a special line marines and marine family members, 202-748-8002. go ahead and start calling and now as we show you some of the scenery of the museum. owen connor is one of the gallery curators at that museum. can you explain how the raising of the flag over mount suribachi is incorporated into the dna of the museum that you are sitting in? >> the second flag when rosenthal snapped the image, i often emphasize it is really this iconic media moment. early in the war we would send correspondence to the pacific and it could take weeks, months for things to get back. but when it comes to the flag being taken, it is literally from the battlefield, the front pages of america. within about two days, international dateline times. it is almost a viral moment. it is ingrained in the museum, from the architecture that you see and from the way it has traveled through time. i always say it takes on bigger meaning within the marine corps. it symbolizes victory in world war ii, it came at the right time. patent's tanks were rolling across germany, the allies were

a special line marines and marine family members, 202-748- 8002. go ahead and start calling and now as we show you some of the scenery of the museum. owen connor is one of the gallery curators at that museum. can you explain how the raising of the flag over mount suribachi is incorporated into the dna of the museum that you are sitting in? second flag when rosenthal snapped the image, i often emphasize it is really this iconic media moment. early in the war we would send correspondence to the pacific and it could take weeks, months for things to get back. but when it comes to the flag being taken, it is literally from the battlefield, the front pages of america. within about two days, international dateline times. it is almost a viral moment. it is ingrained in the museum, from the architecture that you see and from the way it has traveled through time. i always say it takes on bigger meaning within the marine corps. it symbolizes victory in world war ii, it came at the right time. patent's tanks were rolling across germany, the allies were winning

a special line marines and marine family members, 202-748- 8002.d start calling and now as we show you some of the scenery of the museum. owen connor is one of the gallery curators at that museum. can you explain how the raising of the flag over mount suribachi is incorporated into the dna of the museum that you are sitting in? second flag when rosenthal snapped the image, i often emphasize it is really this iconic media moment. early in the war we would send correspondence to the pacific and it could take weeks, months for things to get back. but when it comes to the flag being taken, it is literally from the battlefield, the front pages of america. within about two days, international dateline times. it is almost a viral moment. it is ingrained in the museum, from the architecture that you see and from the way it has traveled through time. i always say it takes on bigger meaning within the marine corps. it symbolizes victory in world war ii, it came at the right time. patent's tanks were rolling across germany, the allies were winning in europe,

i knew nothing about the marine corps.o i went in after my 18th birthday, filled out the papers to enlist, turned it into the sergeant and he looked at me and the, sorry, can't take you, reason being i was too short. i was only five foot six inches. i went back to the farm. if they don't want me, i don't want them, i'm not going anywhere else, i'm either going to go there or stay on the farm. but he kept the paper. so he and early 1943, something like february or march, they did a really -- did away with the height requirement. they were looking for people. so he looked me up. i lived about seven miles out of town, he looked me up and asked if i still wanted to go to the marine corps and i did, so i did. they weret that time, coming into the marine corps so rapidly from the east coast that parris island did not have enough room for every that wanted to be in the marine corps. they had to set up temporary tent cities down at parris island, but they couldn't find enough trained instructors to to handle everybody. >> when was

they were just marines. two of those marines sacrifice their lives protecting mine.ut [inaudible] that impacted but loss is loss. you have to accept those things after a while. >> williams is the last surviving iwo jima medal of honor recipients. lieutenant rossi insisted on going back to iwo jima after he recovered. he was killed on march 8 on his way to the ocean in the final days of the fight. he could have come home but sadly try to take that airfield was when he was shot down. we do know it was shot and had and a quick death. we are thankful for that but he could have come home. >> it says a lot to the character of him and his patriotism, love of country, dedication, rededicated man. >> truly, he was a big hero. they were all heroes. to put on? i mean i would have but i'm a commercial vehicle so i don't have hands... or a camera...or a website. should we franchise? is the market ready for that? can we franchise? how do you do that? meg! oh meg! we should do that thing where you put the business cards in the fishbowl and somebody wins something. -meg: hi. i'm her

