i, too, would like to reflect for a minute the navy marine corps team was struck last night with a tragedy. 15 marines and one sailor perished and i would like us all to keep their loved ones and their families in our thoughts and prayers as we conduct business today. thank you, mr. chairman, ranking member reed, members of this committee, 36 years ago to the month i was driving through the tomato fields surrounding the landing pads at marine corps air station tuftin, california. my trusty steed at that time was a 1968 vw bug that carried me out of the gates for the last time as i ended a tour with marine helicopter squadron 161. headed northbound to the entrance of the pacific coast highway i can tell you without hesitation that the thought of me sitting before this group being answered as secretary of the navy was not to be found even in the most remotest partses of my find upon. i was educated in operational management increasing in scope as i progressed through my career. the leadership skills developed in the marine corps were strengthened and honed through various positions i held in

hearing this month for navy secretary nominee richard spencer, an investment banker and former marine corp helicopter pilot. mr. spencer who received support from democrats and republicans outlined the budgetary complaints under se sequestration. he called the navy operations nothing less than a perfect storm with navy and marine teams that have been stretched thin. this is about two hours. >> i would like to acknowledge the tragedy in mississippi yesterday. the 16 service members who lost their lives in a marine corp kc130 from cheery point, north carolina, reminds us that these brave men and women put themselves in harm's way at home and abroad in service to our nation. we're all keeping their families in our at theirs and prayers. mr. spencer, we thank you for joining us this morning. we have also welcome your family and friends who are with us today. as is our tradition at the beginning of your testimony, we invite you to introduce those joining you. it is standard for this committee to ask questions in order to exercise its jar sight responsibilities. it's important that committees of

he loved the marine corps. he loved the military life. he looked forward to that day when he might be able to return and become more active. this is one of the most interesting and wonderful positions in our entire federal government. secretary of the navy. so i would like to say that i am not a stranger to the proceedings you are undertaking. but there is an aspect of this particular confirmation proceeding that i have never encountered before. on his own initiative, he reached out and counseled with 10 secretaries of navy to ask of of theat they thought challenges of today, how best he might be able to fulfill those challenges, and we have with us , others johnthem lehman, sean o'keefe, john stafford who is acting as secretary. jim webb. don winter. and yours truly. i want to be very careful in my summary, having talked to all of them about this moment where i sort of represent the gang. we do not wish to be presumptuous so we couch our words in the following sentence and that is, we believe this are man and his lovely wife most worthy

. >> 16 people reported that after a marine corps refueling plane spiraled out of control crashing into a field in mississippi. kelly wright joins us with the latest on a terrible story this morning. >> reporter: a horrible tragedy especially for the marine corps. military plane experienced a mishap before going down. no other details at this time are being released but here is what we know right now about this tragic crash taking place at 4:00 pm monday. one person on the ground reported hearing a loud boom, then looking up to the sky to see a large plume of smoke and the plane began corkscrew into the ground, 16 people confirmed that after the plane crashed in mississippi, about 100 miles north of jackson. the marine corps has the incident on its twitter account but did not provide details in the circumstances of the crash, officials are warning residents to avoid the area. >> we don't want nobody out there, fuel everywhere. we don't want anybody in the area. >> reporter: the marine aircraft was a kt 130, the plane has multiple uses in the military like carrying cargo and troops or in

spencer: senator, the navy marine corps team is biased for action. no is a tough word to pull out of the vocabulary. in my opening comment, i talked about how they've been cobblely engaged and stretched then -- continually engaged and stretched then. they will never let us down. that being said, we need to pay attention their needs, whether it be change the p.c.s. move to notification time out to where it was at six months versus one month to more sweeping needs in benefits and compensation to better product. morale is a barometer. senator ted: the navy reported it had 2726 deployed battle war ships with over a third, 103 underway for deployment or training. do you believe we currently have sufficient capacity to meet the strategic requirements we've played on the navy? mr. spencer: there might be two answers to that, senator. let me say that with the assets that we have right now, we are managing the best in my overview that we can. it comes down to risk management. are we addressing every risk? no, we're prioritizing them with more asset, more capa

