we handle all of the spectrum assignments for the department of defense, the department of justice. we spend a lot of time focusing on spectrum. by the recovery act, we are assigned the task of putting out $4 billion of prance -- grants. we are spending a lot of time on internet policy issues. this is an area that has not had an agency in the federal government to coordinate policy across the federal agencies. we are developing administration policy in that area. >> how you work with the ftc and the fcc? >> they have their own agendas and they are independent of the administration. we coordinate with them closely. in the area of spectrum, the fcc handles the assignment of spectrum to commercial providers. we had the government assignments. the same applies with that with trade commission in those areas that we work together. privacy is the most current areas. >> this week, the ntia put out a report on spectrum availability. where is additional spectrum coming from? where are you recommending that it come from? >> the president directed the ntia to identify 500 megahertz of new spect

challenging areas of responsibility for the strategic command is the area of cyber- operations, protecting and defending defense department networks and cyber assets and, if directed, engaging in offensive theyber-operations. strategic command must also plan and prepare to be called upon to assist other government agencies with the defense of their networks. there are many issues that remain unresult in this area in which you will be involved, general, and we look forward to your views on these issues, including questions of authority, responsibility, rules of engagement. general ham, you have had a distinished career in the army and we thank you for your willingness to serve our country over the last 3.5 decades. if confirmed, you will be only the second matter of the u.s.- africa ancommand, and you will be forced to balance requirements of continuing to stand up this geographic combatant commands as well as play a supporting role in advancing u.s. policy objectives on the continent of africa. general, the challenges facing africom a staggering. traverse and violent extremists in somalia and west africa, conflicts betwee

department of defense didn't want it to come out they should have done a better job of securing it they did not do that and now that the stuff is out now everybody's saying you know the main issue is what do we do with this information now that it's out ok i mean it's interesting i mean i want to be fair on this program i'm not waving a flag no i'm not look i'm not waving a flag for this type of behavior i'm being very neutral and i think julian assange if i could quote him right now i enjoy crushing bastards that's why he said he did it joe how do you react to that. so i think he's a guy who has a flair for the dramatic i actually think he's someone who maybe is part crusader and and part publicity seeker but here is back just for a moment the question is can you shut them down well what laws is he violated more specifically who's laws this is an amorphous international organization which i think everyone agrees is opaque no one really knows exactly who they are i mean ironically writing that the transparency organization has no transparency in and of itself ok but we don't know what c

we handle all the spectrum assignments, the federal agencies, such as the department of defense, the department of justice and so we spend a lot of time focusing on spectrum. we also, by the recovery act, we are assigned the task of putting out $4 billion of grants to expand abroad and access and adoption across the country. and third, we are spending a lot of time on internet policy issues. this is an area that traditionally has not had an agency in the federal government to coordinate policy across the various agencies that have equities in the area of the internet, but we are devoting a lot of time and resources to developing administration policy in that area. >> so how you work with the sec and cftc for instance? >> both of those are independent regulatory agencies, so they have their own agendas and they are independent of the administration but recording with them very closely, so in the ring of spectrum, the sec handles assignments of spectrum to commercial providers. we handle the assignments to federal users. but much of the spectrum is actually shared by both commercial and

pot quite possibly result in a court martial charges that the department of defense probably and i'm a former military officer or as an officer in the army. the department of defense probably for lack of a better term want to sweep everything under the rug now with these documents coming out they might be forced to actually go after soldiers officers that may have done stuff and they just wanted to you know not worry about it but now they might be forced to do something about it and again when with with all these things all this information coming out look at afghanistan hamid karzai a. couple of months ago gave whole private international security firms four months to get out of afghanistan because he knew he saw all the problems that he was having in his own country and probably some real knew about all the problems that they were creating in in iraq so as far as it being journalism i don't i don't really know it's it's really more of nash it's national dirt is what wiki leaks is doing it's throwing out a lot of national dirt on the united states and the department of defense who a

