a stone. let us not start. let us use a city i.d. card to prove residency. >> i am a union painter. i was listening to all these different trades you had going on and you never mentioned my trade. everybody is talking about different things. do not forget us. chairperson avalos: thank you. >> good afternoon, chairman and members of the committee. i am jim salinas. i have lived here my entire life. after hearing some of the things that were said here, everybody is going to do this. you just heard the electrical contractors association. everybody is pointing the finger elsewhere but themselves parian you have to know that the system is integrated into the culture. if you do not fall into one of three categories, if you are not a friend of the contractor, you are not going to go to work. we always have the bulk of the work, but we have the least amount of work hours. let me tell you that i worked on the original project labor agreement, the project stabilization. we came as a result of the fact that i sat on the executive committee. we got all the dbos -- cbos from san francisco and we

ok let's get a rush and now we're coming up in just a few moments our plane saltine visit the central russian city of yacht us lovell's stay with us to find out why this cultural hub stopped in the line. of concrete in the skies a russian fighter jet passes a flight test with flying colors and a couple of minutes here on r.c. . the u.s. is losing an information war to all terms of media outlets including r.t. thousand the message from hillary clinton it's a congress members who are questioning the state department's forty seven billion dollar budget request the next year i was asked again as you can report the u.s. secretary of state says washington needs to step up its propaganda. story clinton was defending her department budget in congress she says a major reason the state department needs money is because the u.s. is losing the information war and among those media who are winning that war hillary clinton named marcie i'll be very blunt in my assessment al jazeera is winning. the chinese have opened up a global english language and multi language television network the russians have opened up an english language network i've s

used to use all forces. they're not a big threat to a major city. they can be taken on by forces that are much smaller. i believe that we can let the afghans handle this because we have such fantastic air. tavis: your a vietnam veteran. -- you are a vietnam veteran. >> marine. tavis: there have been so many comparisons between vietnam and afghanistan. when the comparison was first made, ted kennedy when he was alive made that comparison. he got concern from a lot of different people. i have heard other people make that comparison. what is your sense of that comparison now between vietnam and afghanistan? >> i think vietnam is ancient history, and it is hard to make the comparison even though i thought there. the way we treat our troops today is terrific. the troops know it and appreciate it, and that is not the case in the past. this country has a vibrancy to it that is terrific. we are able to distinguish between missions we may not like as individuals, and still represent a fine view towards our people, towards our soldiers and marines and say, god bless you. the one thing i see a similarity, and i bring this out, in vietnam, land mines were a problem. in afghanistan, this is cost -- this is called an improvised explosive device. this is the single biggest killer of our forces. all it is is one wire goes to an explosive and the other wire goes to a battery, flashlight battery, and when you put them together and you are walking along, if you step on this, it makes the connection, and the explosive goes off. the first patrol i was on two weeks ago, the marine at point found four of these devices as we were moving along. tavis: they look so simple. >> what is extraordinary, our soldiers and marines go out every single day knowing they will bump into that, and they stay with the mission every single day. that takes long-term career. because they know they will bump into them. it is not a question of if, it is a question of when. tavis: tell me, it in the book, 10 years later, in this war, what are these officers, the soldiers doing? >> what our soldiers do every day, story after story, in the mountains and down south, they go out to push back the intimacy. i understand that. that is a military mission. then they are giving every -- they are giving millions of dollars to the locals and helping them build projects. then they go into the districts and say to the governor, we will help you with governments of this area. at that particular point, we have moved far beyond the military mission. our soldiers simultaneously our project engineers, governors, and fighters. i say to myself, as much as i love our soldiers and i know we can do all of this, why are we doing all of this? we have gone too far. winn't believe we will ever the hearts and minds of the tribes over there. most of them are hurtling headlong into the 10th century. they will accept evewhatever we give to them. but we should expect them to stand up for themselves. tavis: tell me why you think that military and military operations and diplomatic operations cannot coexist. why can't they work together? >> the issue is a little bit. when i find a battalion commander spending more than 50% of his time on economics or governments, i say, stopped, we have gone over the line. he has forgotten what his primary mission should be. tavis: is that not preferred to fighting and losing officers? if you wire winning hearts and minds, which i assume means when not losing the lives of soldiers, it isn't that good? >> is perfect if that is what was happening. you just articulated the true social contract. we go to a villager some place and say, we will give you some protection, money, governance, and return you the people must reject the taliban, you must tell us with the taliban are, and you must betrays someone. common sense, the people say i will take all the money it can give me, i will take all the protection, but you are not if you think i will keep that part of the bargain. we have created a theory of counterinsurgency in afghanistan that is wrong. that is not what we did in vietnam and it is not what turned the tide in iraq. what is going to happen in afghanistan is a showdown that a showdownwin. the showdown will be between the afghan security forces and the taliban. they always say, we believe the taliban will come back once the americans pull out. that is the acid test. i hope people really understand that and get to that point. tavis: i want to ask specifically about a soldier, and the soldiers. tell me about corporal meyer. >> extraordinary individual. i hope that he gets the medal of honor. this is classic. he was in a battle in a valley where they were trapped. 200 people were trapped. they were under such intense fire that the

