we greatly respect navy, marine corps and guard safety policy. cal fire has an aviation policy as well. we work cooperatively with the agencies here at the table to ensure when we are engaged in an aerial fire fighting event we are working within each other's policies. we have trained in a work around, we can do close air support with navy and marine corps aircraft, with the current system we have. would we like to improve upon it? absolutely. we have gone very high up in the organization to try and look at getting the r210 radio modified to the point where it can work on our vhf spectrums, that's one of our challenges we need to move forward with. but overall we're confident when we do call upon dod assets to integrate with civilian aircraft, the training regimen we put forth will keep aircrews safe and also have them be effective. there was a lot of questions from a political level as well as a public level. you've got aircraft sitting at north island, just launch them, get them in the fight. it was hard to explain to them that that's a very de

and things are progressing well, as an example, web corp has hired eight since january 2012. but since we have it for the employees so we can do it from the (inaudible) side, thanks. >> thank you, ted. >> thank you, ted. web corp has really done a fantastic job, in stepping into the veteran's recruitment area and really making connections with the agencies in northern california and so there is an impact that is flowing far beyond the project coming out of this. in terms of apprenticeship programs and the web corp continues to work on the hiring hall and sit on the board of the hiring hall. and in terms of bringing at-risk adults into the construction trades, and is also working with city-built program where they also sit on the board for advisory board for city build. so they are deeply involved with both of those and fostering the programs in the city. in terms of our performance on the apprenticeship and the project, again, just mentioning the tracking elements that we worked to build into the software program for the workforce reporting these have really helped us turn th

the marine corps felt abandoned on the pacific islands. theve insisted on bringing their own combat aviation to fight. if you look at iraq and afghanistan, there were persistent on bringing their own helicopters, their own jets. what --nes, because of their desire to bring their own aircraft, going to part of the country that was far less significant than where they should have gone. it is that same thinking that drives the marines to want the half-35. we need to have the same kind of combat aviation gear force on the marines do. did they really? the marine corps really need to be able to participate in the first strike attack? those of the fundamental questions that membs congress do when it comes to looking at programs like this. >> has the navy landed one of these f-35 summit carrier yet? >> no. >> the actual plane is never seen with the arresting gear. ♪ ♪ >> that is from the lockheed martin website. >why can a plant on a carrier? >> they have not designed to the -- it is complex engineering, but to be able to catch the arresting wires

to her left, commander steve everett, to his left lieutenant colonel dana, marine corps installation west. thank you. let me go ahead and start off by talking a little bit and just going back over some of the discussions yesterday that i think are going to play into this discussion. we had vice admiral beeman talk a little bit yesterday about capabilities and vice admiral zunkoff talked about partnerships, unity of effort, unity of command. mayor lee talked about dod efforts, expertise, community efforts and as we go into all those discussions today you will see best practices applied during the 10 years from those fires. i have the pleasure of working for administrator fuget in fema headquarters. fema's role is to coordinate response between state and local governments and his focus, his direction to us really comes down it 3 things. he asks us to always plan for the worst case, the maximum of the maximums and it's go to see the department of defense is incorporating this within the catastrophe policy that was spoken about a little earlier. no. 2, he asked us to sppbld and are able

marine corps. -- pilots in the u.s. marine corps. ,im is joining us from richmond virginia. republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. how are you? i name is kim, and i have a junior in high school who is a very high achiever. he is also athletic. he is currently looking at ivy league schools, but will probably be very interested in this program. do your students continue on to graduate programs? can you tell me a little bit about your program in terms of and how ias well, would learn more about it and could i bring him up there for an admission tour and interview? host: thank you, kim. we will get a response. guest: jim, thank you. that is a great question. the website has a host of information on it i can answer a number of those questions. but our admissions offices are open year-round with the exception of a couple of national holidays. they have informational briefings and sessions with our admissions guidance counselors every single day. i would certainly encourage your child to come to the naval academy and meet with the emissions staff. they can answer a lo

and barry newman was a very energetic officer in the marine corps. he has gone over to afghanistan, i went over and saw him there, he was attached to the kabul police chief. i think he's going to have some interesting perspectives about working in the police department in a war zone. lieutenant commander patricia serrano, her assignments have been varied includes working as a immediate vaek core man, a legal clerk and a tqm instructor. she completed a 7-month deployment.

