i am the commandant of a local marine corps marine detachment active in the state marine corp. be. i would like to understand what the purpose and the outcome of the marine corps week -- i know it is help around the country -- what is the goal in cleveland? i'm 70 now. what role can the old marine supply to make marine corps week come off well? -- then the old marines play to make marine corps week come up well? guest: it is great to respond to a former marine. i am sure you are ready to jump out of those airplanes still heard i will keep an eye on you during the marine corps week. marine corps week is a program that visits cities throughout the united states. its intent is to help educate and expose local civilians to what it is the marine corps does throughout the country. we always have a bat out there to represent the marine corps. -- band out there to represent the marine corps. it is to let those who support us understand what we do for the country to civilian support is critical to us. we need civilians who understand the marine corps, who appreciate what is we do, and it is

marine corps. potential budget cuts for the marines. we will take your calls a little later in the program. midland, texas, independent, gil. caller: we are part of a 19th century concepts developed by the british that is called the white man's burden. you should read rudyard kipling concerning the evasion of the philippines in 1899. this was carried on by the united states. look at your history. look at formosa and vietnam. why did we invaded vietnam? look at panama. look at iraq. fighting. we need to stop this. thank you. host: illinois, democrat, peggy, thanks for waiting. caller: good morning. your program is interesting. the man from pittsburgh that was on a while ago making comments about this and that, his views are pretty good, but somebody has to force international l aw since the united nations does not seem to step up to the plate. the u.s. is always has to be the one to go forward. we cannot allow terrorists to come over here and bomb us. on the other hand i think we go little far when we try to push our freedom on to other

-- then the old marines play to make marin . . it is great to respond to a former marine. i am sure you are ready to jump out of those airplanes still heard i will keep an eye on you during the marine corps week. marine corps week is a program that visits cities throughout the united states. its intent is to help educate and expose local civilians to what it is the marine corps does throughout the country. we always have a bat out there to represent the marine corps. -- band out there to represent the marine corps. it is to let those who support us understand what we do for the country to civilian support is critical to us. we need civilians who understand the marine corps, who appreciate what is we do, and it is right and proper that we do those kinds of things. i am sure the week in cleveland will be full of the events, parades, exhibits, all of which will help understand what it is the marine corps gives them. it is a chance for our marines to get out and meet people in parts of the country we normally don't get too. we have a lot of marines in the cleveland area. it is

a good marine. it looks like everybody here says it's tobacco and p-dog just took off at that point. >> when did he get out of the service? >> he was probably out of the service a couple weeks after that. >> had you not done that what would have happened? >> it's almost sure he would have gone to court and if he didn't serve brig time he certainly wouldn't have gotten a dishonorable discharge. it was like mandatory sentencing that we have now, three strikes you're out. it had gotten to that point where it was virtually no other recourse. >> the years you served in the marine corps, what were they? >> i started in the p.l.c. program, you join and go summers and they put you in an officer candidate program that you don't have to go to o.c.s. that was in 1964. i started on active duty in 1968. and i got out in 1970. >> what year were you in vietnam? >> i was there from october of 1968 until october of 1969. >> go back 30 years, 30 years to write your initial novel. this took a year at this point. >> no

marin. good to have you here. >> thank you. >> and i'm sure people say the same thing. what do do you mean homeless in marin. everybody has money. >> i hear that all the time. and the thing about marin it's so different from an urban setting like san francisco or oakland. people have a lot of open space. they can camp in. there are same number of homeless people per capita i'm sure everywhere else in this country. >> and as a nonprofit, are you having a hard time getting people to write checks and support what you are doing because of that myth disturb not just because people are being asked at the same time to support a lot of places but it's marin, come on. >> i have to counter that all the time with stories of actual homeless people and when i go out and talk to people i bring people with me who are homeless and they tell their stories about how they were in construction or they did have their appliance store and it went under. it's really very real fixture for everyone to hear because it

youngest marine.eremony symbolizes the knowledge. >> this is how seriously we corps heritage. we do this every year on this day. the marines time to reflect and remember. >> you honor those who have gone those were fighting now. from the first marines of 1775 and marine serving today in afghanistan -- >> it is an unforgettable feeling. >> the celebrations will continue throughout the weekend. >>> some bad news for the potomac river. about thell you dismal grade given to the nation's biggest waterway. >> we do have some cooler here, but just temporarily. >> i have the very latest on the ramos.for wilson the best place for a vacation is mississippi. you mean louisiana. florida's where folk's want to be. alabama's got you all beat. no matter which state you choose, everyone agrees the gulf is vacation at it's best. mississippi outdoors, louisiana seafood, florida beaches, alabama shoreline. florso come on down to mississippi, louisiana, florida, alabama. th the gulf is the world's goodtime headquarters.

