"victory in vietnam," it's the translation of the official north vietnamese history of the war. it has a forward by professor william diker. and he concludes his forward by saying, one of the most pernicious myths about the vietnam war that the insurgent movement in south vietnam was essentially autonomist one has been definitively dispelled. this is not -- you know, they basically kick the viet kong to the curb as soon as they took over saigon. this was a myth. this was a classic front. anybody should have understood when they set up the national liberation front. now, again, how did we go to war? okay. we had a treaty commitment. and then on the second of august 1964 there was a minor skirmish between an american warship, the u.s.s. mad dox, and north vietnamese torpedo boats. i've seen photos, there's one hulled in the superstructure of the maddox from machine gunfire. when they told lbj about it he said let's not overreact. this may have been the act of one boat skipper or something like that. we don't want to do anything -- you know? and everybody says he wanted to drag the

president johnson opted for bombing north vietnam because he wanted to avoid the issue of u.s. grund troops. ultimately he -- ground troops. ultimately he committed more than 500,000 u.s. forces to the vietnam way. >> the military insulation in vietnam is the text book study of mission creep. is president obama going in danger of going down the same road. >> there is always the danger but we're in the position of two lessers. we have no good choices. we have to the one that is, the one with least risk and damage to us. going after the isil people is in fact in my judgment, the right decision. it doesn't mean that it is a great -- that syria will benefit from it. these are the poentsz to asad -- opponents to a government. how far is goes is to be determined. >> he is not looking to expand his empire beyond syria where isil is looking to expand and create. the comparison with president johnson. president obama does not have the resources that johnson had. the economy was booming then. we had guns and butter. there was a draft so you had an unlimited amount of man power what is the

during this period of the 1960s, north vietnam was one of our top signals. key interseptembers were those between the torpedo boats, who could do some real damage to us offshore. we had taken over for the french. we probably made a big mistake after world war ii by not recognizing the nationalists aspirations. there were some reasons we did that. france, we needed this part of nato in rebuilding europe against stalin and communist threat. so we came in on france's side. the japanese had beat them and taken over. for the vietnamese, t it was the japanese and the french. and then the french got beat, they got thrown out and we came in. we had supported the southerners. they knew in the late 1950 z, they would have lost. hoe chho chi minh had the highe debate. free elections are purely utilitarian. that was in retrospect. it seems to be a turning point. we were hearing that he was wanting to cut a deal with hanoi and we had a lot of rhetoric about the south is the freedom and the north is the tyranny and we've got to be there. there was a great book written abo

president johnson opted for bombing north vietnam, because he wanted to avoid the issue of u.s. ound troops. ultimately, he committed more than 500,000 u.s. forces to the vietnam war. >> lyndon johnson's military escalation in vietnam is the textbook study of mission creep. is president obama in danger of going down that same road? >> mort? >> sure there is always that danger. but we are in a position i would like to describe as the evil of two lessers. we have no good choices here. so we have to pick the one that is most in our interest and the one with least risk and least damage to us and going after the isil people is, in fact in my judgment, the right decision. it doesn't mean syria is a great, syria is going to benefit from that, because these are the opponents to assad's government and assad is not exactly someone you want want to send to a christmas party. having said that, he is still not as bad as the isil people and not as threatening to our interests from the region. that is why we are doing it. how far it goes is not to be determined. >> and not an expansionist he is

vietnam. the threat was north vietnamese army regiments. ultimately, less than 2% of the united states marine corps in vietnam was actually implementing the combined action program. i would argue that this is a bit of a false alternative. even the marines who thought they had a better way, they didn't. less than 2% of their operations were focused on these programs in large part because crew lack and others quite simply could not ignore the bully boys. aternatively, when you look the back message traffic between wes moreland and the marines, there is not as much difference in the language that they are using in terms of securing the population, of trying to balance military operations and pacification efforts. most of us are older than you are. did you ever get a chance to meet westmoreland? end of hisat the life, he came up to west point. >> i had seen him speak once after he retired. one of the things that struck me was he certainly looked the part , if you were casting for a 1960's four-star general. remember this is "time" man ofon the y

he was bombing north vietnam as part of a triangular strategy involving the chinese, the russians andbecause to have vietnam war. >> and richard nixon. >> i'm sorry? >> and richard nixon. this is where this book is so terrific. because it always comes back to nixon and how he will be viewed. >> well, this is the point i was getting at. if you are think about the triangle and china is here, russia is here and vietnam is here, how, in fact, was he aware he was playing a game? was diplomacy a great game? a sport >> you hear on the tapes, no, i'm not doing this. a cynical view. but there are a few moments, really the days before he goes to china, february 1972, where he lets his guard down a minute to billy graham, says, no, nixon read history, a great admirer of british praims. he said, we're like the british . they always played the weaker against the stronger and that's what we're doing here. so i'm going to china. what was in his mind at the time? the chinese are not exactly stupid people. the russians maintain a rigorous kind of diplomacy. they, too, are not a stupid people. couldn't