the marine corps and disseminate information concerning the aims, purposes and deeds of the corps and the interchange of ideas with a betterment and improvement of his officers and men. the marine corps gazette was introduced in 1916 as a vehicle used to establish the marine corps association as the professional organization of all marines and to establish a venue to debate issues of importance to the corps and disseminate military art and science to associated members. in 1976, the leather necker association publishes of leather neck magazine of the marines, merged with the marine corps association in a partnership that has proven beneficial to both organizations. in 2009, the marine corps association founded the marine corps association foundation in order to provide more support to professional programs for marines which include awards over 10,600 were provided in be 2011 alone, battlefield studies, professional military education forms and commanders' unit libraries with the books and the commandant professional reading list. n june, 2012, when the moneyford point marine corps got

and we got that going on monday, so the team particularly web corp and the subcontractor did a great job on that and certainly the neighborhood appreciated it and most of that is over. the ground system and the geo thermal started this week with the first installations in the west end in zone one and in zone four, and i will show you the picture the buttress contractor is completely gone now. so that picture changed yet again, unlike the other times that i showed you the picture and it never changed. >> a big milestone on the auxiliary water system, between first and second street, started at second and worked east to first is nearly complete. there are intersection work to be done removing the steel plates and redoing the streets and now they will work the way and the next milestone is to get from first to freemont complete. they are trying to get the water line into where all of the other existing pipes are. some are supposed to be there and some weren't. so that continues to be a challenge, but they are working on that as well and they have that part. >> the next 90 days, you can

they got experience of what the marine corps has to offer. it was the smorgasbord of mill capability. as we contemplate the idea of medical surge and how do we deal with a thousand people in a hospital parking lot, we have to be creative. the only way we can do that is we have to know what are the options out there, what are the game pieces, what's the apps in the apps store? what can we ask for? by understanding some of these capabilities and looking beyond the obvious i think we're going to be able to develop some really cool medical surge plans and capitalize on the partnership between dod and the civilian world and i don't want to discount the other partners because this happens, this comes up every year and i have to say that it comes up every time we get lectured about there's the state, the state has resources, the feds, the other federal partners, they have resources, absolutely. when i say dod, please don't take it the wrong way, i'm encapsulating the entire family. when we throw a party, we go big. we don't do little things very oft

the niche we have as the marine corps assets we have the ability to locate some of our resources like shock trauma platoons, that's what we do in combat and we have experience with that and that may be something that may be of benefit to this process. >> during the last panel, mr. cahen mentioned it's so important to understand the resources that his agency has versus the ones that the military has and he said at one point they started looking down in terms of typing, i have this, you have this, how are we going to respond and get the resources we need to deal with the incident. i'd like to hear from all of you what did you learn about what the other agencies' capabilities are and how did that open your eyes? >> yesterday we had a great opportunity to look at a variety of resources. in the midst of all the demonstrations that we had, we actually had an hour lecture on dsca, which is pretty incredible to get everything about dsca in one hour. it was a great effort by the folks who do that lecture. to show you how well i listened, i have some take away points on that. the first is that

he served the marine corps for 40 years. i would argue that this administration, with this commander in chief, likes military leaders who agree with it. and military leaders that give this administration the answers that they like to get about the way the world is today. and they are oppose todd military leaders who give their honest opinions regardless of who is commander in chief. general maddus the type of person that our military needs now more than ever before and as e prepares to leave centcom, i can say that i speak for the marines that have served under maddus that a leader of his kind is nearly impossible to replace. i would like to read a couple of quotes. this book is called "victory in america, how america won." the opening page, general maddus is featured speaking to his first marine division in iraq or in kuwait before the invasion. here's what he said. when i give you the word, we will cross the line into iraq. for the mission's sake, our country's sake and the sake of the men who carry the division's colors a

