interestingly enough, other fos didn't get assigned directly to one company. i never understood that but i was always with these guys. i didn't know anything about the artillery. >> so in some ways you're kind of -- this isn't a military term -- you're kind of a freelancer in the sense that you're kind of on your own but you're assigned to -- or to the infantry units, and you've had some combat ojt with these light contact units or operations, silver bayonets, and some of the others. then you go move on a few days before november 14th. when you get the word on november 13th, i believe, or early the 14th, what was your assignment that -- how was it told to you as to what your assignment was going to be on the first initial landing? >> what we were told was that it was by this time i am living in the general's back pocket. i'm right there all the time. so what we were told was the lz was hot. this was really real action and get ready, and that the dirk was going to report to hall moore to find out what to do. we did not have a prescribed "you will be doing this.

>> there is not a cap and very interestingly, history proves to be a rough guide. just a few years ago there was a supervisor suspended. that was back in 2007. the ethics commission hearing took weeks, perhaps six weeks before they could even figure out which direction to go and by then he just called it quits >> his wife plan to address the case herself at a press conference this afternoon but canceled at the last minute. instead her attorney spoke out against it just about everyone involved except for one notable exception >> illiana lopez feels attacked and accused. my client does not feel helped in any way by anyone but ross who tried to put this behind them. she wants ross to remain in office >> we will have much more on the case coming up tonight at 6:00 and more coverage available on the web site. other news tonight, three suspected bank robbers lead police on a chase throwing money out of a car leaving a stretch of 101 littered with cash. police say the men hit a san jose wells fargo and then took off down 101 in a stolen jeep. they say the men started toss

and interestingly, both sides of the case agreed that the anti-injunction act does not apply, so the supreme court has appointed a lawyer to argue the position that it does apply. the supreme court has appointed a lawyer to argue that position that it does apply. they have appointed two. they have appointed one to argue about the remedy. i jokingly tell people that the first day is a boring day. the anti-injunction act is in place so the tax revenues keep flowing. this makes sense. if you want to challenge a tax statute, you have to pay your taxes to do it. that is a policy decision that the federal government has made. we may get something wrong, but we're not going to let the courts interrupt the flow of tax dollars that we need to keep the government running. on the first day, i think you will hear the supreme court's appointed lawyer in a very difficult position, frankly. >> but putting aside the taxing issue, the virginia case is not what is -- >> right. >> sbhidse the tax issue, the virginia case is not what is being heard. >> do you see any hope that the virginia case would be

the williams building. >> interestingly enough, the williams building was not in the book. they chose to ignore that. it was like a statistical throw out. >> all the ones they looked at were great. >> great. the one building they didn't include did poorly. in the '89 earthquake i was the engineer retrofitting that building. it sustained a lot of damage. we did some research, and we're able to actually find the daughter of the engineer who built the building. according to her, the building was severely damaged. instead of going hmm not a good idea we better change it. they pulled out the building and rebuilt it to the same specs. >> after the 1906 earthquake the codes did not change and the standards didn't change and people generally rebuilt buildings as fast as they could without substantial seismic upgrades. can anybody tell us what is going on here with the building? here we have craig. go ahead. >> speak this way and loudly. >> what is going on here is an 8 to 14-story addition on the top of the historic building. first of all, you should know the original building here

interestingly enough, we put a lot of money. the congress has, the department of defense has, different agencies have tried to find these things under the ground. interestingly enough, what we found to be the most successful have been often the human eyeball, teaching observation skills to our marines. they've kind of gone back to the way we've done business in the past. so we use some of those things, we use ancient things like a bamboo pole that's about 12 or 15 feet with a small hook on it. you kind of dragged it around in front of you looking for a command wire. it doesn't cost anything but saves lives. dogs. we tried everything from ground-penetrating radar to mind rollers. mind ro mine rollers continue to be successful. they find the pressure-plated mines on the roads that our vehicles go on. the ones that get us the most are those ones that are off the road, on the canal sides, along paths, footpaths and off areas where marines might patrol. and sir, we are mindful. we teach people what to look for. there is a series of w

