due primarily to the vision and the dedication of three people, george and charlotte schultz and mike myers. i'd like to pause to thank all three of them for this work. (applause) >> and in april of 1996, my last year as secretary of defense, i met one morning intelligence briefing at 7 o'clock along with general charlie. the previous day general hughes had briefed us that the chinese military were to begin extensive military maneuvers in the taiwan strait. this morning we were stunned to learn that they had fired two missiles that landed just 10 miles off the coast of taiwan. the taiwanese had a presidential election underway, and the chinese were using a not too subtle way of explaining to them what they wanted the outcome of that election to be. thises was an unacceptable form of military coercion and both the general and i agreed that a strong response was needed by the united states, something more than a diplomatic letter of protest. after some discussion we agreed to send two carrier battle groups to taiwan. within an hour the president had approved our recommendation and before the

whole program is the chairman of the san francisco fleet week association, general -- major general mike myers who i'm going to ask to come up and make is remarks. >> thank you, lewis. when i accepted the responsibilities for organizing san francisco's fleet week, the guidance given to me by our honorary co-chair was bring the fleet back to fleet week and make it productive with a mission. lewis has played a big part. i would like to introduce the third fleet commander, this is his ship, we're grateful to be on the ship and had the third fleet with us, please help me welcome vice admiral gerald beeman. >> good morning, everybody, thank you so very much for joining us. i know some of you thought i was the warm up band for the rock stars that are going to be here lately. but honestly it's a great honor to be able to host the third seminar. i would like to thank the san francisco fleet week association for helping put this together and grow this into the nation's largest emergency planning event. i don't know how many of you know it, but as a result of the success that we have had here developing

mike myers would do that, and will farrell. cow bell was written by him. it is a very-- they'll write things for you. i'll come in on wednesday of our table read and people will come in and say, "hey, we wrote this thing for you where you're a guy in grenada and taking a puppet class. and we did that with seth mcfarland, and i go great! i'll figure that out. or impressions, i show up, and they say, ," you're going to do charlie rose." great, i'll figure that out. you have 10 minutes, and i'll figature out. everybody goes through that. and then there are things like stefan or herb welch, characters that i've done, i'll go-- i'll have an idea and work it out with the writer. >> rose: you owned that character at some point. >> coowned it. >> rose: what's interesting, too, as you talked ao't will ferrell and so many other people we forget how many people have come through "saturday night live," and it's been an important step in an evolving career. >> yeah. it's a huge thing to have loare, ne say, "you." >> rose: i want you. >> and your whole life changes. >>

mike, stay with me. i want to bring in cnn's chad myers. he was in oklahoma when that big twister struck on friday and joins me now live from el reno in oklahoma. chad, it's one of those things where a lot of people come out after these storms, when they see the storm chasers and say these guys are reckless, they shouldn't be doing it, it's a crazy thing to do. the more i've learned about it, the more heroic these people seem to me. what is your view as a meteorologist? what do they bring scientifically, if you like, to the way that we combat tornadoes? >> well, let me tell you, there's a 10% scientific community, there's a 10% meteorolgee community and 10% i want to go out and see something, get my adrenaline rush, they have no radar in their car, no kind of wifi working on them. they don't even know the direction. as this storm, as mike said, as this storm turned hard left, i was two miles to its south. we kept driving to the east away from it thinking okay, we're fine but in fact, we weren't fine. it was only half a mile at the time beca

myers back with us. apologize for the earlier problem with your mike. set us straight as to what's going to rule the day in the days ahead. you had the ism today as kelly has said. week bookended by the jobs report. probably a lot of noise in between. >> certainly a lot of noise. a lot of volatility like i was trying to say before based on all the information, both data and fed speaking here again in the next few days. the most important thing at least the traders down here are looking at are the nonfarm payrolls on friday. obviously that's what the fed is saying they're focusing in on is unemployment. that's going to be a big number one way or the other. i think until we get there you'll see a lot of volatility, noise. that's going to probably be the determining factor for the week. >> great. leave it there. bond volatility. we've been hearing that theme today. the vix is up. off its highs. only about a third of a point today. >>> about 50 minutes to go before we close it up on this first trading day of the month of june. right there the dow jones indu