nightmare i think prison labor is the only one that could really get trying to run for its money lockheed martin quickly they're eliminating sixty five hundred jobs they announced and they've laid off i guess more than ten thousand people since former defense secretary robert gates signaled a slowdown in u.s. defense spending but do you think that's really why we're seeing these job losses or do you think that they're getting more use out of the prison labor i mean you know for employ some twenty thousand people yeah well they're getting more use out of prison labor but not only that they're shipping more jobs to china lockheed martin you know increasingly all u.s. defense good for schools to be made to us but not only physically the final product is assembled here in the component parts are made in other countries so you know lockheed martin just signed a big deal with phone with china and now. you know they're making jet engine in china as is g.'s so we're seeing more and more of those judgeship to china it's not that those jobs are going away with that lockheed martin profits are going

fighter jet manufacturer lockheed martin has called on japan it use its f 35 stealth fighter jet as the nation's next main stay combat plane. >>> steve o'brien, vice president for f-35 business development at lockheed martin spoke to nhk on thursday. he denied reports in a massive delay of its development and said the company should be able to ro duce early enough to meet the japanese government deadline. >> f-35, for every year of the japanese program will produce more than a hundred airplanes a year. we believe that we will meet the japanese requirements both in production and capabilities without any real difficulty. >> the vice president said the f35 has the ability to avoid radar detection. that's as well as powerful defensive capabilities. he added the jet could help japan counter china which is enhancing its air force. a pan's defense forces plan to replace the f4 fighter jet replace bed 40 years ago and is scheduled to be decommissioned soon. the defense ministry is considering three possible replacement models and is scheduled it make a choice by the end of this year. the minis

defense contractor lockheed martin says if they will cut 1500 jobs as the airplane maker's scales back its business. the company says the cuts are due to projected limits on defense spending from congress. the announcement comes two weeks after lockheed martin, 1200 jobs in space systems division. >> a quick look at our 7 day around the bay shows a hot holiday weekend on tap. almost into triple digits by sunday. great for beaches, barbecues and operates. much more ahead on the kron 4 morning news. here is a live look at the golden gate we will be right back. >> opening bell on wall street this morning. this is the first trading day of the new quarter. wall street has been on a tear this week. the dow started the week below the 12,000 marks. the dow jones industrial average is standing right now at 12,400. we are seeing down futures pointing positive. we will see if the street continues today. >> the weather forecast for the weekend, james fletcher is here with look at what will be going on for this independence day holiday. >> here is a shot out of walnut creek. we are slowly beginning

. >>> bad news for workers at defense contractor lockheed martin.hey plan to cut 1500 jobs at the company's airline-making facilities. two weeks ago lockheed announced 1200 job cuts in its space division. these layoffs come as congress works to limit defense spending. >>> tonight the santa clara city council meets to talk about planning and building a new stadium for the 49ers. you're looking at the design plans right now. and among the items up for discussion, moving forward with the next stage of design work on this big project and settling on a process for hiring subcontractors. reports that government regulators are looking at twitter to see if the company is trying to limit its competition. twitter hires outside companies to build 9 a.m. occasions for its messaging platform. sources say the federal trade commission is looking into the claims that the company is trying to buy or block the competition. >>> to loosely quote the vice president, this is a big deal. joe biden finally has joined the twitterers have. his handle is@vp and he already has

. >>> defense contractor lockheed martin plans to cut 1500 jobs.he layoffs will be at the company's airplane making facilities. just two weeks ago, lockheed announced 1200 job cuts in its space division. layoffs comes. >>> whole foods is coming to prince george's county. the high end supermarket is planning to store in riverdale park. its first location in the county. whole foods has agreed to be one of the anchors in a proposed village of shops, residences and five acre park. "the washington examiner" reports the store could be open as early as fall 2014. big dogs. >>> nasa begins final preparation for the last shuttle mission. >>> a local champion takes home the top prize as the most famous eating competition in the world. >>> good morning! welcome back to 9news now. 4:44 on this tuesday morning. howard bernstein is here right in the d.c. area, it turned out to be a lovely night for the fireworks. they went off without rain spoiling. >> that's what we were hoping for. northern neck, up toward hagerstown, those showers were a little bit more than