the navy had a marine corps. it was not until 1947 until we had a new service and that was the air force. it did not happen right away. as we started to develop aviation capabilities in the 1930's,rough the we started to realize airpower was more than supporting ground forces. it could be used for other purposes. thed war ii really proved utility of strategic airpower. was after world war ii that the nation basically came to the conclusion that this is a separate war fighting domain. it is not just something that supports ground forces. it is a separate and distinct war fighting domain and it needs a separate military service. we did that. how the air force broke up from the army. the question now is are we at the same point when it comes to our space forces? point where to the it is a separate war fighting domain and we need to break it out as an independent service? host: the debate later today will be on the defense authorization bill. it lays out pentagon programs and policies for the next fiscal year and set

is matthew hoh he is a marine corps veteran and diplomat who resigned his state department post in afghanistan in protest over the war which he says cannot be won and has devastated the civilian population of the country he warns that the conflict won't end until the u.s. announces a withdrawal and the go shiites with the taleban so let's go back and look at the history of the sixteen longest foreign war in u.s. history at one point we had one hundred thousand troops there. the tal i think it's fair to say as been completely resurgent afghanistan unlike iraq most people live in rural areas someone talk about the taliban. controlling sixty to seventy percent and we see of course attacks in kabul lay out for us this kind of debacle how it happened sure i mean. you can go back further we can go back into the seventy's i mean these conflicts been going on for that long i mean for the afghans it has been going out long and suffer it's been going on that long for americans we want history to start on september eleventh which is not fair. but for us the way i view this for american policy makers in t

the night before he moved into the city, he track down marine corps manuals describing how to an urbanperations in environment. he went to school on weapons and tactics he would need to accomplish his goal. to create a disastrous effect. for the young marines, who, prior to his arrival were thrown against a far superior force, the arrival of cheatham was gabriel to sending in his chariot to lead him to victory and save a lot of lives. at the same time, in that clip you heard his attitude towards civilians in the city. people a city of 140,000 . the people who lived in the city were trapped by this fighting. in thissays if they are area, as far as we are concerned they are charlie. he is condemning a lot of civilians to a fiery death. the captain was one of cheatham's commanders. he was one of the company sent into the was city with his own company prior to cheatham's arrival. he is one of the then young company commanders who ran straight into the buzz saw of this enemy force. host: here he is, a history channel documentary. it is about one minute. did he become a general? >> he did. host: stil

what caused the marine corps aircraft to plummet from the sky? cnn has all of this covered for you. let's begin with jason carroll live at the white house. jason? >> reporter: good morning to you. you know, the white house now seeming to have to keep up with what it seems like a daily report about this meeting that trump jr. gave in 2016. the latest report offering new insight into what trump jr. knew before the meeting took place. another potential bombshell report from "the new york times" alleging that donald trump jr. received an e-mail informing him that the russian government was trying to help his father's campaign. before his june, 2016, meeting with the president's son-in-law jared kushner, former campaign chairman paul manafort and a russian lawyer fought to have compromising information . . . >>> three unnamed sources tell the times that the e-mail sent by rob gold stone, awe miceic

there's fuel of everywhere. >> the marine corps hasn't revealed where it was headed. the fbi is assisting in that investigation. >>> and also breaking overnight, there was a late night explosion outside the air force recruitment center in south tulsa, oklahoma. the doors were blown off and there was other damage to the building. no report of any injuries and still no word on the cause. >>> we have new images this morning of the ""uss fitzgerald" involved in that collision last month. the new pictures show the ship as repairs are getting under way in japan. seven sailors died during the collision between the "fitzgerald" and a cargo navy ship. they must decide if it can be relocated to the u.s. under its own power or must be towed for needed repairs. >>> active duty soldier arrested in hawaii on terror charges. the fbi says army sergeant ekika kang pledged his allegiance to isis and helped purchase a drone for isis to use against american forces. the 34-year-old kang served tours in iraq and afghanistan and was highly decorated. once awarded the global war on terrorism

as a young man, i was lucky enough to serve in the united states marine corps in an infantry platoon. let me tell you -- if someone was taken out of my team all of a sudden because of some stupid tweet, i would be really ticked off. this is not how you run the military. you do not dictate military policy through tweets and whims. it is called dod directive. that is what professionals do. there is a reason no general decided to talk about this. it is embarrassing and down. -- and dumb. the idea that the president is using the united states military to distract from his utter lack of leadership, and the fact he is totally impotent when it comes to getting his projects and legislation done. now, what he needs to do is to