of defense decided in consultation with the president to stand up for someunified command what he essentially did was consolidated if you will a number of disparate activities that were going on in the department of defense related to cyberspace into one place with a force bark much like the relationship between specific command and u.s. forces in korea whether they subunified command and it operates with some degree of autonomy to take care of the mission. that is the same relationship we have here. strategic command, as i have reread the commission recently still has responsibilities to advocate and integrate, to be part of the command relationships with the other combat commands. so there is still quite a bit of work both direct and indirect that goes on at strategic command level. but the day in and day out activities and command and control of that work activities, those types of things are going done in u.s. cyber, >> it won't be your specific day-to-day operations. it is a command within the command. >> it is command within a command. >> can i talk about space policy? that is within your responsibility. with the degrading of our plans for nasa although we were able to make some accompli

appreciate a very significant step forward in the memorandum of understanding between the department of defenseand the department of homeland security. a pretty clear division of responsibility here. dod has responsibility obviously of defense websites and our offensive capacity and defensive capacity. department of homeland security for these civilian infrastructure and the federal government nondefense websites. but dod and, of course, nsa have such extraordinary capabilities that they can now inform what dhs does. i appreciate that. our committees are going to continue to work together. i was actually very proud yesterday that all the witnesses agreed that it was the -- a group at the department of homeland security more than anybody in the private sector or anywhere else that actually had the comprehensive capability to unravel the puzzle if you will. but we need your help and i appreciate your commitment to that, general. i look forward working with you on both committees. thank you both for your service to our country. you're both just extraordinarily prepared for this next assignment tha

you will hear these words used in the department of defense that space is now "congested, competitive, and complex." you also hear the word "contested" used sometimes. i think what has happened is that from 1957 when there was one of man-made objects in orbit to today where there are over 20,000, there are over 50 nations involved in some way in the space, the fact that those nations are doing this with their own capabilities to get there and stay there are growing. given that china and others are emerging in space, things are different. as a result of that, in a space policy was just issued. it says, essentially, that we need to maintain the competitive it manages in the terms of our war fighting capabilities. to go about that, we need to be more collaborative and cooperative with allies, friends, partners, and with commercial. from the military side, leveraging those kinds of space capabilities has been the way that we think we need to go to the future. we have turned the corner, i believe, in many cases in acquisition dick -- acquisition difficulty. we have turned the corner in man

the department of defense did not released because of his death.al authorities discovered a lack bridge and tunnel carrying marijuana from tijuana to san diego this warehouse district. you can see the tunnels have a mile long 20 to defeat it started in the kitchen of a home at two-story home two blocks from the border here police say this is the most leverage tunnel they've ever seen it had fluorescent lighting hardwood floors and a system of rules that could carry drugs from one end to the other. there were 20 some odd tons of marijuana still left in the tunnel. jonathan blum kron 4 news >>. in the sierra mountains sunshine is all make for great times to be had. all the snow that has been removed from the parking lot has been turned into a winter playland get hundreds came here to play. it took advantage of the extra payoff they took the kid sledding. the reasons no arm drop any snow is to concede a sell-off. the good news is the roads were as clear as to call for them to be carried the lack of snow is coming crews enough to get the snow off the s

special operations in the department of defense is a big one. our special operateers are out doing missions of the world. the secretary of defense oversees them. the white house approves them. it's nothing new here. >> rose: that was general mcchrystal. >> he had-- he had the job for terrorism within there. and yet, you know, his staff didn't work with the national security staff, the council staff directly. we went through the department of defense. i think one more check is good and it needn't slow it down. and the times that covert action has done wonderful things for the country. it's also gotten us in trouble in the past in some areas, and i think the extra layer of supervision would be a good one. so that's a good one. i do think, finally, that the-- that the intelligence budget, which is in the department of defense, ought to be combined with the one that is in the d.n.i. it ought to be one-- it ought to be one budget. we were make something progress during my time to planning those two together. but i don't see any reason they ought not b

