. >> i read about debbie courtney, ann chamberlain, i can go on. a lot of women on this ship. >> absolutely. that morning, i did not have men and women. i am sailors. each of them performed at the ally.ly -- phenomena i have sailors and officers and they will all get treated fair and square. we had a mission to do. that is exactly what we did. when the blast hit, it did not matter whether you're a man, a woman. they all performed. they came together as a team. >> do what the process, the navy remained publicly silent on the issue of the additional crew's remains. the longer the wait, the more difficult it was going to be for the families to deal with the tragedy. months had gone by with no word as families waited in silence. >> they were still working on identifying some of the remains that had been found. when 9/11 occurred, we got put on the back burner. 9/11 became the priority. the identification of those remains became the priority. cole was relegated off to the side, and we would be told to wait. i knew there were families out there that dese

. >> i read about debbie courtney, ann chamberlain, i can go on. a lot of women on this ship. >> absolutely. that morning, i did not have men and women. i had sailors. each of them performed phenomenally. the fact i singled them out and the fact you pointed out there were men aboard, i have sailors and officers and they will all get treated fair and square. we had a mission to do. that is get ready to conduct sustained combat operations at sea. that is exactly what we did. when the blast hit, it did not matter whether you were a man, a woman. they all performed. they came together as a team. and did what was necessary to save the ship. >> throughout the process, the navy remained publicly silent on the issue of the crew's remains. despite repeated queries. the longer the wait, the more difficult it was going to be for the families to deal with the tragedy. as many sought a degree of solace in time. months had gone by with no word as families waited in silence. >> they were still working on identifying some of the remains that had been found. as col

. >> one of the surprises to me was i read about debbie courtney. >> yes. >> i read about denise woodson, about anne chamberlain. i can go on. a lot of women on this ship. >> absolutely. but i'll tell you something, that morning i didn't have men and women aboard uss cole. i had sailors. and each of them performed phenomenally. the fact that i singled them out and the fact that you pointed out that there were women aboard the ship, i just looked at it and said, look, i don't have men and women aboard this ship, i've got sailor and officers. they're all going to get treated and square. and we have a mission to do. that's get uss cole ready to conduct sustained combat operations at sea, and that's exactly what we did. when that blast hit, it didn't matter whether you were a man, whether you were a woman. they all performed phenomenally. came together a team and did what was necessary to save the ship. >> let me read this from your book. the process, the navy remained publicly silent on the issue of additional crews' remains despite repeated queries. longer the wait, the more difficult it w

flooding in the southeast from tropical storm debbie and heat-related outages have kept people out of stores and malls. >>> back to you, aaron. >> courtneyank you. >>> nearly a week after the storm 45,000 customers in the d.c. area still don't have power. right now pepco reports 21,000 customers are without power. dominion says 12,000 customers are without air-conditioning this morning. pge reporting 10,000 customers in our area that the not have electricity. also, smeco is reporting about 500. and novec reporting just about 17 outages. >>> a utility worker from florida who was helping to restore power in our area was killed tuesday night in loudoun county. jaqueline green was killed in a traffic accident at the intersection of route 7 and blue ridge mountain . she was driving a bucket truck and investigators say it appears the brakes on the truck failed and she slammed into a tractor-trailer. a passenger in green's truck was injured and taken to a hospital. they were part of a contingent of workers from florida that's been assisting dominion virginia power crews. >>> a 38-year-old woman suffered a severe storm-related injury during frid

we had the tropical storm debby that didn't help and this economic sluggishness keeping people with their spending close at hand. back to you. >> courtney, thank you very much. >>> check in tomorrow. it will be a big day. up next, the summer showdown on the campaign trail. so let's bring in jay mar, the boys of summer to discuss the candidates ploys of summer. see what we did there? plus, wrangrang rang was palest leader yasser arafat poisoned? if he was, who did it? first, a look ahead at the t president's schedule. as you know, busy schedule today. ohio, ohio, ohio, ohio. quick stop over in pennsylvania, but we'll see what the campaign says, how serious that stop is. >>> you're watching the "daily rundown." [ female announcer ] research suggests the health of our cells plays a key role throughout our entire lives. ♪ one a day women's 50+ is a complete multi-vitamin designed for women's health concerns as we age. ♪ it has more of seven antioxidants to support cell health. that's one a day women's 50+ healthy advantage. to support cell health. ♪ hello...rings ♪ what the... what the... what the... ♪ are you seein' this? ♪ ♪ uh-huh... uh-