we rotate the marines out, the first marines, and they are replaced by alexander patch, the second marines, along with most of the 23rd and 25th divisions. what he is going to do is press his advantage further and further. in december, we attack mount austen, which is interesting because mount austen was supposed to fall without a fight on day one. that sounds like a world war i battle, your goal with day one is seized four months later. in bitter fighting, we lose 250 men, the japanese lose 3000. again, this is a pretty important part of the battle -- japanese at this point have no hope, they are starving, but they are still fighting to the last man. this is the kind of resistance we are going to face in even more famous battles from here on out. on january 14, the japanese land 4000 fresh troops, giving this guy a headache. those fresh troops are nearly recovered in withdrawal. and this is where our intelligence fails, because we think they are getting ready for another attack. the most effective japanese campaign of the whole thing is there withdrawal, they withdraw under our noses with

so i became a hollywood marine.hink the parris island guys gave me a hard time, but that's all right. but following boot camp you got a 10-day furlough. everybody got one. but in those days, flights were impossible. all the aircraft were being used for military purposes. you couldn't catch a plane anywhere. so for 10 days, i couldn't leave california. san diego, california, go to fairmont, west virginia and be back in san diego for 10 days. i couldn't do that. so i couldn't go home. following the 10 day furlough, i stayed with a marine friend in los angeles, who took me in, gave me a bed for two weeks, and then we took an additional couple of months of training and shipped overseas. >> this is early 1944? woody: this was late 1943. >> so you heard about guadalcanal by that time, i would imagine? reporterwoody: very little. >> really? woody: very little. we had some drill instructors who had been to guadalcanal, but they really didn't teach us much about what was over there, what they did. there were more interested

knew nothing about the marine corps. i went in after my 18th birthday and filled out the paperwork to enlist and turned it in to the recruiting sergeant and he looked at me and said sorry, we can't take you and he told me the reason being, i was too short. i was only 5'6". i went back to the farm. if they don't want me, i don't want them. i will go there or stay on the farm. but he kept the paper. in early 1943 or something like february or march in that area, they did away with the height requirement and they would take runts or most anybody else that were looking for people. he looked me up. i lived about seven miles out of town. he looked me up and asked me if i still wanted to go to the marine corps and i did. even at that time they were coming into the marine corps so rapidly from the east coast that paris island could not handle everybody that wanted to be in the marine corps. they had set up temporary systems down at paris island, but they couldn't find enough trained instructors to handle everybody and -- >> when

finally thank you to jim friend colleague husband father marin marine, he led by example. every person here who was touched is human his high standards and integrity and decency. and the capacity for true friendship. and for all that you accomplished thank you. >> of course at the news hour my dad was curious about things that matter as he would say. but in fact he had such a mary spirit he was quick to delight and it showed instantly in his eyes and smile. one of his guests is the way he could express emotion and so clearly tell his family and friends how much he loved us. and was able to fully receive our love as well. today we are blessed with the huge feelings of love for him and from him and it's hard right now to know where to put all that love. so i was drawn to this reading which i would like to share with you now. when i die give what is left of me away to children and old men that wait to die. if you need to cry, cry for your brother walking beside you on the street. when you need me put your arm around anyone and give them what you need to give me. i want to lea

jim had a group of marine friends, retired marines, but always marines, not former marines, of all ranksdon't know, 20, 25 of his marine buddies were there.un at and he asked them, which -- how many of you have a gun at home? and only one of the whole group raised his hand, and he said, well, it's a kind of antique pistol i was given as a present. so jim, i thought that was very illusterative of jim's attitude. if you'll notice on the tribut invitations to this service, it said one of the things that one could make a contribution to is the brady effort against gun violence. jim's generosity was extraordinary. not only did any time you sit down, sat down with him have to fight him for the check, but hes would often say, echoing his father, hey come on. the sky's the limit. let's enjoy this. i just give you one little example of jim's kind of automatic reflexive generosity. i told him about my young brother michael who had been working for years and years on a novel. and finally, it was finished, and the publisher agreed to publish it if michael contributed some money to the publishing. an

