corp. of engineer management decisions in order to limit to the great education extent possible a flood of this year's mag any nude from ever occurring again. i thank the chair. >> thank you, senator. senator johnson, we're happy you're here. please proceed. >> thank you, chairman boxer for holding this hearing to examine this year's flooding. i appreciate the opportunity to provide brief remarks. flooding is our nation's most common form of natural disaster, and this is also the most costly. though we can never fully eliminate the risk of flooding, it is crucial that we continually evaluate the condition of our flood control infrastructure and the effectiveness of our management practices. in south dakota, we are no stranger to natural disasterring, but this year's missouri river flooding has been unprecedented in scope and duration. people have been displaced from homes and businesses for months, and they are facing long months of clean up ahead. utilities and drinking water infrastructur

marine corps. live coverage on c-span2. >> good morning, everybody. >> good morning. >> welcome to today's session on the council on foreign relations which i know will be as dynamic and exciting as up to the council standards. just a couple of housekeeping matters. first of all, for those you with blackberries and pages, please turn them all the way off, not just to silence. the reason is we're using a wireless microphone system and even on the vibrate mode you interrupt. next, for all the journalists including the, this meeting is on the record so everything that commandant says can be used and discussed and spread far and wide. the third issue is one of the reasons the council likes to have, i spent five years as a correspondent based in moscow and i run these sessions with a stalinist efficiency. we will be out of here at 9:30 a.m. sharp because the commandant has an important meeting back at the pentagon. the challenge for any preside are in introducing some of his career is as a lustrous as t

the president of dow chemical corp. a boat and -- wrote a book and called it, "make it in america." he took up the same thing i'm -- i do not know if that name means anything to you, but he was one of the few creating intel corp., creating tens of thousands of jobs. the both have the proposition that we were the most innovative, inattentive developing nation of products in the world. we have been and we are today. we invent so much of the new technology in this country. i want to give you an example of what the andy's are concerned about. that is that we have invented products here, we have innovated those products, and we have developed those products, but unfortunately in too many cases, as andy says, they are taken to scale overseas. what does he mean by that? they are manufactured overseas and sold back here in the united states. that means we are losing american jobs notwithstanding the fact that these are our products. an example -- the kindle. how many of you have one? i bought my grandson one. i bought him one t

we drew the marine corps down. we've put a thousand more marines into marine special operations command. they were sitting at about 2,600; they're going to go to about 3,600. we're going to go from -- cyberwarfare, from where we were, about another 600 in cyber. but back to marsoc, they -- i visit them. i was with them last month in afghanistan. we're going to see them -- we're going to spend thanksgiving with them, running around helmand. they are just -- their report card is very, very strong. very high marks. i'm very pleased with them. i'll tell you what they -- they're -- they are the ultimate economy of force organization -- and by that for everybody, i mean instead of taking an infantry battalion of nine other marines and arraying them on the field somewhere or the marsoc marines, the special operations marines -- and it's more than marsoc -- it's the seals and it's the rangers and it's the navy -- i mean the green berets, because we work together. but you put small teams of these guys in there and they can

in the marine corps, navy, we always started every event talking about safety. it struck me that the safety for this event, they do it every day, but it is so visible today. everywhere you look today, there coast guard vessels providing safety. let's give a special hand for the united states coast guard. [applause] i want to thank, o commadore nolan and the st. francis yacht club. [applause] fleet week is something that we raise funds for to be able to do great things for the people. this particular event has been sponsored by bank of america. i want to thank bank of america for sponsoring this today. [applause] we're blessed to have a mayor that is very supportive of what we do, not just during the one week, but it all times, he is particularly supportive of the united states military and naval services. please help me welcome our mayor, the honorable mayor edwin lee. [applause] >> thank you. good morning. it has been our honor and pleasure to join all of you here at the st. francis yacht club to celebrate and welcome the fleet to fleet week. this is the 30th a

for decades, the marine corps was known as the cheap force. they were known as the ruble -- the frugal forece. we were known as the penny pinchers. we are going back to that. we have had 10 years in the culture of money. we have been tied up in afghanistan and iraq. that requires a lot of new stuff. money has not been a problem. we are going back to our culture of money. i will not ask for anything i do not need. excuse me, i would not ask for things that i want. i will only ask for things that i need. to your point, we have gone back. we have 40,000 vehicles. that is 7 ton trucks and humvees. the whole thing. we do not meet 40,000 vehicles. -- not need 40,000 to be a close. we are not going to recapitalize. -- 40,000 vehicles. what is going to get us through the next 8-10 years? we will sell its. we cannot -- we will sell it. we will make a plan we can afford based on our budget. there are some vehicles that will have to be replaced. this pulls at the hearts of congress and mothers and thought this. -- and fathers. they have some vehicles tha