>> well, interestingly, they offered the passengers flights right home on charters or scheduled aircraft, or the opportunity, because this was a month-long voyage that was aborted in its first week, the opportunity to stay here at the cruise ship company's expense for a week or two in a resort, and more than half of the passengers said we'll stay here, thank you very much. a couple hundred, though, are boarding flights today and heading in various directions to their homes. >> ok, well, some of them do get a very nice holiday at the end of all of that suffering. jeffrey, thanks very much for joining us live. still to come here on "g.m.t." -- greece awaits the final green light on its latest bailout deal, but is it only a short-term solution for the country's economic woes? >> now it's time for a review of the papers and a look at what's making headlines around the world. the resignation of james murdoch as the chairman of news international dominates the british papers. the "financial times" says newscorp's u.k. press assets will not have a member of the murdoch clan for the first time s

we have made conference, interestingly enough, we tried -- put a lot of money, the department of congress has and the department of defense has, different agencies have tried to find these things under the ground. interestingly enough, what be found to be the most successful have been often the human eyeball, teaching observation skills. we have gone back to the way we did business in the past. we use a bamboo pole 12 or 15 feet with a small hook on it, and you drag the ground looking for a wire. dogs, we have tried everything from ground penetrationing radar to mine rollers. and mine rollers are still being successful. we repair them and they find the mines on pressure plated mines to roads that our vehicles go on. the one as the get us the most are the ones off the road, on the canal side, sides, foot paths and off areas where marines may patrol and sir, we are mindful, we teach people what to look for, there's a series of ways to grow that experience and nothing replaces the human eyeball, it's still a high threat and you see our great young heroes up at walter reid because of ieds. >>

interestingly she died 50 years ago just a week after silent spring was published. rachel carson went to her organization which still exists in pennsylvania and was the first century to protect birds of prey in the world and the data of silent spring that rachel carson got for silent springs came from the moral duty to a sanctuary because of rosalie edge's concern about the destruction of birds of prey which in those days not even the bird protection organization really did much about. birds of prey had no value. the conservation of the era were about conserving resources that have a value and birds of prey really didn't, so they were destroyed and slaughtered by the thousands and they were put on their heads on their bloody heads and the destruction went on and on and on. for reasons of her own she decided it had to stop. i came to her from writing the book i'm happy to hear dyana use in her course. the research in the book someone mentions that a woman named rosalie edge deserve to be recognized and that is a statement that makes you sit up and pay attention, part

new interesting ways to judge the expansion of the west -- you interestingly expand the west to include russia and turkey. it is something i hope somebody will ask about and get to address. >> the short answer is part of turkey is in europe. >> let's start with a question during your >> thank you for the excellent -- let's start with a question. >> thank you for the excellent conversation. i am curious about the growing rift between ahmadinejad and the supreme leader and everything that is an obstacle or opportunity to negotiations. >> i am looking at your questionnaire, but perhaps the question that was not asked is to ask the american public if they believe negotiations will lead iran to its ambitions. >> i am pessimistic on the negotiations but think they need to be tried, but we have been at this for a while, and it goes to the question of ahmadinejad and the supreme leader. interestingly enough, we actually have an agreement negotiated with iran to expand -- to extend its agreement and ultimately disbanded it. ahmadinejad as ran under the idea of the those people were traders, and

the candidates are interviewed, and they interestingly enough, they go through a hiring process -- supervisor kim: i am curious about this today even gets there. the interview point. clearly you have a selection process laid out. and >> >> we do. the program has three different elements to it. reaching out to the ninth graders, we do not try to get them interested in math and science, because 10th and 11th grade will be the times when that will come math will come i. the presentations are part of the process. i did have a note on that. athis summer interns is the second part i just described to you. we have them for six weeks on the job. then we have office and job site tours for the glasses. essentially what we are doing is something that georgetown university, george washington university as a classroom. so we do start with ninth graders to try to get them interested in math and science. we to invite them to the office to see a real time at what engineers to come architects as well. >> you present to the ninth graders and take the same group on tours? >> that is up to them. one of the thing