>>> at least 76 united states marines were killed this morning in lebanon, and at least 115 were wounded. those numbers may rise considerably higher. >> i was sound asleep, and this bomb went off. you could feel it shake across beirut. it was so massive. it was devastating. >> a truck filled with explosives was driven into a compound, the midst of a marine battalion headquarters and the explosives were detonated. the four-story building collapsed on about 150 or 200 sleeping marines. >> wearing green fatigues and driving a yellow truck. the guy was smiling. >> israel had gone into lebanon to try to create a buffer zone against the palestinians, the plo. >> a battalion of american marines came out to separate the israelis from the palestinians and oversee the withdrawal of the plo from lebanon, but it got sucked in to the lebanese civil war. >> the civil war is between

the marines expected to go into combat and the lebanese army regarded the marines as invaders. in supporting the christian enemies. they were trying to hold onto power. in germany,o tactical nuclear weapons were being prepared to to the were being prepared to beachhead. eighty-six airborne division was put on alert in order to reinforce the beachhead. while there was something of a comic approach. it was the first time u.s. combat troops ever went into a mission in the middle east. our first combat mission. fortunately it turned out while only one army sergeant who died in the mission he was killed in sniper fire later on in the day and the marines were able to leave after a few months i will come back to that in a little bit. he began a tradition of american combat operations in the middle east. and of course, as we all know now subsequent missions didn't turn out as happily as they did in 1958. the second marine intervention in 1982 turned out in a disaster and the death of over 240 american marines. it is useful to look back on this first mission to gain some understanding i

my mother did not want him to become a marine.him in the navy because then she would have a bed to place him in rather than a foxhole. ♪ >> harry graduated in high school, kissed his girlfriend goodbye and bowed to marry her when he got home for it in the number summer of 1944 he was off to paris island for training. he wrote to uncle frank, my grandfather, who is like a father to him after his dad died. >> we do calisthenics every morning till he almost collapsed but we try to keep going but yesterday we drove 120 degrees wearing full combat gear. we kept this up until three fellows collapsed. this place is nerve-racking that one fellow from another platoon tried to commit suicide last night by cutting his throat. just by chance, they found him before he died. >> charles remembers well how tough it was. >> if i had had a gun or something like that [inaudible] it was tough but they made a marine out of me. >> while researching "unknown valor" i discovered my friend, nikki uncle was also killed on iwo jima. a long talk led to the u

he was a gunnery sergeant, and he was a marine and said i'm going to join the marine corps. i never told my mother. i just went out and did it and i came in one day and was sitting across the table from me i said mom, i'm going to tell you something, i joined the marine corps yesterday. she looked at me and her mouth flew open and i called the silvent scream. i never expected that reaction from her until i got a little older and i thought about it that she was thinking of her brother who was wounded numerous times and missing an action. she relived that for me through her brother and i got hurt in boot camp and i pinched a nerve in my arm from the slaying and i was paralyzed in my left arm and i was devastated because i'm left-handed and i'm an artist. i thought on never sell another painting again. they put me back to the basement and they put me in a catchers truck and a wire cage in the back and put my see bag in there and sitting on my seat bag and it's raining and i'm soaking wet and cars are passing me and i was so depressed and i had my oils and i opened up that bag i

. >> a miracle in marin county. a pair of hikers missing for more than a week, found alive. >>> the news at 5:00 starts right now. good evening. thank you for joining us. e was fading a truly incredible turn of events. a couple feared dead ended up hoisted to safety. dramatic video here posted by the marin county sheriff's office showing the moment carol caparsky and ian irwin were rescued. the pair were last heard of on valentine's day from a rental home. earlier this week after no signs of the couple the mission was changed from rescue to recovery, but they had different plans. new pictures into our newsroom show carol and ian recovering in the hospital, reportedly in great spirits. nbc bay area's christie smith with details of how the couple survived. >> reporter: takerry, this is really an amazing story. a pair of rescuers were looking in an area they hadn't covered before. they say it was remote and overgrown. they were talking and the couple heard them talking and then starte yelling for help. tonight it is be

