in the final trip he made, he had 40-some marines, wounded marines, in the his plane. on this short runway in this weather, and he got 'em all out. over 4500, that's 200 some flights had to come in while they were surrounded and being shelled and shot at. so they deserve a lot of credit too. >> just going to kind of finalize things here. thank you all for coming, and be i really just want to emphasize that, you know, "give me tomorrow" is a book about the korean war and that i hope that people, people look at their own relatives out there, and they find out what they did during the korean war. and this isn't the forgotten war. thank you very much. bob and i are going to have -- sign a few books now. [applause] >> patrick o'donnell's books include beyond valor, into the rising sun and operative spies and saboteurs. he's the founder of the drop zone.org, an oral history web site. for more information on his latest book, visit give me tomorrow book.com. >> this is booktv's coverage of the 61st annual national book awards in new york city, and now we're joined by megan sta

marines up there and 12,000 casualties. and then you are shot in the arm as long as you don't have a broken bone. and then not knowing each other when we started, it turns out we were just brothers and you know, what happens when you pick on a brother. you will get the other brothers after you and that is what happened at chosen. the tiny speck on the wrong brothers and rocco zullo was our big brother looking out for us. i was so happy to see him 40 years later with a reunion. i could not believe it. he was dead as far as i was concerned. i saw him laying there and they took him away. the marines made it. and notice the pin i have on my lapel? this is where the marines after they came back where they went back to hararu-ri then we joined up back to the next town that was the last place on the reservoir. and then they went down to the seaports. this was shining over coterie as the marines were coming. that is the symbol of the chosen few from this battle. if you ever see it, that is what it means. and all of the merchandise

that occurs at the battalion level of 800 marines. we decided that we were going to create my little ford observer team into an intelligence section. as you go through the book, that really paid off. it made a huge difference. it's the piece that, you know, you think about police work and counterinsurgency and guerrilla warfare, but for every four police officers, there's two detectives. you sift through the information. within the military, you don't have that. there's 9 guys for 800. that creates a problem for the december seminated nation of information and things of that nature. enough about myself and my background. the city of ramadi. it's a city in anbar province. it's condensed. houses are small, a retaining wall and courtyard wall, two to four feet high, it's a very interesting dynamic. you'll see from chapter i from the on set seven minutes into the first control, there's a marine shot through the throat. just getting that marine back to the a combat outpost which literally they walked 7 minutes away from, 300 meters was tou

looking how that played out with marin contract. marin did strike a contract with shell. there are a few aspects of that contract i want to go over with you here today and highlight, especially as they related to the flexibility i was just describing on the previous slide. one is the price that's marin set in their contract are for specified energy volumes. what i mean by that is there's specified amount per year of energy that's expected to be sold and there's a dead band around that volume for which to customers use more or less energy outside of that dead band than marin is responsible for making the supplier whole, either by bying excess energy and making whatever losses shell may have and selling excess energy. to start out, the government agencies -- the government entities in marin as well as a few generous supporters guaranteed start-up loans. these were loans needed for working capital to get started and marin found it was critical because in the beginning marin -- and this was described by don weiss, their interim director when she was presented before you last

you'll see from the onset there is a marine who shot. but just getting that going back to the combat outpost which they had more than seven minutes away from, only about 200 meters, was tough. because the governmenurban if i was in iraq, a very condensed by. it's block to block, small fortresses every single house has a wall and retaining wall on the roof. so clearly fighting fortress from fortress. the insurgents within the city of ramadi. ramadi was so eager to have sunnis -- interesting dynamic is al qaeda in ramadi was not that strong. it was saddam the insurgents. so al qaeda was basically a foreigner just as much as we work. when they came into the local populace, when interacted they were not seen as iraqis. they were seen as outside. that kind precipitated this when we entered the city of ramadi. we would a population that was at odds with al qaeda. granted, they were not helping america but they were not helping al qaeda either. so we kind of went into this opportunity, if you will that a lot of people didn't recognize at the ti