health care for the department of defense at the moment is about a 40 billion-dollar level of effort.and by 2015, it will probably be in the 60's to 65 billion-dollar level of effort. as you look at the dod budget, that's probably 12, 13 from 14% of the entire defense budget. that is serious money. and the reality is that the co-payments for tricare, which is a very good program, certainly on par with any others in the country, have not changed since 1985. i think it is inescapable that a change will have to be made, and clearly these are matters before the executive to propose for the legislative branch to dispose. but we collectively as a family effectively serving and formerly serving members and families have to recognize that if we are not careful these unbounded costs can force out military content elsewhere in the department of defense portfolio. that is worrisome and something that we will have to address, do it come hushovd lee, rationally, but it needs to be addressed to estimate this question is about the ban on openly homosexual people serving in the military, so called do

department of defense says it is a critical year for the nato mission. it also says that insurgent bases are still a problem with more, that any bill. in a way, what is more worrying is the strategy. and in this report, it says that this is driving people further? >> yes. this is pretty grim. it comes in a week and where they have been talking about the possibility of withdrawing from afghanistan. what we want to point out is that people in afghanistan, they believe that western powers withdrew, too, and they say that that strengthen the forces of the taliban. it points to an international taliban victory. it exploits the frustration of the government. >> do you get any sense from your sources about how people at the highest levels proposed to deal with this situation? >> this report has are realistic soldier's of view of the situation. i think what it does -- it is not aware at the moment. this, i think will make leaders realize it is not political will on the table at the moment. >> thank you very much, bethany. more top stories for you at this hour. b

it would apply to all civilian federal employees, including those working at the department of defense. neither members of the armed forces nor members of congress would be affected. >> the hard truth is that getting this deficit under control is going to require some broad sacrifice and that must be shared by the employees of the federal government. >> the white house expects the freeze to save $2 billion in the first year. >>> italy's prime minister insists he entertains in a dig anyified way. it's regarding one of the cables released by wikileaks. david martin shows us some of the comments in those cables get pretty personal. >> the united states deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential. >> cables that show the u.s. planning for the day north korea imemployeds from its own economic woes. >> they tear at the fabric at the proper function of responsible government. >> reporter: the collapse of north korea would be a huge event, but this will only fuel their -- >> it will hurt diplomatically. >> reporter: others went into details about guant

the department of defense says the 28-year-old army specialist died last week when his unit was attacked by an improvised explosive device. he's from frostburg, md.. he leaves behind a wife and two children. >>> we switchgear gears. monday night was not just a terrible dream for redskins fans. >> they lost to the eagles. >> plank from about the 12 yard line. going downfield. he accelerates. >> the eagles did not stop until they had run up a monday night football record. the redskins were demolished. 59-28. >> these games do happen. we are embarrassed. as an organization and as. a football as we will respond accordingly. >> the team record is four and five. >> you don't see 59 points very often in a game. >> iso's lleyton 21-0. -- i fell asleep at 21-0. >>> still ahead, "harry potter" rocklin mania, a sneak peek at one of the year's most anticipated sequels. >>> four passengers up in arms over the up close and personal security pat-downs. >>> >>> tuesday morning, 4:40. the roads are wet this morning, especially the main arteries. it's raining throughout the region. it's fairly foggy in th

. >> neither the navy, nasa, the department of defense, or the faa report any test activity during that time. >> it was still in the sunlight. when you look below in the darkness -- it flares out. so i would argue it is our rocket. >> two theories being investigated. the pentagon says it is likely a trail left by a jet, but the pentagon has no information about a specific plan in that area at that time, leaving the site in the sky a mystery for many. >> officials are doing a full investigation, trying to determine exactly what we saw. the u.s. is not under a threat. they do not believe this is a missile launched by a foreign country. in arlington, courtney robinson. >>> new at noon, a fighter after -- a fire on a dreamliner jet made a landing in dallas after smoke was discovered on the plane. the dreamliner scheduled to be available to airlines next year. >>> 7 passengers are being checked out after an incident on a metro bus. ed six adults and one child were taken to the hospital as a precaution. right now d.c. fire officials are not sure why that bus stopped so quickly. looking outsid