it tells the story of the brutal 36-day battle in which nearly 7000 marines were killed. contains graphic that may war and death disturb some viewers. ♪ [orchestral music] narrator: this is the pacific as you know it, wide stretches of water, but this is the pacific as the joint chief of staffs view it, a battlefield, a vast fortress-studded plane on which the japanese defend the heart of the homeland. it is the most heavily fortified island in the world. buried deep underground, the jap preparations for murder. 20,000 fighting men waited for us to make the first move. >> and they don't have to wait long. [explosions] the navy begins to soften up the island so we can land. [explosions] planes from our carrier force take off to strafe and bomb. [machine gun fire] [explosions] gunboats move in close to work over enemy beach installations. [machine gun fire] enemy fire gets closer. [heavy gunfire] ♪ d-day, the beginning of the toughest 26 days in marine corps history. we watch the center control vessels. when this flag drops, our landing craft will head to the beach. [artill

and notified him and so the marines also came to me at 3:00 o'clock in the morning. we both find out at the same time. and we were able to communicate but that was the reasoning behind my unusual notification time and why it did not go along with what i had told it would be like. >> thank you. we are going to come back to you and have you read your second one if you don't mind. >> okay, these -- this is from the third paragraph called a few months out by drug of choice. and i had some takeaways at the end of the chapter. the first takeaway, second embrace your support system, relationships are everything. family, friends and loved ones can get us through the darkest and saddest moments you just need to telephone. our friends and families peter wild ambitions and art dreams. when we share with them embarrassing fantasy well beyond our reach, they always say go for. if you're lucky enough to have friends and family like mine they may even say i am and let's do it together. they gently and lovingly protect us from our own self-destructive habits. they lift us up literal

i was just a regular marine doing a regular job with some marine corps training.a significance i never dreamed of but it was still a long time, years before i finally came to the full realization that it doesn't represent me, it represents th them. my life has been so full of miracles, that gave me some realization that what it meant to survive and be the recipient of the country's highest honor. yet the question still comes, why me? >> martha: and credible hero, woody williams, just an incredible person. senator dan sullivan of alaska is one of several lawmakers to put forth the bipartisan resolution to honor the 75th anniversary of iwo jima, that is the period we are in right now. he also serves as a colonel in the u.s. marine corps reserve currently, he is the only current serving senator in the united states senate, thank you so much for being here tonight. you obviously feel that it is so important we remember these men on this anniversary, why? >> i want to thank you and i can't wait to read your book because it is so important we understand our history. you

we are at marin health medical center. we do not know what type of injuries or medical problems he may be suffering from, this is video of the rescue last night. a team of several volunteers were involved in the effort and he was found around 10:30 last night by a trailing dog team that had area.with them and volunteers say bennett was found semi-conscience and off the trail. >> we were led towards there by the k-9 teams and without them and the essence of the search and rescue members, and the expensive search, i don't know that we would have been able to find him about the canines. >> the marin county sheriff's office says time is of the essence with this search. the hiker have been lusting on someone's ring surveillance camera around 1:30 on monday afternoon which means he had been out in the elements for more than 24 hours. of course, if you have been following the news in marin county you know that there is still a search underway for a missing couple so resources are stretched very thin here in marin county for those

in order to keep people 2000 marines. and they didn't create 30 or 40,000 marines today. because they have no intention of using them. right? i mean, they are only using them in the site china sea area for their near sea. so they have to come up with it seems to me and why i'm interested in all the civilian stuff is they have to come up with an interim solution to real expeditionarycapability . >> in part i think to address your question, the pla does have norms for what they expect expenditures for different units to be and in combat, unfortunately i don't know what those norms are what they are used for planning so based on those norms and what they might expect asfar as operations , i mean, they know and could reposition those amounts of supplies and the you yes, they could probably supply them to enterprises to maintain and warehouses for that sort of thing. to use as repositioning for operations. but again, it also depends on the intensity of the writing. what those requirements are for supplies and ammunition and medical support and that sort of thing but the pla kn

