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we have a mixed fleet with old and new cars. the old cars do not have any poles to the vestibule area, the new cars do. if you are blind, there may or may not be a pole in front of you. this pole starts out as one pole from the bottom and branches into three different parts so it's easier for more than one person to grab onto it. if you are traveling with a service animal, they may reach out to poles and it could clip a shoulder with a person traveling with a service animal. here is a picture of the new car configuration. it basically shows the door entrance and you can see right to the right of the door it's embedded in the floor is a wheelchair icon to further confirm that this area is designated for passengers travel with a wheelchair. there is a pole that branches out into three poles at about midway through the pole between the floor and the ceiling. there is decals on these poles, if you are sight impaired, it called attention that there is a pole in front of you. we begin to have conversations throughout this process with

the first fleet a mid sized flywheel e fleet we're unfortunate to have boats all over california we bought them anothers fairfield and completely rebuild them and put them in the water if they worked they worked magnetically thank god wore to hand approximately 14 to 18 passengers that stops a lot of regulations if i go thirty feet we have more regulations the second fleet i used to call it is mosquito so we call it our expressway those are much faster we can cut the travel time down to 5 minutes and tyler also a good responsible button and the third fleet we had no idea when we get several years of data we'll know exactly what we need more san francisco if we can't buy it we'll measure it we're talking with the company they went up to canned candid and trying to buy them to manufacturers a larger fleet we'll break down the northern and simply route everything has to be done in payers one boat when a sister ship comes in line we'll run the other route we choose height street from pier one the harder thing to teach the captains are the bus and the schedule we'll talk about that later

so that 60% of this fleet is going to be bigger than the fleet of the past. we, in this budget specifically have the resources to carry out that. but i will echo admiral greenert and general dunford. this is the minimum that we have to have in order to do not only the rebalance but all the other missions that we're called upon to do. >> thank you. i think i heard your response to senator donnelly's question about your concern about counterfeit parts, and i believe you said you do have a concern about that. i just wanted to ask you one question, though. you do have a question about counterfeit parts? i heard that correctly? >> yes. >> so i was just wondering whether you were aware of any technological product that can be embedded in parts to ensure that it is not a counterfeit part. >> senator, i'm not aware of any specific chip or whatever that you can embed in it. what i am aware of is that our quality control folks in places like crane, indiana that the senator was talking about, are exceptionally good at spotting those counterfeits. >> i'm aware of a parti

the fleet is getting bigger. 60% of this fleet is going to be bigger than the fleet of the past. >> this is the minimum that we have to have in order to do not only the rebalance, but all the other missions that we're called upon to do. >> thank you. i think i heard your response to senator donly. and i believe you said that you do have a concern about that. and i just wanted to ask you one question, though. you do have a concern about counterfit parts. >> yes. >> so i was just wondering whether you were aware of any technological product that can be embedded in parts to ensure that it is not a counterfit part. >> senator x i'm not aware of any specific chip or whatever you can invent. >> i am aware of the particular product. >> we do need a sustained long term commitment to research and development in this area meeting our energy security needs and preserving the severity of our forces in the faces of energy challenging in the 2st 1 century are posht goals. >> using energy more efficiently and diversifying are certainly agreeing with our efforts. can you give us an update briefly, of th

so that 60% of this fleet is going to be bigger than the fleet of the past. we in this budget specifically have the resources to carry out that. but i will echo admiral greenert and general dunford. this is the minimum that we have to have in order to do not only the rebalance but all of the other missions that we're called upon to do.

which would have serious implications to our submarine fleet and all of the rest of our fleet and to the entire navy. so i appreciate congress setting up the fund for the oh class replacement. and i think that this debate has to continue as to how we -- how we fund this. because it is a national program and needs national support for it. and there is history behind it in the first time we did deterrent submarines, 41 for freedom in the late '50s, early '60s and in the oh class both times significant amounts were added to navy shipbuilding to allow that deterrent to be met. >> thank you. >> and secretary i'd like to point out a sentence in your statement that resonated with me. and the those that perform most often far from home. in addition to the army. would a negative budget affect the current ratios of the morale and efficiency of the army navy and marine corps. >> our marine corps right now is a little less than one to two dwell to deployment. we today have more than 30,000 marines on deployment around the world. and one to two, to use the chairman's term, is on the rag ragged ed