and they were, where they came from, how they ended up in the marine corps.the end of the interview i asked, how do you feel about your service question mark how do you feel about the war? many different opinions about that experience. speaking, i would say if i had to summarize, i would say nearly all of them, not all of them, but nearly all of them were very proud of having served their country and having fought bravely and this battle. up by the same token, most are angry about the way the war ended. a sense of being betrayed by their country. either because they were sent to fight a war that they should not of been fighting and could not of been one or because they feel that the clinical leadership and the public of the united states turned on them and betrayed the cause. is january 1968 around that time. robert mcnamara stepped down after seven years as secretary of defense. he had a book that came out in 1995. there is one minute of robert mcnamara, former secretary of defense during the whole vietnam war. >> my report to the president, in twoy a best o

each chapter had an army and marine corps author for it. we had sarah sewall as one of the initial sponsors, she contributed to the manual as well, people from the human rights community, academia, the media. when we had our major vetting conference, jim fowler was there, tom ricks was involved many some of the early stuff. we tried to get a lot of people involve in giving us their ideas on how to better fight these kinds of wars. a lot of help from think tanks, rand, a number of others like that who also gave us their input. but in the end, it was going to be the army and the ma reap corps authors -- marine corps authors who really formatted this. general petraeus was really -- he read every word. i massaged everything. he was the last guy to look at it before it went out for general view to the forces. still have ptsd over what i call petraeus pronouns. if any of you are writing papers and he used the phrase this is or it is, i still have precedent and antecedent nightmares. he said, oh, i'm not that hard an editor. yeah, dave, you are. t

general, every couple decades you hear rumblings that the marine leadership is worried about the marine corpsing the bell during the war on terror? >> the marines play a vital role in counterinsurgency efforts. we are in a period of immense challenges and conflicts. since its founding in 1775. >> reporter: video from iraq and marines in iraq, right now marines in syria, this is afghanistan. the only american military force fighting isis on the ground not in an advisory capacity are the marines, launching artillery against isis. what makes them in their minds unique? that you compare them to other services? >> the marines were the first expeditionary force in iwo jima and the decades before, the 1920s in 1930s, leadership in the marine corps carrying out studies for amphibious assaults, submarines origins with the u.s. navy and they were able at that time to anticipate major battles in the pacific and world war ii and this allows them at iwo jima to have a successful landing, they were never defeated against landing campaigns at the time. >> to your point as brian kill lead immortalized it goe

marine corps. including service strategic analyst for the marine corps. and assignment at the assessment upon retirement he helped organize national bioviolent department of home lapd security effort for five years had he served as a senior fellow at the center for strategic and budgetary assessment after which had he was a strategist for the u.s. marine corps. special operations command. join me and welcoming dakota wood. dakota. [applause] a real pleasure enhave dr. krainl from carlisle we took the fastest run he's ever made to d.c. so we're glad that -- to have a lesson interruptful but biographical information and take just a moment of has time to are go over his background. it's -- it's remarkable. currently serves as chief of historic services at the army heritage education center up in carlisle bareic and you can see a trend here served as strategic studies institute for several years from work college from 2000 to 2003 where he also held the general douglas macarthur chair of research. also held vandenberg chair for college so interested to have s

marine corps, the refueling plane left from a base in north korea. of mississippi. steve: exact cause at this hour of the crash still under investigation as debris field apparently stretches for miles. more details are expected at a press briefing a little later on today. brian: joining us now from capitol hill is house majority leader congressman kevin mccarthy. congressman, thanks so much for joining us. before we get into the issues. last time i saw you were so optimistic about steve scalise the whip, and then we find out he had a set back. can you update everybody about how he is doing today? >> yes. i was with him on the fourth of july. i actually saw him. my wife and i, he and jennifer, in the hospital. and he was in the chair. he was out of his bed in the chair. now, the one thing i want to tell you, i was at the hospital the day of the shooting. i was with the doctor. and what we were battling at that time was the amount of bleeding. but the doctor told me once we go through this, it's not if, it's when steve would get an infection. so this w

would be for the space corps under the air force and in a similar sort of relationship to the marine corps under the navy so you have the civilian overseers and it would be a separate essentially a. >> if you support this amendment or not saying that we don't need a space corps. you're saying we don't have enough information to do that. i am a very active member of under designing the space corps. on the space corps before we legislatively command. with respect to mr. rogers statements about the air force and air dominance, you can't accomplish without space and everything we do that includes space and the question is whether it can do it or not. it's the same organization. my only concern is there is a whole lot more information we should have before we go to that level and that is why i offered the amendment and ipod appreciate your attention on the needs we have in space. but i think we should be well informed of both the negatives of doing this and the positives before we undertake in posing this. >> if i could reclaim my time i think all of us are saying the same thing. we need to mov

