. >> madam chair, members of the committee, i'm john martin, airport director. it's a pleasure to be here this morning. i thought i would provide an overview of the airport's business operation. and then a very hollow overview of our budget, five-year financial projections, and then answer any questions. we're continuing to meet our mission to provide an exceptional airport in service to the communities we serve. in support of this, we have developed a new five-year strategic plan that will guide news a very detailed level, including 200 specific action items. and that will ensure we continue to be a leader among world airports and that we serve our communities in every possible way. our traffic continues to grow. we're seeing a 4% growth in passenger traffic this year. we're expecting a 1% to 2% growth next year so this is consistent with what we'll note are reported in the signs of recovery. we are targeting international growth. we expect to see stronger international growth, much stronger international growth than domestic. probably international traffic wil

you need to talk to john martin. ask him how it felt to have this airport shut down for five days in september of 2002. i have no doubt that these drivers have the power. it is the same reason. unilateral decisions coming from the top and not listening to people that do the work. talk to him. [applause] director nolan: good afternoon. >> i'm a yellow driver. i want to just say that i think there are alternatives to the 5% credit-card charges. all of those drivers -- to buy some gas from the company and get the best price you can. i don't think they are behind this or in collusion with the company. we're lucky to have someone of her caliber working for us. she may have just been surprised by the 5%. [applause] >> we have everything we have, [unintelligible] thank you. >> good afternoon, sir. and i have been driving over 20 years. it would give good service to our community. everybody has three kids, for kids. we're helping our community. and think he should support it. and thank you. >> [reading names] >> and amos sol

as john martin said, they usually give us an anticipated staffing level that's required to make the airport operate and be safe. and we allocate the number of officers needed for that through the airports' fund. and so sometimes there's some movement back and forth in one direction or the other. so there may be a little bit of movement in the total count. but there's not a policy decision to take officers from the airport beyond what they have requested and moved them back into the general fund. chairwoman chu: thank you. supervisor mirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: since we're still on the thread of officers, i think just one thing to footnote is these are seasoned and trained officers. they're not going through the academy. the expense has already been satisfied. so we're talking about not saddling either airports through its own enterprise, budget, or through the city on putting new officers or recruits through at cad my. so -- through the amad my so if the police department would be going through the lateral hiring anyway as they already suggested that might be their strategy for bringin

well i'm john martin in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. congress may soon vote on an act that would let any president functionally engage in with warfare anytime and anywhere without the approval of the house and some of this is a vision of the potential of. the swiss banks the u.s. is becoming the hot spot for offshore accounts for foreigners and yet this is tax free how much longer will we let the narco traffickers around the globe use american banks toure's to launder their cash and indiana governor mitch daniels is adding fuel to the republicans were against women cutting mandatory reproductive screen for planned parenthood of patients who rely on medicaid so what's the feet of needy women who can stay. here longer cayman islands united states is the world's biggest offshore tax that's right even though the i.r.s. is looking for tax dodging billionaires and stash their cash in offshore bank accounts the truth is america is actually home to some of the biggest tax free offshore bank accounts in the world a department of commerce study r

well i'm john martin in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture america's number one public enemy is dead with osama bin laden eliminated from our most wanted list we still need to remain a war in the middle east plus the g.o.p. initially praised president obama for his accomplishment of capturing bin laden killing him that didn't last long either giving credit to george bush and his former torture tactics which actually delayed our getting been lost and sadly enough it's gone from birth to death or worse even with confirmation from the white house many are still doubting the doubt that will solve a lot so it was dragged out into a demand of a corpse reveal. you need to know this bin laden is depp so will our next will our foreign wars be next as in to die to stop more and more democratic lawmakers are lining up to say yeah it's time to get out of afghanistan congressman barney frank said the single biggest reason we went into afghanistan was to get osama bin laden at in kill osama bin laden d

well i'm john martin in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture author and economist richard wolfe joins me for the first half hour in our conversations with great minds discuss the totally corrupted capitalism is playing a role in the demise of our nation's economy and what i replace it plus social security and medicare medicare benefits are projected to run out sooner than expected could this of urge house republicans to stop whining and raise the debt ceiling and there's a huge production underway on capitol hill two leading stars happen to be the senate and the big time for oil executives i'll tell you which one is faking the part when it comes to the oil crisis. birthrights conversations with great minds i'm joined by an economist who has many books and more than four decades of teaching have focused on marx you know economists economics economic methodology and class analysis he's professor of economics emeritus at the university of massachusetts amherst and is currently a visiting profe