similarly, the department of defense is studying the right mix of long-range strike capabilities, and part of that will be the appropriate role for successors to the air launch cruise missile and the bomber. the decision with respect to our bombers can be made in the future because the bombers, though old, don't get that much stress and still have a lot of life left in them. same is true for the air launch cruise missile, though a decision on that will follow next -- next will be made sooner. the decision on our long-range strike capability should be deferred in part because, as the under secretary of defense recently explained, the d.o.d. will seek the same productivity growth and cost savings here as it is pursuing with the ssbnx submarine. on the nuclear stockpile, the administration, with congressional support, is moving forward with the ongoing life extension program for the w-76 and with studies for the b-61 life extension program. it will also conduct a similar study for the w-78, including exploring the potential for a common system with the w-88 warhead. some of my republican

korea has led to the registration nation of that country -- resignation of that country's defense minister. >>> today the department of defense announced the death of a young bay area marine serving in afghanistan. he is identified at 19-year-old lance corporate arden joseph venagua of san jose. he was killed yesterday while conducting combat organizations. he was part of the first marine force out of camp penddelton. >>> and today rescue crews on the ground weren't able to move -- from the rugged hills so they called a rescue helicopters. the hiker was taken to the hospital. the man was with two friends when he fell 25 feet injuring his back and ankle. >>> a rash of robberies in the east bay has two police agencies looking for suspects and wondering if the robberies are related. walnut creek police are looking for a black bear diner on bancroft road early this morning. the latest a denny's restaurant. the two police departments are now sharing information trying to determine if those robberies are related. >> that's helped to develop some patterns and some descriptions of people and how they act. >>> walnut creek

video last night of what appears to be a missile streaking across the sky off the southern california coast. so far, it is unexplained by anyone in the military. the defense departmenttment of defense says it did not launch any test missiles last night and the navy and air force say it wasn't them either. president obama and first lady michelle obama are now in south korea after a quick stop in indonesia where the president had spent four years of his youth. the obamas were greeted by dozens of dignitaries in jakarta at the presidential palace. the trip was shortened due to a volcanic eruption concern. and during the visit, president obama expressed concern about peace. >> i'm concerned that we're not seeing each side make the extra effort involved to get a breakthrough that could finally create a framework for a secure israel living side by side in peace with a sovereign palestine. >> this was his first tripe to indonesia as president, it's a country he lived in for four years as a child when his mother married an indonesian man. he says the landscape barely resembles what he remembers, at about age 6. >>> the justty department announced no one will face -- no one

expenditures and some of them want to reduce expenditures for the entire government including the department of defense not all of them do some of them do ok above my promise to lead the death i told the senators he said that the senate should vote for the cation by the end of the year. and quote is he going to keep this promise you're well just to wind up with this part of the interview what would you say yes and then well you know that's. great it's a great promise to me when you're promising what other people will do what would be the first thing that i would say you know that that was you that question to ask i mean you know it's it's a brave promise to make. i think if the president is willing to do what needs to be done to get republican support then i think it will happen when he makes statements like that however he he risks one of two things the republicans deciding that he really needs it to happen and raising the price would be one thing. or it doesn't happen and then he made a promise but he doesn't deliver on presidencies all of. you know that's what he gets paid for is to make these big d

that we have raised and i look forward to continuing to work with senator john kerry, the department of defense and department of energy officials. where are we on this and how big of a set back is it? back with the panel. >> hillary clinton talked about the pause button and they want to get back to the re-set button sometimes it wants to you reach for the mute button. >> bret: that was good. >> probably too hard. the real problem fundamentally they are trying to squeeze in too much. all of the sudden in the lame duck session the administration's top priority. i think that has to do in part what the president was saying overseas last week and what he hopes to be saying in lisbon this coming weekend, talking about the fact that start is going to be ratified, that he said it is going to be ratified. there are a lot of things that the senate has to do that congress has to do. there is not a lot of time to do them. chief among them is our tax cuts. there is also unemployment insurance. there are a series of things that need to get done. this is now a priority for the president. republicans are sayi

