john tate and his family were stationed in japan for three years. >> when they found out that we were -- that i was at pearl harbor, it took them aback. we got along good with them. they're wonderful people. >> reporter: through the flames of war, they made lasting friendships and saw incredible sight and age is now doing what combat couldn't. but those who remain want us to remember a simple but overlooked truth, no one hates war more than the people who have to fight them. eric thomas, abc 7 news. >>> just ahead tonight, the threat of landslides in neighborhoods where you live. >> how close we hav >>> a surge in hiring giving wall street a lift. at one point today the dow jones industrial average came within ten points of hitting the 18,000 mark. it settled for a gain of 58 points. enough to establish a new all-time high. google and yelp went down 2%. jobs numbers are impressive. 321,000 new ones last month, largely due to holiday hiring. the unemployment rate remains at a six-year low of 5.8%. this will be the best year for new jobs since 1999. which hackers may have been able to g

john tate and his family were stationed in japan for three years. >> when they found out that we were -- that i was at pearl harbor, it took them aback. we got along good with them. they're wonderful people. >> reporter: through the flames of war, they made lasting friendships and saw incredible sight and age is now doing what combat couldn't. but those who remain want us to remember a simple but overlooked truth, no one hates war more than the people who have to fight them. eric thomas, abc 7 news. >>> just ahead tonight, the threat of landslides in neighborhoods where you live. >> how close >>> a surge in hiring giving wall street a lift. at one point today the dow jones industrial average came within ten points of hitting the 18,000 mark. it settled for a gain of 58 points. enough to establish a new all-time high. google and yelp went down 2%. jobs numbers are impressive. 321,000 new ones last month, largely due to holiday hiring. the unemployment rate remains at a six-year low of 5.8%. this will be the best year for new jobs since 1999. b.b. disclosed a data breach in which hacker

concord resident john tate was below deck on the cruiser uss st.he skipper decided to get out into pearl into deeper water where they could maneuver. they nearly ended up sailing to their doom. >> it was a two-man submarine waiting for a ship and they fired two torpedoes at us, but there was a coral reef between us so the coral reef took the hit. >> on december 10th they sailed back into a scene of carnage. >> we just didn't think the japanese would be that bold to come all the way. >> after four long years of continuous battles, the victorious sailors, soldiers and marines sailed home with a firm conviction not to be caught unaware like that again. for their efforts they would be labeled the greatest generation. but that generation is disappearing. these men are in their 80s and 90s and there may be fewer than 2,000 pearl harbor veterans still with us. with age comes frailty. but also wisdom and forgiveness. john tate and his family were stationed in japan for three years. >> when they found out that we were -- that i was a pearl harbor survivor,

concord resident john tate was below deck on the cruiser uss st.ouis when the skipper decided to get out into pearl into deeper water where they could maneuver. they nearly ended up sailing to their doom. >> it was a two-man submarine waiting for a ship and they fired two torpedoes at us, but there was a coral reef between us so the coral reef took the hit. >> december 10th they sailed back into a scene of carnage. >> we didn't think the japanese would be that bold to come all the way. >> after four long years of continuous battles, the victorious sailors, soldiers and marines sailed home with a firm conviction not to be caught unaware like that again. for their efforts they would be labeled the greatest generation. but that generation is disappearing. these men are in their 80s and 90s and there may be fewer than 2,000 pearl harbor veterans still with us. with age comes frailty. but also wisdom and forgiveness. john and his family were stationed in japan for three years. >> when they found out that we were -- that i was a pearl harbor survivor, it

but what i would look at here is that john quincy adams once said cuba is an apple if severed would naturally graph tate towards the united states. for the past 50 years they have graph tated towards russia. we are on the eve of ruble stumbling, there's an opportunity to heal u.s.-cuban relations. we now have normal relations with vietnam yet 58,000 americans died there and untold injured and hurt. so why not give this a try. you have pope francis on your side. big boom for president obama, after all one out of every four americans is a catholic. >> to that end the vatican played a fairly instrument role in all this, saying they received delegations of u.s. and cuba to the vatican last october does the endorsement of the vatican in all of this help among cubans on the island for i think 60% of them are catholic. >> yeah there are a lot of syncing going on in cuba of the religion. certainly there is a role of the catholic church in cuba that for the past 50 years has had a role in relations with the castro regime. i think it is not a surprise to many that the catholic church will be involved. a lot of pe

john. >>> a chester county couple accused of torturing a 3-year-old boy to death had a court hearing today. jillian tate waived their right to a preliminary hearing, they are accused of murdering tate's son, scotty mcmillian, they said they beat and whipped that child to death and prosecutors will seek the death penalties. vernon odom has a live report coming up at 5:00. >> police in northeast philadelphia are looking for the latest thiefs to steal a fedex package from someone's front step. it shows the delivery back on december 1st, the driver in the black car sees the fedex driver drop off the package and then the same black car comes back and the passenger gets out and takes the package and gets back in the car and takes off again. police are asking for any information on the suspects or that car to please come forward. >>> it's the end of a movie that is shocking and angering many hollywood a-listers, sony deciding to the no release the controversial movie, the interview, pleaing journalists to assassinate north korean leader, kim jong un. and they threatened to ta tack anyone that showed the film o