the -- i think the gettysburg is a great place to go, too but sharpsburg is a wonderful place there's not a motel in town, there's not a mcdonald's. it has hardly changed. you want to stay after night you have to go back up and it's a small battlefield in the sense, but the potomac river is 3 miles to your back. had he lost his army would face possible destruction. okay what if he one? if he won he wasn't going to hurt the army potomac that much. surgeon the antietam creek is going to be behind you so he can pursue -- he's not going to tear into the rear of the army potomac as it crosses the south mountain. so what he asked his men had to do as one confederate offic

. >> reporter: at 19th and folsom, mission station 7, san francisco's battalion chief briefed hayward men on the obstacles they might find here in the area. firefighters had left for the funeral. for the incident commander of the deadly fire, instead of attending the funeral, he said that he would stay behind saying that would be the only way to pay respect to tony and vinny. >> this week has been the most difficult time of my career. but these guys make it so much easier because we are covered. >> reporter: every fire station in san francisco but station 26 isemaned by a different city today. we drove by station 26 in the diamond heights area. it was closed. station 26 was lieutenant vincent perez and tony bareo's stations. >>> we want to take you back live to show you live pictures from the area. that fire shot just past the area of fulton and 42nd, again, headed to st. mary's cathedral where thousands are waiting to say a final farewell to these two fallen firefighters. there we go again. that is the live picture outside of st. mary's cathedral. you can see the sea of blue as firef

an unlikely reunion with a retired brigadier general, the man who gave the order to attack jacobs battalion, killing or wounding half of them. but even war wounds heal, the sharp edges of combat with time fade and the adversaries of 1968 find common ground. >> the emotional part is meeting for the first time again. somebody who also fought for his should -- soldiers. that's a bond that's impossible to break, no matter what country you belong to. >> reporter: even though you were enemies? >> even though we were en -- we were enemies on paper. i was right here actually. >> reporter: making rough sketches, colonel jacobs, now a west point professor of military strategy wants to know -- >> how many days before we got there did he know we were coming? >> three days in advance. >> reporter: it was an unrelenting ambush, seen from the air by the helicopter pilot he radioed for help. >> don't bother, he said. it's too hot down here, it's really bad. i said all right, tell me where the enemy is. and he says, they're all around us. >> and seen from the ground by a vietnamese farmer who heard the heli

the fire department doesn't know how much fuel leaked but the battalion said it was covered before crews were able to contain it. check in with christina. >> supper soaker through the bay area. we're not done, showers creeping from the south, moving to the north. this morning the east bay is getting a bit of a break. i wouldn't be surprised to see a couple of isolated showers move into the east bay as we head to the next couple of hours. after that we will really start to wind down. take a look at our record june rainfall in the east bay. concord picked up half an inch, a little over half an inch yesterday. that was one of the weaker areas. oakland over an inch of rain. san rafael over an inch of rain there. napa, vallejo close to one inch. substantial rainfall amounts. as we head to the remainder of the week, warm-up kicks into high gear. triple digits in the east bay. i'll break those numbers down for you coming up. right now over to my traffic boo. he's covering everything closely. >> or traffic boo, if you're looking at the screen now. we still have most of the roadway in recovery fr

in your view, are these legitimate religious sanctuaries , or are they battalions as they are actually describe in some of the islamic writings that were uncovered at the holy land foundation trial, or even though the prime minister of turkey had a poem that he used to quote before he became a legitimate -- greet moderate, but that said, mosques are battalions. which is it? are these now a place where a moderate muslim can either be brought into the fold and become a potential terrorist or somebody like carlos bledsoe who doesn't have any connection at all can be implicated, radicalized and turn on his own family and country? >> guest: absolutely. look in the book i describe how i have been in mosques from coast to coast in america and europe i've been in the mosques and interview diman thank i'm not just in an air-conditioned office in d.c.. these are my firsthand observations come experiences, and i have to tell you, far too many times in american mosques, which by the way it is estimated some 80% of american mosques have saudi funding behind them. it's very problematic because saudi

if you have americans going in there, hiring, training, operating their own battalion of foreign fighters say the united states military or nato or anyone else we're affiliated with decides to take action against, civilians are being killed, atrocities being committed, we're going to take action, we're potentially setting up having american military going against fighters trained and operated by other americans. >> well, there is that problem and there is the bigger problem as secretary -- defense secretary gates pointed out recently that we have an out of control shadow security government or apparatus in washington of all these private contractors, mercenaries, interrogators, et cetera, et cetera. >> do they live by any rules? do they have any rules they have to adhere to? >> no. they're very much like these black dark pools of investments that brought down wall street. they're rogue operators. they're under nobody's control. and they're not under the control of the american military. what happens if they start massacring villagers. to whom do they report? it is a very messy situation.