. >> we are actually starting to meet with web corp on that right now. the key to looking at the over all structural schedule, is what is critical were the cast notes because of the fabrication time, within one to two months actual getting it in and starting the shop drawings and the steel becomes critical as well. if we can get it out in play and it will bring it to you next month and we will still lose about 30 days off of where we wanted to be which was our original intent was to have a reward at this meeting. we are going to have to make-up time and there is lots of opportunity in the trade packages and now that we make it into three production and erection teams. it is definitely going to be a challenge, in the short term. which hopefully we can manage within that trade. and then, also, pick up what we need to in the future trades as well. >> but it is something that we are looking at right away. >> yeah, just more on the structural steels. i agree that it seems like it is worth rebidding. >> that is the last major opportunity that it sounds like to

>> i knew i was in the marine corps and the world just got a lot more complex and i know the marine corps

in the 1870s there was a man named john finley who was with the united states signal corps. the united states signal corps after the civil war had taken upon itself to become our national weather service. a originally this had been done by the smithsonian institution but for a variety of reasons during the civil war they lost their spotters, people from the south stopped participating obvious reasons and everybody else became absorbed by the war, all of their networks of spotter's they set up and also a bad fire at the smithsonian in 1865 and the laudable records got destroyed so they went to the government and said we can't do it anymore and the signal corps's main responsibility was communication on the battlefield were in those days looking for some reason to stay in business. this is the way bureaucracy's always work, institution was created, it served its purpose. america was at peace and the signal corps said instead of saying we should stand and meld into the regular army said we need to try to find something else to do and came upon the idea we will take over the wea

here and with his experience, one thing about melvin speese, he is the premiere taipber in the marine corps. please help me welcome major general melvin speese >> well, of course i am not admiral roughhead, mr. secretary, but i did spend the night at marine's memorial club so i think i'm able to fill in okay. as general my dsz at said, i've had the p opportunity to purpose in fleet week over the last several years. my attention and focus has been, obviously, from the first marine expeditionary forces perspective and our close partnership, the third fleet and expeditionary strike group 3 in supporting fleet week. clearly filling in for admiral roughhead i'm going to have to elevate my comments and move to a little bit different level. the department of defense is very comprehensively represented here at fleet week this year, more so than ever before. we have a representative from the assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and american security affairs in the audience and they were here in august when we did our exercise with the city. fema is well represented and we have several

the army and marine corps also have an important role to play. the army has 91,000 soldiers civilians assigned to the pacific and maintains a forward presence of eight active for grade combat teams, 12 batteries of patriots -- active brigade combat teams, 12 batteries of patriots. the paycom commander regains controls of the other soldiers assigned to the region. as part of this regionally- aligned rotational concept, army units assigned to paycom focus on specific mission profiles, such as bilateral and trilateral training exercises and building partnership capacity. i should also add during the months of sequestration and beyond, the army is preferentially protecting the readiness and modernization of the more than 19,000 soldiers we have in south korea. so that they are able to decisively respond to any north korean provocation. the marines also have an important role to play in the pacific. arehly 18,000 marines forward-deployed in the region. split between the fighter squadron, the third marine expeditionary force, and are one, the new rifle

in the 1870's a man named john finley who was was with the signal corps. united states signal corps after the civil war had taken upon itself to become our national weather service. originally this was done by the smithsonian institution but for a variety of reasons, during the civil war they lost their spotters, the people from the south stop participating and everybody else was absorbed by the war. the networks of spotter's had dropped out and there was that bad fire at the smithsonian 1865 and a lot of old records were destroyed. so they went to the government to say we cannot do it anymore. the signal corps made irresponsibility was communication on the battlefield where in those days looking for somreason to stay in business. this is the way bureaucracy's always work. this institution was created and served its purpose and america was at peace and the signal corps said instead of the disbanded they said we have to find something else to do and came up the idea we will take over the weather service. it sounds like a boondoggle but they took this respon

with the marine corps brother and sisters. it went well. we will improve our core competencies and again, another live exercise here on the east coast. on the west coast, it is about the same philosophy. bringing together our capabilities and looking forward towards the future. i just mentioned that we brought in another lp-17 class, and it is a quantum leap above its predecessor. if you ask me what we need to be bringing into the fleet today is ships. we need to move them into the fleet, we need them badly. we need them quickly, and we need to come later through this year. we need to increase our command and control with our naval operations. satellite phones, lithium phones, especially as we look to the future here in the near term. we are investing ship to shore connectors and we are continuing landing craft air cushion says we look to the future. our partnership with the marine corps remains the cornerstone of who we are and how we will move ahead operating forward in the future. today it is time to move ahead and set the pattern. looki