interestingly, it is the same prosecution as my case.s of my life been turned upside down, when they launched the multi-million dollar, multi-year investigation, there was concern because it caused quite a stir. people within and as i said, what are we doing? this investigation, as it turns out, and called 25 full-time agents. -- included 25 full-time agents. because there was a limited amount of people that knew about the program which was in wired magazine, a very few people knew about that program. it was only whispered in the halls of the nsa. it was super top secret. it was not mentioned at all, even within the nsa. it was that sensitive. the number of people were in that program were quite small. what started happening, and the short weeks right after 9/11, from the first trick in october when i found out about this program approved by the white house and the nsa to become executive agent, i was really warned about not ask any more questions. >> explain. >> stellar wind was this dragnet electronic surveillance program. it grew by l

legislation, to the full house and then the full house would have to vote before it becomes law interestinglyenough senate president mike miller has said he would prefer to wait until gas prices go down and perhaps tackle this gas tax issue in a special session, so we will see. >> yeah, the question is when will they go down that is what everybody wants to know. we appreciate it thanks so much. >>> well, it is down to the top 11 on american idol find out why producers sent germaine jones home. >>> contestants hoping to make it to top 10 battled it out last night singing songs from the year they were born. >> oh, boy. >> yeah. >> do we want to know what they were. >> shocking to someone like me >> find out who stole the night, time for idol chatter after the break. 9:08 a.m.  okay, people, let's s get start. pete, did you forget yours? me pete, me use pen! (laughter) sorry i'm late, i was in the 16th century looking for pete's pen. (laughter) guys, guys. take it easy, ok? pete's mom is videochatting me, and she wants her pen back! ok, alright, well. i just got one. so...

a large mormon population, predicted to turn out for the candidate and where in 2008, interestingly, ron paul took 23% of the vote. >> gregg: rick santorum has won the state of oklahoma, 40 delegates there. but they're split up proportionally, as well as tennessee, 55 delegate, split up. but he won there handily, 37% to 28%. north dakota, rick santorum, 40%, ron paul 28%. quite a super tuesday. now stretching into super wednesday. even ohio, only 1%. we are waiting for alaska. >> but the problem for rick santorum is he may have only lost by 1 percent, he loses big time on the delegates because he didn't qualify for several congressional districts, 18 delegates, he wasn't even eligible for in ohio. >> jamie: we we will break it down. newt gingrich won his home state of georgia. he had said all along, he had to really win there. he did, by a nice margin, as i mentioned, we will wait for alaska. lots of races to come. it is not over. you need that 1144. >> gregg: it looks very close, within 3 percentage poigns,. anything could happen there. you want to stay with us. we will be able to c

a large mormon population, predicted to turn out for the candidate and where in 2008, interestingly, ron paul took 23% of the vote. >> gregg: rick santorum has won the state of oklahoma, 40 delegates there. but they're split up proportionally, as well as tennessee, 55 delegate, split up. but he won there handily, 37% to 28%. north dakota, rick santorum, 40%, ron paul 28%. quite a super tuesday. now stretching into super wednesday. even ohio, only 1%. we are waiting for alaska. >> but the problem for rick santorum is he may have only lost by 1 percent, he loses big time on the delegates because he didn't qualify for several congressional districts, 18 delegates, he wasn't even eligible for in ohio. >> jamie: we we will break it down. newt gingrich won his home state of georgia. he had said all along, he had to really win there. he did, by a nice margin, as i mentioned, we will wait for alaska. lots of races to come. it is not over. you need that 1144. >> gregg: it looks very close, within 3 percentage poigns,. anything could happen there. you want to stay with us. we will be able to c

interestingly, she used the same exact words, i will play them back to back.he first is about the koran burning. the second one is about ausad and his own murderers in syria. >> deeply regret the incident that has led to these protests. we are condemning it in the strongest possible terms. but we also believe that the violence must stop. >> we continue to condemn in the strongest possible terms, the absolutely deplorable actions that the syrian government is taking against its own people. the violence must end immediately. >> sean: thousands killed in that incident. as we show this video, nothing's calmed down. it looks -- >> right irksz the overreaction to this, to me in light of what the truth is, which is that the extremists were passing notes, is amazing that our president and secretary of state would apologize for this. >> you know, i think that the apology that is owed here is an apology by hillary clinton to the men and women of our armed forces. when have you a situation where she is condemning them for what is an accident here with the same language s

