mr. david kennedy, assistant administrator of national ocean science, oceanic and atmospheric administration known as noaa. please. >> thank you. chairman and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify on the noaa marine debris program and its activities to address the marine debris by last year's tsunami. noaa is very concerned and taking active steps to address the threats tsunami debris pos to our communities. we're leading efforts with federal, state, and local partners to collect data, assess the debris, and reduce possible impacts. i'd like to give you some background on the marine debris program, the federal government's lead own marine debris issues and highlight a few examples of how noaa is responding. the noaa marine debris program is small, but it has a big impact on a big problem. the world's oceans and shores are plagued by manmade debris that causes untold economic losses to coastal communities and threatens wildlife, habitat, human health, safety and navigation. the program of 13 staff conducts activities to research, prevent and reduce marine debri

mr. david kennedy. >> thank you. chairman begich and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify on the noaa marine debris program and the second is to address the marine debris generate by last year's generated tsunami. noaa is a concern and is taking active steps to address of the threats tsunami debris poster calls it commits and natural resources. we are is leading efforts with federal, state and local partners to collect data, a sense of the debris and reduce possible impacts. i'd like to give you some background on the marine debris program which is a federal government's lead on marine debris division is an highlight a few examples of how noaa is responding. the noaa marine debris program is small but as a big impact on the big problem. the world's oceans and shores are played by man-made debris that causes untold economic losses to coastal community and threatens wildlife, habitat, she would health, safety and navigation. the program of 13 staff conducts activities to research, preve

david petraeus. >> this week on "q&a". former united states tickets service agent clint hill discusses his book entitled, "mrs. kennedy and me". >> clint h ill, author of "mrs. kennedy and me". what would be the difference between then and today? how would you do things differently? >> i have -- back then there were only to assign to mrs. kennedy and today there more than two. quite a few more. i do not know the exact order. that is beneficial. there are female agents available. we did not have that luxury in 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963. that makes a great deal of difference. no matter where she went, it drew a crowd and i caused a problem. we managed to do with that. and handle things the best we could. >> you have a story in your book about the main -- a man named roddy mims. >> he was a photographer in washington, d.c.. somewhat of harassment to me and others. on one occasion he did something i was very upset about. i had arranged for mrs. kennedy to arrive in washington on the military flight which is unusual for her. but to do so quietly. a separate section at the national airport. we had arranged for the white house