he has commanded at every level from platoon to corp.commanded the united states european command, director of operations readiness and mobilization at headquarters department of the army. and we have admiral ferguson. we are delighted to have you with us. he is vice chief of naval operations, navy personnel command and chief of legislative affairs and naval personnel. also general joseph dunford jr. is the assistant commandant of the marine corps. he has gone for u.s. army ranger school, marine corps amphibious warfare school and u.s. army war college and very distinguished career. we appreciate your expertise he brings to this panel. last but certainly not least is general breedlove. we appreciate you once again being with us. general breedlove is vice chief of staff of the u.s. air force at georgia tech graduate and we enjoyed a graduate of university of virginia playing you the other week. it may be the one bright spot we will have this year but thanks for your help and cooperation in that. he is also a graduate of arizona state univ

. >>> in the district thousands of runners are braving the cold for this mornings marine corps marathon it is just getting under way. we will go to gwen good thing these people didn't have to run in ice and snow this morning. >> absolutely this thing has blown everybody away. october snowfalls are indeed rare this storm set records in many parts of the country it was so bad in connecticut and then in new jersey where they had to declare states of emergency. julie shows us just what happened with the snow in new york city's central park. >> reporter: from maryland to maine, old man winter making a very early arrival this season,. >> i think it is crazy. >> reporter: a nor'easter bringing nearly a foot of snow to some parts of the east coast this rare october snow making a mess out of cities like pittsburgh where several inches have fallen already. in central massachusetts it has been coming down since late friday it brought down trees and knocked out power to more than a million homes up and down the east coast. in many big apple it is the first prehalloween snowfall in almost 60 yearcau

may have scammed the army corps of engineers out of $20 million and had their eyes on another contract totaling nearly a billion dollars. bruce leshan reports, an army corps manager may have pocketed most of the cash. >> care carey was picked up at his mansion. authorities say he pocketed $18 million himself. as a manager with the army corps of engineers who was able to both let contracts and certify the contract the work was completed. the indictment alleges the four men scammed a $45 million contract to supply information technology and security to the corps. more than doubling the real cost and siphoning off the surplus into shell corporations. >> one of the most brazen federal procurement fraud scandals in our nation's history. >> prosecutors allege the men used the money to buy expensive real estate, bmw's, rolex, high end liquor, luxury hotel rooms, and flat screen tv's. prosecutors say the spir tores were plotting a bigger payday. all of this apparently made possible by the special rules congress. the contracts were steered through one based in dulles called iactec. >> special r

today personally apologized for failing to protect the peace corp. volunteers. >> the peace corp.as not guilty always been safe, i deeply regret that. >> reporter: he said his agency has not done enough to protect peace corp. workers from crimes and attacks. one volunteer cape kuse was killed. she has blown the whistle on her alleged killer accusing him of raping a number of women. >> cape kuse was an amazing american who dedicated her life for people who had suffered from her tratdy. >> reporter: aaron williams was not the peace corp. director when cape was killed. but says the agency has improved safety. >>> royalty is set to arrive here in california next week. england's prince harry is set to start a helicopter training corp. at the naval air facility in el centro. the prince is an army captain learning to ply an apache helicopter. >> john, i love you mijo and i'm going to miss you so much. >>> tonight two mothers give us a closer look at the sons they've lost. both of them killed at that shooting at the cupertino quarry. >>> frustration over an economy is giving rise to a gra

ahead, remembering a husband and father at the marine corps marathon. that story is next. >> mitchell: finally this sunday, today was the day for the 36th annual marine corps marathon in washington. among the thousands taking part was a family with a very special reason for running. elaine quijano has more. >> reporter: when 31 jold shalan webb describes her husband, army staff sergeant christopher webb what first comes to mind is this. >> it was just like his dream come true to have a family. >> reporter: after five years of marriage he realized that dream, becoming a father to a little girl, mary. but two months later he said good-bye to his family and headed to iraq. >> i remember asking him what if something happens and he was just like, oh, honey, nothing is going to happen, and i believed him. >> reporter: for four months they kept in touch online almost every day. but in march of 2007, men in uniform knocked on her door. >> so they came in, it was just like on tv. >> reporter: you didn't want to open the door? >> no. it's like your heart falls to