the marine corps says that operated the plane but hasn't said where the flight began or where it was going. a military plane crashed in rural mississippi monday afternoon, killing at least 16 people on board. according to the emergency management chief. witnesses say, the marine corps refueling tanker was seen spiraling towards the ground into a soybean field, about 85 miles north of jackson. >> it was loud, scary, just scary. i seen all of the black smoke, horrifying. >> all of the marine corps spokesperson would say so far is that it experienced mishap. the flames burned for hours of the witnesses say so hot that at one point firefighters had to pull back. >> sprague the foam on it. every time, it light back up. >> warning resident to stay away. >> we don't want nobody out there. you have fuel everywhere. so we don't want anybody out, responders, in the area. >> the local fire chief says debris from the crash is being found within a 5-mile radius. and while the investigation is still in the preliminary stages, authorities don't believe foul play was to blame for the crash. a press

now the marine corps says it operated the plane but hasn't said where the flight began or just where it was going. >> military plane crashed in rural mississippi monday afternoon killing at least 16 people on board. according to the emergency management chief, witnesses say, the marine corps refueling tanker was seen spiraling towards the ground into a soybean field, about 85 . >> it was loud, scary, just scary. i seen all of the black smoke. >> horrifying. >> all they would say it experience add mishap. the flames burned for hours, witnesses say, so hot, that at one point firefighters had to pull back. >> local authority warning resident to stay away. >> we don't want nobody out there, fuel everywhere, so we don't want anybody out responding in the area. >> the local fire chief says debris from the crash is being found within a 5-mile radius. >> they don't believe foul play was to blame. there was press conference scheduled for last night, it was canceled, and now scheduled for later this morning. >> hena, thank you. live for us in new york. >> now to the extensive and painstaking s

and the marine corps side we have the formation of the marine corps raiders. n january 1942 and here at president roosevelt is directly involved and the forms these raters based on the advice of his son, james who is a union marine officer. who is enamored of this guy carlson was shown in the other picture with miles a tongue and he has this sort of romanticized view of commandos and gorillasrunning around solving problems with the japanese. the marine corps commandant , when he hears of this thinks it's a crazy idea and said there no way we should do this . but the president take the advice of his son so marine rater battalions are formed. and as with the rangers they have initial successes but when the war becomes increasingly conventional, they endure a number of setbacks including this one in the new georgia campaign which again will lead ultimately to phasing out those units. on the navy side, the fraud men are created. >> to mainly get a clear obstacle for amphibious landings, there's a fossil where marine landing craft into obstacles and had their bottom

for i think seven years in two different jobs he was the marine corps's congressional liaison person. he's organized. he's got integrity. good luck to all that. i don't see how, given somebody like scaramucci and kellyanne conway and two siblings. i don't see how he organizes a normal functioning white house staff. couple thousand people work there. i have been in and out of the clinton administration, the bush 41 administration. i don't see how he does it. >> what's the babble you're talking about, general? what have you heard that you think is babble? >> a good bit of what's said out of the white house. we talk about we're going to handle korea. north korea has now launched its second ibcm capable missile. it probably has a dozen or more nuclear weapons. they are not going to negotiate away their nukes. the chinese are not going to strangle them economically. we are not going to conduct a conventional first strike to try to eliminate their nukes. we're going to have to find some way to live with it and enhance our ballistic missile defense. i don't understand this confidence that we

details ahead. >>> 16 people killed in a marine corps crash in mississippi. huge debris field, no survivors. many questions this morning. the fbi on sitement the latest information we have just moments away from a devastating scene in leflore, mississippi. >>> welcome back to "early start," i'm dave briggs. >> i'm christine romans. 30 minutes exactly past the hour. up first, not only did donald trump jr. meet with a russian lawyer, there is new reporting this morning that don jr. was told the russian government was directing her efforts to spread damaging information about hillary clinton. that is according to "the new york times" citing three sources familiar with an e-mail sent to trump jr. that e-mail reportedly says the information about clinton was part of a kremlin effort to help the trump campaign. >> yeah. the e-mail was written by british publicist rob goldstone, an entertainment business associate of the trump sr. with connections to moscow. although goldstone suggested the damaging material originated with the russian government, there is no eviden