we won the war with vietnam against north vietnam and also in cambodia. we won those wars on january the 23rd of 1972. president nixon made a speech in rhyme time saying the paris peace accords are going to be sign inside four days, they were signed on the 27th. and we got everything we wanted. now, this isn't just me talking, the north vietnamese have said in their memoirs we lost the war then. because what -- the paris peace accord said that if there's any violations -- i'm paraphrasing, but i'm telling you really what it is -- if there's any violations, we will supply south vietnam with everything they lose piece for piece. if they lose a bullet, we'll give them a bullet. if they lose a helicopter, we'll give them a helicopter. and it went into a whole list of things. but what we promised south vietnam was freedom. we used to bill of rights, particularly the first amendment as the instrumented and then expanded. it was everything you could think of. freedom of association, freedom of meetings, freedom of anything. and it was signed. signed by viet cong

johnson had this lingering hope that he would be able to have a breakthrough in negotiations with north vietnam and somehow bring peace to that war or a breakthrough in negotiations with the soviet union. and go to that convention on the evening of his birthday and announced peace and have the convention stampeded in his favor. that was an unrealized dream but now one johnson ever abandoned. for that reason until well after the convention, it took him a while to get over the fact it did not happen. he continued to treat humphrey as a kind of a staff sergeant with treat a private. it was not until the end of the 1968 campaign. the houston astrodome at an event that included johnson and frank sinatra and humphrey and texas was one of southern state that humphrey carried. it took that long for johnson to get over the fact that even though he said i will not do it, his party had not come to him on its knees and finally realized that humphrey lost that will be taken by the people as a reflection of his leadership which in fact it was. >> time for one more. >> first of all, i enjoyed your presentatio

vietnam. he and his fellow green berets were at an isolated camp along the ho chi minute trail. a huge northietnamese force attacked, bombarding bennie and his comrades with mortgagers and white phosphorus, at a time, it was nearly impossible to move without being wounded or killed. but bennie ran into enemy fire, again and again, to retrieve supplies and ammo, to carry the wounded to safety, to man the mortar pit, holding off wave after wave of enemy assaults. three times, explosions blasted him out of that mortar pit and three times, he returned. i have to be honest, in a battle and daring escape that lasted four days, bennieavé performed many acts of bravery, we actually don't have time to talk about all of them. let me just mention three. on the first day, bennie was helping load a wounded american onto a helicopter, a vietnamese soldier jumped i don't to the hilo trying to escape the battle and aimed his weapon directly at the wounded soldier, ready to shoot. bennie stepped in, shielded his comrade, placing himself directly in the lane of fire, helping to save his wounded comrade. at an

he is counting on winning the war from the air which we did in north vietnam and probably worst of allhe is actually causing a sanctuary because he is not going to send u.s. ground forces in to clear out the cities that the islamic state has -- >> you open up a lot of questions and one of them is what do you do with that. and there a viable partner, the iraqi army, is there a viable partner for establishing the boots on the ground, which would be supported by u.s. air strikes? i don't see one, the iraqi army was destroyed by maliki, whatever we succeeded in building, in the the eight years we were there, was pretty much undermined. the militias who are anti-asaad and syria, are not capable of doing that. about whether -- certainly there's welcome at some level some support from the u.s. for the kurdss the turks, it's a unfortunately president obama does uhn't have a lot of credibility because of the syrian debackble a year ago, so lit be hard for him to put together a credible coalition. as i see it. i wish him all the best, i always wish for our country to do well, but i'm not confide

