so it's the i.t. infrastructure that we need as we activate facilities and bring on additional clinical staff. there are a number of things under way to really take us into the 21st century. part of it is the commercial off-the-shelf scheduling system which is not included here. it's already provided within the core funding. but there are other things we were talking earlier about interoperability for purchase care and there are technology investments that are included here, associated with that. so anything else to add? >> sure. i'll add a couple of items relative to i.t. part of it is we have a capital request if there and requesting i think 13 million square feet for lease space but we have to outfit that lease space with i.t. to actually make it useful to make it connect, cables, wireless, telecoms, etc. so that's built into it. it's not -- it's not all raw development work. it's what you need to make use of the space you get and then to actually connect the staff you're hiring. you need i.t. to m

i.t. department has asked for and then we find out a revelation in one of these hearings that they are using 1985 scheduling software. that's one of the most shocking revelations that i heard. where the billions of dollars, where did they go in this giant v.a.? they obviously weren't addressing i.t. and when you come to us and ask for $17 billion and nobody can answer the question why we're using antiquated equipment, the i.t. at the v.a. is a disaster, what is the answer to the question of how can we possibly trust you now even for another billion just for i.t. when all that money has been unaccounted for and the revelation under oath was we're using 1985 software. i think that is shocking and i think the american taxpayers deserve an answer as to where their money go and how can they trust you with another $17 billion or just $1 billion in i.t. upgrade? either of you. >> i was listening for a question there. >> any question is how can the american people trust you for more money, een a b

we spent $82 million a year on i.t. investments. $20 million at least is inefficiently used for just maintenance of legacy systems. and that's got to be of enormous concern and if congress wants to do something about it, wouldn't it be a wise thing to try to make some prudent and targeted investments to we're not dealing with this kind of issue? >> it sure would and you'd have a lot of friends in both the cio and records management community if this gets passed. >> right. i heard you say earlier ha the federal records act requires print and save. >> and i misspoke. that language is actually not in the law but that's the guidance that many agencies are following. >> so based on that law, some guidance was issued that says at least for now print and save. i assume the reason for that guidance is because with antiquated systems we don't want to take the risk of backup that could crash. >> well, actually, the guidance game before -- >> why not use the cloud. our legislation would consolidate data centers throughout the fede

we have sat in here on i.t. and will never forget the gentleman in charge sitting before the microphone. your i.t. according to the hearings has been a disaster. there's been many breaches. veterans information in the gentleman sat there and i said to him, do you have enough money to do what you need to do to protect her va and our veterans and a big assistance you need? yes, ma'am. we find out during the subsequent hearing in the $17 request that we have allocated long before i got here. this consistent the estates late allocated all the money the i.t. department has asked for. and then we find that a revelation one of these hearings that they are scheduling software that sent them a shocking revelations i've heard. a few months ago i said where are the billions of dollars? where do they go on this giant ea? they obviously weren't addressing i.t. when you come to rest and ask for $17 million in no one can answer the question of why we use antiquated equipment, the i.t. at the va is a disaster. what is the answe

i.t., and i certainly agree that in term of facilities and personnel, there's a need. my cboc in ox nard, california has you stated in your testimony has had double digit increases each year in the last couple of years. and not much has been done over the last couple of years, i will add. i think what i have learned through all of the hearings that we've had that the care for veterans, once they get in the system, is pretty good. it's accessing the system is where we have seen it's truly broken. when i see the i.t. proposal, it kerps me. you did american off the shelf products that you are looking at. off the shelf technology that you are looking at. i really want to know, we got to fix the access part of this and i don't want to vest more money into a broken system. i want to invest money into new technologies and innovation and getting the v.a. into the 21st century much like the private sector is and the tools that they have to access a health care system. so if you can just comment on

i.t., and i certainly agree that in term of facilities and personnel, there's a need. my cboc in ox nard, california has you stated in your testimony has had double digit increases each year in the last couple of years. and not much has been done over the last couple of years, i will add. i think what i have learned through all of the hearings that we've had that the care for veterans, once they get in the system, is pretty good. it's accessing the system is where we have seen it's truly broken. when i see the i.t. proposal, it kerps me. you did american off the shelf products that you are looking at. off the shelf technology that you are looking at. i really want to know, we got to fix the access part of this and i don't want to vest more money into a broken system. i want to invest money into new technologies and innovation and getting the v.a. into the 21st century much like the private sector is and the tools that they have to access a health care system. so if you can just comment on