out thank you for being here good to be here ok so my first question on jobs we have seen cisco lockheed martin borders announce a combined twenty three thousand job cuts in the last week or so goldman sachs announced that layoff a thousand people. have been other announcements as well i mean forty one thousand planned job cuts were announced in june which is a five percent increase year year over. are we going to see and stead of just really small job growth a loss of jobs is going in the wrong direction was absolutely not going in the right direction fast enough but i think what we're seeing right now isn't necessarily a firing crisis despite what we've seen in the last few months with the news of the mass layoffs at cisco and borders with it being in stores where we really have is a hiring crisis firings have gone down pretty significantly sense the nadir of the recession what we're seeing right now is the companies are all staying put there's a big chill and the companies that you expect to hire these multinational companies that are that are sort of seeing record profits over the la

there's the freedom class led by lockheed martin and the independence led by general dynamics in australia say of no the alabama the cost of those vessels have already doubled from two hundred and twenty million dollars per copy to four hundred eighty million and now in the president's fiscal year two thousand and twelve budget we soon as to meet and cost of five hundred and thirty seven million for the l.c.s. one and six hundred fifty three million yes q so it's not cheap it's rising in price each year but most importantly are these vessels even going to work apparently there's a little bit of a problem between building the vessels and the mission modules and our guest tonight is going to tell us all about it here discuss this is the cleary reporter for defense technology international paul thanks so much for being here thank you ok so give us some of the details fill us in on exactly what the problem is with this littoral combat ship program so the ships are being built but then when it comes to the weapons systems there's a bit of a time lapse yeah the mission modules i mean the ships a

. >> another announcement coming from lockheed martin regarding job cuts. the plan to eliminate 1500 workers from its aeronautics business unit. they make the f-35 jetfighters. this will affect six smaller plants in other states. a slow down in defense spending. lockheed has announced 2500 job cuts. johns hopkins hospital cutting about 160 clerical workers. the workers could find new jobs within the hospital including the new clinical building. iwe get consumer confidence numbers. the bulls still charging on more optimism that greece will avoid default. american business activity is improving. the bloomberg maryland index was beginning and help tell but stanley black & decker. trading is closed on monday for the fourth of july holiday. i'm jane king reporting for wbal-tv 11 news. >> 6:19. the orioles lose a member of their starting rotation. keith mills has more on the demotion of pitcher brian matusz. >> don't forget to e-mail us your response to our water cooler question of the day. what do you think of the idea of extending the school week in baltimore c

. >>> lockheed just announced that it is going to lay off people in their california, georgia and texas locations. lockheed martin will first offer voluntary lay offs and then give out pink slips as needed. >>> the labor department says 54,000 jobs were created in may. economists blame slowing job growth on the spiking gas prices and on the earthquake in japan. >>> greece today cleared its final hurdle to receive its final installment of credit money. that pushed stocks here higher for the fourth straight day. an unexpected pick up in manufacturing in the midwest also helped lift the markets. the dow finished nearly 153 points higher. the nasdaq closed 2.2% higher for the day. >>> many visitors tell us they've never seen yosemite national park look so beautiful. but we're going to tell you why there's danger connected to all the beautiful scenery. >>> temperatures here get near 90 and even 100, i'll tell you when. >>> one hiker is dead, another is presumed dead after an accident in yosemite national park. the two men were walking with three other hikers over a bridge. when water came ov

lockheed martin has a plant in mountain view. feds are investigating twitter looking for possible antitrust abuses made by the company. hot sweater is not commenting about the investigation. we will be right back with gary radnich and the world according to gary coming up after the break. here is a live look from mt. tam over the golden gate. >> 8:15 a.m.. it is time for the world according to gary. this morning. >> the good morning. coloprior >> when you are my has been idled. he really looks up to you. you like your work ethic panda the hours that you have here. t >> got to give him 10 years kirkpatrick and he can do his own thing. -- to give him 10 years in he will be doing his own thing. squavery few people n the business are good enough to get jobs together. >> we lucked out. any other couple that you know that work at a station together? >> not offhand. fo >> sometimes we have to call it quits about talking about work. how >> you know how to do that. have a couple of kids. >> " mad cane. it >> seven innings. >> they played