two-thirds of the marine core is in country. our division and the second marine division. the map locate case the first directly south of the oil fields in southern kuwait. at about 50 miles inland with the second directly to our west. coalition arab forces are to the rear and support positions. johnny does the math. he has us out manned by three men to one. directly north of the first salt route we count 15 artillery batteries to our third. an iraqi armor breath grade is spread across kuwait and they hold positions south of the oil fields. there they are the enemy our first citing. we haven't talked about body bags for a few months but we start again. we have 100,000 of the dam things waiting in reyoed. we decided that the siesz of the bag doesn't matter only that you're dead and on your way out shoved in the cargo hold of a plane stinking the plane up with your death and maybe jar heads you knew or maybe a few of the jar heads your joking with about body bags and dying. it's been a few months since the command ordered and official dog tag check. you need one around your

if the marines did it, it is a change in tactics.he many small patrol bases established by the british were closed, freeing forces to pursue the taliban. >> i felt that throughout the battle space, there was a change that was needed, and that was to free up forces to maneuver against them. i wanted to regain the momentum of the attack and dictate the activities. i want to put pressure on him. >> so the marines keep pushing. the town may be relatively secure, but the surrounding district is not. just beyond this patrol base is territory the taliban call their own. mortars are firing in support of a squad which is come under attack outside the wire. the marines spend hours on foot patrol every day, hoping to run into the enemy often, they do. >> when the u.s. marines first arrived here, they were being fired upon in their main bases more or less every day. it is now expanded the bubble of security. in the fighting is mainly a skirmish on the countryside. >> 700 meters out. >> they're shooting. >> the man they killed was not a taliban g

yes, ma'am. >> you're going to stay in the marines or you're out of the marines? i was wondering what is the career track, whether you stay in or whether you get out? how do you use all this in the military if you get out? you know, what's -- >> yes. i'm actually out of the marine corps now, so i work for itt corporation. when i was in iraq it was all about influencing change on the battlefield. now in the corporate environment i am focusing on influencing change in business. so there's a relationship there. >> [inaudible] >> absolutely. >> i've heard sometimes they can't train in the military. >> well, what people in the military kind of fail to recognize -- and i'm one of them -- is that you have the ability to do a lot of things. it's very easy to get kind of stuck into your billet and really focus on what your specific objectives are. but if you take a step back and you look at the big picture and you try and influence the people instead of focusing on the enemy, you start focusing on the people around you, the citizens, your security, what jobs are they going

marines arrived, it looks peaceful. it is too soon to see if it will last, but the marines did it, they say, with a change in tactics. the posts were closed, freeing forces to pursue the taliban. >> i felt that throughout the battle was a change that was needed and that was to free us up to maneuver against the enemy. i wanted to regain the momentum of attack. i wanted to put the pressure on the enemy. the town may be relatively secure, but the surrounding district is not. just beyond this patrol base is territory the taliban calderon. and -- call their own. the marines spend our on-hours on foot patrol every day, hoping to run into the enemy. often, they do. >> when the u.s. marines first arrived here, they were being fired upon in their main bases more less every single day. now they have expanded a level of security, as they call it, and the fighting is mainly skirmishing out in the countryside. >> started down. -- target down. >> the man they killed was not a taliban gunman, but a spotter. how did they know he was n

un marine y un marinero van al baño a orinar, el marine sale sin lavarse las manos, el marinero dicenan. >> al suelo! (♪ ♪) hay un herido. >> enterado >> estás bien viejo? estás bien? >> sí. >> gracias. >> de nada (♪ ♪) >> uhm (♪ ♪) >> oh yea, oh yea (♪ ♪) (risas) ♪ cotton joe ♪ ♪ >> baila, anda anímate, hazlo, hazlo. >> no viejo. >> (risas). >> oigan oigan, cuál es mejor de ustedes?. >> cómo te sientes?. >> muy mal. >> oigan, quiten la música, adivinen quien está en las noticias ahora. >> el oficial banney roman ha sido el salvador. >> yo no, fue todo el equipo yo solamente lo convencí. >> le dijo algo el secuestrador?. >> nad que valga la pena. >> estuve a punto de despedirte. >> no le haga caso es un hablador, te felicito. >> gracias jefe. >> detesto a los perros,. >> cometiste un error, pusiste la operación en peligro, si te hacía rehén la operación estaba en peligro. >> todos vivieron, hasta tú. >> demonios. >> hace poco se me acercó alguien, sabe quién sacó dinero del fondo de incapacitados. >> qué?. >> faltan casi dos millones danny, según él conocemos a los ladrones, policías