in some of our i.t. areas, we had issues where, for example, we weren't doing a good job of purging user rosters, so people would move on from the job and retail their systems access. they're issues, but punch list items. you can fix those. i think that's exactly what's going on. that's a key lesson. you've got to build that list of concrete definitive actions. for many, many years, the department would have auditors come in and issue a same-day disclaimer, we can't get to the answers, the systems aren't reliable, we're done. we're now to the point that, by focusing on these individual segments, we call these assessable units, and breaking them down, we're getting to finite achievable lists. we're getting most of them right, and we're cleaning them up as we go. so that is just absolutely key. >> thank you. real quick, 30 seconds, mr. speer, same question. >> i agree with that. my background isn't audit and accounting. i was a program manager in the corps of engineers audit, probably the largest audit in

we have got to have a full i.t. system. >> we have spent, no pun intended a widow's pension on getting all the i.t. money. it's mind-boggling to me. if i hear somebody say money and i've seen the va and dod take a thousand million dollars, that's a billion and flush it and i have no earthly idea where the money went to build a system that's integrated. i asked the secretary word of the billion-dollar scope? no answer and so i don't know that adding more money and you say in i.t. program if we give you that money and provide that money this very generous congress does that we have provided the resources for the va. is that going to be enough for my going to be sitting here a year from now if i'm fortunate enough to get reelected and am i going to hear the same thing? >> congressman you were talking about i ehr. >> i'm just talking about i.t. money. >> let me tell you what you have given us. let me tell you what you have given us all of you have given us over the last three years in vba. for the first time in our hist

they do not want to outsource their i.t.ant someone coming in and fixing the computer. they want cloud computing. they want to access all their documents at home on the mobile. >> when it breaks, it is somebody else's problem. >> a whole new way of doing business. this is what investors -- infosys has to catch up with. they have to provide this new modus operandi. but in a slowing market. i.t., a 4.1% increase in growth. >> thank you. >> indeed. before we cross out to our correspondent in berlin, i want to bring you some breaking data from germany. month on month cpi rose by .3%. that is 1% after the date yesterday. it is important to check that. about politics. germany expelled its top american intelligence officer in berlin over spying allegations. hanson nichols is standing by in the capital with more. hans, this made quite a new story. >> that is exactly the reaction angela merkel wanted. she wanted a public right. she wanted some way to signal to the united states, to convey to them just how upset she has, not only on t

the supply of i.t. guest workers appears to be growing dramatically despite stagnant, even declining wages" -- close quote. but microsoft and its allies want more. here is an excerpt from a report issued by the partnership for a new economy -- a new american economy. so this is the front group for the pro-immigration crowd. it's coheaded by steve balmer, the recent microsoft c.e.o. he left in february, but he was the head and may still be the head of this group and the group is lobbying for more h-1b guest workers to come to take jobs. they say this -- in many stem occupations, unemployment is virtually nonexistent. this is not so. they just declare it to be so. they say -- quote -- "there is no evidence that foreign-born stem workers adversely affect the wages of american workers by providing a less expensive alternative to labor" -- close quote. what planet are they on? wages are declining. median income in america today -- well, according to "the wall street journal" it was $55,000 for a family in 20

and, you know, with our i.t. grids and our software vender, they really came together and pulled it together for us. it made it possible for us to be able to serve as many couples as we have been. >> so once you're ready, you and your husband to be or wife need to be need to check in here and check in again, ok. are you also going to get married today? >> yeah. >> let's process you one by one. do your license in, exit and re-enter again check in at that desk. >> our wedding is at 3:00. >> as long as we get you in today. >> we're getting married at 2:30. >> don't worry about the time line. we're greeting people at the doorway and either directing them to the services they need on this side which is licensing or the services on this side which is actually getting the ceremony performed. >> this is an opportunity to choose to be a part of history. many times history happens to us, but in this case, you can choose to be a part of it. this is a very historic day and so i'm very, very proud to be here. >> i have been v