lockheed martin, sony and the pentagon were recent victims. >> you have this increasing gap between the skills out people. mostly kids out of college and their ability to break into these systems. >> reporter: ironically the tech museum just held a hacking conference for youngsters. >> we now know that we're vulnerable and we're taking every precaution so that never happens again. >> reporter: the museum and analysts say precautions such as destroyingold files and getting a credit monitoring service are ones the public should consider. live in san jose, robert handa, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a sonoma county man who survived that -- >> it was just one of my dad's very best friends. so i know this is really, really hard on him. >> reporter: ma h, di lee recalls her dad donald was at a fishing shop when he and bruce mar met -- mandi lee recalls her dad. and bruce is among 19 passengers who survived the ship wreck. many headed to the bay area. >> he has to come here to his best friend's car and pick up his car and drop off his best friend's car. >> reporter: albert mar was also swept away a

lockheed martin cut about 1,500 job, anticipating reduced defense spending. >>> a customer using a bank machine in long island's swanky east hampton village found the previous user left behind their savings account bank right showing a balance of $99 million. hmm. sfwlirchlgts another sports lockout, a seesaw battle between the giants and cubs, and who is making noise at wimbledon? plus, talk about coming right into your living room. your early morning sports headlines, ah, are straight ahead. >>> well, in weather, of course, everyone is getting ready for the big fourth of july forecast, and i'll have that coming up for you. you're watching "early today." >>> and a very good morning to you. if you are just waking up, this is "early today." in sports with strained labor relations already driving the nfl into lockout land, yesterday professional basketball joined the club. here's nbc's fred roggin with an early look at all your sports headlines. >> good morning, first the nfl and now the nba. the league has locked out their players after a collective bargaining agreement ended at midnight

. >>> bad news for workers at lockheed martin. the company is planning to cut 1500 jobs. layoffs will be at its airplane-making facilities. just two weeks ago they announced 1200 job cuts in the space division. these layoffs come as congress looks to limit defense spending. lockheed says the new job cuts are because of what it calls the changing business environment. >>> government regulators are reportedly looking at twitter to see if the company is trying to limit its competition. twitter hires outside companies to build 9 a.m. occasions for its messaging platt -- to build the applications for its messaging platform. the ftc is looking into claims that the company is trying to buy or block the competition. >>> now appearing on twitter! this man, vice president joe biden. his handle is @vp and already has more than 6500 followers. he isn't following anyone yet not even president obama. biden's first tweet a 4th of july message from himself and wife jill asking americans to take a little time to think about the u.s. troops. >> i think that's unbelievable. he is not follow

lockheed martin cut about 1,500 jobs, and, finally, in some a somewhat strange crackdown in sumo wrestling a bout fixing scandal, and wrestlers will have their cell phones confiscated and are banned from golfing. >>> a seesaw battle between the giants and cubs, and who is making noise at wimbledon. plus, talk about coming right into your living room. ah, your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> in weather finally the holiday weekend has arrived. your fourth of july forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." what makes the sleep number store different? you walk into a conventional mattress store, it's really not about you. they say, "well, if you want a firm bed you can lay on one of those, if you want a soft bed you can lay on one of those." we provide the exact individualization that your body needs. this is your body there. you can see a little more pressure in the shoulders and in the hips. then they start telling us, "well, yeahel sore right there in the morning." my lower back. that's right where been ex. now you can feel what happens as we raise your sle

. >>> maryland based lockheed martin is announcing more job cuts. they will cut 1500 jobs on top of 1200 job cuts announced two weeks ago. the company leaders say most of the cuts will fall along higher paid workers. 9 company -- the company says they will offer voluntary layoffs in august and begin in mid september in five things to know before heading out of prows cutors will continue -- heading out. prosecutors will continue the rebuttal. the defense rested yesterday without ever having casey anthony testify. the rebuttal case is expected to take about a day. closing arguments are expect to begin on saturday with jurors beginning the deliberation after. >>> mayor stephanie rawlings- blake will announce a program designed to putunemployed people back to work. she is expected to sign a executive order encouraging companies to hire locally. and she can't require the contractors to do so. ed order aimed at trimming the 10-- the order is aimed at trimming the 10% unemployment wait. >>> the coast guard is reminding boaters about safety on the water. th