for the corps to ban everyone at all times from these public places." now, mr. president, i'm concluding my remarks because i see the senator from wyoming has arrived. the corps of engineers now has almost everybody in tennessee of any political stripe saying you're taking an unreasonable step. they have the wildlife agencies of tennessee and kentucky saying, we'd like to work with you to help do a better job of ensuring safety below the dams when the water is spilling through the dams, which is 20% of the time. we have the it enten valley authority with dams on the tennessee river makes the couple beerland look like a stream, and the t.v.a. allows fishing below the dams. it has sirens, it has signs, it has whistles, it assumes people are wise enough not to row up just below the dam when the water is spilling through it. just like you assume you're not wise enough if you put on a siren and have the red lights not to sit on a track when the train is coming. now the former lawyer, who would have been responsible for the army coarntion in a liability suit,

we decided to do the women's veteran entrepreneur corps to really reach out to women who've served our country >> katrina lasome, a 23-year veteran of the army nurse corps, she now runs a health consulting firm. she hopes the women veteran entrepreneur corps will help her grow her company, ion informatics. >> what i'm going to get out of that is a couple things - the first will be networking with like colleagues that have come from a similar background so broadening out my network when it comes to female entrepreneurs that are vets that have encountered milar issues or backgrounds. i think the other thing is learning how to engage as a business owner, pitch parties, learning how to market yourself, how to publicly speak. >> later this month, the group will hold a competition, where female veterans get to pitch their business ideas. the winner is enrolled into a training program and receives a thousand dollar prize. we caught up with them at a pitch party. >> the name of my organization is women of today: working opportunity network. wot-won. >> the pitch party is a practice session for

and barry newman was a very energetic officer in the marine corps. he has gone over to afghanistan, i went over and saw him there, he was attached to the kabul police chief. i think he's going to have some interesting perspectives about working in the police department in a war zone. lieutenant commander patricia serrano, her assignments have been varied includes working as a immediate vaek core man, a legal clerk and a tqm instructor. she completed a 7-month deployment. captain mike napolitano is serving with the navy's expedition training group. while deployed in 2004, he spearheaded maritime patrol relief efforts toing the 2004 indian ocean tsunami, as well as numerous theater cooperation efforts throughout the pacific and in 2009 captain napolitano reported as commanding officer of the expeditionary training group. this is a fabulous panel and i know you're going to appreciate what they have to say. rear admiral, i think you'll start. >> first of all on behalf of the chilean navy i would like to thank so much to san francisco fleet week, particul

and there was not a debate because there was only one way to go about achieving the corps policy aim, which was american conference of urgency, promised on the idea that general petraeus and the surge force made it work in iraq. this is the problem we have. its strategy is going to look at the world, maybe we want to use military force to counter an insurgency or do with instability or whatever, at least the way it is now we don't have a variety of methods. we only have one. and it is called american conference, a.k.a., armed nation-building. >> insertions were using effective coverage receipt techniques in el salvador in the 1980's, columbia more recently. by and large, the kind of techniques and tactics described in the american field manual were consistent with those campaigns. they were not conducted donnelly by americans, but they were supported and advised by americans. >> the gentleman who initially stood up the first time? >> hi, bob shadler. thank you very much. you demonstrate impressively, informed, highly intelligent, but i would like to ask you to address a different fram

navy, the marine corps, had something that we really needed. it's called logistics expertise. and we recognized that and with the help of our fleet week association, with the help of our honorary chair, former secretary of state george scholtz, along with senator feinstein who started fleet week, we began to appreciate in addition to appreciating the men and women in uniform and the wonderful attributes of having fleet week and the blue angels and the parade of ships, we could also be working on something very important to this city. all across the world there are examples after example and i know the men and women and leadership of the uss macon know this after their tour of duty these past months, all over the world there are disasters and emergencies that we are responding to and that you have become the humanitarian assistance and the disaster relief that is absolutely needed. why not practice that here? and so two years ago we gathered with our own departments from the port of san francisco to our sheriff to our police and fire, led by our emergency management division, g