. >> one of the reasons that i personally joined the marine corps was for education. >> reporter: the department of defense allows enlisted soldiers to spend $3500 a year for their education. but the marine corps cut that down to $875. >> which only allows us to take one class a year. >> reporter: this is different from the montgomery gi bill which entitles an education strip pend after military service. >> they only can go to one class a year. >> blind sided. we did not get a survey or when it was sent out. never got an e-mail or phone call. >> reporter: this new rule will force them to delayer that education or dip into their gi bill early something they hope to use for their education or use for their family after they get out of the service. >> they may transfer over to the other services or getting out entirely and using the gi bill to get a civilian job. >> we feel like we are being targeted. why the marines? we are the first to fight and the first to get out there making the sacrifice for the country. >> we reached out to the marine corps trying to get an explanation for the ch

the vice-president for the harris corp.. the region chief of staff for federal health and the medical center. former wisconsin gov., president and ceo of a global technology nonprofit. and rebecca, the manager of employee engagement in disaster relief for hewlett-packard. the panel brings a great deal of expertise across many fields to our discussion today. we certainly want you to be involved in our discussion, so as questions come to your mind, who write them down. after the presentations, we would love to have discourse between new and our panel. you will see his extensive biography in your program, it is written more eloquently than mine. he is the senior vice president for a pharmaceutical company where he spent the last 39 years of his career. >> is a real pleasure for me to be here, particularly talking about this topic because i am a california native. i have family here and i certainly have lived through a number of the issues we have had for natural disasters in this area. i work for a corporation headquartered rig

marine corps. marathon. thank you. >>> police in alexandria are investigating a string of bank robberies in route 1. a woman held up suntrust around 11:00 a.m. a woman and a man demanded money a short time later from the wells fargo at the 6300 block. after that, a man robbed bb&t just a few blocks away. only the third attempt was successful. >>> authorities are investigating another attempted abduction in just two weeks. it happened yesterday afternoon in the governors green subdivision. a 20-year-old woman said a car with at least three men inside stopped as she walked along innisbrook circle. she says a man opened the back door and yelled, let's go! she was able to run away. >>> prince george's county police have arrested a man in connection with the murder of a howard university student. alonzo guyton was killed just after midnight tuesday in mt. ranier. police say 20-year-old william knight shot him in front of his off-campus apartment. they found his hand print on a gun. this was a total team effort be

-- did not stop the marine corps from participating in the marine corps marathon. it was the best marathon time in 15 years. >> i did not know how big of a leader had. i was just trying to stay on pace, trying to continue to run some of all the way to the finish. the fact that i won by a fair amount that is just a blessing. >> and the top female runner but ms. from turkey. -- female runner was from turkey. >> the weather did not hold them back. it seemed to help. >>> 32 degrees at 8:00 a.m. at reagan national airport. it was cold. >> it was freezing out there. >> a week from today our sun will set a little bit after 5:00 p.m. >> here it comes. >> it is quiet and dry outside now looking down pennsylvania avenue. but temperatures are falling. look at the high temperature at reagan national airport, about 10 degrees below average for this time of year, making it up to 55 degrees. it is still a lot better than the 43 degrees we had yesterday. the wind is nonexistent. it is 30 degrees and gaithersburg. the texas over to fairfax where it is 31 degrees. -- that takes us o

dry weather for the marine corps marathon. dry and cool for the children on monday night for halloween. now to lisa baden. >>> straight into the district, things are quiet. i spoke with vdot, no major construction this morning. kenilworth avenue, 295 an and good. looks good on 66 in manassas and centreville. travel times in our favor across the american legion bridge. 270 as well. metro rail and vre reporting normal service. back to you. >> thank you. >>> 53 degrees. >> the st. louis cardinals have another communication break down and another elimination and being sixth in the world series. tim brant has a preview. >>> on the next "anderson" -- i am conquering my fear of heights. on my next show, we all have thirs. i will show you how to face them and overcome them. on the next "anderson." ♪ ♪ [ gasp ] [ mom ] my husband -- he thinks it's a 3-sheeter.ttéwmu.vog#wvs#q(p4á)uog5un(zé4bóá)hmeg6k$'jefpl,[f=ay-c;l @n3p i say 1-sheeter. bounty can clean the mess with less. [ female announcer ] in this lab demo 1 sheet of bounty leave

