i found myself sitting in the kuwaiti desert waiting to invade iraq. i told myself you know hey we're here to fight a war this is it you know this is so tough and this is what eleven years of training and you know has accumulated to my main goal was making sure that my men came home alive hello to me care about. i had to say it but i didn't really care about anybody that was outside of my platoon. once we crossed into iraq we were roll into these towns like a bunch of cowboys shooting the place. we went into the rashid. there was an actual military compounds in a huge military compound we pulled in there was an abrams tank that was parked at one of the entrances. and started asking me what was going on because there were some demonstrators down the road and. i asked him if any of them mad any weapons and he said no. and so why do you think that. you know they're going to stage a coup against sister anything like that and he said no they they're just down there said and you know chant and yell and i go behind my home beat and tear open an m.r.e. and all

the kuwaiti's did a he can had of a job. an awful lot of heroes and harrow inns in this. >> but fires expected to burn for years were out in eight months thanks to farley and his firefighting army. when you look back at occasions in the 20th century had the good guys won, the fires of kuwait will surely be on the list. >> when we come back a mystery that took years to solve. why did oil covered birds keep showing up on the san mateo coast. >> last year you saw major news from overnight. >> right now police are searching for a gunman who served fire on officers. >>> late breaking details. >> in the deadly dog malling case. ktvu spoke to the grandfather if a jail house interview. >>> a pickup truck was flipped over to its roof. >> this is ktvu, channel 2 news in the morning. . >> in 1998 wildlife organizations and the coastguard had a mystery on their hands. birds were showing up covered in oil and no one knew where the oil was coming from. >> reporter: at first glance today drake's bay in the point reyes national sea shore wa

he is a senior research scientist that is sent to put out the kuwaiti oil fires years ago. he says it could erupt and it would be hard to stop but he feels confident in bp's solution. >> i'm hopeful and i'm i remember pressed they've done this. building this to clamp on to that 35,000 feet under the water is not an easy chore. >> there are some residents who are very excited about this. whether it's holds or not it has stopped for now and it's reason for celebrate. for this to be the beginning of the end, the cap has to hold and stay strong and relief wells have to be completed, still a ways to go. amy hollyfield, "abc 7 news." >> u.c. health and safety lab is one of only eight labs that will be testing gulf fish. these shrimp, oysters and crab were pulled from the guvm before they reached the habitat. they be can establish a baseline and they can compare that to seafood that has been exposed to oil. >> seafood that can't move is likely to be more contaminated to a fin fish that can swim away. we'll be testing a whole range of types. >> they begin to start testing in from t

he is a senior research scientist that was helped to put out kuwaiti oil fires 12 years. the oil could find another channel to erupt from which would be very hard to stop but he feels confident in bp's solution. >> i'm hopeful and i'm impressed they done this. building this to clamp on to that 35,000 feet under the water is not an easy chore. >> there are some politicians and gulf coast residents that are very excited about this. whether it holds or not, it's stopping now but it could be the beginning of the end, the cap has to hold and seal has to stay strong and relief wells have to be completed, still a ways to go. amy hollyfield, "abc 7 news." >> animal health and safety food lab is about one of eight labs in the nation that will be testing shellfish for oil contamination you are are looking at the crab and oysters that were pulled from the gulf. they will be used to establish a baseline so scientists will compare that to sea life that has been exposed to oil. >> seafood that can't move is more likely to be contaminated compared to a fin fish that can swim away. we're

they're i think set to make about $1 billion in commission if they retrieve a lot of the money the kuwaities are looking for. and i look at one of the staffers that madeline albright has, wendy sherman, and she was a social worker, trained social workers, became a campaign person for someone on capitol hill, next thing you know she is c.e.o. of fannie mae in i think it was 97, and she also negotiated with the koreans on nuclear weapons and, i mean, it just goes on and on. are these people part of the shadow elite in the sense? maybe you didn't investigate, but is that kind of the general, where you're? guest: first of all, shadow elite is about the new system of power and influence, and the new model of the power broker that's developed in the past several decades. it's not just about the military sphere, it's equally about the medical arena or the economic arena. what i'm charting is the mode yuss op randi for the new power broker. and this power broker, as you describe, i mean, the pro file that you describe -- i can't speak to the individuals that you're talking about, but the profiles of