certainly marin has managed to exist under pg&e brutal attack. it's been able to refinance its loans and it's been able to secure a certain amount of energy at competitive base for the 10% to 20% of the rate base that they already have in there. but to call marin clean energy successful and the amount to follow is somewhat questionable, if that we don't feel the verdict is in on that. there are still a number of hurdles. there's very little of the marin clean energy that's actually local buildout energy right now. it's all procurement on the market, largely competitive because of some very special kinds of circumstances. so we're a little bit wary given that there's all the conversation about trying to make the procurement part work. a lot of risk involvement and so on without any clear expression of what the phase two i think that was referred to or local buildout part is without any clear commitments of what that might be and how exactly that's related to the procurement part. now, it's not a surprise that the procurement part is very risky and

>>> in marin county, supervisors are taking on the issue of smart meters.this was prompted by a large crowd that packed a board m eeting last month, urging officials to outlaw these die vices. kraig debro has more. >> reporter: right now as we spoke the marin county board of supervisors is hearing from a number of concerned citizens. the board of supervisors has no legal authority over smart meters but they are set to approve an urgency moratorium anyway. the board says the people of marin county have concerns about smart meters. pg&e has already installed smart meters in this the 245 -- in the county that gets their energy from pg&e. the cpuc, the california public utilities commission. the utility began doing so. useable on the old meters are measured once a month. smart meters can be hooked into computers that will allow homeowners to check their usage. but now they are saying installation should be on halt until the system is rid of h armful interference. >> one of the most recent concerns that was raised that i'm particularly concerned about was -- cam

. >>> the war on smartmeters is still raging in marin county. neighbors are pushing for a halt on smartmeter installation and they are taking the issue to the county board of supervisors. simon perez has more on the smartmeter debate. >>> reporter: there are a lot of people in marin county who do not like smartmeters and they are willing to get arrested to prove it. >> step out of the roadway, ma'am. >> you can arrest me, too. i am not letting this guy go! i am not letting him go! then arrest me. >> reporter: that was the scene from last week. sheriff's deputies arrested two mothers who tried to block pg&e contractors from installing the meters in inverness. the smartmeter controversy rages over whether the wireless signals the meter emit are safe. now, protestors say dozens of people have suffered headaches and other health problems from being near the constantly pulsating meters. pg&e denies they are dangerous. today the protestors will descend upon the marin county board of supervisors to push the board to tell pg&e to stop installing the met

. >>> neighbors in marin county are fed up. they don't want smartmeters in their homes and today they are take the issue tosimon perez has more on the smartmeter debate. the he reports from san rafael. >>> reporter: there are a lot of people in marin county who do not like smartmeters and they are willing to get arrested to prove it. >> step out of the roadway, ma'am. >> you can arrest me, too. i am not letting this guy go! i am not letting him go! then arrest me. >> reporter: that was the scene from last week. sheriff's deputies arrested two mothers who tried to block pg&e contractors from installing the meters in inverness. the smartmeter controversy rages over whether the wireless signals the meter emit are safe. now, protestors say dozens of people have suffered headaches and other health problems from being near the constantly pulsating meters. pg&e denies they are dangerous. today the protestors will descend upon the marin county board of supervisors to push the board to tell pg&e to stop installing the meters at least un

this photo was taken by a marine. this is entering san francisco bay under the golden gate bridge, led by a fire boat. this is a green ship, a hybrid ship. we're really proud to have beit. it's named after emerging operation in world war ii. it was the island named make an island. the marine graders -- if you want to know a connection -- the first offensive coach for the new professional football team in oakland did not like the first name. he suggested they named them the oakland raiders. if you look at the logo, it is somewhat similar to the logo that the oakland raiders have. if you will find some place to leave this, we would be really happy. after each fleet week, we will do a nude photo. [laughter] -- new photo. [laughter] my mission today is to alert you for next fleet week. it will continue with a very important mission of humanitarian assistance and disaster response. i think everyone benefits from that here in san francisco. we all know it is not a matter of if, but when. i present this to the commissioners.