john martin never filed for bankruptcy or at least that's what he thought until he receive ad bankruptcy notice at chase. >> at this bank that i have had this good relationship with was somehow notifying me that i had filed for bankruptcy. i immediately thought my god, this is obviously a mistake. >> when he couldn't get answers from chaste he e-mailed consumer watch. there was a computer mistake. chase is now taking steps to make sure his credit is not affected. >> he didn't lose any money in his case but another woman did. she drives a smart car like this one and when she took it in for a simple repair she had to wait three months to get it back. now, the repair bill only cost about $350 but her two-month rental car tab was a whopping $2500. that's when barbara called consumerwatch and our volunteers got the repair shop to refunds her $2400. >>> and finally tonight when chris signed up for his comcast deal he thought it would cost him $42 a month. so when his bill jumped to $60 he called consumer watch and we called comcast and they explained he didn't read the fine print which says fe

john? >> martin savidge for us. as he noted on the front line in mississippi. this is the front line in louisiana. trying to keep the water out of populated areas, the u.s. army corps of engineers, new orleans office. i know you're very busy. what is your biggest challenge right now? the spillway is open, things seem to be going as predicted. >> now what we're working on is working with the local power, working with the local levy districts to get flood fighting measures in effect that will come down as the water comes down the atchafalaya. >> it look loop back up and catch a community, even a community that has a flood wall here, maybe this stops it but it can come up somewhere else. how do you fight that? >> the system is designed to divert water out to the gulf of mexico. with the low lying marshes and the areas around here, the water before it gets to the gulf, the volume of water is so extreme that it will back up through those marshes and start coming up through the south side. >> how many homes now that you've actually opened the spillway. it was a theor

john in? >> martin savage for us tonight near vicksburg, mississippi. this is a blue collar place. sugar cane is biggest farm crop. the parish president is with us now to discuss the punishing impact of this flooding. thanks for being with us on a difficult night. as you look around this community. this would be dry. the edge of the river would be, gosh, 50 yards out that way. how many homes, how many homes in your parish do you expect because of the decision to deliberately flood it, will be buried? >> i would say about a thousand homes will be flooded in both upper and lower saint martin parish. that's just an estimate. we're going off the course decision and the weather forecasters saying the river should be at habit 27 feet. that's what we're basing the decision on. we're taking one on the chin not only for america but for louisiana as well. >> you say taking it on the chin, people are i'm sure applauding you, people in new orleans and baton rouge are grateful. what is it like when you say to somebody, who maybe asked time you asked for their vote, now you're saying, i'm sorry,

with the likes of john lennon and martin luther king jr.have to subscribe to the sight to get access to it. the actual magazine has seen the number of subscribers drop from 3.1 million in 2006 to 1.5 million today. >>> a big ipo on wall street. is it related to linked in. >> it's all about linked in. the ceo of linked in, there he is from mountain view. a hometown boy made great opening the wall street and new york stock change. i have a live camera above the trading post. there you go. this is the trading post at nyse of linked in. we are looking at 75, maybe $80 a share. they were originally talking $45 a share. they have not begun trading yet. we are 26 minutes in. they haven't matched the price. any minute now, we are going to see linked in trade for big, big money. >> exciting. i can feel the intensity. >> it's tremendous. we are talking $8 billion. >> pretty penny. we are going to send it back out to laura and bob in the rodeo spirit this morning. >> oh, yeah. we have had so much fun this morning in castro valley. so much fun we might

martin. >> elvis. >> lucille ball, john wayne. it's crazy. it's nuts.el merman. >> i went to see elvis's last show -- closing show nd i watched the king on stage. he could do no wrong. the next night i'm in his dressing room with my brothers getting ready and the door opens up. hi, everybody. i'm elvis presley. >> that's good. >> i want to say hi and good luck. >> that's my brother. >> i thought, how cool is that? the king of rock and roll walked in and he's a cool person. when you go off stage you're another person. it put it all in perspective. >> what else made those guys? >> they worked. >> i think they didn't look at it as being a celebrity. they looked at it as being an entertainer. every day, how do i get better? they love that audience. we love our audiences. we want them to leave feeling that, you know, it's an expensive ticket. not as expensive as some of them here, but they got their money's worth. they had an experience, something that brought them back to a memory whether it was way back at the donny and marie original shows or something th