the marines, navy, and coast guard. they are working with us to celebrate the tradition and recognize persons in uniform. we're doing something very special that i continue to credit the general 4. we wanted to make sure fleet week touches all the citizens of san francisco. we have found a way to do that. one of the most important things we are doing in our city is getting better prepared for the next disaster. as we do that, we recognize the military is the expert. in recognizing their expertise and humanitarian assistance around the world, we can built upon all of that. it should not surprise you that the theme this of fleet week hae evolved into disaster preparedness. it is not if. it is when. it is prudent for us to make sure that fleet week addsin the serious work of relationship building and exercises, anticipation of information sharing, and movement of personnel and supplies, and practice those things with all of our different departments. i want to thank you, general, for leading that effort. i want to thank th

>> i know a lot about the marines.n law who passed away at the age of 96 was a major general in the marine corps reservice. throughout all the years i was with the general he was so proud of the marines. it's something that has been passed down in my family and to be able to do this to honor these men who fought for our country and were the first african-americans to be allowed to enlist in the marines. it is truly a time that has come. they will join the air men at the buffalo soldiers for their place in history. >> as you pointed out, maybe 120 of them are still around with us. we wish that all of the 19,000 could see this day, but we know their families are there and they are so please and honored that you and others believed in these men and you are recognizing them in this country. thank you so much. we really appreciate it. >> this is the 236th day for the marines today. it's a great present for them. >> it's why rick perry is not dropping out of the race by the way because of the marines. he is going to keep fig

this is a novel about marines.ou want me to make a $50 a copy and send it to a woman in berkeley california? he said i will pay for it. i said it was all right. she loved it. she gave in to tom. tom loved it. they decided to publish it. it is nonprofit. they have to go out by money. and their idea is that it is so hard to get good literature into the commercial marketplace. if they give the writer a product instead of a manuscript, he has a better chance of thing going to new york and selling it. he made 1200 copies. my pay was 123 copies to do what i wanted with. that is the first publisher. what happened was a series of women, starting with kit, my wife did the same thing. i still got the same reaction. it is too big. nobody's interested in it. my wife said no one will read it. i said yes. why don't you send it to contest? >> we do not have the staff to do that. if you figure it out, we will send it. it went to the barnes and noble discover great writer's contest. a woman reader loved the book. she sent it to new

alexander maki of each a marine biologist is a frequent visitor to pale as island. bullet hole listening on hold of the new tires. and his diving gear travels with him wherever he goes but his work place is the sea floor twice a day he goes underwater to study the behavior of fish in the natural environment for years nickel i have befriended some of the fish here and of come and i have regular contact with them. because some of them spawn here in mid september. you can sometimes a female fish sticks around here for several days. by truck or movements to see where she spawns connected shares the. alexander needs to locate and catch several fish species to carry out d.n.a. tests the results are incorporated in a single database under an international program. ok. during his first dive he has enough time to catch the fish he needs for analysis for the second he will do nothing but watch as he keeps still half a metre above the sea floor. alexander will be there for as long as the oxygen in his time last. thing here. i work with marine life in its own environment with i

the marine reserve was established. nine hundred seventy two since then the underwater world of the day has become much richer and more diverse divers see it with their own eyes. in. me. in. the vision. and i think happiness is when you're able to do something that you really love you know and of course well it has a purpose of the same time with the good with the stuff we're still material for other people to try and show them a whole new worlds of. trying to open their eyes about diving. nobody but a diver can witness a battle between crabs and their predators. only a diver can appreciate the diversity of stuff fish and make friends with an octopus . and a really productive beautiful dive with some amazing impressions is a real success i'm so happy with the results. the sea of japan is home to an enormous range of fish alice to me to me or does hopes that in the distant future he will be able to say the ts visited every single magoon on every island and p. to the great day but it may take him more than one lifetime as

