at the base, distributes the ground pressure over a greater surface area so we don't sink into the marshy ground. and with a shot coming in at a right angle, shot goes up in the air, won't penetrate the wall at all. once the castillo is built, over time they see they have to modify the way they're going to defend this area, because we are on a finger of land, surrounded on three sides by water. there's only one approach down from the north to gedo ahead and get to the citiby land. you want to defend the whole thing, the best way it do that is to encompass it with a fortification. but this took so much effort to built, the amount of effort it would take to build a stone fortifications around a whole city, st. augustine wasn't really worth it. ultimately they put 14-foot high reinforced wall with guns in place to turn the city into a fortification. right where we are now, is pretty much where about the last five fortifications were built. from here even with a little six-pound, even a four-pound gun, like the one in up there a four-pound gun can fire about a mile. so most of that coming int

coastguard swimmer, into the marshy crash site to rescue a fighter pilot. the pilot survived a midair collision with a small sesna airplane in south carolina by ejecting from his f-16. >> decision to eject is a quick one especially in the single seat fighter like a f-16. >> reporter: national transportation safety board is investigating the crash and said two people on board the sesna were killed and small plane destroyed. the collision happened tuesday, about 30 miles north of charleston, deprice, rained down, from the the sky and smoke could be seen for miles. one piece of the wreckage was fun leaning against a mobile home. >> as soon as i saw that it was an explosion lot of black smoke, debris falling. >> reporter: air force says major air man johnson is a highly experienced pilot. he was on a solo training mission from shah air force base to charleston. popular sesna150 is a small two seat plane that weighs about 1500-pound. the f-16 is 50 feet long and can weigh nearly 10 tons. brian web for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> still ahead this morning a terri

coast guard swimmer into the marshy crash site to rescue a fighter pilot.he pilot survived a midair collision with a small cessna airplane in south carolina by ejecting from his f-16. >> the decision to eject is a quick one. especially in a single seat fighter. >> reporter: debris rained down from the sky and smoke could be seen for miles. one piece of the wreckage was found leaning against the mobile home. >> as soon as i saw there was an explosion, a lot of black smoke debris falling. >> reporter: the popular cessna 150 is a small two-seater that weighs about 1500 pounds. the f-16 is 50 feet long and 10 tons. >>> a broken water pipe can be a serious water waster. and, in fact, the state water board says utilities lose about 10% of water through leaks and other problems. water systems in the bay area are many decades old. the san jose water company says aggressive replacements of older pipes is an ongoing project but there's a whole host of issues that can cause problems. >> age is certainly babying consideration obviously nothing lasts forever. you know,

some of the debris from the crash raining down into a marshy area, including a rice field. the f-16 pilot has been identified as major aaron johnson. military said that he made a split-second decision to eject and he's going to be okay. major johnson is with the 55th squadron based in columbia, south carolina. flight wing commander, steven joe said that the pilot was on a solo training mission on his way to charleston to practice instrument approaches. >> our pilots are well trained to fly the approaches in and out of there. and all of the facts at this point indicate that the pilot was talking to air traffic control as they normally do when the accident occurred. and unfortunately, everything beyond that is subject to speculation and will soon be under investigation. >> the two onboard the cessna had taken off from the nearby berkeley county airport and had been in touch with air traffic controllers, and they may have been headed to myrtle beach. the weather was good, and it was not cloudy. and visibility is good. it's highly unusual to have a midair collision between a ci

when the enemy controls the second-largest city and a third of it and the only people fighting the marshy at militias backed by iranians of the one responsible for the deaths in and general dunford's testimony, marines and soldiers orchestrating the attacks i don't think we are, quote, doing what we need to do. i will give you some written questions. i am very disappointed in the number of your answers. let me go back again you know what happened according to recruiting stations, the guy walked up to the door and shot and killed four marines that was in the media now matter what job you are holding, you knew that. shouldn't we have had those marines be able to defend themselves? >> the marines needed the protection they had at the recruiting station. only one individual at the reserve center where they -- they should have defend themselves. >> i will have questions for the record but if you think we are doing what we need to do in iraq en syria, we have the real strong and different view of the situation. we lost too many good marines in the battle of volusia and ramadi. senator gramm and