martin savidge. >> amazing. joe johnsg some other stories and joins us with a "360" bulletin. >>> at the white house today, israel's prime minister flatly rejected president obama's call yesterday for a return to israel's 1967 boarders as a basis for middle east peace talks. prime minister netanyahu met with president obama for about two hours. >>> information seized during the raid that killed osama bin laden has prompted the homeland security department and the fbi to warn police across the u.s. that al qaeda has a continuing interest in attacking oil and natural gas targets. that's according to a government official. randy savage, the pro wrestler, was killed today in a car crash in florida. he was 58. the state highway patrol said he lost control of his jeep, jumped a median and slammed into a tree. his wife was injured in the crash. >>> and indiana governor mitch daniels is recovering after a door at his gym clipped his forehead. the potential 2012 presidential candidate needed 16 stitches. that guy has a lot going o

john f. kennedy, martin luther king. that is just america's way. host: jack joining us from houston. is the war on terror over? caller: no. i do not believe so. we may have taken a good step, but i do not believe it was handled well. the information on those this is -- those disks is very valuable. we do not want to let it adversary know that there code -- their code is breached. we should have gone in in error -- arab garb. we have not made good use of our assets. we should have tried harder to split the factions. we should have done it earlier. host: thank you for the call. we will come back to this issue in a moment. we will switch to presidential politics. this speech that we covered yesterday of the former china -- former ambassador to china. jon huntsman, the former ambassador to china and former governor of utah, will be speaking in new hampshire. the peace -- piece says -- is more with jon huntsman yesterday at the university of south -- here is more with jon huntsman yesterday at the university of south carolina. >> anticipation, not anxiety. the prospect for breakthroughs a

martin? >> yes. >> elvis? >> yes, lucille ball, john wayne. it's crazy. it's nuts. >> i went to see elvis presley, his last show, his closing night show at the hilton and we were opening up the next night. i remember watching the king on stage. he could do no wrong. the audience was in the palm of his hand. the next night oh was in my dressing room with my brothers, and the door opens and it's "hi, i'm elvis presley. i thought, how cool is that, the king of rock 'n' roll walks to the door and is just a real person. it taught me about leaving it on stage. they're a real person. >> what else made those guys? >> they worked. >> i think they didn't look at it as being a celebrity. they looked at it as being an entertainer. it was their job. and it was every day, how do i be better? how do i get -- i mean, they love that audience. we love our audiences. we want them feeling that you know what it's an expensive ticket. it's not as expensive as some of them here, when they leave, they got their money's worth. they had an experience. they had something that broug

david martin at the pentagon, thanks. john brennan was in the room with the president and other officials watching that mission unfold in real time. he joins us this morning from the white house. sir, good morning. >> good morning, erica. >> there have been a number of requests for proof of osama bin laden's death. you talked about potentially releasing that. where does that stand this morning? will we see any of that? >> we're still evaluating what information we're going to put out -- additional information. we have put out the results of the dna testing, the facial recognition. details about the raid itself, what we're doing now as far as the exploitation of materials that we found. so any type of a photographic or a video material that we have, we're looking at it carefully to put it out, to make sure it's in the right condition. and also to understand what the implications are of such relief. one of the things we have the responsibility to do is to make sure we take measures to guard against any type of adverse reaction t

>>> john, on this memorial day president obama has nominated general martin dempsey to take over as hisilitary adviser. dempsey became head of the u.s. army just last month. if he's confirmed by the senate, he'll take over as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff in the fall. >>> "360" followed the man charged with threatening the creators of "south park" for depicting the prophet muhammad in a bear suit has been arrested in morocco. a website co-founded by younis muhammad says he awaits extradition to the u.s. muhammad, who's from new york and converted to islam, says he has done nothing wrong. >>> the pbs network confirms that hackers broke into his website and posted a false story, claiming that rapper tupac shakur is alive and in new zealand. the hackers said they were responding to a pbs documentary on wikileaks. in case you hadn't heard, tupac has been dead for almost 15 years. >>> and john, snooki has gotten herself into some trouble in italy while filming season 4 of "jersey shore." italian police tell "people" magazine that they took snooki to a police station for some paperwor