but according to the marine corps website starting october 1st, the marine corps cut that number down$875. >> which only allowed marines to take one class a year. >> this is different from the montgomery gi bill which entitles enlisted soldiers a monthly education stipend after completing the minimum required service. >> the marine corps said they had polled marines and they said they only attend one class per year. >> i definitely feel blind sided because we never got any word of no survey. i don't know what was conducted, when it was sent out. never got an e-mail, phone call, in ig. >> these marines say this new rule will force them to delay their education or dip into their gi bill assistance early, something they hope to use to further their education or use for their family after getting out of the service. >> honestly, a lot of marines are going to start getting out, maybe transferring to the other services. you know, maybe getting out entirely and just using their gi bill and getting a civilian job. >> we feel like we're being targeted. why the marines when we're the first to b

she is from the cell corp. and the liaison to alas and head of our sponsorship corp. and has earned the nickname of the energizer bunny. in there you go. [applause] finally, in our boston office, as you know we have the collaboration where our financials is done by the cell corp., which is headquartered in boston, but we also have another staff person. her name is hondya salim. she is also an energizer bunny. watch her come up here. [applause] they are pour into sleep with their bunny's tonight. -- they are going to sleep with their bunny's tonight. it is time to turn it over to carlos, and he will finish the program we have for you today. and this is probably the first time you're going to hear this. we have a raffle on friday afternoon that you have to be present to win. it will get all kinds of tickets. the prizes are listed in your program, and they are not out. you might want to start thinking about that and see what you can do to get those tickets for the final raffled, because you have to be there to be able to win it, and remember that marriott cheese will be

the first african-americans to join the marine corps.y are barred from being stationed with whites at nearby camp lejeune. they were the last to accept blacks under orders from president roosevelt in 1941. like the army's buffalo soldiers and the air men, the so-called mumford point marines fought in world war ii, korea and vietnam. unlike their counterparts, they have never been captured in popular song or hollywood films or recognized nationally. >> they came because they felt in their heart of hearts they needed them to be a part of what was good about america. thank you very much for joining me. >> mire pleasure. >> so many people are wondering why most of us never heard the stories of these men. why? >> i think most people have never heard the story of the marines because they were just ordinary gentlemen who came from all walks of live and did extraordinary things at the time. they took part in being pioneers for the marine corps and never considered themselves as pioneers and exceptional people. we understand at the time what they

amos, commander of the marine corps, said it's the responsibility of the marine corps and this congress to honor these men who suffered through racism and segregation here in this country. i am honored to offer this resolution to recognize their service and sacrifice and acknowledge today united states marine corps is an excellent opportunity for advancement for all races -- may i have an additional minute? mr. clay: mr. speaker, i yield an additional minute to the gentlelady. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. brown: due to the example of these montford point marines. i want to submit the letter from general james f. amos, commander of the marine corps, in support of this resolution. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. ms. brown: i want to thank the many members who helped to bring this resolution to the floor, the financial services chairman, spencer bachus, his son served in the marine, in addition, so many members. over 308 sponsors. the leadership on both parties. this is an example of what we can do when we work together.

ay corp of engineers will relies a new database outlining conditions of 14,000 miles of left s acrossed states. the database was among the things congress ordered the corp to establish in the wake of hurricane katrina. critics say the problem is the database doesn't include what is believed to be more than 100,000 additional miles of levees not covered by the corp's safety program. blasting the government saying the government isn't working fast enough to assess risk. >>> >> san francisco's mexican museum is getting a million dollars to build a new home. the $800,000 grant will pay for the design and development of a 40,000 square foot building on jesse square. the museum is currently at a temporary space. the new facility will allow the museum to case 14,000 works of art. should be completed in 2016. >> very exciting. >> mike co-with the weather. >>> a lot of sun even -- even this weekend and out to the coast. 11:18. good morning. northwest from sue toe, hazy, that's what you are going -- going to get with light winds, a little haze, no need worry about spare the air. one mover like