a four star marine corps general has been brought in here in large part to try to get rid of the choose. and looks like his first step in doing that is to get rid of anthony scaramucci, the brand new communications director. profanity laced -- that he launched at reince priebus and at steve bannon. it was anything but military discipline. and military discipline is what he plans to bring to bear around this place. there are some people who believe that president trump is only going to change so much. and remember, there were reports after anthony scaramucci's tirade, president trump liked it. we'll see if this is one step or are they going to get rid of three or four different power centers that are at constant war fair with one another. are they going to be able to install military discipline. >> is mr. scaramucci out of the white house entirely? >> they are about to put out a statement. and we don't know exactly what is going to happen. certainly he is not one of the main people talking to president trump and talking to the press if general kelly has anything to do with it. >> again,

and so, it's a real good place to be in the marine corps. >> during his fifth year in the marines, burdenk a medical discharge when he was diagnosed with schizoprenoform, a mental disorder defined by mental spells and delusions. >> i hallucinate and i disappear from work, a whole bunch of things i thought was going on inside my head. i decided to go out and go back to my family and just take things easy. >> six months after leaving the military, burden was arrested after he crashed his car into security gates at tampa international airport. >> i thought people were chasing me. i thought people were trying to kill me, so that explains it all running to the gate. i was trying to get away. >> burden admits taking four ecstasy tablets that night and prosecutors say he had almost 300 tablets in his glove box. >> decided to take those pills and that's when it went all downhill from there. >> burden is charged with drug trafficking, driving under the influence, and now, attempted murder of a law enforcement officer. he's pled not guilty and is awaiting a hearing to determine if he is mentally fi

. >> reporter: cbs news learned marine corps sergeant julian was on the aircraft that crashed in mississippi on monday. 14 other marines and a sailor also died including a gunnery sergeant, brenda johnson. >> a very gentle person. he loved the outdoors and was looking forward to retirement next year. he said it was time to move on and let some of the younger kids take over. >> reporter: officials say north carolina and the crash site is closed to the public. military investigators have been working out of the command post and the fbi is helping with the investigation. foul play is not suspected. ♪ tuesday, military veterans lined up along the highway near the crash site to pay tribute to the servicemembers that were killed. >> the first thing i did was drop down on my knees to pray. that is the best i can do and i tried to honor their memory. >> reporter: the cause of the crash is not clear but the marine corps said there was an in-flight mishap that the plane flew at 20,000 feet and u.s. troops were headed to california from north carolina when their airplane went down. don champion, cbs ne

the overnight efforts to stop a large gas fire from getting bigger. >>> a marine corps jet crashes ind. this morning president trump's response to the crash as investigators try to figure out exactly what happened. >>> plus health alert, could your morning coffee help you live the new study that might have you drinking ang extra cup. mike's already had how many cups of coffee today. >> about a half. >> okay. >> he's pacing himself. >> this is the first one i've had n a month. >> you feel crazy? >> no, i feel good actually. >> we're all safe. okay. just want to make sure. >> all righty then i'll just take over do the weather and come to me, yeah, single shot on me. let's talk. hi, everybody. let's open up the weather craft and show you what's going on off the next 12 hours. mainly mid-50s to low 60s. let's take a look at your temperatures at mean it, you can see 50s along the coast in the san francisco, 60 arounds the bay, 70s inland to 86 in antioch and as we head towards 4:00 more 70s and 80s inland, 60 around the bay. 50s along the coast into san francisco and those will spread into

then they contacted the marine corps very quickly. all of it was determined whose plane this was and who was on board. all 16 members of the united states military. now what is happening is they are reaching out across the country to all 16 families trying to notify the next of kin. and when that notification is completed, then the names of the fallen will be made public. chris? >> barbara, thank you very much. please let us know what you get on that story so we can tell everybody the sad news. >>> we now know of at least seven current or former trump campaign team members who have either not been forthcoming about their contacts or have to redraw the diagram of their meetings with russians. how does the white house explain those developments and the latest ones about don jr.? we're going to ask the deputy to the vice president, sebastian gorka, next. >>> victory declared in mosul after months of brutal fighting to retake the city from isis control. the city is now in ruins. they call it a civilian catastrophe. what will the u.s. do n