not as a stalker, but as a member of the press corps. it was a big press corps, lots of people. the motorcade of us going and around and all these dignitaries in various events. at the end of the day, mrs. bush had a press conference at a hotel ballroom. the place was packed. i was taking notes for my humor column. when i thought it was all over, the photographer brought the press corps that had been with mrs. bush up on the stage. maybe two dozen of us. they put me right next to barbara rush, first lady of the united states, for this picture. this is a situation where i know in my mind to say nothing. i knew that in my mind. [laughter] your brain does not always tell the rest of your body what the plan is. there was kind of a quiet moment with these high-powered journalists and this room full of people. i planned to say nothing, but for some reason my mouth came open, and i said to barbara bush, first lady of the united states, who i had never met. i said, a shot at the same supermarket as your son jebb. [laughter] i swear to you. i did shop at the same supermarket but this was

. >> but shoot press corps be yucking it up with the white house gang and all chose celebrities? i'm howard kurtz, and this is "reliable sources." >>> the coverage of the boston bombing took a sharp turn this week as the narrative turned to the motivation of the tsarnaev brothers and whether the federal authorities had mangled the case. there was some angry talk about muslims, as much of the media world picked sides, pointed fingers and engaged in ideological snipe iing. >> we might want to rethink how we say do we want to allow any more muslim students into this country? take a period of time two years, three years, four years and just stop that from happening? >> i think we should also have to examine the use of drones on the united states is involved in there are a lot of civilians who are innocently killed. >> how exactly would you fight the war against terrorism? you want to invade pakistan? >> so what explains the ugliness that eruptded after the marathon was marred by violence? joining us now is c n, k uygur, michael medved, and jane hail. cenk, has the tone on the airwave

this isn't necessarily a game changer for news corp.'s finances. but it's a really big and interesting strategic shift in light of new and threatening business models. aereo just responded with a statement saying it's disappointed that fox believes consumers should not be permitted to use antenna to access free to air broadcast tv. aereo cites the fact when broadcastered asked congress for a license to broadcast digital air waves they did so with the promise they would broadcast in the public interest and remain free to air. this battle cuts to the core of the television business. an idea that broadcasters want to be paid not just for ads, but also retransmission fees. this battle is only going to continue to heat up as aereo moves forward wits plans to roll out to 22 new markets across the country. back over to you. >> interesting story. thanks very much for the latest on that, julia boorstin. >>> let's take a look at what the dow is up to with only about half an hour to go. it is currently up by 15 points. i think that might be the high of the da

navy and marine corps, but to the international community. >> thank you. another hand? >> [inaudible] my experience with the haiti response. in this casey i was working at the deputy principal committee level and working at the white house. but it was really the first opportunity for this administration to work with a very complex response, and then recognizing for us the supported commander was usaid that normally isn't in the emergency response business. so, it was an educational process of how to move forces and yet support usaid and the role of the country team and port au prince. so, it was very informative there. and to back up when we had the first no fooling hurricane that worked its way up the entire gulf coast, the principal committee calls that were generated during the haiti response were then turned around and then bringing all of the governors into a conference call with the president to make sure that all their needs were being met in the advance of a hurricane arrival. so, we really had all of government, from local all the way up to the white house, ful

. >> good question, the way that we are looking at it now and the way that web corp has suggested and it is a great method is basically west end of the center session and east. and in the original scenario, the single contractor, would have started to cruise at what we call nine ten, which is approximately there is an expansion there and it says approximately the zone one to zone two dividing line around shaw alley and to the east of that, there will be two crews starting there. but now there will be the same thing and one of them may be, let's say steel and the other one may be a chef steel and they will have the only section to work, and then in the third competitor, and again, it could be all of the same guy, depending on how it shakes out in the bid and we are offering that opportunity as well. but presumably, as the other team approaches that joint, they will go to another expansion joint and that is where the other contractor can start off. >> that is down around line 20, 21, and works east to there, to the end. >> we always knew that area was going to lag behind any way, but th