the annual marine corps marathon this weekend and fox 5 was at the finish line. >> jacket weather asoor. julie wright is in with a look at your halloween traffic report coming up in just a minute.  hey guys, what can i get for you? i would like a decaf 360 calories please. and for you? i'll have a triple iced 410 calories please. you want the 40 whipped calories on that? uh, you know what... i'll have this instead. [ female announcer ] swap one thing a day for a yoplait light. with 33 flavors all around a hundred calories, a swap a day adds up to amazing. now you can add some crunch to your creamy. yoplait light with granola. >>> welcome back to fox 5 morning news this halloween. taking a live look outside at the capitol dome being shaping up to an a pretty good day. much better than saturday. we asked, you delivered. tons of viewers sending in pictures from saturday's october snowstorm. how cute this is? this person send us a picture of 22-month-old cj enjoying the snow. we've got others for you. this one here is along the pep pen turnpike. pretty scene there. everything just dust

army corps of engineers out of $20 million. in the situation room and investigating this story. what do we know here? >> we were in court for the detention hearing and picked up extraordinary detail on this case. the four men were ordered held without bond. one prosecutor told me this is one of the largest if not the largest government contracting scandal in u.s. history. a beautiful house in washington suburbs. hope you like it because you may have paid for it. that's according to an indictment filed against four defendants in a massive alleged fraud scheme. two of them work for the army corps of engineers, a government agency. prosecutors say the four men schemed to file inflated bills for federal contracting services. how brazen do you believe this was? >> i've been a prosecutor for a while. this is one of the most staggering violations we've seen. >> reporter: the lead prosecutor says they defrauded taxpayers of about $20 million. in their indictment, prosecutors say the two army corps of engineers officials kerry con and m

ay corp of engineers will relies a new database outlining conditions of 14,000 miles of left s acrossthe united states. the database was among the things congress ordered the corp to establish in the wake of hurricane katrina. critics say the problem is the database doesn't include what is believed to be more than 100,000 additional miles of levees not covered by the corp's safety program. blasting the government saying the government isn't working fast enough to assess risk. >>> >> san francisco's mexican museum is getting a million dollars to build a new home. the $800,000 grant will pay for the design and development of a 40,000 square foot building on jesse square. the museum is currently at a temporary space. the new facility will allow the museum to case 14,000 works of art. should be completed in 2016. >> very exciting. >> mike co-with the weather. >>> a lot of sun even -- even this weekend and out to the coast. 11:18. good morning. northwest from sue toe, hazy, that's what you are going -- going to get with light winds, a little haze, no need worry about spare the air. one mov

the marine corps marathon will be her first 26.2. you can follow her journey on twitter and all that information is on wusa9.com. >>> what about the whether? >> it will be sunny and 49 during the rest of the day. it may be in the 30s and 40s when you start but it is going to be clear. >> okay. >> that's the good news. bad news. sunday looking okay. start with how much snow we think will fall. this is really a tough call because there are so many factors we are figuring in. warm ground. temperatures above freezing when it snows. how fast will it snow? how much per hour? we are talking a lot of variables here. so kind of uncharted water quite frankly since it is only late october. >> we are thinking east and south of i-95 a trace to an inch. now that said i do think you folks even in southern maryland will see a brief period of snow. from i-935 north and west out the beltway, bethesda, gaithersburg, 1 to 3 inches. 3 to 6 inches north of gaithersburg loudoun county. prince william county. then this bull's eye band in blue. 6 inches plus

it ended up being a bit of a role changer for women in the marine corps, the way the marine corps wastilizing its women. i did not know that. i made a joke earlier, if you're ever confused about the extent you might be expecting some sort of greater change, if cnn, fox news, the associate press are behind you, solid chance that you are. it's also -- in early 2000 i deployed to helmand province, afghanistan, with my unit. i was to communicate an officer. that's essentially a gas station for the air wing. a vital job for the initial entry of bring forces into afghanistan but not something i had originally thought was going to throw me on foot patrol. in that capacity my squadron had also asked me to be intelligence officer. noticing i suppose i had those inherent qualities. [laughter] so when i arrived in country i did all of my turn of with existing unit which was a special-purpose, sort of holding ground for the marine corps so that larger bring brigade could get on deck. so the units there had a lot of interesting gadget of the infrastructure of the base and thinks we would be taking