interestingly, tmz says the other victim olivia moon says exactly the same thing. shots stolen but one shown nude is a fake. >>> this comes to us from key west florida where shooting your own horn is not considered immodest. that was one of more than 50 contestants who took part in the shell blowing contest. it's always known as the covera konkkonk. in the end one did it. he did it by blowing two horns. take a listen. two is always better than one, right? >>> i'm lynn berry. this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> it is now 4:28. 37 degrees. a chilly start to your morning. good morning to you, i'm eun yang. >> i'm aaron gilchrist. joe krebs is on vacation this week. welcome to "news4 today" on this monday, march 5. >>> this morning we are seeing an up-close and personal look at a tornado that touched down in southern tennessee. take a look at the security cameras that were rolling as that ef321st hit on friday. one man says it sounded like a freight train and was over in less than a minute. amazingly he, his family, his

the candidates are interviewed, and they interestingly enough, they go through a hiring process -- supervisori am curious about this today even gets there. the interview point. clearly you have a selection process laid out. and >> >> we do. the program has three different elements to it. reaching out to the ninth graders, we do not try to get them interested in math and science, because 10th and 11th grade will be the times when that will come math will come i. the presentations are part of the process. i did have a note on that. athis summer interns is the second part i just described to you. we have them for six weeks on the job. then we have office and job site

interestingly, tmz says the other victim olivia moon says exactly the same thing. shots stolen but one shown nude is a fake. >>> this comes to us from key west florida where shooting your own horn is not considered immodest. that was one of more than 50 contestants who took part in the shell blowing contest. it's always known as the covera konkkonk. in the end one did it. he did it by blowing two horns. take a listen. two is always better than one, right? >>> i'm lynn berry. this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning. we're off to a quiet start on this monday. the drive time will be just time. skies are breakers -- skies are basically clear. we have a chance for some rain or snow showers. the best chance will be south of baltimore. we will come back and check the seven-day forecast going to the end of the week. >> 4:57. >> a look at the latest cleanup efforts following the devastating weather in tornado alley. >> the body of a girl is found in a balt

interestingly, ron paul came in three. newt gingrich was last. >> tracie potts for us in washington. thank you. >>> well, defense secretary leon panetta is in afghanistan this morning. panetta is starting an unannounced two-day visit in the wake of the shooting of 16 afghan civilians. more information is now emerging about the u.s. soldier accused in the killings. when a military search party found the staff sergeant, who still hasn't been identified, and asked about the shooting he said, "i did it." the soldier had reportedly been having marital problems and recently got a troubling letter or e-mail from his wife. president obama promises a complete investigation of the killings, saying u.s. will treat the case as seriously as if american citizens have been murdered. >>> a new poll shows most americans would support u.s. military action against iran's nuclear program. the reuters/ipsis poll found 56% of americans say they would back u.s. military strikes if there was evidence iran was trying to build a nuclear weapon. and

interestingly in his last decade hijack aligned himself with this perspective. i am hoping whiff time the country will become persuaded this is the way to go the only way to get back to an economy with the excitement and the sense of challenge oppress away once new until a couple of decades ago. [applause] >> thank you very much. let me add another thought to the discussion. we do not have a global economic crisis. not even close. we have a mess in the united states, agrees, a crisis in spain, greece, and some of the other countries of southern europe, ireland. but even with europe there is no crisis in germany. unemployment is at very low levels though crisis in denmark, finland, sweden, no rway, northern europe is doing rather well. budget deficits, rather high employment and high prosperity. by e*trade imbalance imbalance -- balance our surplus. looking beyond western europe then it is even less of a case of a global crisis. and asia, developing asia india, a china, southeast asia, a kaman growth rates are act of unprecedented levels by historical comparison.

