the acquisition field that it would be 2023 before i would have a vehicle that would be what we call ioc, initial operation capable. think about that, 13 years to design a vehicle, do all the stuff you've got to do and then have it standard where you have a half a dozen of them say you can say i'm an ioc. we need to fix that. the last point i would make is, you said what do we do. i actually take that, i coined this phrase from the chairman, chairman dempsey. he says never allow a good crisis to pass that you can get in there and change bad behavior. and i think that's where we are. i think that's what you're alluding to. in other words, we are in a crisis. we are a fiscal crisis. so let's look at this thing and capitalize it and force ourselves, industry and us, to actually begin to make good decisions, and decisions that are in line with our fiscal resources. i'll give you an example. in our service we said okay, we are in this period of austerity i think will be in it for probably the next six to seven years, maybe longer. just look at the historical signage. i said okay, looks good e

he said some ioc members will make up their minds after seeing presentations in july by each candidate city. members will vote for the winner in september. >>> people in northern areas of japan are dealing with powerful gusts. >> a very strong low pressure system battered much of the country over the weekend. it's still lingering near hokkaido and northern japan, producing very strong winds yesterday. let's take a look at this video. intense gusts caused havoc in northern japan yesterday. gusts of 100 kilometers an hour flipped a truck in miyagi prefecture. luckily the driver was not injured. strong winds blew a prefab house. the house landed on a man, the man was pulled out by neighbors but survived. so very serious conditions yesterday. but tomorrow, looking good. nice conditions and winds are dying down. so temperatures are going up. so that could raise the risk of avalanches in northern japan. rain is going to come back across the north but that is not going to be as strong as yesterday. another day of dry weather. because overnight cooling, we have frost advisories posted for a wi

the ioc is a big organization, and they have a small executive board.hey ran a process -- lou: threw out the oldest port in the olympics. >> they did because they were angry at the international wrestling federation and the guy that ran it. lou: for what? >> because the guy that ran the international wrestling federation he didn't take the process seriously enough. he was arrogant. didn't give them the respect they deserve. now, remember, every other sport, they show up there hat and hand, do whatever they can. they hire consultants to pitch the sports. wrestling fell gown on that side. now, is it worth throeing out the sport? absolutely not. lou: are you going to fix it? you and pudin? there's a meeting in russia, and he wants the meeting. >> may 15th, here n grand central station, the ironnian national team, russian national team, andammrican national team in vanderbilt hall as a wrestling match as a smbolic show to raise money for the youth program in new york city and allo say, hey, if we get together at iran, russia, and the u.s., this is a cool sp

you know, the ioc is a big organization and they have a small executive board. they ran a process. >> threw out the oldest sport in the olympics as of 2020. >> they did it because they were angry at the international wrestling federation and the guy that ran it. >> lou: for what? >> because the guy that ran the international wrestling federation, he didn't take their process seriously enough. he was arrogant. he didn't give them the respect they deserve. remember, every other sport, they show up with hat in hand, do whatever they can, hire consultants to pitch their sport. quite frankly, wrestling fell down on that side. >> lou: are you going to fix it, you and vladimir putin? may 18th there will be a meeting in russia. putin said he wants a meeting. >> on may 15th right here in grand central station we're having the iranian national team, the russian national team, and the american national team in vanderbilt hall to have a big wrestling match to raise money for our youth program in new york city and also to kind of say hey, if we can get together, iran, russia

there is a vote going to take place in may with the smaller committee, the ioc and then go to the fullext september. there's three sports i think on the bubble in olympic wrestling is kind of one of those sports. and you know, it is really kind of disappointing and unfortunate for me to have one of the core sports from the original olympic games. >> bill: this goes back as far as you can go with the olympics. >> absolutely. i think that we've got some big people in place. several countries rallying to kind of see that overturn and see that vote go in favor of bringing olympic wrestling and men's, women's freestyle and greco roman wrestling back to the core sports. >> wasn't it peter greece who said that they wouldn't even compete unless wrestling were included. >> yeah. >> some news about iran recently. they've got a dual meet scheduled with the u.s. in l.a. in may. to kind of garner support for getting it back in the olympics as a core sport. >> bill: so you're in the ring and you're on the mat and you're on the big screen. expendables? that was fun? working with sly stallone? >> what