would apply to all civilian federal employees including those working at the department of defense. r members of the armed forces nor members of congress would be affected. >>> the hard truth is that getting this deficit under control is going to require some broad sacrifice. and that sacrifice must be shared by the employees of the federal government. >> the white house expects the freeze to save 2 billion- dollars in just the first year and $28 billion over the next five. >>> well ditching the crowds but still cashing in on the deals. before you click away, the one day when you'll get an even bigger dig count. >>> it's what dogs look forward to. going to the dog park. the bay area city, though, that could start fining pet owners for not following the rules. >>> if you woke up in oakland this morning you woke up to a new record lo mein memorandum at 32 degrees, 4 degrees off that mark right now. we'll show you the coldest neighborhood that is coming up. as "eyewitness news" continues right here on cbs5. [ female announcer ] keurig has over 200 varieties of gourmet coffee and tea to

officials with the navy, nassau and department of defense cannot complain what it is. that leaves many worried the u.s. is in harm. officials say it is likely a possibility many experts pointed to after seeing the video. >> could be the rocket pointing here. it also could be a jet aircraft con trail. >> officials there looking into all possibilities >> reporting live this morning. >> it will be interesting to see how this all turns out. >> 6:37 is the time. we have 46 degrees. another star says goodbye. who saids home after the dancing elimination. >> bracing for the worst. v dot is ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] bursting with mouth-watering real fruit and refreshingly blended with creamy, low-fat yogurt. mcdonald's new strawberry banana and wildberry smoothies are 100% pure sipping fun. the simple joy of real fruit smoothies. ♪ >> welcome back. plenty of sunshine is expected. you'll need them. temperatures outside at this hour. 46 degrees. children's hospital at 45. we will see wind today out of the north 5-10 miles an hour. a lot of sunshine 61-66 degrees. an update on thi

department of energy. i think the three hour meeting that involved deputy undersecretary defense for policy, jim miller, who'sspending the department's efforts on the new s.t.a.r.t. as well as general chilton, the of guinn stratcom commander. and i think a high-level representative from the department of energy. so there was a three hour meeting that took place. and then you obviously saw the joint op-ed penned by secretaries gates and clinton that appeared in monday's washington post. so he is a part of the administrative -- the administration's team this making it clear to the senate that we need to see action on this matter this year. it is of vital importance to our nation's national security and we can't afford a delay in the next congress. so i think, you know, his position on this has been well known for some time. it's been underscored in the op-ed. it's been underscored in the conversation with senator kafeel. i don't think anybody is at a loss for how strongly we feel about this. >> but his only direct call was center, elon friday? >> he hasn't called him back since senator kyl said tuesday he doesn

the department of defense trying to figure out if this was launched by a private company. keep in mind rocket launches are common in southern california so usually there's plenty of warning. now, the other theory that is gaining traction among the experts is that this was a contrail from a commercial jet. there's something i want to show you right here. right now we're online and have this website called contrailscience.com pulled up. it's run by a private pilot out of santa monica. this is a picture of what looks like a missile launch but this was taken off the coast of southern california over ten years ago. it's actually the contrail of a commercial jet. compare that to the image taken monday night on the right side of your screen. here you go, you've got this taken over ten years ago, confirmed to be the contrail of a commercial jet. so what is happening is there's this optical illusion that is being proposed by the man who runs this website. who by the way, i just received an e-mail from. we were trying to get him on a phone interview. he's gotten so much traffic to th