martin dempsey, he's a command veteran of iraq war and afghanistan. he would replace the departing mike mullen. >> former vice president and governor john edwards is facing criminal charges after the green light was given to investigation criminal charges. they stemmed from a relationship with a former worker, rielle hunter. his lawyer said tonight his client did not break the law. >>> when we come back tonight, dramatic developments in the case of the man held for the shooting of gabrielle giffords, gerald loughner. will he ever face a jury? >>> and they have been deployed before, but not to joplin, missouri. and tonight, they make a difference. sglool jared loughner, the man of killing three people, wounding 13 people was in court today. mike tiebi was with us with the bizarre scene that erupted in court. >> law enforcement sources told nbc news that has brynn one of liz delusionings whethall leung, th had killed gabby giffords. today, he yelled thanks for the freak show. you're changing it. he was removed from the court room. a moment later, the judge ruled for the time, he's incompetent to understand the charges against him orasycyst in his own defen

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martin? >> yes. elvis. >> yes. >> elvis in vegas? >> i'll tell you about elvis. >> john wayne. i mean, you name it. it's crazy.really is nuts. ethel merman. >> i went to go see elvis presley, his last show -- or his closing night show i should say at the hilton. and we were opening up the next night. and i remember watching the king on stage. he could do no wrong. i mean, the audience was in the palm of his hand. the next night i'm in his dressing room with my brothers getting ready and the door opens up. "hi, everybody, i'm elvis presley." and he talked like this, too. >> that's good. >> "i want to say hi and good luck." >> that's my brother. >> i thought, how cool is that? the king of rock and roll just walks through the door and he's a real person. it taught me a lot about leaving the star on stage. when you go off stage, you're just another person. and it really put the whole show business thing into perspective for me. >> it was their job. >> what else made those guys the best? >> they worked. >> i think they didn't look at it as being a celebrity. they looked at it as being an entertainer. it was their j

john f. kennedy, through robert kennedy and martin luther king. we persevered. in addition i personally remember the attempted assassination of president reagan. i remember writing president reagan get well note in the second grade. i even remember getting a note back saying thank you. we persevered again. 50 years ago today an interracial group of americans -- americans left washington, d.c., on a bus trip to new orleans, with the goal of desegregating bus terminals. they were the first freedom riders. they never made it to new orleans. they were beaten and bloodied throughout the south. but they sparked off a moment -- movement of over 300 freedom riders with the same goal and perseverance. eventually our nation repudiated secretary gation and embraced equality -- segregation and embraced equality. we persevered. if we're going to shake off this economic downturn, we need to embrace the freedom riders' spirit of perseverance and dogged determination. that is so very american. america will only rise up again on the strength of our collective ideas. americans ma

witnesses are army secretary john mchugh and chief of staff martin dempsey. the army requested almost $145 billion with an additional $71 billion for were spending. senator daniel inoye of hawaii, the chair. >> the committee for the second time decided to welcome for the first time general martin dempsey, army chief of staff. thank you on behalf of the committee for being here with us today to review the budget request for fy 2012. the department of the army's fiscal year 2012 based budget request is $144.9 billion. an increase of $7.2 billion over last year's base budget. the army is also requesting $71.1 billion for overseas contingency operations for fiscal year 2012. which is a decrease of $30.5 billion from last year's request. and it reflects the ongoing drawdown of the forces from iraq. as part of the fiscal year 2012 budget bill, secretary gates said a goal for the department defense to achieve overall efficiency savings of $100 billion over the next five years. the army share of this initiative is $29.5 billion, with only 2.7 billion of those savings

as perhaps senators who were older, but i certainly remembered where i was when i saw john kennedy go down and martino down and the challenger disaster and yesterday the image of those planes, commercial american planes, four them going down, crashing into buildings, used as lethal weapons against our people, an image that has shaken us, but has not shaken our resolve. and i went on to say this, mr. president: i'm going to make very strong statement. when we look back into history and what happened in bosnia, people suffered again side because of their genocide because of their nationality and to the holocaust people suffered annihilation because of nags -- nationality. people were killed because they were americans. that's what i said on the day after 9/11 2001. -- 9/11/2001. and then i said it's time for us to fight and stand up for them and their memories. we will take a stand against humanity that occurred on our own soil. we are resolved to honor those who died. we are resolved to make our nation as safe as it can be from those acts. we are resolved to hold those who plan and these attacks an ha