than the fleet of the past. we, in this budget, specifically have the resources to carry out that, but i would echo the admiral and general, this is the minimum that we have to have in order to do not only the rebalance, but all the other missions that we are called upon to do. sen. mazie hirono: thank you. i think i heard your response to senator donnelly's question about your concern about contra counterfeited parts and they believe you said you have a concern about that. you have a concern about counterfeit parts, i heard that correct? secretary mabus: yes. sen. mazie hirono: i was just wondering if you're aware of any technological product that can be embedded to ensure that it is not a counterfeit part? secretary mabus: i'm not aware of any specific chip or whatever that you could embed. but i am aware of is that our but -- quality control folks places like crane, indiana, that the senator was talking about are exceptionally good at , spotting those counterfeits. sen. mazie hirono: i'm aware of a particular

which would have serious implications to our submarine fleet and all of the rest of our fleet and to the entire navy. so i appreciate congress setting up the fund for the oh class replacement. and i think that this debate has to continue as to how we -- how we fund this. because it is a national program and needs national support for it. and there is history behind it in the first time we did deterrent submarines 41 for freedom in the late '50s, early '60s and in the oh class both times significant amounts were added to navy shipbuilding to allow that deterrent to be met. >> thank you. and i'd like to point out a sentence that resident nated ed resume nated ed resonate resonated. and the those that perform most often far from home. would a reduced budget negatively effect the current ratios of the morale and efficiency of the army navy and marine corps. >> our marine corps right now is a little less than one to two dwell to deployment. we today have 30,000 marines on deployment around the world. and one to two is the ragged edge of how much you can ask someone to deploy without their

they will not have a fleet that is for five years old. anchor: speaking to us a bit about the airbus. i am joined in the studio. thanks for being with us. you are a air france pilot. your currently the president of a safety committee. you are deeply saddened as we all were, and you have more insight than the most of us. what is your gut reaction? why did this plane come down in that control dissent? -- controlled descent? >> the company is a good company. the pilots are good pilots. what was wrong? we don't know. i have thought that they -- [indiscernible] it is very important information. this famous aircraft is not supposed to stall ever. anchor: stall is when you go past the line of gravity? >> you lose list. -- lift. the plaene is going down. there are three ways of going down. either you go straight down like this. like the air asia crash. and you have a deep stall. which lasts four minutes or 70 seconds or so. or you can have a glide when you lose both engines. the glide can last one to five minutes -- 25 minutes. so that means the

by 2008, the fleet had declined to 278 ships. our focus on two ground wars only partly explains that decline. in the five years before i game to this office, navy contracted for only 27 ships. not enough to stop the slide in the size of the fleet. in my first five years, we've contracted for 70 ships, halting and reversing the decline. by the end of the decade our fleet will once again top 300 ships. we've accomplished this with a direct and fundamental busy approach based in large part on the legislation which originated in this committee authored by chairman mccain and chairman levin. things like increasing competition, relying more on fixed price contracts and thanks to this committee, congress has helped multiyear and block buys. but bauth instability and uncertainty erode our ability to grow our fleet, manage our resources and maintain the industrial base. without a correctly sized and shaped fleet, the navy and marine corps will not be able to meet the demands with the kinds of missions for which we are the best and often t

so with the new cars, our current fleet, if you look at our current fleet we have reconfigured it. even though there is controversy, it can be adjusted. it's a change order to bart. the solutions are we can remove a pole, we can take out a seat very easily with these new trains. we are going to have a lot more cars with this new fleet in service and hopefully that will ease crowding but when it gets crowding again, there are options. i am the coordinator. i intend to voice my opinion, not that they will listen to me all the time. [ laughter ] . >> well, i have to ask that question and one final question. it's always the elephant in the room in san francisco when we talk about bart and that's the elevator situation in the downtown station. you have to go down one level to get off the ticketing level down to the exchange levels. i want to say it so you hear it and take it back that we still need to work on that. >> okay, i have heard it and we are looking at that physically and we are also, if you look on bart, on the station pages, it gives an accessible pathway. it's a poor descrip