marine corps. university and senior fellow of the joint spernl special operation university and senior leadership of u.s. military commands as well he holds b.a. law from harvard ph.d. from cambridge and in addition to book that we're talking about today he is also written a number of other works includes aid for elites, building partner nations and ending poverty for human capital that i believe that i read in grad school, strategic failure how is president obama's drone warfare defense cuts and military -- military amateurism have in america and question of command can that from civil war to iraq -- triumph fore saken vietnam war 1954 to 1965. and phoenix and birds of prey and in counterterrorism in vietnam. and with that i look forward to the discussion and turn it over to you dr. moore. [applause] great. thank you very much danielle for that kind introduction thanks john for inviting me here. great to be back at the heritage foundation. i'm going to talk about the book a little bit can't cover

. >> connie rice proudly flie her marine corps flag. >> i loved the marine corps. i loved their marriage. >> she was outwardly a mail when she served in the marines decades ago during the iran high stage -- hostage crisis. she kept her gender identity deeply hidden. >> if i came out at that time i would have been discharged immediately with a bad discharge. >> she rejoiced when president obama decided that openly transgender people could serve in the military. >> my facebook and twitter have been exploding. >> now that president trump has reversed the new transgender policy, she is sad and angry. >> this is a slap in the face of people who put themselves in harms way.>> it is a civil rights issue. >> lawyers, doctors, pilots, computer people that will be forced out of the military. >> losing all of those skilled people would cost the military far more than transgender health care. studies suggest the pentagon spends more on viagra than it would on transgender health. >> transgender care isn't as expensive as a pregnancy. should we kick out pregnant people? we are t

officer ina junior the marine corps. alison: today's celebrations were not completely spared by the rainfall stop in annapolis, they had to cancel fireworks. steve: and we had showers and embedded thunderstorms. everything was ok downtown d.c. the showers right now are limited. , we have a fewl scattered showers off to the west, moving through fairfax county and montgomery county. the showers will be hit or miss through the overnight. the traffic isat still quite busy with a lot of folks trying to get out from downtown, out to the suburbs. a few showers bethesda, silver spring, not going to amount to a whole lot through the overnight. the umbrella, grab heading out the door tomorrow. highs a little cooler, lower to middle 80's, but looking at another round of showers and storms. the timing coming up. jonathan: we are watching north korea. that is where u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson says that country conducted a test using an intercontinental ballistic missile. this. this is the kind of missile the u.s. worries ab

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fortunately, the general had given extensive oral histories to the marine corps museum in quantico. was able to hear him talk about his experiences in hue and vietnam without getting a chance to interview him myself. host: in 1968 here is jack lawrence talking to lieutenant colonel. >> what kind of fighting is it going to be? >> house to house and room to room. >> inch by inch? >> that is what it is. >> did you expect to experience this kind of street fighting in vietnam? >> no, this is my first crack at streetfighting. his is the first time marine core has street fought since seoul. >> what will happen to the civilians? >> we are hoping we do not run nto any civilians. if there are, i'm pretty sure the civilians are what we would consider the back guys. we have certain areas that we have walked off. we know there are friendly civilians. we are not going to take those under fire. >> the others? >> the others, if there is somebody in there right now, they are charlie, as far as we are concerned. host: how long did it take the marines to get the city of hue back after that initial bat

marine corps say the casey 130 plane had a mishap. witnesses saw it go down in a cork screw pattern and slam into a toy bean field leaving a fe mile trail of debris. in the lt couple of hours a county spokesman urged people to stay away from the crashite because it is still unsafe. >>e don't want anybody out there. we have fuel out there. so we don't want anybod without responders in the area. >> the plane is used extensively in the military for ariel refuelling, carrying cargo and transporting troops as well. >>> our other top story tonight, fast moving grass fire in the south bay. right now firefighters in san jose are sti at the scene seven hours after this thing started. >> flames from a car fire spread to a hillside near san file lee pay and metcalf rode. melanie is live with the developing story. >> reporter: kristin and dan, there were initial concerns people would have to leave their homes but ultimately no structures were threatened. right now the firefighters are still out the mopping up this fire and working on containment.