i.t. giant microsoft are preparing to make the biggest layoff in their country's history. they plan to eliminate up to 18,000 jobs. that's 14% of their workforce. the executives say they're thinking of slashing those positions over the next 12 months. they plan to make most of the cuts to the nokia mobile business. they just acquired that business in april. ceo satya nadella conducted a review of microsoft's reliance on its mainstay product, the windows operating system. he said he wants to focus more on tablet devices as well as cloud computing services. nadella told staff that the shift will be difficult, but he said microsoft has to evolve in order to survive. all right, that is going to do it for biz this hour. let's check in on the markets. >>> people in the western japanese city of osaka have enjoyed a traditional summer dance festival at a most untraditional location. ♪ >> the 60th story is japan's tallest building. local children joined people who worked there for a garden party nearly 300 meters off the ground. they enjoyed the dance and the magnificent beauty of

we have got to have a full i.t. system. >> we have spent, no pun intended a widow's pension on getting all the i.t. money. it's mind-boggling to me. if i hear somebody say money and i've seen the va and dod take a thousand million dollars, that's a billion and flush it and i have no earthly idea where the money went to build a system that's integrated. i asked the secretary word of the billion-dollar scope? no answer and so i don't know that adding more money and you say in i.t. program if we give you that money and provide that money this very generous congress does that we have provided the resources for the va. is that going to be enough for my going to be sitting here a year from now if i'm fortunate enough to get reelected and am i going to hear the same thing? >> congressman you were talking about i ehr. >> i'm just talking about i.t. money. >> let me tell you what you have given us. let me tell you what you have given us all of you have given us over the last three years in vba. for the first time in our hist

so the in-house irs i.t. experts said that if this is a scratch, that means the data was recoverable, okay? they said that. what they went on to say, that they recommended, to the agency it seven, to bring in outside i.t. experts to then recover data. that fell on deaf ears. doesn't this make the case even stronger against the irs? that they were, they were told, hey, bring somebody else in here, we have to recover the data and didn't do it? >> yes. it is not credible. that is the word we use in my world. is it believable, 12 in my world, new york city jurors, sanitation, school teachers, that as soon as you find out there's an issue your computer fails? i mean, really? no, you need to suspend reality to believe that is true. take it to the next level. it is not recoverable? was it lost in the ocean in hurricane sandy? >> think of scratching things, in '90s my paula abdul cd. cold-hearted snake could skip and. >> even if they scratched this, we've already been told by legal experts and i'm sure arthur can wei

hopefully, as we interview some of your i.t. professionals and some of the others involved it will make it easier to direct questions. but, you know, a lot has been done to talk about this. a drive this large that apparently went so bad that not a single piece of information could be saved. and you've asked us to believe that your very special experts couldn't save one piece of data from this drive. or one just like it, correct? >> that's what i was advised, yes. and that's what the e-mail strategy that we produced and i testified about at previous hearings says. >> the american people don't believe that, you realize that the idea that we can recover the last 17 or 18 seconds from challenger exploding above our atmosphere, falling to the sea and being left under the sea for a year, that we can recover the voice from that makes people wonder why a product that simply came in and out of the office with lois lerner every day, suddenly not one piece of data could be recovered, doesn't surprise you the american people just have a har

not good at actually doing the i.t. >> so one study suggested that only 4% of all i.t. frogts from the federal government were successful. and 40% failed completely. >> i think it might be fair to say, though, a lot of governments around the world, with perhaps the exception of the government of singapore have had time -- you could accuse them of inefficiency and overbloatedness and spending way too much money and taking way too much time and not being able to justify it. can we compare the u.s. government in this area, say, with other western governments. is it better, worse? we don't want to load on necessari necessarily. >> i've studied a few procurement programs. the united states is really far worse than, say, germany. it doesn't give anyone the responsibility and the flexibility to make it happen. it would be far better to simply abandon the thousands of pages of regulations, give somebody responsibility and have an oversagt body made up of industry officials. >> as you note in the book, there are 19 or so different regulatory agencies dedicated to environmental p

and many of the i.t. managers acknowledged that a cobalt based system works, but they also have indicated that it's less efficient, and agile, than more modern computer languages. so what can the agency do to update the technology that it has to have to manage this eye-popping amount of data that you're dealing with every day? >> well, i think one of the underlying challenges you just mentioned, there's a tremendous volume of data that we process. we recognize that we have to move away from cobalt to some extent, but not fully, because in some instances it's the best language. there is a transition to modernize our systems. one of the challenges will be how quickly we can do that. because there are still other types of i.t. projects that we must also develop at the same time to make our system useful and efficient, both for our employees and for the public. but there is an i.t. plan that will gradually move some of that cobalt language, and replace it with other types of language. but not fully replace it