high so you can destroy these have already been signed and more still to come and also use a marine corps a reference explains. there to davis it was more of course had an economic flavor rather than a political one this was probably just the presence of first visit since announcing his candidacy in the upcoming presidential elections and some say it's a sign of a change in focus for us and the government is now looking east for both russia and china of course members of the breaks group along with brazil india and south africa and the growing economic uncertainty in europe and the u.s. has seriously undermined their dominance of the global political stage paving the way for a margin economies now prime minister putin said the us is currently using there is no monopoly as the only global reserve currency and that's how they are negative effect on their financial policy. i never said the us was a parasite on the global economy but i do think it's feeding off the monopoly of the us dollar as a single global currency the problem is not only for the world economy but for america's economy as

and ends up at the marine corp war memorial.k about this with -- and joining us live is the maroon corp director. thank you for being with us. >> -- marine corp director. thank you for being with us. >> thank you, laura. >> tell us how this year compares to the past years. and this is the 36th year. >> reporter: it is and every year is special and unique about the marathon to come. the fact that we got 30,000 runners wanting to come to washington, d.c., indian summer and share with the marines to make a statement about their running and that this race is patriotic, $1,500 marines, another 600 sailors and law enforcement. that is one of the safest and most beautiful races we have. it's not about speed but a chance to see all of the bouty that washington, d.c. -- all of the beauty that washington, d.c., has to offer. this year is more special we get to go down independence avenue twice and which gets our runners and spectators to come out and cheer them on, close to the newest monument, the martin luther king memorial. >> is the r

marine corps in iraq. in the year he was here he made a lot of friends and they are in shock tonight. >> it's sad to see someone go so young with so much potential. >> reporter: thomas played on howard's baseball team with alonzo. he can't believe the teammate is gone. >> just a cool guy to be around. he cracked jokes all the time. that was my buddy. i just seen him last week. that's the crazy thing about it. and then you get the news today and you will never see him again. >> reporter: along do was shot to death just after midnight on tuesday in mount rainier maryland. the police chief said it was a robbery gone bad. he was a sophomore music major at howard. this is the youtube video of a musical group he founded and wrote songs for. friends say he had it all, good looks, intelligence, talent and ambition tempered with humility and a desire to help others. >> his presence was big in the building. he would walk through smiling. he was hard to miss him. even people he didn't know he would say what's up and

the revolutionary guard corps happens to be one of them. the revolutionary guard corps has its own economy, they have their own economic interests. you have people in there that are, number one, very, very ardent, iranian nationalists and people that don't always agree with the idea of cooperating with the united states, even if it seems to be in iranian's best interests. i think it's definitely a very serious concern and especially if you have the idea that there are people within the revolutionary guard corps that are willing to risk war with the united states in order to achieve some kind of bizarre objective. i mean, you would hope that those discussions are taking place right now amongst the iranian officials, but you know, their response is not exactly heartening. they're dismissing this outright. let's hope that's just their public face. >> how important for the u.s. public diplomacy-wise and in the middle east that they come out with more details proving this link. >> it's essential. ever since the yellow cake incident a few years a

marine corps. the purpose of that seminar is to bring together senior navy, marine corps, and coast guard leaders to interact with their counterparts in preparation for humanitarian aid and/or disaster relief. a couple of you will be joining me, so thank you for that. it is a really great opportunity. it was very well done last year. the second is a humanitarian assistance and disaster relief static display which is annually at marina green and cannot get possibly any bigger than it was last year. the third is the second annual urban search and rescue mission, which is performed -- a mission exercise performed with the san francisco police apart, the fire department, and navy sailors and marines. the fourth is the parade of ships, which will begin at 10:00 a.m. next saturday. the fifth is the battle of the bands at the golden gate park, which is the bands of the navy, marine corps, and coast guard participate in a battle. the sixth is the italian heritage day parade. members of the fleet week will

to you rs corp. america. item 8c. accept update regarding amendment of the professional services contract with environmental sciences associates for environmental review and permitting coordination services for the 34th america's cup and pier 27 james r. herman cruise terminal and northeast wharf plaza by increasing the amount of the contract from $2,785,017 to a not-to-exceed amount of $4,124,774. >> so moved. >> second as amended. >> is there any comment on the consent calendar? all in favor? aye. resolution 65, 11-66 have been approved. except update regarding the amendment. >> item 9a. request approval of first amendment to license no. 14987 with the san francisco community fishing association, amending the fee schedule and term of the license for space located at pier 45 fish processing center, shed d-4. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is michael, a member of the maritime division. the item before you concerns the san francisco community fishing association which entered into a licensing agreement with