>> actually, interestingly enough, conceivably it could. the prosecution if they decided to go forward they may be able to use depending on what the records were and depending on how they frame it to the judge as to how they want to use it or for what purpose it might come in. as an aside i will tell you, you know, everybody's first reaction to this case is why didn't they arrest, why didn't they arrest? i think the state's attorney actually and i rarely agree with any prosecutor, but i think the state's attorney when you hear a lot of the evidence that is coming out now in the differing witnesses' accounts i think they probably had some pause here. they want to investigate it. they want to make sure that before they file charges they didn't want to jump the gun. because one of the problems you have got is if you file charges immediately and you don't have enough evidence then maybe they have to get dismissed so you do a further investigation. some of the stuff has given a different perspective for this. i think they should be applaud for d

interestingly his numbers have gone down just slightly.eaking with a political reporter last night who was saying 45% -- anything above that is considered a clean win for him. but below that it gets a little bit dicey. >> santorum has picked up more of the rural counties and showing yet again, romney has yet to close the deal with the core of the republican party. >> quickly, if i go back excuse me in the general election to -- >> a lot like the map. >> isn't that interesting? this is the 2008 general election. the blue is the president and the red john mccain. >> this should make democrats nervous. because if romney is doing well in cities and suburbs. if santorum is running around saying romney is a crazy moderate, it would be harder for the president to say romney is a crazy conservative. >> i want to thank you all for joining us on election night here in the war room where we are relaxing and talking politics and budgets. all right. thanks for joining us. we'll see you all back here tomorrow night. ♪

interestingly, the catholic church here has tried to work from the inside. rather than being a vocal critic complaining about the system, the treatment of political dissidents, it has tried to work within. they are holding reasonably regular meetings with raul castro. they see this visit as enhancing that processed. he talked about the redundancy of marxist ideology. i think there is a sense here that things are changing, albeit very slowly. >> ok, thank you very much for joining us. the threat of famine is something people throughout the vast african sahara region struggled to cope with. is a landscape that the u.n. says puts more than 16 million people in seven countries and in danger of chronic food shortages. niger is particularly vulnerable. the crisis could turn into a famine. andrew harding is in the region and it sent this report. >> we need an arms export -- an armed export. the islamist militants are becoming a growing threat in niger. the leader pounds grain. she has lost her husband and six children to poverty. this pitiful crop fed what is left

there was one interestingly, one african who was on that line. and he's now a big deal in the u.n.i keep in touch with him and try to get him to come to baltimore, but he won't come. but he said every time we said we can get locked up, he said locked up, i could have been deported. so we took it lightly. we had no idea the rippling effect. then we had to go through and fight about being the first. i'm still fighting about their article recently not mentioning us. fighting with the "the new york times" about their article recently not mentioning us. but that's partly our fault because as a school, as a city, we should have made more of it than we did. i don't think african-americans at least at that time thought that you had to go the publicity route to the wider public in order to acknowledge the victory we had won. we had a mixed group, we had jews and gentiles and african americans and a well-known person, radio person, was on those lines with us. and we're still friends as a result of that. lots of students. people didn't want to cross that picket line. they wanted to nag and cr

interestingly, the study also found for women that living together does not predict a long marriage. in fact, people who live together tend to have a shorter marriage, have less of a chance of that marriage surviving. now, they also took a look at who's getting married and who's waiting. people with bachelors degrees, college grads, tend to wait longer before they get married. women tend to stay single longer or avoid marriage altogether. and if you look at the age at which we get married for the first time, it's up about five or six years for men and women over the last couple of decades. interestingly in california and in most of the rest of the country, marriage a little more popular among men than women in california, 49% almost half of men are married, only 46% of women. >> very interesting. thank you, tracie potts. >> 5:44 right now. >>> oil in the u.s. is a hot topic on the campaign trail as president obama promotes his energy plan. he's expected to use his stop in oklahoma to announce a plan to fast track the permitting of the southern portion of the keystone pipeline. he's o