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john eisener and could run into russia nicoletta junket in round three second seed novak djokovic is unbeaten this year and opens against the back here and is in line to do battle with argentina's one martin del potro in the third round and russia's mico usually could be waiting for him in the last eight and then roger federer in the last ball. it's been the worst. time of my. trying to draw. there is a lot of for you said person isn't usually come with it but they handle it much. better player in general. mentally to do a lot of self formula one is the early favorite to claim his first victory of the season as the red bull driver dominated both friday's free sessions ahead of the spanish grand prix and his training was the only ones a clock on the one minute and twenty six seconds during the morning practice his teammate and depending champion sebastian vettel was second past this just over a second behind the standings leader to serve a third place in a much faster afternoon run he was overtaken by lewis hamilton britain's mclaren team mate jenson button came in for head of finance to a long contract with rory was renewed for twenty sixty a week. now lee westwood has remained on track t

john isner and could run into a russian. in round three second seed novak djokovic is unbeaten this year he opens against dutchman cino tobacco and is in line to do battle with argentina's juan martin del potro in round three then russia's mccall usually could be waiting for the serbian in the last eight and then roger federer in the semifinals. and it's a goal for lee westwood has put his world number one ranking on the line after the englishman went crashing out of the world match play championship in spain westwood was the in-form player after winning both his previous tournament's but he lost by one hole to his wide a top team mate in poulter in the last sixteen and some of the ranks only neither donald and all that inquirer trying to learn to see are however both advanced into the quarter finals and donald have to come from two down with three holes to play against your head falls when he was able to force a play off and when it's one of the first hollywood time that wasn't even three into the winner it was sorry killed some. i mean one in about thirty times he's an eight under our sixty for the second day in a row and that gives him eight seven stroke lead at the halfway stag

blood of a number of civil rights workers over a number of years and the protests led by martin luther king and john lewis, so we finally passed the voting rights law which gave some meaning to the constitution. getting another example of why it takes a lot of work to make the constitution work in 1954 the supreme court and its greatest decision brown v. board of education said that the schools were to be desegregated, separate but equal schools were enough. that was 1954. three years later call i mean, they're had been massive resistance throughout the south. you can read a lot about this in jim's took and president eisenhower, the subject of the next book had to send fund united states army into little rock so that little african-american children could simply go to school. one thing about meter the constitution or court decisions are automatically self affect trading. there has to be political will to make the reality. and i want to talk about just one case from the supreme court came out this term that i think shows everything or a lot of what's wrong in the current supreme court and it's the ca

john lewis and julian bond. there a lot of people in this book who might talk about where that's familiar were totally unfamiliar. nowhere, michael simmons, martin walker, ev do this, and armor, these people are all history makers. and i hope that one day, when a group is assembled and their names are called out, people will be able to raise their hand in remembrance of them, saying that yes i remember that whole may mathews and howard maurer, lynn holtz, et waldman, all of these people who have to create a more vibrant democracy, a more perfect union. all of them want to be remembered along with justice marshall and i hope that you will. thank you. added forward to your questions. [applause] if so please come forward if you have questions. >> is based on? >> i believe so. >> what explains atlanta advancing civil rights and a better pace than let's say memphis and birmingham crack i've heard this mentioned by others that if you compare atlanta, birmingham and memphis, let's say 1955, they are all about the same in size than let's say stature. but atlanta becomes the leading city at the southeast. is it because atlanta handled immigration better

johns, thanks. appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> i want to talk more about this in today's strategy session. roland martinr and terry holt is a republican strategist who served as spokesman for george w. bush's re-election campaign. here we have this poll in two of three in the top three have been running at this moment. any surprise there to you, roland? >> no, it's not. look, i think more people are like me. they are concerned whether or not the lal das mavericks are going to go. people are not going to pay attention to this race until after labor day. the rules have changed, candy. it used to be -- remember, 2007 we had senator barack obama. he got in in february. you had senator hillary clinton. she got in. we had all of that time in '07 and the primary in '08. this is different. they are not going to get serious until after labor day. you don't have the same pressure to get in early as you did in the last cycle. so i think wait until labor day and then folks will pay attention. >> isn't it kind of weird -- rudy giuliani -- people recognize his name and he has the 9/11 mystique around him. it seems we