the battalion chief does say this road will be closed for most of the expeeng they will be here -- evening and they will be here overnight to watch this scene. reporting live in san francisco, ktvu channel 2 new. >> >> today's loss is the first time in eight years a san francisco firefighter has been fatally injured. in january of 2003, 46-year-old minda was thrown from the fire truck when they took off the seat belt to reach for a head phone. it was on rule to a call at the airport. she died five days later aat a hospital. >>> -- at a hospital. >>> for the last two fire fighters who died in the line of duty. the county firefighters matthew burton and desmond died in san pablo in 2007. the people who lived inside the house were also killed. it had two roofs which allowed pressure to buildup. >> for more coverage along with a key doe condolence page -- >> you stole my life and that of my family. those are jaycee's words read in court by her mother at the sentencing. phillip was sentence thed to 4311 years. his wife nancy to 36 years to life. both entered plea deals in april for the 1991 kid

and i think one of the biggest reasons that i dealt within myself is because i was in a battalion ofrines and i don't think people wanted to hear my whining and complaining. and then shortly after we went in another deployment, noncombat, which just kept on drinking, kept on masking my issues with whatever -- whatever would take away any of the pain. came back and then about six months later my unit was deployed again to iraq. this time i was behind the elements so i was kind of able to see the other side of things when we would get the casualty reports. we would get the kai's in and would have to notify and take, you know -- beyond that and anything as well. i decided that i was going to get out of the marine corps. but i was persuaded by a good friend sergeant major ellison in afghanistan. and he ended up getting killed and i ended up going to his funeral and a friend in second battalion fourth marines hung himself in the basement of his home. that kind of got me twirling out of control just before i was going to get out of the marine corps. and then finally on march -- i got disch

. >> reporter: battalion chief suspects in just seconds, a flashover may have overcome the men. >> you hope it never happens. vince perez, a fine man, 21 years in the department. and i think just this flashover, wrong place at the wrong time. >> we're devastated. this is a tough time. since i've been chief we've never had a line of duty death. >> reporter: and while firefighters mourn the loss of one of their own, they hold vigil outside of the hospital, hoping they don't lose another. >> it's tough. you know, we're going to get through it and we're going to be there for the perez family, and we're there for the families. >> everyone's trying to stay upbeat even though the news is pretty dire right now. we still have no idea whether or not it's going to go one way or the other. >> reporter: and his doctor just came out and spoke with us minutes ago. he stresses this is a touch and go situation. he described it as being on a roller coaster, one minute his prognosis improves, the next minute it gets worse again. we should also mention a third firefighter was injured in this blaze. she wa

and each agency was paired with a san francisco battalion chief.e biggest issues, believe it or not, making sure crews know where to go. >> they are not familiar with the area. they don't have the maps to come up on their control consoles in their units. so they have to stay close. >> reporter: and it wasn't just about the directions. all the other characteristics of san francisco, they had a note today. you know, it's very different from hayward. here we have steeper hills, denser buildings and overhead wires from muni so they went over all of this to make sure that not only were all these outside agencies helping us work this system, but also to stay safe. allen? >> grace lee, thanks for that. >>> want to go live to chopper 5 quickly just to update you on this procession that has been going on from the city of san francisco st. mary's cathedral. i'm told now that they are on interstate 280 as we see the first of those fire engines and fire trucks. all told there were more than 50 making their way as you can see slowly down interstate 280 to the c

. >> reporter: lieutenant colonel david flynn's battalion was one of the hardest hit, as they fought bullets and thousands of homemade bombs to take the taliban's heartland, the arghandab valley. >> you can see this is a big job. >> boy, no kidding. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: my son and i ran for our lives when insurgents ambushed us at 9,000 feet in eastern afghanistan. but the 101st war squadron fought back -- hard, saving us and each other for a reason. >> coming here and just running around and killing the enemy and then leaving and looking back and saying "i didn't make a difference, i didn't make a change," will cause us to never to leave. >> reporter: for american sacrifice to mean something, they have to mean something, the fledgling afghan army and police. success, if it ever comes, is afghans fighting for afghanistan. but first they have to believe in their country and themselves. on this patrol, near the pakistan border last winter, they ran down the mountain, not up the mountain, towards the taliban. it was the 101st who moved to engage the enemy. american soldiers are tryi

. >> engine 26 and engine 27 and battalion 6 and nine. rescue one. medic 74. >> dispatchers send several crews to the scene and expecting the worse when a fire broke out in a wood frame home. firefighters rushed in the burning house shortly after they arrived on the scene. >> we have a -- copy? >> the incident commander called for more medical assistance. >> we need two more code three ambulance. any paramedics operating. assist in the front of the building. >> firefighters immediately started cpr and life saving efforts on the injured colleagues and ambulance sped them to the trauma center. >> they are one crit beingal firefighter. >> we have two critical firefighters. i am transporting one critic driving med ache 74. >> and copy that. >> third degrees burns and full arrest. over. the san francisco firefighter sends dozen fire fights to smallest fire to prevent them from spreading. >> took a look at the colden gate bridge. rain is falling in parts of the north bay and it is expected to be raining everywhere soon. it will be a while before we get a b

in the army if you are a general commanding a core or a regiment or a battalion on your left shoulder you have got a guy from the security department overlooking will you do things politically correct? on your right shoulder making sure you're not going so lourdes sean connery had to kill a political officer in north korea you have to kill two guys in answer to two separate chains of command. so nobody can trolls enough of the power for somebody to come take over. everybody is being watched so it is very interesting to note -- interesting. in order for his son to take over his dad has to build a power base in the security services and then the regime and has he been able to do that? not yet it took 20 years can can jong-il do that and if you were years for his son? he as it diabetes, kidney dialysis and will not last more than five years. what does that mean? if kim dies in the next five years no better than a 50/50 chance that regime can survive. there is a huge chance it could fall into implosion her a explosion or complete civil war. anarchy type activity. it is what people are pla