and beginning colony and might not perhaps contribute so much to the common effort so franklin interestingly ended the tail of this colonial dragon with south carolina, but the point is that he wanted more effective unity working together towards common ends. now, where were the early battles? the first skirmishes of the french and indian war occur or the seven years war in north america. the british, of course, will call this the french and indian war. the name as we'll see in today's lecture can be a little misleading because not all indian peoples by any means sided with the french. indian peoples shifted in loyalty. some were more neutral at the beginning of the conflict. others joined the french. others had a wait-and-see attitude. some would change sides during the war. so native peoples belonged to particular groups. we have to think of them as iroquois and even within the iroquois of the various nations within that native confederacy. let's say the mohawks as compared to the senecas, and, of course, you have to do the same with the other native groups, shawnees, delawares, potawatomi

one of the things interestingly enough that a lot of these marines told me is that the one thing they're looking forward to is a nice hot shower and a good square meal. of course, it is certainly well deserved. back to you. >> they have done some great work on behalf of a grateful nation, that's for sure. >> thank you, kenny. >>> tonight at 7:00, frantic flights. an american airlines plane returned to the gate after a flight attendant starts screaming and ranting. hear what she said that led police to remove her from that plane. >>> and the virginia lottery player makes plans to send her prize, an hour later, let's just say, she is getting no money at all. we'll explain it to you. >> we had a typical march day. temperatures in the 50s. the high was 67. that occurred after midnight. lows so far today, 46. probably have to change that before midnight. average is 54 and 36 and it's been 80 on this date back in 1964. we'll come back. we'll tell you when the winds die down and which winds will be better of the two weekend days. >> but first, the republican presidential hopeful set their sight

interestingly, we did not find significant concentrations of asbestos in the soil at pier 70. we found very high concentrations of the metals that are indigenous to serpentine rock. arsonist, zinc -- there is a list of laundry-recurring models that we did find. -- there is a laundry list of recurring metals that we did find. >> it sounds like a thorough approach to a problem. thank you. >> what remedy will happen with of paah's that have leached from the plant? >> pg&e is in the process of starting the feasibility study. they have done at some events scale, all side of the laboratory tests on different remedial alternatives that might work on this manufactured gas plant related contamination. whenever remedial alternative they come up with will include the portion of the contamination that has extended to meet the port property, but we do not know what that is. we have been working really closely with pg&e team working on this remedial action plan for a feasibility study. if the commission would be happy from -- happy to hear from them, i would be happy to get them? . >> i kno

interestingly, the sources tell tmz, the other victim olivia munn said the same thing.her nude is a fake. people take a lot of pictures of themselves and keep them on their phones. hopefully they're all clothed. >> how do you prove that they're fakes? >> right. just don't take naked pictures of yourself. how is that, everyone? that's the lesson for today. i'm lynn berry. this is "first look" on msnbc. stay tuned. way too ear"way too early with geist" starts right now. >>> a day ahead of super tuesday where voters in 10 states will decides the fates of the republican presidential candidates. new polling shows an air-tight race in ohio and all the contenders falling behind president obama. the question is, will romney be, as rick santorum suggested over the weekend, another bob doll mod rot. president obama will meet with israeli prime minister netanyahu to talk about iran and its nuclear program. there is, "too much loose talk with war with iran". putin is brought to tears after four years as prime minister. the question; did putin really say later he wasn't crying but t

interestingly, the conservatives support him because they think he can beat obama. >> when obama were vying for the position in the white house, it was highly-charged and exciting. t think it is hard for republicans to keep this going? to keep the focus on their dates, rather than the news dropping off? >> there are two ways of looking at it. one is that this campaign makes the eventual winner stronger -- it hardens them. but also, it does risk, going into a very bruising all attrition were weaknesses are exposed. this is what is happening with romney. he is not proving his conservative credentials and he is being pushed for the to the right, not where he wants to be. i think he will take more bruising in the weeks coming up. alabama and mississippi on tuesday. these are deeply conservative southern states. he is expected to lose them. all the projections are that santorum will take them. at the same time, there is this feeling that eventually he will prevail. that does not make for an exciting race. >> thank you very much. the united nations humanitarian chief is in syria trying to g