this can't -- to have the nsa contracting out to apparently 500 or close to it, i.t. support contractors, for the collection of signals intelligence, it can't be great for privacy and civil liberties. it also can't be that great for security. i think if you've got that much outsourcing and people cutting corners with security background checks, it's only a matter of time before you end up with someone like snowden, it would seem to me. a short-term contractor, not a great deal of loyalty towards the organization. i'm just wondering if you guys can comment on that, and whether you see that as a point, perhaps also in need of reform, thank you. >> i'll try it. i'm unaccustomedly nuanced on this question. the nsa has built its culture around the assumption you start there and you're in for life. and that has allowed them to make certain assumptions about their workforce, which are undermined when they bring in contractors. and they have not found a way to deal with that. at the same time, the fact is that the skills that nsa needs, just like the skills that microsoft nee

the i.t. leadership of the department on implements the systems and the systems become operationally accurate, is critical. so i think it's the focus has to be on improvement and i.t. capabilities. not just financial management. >> it will take about two years to get it done and we're running against the time for that to happen. >> thank you. >> all right. >> three years ago, i think in 2011, we chaired a similar hearing and we asked whether the department of defense would meet congressionally-mandated goals of being able to audit all the finances by 2017. sit likely that they'll meet the 201 audit goal and what should the department do to increase the chances of meeting those audit deadlines? i think he talked the. >> it's unlikely that dod will meet the auditability goal for 2014 on the clete statement of budget resources. for the reason that i mentioned earlier on there's not enough time to make corrective action to have an efficient audit of the entire sbr like the nda asked for. some of t

most corporations by technology through their corporate i.t. department often with the help companies like hewlett-packard and, yes, like ibm, the most dominant company in all of the technology will services company. services did $59 billion selling uff and how to implement it. this announcement was all about apps, apps, apps. the news is you will have every single person in the ibm sales force will walk into the customer accounts with ipads and iphones available for corporate distribution, deployment as well as developing ibm maps on these devices that are favored by u.s. consumers. we saw a lot of competition coming from android in the corporate market. success of the windows phone taking the lace of blackberry, really bad news for blackberry and probably bad news for microsoft and android. >> that was going to be my next question. what does it mean for the others -- blackberry, google, microsoft? >> he's right. this makes apple much more powerful in an enterprise sense and it goes beyond blackberry, in my view already a dead man walking. ama

in fiscal year 2013, the i.t. budgets of the six largest financial institutions equaled an amount more than 100 times that of the s.e.c. although my republican colleagues suggest that they are generously providing ancrease, they use budget gimmicks to mask real cuts to i.t. infrastructure. the world's capital markets have grown and -- at an ever-accelerating rate and likewise so have the s.e.c.'s responsibilities. today the s.e.c. oversees 11,000 investment advisors, 10,000 mutual funds, 4,000 -- 4,450 broker dealers, the securities exchanges, clearing agencies, credit rating agencies and other self-regulatory organizations. the s.e.c. also reviews the disclosures of nearly 9,000 public companies. and following the 2008 financial crisis, congress significantly increased s.e.c.'s responsibilities by requiring oversight of hedge funds, municipal advisors and certain derivatives by passing dodd-frank. my amendment is needed to support all of these activities. the republican bill also includes substantial carveouts wh

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>> you know i.t.was clear from the trial this wasn't any kind of forensic look with the way we treated this city at all. there feels more like we're pawns in the much bigger picture. we know that beings qatar pretty much backed the mohamed morsi government. >> the government of qatar which actually funds al jazeera english and al jazeera america. >> exactly. it's true to say they were very much backing the muslim brotherhood and now they've been removed. egypt and qatar are not friends at all. there's a big chasm between them. >> how do you think journalism as changed? in the last ten years from your standpoint? >> i've joined as afghanistan correspondent for al jazeera. i've covered that part of the world, libya, syria, when you're in the war zone, you kind of know the threats. some of the areas like ethiopia, in pooh normal environment that there is this almost sinister presence that is closing down the freedom of the press. and there is a hope that after all this is over, are hopefully the charges