a good intelligence officer, for instance, could get 18 minutes of traffic from the whole department of defensess, let's say, to the military assistant or executive officer to the joint chiefs of staff, and every one he communicates with on certain issues and their internet addresses. and then, you could socially engineer an email. make it look like it came from one of those individuals in the network to all the others, and insert an attachment that contained a very malicious virus. >> suarez: wortzel says he's been the subject of these types of computer attacks.çç >> about eight months ago, i got an email that looked like it came from the naval warfare systems command that invited me to a meeting on a particular missile system, and asked me to open the attachment to get the agenda for the meeting. well, i knew very well i had not communicated with anyone in the navy for quite a long time on that issue. i actually called the person who was purported to have sent the email, and she said, "i didn't send you an email." so we had the attachment checked and it was a very malicious virus. it would

he died on wednesday in the province of afghanistan the department of defense did not release their circumstances that led up to his death. it thanksgiving closed by a friend of his said it is still hungry real to me and everyone else thank you for everything you've done. thanks for the memories love you rest in paradise. in san jose jeff bush kron 4 news. >> there's a range war north for tonight and it's headed our way and it should be year around midnight tonight. rain last things for much of the day saturday so it's going to start out at least as a wet weekend but looks a lot better for sunday. partly cloudy skies entablatures and the low to mid 50's terry and 51 livermore in fremont, redwood city currently have 52, san jose 56. here the clouds as we take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza beginning to increase across the bay area. the newly to rain coming up around midnight tonight. starting out in the north bay and that will spread south for the rest of bay area between midnight and 2:00 a.m.. for the morning hours look for periods of rain mainly on the left side but there could be occasion

schmidt and his time at the department of defense. were you aware there had been some controversies about him being the department of defense inspector general? >> i was completely unaware. >> maybe you could have done a basic google search for his name that would have revealed their questions that were asked. he would have had a chance to ask him before you hired him. you could of been clear there were no problems associated with hiring him. >> we wanted to associate the mr. freeh organization with our group. >> you have said the reason for hiring him was to engage louis freeh. >> the reason for hiring any of these entities was to bring on the talent we needed to sigar. the issues and sigin >> you just said you were hiring him to get to louis freeh. >> why did you not that mr. schmidt -- vet mr. schmidt before hiring him. >> i personally had no cause to do that. this was done by way of my contacting officer and the cce. i did not have any reason to doubt the integrity and so forth of mr. schmidt. but understand the issues he may have

the freeze would apply to all civilian federal employees, including those working at the department of defense. however, would not affect the men and women in the armed forces. >> the hard truth is that getting this deficit under control is going to require some broad sacrifice. and that sacrifice must be shared by the employees of the federal government. >> the white house expects the freeze to be $2 billion in the first year, and $28 billion over the next five years. >>> well, as early as next week, congress could vote on landmark legislation that would give illegal immigrants the path to citizenship. and this week, all over the country, demonstrations are taking place for immigrant rights that are rallying support in what is called the dream act. mark sayer at san jose state with a demonstration they say will get under way in an hour. >> reporter: across the country, student and community groups are getting together to put pressure on congress to finally pass the dream act. there is a rally under way in san francisco at mission high school. on hand at the rally nursing student si lee, the s

the department of defense says that david lewis died last week when his unit was attacked by an improvisedxplosive device. he lived and prosper, md. and was based -- he lived and maryland and was based in kentucky. >> a 25-year-old staff sergeant will be the first living soldier to earn the medal of honor since the vietnam war. tonight, the proud family is talking about it. >> he grew and changed from a boy to a man. >> he was raised in a small iowa town before enlisting in the army. he is receiving the medal for action in october 2007 in afghanistan. he repeatedly ran into enemy fire to save american lives and rescued a fellow soldier from the taliban. >>> the right to build a wal- mart supercenter near a civil war battlefield is heating up again. newspaper,to the news the hearing has been delayed. residents are trying to stop construction of the walmart saying that it is to close to the civil war wilderness battlefield. >>> construction of a new levy to protect downtown d.c. and the national mall from potomac river flooding is scheduled to begin early next year. experts say much of the m