the letter never mind to be we have to be thank you for the privilege of lockheed which you would marshal for reminding us of our duty. as a near the border i was excited i mean this is the city in the film walk and did it . despite all the challenges. nobody believed the support he's this much of that has saw all those people back in washington d.c. with all the hearts and warmongers know the utah supports pieces. that go to school . because they got caught up in the sixty's. it was like a wonderful victory made it five hundred miles and it's ok so you into my family and all the wonderful people who helped me to dogs walk almost every inch of it with me. i've never been prouder to be on the right now so wonderful thing. but at least he's very tempered by the sobering thought that the war was still current. if anyone wearing a baseball cap or got a haircut you take it off and place over your left shoulder if you want to is not mandatory and anyone who wants to salute you can sum up the capital taxes and likely place and they can put it back on any questions. thank you. joe down the button

lockheed martin cut about 1,500 job, anticipating reduced defense spending. >>> a customer using a bank machine in long island's swanky east hampton village found the previous user left behind their savings account bank receipt showing a balance of $99 million. >>> if you are thinking of staying close to home for the fourth of july to save money on gas, it looks like you may take a hit in the pocketbook. >> reporter: not even the july 4th barbecue is immune from the dreaded economic forces of nature. the national retail federation says the cost of the cookout is up, 12%, from $54 last year to $61 this year. all the cookout staples are higher, even the charcoal, lighter fluid, and propane to fire up the grill. yes, even the beer. >> you have these raw materials that have to get shipped to the factories to make the beer. >> reporter: from the brewery to the distributor to the retailer and finally to the backyard after guzzling a lot of gas to get there. but there's another reason -- bad weather in germany has called a worldwide shortage of hops. >> we're talking about one-third of the wor

. >>> lockheed martin it will more than double the job cuts it announced last month. the company says 1500 more jobs will be lost due to the changing business environment. two weeks ago they laid off 1200 workers including an unspecified number of people in sunnyvale. >>> getting in some good news, firefighters in new mexico are expressing confidence they stopped the advance of a wildfire threatening los alamos nuclear lab. the fire is only 3% contained. fire breaks appear to be successful. some 12,000 residents who evacuated the town won't be allowed back until sunday at the earliest. >>> yesterday i was over at dublin and they are getting word out fireworks safety on july the 4th. you don't want to start the grass fires and they were saying it is a lot of fuel available this year. it is a danger. even though we had rain last week. >> you can see the hills of turning green but that will turn again. we won't have much of a wind situation except along the coast and that will aid in keeping you cooler. free air-conditioning and cool waters to settle in if it gets too ho

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giants like boeing and lockheed martin helping them to seal multibillion dollar deals that you are seeing here of the. christine lagarde the best fit for the job so did several emerging markets including russia and china but she faces the difficult task of appearing independent despite her past and will struggle not to cement even further the perception that the i.m.f. exists only for the benefit of its creditors i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . let's not check some other international news in brief almost two hundred policemen caught in clashes with protesters near the italian city of touring a crowd of around six thousand were demonstrating against the construction of a high speed while a railway tunnel through the alps stones and petrol bombs were thrown at officers who responded with tear gas opponents of the project will live between tyranny and the french border a rail link would ruin the landscape and claim the tunnel construction could damage the region's environment. bangladesh police have arrested more than a hundred people in the capital dhaka demanding t

poland defense industry working group divest the interests of favor giants like boeing and lockheed martin helping them to seal. billion dollar deal the us think europe found christine lagarde the best for the job so did several emerging markets russia and china but she faces the difficult task of appearing independent despite her past and will struggle not to cement even further the perception that the i.m.f. exists only for the benefit of its creditors i'm going to check our reporting from washington our. age of fragile interim leadership is facing the strain with a renewed violence on the streets this week officials have ordered a probe into clashes in cairo which left more than a thousand people injured after recent protests riot police used tear gas to disperse demonstrators who pelted officers with stones and fire bombs the unrest began over the slow pace of prosecution for senior officials and police officers accused of brutality during the mass uprising in february activists are also calling for the speedy implementation of reforms demanded you were in the revolt that toppled presi

giants like boeing and lockheed martin helping them to seal multibillion dollar deals that you are seeing here of the. christine legarde the best fit for the job so did several emerging markets including russia and china but she faces the difficult task of appearing independent despite her past rising animal sparboe not to cement even further the perception that the i.m.f. exists only for the benefit of its creditors i'm gonna check our reporting from washington hard to. see how a twenty five minutes past the hour here in moscow pakistan has the u.s. to shut down and leave an f.a. so the country's southwest facility has served as a launch pad for washington's drone attacks against militants on the volatile afghan border pakistani political analyst believes the only way to stop the violence is to end the so-called war on terror. one of the main reasons for the for the continuation of violent activity on the pakistan of ghana's done border is the mess that the us military has created inside of coniston over the past decade the mass there the way they have alienated a large portion segment o