i mean, whomney has empowered the guard corps and playing musical chairs with the leadership.e guard corps and i doubt seriously the hand chosen leadership would undertake to take this operation without notifying and getting the approval the supreme leader. >> you wrote the engagement of the united states, not only this administration, was poisonners, that was your word. because he finds the attempt for the u.s. to con sill yate and our attempt at peace may be encouraging him to be more violent? >> yeah, i mean, i think the obama administration made the same mistake that president clinton made and that is they're in some ways commendable desire to reach out to the iranians, to find some means tore dialog, actually achiefs the opposite of the intention, that means it makes him much more angry and makes him much more worried about the western cultural invasion and much more worried that such an outrage will affect domestic politics and it did. i mean, the-- the democratic rebellion in the summer of 2009, the green movement cited obama openly as let's have peace, let's have talks

one consultant, -- explain news corp. could be undervalued. >> if you compare it to others in its group like time warner, people think news corp. trades at a "murdock discount" partly because it is a very unusual company. it is unusual to have that amount of control in the hands of one family when it is publicly listed. also, rupert murdoch has focused on publishing, which is an area most investors do not see much growth. >> grew upon plans to raise up to $530 million selling shares on the stock exchanges -- groupon. the volatile financial markets forced the company to be less ambitious. general electric reported an 18% rise in quarterly results, making $2.3 billion. it was held by a strong performance in its jet engine making business and train making division. samsung is now the top maker of smartphones, according to a report in "the wall street journal." they claim it shipped more than 20 million smartphones of the three months since september. it beat apple's 70 million and nokia's 16.8 million. -- apple's 17 million

we have the marine corps marathon and halloween festivities. what do we need to know?>> it's going to be cold on the weekend. wet tonight. a few wet snowflakes as well, even in the metro area. we could see a few wet snow flakes mixed in with rain showers by tomorrow afternoon. snow accumulation near the mason-dixon line and high elevations out west. that's where we could be talking accumulations. frost advisory in effect this morning until 9:00 a.m. for western virginia and northern maryland. 36 in hagerstown and frederick 38 in martinsburg, 34 in cumberland. 43 in the district and south of the metro in the low to mid 40's, 46 in lexington park along the water, 44 in quantico. we will have some holes in the clouds this morning, partly cloudy conditions to start the day, and increasing clouds. becoming cloudy as we going to the midday and especially afternoon and evening. rainshowers in arkansas pushing down to the gulf coast, that is the area of low pressure. there is a weak system that will track east and quickly developed off the north carolina coastline as it intera

dunford, jr., assistant commandant of the marine corps. general dunford has gone through the marine corps amphibious warfare school as a distinguished career and we appreciate the knowledge he brings to the panel. last but not least is general breedlove, we appreciate you being with us. he's the choice chief of staff of the u.s. air force. he's a georgia tech graduate and general we enjoyed as a graduate of the university of virginia playing you the other week and it may be the one bright spot we'll have this year but thanks for your help and cooperation in that. he's also a fwradge watt of arizona state university -- graduate of arizona state university where he had his master of science degree and the national war college. without further ado we want to get to your opening statements. we're pleased to have the ranking members join us now -- ranking member has joined us now. we have with us the ranking member of the full committee. we talked about dispensing with our opening statements and putting them in the record. ms. bordallo: mr. cha

two of them are former army corps of engineer employees and all four are from virginia. they have all been charged with bribery and unlawful kickbacks. they allegedly scammed a 45 million contract to supply information technology and security to the corps, more than doubling the real cost and siphoning off the surplus into shell corporations. >>> new from a story you'll see only on 9. tonight metro is it investigating complangts that a man was taking -- complaints that a man was taken on a four hour ride to nowhere by a cab driver. rory doyle is autistic and he functions at the level of a 7-year-old. he carries a cell phone with gps tracking software. back on september 22nd, he was picked up from the program he attend daily and taken on a roundabout trip that went near andrews air force base and lefont plaza before he was finally delivered to his home four hours later. >> i also considered dialing 911 and having police arrest the cab driver. i became concerned he was being abducted, kidnapped. >> his father says he didn't appear injured when he finally came home. metro a