dropped an atomic bomb let's not forget that i mean until the soviets had nuclear parity when the us had a monopoly on nuclear weapons they in fact use nuclear weapons against civilian cities and we after the soviets acquired the nuclear weapons which of course was a great great disappointment for the pentagon in fact no nuclear weapons we had venue and a great example where freedom loving people fifty thousand people died in over five hundred thousand people died in north korea and korea and vietnam as a result of the parity use you. would judge cartman said when he sends the rosenbergs that he said you're responsible for all the deaths in korea because of that the soviets didn't have a nuclear weapon then north korea doesn't only would not have been in a conflict with south korea as if that was the reason it was a conflict in korea that's ridiculous. i would think i want to turn this back to you said even today that if somebody committed the same crime or is charged with committing the same crime that they should be executed today let me turn the tables and ask you about this one about americans working for the cia working in other countries trying to find out important

where word near some right now he bought a graph from him put some on his web site for the world to see and he'll let us tag along and he's going to show us new york city through his eyes we begin outside the federal courthouse where terrorism suspects are tried photos john is published of places like this as well as the police and judicial headquarters known as the ring of steel where he's taking us now have led the f.b.i. to visit him and critics to say he's putting national security at risk in the contrary as it should there's a risk to our society this is the third. all the troops are killed and notice all the burgers john says post nine eleven america has amounted to a buildup of secrecy seen all over areas like this in what he calls security theater. at the. time you don't there's an officer around every corner that wants to know what we're doing they claim we're going to through this it will shorten trip john opposes the fortress looking buildup like this secured entrance outside the prosecutor's offices but he also thinks in this particular case it's a de quoi i go there to prosecutors are an awful. lot here john is an architect by trade so he

japan let's begin with some breaking news this hour see you explosions there a residential area of northeastern moscow as it relates is one of us now from our city sara is live in the capital for us. tell us what you know. well these two explosions went off in the apartment look behind me here now it was a little confused as to exactly where the take stations took place the latest. one take place all the grief of a guy and the other one of the guys that there was some reports that perhaps one was within a car lives of kabul but we know that the bombs were the equivalent of two hundred grams. nails and other two shrapnel now no one was hurt or injured or killed. to the building but it's just days. later it happened in another part of. that explosion took place at a bus shelter the federal security academy and. investigators now believe that the two explosions and one a wednesday ok perhaps the link explosions contain similar components and it's still looking to see whether. there are unconfirmed reports that it was a cutie officials actually lived in this apartment building something that is against me looking out as to who's behind it again after the blast the wednesday the uncon