marines in the southern part of the contrary we're going to the latest data the us marine corps is expected to beef up its deployment the question is who cares whether it's going to be just the same static twenty thousand or just another one thousand marines the curse will difference is to what purpose real this additional marines serve the key issue here is that helmand province is a u.s. marines sanctuary and it could make or break they new military campaign in southern afghanistan and define the future of afghanistan itself and the future of the u.s. military presence in afghanistan and beyond if american marines will again be used and abused inflict co-ordinates read the policy of save guiding the drug lords and their slaves in helmand province then they will be remembered in afghanistan in generations to come as the most expensive suckers of the exploit of the drug and warlords in afghanistan who are deployed to safeguard yet another record breaking opium harvest in hell mand and beyond to some other international news in brief this hour a congresswoman has a been seriously wounded and

that's the latest here in marin county. on our other top story, terry mcsweeney live at the golden gate bridge. >> good morning, amy. the golden gate bridge is perhaps the world's most famous bridge and it's about to become maybe known for something else. it may be the first all electronic bridge in the united states. take a look at the people whose jobs are affected. it's the toll takers. all 32 of those toll takers their jobs would disappear. the districts wants to save money, about $2 million a year. also saving drivers time, especially on the weekend. here's how it would work. a camera would photograph your license plate and send a bill to the registered owner. if this passes and there is a vote this morning but a committee, come next year there would be no more toll takers out here and what would become of those toll takers? the bridge is hoping they'll find jobs in landscaping and administration, bus driving, something like that for everybody losing their jobs. there's hope for the people losing their jobs as toll tak

the search for a missing english teacher from marin continues today. claudine wong joins us live from where that search is going to focus on today. good morning, claudine. >> reporter: good morning, dave. we're in marin county because this is where searchers have focused their efforts. they were in and around ross where she liked to hike but they came up empty. there's word they might turn their attention to san francisco. i asked police yesterday when the search was underway was there anything in her life that may be part of her disappearance. they said no. but overnight new information came out that may be telling a different story. according to the marin ij there was some significant events in her life. her husband with whom she has a son filed for divorce on january 11. three of her close relatives have passed away in the past eight months. we know from police that her husband and son were out of town when she went missing. whether these recent events had anything to do with her disappearance still unclear. but as you imagine everything is on the t

. >> this is exclusive video of a surveillance video and marin county. this is a crawls wahl. 2008, 9:00 p.m. a crosswalk--and a 51 year- old man was crossing and what is happened next was hit, killed because the driver failed to yield. no, the marin county officers are saying that certain sections of this county are the only reporters invited to watch this investigation. >> and with this officer walking back, forth, and in seeing if they're going to yield what some are stopped? most they do not, and if they do not stop? there will be stopped by a uniformed police. >> you are giving stopped >> please have your license, registration you had failed to yield. >> the driver of record that he never saw anybody. >> and he did not turn on the light. >> and he argued and that the pedestrian light was not on he was not required to stop. and i said this question to the driver. >> and with so predestine did not have any lights? >> with failure to yield. >> and what about the light not being on? and i understand what you say about the light. the fact of the matter i

but i want focus >> including 47,000 troops in the army and marine corps.ense secretary robert gates and joint chiefs of staff admiral michael briefed histo reporters on the plan. this is an hour and 10 minutes. because e cuts in this health care bill to help the middle class are used for giv credits to people when they buy insurance. people buy insurance, they get a tax credit, it is thegest e in history. let me say that again so youet replace general george casey. general dempsey is presently the commander of army trainmen the undock turned command and previously was acting commandern the ntral command history of this great nation. it will be worth $110 billion that they will take away from the middle class. now, a few weeks ago we passed a tax bill out of here and we had to give tax cuts to people who make millions and millions of dollars. millions. they said, if you don't give the tax cuts to the rich, we are not going to give them to the middle class. the entire republican caucus voted against tax cuts. unless millionaires got it. well, we should have