working directly with the mayor on on to try to get some additional funding and the main cost of our fleet is huge. last year was 5.3 million $5.3 million and that's fuel as well as maintenance so our older cars require a lot of maintenance and as we get new cars we're able to save money if we were able to replace 138 cars every year from now to 2017, we'd save about 1.4 $1.4 million in terms of maintenance costs and with that savings we could purchase about 28 marked cars so there's a huge incentive for us to get new cars just from an efficiency standpoint but more importantly safety for our officers. >> so very exciting our public safety building is scheduled to open very very soon and the station is scheduled to move march march 27th and it is there and things are working and files are going over and cubicles are setup and there's some public tours that have been setup so we're very excited to move into a very nice facility. so with that i'll take any questions that you might have. colleagues? >> commissioner dejes u.s. so the it goes to the coits but how do you determine what's the mos

charges for our smartphones the ongoing expense and central shops about 5.6 $5.6 million to maintain our fleet and rent for city owned buildings and utilities is about 6 million $6 million and and smaller work orders with other departments da city attorney and medical examiner and this slide indicates the variety of departments we provide services to with our largest client being the airport police about 53 million $53 million and and we and we have 319 staff out at at the airport and 179 foreign officers and 171 civilians and mta and the port very similar to last year no new clients from last year. >> so this slide indicates our position and it's important to note that this is fte not head count. so the difference between 15-16 from 15-16 to 2014-15 is primarily due to the airport requesting 43 new positions civilian positions and psas and supervisors to help with traffic flow and additional security at lost and found and improve air field security and reduce overtime at the terminals. >> can i stop you just there? sometimes the difference between what an fte and a body is it's not fully unde

and all the rest of the fleet and to the entire navy. so i appreciate congress setting up the fund for the ohio class replacement and i think this debate has to continue as to how we fund that's because it is a national program and needs national support for it. when there is a first time that we did this and in the ohio class both times with significant amounts that were added to navy shipbuilding to allow us to be met. >> i would like to point out this statement that that was the mention of the navy to perform far from home in addition to this ratio and a reduced budget negatively affecting the current ratios in way that could threaten the morale and efficiency of the marine corps. >> it is a little bit less than one to two for deployment. and we have more than 30,000 brains around the world and wanted to is to use this as to how much you can ask someone to deploy without this. they are getting less predictable than we are trying to get into the optimized fleet response which will make maintenance more predictable and will make trainin

tan fleet is gone. all of these would go way plus touch every part of the air force 2 come up with the differential and money and would be enormous. we would be willing to go anywhere review the help us set something up to give these briefings perhaps we know as well but i hope and pray it doesn't take a catastrophe in this country to wake up. >> so do we all. >> i will begin by thinking each of you for your service and those who served under you for service to our country. beginning with general with the ground forces against isis are the iraqi national army and the iranian sponsored shiite militias to the degree that they says the moderate opposition forces which we are helping to train and equip. will that meet the objective to destroy isis? >> i would say depend how well they do things things, incredibly well. we're not playing but they will. i am unsure who they are or i have concerns sufficing we have paul said the movement but i think we have to wait and see how well as those forces that we don't

. >> there's two bars one the model year and the second bar is the entire fleet. >> the fee. >> the fleet of vehicles so ever so the model year is what the cars get reduced and the rest is the composition of all the fleets so ever car. >> so the first bar is the cars that are actually mustard and the second the cars purchased. >> the first one is the cars purchased in the years shown and the seconds bar is all the cars in the entire state so everything that was purchased in 1990s through the current date and in terms of what we anticipate. >> correct. >> it's great to see that electrical cards are predicted to make up a majority of cars in the future it's great to see i guess one question he have it makes sense the rational how can we insure that it didn't stop buyers of cars that are looking at hybrids because it decreases the fees they pay. >> that's an important question the rational is the gas tax is such a small portions of what you pay so electrical cars you're not paying but maybe now saving $2 a gallon you're still saving money per glag. >> so the greatest incentive being the redu

i the and of decade, our fleet will once again operate 300 ships. we have accomplished this with direct and a fundamental business approach, based in large part by legislation that originated in this the committee, authored by senator mccain. things like increasing competition, relying more on fix price contracts, and thanks to this committee congress has had multi-year buys. budget uncertainty seriously and related -- aeroded our abilities. the navy core will not be able to meet the demands, for which we are often the best and only option. in the face of budgetary uncertainty, cutting shifts is the most damaging and least reversible action. that is why i am committed to keeping shipbuilding at the maximalum possible. the navy has a history of innovation, particularly in energy pioneering nuclear power. we believe that our national security interests, and the ability of the navy core must be enhanced by increasing our energy diversity and efficiency. our ability to maintain presence will also be augmented through partnerships. caught -- cooperation

