that is true every day in halifax.re part of an interesting and powerful time in our nation's history, in world history. you are in a part of canada that has always been a part of convergence for different peoples and cultures. nearly 1 million immigrants began their voyage to north america here, at pier 21, now canada's national immigration museum. this is a city home to canada's east coast navy, the royal canadian navy, and the largest military base in canada and. halifax also has the enviable reputation as a hub of knowledge, being home to canada's finest universities, where the leaders of tomorrow debate cutting edge issues. i know we have some students with us today. all of these elements make halifax the prevent you to hold an international security forum. a unique event where key leaders and policy makers and thinkers and practitioners come together to share their insights on the global security and defense challenges of the 21st century. those of you who attended previous forums already know that this is an exc

. >> sean: halifax all the way down to boston.things you do for the military, for the red cross. >> i'm on the council and i was asked to be a part of for being the front guy to inspire america to write our military greeting cards. everybody is going to write a christmas card. we have a lot of troops that are not going to be home for christmas. it would be awesome to get a christmas card. >> sean: how many people? >> 3.5 million christmas cards. hopefully we can do that many this year. if you are going to write a christmas card, write another one for the troops. let them know how much we appreciate it. >> sean: i'm going with you december 3rd and 18th. you are a

swiss air 111 is cleared for an emergency landing in halifax airport in nova scotia. >> it appeared to be a straight-forward operation. the radio transmission was professional and calm. no indication of a sense of urgency. >> as they prepare for their descent, the smoke in the cockpit becomes heavier. amid the growing danger the pilots are faced with a difficult decision. >> the pilot advised that they needed to dump fuel. at that point they were approximately 16,000 feet. the fuel dump complicated the situation. >> it's a good decision to get the airplane as light as you can. it's easier on the airplane. >> but delaying the landing could put the flight in even more danger. the passengers have been told they are being diverted but there is no smoke in the cabin and they have no idea that inside the cockpit, something is going horribly wrong. following the smoke checklist, the pilot shut off power to the cabin. if there is an electrical fire this could cut power to the source. but the smoke only gets thicker. then the ougautopilot fails. flying the plane by hand in the dark, the pilots

. >> sean: halifax all the way down to boston.r things you do for the military, for the red cross. >> i'm on the council and i was asked to be a part of for being the front guy to inspire america to write our military greeting cards. everybody is going to write a christmas card. we have a lot of troops that are not going to be home for christmas. it would be awesome to get a christmas card. >> sean: how many people? >> 3.5 million christmas cards. hopefully we can do that many this year. if you are going to write a christmas card, write another one for the troops. let them know how much we appreciate it. >> sean: i'm going with you december 3rd and 18th.

then we'll leave and go to halifax for the third annual halifax forum. it brings together ministers from across the world to discuss key defense and security issues and it's focusing on looking at progress from the past year and discussing challenges ahead. while there, he'll meet with canadian minister of defense, peter mckay, to discuss the strong bilateral relationship with canada, and he'll have the opportunity to meet with french general stefan, the nato supreme commander for transformation, and with his israeli minister defense. israel has been a consistent participant in the halifax forums, and this provides an opportunity for the two leaders to have their fourth meeting. the secretary will also deliver a speech there at the forum primarily about the importance of multilateral alliances and partnerships particularly in the western hemisphere, and with that, leah? >> one quick housekeeping thing, and then 5 question. the secretary yesterday said 29,000 troops in kuwait when he reeled off the troops in the region that added up to substantially more

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and those were halifax county in eastern north carolina and chatham county, north carolina. and then the third economic landscape we looked as was the landscape of the state. and these are communities, maybe state capitals or maybe communities that host a military base, and the fortunes of those k34u7b9s are really -- communities are really determined by a much broader economic, broader political positions made either in in the state capitol or in washington, d.c. or something like that. so by looking at these five different communities with these three very different kinds of economic, um, bases, we get to see how people's lives are impacted differently by the broad global economic changes of the late 20th century. >> and so you talked with people about political participation, and a lot of people sometimes think about voting. what were you looking for? what does democratic political participation consist of? >> right. so we're anthropologists, we're sociocultural anthropologists, and we're interested in talking to people about what they do. rather than giving too much emph

joining us now from halifax, canada, to share their story, mike and nancy rogers.first. when we got married, my wife was nervous. it's her big day. now you hear your hall is on fire. what's going through your mind? >> well, there was an initial moment where it was like oh, my goodness, you know, what are we going to do? and one of my bridesmaids gave me a great big hug and she said it's going to be fine and we decided it was. >> and mike, what was your response? were you like let's do this anyway, honey? let's go? we've waited all this time. it's time to tie the knot? >> pretty much. i mean, we -- there was limited contact so we hadn't even been in contact with each other through the whole blaze on fire, the hour leaving between when it initially happened and when we planned on getting married, there was no contact. limited contact between the two of us. >> right. nancy, tell us what happened. so the blaze starts. you vanity been -- haven't been married yet, is that right? >> no, they came down to our cottage to let us know there was a fire in the basement. they we