some 16 people dead after a large marine corps plane crashed in mississippi. >> that kc-130 had takenm a base in tennessee. it's not known if there were any civilians on board. the plane came down in a soybean field but left debris in a wide area, leading to speculation it exploded in midair. >> the firefighters first on the scene were driven back by explosions. the site remains dangerous. >> we don't want nobody out there. we have fuel everywhere, we don't want anybody without responders in the area. >> marine corps has not released much information including where that flight originated. the fbi is assisting with the investigation, but not the enit is -- ntsb, a military plane going down 85 miles from jackson, mississippi. at least 16 people are dead. >>> and the other breaking news. there was an explosion at the air force recruitment center in south tulsa, oklahoma. th p on the scene show damage to the building, including doors that are blown off. there's no report of any injuries and no cause at this time. >>> also breaking overnight, there are new details about the preelection me

witnesses say the marine corps refuelling tanker was seen spiraling towards the ground into a soybean field about 85 miles north of jackson. >> traveling north. it was all over, but it was loud. it was scary. it was scary because i seen all the black smoke and it was horrifying. >> reporter: all the spokes person would say so far is that the kc 130 quote experienced a mishap. the flames burned for hours. witnesses say so hat at one point firefighters had to pull back. >> they're spraying their foam on it. every time they stopped they backed up. >> reporter: they're warning residents to stay away. >> we don't want nobody out there. we have fuel everywhere so we don't want anybody without responders in the area. >> reporter: the local fire chief says debris from the crash is being found within a five-mile radius. >> and while the investigation is still in the preliminary stages authorities don't believe foul play was to blame for the crash. >> thank you so much hena. >>> normal flight operations are expected this morning in the washington, d.c. area after problems at an air traffic cont

lieutenant colonels in the marine corps do not divert millions of dollars from arms sales to iran for the benefit of the contras based on assumptions, do they? you had a basis for your assumption. north: i had the approval of my superiors. as i did for all the other things that i did, mr. nields. john nields jr: you had something else, didn't you, sir? you had a specific reason for believing that the president had approved. you wrote memoranda, did you not, seeking the president's approval for the diversion? north: i did. john nields jr: and indeed, you wrote more than one of them. north: i did. john nields jr: how many did you write? north: again, i will estimate that there may have been as many as five. john nields jr: now we have -- north: again, i'm trying to recall without access to those particular documents. you may have six, and i'm not trying to dissemble at all with you. john nields jr: and these five were written, i take it, on each occasion where there was a proposed sale of arms to the iranians that you felt had reached sufficiently final form to seek the president's appr

marine corps for service, the president of the united states called me. in the course of that call, the president said to me words to the effect that, i just didn't know. those are the facts as i know themm. i was glad when you introduced this that he said you wanted to hear the truth. i came here to tell you the truth. the good, the bad, and the ugly. i am here to tell it all, pleasant and. unpleasant and i am here to accept responsibility for that which i did. i will not accept her sponsor of the four that which i did not do. >> may i make an inquiry of the witness? was that response from a written text? lt. col. north: those are from notes that i made in preparation for this session, sir. sen. inouye: it is not a verbatim written text? lt. col. north: no it is not. mr. nields: colonel north, you left something out, didn't you? what is this council? you have testified that you assumed that the president had authorized the divergent. lieutenant colonels in the marine corps do not divergent millions of dollars from arms sales to iran for the benefit of th

when i was marine corp and then lieutenant john kelly was in my basic class in quantico.t six months together, six hard, bonding months, he's a great man. everybody in our platoon or our company knew he was going to graduate number one and going to become a ranked officer >> when i was nominated, there was a lot of talk about him. but seemed a lot of support on capitol hill during the hearings. how will he transition from that role into a chief of staff position >> easily. john kelly is very well liked. he's obviously been the star of the administration when it comes to the cabinet. the operation of the homeland security has been fabulous. they've got border crossing attempts down by about 78%, starting to build the wall. john kelly was the outstanding star. i think the transition is going to be seam less to chief of staff. he's got the background for it. he spent a couple years as the marine corp less layoff liaison on capitol hill. colonel. and he was the military aid to two defense secretaries during the obama administration, so i think he's exceptionally positioned >>

geoff: he is the longest-serving marine corps general in history. his dedication to the country is not a career pursuit. he's also lost a son who was 29, a first lieutenant in the marine corps who died in 2010 in afghanistan in combat. robert: it seems that the president does not actually have deep relationship with general kelly. i remember when i ran into then-nominee kelly, he said he didn't really know president-elect trump at the time and was trying to build a bond. it seems his actions at dhs have impressed the white house, pursuing aggressively a defensive travel ban. alexis: the president has called john kelly a star because part of it is because the president is warmly disposed to the results of the department of homeland security with regard to the border and protection has been a net plus. i have covered previous presidents and i've seen all presidents make changes with their cheats. often times, they will make a change thinking also of the portfolio that they want to work on. one of the challenges to me watching general kelly with his de