and we have to higher x amount of i.t. because we have predicted with the baby boomers exiting the marketplace how many people we are going to need. or just jobs today, but two three years from now when they are deploying. now we are reaching out to try to touch those individuals before they ever think of saying, here's where you need to go. arehe governor said, we doing in-state tuition not just at universities, but arrive at an community colleges, and we are about the whole family. we are taking exactly the foundation that you have laid for us, and we are implementing it into the marketplace. governor, our show me heroes program in missouri was started in 2010. it is a basic concept. that is to link veterans, give them a chance at employment once they leave military service. as the governor mentioned, it has been a successful program. 400-6000 employers have taken the pledge to be show me heroes employers. 6836 military veterans are now gainfully employed in the civilian sector since the inception of this program. if i w

we had that morning, the following monday, our i.t. people had been advised -- i had not been advised -- we knew there were six or seven custodians that had hard drive crashes. that information was provided to the ways and means committee. we have not been able to pursue whether there were 6, 12, or 15 because once the ig started we agreed we would not pursue until they completed their investigation. >> when the g -- when the doj was here the other day, and you asked about this earlier they talked about the fact that they had not gotten information about the crash back in april. they got it in june i think. like everybody else. why is that? >> when we, in april, determined in fact there'd been an hard crashed -- a hard drive crash and some e-mails may been lost. our next step was to see how many e-mails had been lost and we could find, so we pulled it all together including information about custodian, and make a public recitation, including why it takes so long to respond to request for documents. we provided that information in june

they represent a lot of i.t. companies as well. knowing vacancies exist, they estimate over 1000 vacancies in the greater detroit area. upon completion of this rogram, ust global hires the students and the lowest starting job is at 45,000 a ear and the highest is $70,000 a year. these are computer programmers. u.s. global does not train these women out of a sense of charity. they do it because it is a very smart business decision. there is an overwhelming need for more computer coders. not just ust global, but the entire industry. by 2020, our research shows there will be one point or million new i.t. jobs all across this country. the pay is in the $70,000 range. i was so proud of these women. as i said, my wife teach at a community college. her average class age is 28-30 years old. just think of yourself what courage it takes. you are out of high school. you have graduated. you have been in a job trying to make it. you have been out 10, 15 years. someone says there is an opportunity to take this program, to learn java, to learn to

now has 12 sites across the country, training 2,000 young people a year in financial operations and i.tjobs. ( cheers and applause ) after graduation, 85% go to college or are hired full-time. average starting salaries are $30,000, but with computer expertise, can hit $50,000 a year or more. >> jay hammonds: we take those reports... >> safer: for the past two years, jay hammonds has worked at facebook's i.t. department. born to a drug-addicted mother, he was adopted as a baby by a family friend. >> hammonds: it was rough. but at the same time, i knew nothing different. for example, i had a cousin who, you know, grew up in the same neighborhood as me. and he went down the wrong path. and a few years later, he was killed and... sorry. >> safer: it's okay. >> hammonds: at the time, it was just normal, so i knew nothing different. >> safer: after high school, he tried college but quickly ran out of money. he says, before year up, he couldn't even get a job at a grocery store. >> hammonds: i thought that would be, like, a great position for me coming out of high school. and i applied three t

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and many of the i.t. manages acknowledge that a kobalt-based system works but they've also indicateed that it's less efficient and agile then more modern commuter languages so what can the agent ski do to update the technology that it has to be -- to have to manage this eye-popping amount of data you're dealing with every day. >> one of the underlying challenges you just mentioned is the tremendous volume of data we process. we recognize we have to move away from kobalt to some extent. but note fully. in some instances it's the best language. it's a challenge to modernize our systems. one is how quickly we can do that because there are still other times of i.t. projects that we must also develop at the same time to make our system useful and efficient but there is an i.t. plan that will move some of that kobalt language and replace it with other types of language but not fully replace is. -- it. >> my time's expired. senator hatch? >> thank you, mr. chairman. ms. colvin, social security has long been crit