. >> john mccain was prisoner of war for years in north vietnam, he said no video by a prisoner can beface value you. karl penhaul, thanks. >>> with all the attention on is isis, it is easy to forget of the multiple terror plots traced to the al qaeda affiliate. the al nusra front and khorasan are intent on attacking airliners. the u.s. will not turn to bashar al assad for help in dealing with the threats. secretary of state john kerry declaring the u.s. believes assad broke international law by using chemical weapons on his people in april. >>> the death toll exploding in west africa. more than 2600 people killed by ebola. the united nations declared the outbreak a threat to international peace and security. officials are moving quickly to set up the relief efforts. in sierra leone, a three-day lockdown for 6 million people. everyone confined to their homes for the weekend. in guinea, a deadly mob attack on educators trying to teach locals how to avoid getting infected. eight people, three journalists are killed there. there is now a black market list for the blood of survivors. >> wh

when the french got out of north vietnam there was a massacre of about 50,000 catholics and this was followed by a flight to the south of more than a million catholics in the united states played a considerable part in helping evacuate them to the south, which led senator george 18, who is best known for his later recommendation that the should declare the jury and go home to pithily observed that no good deed goes unpunished because the effect of having this very large northern population consisting mostly of catholics in the south was to create a condition in which the government of the south is almost entirely in the hands of northern catholics. the provinces with large catholic population were pro-government. provinces that didn't have a large northern catholic population were at best neutral listing you will recall the demonstrations by the buddhists that people immolating themselves and so forth. so the recommendations -- negroponte was a pessimist and a death for the early part of his stay in vietnam. he then was assigned to observe the vietnamese constituent assembly and the

smartly and it will be a tropical quickly and vast amounts of rain across southwest china and north vietnamhere will be flooding to come there then over the next few days. we heard of flooding across pakistan and northwest of india and we see the sky is largely clear here for what will do and coming out of the sky and heavy rains continue right up the eastern cats in the coming days, nick. >> thank you. protesters in the malaysia capitol demand an end to laws they say are repressive to jail anybody who questions the country's leaders and scott reports from quala-lumpa. >>> support of a young malaysia man in prison and calling for more than his release and calling for the law that imprison ended him to be abolished and he is held under the acts of 1948 put in place when malaysia with a british colony. >> only malaysia it has been used against opposition figures who criticize the government. >> reporter: the act was designed to prevent an armed over throw of the government restricting what people can say and write that might lead to revolts. the government is bullying him over a comment he po

targets in a war, linden johnson, he would sit there and say you can bomb half of this bridge in north vietnamnot that. we now know that this president, a community organizer who never organized anything is sitting in the oval office picking targets in iraq. >> and he can push back and say that he got osama bin laden through our navy s.e.a.l.s. he would push back that that was one target he picked and he was right about it. >> i'm glad he got them. and i'm glad the s.e.a.l.s. >> asking on twitter, how can we convince others to do what we are not willing to do, boots on the ground? doug? >> we have to be prepared to consider all alternatives. >> did you hear captain nash? he said, you know, you may have to commit to that, we can put all the weaponry and train the peshmerga and anybody we want to, but we can't promise that they'll be able to carry it out. >> that was precisely the point i was underscoring. we have to leave all options open and the keyword we're using tonight is leader ship. >> do you think the american people have it in them? >> i think we do, the polls have changed so dramatica

nixon is bombing north vietnam right before the russian summit. all these things are going on at the same time that all the planning for watergate is going on, and so, i mean, it's real easy to absolve nixon of not keeping tighter rein on the boys at the committee to re-elect because so much big stuff was going on. and then he made the fatally flawed decision not to send them all to the grand jury but to try to cover it up. >> leon is next, philadelphia. >> caller: i just have a question for the author. in your opinion, given the partisan warfare that's going on in washington, i trace it back to watergate because of the fact is republicans were mad at democrats and wanted to get even with democrats for bringing down nixon. ultimately the hatred led to them trying to impeach bill clinton and i see a lot of that hatred towards president obama. >> i would agree to only a slight extent. watergate was the final act of vietnam. all the polarization goes back past watergate to vietnam. that was the thing that tore us apart. that i think is still the thin

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but when he looked around, the relations with vietnam and japan are strained and its relations with north korea and the united states also aren't good. in a way, china is surrounded by enemies. xi hopes to calm tensions diplomatically. he believes the apec meeting in china in november is a good opportunity to create better relations between other countries. i think it's possible that he will have a meeting with prime minister abe at that time. china's economic growth has slowed and investment from japan has declined. the xi administration wants to receive investment from japan and to boost its economy. but sino/japanese relations have been unstable due to domestic reasons on both sides. it's possible that china will change its attitude if a domestic political struggle occurs. so it is uncertain if the two countries can maintain a good relationship after the apec meeting in the fall. >>> military units with south >>> time now for a check of the weather with mai shoji. people in western japan are dealing with torrential rain, tens of thousands of residents in the city of kyoto have had to e