>> reagan call the killing of the marines the saddest day of my presidency.nk it was the low point in the reagan presidency. >> a question that must be asked is why 241 men were killed by terrorists, yet this country wasn't outraged. there were no demonstrations, no marches, little outcry. the reason? within 48 hours of the bombing, the united states invaded grenada. >> about 1,900 u.s. army rangers and marines this morning assaulted the small island which measures only 12 miles by 21 miles. grenada's population is about 110,000, roughly the size of cedar rapids, iowa. >> there's a coup, allegedly a communist coup, and reagan seizes on this to stage an invasion. >> the united states received an urgent formal request to assist in a joint effort to restore order and democracy on the island of grenada. >> an american troop carrier was passing by on its way to lebanon. so all they did was turn that combat-ready ship into grenada. >> marines took control of grenada's airports and began broadcasting a soothing message. >> your cooperation will ensure that peace and

in an unrelated story here in marin, the searchers found another man who disappeared. they pulled robert bennett from the woods and he is 76 years old and disappeared early monday afternoon while hoo hiking in the unincorporated area, and he was found barely conscious before taken to the hospital, and no update on the condition. as you can see the picture tweeted out two canines luna and zinca helped to locate him. here live, bob redell, nbc bay area news. >>> the search is on for a killer after a woman was found dead inside of a house at san jose's east foothills. the deputies were seen searching through the trash cans and interviewing the neighbors there, and they say that the home was rented out by air bnb by the room which one man says is always an uncomfortable feeling. >> i knew that something was bad going to happen over time, and 1 of 100, it is bad and sure enough, we are here. >> and so they were going to interview everybody in the neighborhood and speak with all witnesses and collect all evidence that we can. >> we have not responded and right now deputies d

a marine corps spokesman told us, quote, our marines are our most valuable asset, and we investigateo determine how we can best prevent similar events from occurring. the army said the loss of a soldier is a heartfelt concern for army leaders at all levels. >>> it's february, and that means it's time for jonathan vigliotti to go swimming with great white sharks. >> reporter: there are only a handful of places in the world where you are guaranteed to see large numbers of great white sharks. mexico's isla guadalupe is one of them. but the people who will be diving in these shark cages didn't travel here 18 hours by boat just to see them. they want to help protect them. this tiny speck of rugged land is the definition of the world remote. and because it attracts diving boats like this one, it's also a beacon of hope for marine conservation. >> we're in one of the most pristine, incredible hot spots for great white sharks anywhere on the planet. >> reporter: andy casa grande is a award winning filmmaker famous for shark week. but on this boat, he is the leader of an exhibition to a marin

our sub marine force is just that good. i put those things together one manned surface, unmanned under sea vessels glide, unmanned surface vessels essentially gliders and carry acoustic platforms beneath and we're doing quite a bit to ensure that we maintain that under sea mastery over china versus their submarines. now, i think one of the things we have to worry about is the kind of arrogance that i just displayed and that is asw or under sea warfare dominance is not a birth right. china's got a lot of engineers working really hard to try to figure out how to make the sea less opaque. i know our own submarine force tends to talk as if that will never happen and we will get better faster than they can understand the vurpenvironment. i think, though, that's not a winning strategy for the long ha haul and we have to begin do take their asw capabilities a little more seriously. >> you know, we've got to go. it's i saw the proverbial hook coming. >> we got the hook from the guy in the back of the room. >> so i'd like to thank y

a pair from marin search and rescue that found the couple. marin county sheriff's office estimates hundreds out every day spending up to 12 hours combing through trails and brush. yesterday morning the sheriff's office absoluted those teams. we heard from one of the volunteers who found the couple. take a listen. >> i do not think they would have made it without this group of people you see behind me. >> halfway up we hear voices. first another team, then they started yelling help. we looked at each other and we're like, that's them. it took us a long time to move a short distance because it's so thick. >> wow. "good morning america" will have much more on this unbelievable story coming up at 7:00 a.m. right after abc 7 mornings. in the meantime you can find it all at abc7news.com. shortly after crews found the couple abc 7 news between send a push alert. you can get every breaking news sent to your device enabling push alerts from the free abc 7 news app. >>> new this morning a large side show seen overnight in the streets of san francisco.