saying this is going to take a radical culture change and senator warner thinks that means an improved i.t. scheduling team. he's called what he calls a s.w.a.t. team of virginia tech companies from the private sector who will for free, upgrade the v.a.'s system. scott thuman, abc~7 news. >> new tonight at 6:00. developments in the irs scandal. the head of the house ways and means committee has released a series of e-mails that offer a closer look at former irs official lois lerner. in the e-mails lerner is alleged to have made remarks about republicans, in one she refers to republicans as crazies. she's accused of targeting groups seeking tax exempt status. >> metro transit police say a person was stabbed in the back at the fort totten metro station, it was on a green line train headed to branch avenue. it's believed the victim is an adult and the injures are not life threat -- injuries are not life-threatening. we have a crew at the scene and we'll have more on abc~7 news at 11:00. >> a teenage boy isn custody accused of shooting an 18-year-old girl at least four times. she was in the ar

the i.t. piece of this is huge. as they do that, they see they can get better outcomes for less money with the patients, which we forget is what health-care providers want to do. trainedand nurses are to make people better, not to navigate a complex payment system we currently have. out --pointed this governors cannot tell their docs and providers, we are going to do this together and you are going to love it. a very deliberate and carefully designed partnership that allows us to facilitate providers figuring out that they can do what they love to do, which is make people healthy, in a payment system where they get rewarded for less quantity and better quality, and measure those outcomes very carefully so that those who are doing the chronic care don't end up getting punished for a system pays for less quantity and more quality. it is doable. you have to have those three pieces. the i.t., the buy-in from providers, and agreed upon, so thatle outcomes you're improving quality as you spend less money. >> i have a ques

beyond that i don't know. >> she's making obviously a specific request to i.t.get clarification. >> that's the case. now we know why she took the fifth. she does have something to hide. we know that. it's not just a manager sending out an e-mail saying be careful what you say, you don't want anything to make us look silly. this is an e-mail that says we don't want congress knowing what we're doing. that takes it to a whole new level. also it's quite amusing as you said to carl she nut in an e-mail which is like complaining about nsa surveillance on twitter or facebook. >> where does this go, though? >> i think -- >> special prosecutor. >> the administration keeps digging here. they are clearly hiding something. drip, drip, drip. they will keep this going. >> you talk about this until the cows come home and people at home go where is the investigation going. >> you might get a special prosecutor. it's possible. i wouldn't rule that out. but it's not going away. >> this strikes me as a huge splash for the reasons if it was drip, drip all along this is a big splash

or the only people that are actually talking to the i.t. people who did this in the irs are the only people talking to the investigators from the house ways and means committee. >> this is why the american public want to see this through, karl. the american public smelled some smoke and there may be fire. >> look, last month june 24th fox poll 76% of the american people said they thought it was a deliberate effort to destroy the e-mails. and 74% said congress should continue to investigate until someone is held accountable. and i bet those numbers -- that was june 24th. i bet the more that this information gets out the higher those numbers get. >> it's incredible when you see it. i mean, as a lawyer, it's incredible to watch the reversals. karl rove, good to see you. quickly, go ahead. >> well, koskinen today saying i'm not going to ask anybody questions as long as the inspector general is looking into this. it's like hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. i'm not going to have the responsibility as the commissioner of the irs to look in

companies across the u.s. >> because you're in the i.t. area and because tomorrow at delivering alpha we expect to hear secretary of the treasury jack lew talk about inspection and cybersecurity. if you had one question to ask the treasury secretary about how the government is doing on cybersecurity, what would your question be for him? >> my biggest question in cybersecurity is obviously when will they take it more seriously? it is a huge risk, and when are they going to invest the dollars that's needed to get the infrastructure up to speed. >> you seem skeptical that the government is doing enough? >> yeah, pretty muchivities thank you very much. glad your business is looking up. we hope to have you back again, sue. >> tyler, californians, if you're caught using water in ways you're not supposed to, you'll be in serious trouble. you will also have to pay the piper. >>> plus the man behind u.s. soccer. he doesn't play, he doesn't coach, but he runs the whole thing, and he also happens to be a professor of economics at columbia university.