marola is a marine, once a marine, always a marine. we're proud of our marines in the united states. they're a unique bunch. that was best said about an army general that there are two groups that understand marines, the marines and the enemy. that's correct system of good for you, mike marola, keep your flagpole up, fly old glory, fly the marine flag, we are proud of you to keep fighting for the flag because freedom of flying the flag trumps the concept that it's offensive to some people. god bless our marines, god bless you, mike marola, and semper fi. that's just the way it is. i yield back, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: mr. defazio of oregon. mr. franks of arizona. under the speaker's announced policy of january 5, 2011, the gentleman from iowa, mr. king is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. king: thank you, mr. speaker. i very much appreciate the privilege to address you on the floor of the house in this leadership hour designated by the majority leader. there are a number of subjects i w

the controversy is intense in marin county. there's video on youtube.com showing two women being arrested as they try to prevent the meters from being installed. last week the marin county board of supervisors voted on a moratorium on the installation of smart meters. here's a sample of the feedback they received before the vote. >> what the health effects are really going to be. >> to come on my property and arbitrarily install a dangerous device without my permission. >> the sheriff in marin county says pg&e is regulated by a state public utility commission. so the local authorities don't have any power. that's his opinion. so the board's move is going to be end up being a political one here in marin county. the pg&e will be able to continue to install them without any problems from the police. live in san rafael, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> amy, thank you. today golden gate bridge officials will take the first step toward eventually eliminating toll takers and going all electronic. terry mcsweeney is live at the bridge wi

now marin costs. >> hews to the pedestrian crosswalk there. >> pedestrian stings like this one in marin county. the higher per patrol officers walks back some fourth, to see if drivers will yield. some drivers stop. more than often they don't. the drivers that don't stop have a conversation with the uniformed officer. >> at you are being stopped for failing to yield to a pedestrian back there. >> where was he? >> the driver said he never saw somebody in the crosswalk. and. >> he argued since the pedestrian lights were not on he is not required to stop. i pose this question. >> what you do when you get to cross one that doesn't have lights. >> good point. >> what about the light is not being done? >> i understand we say but the light, the fact is there's a lot across watts without lights. >> at a location of both past fatal accident is worse. as a decoy crosses the street. this mercedes blows through the crosswalk. even with the sheriff present by the way was not part of the sting. they both give chase. in 3 hour chp wrote 32 tickets for drivers not yielding to drivers in the crosswalk.

>> really good question. >> as far as we know, the marine layer we think is still going to be with us. one of the interesting facets with this potential change of temperature gradient, the warmer - more warming inland than warming over the coastal ocean is actually the sea breeze circulation, which is - is tied up with the marine layer development and probably the thing or thk big size. there maybe more because of that increase in circulation but i would say this is an area that a waits more of this regional model development that, brad eluded to, that is still kind of on the fringe of our science right now. that's my answer to that one. i think that you can count on still having a marine layer, but i don't know if it will be stronger than it is today. >> yes, doctor and dan, you both mentioned we have models now but that's not a problem, we have the regional models now. it seems one of the key areas to implement is in the california environmental quality act. the planning and conservation league is hosting series of workshops across the state helping planners and community leaders in

. >>> marin county of supervisor took a stand by vowing to ban smart meters. tom vacar is live in marin county tonight with details on the vote -- tom. >> reporter: this neighborhood that we're looking at right here falls under this ban of the supervisors. but pg & e saying that working under the authority of the commissions it's going to install them anyhow. >> the measure passes. >>> even before marin supervisors voted unanimously, one resident after another, more than 50 in all lined up to tell the supervisors they condemn the meters. a concern pg & e flatly denies. >> the scale is unprecedented and the amount of increase in electromagnetic frequency in our communities is unprecedented. >> i'm a firm believer that you don't know what is going to come for the next five or 10 years. what the health effects are really going to be. >> reporter: symptoms is ringing ears, headaches, pain, heart palpitation, auto immunity and at the further end of the spectrum, cancers. >> the high studies, there's a correlation, the low quality studied by motorola, no correlation

marine mammal protection act.to see these intentional acts against these animals. >> the sea lion was a silent night and there's a reward for anyone with information about the sea lion shooting. if >> a look at the map of the dumbarton bridge was happening at the bridge is closed in both directions, will keep you posted on its reopen by the chp. they're dealing with young man who is on the bridge. will be back.