26 year old marine to the jogging early in the morning come back to his home oh saturday morning in have his shirt or whatever was typing at his home business he heard all these things boys around his house he went near richmond virginia by the way he went out looked outside there were cop cars pulling up there were people in black suits with their little ties running up toward the house he opens the door and say what's up in the police in the the agents in the suits they would department homeland security agents said well we're concerned about your facebook posts he was criticizing president obama for his executive order he said mamma should be arrested he was playing a weird video game believe it or not the f.b.i. download everything watched everything that they asked him to step outside he did not own a weapon by the way this is key and they couldn't arrest him is on they didn't have a warrant he stepped outside they grabbed him slammed him against a fence and took him to the jail he had a 5 minute examination. under a psychiatrist he was a 911 truth and the psychiatrist said bec

new overnight, a missing man rescueded on a marin county trail. we'll tell you what happened late last night to rescue him. >> plus... democratic presidential debate in nevada tonight with a spotlight on bloomberg and bernie sanders after a national poll has them leading the other democratic candidates. >> from ktvu fox 2 news, this is mornings on 2. >> good morning. thank you, for joining us here on mornings on 2. wednesday, february 19th. middle of the week. i'm pam cook. >> and, good morning. i'm dave clark. everything cool? >> pretty cool. i left the window open so i had some fresh air. and this morning i realized i left that window open because it was kind of cold. >> need an extra blanket? >> yes, i did. >>> we do have more of a low cloud deck. so it will be more of anion an onshore breeze here. that is 17 degrees cooler than yesterday at this time. fairfield and concord are minus 14. that system coming in will increase the low cloud deck. so temps are inching closer to where they should be. allie's here. so far so good. >> very good. >>> i'

it was 28 and his team had stumbled upon an undersea wall with exquisite marine life. but admin's wall as it came to be known had a huge problem. when be thawed that was the 1st i thought of the big net lying down on a copper pretty and like millions in fact but i didn't know we'd do it. by people who preferred for dead people who of course were lying on that i'll go about today. the rope on the wall that is the theme i forget a big really big thing that. you could big ate beef to clean the grossman. since then i've been on his team of divers have spent countless days removing large quantities of plastic. nets discarded by fishing vessels and traditional fisherman . nets end up in the ocean when their damaged are no longer useful. as they drift along with the ocean currents settle on the sea floor drop and kill everything that comes in that way. nets have a devastating impact on medina animals today. fishermen in the area hit hard as discarded nets account for 10 percent reduction in catch but the local community has needed a lot of convincing to change their age or pr

a different feeling now in west marin county. plus: >> reporter: coronavirus evacuees finally out after weeks in isolation. i spoke to them today about their long journey home. >> plus giants fans with some mixed emotions tonight when it comes to benching a former star from a world series reunion. >>> our top story on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, a more focused search now for a missing couple in west marin county. good evening, i'm ken bastida. >> and i'm elizabeth cook. search teaming are not giving up. don ford has more on how dogs and drones are covering some of toughest terrain. >> reporter: it's day 3 at inverness, and still no sign of the missing couple. even though searchers remain positive, the search has become somber. the search for the couple continues, however today there are less than half as many searchers at yesterday. >> because we had such a large response we were able to cover a lot more area than anticipated, so today we have a more focused effort. >> reporter: dogs cover areas like this extremely rug

well marine ecosystem along the south end in cost. one of the projects is to build artificial reefs to support life underwater. we try to 100 kids 200 kids a dog before we have many more reef be through the 20 pounds rocks so. 1234 reefs. to reach the creative. unbelievable free flow before the northeast in that area all the personnel going for their rocky places to rock music like 15000 going to read to do a line or merely to travel like a mark on a monitor to have a little for that every night important city to know everybody you can rely on pushing. seen how the area has tired with these organizations intervention i've been encourages everyone to do something about destructive practices that exist in their own backyards. but the main concern is individual responsibility it's not ok i want to wait for when i'm going to fish and litter and. clean a bit why you need to wait for that you can augment be or. take up like 5 people in the same village if you're standing you know playing for you or going for a beer they leave same time spen