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i.t. was in this area two years ago that the man who is jet ski ran out of gas, crossed an eight foot fence and over two cifer runways. he was never detected by the motion decorates. william vorlicheck is a counterterrorism expert. >> what happened? was the person detected? did the system detect it? did the system tell somebody. >> the kayakers were not close enough to set off the system's alarms or to cause concern among law enforcement. but in the statement to cbs news the port authority's system said, adequate marine parole services is not in the flying public's best interest. in an e-mail the port authority told cbs news the kayakers did not reach the secured air field. they were seeking help at a restricted water area and were encountered quickly and provided help. >> jeff, the kayakers were sitebut not -- cited but not arrested. >> vicente, thank you very much. >>> the costa concordia, two years capsized off giglio island before being righted last fall. 32 people were killed when tha

this major i.t. firms develops games and other online services. the number of women in management positions can be counted on one hand. for the past two years, female workers have been leading an effort to encourage women to stay on the job even after having children. they have drawn up criteria. among these are allowances to cover a portion of child daycare expenses and to help hire babysitters at low cost. this woman's ambition is to become a manager and raise her two-year-old son. thanks to the company's new system, she was able to hire a babysitter whenever her child became ill. >> translator: the system has been very helpful even when my child suddenly becomes sick, i don't have to miss work. >> reporter: another company has been trying to increase female managers by changing the mind set of male leaders. this major consulting firm decided that nurturing female leaders is an important task for male managers who hold 90% of supervisory positions. but even senior managers will admit it's not easy to train female sbort nats. >> translator: i can

you can see i.t. was deadly. palestinian officials say israeli air strikes targeted civilians but israeli officials deny that responsibility, saying it was the misfire of palestinian rockets from hamas fighters. >>> holiday typically filled with celebration, ede marks the holy fasting month of ramadan's conclusion. >>> oil company eukos, the russian government seized the company in 2003. >> severe weather has swept through every corner of the oots united states in recent days, from hail in the midwest to a bizarre light nipping storm in california. >> i thought it was a bomb. >> reporter: what turned out to be a bottle of thunder, shocking swimmers and surfers. >> all of the you heard a crack, this giant bottle up in the sky that i've never seen that. i'm from the midwest, we see lots of lightning. and then all of a sudden it was the loudest thunder i've ever heard. like a scene out of jaws, all the mothers grabbing their kids. >> combing the water for victims. some beach goers felt the electrical disturbs on the

that i.t. is going to push back. byod won't be everything. they think they can play that. >> very interesting. there has been such a trend in bring your own device into consumerization. what's your take on that? do you think that's a legitimate angle to go with? >> it's possible. you look at what happened with angela merkel, for example, and concerns about security of certain communications, and that gives the i.t. manager, who's been back on his or her heels for the past five years, a tool to say, you know what? fine. bring your own device. but for all the corporate data, for all the government data, you need this device. this is the device that that's going to live on. so he thinks that he can turn that enterprise into a new sales channel. but, you know, the tide up to this point has been with consumer. but like we see with yelp and angie's list, there's a need not just for a consumer play but also for a business play. >> he is tenacious. you've got to give him that. so far. surprised some people. thanks, jon. >>> when we come back, how an

the retail sector, for example, the i.t. sector.se companies are actually doing pretty well in this environment. june isst data for telling us we might be too conservative at 1.5% growth for this year. >> if you get those kind of numbers, that is going to spur some sort of enthusiasm for changing that. the moment could be seen as a negative because it poses a potential risk. >> it is relative to consensus. we are looking for around .5%. it is very similar to brazil or africa. the advantage is that russian equities are very cheap relative to south africa. their economy may well put in a similar performance this year. >> how do you see the story developing? i am talking from a corporate point of view here. i read stories every morning that the oligarchs are getting frustrated with the policies being applied by putin. the companies are seen as being at risk. why are they nervous? looking at the kind of story you are painting for me. why are they nervous? >> because they cannot be sure where we are going to go on the horizon. government

contracting out apparently 500 or close to it i.t. support contractors for the collection of signal intelligence, it can't be great for privacy and civil lib itties and can't be that great for security. if you have that much outsourcing and people cutting corners with security background checks, it's only a matter of time before you end up with someone like snowden. short-term contract or not a great deal of loyalty towards the organization. i wonder if you can comment on that and whether you see that as a point -- perhaps also in need of reform. thank you. >> i will try. i'm unaccustomly nuanced on this question. the n.s.a. has built its culture around the assumption you start there and you're in for life. and that has allowed them to make certain assumptions about their workforce which are undermined when they bring in contractors. they have not found a way to deal with that. at the same time the fact is that the skills that n.s.a. needs, just like the skills microsoft needs, changed dramatically every five years. you can't expect t