but he smashed together this rather makeshift little fleet. they didn't have enough rope; they didn't have enough sails; they didn't have anybody who knew how to sail a boat except for arnold. he did know how to sail a boat because he'd been a trader before the war and had sailed to the caribbean. but he was practically the only one -- that's not true, but he was among the very few people in that fleet who knew how to sail, who knew how to point a gun on a heaving deck, who knew how to do any of those things. he did a couple of reconnoitering expeditions with his little fleet up into the lake, and eventually the british did come down. he had put himself behind an island, and they sailed past him before they realized he was there. they had to beat back upwind to get at him, and he was able to take them on one and two at a time and fight them off the first day. they had this enormous ship called inflexible, which they had brought over from england, taken it down, brought it around into the lake and rebuilt it at the top of the lake. that's what

not enough to stop the slide in the size of the fleet. in my first five years we have contracted for 70 ships and have reversed that decline. by the ends of the decade, our fleet will once again be above 300 ships. for the past two years the department of the navy has attempted to minimize the impact of an uncertain budgetary environment, marked by numerous continuing resolutions, imposition of sequester level funding and the threat of the return of sequestration. in this environment, cutting ships is the most damaging and least reversible course of action. i'm committed to prevent are our ship build following the nave are y's watch word, don't give up the ship. fuely the platforms of our navy and marine corps is a vital operational concern and enables our global presence. that's why navy has a long history of energy innovation by employing al concern at the fuels and being more efficient in fuel usage we're working to bring competition, lessen the incredible volatility in fuel prices and decrease our adversary's ability to use fuel as a

under sequestration the navy has said the fleet has shrunk to 260 ships. the marine corps continues personnel reductions from 200 thousand active-duty marines in 2012 to 184,000. with the demands on sailors and marines rising these marines rising these force reductions coupled with major readiness shortfalls due to sequestration are lengthening deployments, cutting training and time at home with families, families command putting our all volunteer force under considerable strain. the pres.'s budget request attempts to buy as much readiness as a part that can execute for fiscal year 16 which is yet another reason why we cannot afford a defense budget as sequestration levels. the pres.'s budget includes significant funding requests for major navy and marine corps acquisition programs. in the current fiscal environment it is more important for this committee to conduct rigorous oversight of these programs to ensure that the department of the navy is making the best use of limited taxpayer dollars. that is exactly what we will do. despite initial cost overruns

. >> there's two bars one the model year and the second bar is the entire fleet. >> the fee. >> the fleet of vehicles so ever so the model year is what the cars get reduced and the rest is the composition of all the fleets so ever car. >> so the first bar is

in order to have a strong fleet we need to insure the submarines are maintained properly and quickly was combat ready. one thing a wanted to ask is to make sure the facilities are prepared to do that is the most efficient ways to get things done sooner. to info sharing my fried with the naval shipyard and though workers have actually been producing ahead of schedule most recently as april of last year were 20 days ahead of schedule and in june following the availability they returned the west as california to 14 days ahead of schedule and in september they deliver the springfield ahead of schedule and under budget bringing to the attention of my office that they're doing this that are frankly a outdated working on average over 100 years old have deteriorated to the part of partial failure so the heat treat area was recently condemned the buildings have exceeded their useful life. the fact we're delivering faster and under budget can you imagine what they read to with more modern facilities? there is a military construction project that is the structural shot consolidation that will a

tell us a bit more about germanwings and their fleets and where they operate and their relationship withfthansa. >> ok, so it's a subsidiary of lufthansa and operates mostly inside the europe union from regional airport hubs around germany, here in berlin, from germany, dÜsseldorf, which was the destination of this particular aircraft that has come down. germanwings employs around 2,000 people and has around 80 aircraft, 15 or 16 of which are the a320 and there are other aircraft inside its fleet, as well. it will be taking perhaps hundreds of thousands of people from short haul destinations around europe every year. it's a low frills airline a low cost low frills, short haul airline, which is a convenience for people traveling from different european hubs to other european hubs. this one, bourse barcelona to dÜsseldorf. you could imagine -- he. >> let me just jump in there for a second. let's cross over to the spanish prime minister talking about the crash of that germanwings flight. let's listen in to what he has to say. >> i have spoken to the german chancellor angela merkel and asked