the vets loved that we came back to the marine monument and the commandant of the marine corps and thehe joint chiefs had a special ceremony for the veterans. >> i got shot down over japan. i'm a veteran. i got shot down in a b 29. 20% of the bombs hit the edge of the island and blue blew sand in the air. i am looking out my window and i don't like that. it was a totally lost cause. this four star general said you are a honorary marine now. that sand you blew in the air was only about 8 inches thick and under that was solid karl rock. so when we came in to land, we could not dig fox holes with our little shovels and so on. and so 500-pound bomb holes were there made fox holes for us and you saved us. and i said oh, really? [laughter] iwo jima is a great thing in my life. >> i heard somebody about 10 minutes ago capture it better than i could ever -- he says we served. he was a marine. he said we served. they saved the world. they saved the world. they did. >> i love being a marine. it's a piece of history. this will never happen again. it's monumental. to be able to be part of this and

happening right now tonight, we're hearing about another missing ker marin county bringing the tol of missing hikers in the area up to 3. the marin county sheriff's office tweeted a few hours ago, confirming a new search and rescue incident taking place for a miing elderly hiker near big rock ridge, his name is robert beett and seen yesterday wearing a grey flannel shirt, and blue jeans. >>also happening tonight, the search continues for a palo alto couple that went missing after renting out a cottage on via della vista in inverness 136 searhers with the marin unty sheriff's office. volunteers another agencies from all over the baarea are looking for 77 year-old carol can parse key and 72 year-old in or when the 2 re last seen on friday and we're supposed to check out oftheir rental saturday morng but they never showed and ft all their belongings in the cottage. >>the search fo the missing couple has hit those in the hometown and their home ton of palo alto pretty hard one neighbor describes them is extremely happyand fond of hiking in west marin our first rob fladeboe has more now on

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no sign of a couple missing in western marin county since friday. the search continued today for ian irwin and carol kaparsky. they were last seen friday in inverness. more than 100 searchers are scouring the area, and today the couple's son arrived from out of town to assist. we've been following that search all day long. we'll take you inside testimony search zone coming up at 6:00. that's it from the live news desk, back to you. >>> thanks, ken. new video of a person caught aiming a laser pointer at a chp helicopter monday night near the napa county airport. chp says the bright flash hit the pilot in the eyes and he was temporarily blinded. fortunately he was able to maintain control. it only took them a matter the and police arrested the suspect. >>> new video from san francisco police involving a restaurant assault that included a suspect flinging a burrito. surveillance cameras show the man interesting the business on gary boulevard near 18th avenue back on february 2nd. the customer becomes agitated and verbally abusive. when the staff offers

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. >>> the medal of honor at 80% of the medals of honor by the marine corps in the war. when you consider those staggering numbers, and you know, aside from the casualties, it's amazing at the ferocity of the fight and just the absolute heroism, and these are the stories we know about. the stories that we don't know, the things that happened that remain between those marines, the eyewitnesss, there's probably 27 more medals of honor that we just don't know about. for the marines that did see the flag raised, for the sailors that were out at sea, it was symbolic in that the fight has just begun. it's going to continue together as a team, as a nation, this island can be seized. so, you know, unceremoniously in some ways become almost a calling charge, if you will. and it was something that motivated the marines and continued to resonate in their minds as they pushed on for another month. >> tomorrow is the 75th anniversary of the battle of iwo jima. it lasted 36 days with 36,000 american casualties. learn more tonight at 8:00 eastern as we take you to the national museum o

we just told you earlier in the newscast about a missing hiker in marin county.e's been found alive. this just in to our newsroom. 76-year-old robert bennett went missing in the big rock ridge area yesterday. again he was just found. a rescue operation is under way right now to recover him. we don't know his condition. of course beer going to have the latest on today in the bay starting at 4:30 tomorrow morning. >> that is very good news. speaking of tomorrow morning before we go, jeff ranieri talking about our wednesday forecast. >> we will see mostly clear skies during that recovery effort. temperatures in the 40s overnight. that should hopefully make it easier for them weather wise. most of the bay area will be in the 40s as we start tomorrow morning with a few chillier pockets expected right around the east bay and right around st. helena and napa. >> thanks for joining us here on this tuesday night. have a great day tomorrow. >> bye. [ cheers and applause ♪ >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, it's "the tonight show s