. >> that breaking news is in mississippi where all 16 people on board a marine corps plane that spiralledthe ground have died. thanks for joining us. i'm kristen sze in for ama daetz. >> i'm dan ashley. tonight the fbi and military officials are trying to figure out exactly what went wrong. it happened in the late afternoon in the town much itta bena, a rural area. >> marine corps say the casey 130 plane had a mishap. witnesses saw it go down in a cork screw pattern and slam into a toy bean field leaving a five mile trail of debris. in the last couple of hours a county spokesman urged people to stay away from the crash site because it is still unsafe. >> we don't want anybody out there. we have fuel out there. so we don't want anybod without responders in the area. >> the plane is used extensively in the military for ariel refuelling, carrying cargo and transporting troops as well. >>> our other top story tonight, a fast moving grass fire in the south bay. right now firefighters in san jose are still at the scene seven hours after this thing started. >> flames from a car fire spread to a

(tiffany) investigators say all 16-marines on board the marine corps plane died when that plane crashed in mississippi. officials just wrapped up a news conference detailing the crash and confirming all on board who were killed were marines. the f-b-i is on the scene this morning along with state and local agencies. this is video from the crash site. witnesses say the plane spiraled out of control and crashed in a soybean field. so far the marine corps has not provided any information about where the plane took off from or where it was going. i will keep you posted on any new developments through out the morning. back to you in the studio. . ( darya ) an explosive device was set off outside an air force recruiting center near tulsa, oklahoma. it is being investigated as a possible act of domestic terrorism. the blast happened last night. the office was closed at the time and no one was injured. the extent of the damage is not known. no arrests have been made. ( darya ) our top story this morning... a bay area tennis coach is accused of sexually assaulting two of his teenage players and

the marine corps kc-130 plane was taking an elite special operations unit across the country for training. that unit was based in north carolina. all 16 on board were killed. foul play not suspected. >>> we're getting a look at a major moment in america's missile defense program. this military video shows the first successful test of the thad system against a rocket. it managed to intercept a missile fired over hawaii from one that was fired over alaska. developed by north korea. >>> the newest wildfire in the west has left its mark. the fast-moving grass fire destroyed at least one large home in the hills near san jose and damaged another. 11 other high-end hopes have been evacuated as a result. in southern california the jennings fire has destroyed at least 400 acres and forced hundreds of evacuations. at least for a time it closed an interstate in the san diego area. and there are currently 55 active large fires in 14 western states. >>> and this was the view as a husband and wife escaped a wildfire in western canada. it started in heavy smoke and then turned frightening as their car i

." >>> the death toll is now 16 from a marine corps tanker plane that crashed in mississippi. we're at the scene where rescue crews say debris was scattered for miles. >>> an e-mail sent a year ago reportedly told donald trump jr. the russian government was trying to help the trump campaign. now trump jr. has hired a criminal lawyer. >> and how about this? the city of angels versus the city of lights. an unprecedented decision today could result in paris being awarded the olympic games. two extensive studies on coffee show the more you drink the longer you might live. >> we begin this morning with today's "eye opener." your world in 90 seconds. >>> 16 people are dead after a military plane crashed in mississippi. >> a marine aircraft goes down in a ball of flames. >> the refuelling plane went down monday night in a soybean field. witnesses say bodies and wreckage were scattered for miles. >> "the new york times" reported donald trump jr. was informed in an e-mail that the material was to aid his father's candidacy. >> if this is correct the first person that may have found out

, the death toll rising in a horrific military plane crash. >> 16 people reported that after a marine corps refueling plane spiraled out of control crashing into a field in mississippi. kelly wright joins us with the latest on a terrible story this morning. >> reporter: a horrible tragedy especially for the marine corps. military plane experienced a mishap before going down. no other details at this time are being released but here is what we know right now about this tragic crash taking place at 4:00 pm monday. one person on the ground reported hearing a loud boom, then looking up to the sky to see a large plume of smoke and the plane began corkscrew into the ground, 16 people confirmed that after the plane crashed in mississippi, about 100 miles north of