the bonhomme richard is an amphibious assault ship designed to carry a flexible mix of marine and navy units all around the world to accomplish a broad spectrum of missions, from humanitarian and disaster relief, all the way to combat missions. it can operate anywhere and can sustain forces either from the air or from the sea. i think it is appropriate to be this avenue. i cannot think of a better place to accomplish these missions. i was asked to get a little history of bonhomme richard. it is a french name. if you wonder why, it was a ship that was donated to the colonial navy when they were fighting in the revolution. the name is in honor of benjamin franklin. , bonhomme richard good man richard. in france, it was captain by john paul jones. it went on the campaign off but the british isles to take the word to the british. it ended in a battle against a top of the ship. the bonhomme richard is not. the bottom line is that they had no right to win. there were sinking. half the crew was dead. the crew did what they had no right to do, and they won that battle through climbing in the y

one marine really idid that, invited actress mila kunis to the marine ball. sergeant is here to dish. i think mila is the lucky one. >> just stand there in the microphone and say hello, new york. >> hello, new york! >> natalie morales has a check of the headlines. >> good morning to you once again. a new york city man is being held without bail this morning accused of plotting to bomb police cars, post offices and u.s. troops. officials describe jose pimentel as a lone wolf and al qaeda sympathizer. they say he was ready to carry out his plan and putting bombs together. new york city police had him under surveillance for at least a year. >>> no deal for the super committee that has worked for two months now trying to cut the deficit. today negotiators are expected to announce they have failed to reach an agreement. without a deal more than $1 trillion in cuts will be triggered automatically. >>> the sister of natalie wood is speaking out this morning, following the announcement that officials are reopening their investigation into the death of the actress 30

liam has turned into one of our volunteers, interviewing a lot of sailors and marines. they were so taken with not just the beauty of the city, but the friendliness. we owe a lot to these inferences films in the greater bay area of -- san franciscans in the greater bay area. it was a success. as much as we can, adding a luster to the fort of san francisco. -- port of san francisco. i have gotten letters and messages from the pentagon, telling me what a great show. even new york understands that this is the largest fleet week in the united states. and it has a purpose. they were asking me -- what are you doing out there that we are not doing in new york? i said -- i am not telling you. [laughter] kevin carroll, we keep mentioning his name, but he was at every single meeting. he was a great contributor. i am glad to see him moving on to something where i know he will be helping us out. this one is even bigger, and i do not know if we have found a place to put it in the court. last week it was the golden gate bridge from fort baker. it has a combination of marines, coastie

the marine corps to come down, we took the total vehicles in the marine corps down to 30,000. of that, 23,000 were so arehumvess. as a look atjltv and replacing the crown to tactical vehicles strategy, we have to say what is good enough. what is it over the next 10 years that will be good enough? how much moneyi turfzation do we need -- come much -- how much modernization do we need? we have built an affordable plan ungrounded tactical vehicles built on what is good enough. we have done the same thing in aviation. harriers - what is good enough and how long will this last? there is an awful lot of this going on. in your district, you have seen the benefits of the energy efforts that the marine corps is the doing atmcrd and mirqamar with the methane plans. t. we can significantly save a lot of money and energy and we will do the same thing in the expeditionary field. we had the first prototype to carry this expeditionary energy in the field. we are on the big time. that is another way we can save so bad as some of the goodness that comes out of pressurizing our budget. >> that

reserve staff regularly tours of the far east marine nature reserve one of the mr allen t. know resorts with every group chiles out of the list of strict rules tourists are supposed to follow. the directions i was in when i landed it keeps us nobly i should remind you that this is a protected area it is strictly forbidden to take anything from this reserve or any other reserve for that matter even also you are not to pick up anything from the sea like this way tourists of the reserve have to take steep paths they are not supposed to leave the trail or seek detours but once they reach the top they are awarded with a spectacular sight these sculptures of the results of the wind and sea of roving the rocks over millions of years extraordinary trees have taken root here to the slime with what's it called and these japanese read fine is more commonly known as the grave site pine pretty big this is because it's also found in south korea where it's a symbol of mourning in such trees are planted on grace there. unlike other trees if it prefers to grow on rocky coast so in many case

any scientists at the far east marine nature reserve were not aware of its existence they asked him to show it to them if he ever saw it again unfortunately for dimitri it was a one off. divers can stay underwater between thirty minutes and an hour divers have to surface afterwards to have a rest and change their air tanks cool. there are some three hundred species of fish in peta the great they alone they're the subject of several research institutes five hundred meters of the bays in the coastline is also part of the far east marine nature reserve the hills and thick forests of the territory of the pots nature reserve it was established in the early twentieth century after the region was subjected to deforestation the handsome inhabitants falling prey to poachers today many of the species are thought to be on the verge of extinction for example only forty far eastern leopards remain here. sergei atomy live works for the worldwide fund for nature each spring and summer he sets up so-called camera traps on trails where leopards look for prey this practice dates back to two thousand and