at the stars opens here in germany on february 13th all someone else who documents for a living is marinebiologist only coolants he's also a diver and nature photographer and his office is quite literally underwater these days in the freezing waters of the north atlantic while with his daring expeditions he hopes to sensitize people for the necessity of ocean conservation and we caught up with him off the coast of northern norway. underwater photography dives into deeper waters getting close to sea life and swimming through ice caves. the marine biologist and research diver is known internationally through his photos early cons has little trouble with extreme temperatures in fact he prefers icy waters. begin golson faired for i'm a big fan of cold bodies of water because it's always surprising what you can find . as we told you dive in the water seems gray or black all around. but in many places you'll find creatures you won't see anywhere else on earth little worms snails many kinds of jellyfish and polyps. which she will pollute it's fascinating to find such a wealth of creatures in the

the marin health medical center. we don't know what type of injuries or medical problems he may be suffering from. this is video of the rescue last night. a team of several volunteers were involved in the effort to the ,76 found at 10:30 last night by a dog team that had a so-called area.with them. volunteers say bennett was found semiconscious and off the trail. >> we owe it big to the k-9 teams around here because without them and the assistance of the search and rescue members, and expensive search, i don't know that we would have been able to find you without the canines. >> the marin county sheriff's office says time was of the essence with the search for the hiker have been lasting on someone's ring surveillance video camera around 1:30 in the afternoon monday which means he had been in the elements for more than 24 hours. right now, resources in marin county are being stretched very thin. there is a couple from palo alto who was still missing up in our next half hour we will update you on that situation. like

we are live at the marin medical center. tell us about how he was found. >> reporter: yeah, good morning to you, gasia. it's probably one of the best possible outcome here, this missing hiker was found late last night all thanks to searchers and specifically two k #9s that were able to track his skeent. this is robert bennett who was brought off the trail and taken by ambulance to the hospital, after being found near marin wood. the search intensified at night, which is really not something that officials do unless they have a strong sense that they are able to find the person he was found around 10:30 p.m. bennett had been missing since monday afternoon when he was last scene on surveillance video walking toward a trail off lucas valley road. the sheriff's office says time was of the essence here, and those two k9s played a big role in finding him. >> without them and the assistance of the search and rescues members that were assigned to them in the expansive search, i don't know that we would have been able to find them wi

nbc bay area pete suratos joining us from marin county with the details. i can't believe they found them. good morning, laura. and the last time we heard from the family members, it could be days before the couple's release here in marin county, but we have some of the latest pictures that we have seen from the couple from palo alto recovering in marin county, and you are looking at carol kiparsky and i ian irwin who were rescued after spending eight days in dense area. they went missing after a hike on valentine's day near the rental cabin in that area of inverness area in marin county and the new photo is showing the poison oak and the vines they were trapped in for days and in fact, they ate off of a fern and drank from a puddle of water just to stay alive. the member of the search and rescue team who was the first to find them had this to say about the couple's perseverance through the ordeal. >> they said they had both given up at times, but they comforted each other and helped them through it. if either had been there alone, they wouldn't have surviv

you will see why the marine layer really made a push in. then it was slow to burn back to the coast. the temperature fell below average by a few degrees of the temperature in the 50s, 60s, as we check out how they long come paired to 24 hours ago. a 12-degree drop in santa rosa. i think the newspapers will come back just a few degrees to check out the drought monitor. here's the latest. we do still have abnormally dry conditio conditions. 10% is in moderate category. we were in a similar situation. it was very dry. and then we had the miracle march. low clouds and fog. a kiss of sunshine for valentine's day and minor ups and downs are expected for the holiday weekend. so let's check out the evening planner. lover-ly weather. the temperatures will fall so definitely good snuggling weather for later at night. in you're stepping out to dinner, mke sure you have a coat or a jacket. tonight marine layer expands. the temperatures will be in the 30s and 40s. the commute could be slow going because of poor visibility. 66 in santa rosa. 66 in san ra