us now from san jose to explain what the city has given up and he joins us now live. hey, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well, let me give you a little background on this lawsuit before we launch into what the agreement is. this is all about redevelopment agencies. the state has been talking about stripping redevelopment agencies in cities across the state o their tax dollars. san jose tried to set up a special fund to protect it from the state. after that the county stepped in and said, whoa! wait a minute. you guys owe us about $62 million out of that redevelopment fund, that's why they mild lawsuit. fast forward to yesterday afternoon -- that's why they filed a lawsuit. fast forward to yesterday afternoon, they reached an agreement, they worked in round- the-clock negotiations and reached an agreement and the supervisor, the president of the board of supervisors for santa clara county, dave cortes, told kcbs that avoiding a lengthy legal battle was better for everybody. >> tying up people in a jury pool, we made executive decisions got it resolved in a way where everyone feels whole. >> reporter: let talk about this agreement. the first thing that was city is giving up is the old city hall building. it's been sitting vacant for years since they moved into the new city hall building and that's worth about $10, at least valued at $10 million. the rest of the money will be paid through a payment plan between the city and county. the city will pay the county about $26 million this year and then from 2014

city. northbound 101 near whipple we had an accident involving a motorcycle, a big rig and another car. bill with the kcbs phone force just called us letting uswas just cleared to the right shoulder so slight delays right now but again, they just cleared that out of lanes so all lanes once again re-opened northbound 101 through redwood city so hopefully we'll start to see an improvement shortly. in the meantime, this could cause some big delays for really the remainder of the morning commute. we're talking about this major connector ramp in the east bay. southbound 880 to southbound 238, a couple of hours ago, around 2:30 this morning, there was an accident involving a big rig, hit the guardrail in the area and they are telling us that that traffic alert will be in effect until 9:00 this morning. now, you can use the connector ramp. they still have one lane open. but one lane remains shut down. so if you are coming down southbound 880 out of oakland, you may want to consider using lewelling boulevard as your alternate and cut up towards hesperian to 238. this could cause us some big delays unfortunately for the bulk of the morning commute lik

us this morning, dr. michio kaku, who has been with us throughout this crisis. physicist from city university of new york and also the author of a new book called "physics of the future." let's look at the satellite images we got in from the reactors in japan. as jim explained, they're trying to wire these back up. is that going to work? >> well, the good news is that reactor two has now a cable established from the main power grid. the bad news is, that it's a race against time. unless they can establish power and get the pumps going, there could be an evacuation of the whole site because radiation levels are rising. abandon ship. that may be the mantra, unless they can get power to these reactors. but establish unit two, power has -- at least a cable has been established. >> we heard this morning, you were talking about radiation levels. that radiation has gotten into the milk and some of the food in japan. what does that say to you? >> it means that fission products are getting into the environment. and it's snowing. and rain in the future will melt the snow and get it into the food chain. milk will get -- cows will eat the vegetables. the radiation will get into the milk. and the milk will get into children. >> potentially a very dangerous series of events. >> it's what happened at chernobyl. >> let's get back to the plant, if you don't mind. i want to talk about something you've been talking about for days now, which is the so-called chernobyl option, which is what you think they should do in japan. walk us through what that would mean. i think we have some visuals. >> if everything fails, what they can do is have the japanese air force drop sand and then concrete, and then, eventually entomb the whole thing in a concrete sarcophagus. this is the chernobyl option. this is what gorbachev ordered at chernobyl, back in 1986. using the red air force to stop that reactor accident. >> are the japanese prepared to do this? >> i think, unfortunately, the japanese government is clueless about this. they were caught off guard when they were asked about this option. so, i think what's happening is the workers are overwhelmed and the leadership is clueless. >> very, very quickly. we only have a few seconds left. in a worst-case scenario, we here in the united states, we are not in danger, correct? >> that's right. even in the chernobyl accident, with 25% of the core being lofted into the air, only a tiny fraction of the radiation went into the milk in new york city. you have a piece of chernobyl in