a marine corp. spokeswoman said she couldn't comment specifically on the case but said the corp made changes in its system prior to his death. changes include the establishment of the headquarters, marine corp, created to investigate death regardless of circumstance. also the -- as the method for command to report friendly fire incidents. >> obviously the policy has not been changed for a great amount of good i think. >> reporter: martha said in the case of her nephew the corp has apologized for the handling. doesn't matter. >> there is no greater honor than to give up your life for your country. >> reporter: ktvu channel 2news. >> more than 6200 americans have died in the nation's current wars, iraq and afghanistan. in iraq, the defense department said 4, 408 americans have died . >> a new cnn poll suggests that gingrich is making a leap in the minds of voters and is pull ahead of mitt romney. 24% of surveyed reporters and independents who say they lean republican say they are most likely to vote f

keeping faith with marines. as the marine corps will downsize after we pull out of afghanistan, make sure the marines coming back properly transition back into society. whether it is using the g.i. bill or those that are injured making sure they get the proper treatment and support to make sure they can reintegrate into society. >> lieutenant colonel robert rice, we appreciate your time this morning. we look forward to the anniversary and helping you celebrate and again, thank you for your service. howard, over to you. >> thanks, mike. bus stop forecast this morning, a little bit of fog in spots but other than that, you'll need a jacket. it is chilly. 30s and 40s. sunrise, 6:43 standard time. a minute after 5:00 this afternoon. winds light yesterday, will be rather calm. south-southeast, 5 miles per hour or less. as we have a noontime temp of 63. highs 65 to 70. another gorgeous afternoon. this morning, the fog has been a problem in parts of the eastern shore. easton has improved considerably. cambridge look at

a marine corp.keswoman said she couldn't comment specifically on the case but said the corp made changes in its system prior to his death. changes include the establishment of the headquarters, marine corp, created to investigate death regardless of circumstance. also the -- as the method for command to report friendly fire incidents. >> obviously the policy has not been changed for a great amount of good i think. >> reporter: martha said in the case of her nephew the corp has apologized for the handling. benjamin's father said it doesn't matter. >> there is no greater honor than to give up your life for your country. >> reporter: ktvu channel 2news. >> more than 6200 americans have died in the nation's current wars, iraq and afghanistan. in iraq, the defense department said 4, 408 americans have died . >> a new cnn poll suggests that gingrich is making a leap in the minds of voters and is pull ahead of mitt romney. 24% of surveyed reporters and independents who say they lean republican say they are

her son a marine was killed in iraq in 2004. >> come him dishonorably bash the marines to me is just out of line and pathetic. >>reporter: we tried contacting friends family of scott olson for their comments on the former web site and details about his discharge. wither yet to get a response. in san jose, the abc 7 news. >>> tragic accident in vallejo left a young skateboarder dead and another injured. these are pictures. officers say the boys 12 and 8 years old were sitting on skate board riding down the street this afternoon when they went underneath side of vallejo gr badge truck and they were run over. one boy died at kaiser vallejo. other was air lift the to children hospital oakland with serious injuries. >> 2 cars rolled down cliffs today and suffered accident. late driver went off the road rescued. you can see crew carrying the driver to safety up the steep hill. car was really quite a distance down the cliff. we are told the driver will be okay. but was flown to the hospital in ap whoer to get checked out. you cap see here on the map where the accident actually happened. sho

forces in the area including those of the marine corps and of course the army. the chief intelligence officer for the davison had returned to a visit to qassam, the remote outpost near listened by the marines and briefed westmoreland on the situation there. the description of the unprotected installations and the general lack of preparation to withstand heavy concentration of artillery and he said agitated general westmoreland he turned to his deputy and said something to the effect that he lost confidence in the marine general's ability to handle the increasingly threatening situation his response was to set up and send a brahms up to take the man. the action was predictable one division commander called this the most fun part of the thing that saigon did and said the marines viewed with shock and astonishment and all the conference on which he denied the loss of confidence and the leadership had been his reason for placing the new headquarters over them. westmoreland also tabled the marine general to say there has been extensive background here in saigon with