poland defense industry working group divest the interests of favor giants like boeing and lockheed martin helping them to seal multibillion dollar deals that you are seeing here of the. christine lagarde the best fit for the job so did several emerging markets including russia and china but she faces the difficult task of appearing independent despite her past and will struggle not to cement even further the perception that the i.m.f. exists only for the benefit of its creditors i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . but the russian police say they've released all of the journalists had been detained along protestors during celebrations of the twentieth anniversary of the country's independence according to human rights organizations police fired tear gas and beat up activists and rounding out some two hundred people in the capital minutes protesters have taken to the streets to hold another sign of protest marks only by clapping after a similar event during the week dependence day celebrations come as the government struggles with a financial crisis hoping to secure a mu

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poland defense industry working group divest the interests of aviation giants like boeing and lockheed martin helping them to see. multi-billion dollar deal the u.s. and europe found christine legarde the best for the job so did several emerging markets including russia and china but she faces the difficult task of appearing independent despite her past ice and will struggle not to cement even further the perception that the i.m.f. exists only for the benefit of its creditors i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . and still to come this hour here on r t the aftermath of japan's the biggest nuclear disaster. there are no concrete boundaries that can clearly guarantee your safety one example is this looks like a beautiful large green valley behind me but in fact this is the very edge of the twenty kilometer exclusion zone that the government has set up the japanese people lose faith in their government as they use it of being reckless we've got safety. greece has a humanitarian aid for it's a question for gaza from leaving its ports under arrest at one of the captains to

thousand workers in the past year and we are starting to see the return of massive layoffs as cisco lockheed martin and borders announced twenty three layoffs and by just this past week something you're doing isn't working mr president and doing more is well einstein's definition of insanity comes to mind doing the same thing and expecting different results that's right in order to balance the government's excuse me in order to balance the government's textbooks sometimes we see the police state out of control turned into something intended to generate revenue for the government stories of police abuse and corruption abound these days and all too often we run into situations like this you know like that again i've actually got. to go step back my clock for you and your type yeah but what if you're acting like you're drunk and i am not lived anywhere. do you understand me. but today let's talk about that five percent of the police force that you get a bad name from the rest of the rotten apples specifically officer matt lyons badge number one zero nine three with the oceanside police departme

poland defense industry working group advanced the interests of aviation giants like boeing and lockheed martin helping them to seal multibillion dollar deals that you are seeing here of the. christine lagarde the best fit for the job so did several emerging markets including russia and china but she faces the difficult task of appearing independent despite her past and will struggle not to cement even further the perception that the i.m.f. exists only for the benefit of its creditors i'm gonna check the reporting from washington r.t. . if you've missed something we're covering on eric and i always catch that online here's a taste of what's there for you right now at or to go. a man in a stray gets live behind bars after murdering his two year old daughter to get back at his ex partner but before stabbing the child to death you now his attention on facebook. and get all the latest from moscow star studded international film festival where spanish movie snatches the top prize for more glitz and glamour a log on to our t. dot com. japan says it will lift a directive for some districts arou

. >> lockheed martin continues to shun jobs. the aerospace unit. johns hopkins is cutting some positions. >> 5:23. 82 degrees on tv hill. john collins will help you finalize your plans for the fourth of july weekend. >> and expecting mother took matters into our whole and hand when she cannot make it to the hospital in time. per water broke. she ended up using the dashboard to push. when push, the baby's head crowned. by the time they reached the hospital, the baby was in her arms. the baby weighed 6 pounds 6 ounces. she is 20 inches long. >> the old dashboard push. this is a surfboard with a motor. the engine is turned on using a remote-control. the creator hit some roadblocks. developers step in to help make the idea a reality. some surfers have their doubts. >> everybody is competing for the waves. if somebody has a motor, that gives them an unfair advantage. jet is expected to be released later this year. it is on the website, wavejet.com. >> americans are lazy. 5:26. 82 degrees on tv hill. jack young may get some competition in the upcoming el