the northern fleet is probably the most secure fleet that russia has, but this is a way for him to demonstrate his moral dominance or psychological dominance over the west. to rattle the sabers in the ukraine to put the fleet at sea, to station bombers in the crimea, missiles in the west. this is all part of a pattern of behavior that putin has been employeeing for the last two years and succeeding at it. because the united states and the eu are reluctant to call him out on this. extremely reluctant. lou: i got to ask you, general. i'm really -- i've got one vision of europe of america of the west, and retiscence in the face of aggression and provocation is not what i think of when i think of american traditions. the nature of american culture and it's really frankly hard to stomach to watch that. it must drive you nuts! >> here's the thing as i've said before on your show, the russian military isn't that powerful. if you look at what they're doing in the crimea. they have stretched this army of theirs to the limit to deploy 12,000 troops in eastern ukraine. lou: general, we've been hearing th

butt some point, our nation needs to recapitalize itsts icebreaking fleet. >> what are the capabilities those ships need? you mentioned command and control is important. these ships are going to last five decades or more. what are some of the baseline capabilitities they need? >> first is heavy icebreaking capability. last year, the polartar had to rescue a medium icebreaker from china. just before they arrivived to break it out, the wind shifted and they were able to get out on their own. clearly, the antarctic is no place for a medium icebreaker. it does require heavy icebreaking capability. it needs thave a command suit e, especially where we have no re infrastructur it will be coordinated from sea and not sshore. it needs to exert sovereignty. if we rafy the law of the sea convention which i am a huge advocate of, those are u.s. waters, u.s. sovereign waters. th icebreaker needs to be a sovereign of u.s. sovereignty as well. >> you have said stakeholders should be able t to contribute. that would be the navy, national science foundation noaa, and other stakeholders in the icebreakak

every merchant fleet had to be convoyed by the navy. there were problems of logistics, fighting 3000 miles away with an antiquated administrative system. there were many reasons, ultimately, the british were not defeated. they could have gone on after yorktown. the main army was still intact. they had the main army. they had canada as well. they still had charleston, savannah guston and florida. lord george germane put forward new plans as to how the war could be continued in 1782. what really changed in britain , and similar to vietnam, was the opinion at home. the opposition parties were gaining ground. the government could no longer rely on majorities. army officers, many of them sat in parliament during this period, and the majority of officers had started to go vote (202) 748-8000 officers had started to go against the war and against continuing the war. and so in 1782, lord north essentially had to resign. he no longer have the majority support in the house of commons. now the main argument for the book is the british victory was

that has implications for the fleet and for other aircraft operating the a320 aircraft.hey need to know what happened and if they don't find out quickly, there's been under some pressure as to why they are not grounding the a320 fleet. >> all right. paul thank you. ♪ >>> let's get some other news now, the governor of yemen's third biggest city has resigned. the houthis took over much of ta'izz on sunday. seven were killed and several more injured when houthis opened mire trying to disburse the crowds. >>> well jammal has told al jazeera that yemen's warring parties will meet in qatar for peace talks possibly later this week. >> reporter: this is a country on the brink of civil war, but the residents are not going quietly, as thousands protest against the advance of shia houthi fighters. in turn they are fired on and tear gassed. ta'izz was taken on wednesday. the south is dominated by supporters of the ousted president. now the country's foreign minister is appealing for help to hold back the houthi advance. >> translator: nobody wants to be pulled into direct military a

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after the fleet of f35s was grounded for three weeks. the plane missed a heralded debut.pite that, the air force chief of staff was adamant the schedule. >> i'm confident that the programme will remain on track. >> when you read the dotne evaluation, what do you see? >> i see a programme that should have been held up. >> from 2001 until 2005, tom christy was the director of operational tests and evaluation, spending more than 30 years at the pentagon as a high-ranking official. >> they are producing what 40, 50 airplanes a year. to me that's full-scale production. that's a tragedy, i think, because god knows what we'll have to do to fix the aircraft. >> to this day, test pilots are operating under severe restrictions, unable to fly the plane at high speeds or manoeuvre aggressively for fear the engine problem could happen again. according to the dotne, a final design to fix the problem was not complete at the time the report was written. major-general commands the air force warfare center. his unit is testing the air force's version of the f35. >> can i ask what the react