handful of people instead of trying to recreate a battlefield in vietnam, there would have been a different result. even so by 1972 when the north vietnamese undertook a major offensive, south vietnam, the south vietnamese army beat them. we threw that away. you could say we shouldn't have been there in the first place, but having set out to achieve one thing, we did achieve it. >> we did see a counterinsurgency in iraq and hasn't that failed to produce the kind of results we would like to see? >> the counterinsurgency, when we finally got our act together in 2006-2007 in iraq, that so-called surge wasn't the fact we sent 20,000 more money, was we finally -- 20,000 more men, was we finally fought the war the way it should have been fought. we beat the guerrillas. went against everyone's expectation, what the army did there; working with locals, learning to fight at night. and it worked. and that's why the sunnis, the militias, came op our side because we realized we were now knowing what we were doing. but again can, like vietnam, we threw it away. >> all right, thank you very much, mr. forbes. you can step down. thank you, gent

vietnam. watergate happened, and the north vietnamese take advantage of our issues to invade the south and take territory over at a rapid pace, creating the chaos in saigon. the situation was desperate. >> and you couched it well. the troops left. the u.s. troops were there. it was so chaotic, it was so out of control, unexpected from washington's perspective, that they said we just get the americans out and leave the vietnamese behind. that was the order coming from washington, and what our film documents what happens and how we got to that point and americans and vietnamese that are against the policy, to save vietnamese and get them out of the country, which is going against the u.s. orders, doing something that was illegal, costing their jobs at the least, and their lives. >> why haven't the stories of heroism been tomb. i heard the stories of the oscar schindler of vietnam, someone that risking everything to save others. here you bring out american officials that pretty much ignored american policy which was to bring out american citizens, in order to save the people that helped us. >> it

his political rivals, but when he looked around, the relations between vietnam and japan are strained. and its relations between northorea and the united states also aren't good. in a way, china is surrounded by enemies. xi hopes to calm tensions diplomatically. he believes the apec meeting in china in november is a good opportunity to create better relations between other countries. i think it is possible that he will have a meeting with prime minister abe at that time. china's economic growth has slowed and investment from japan has declined. the xi administration wants to receive investment from japan and to boost its economy. but sino japanese relations have been unstable due to domestic reasons on both sides. it is possible that china will change its attitude if a domestic political struggle occurs. so it is uncertain if the two countries can maintain a good relationship after the apec meeting in the fall. >>> officials in tokyo worry that the scale of the dengue fever outbreak will be more serious than they initially thought. there are now 56 people infected with the virus. all of them were in a central city pa

military advisers in south vietnam sent to help the army of the republic of vietnam in their war against hoe chi min and the communist northnext, from 1963, a 30-minute u.s. army film documenting the activities of captain william johnston who trains and assists south vietnamese troops while they are constantly being attacked and harassed by vietcong. 50 years ago on august 10th 1964 the situation in vietnam was transformed when lyndon johnson signed the resolution to grant the president broad powers to increase american involvement in the conflict. >>> since the outbreak of hostilities in 1959, united states army advisers in vietnam have undergone a variety of experiences and learned much about the complexities of guerrilla warfare in southeast asia. working through m.a.g. these advisers have increased in number to more than 12,000. each is assigned to a specific activity or unit of the army of the republic of vietnam commonly referred to as arvin to make sure that u.s. equipment is used and maintained properly and to teach by lecture, demonstration and by setting an example. perhaps the advisers most important function is

vietnam. we underestimated the viet cong and the north vietnamese and overestimated the with of the south veet na me. in this case, we underestimated isil and overestimated the fighting capability of the iraqi army. >> the reason that i think the president's strategy to combat isis has a chance to succeed is that the iraqi government finally includes sunnis who were representing those tribal leaders who are moderate and without whom isis cannot be defeated. we can't wind a land war in iraq. we've proved that. but they can. and we can help them win it. >> let's bring in cnn's national chief correspondent jim sciutto, pentagon correspondent barbara starr. barbara starr, first to you. there are a lot of critics that are making a lot of hay but the difference between the military and the white house. sometimes you've got to wonder if it's just because it's fine tuning in progress or if there might be a different strategy to this given that critics are also upset that we're telegraphing plans effectively to the enemy. >> ashleigh, the bottom line, the pentagon says on all levels that there simply i

vietnam. he and his fellow green berets were at an isolated camp. a huge northtnamese force attacked bombarding bennie and his comrades with mortars. at the time, it was nearly impossible to move without being wounded or killed. but bennie ran into enemy fire, again and again, to retrieve supplies and ammo, to carry the wounded to safety to man the mortar pit holding off wave after wave of enemy assaults. three times explosions blasted him out of that mortar pit. and three times, he returned. i have to be honest. in a battle and daring escape that lasted four days, bennie performed so many acts of bravery, we actually don't have time to talk about all of them. let me just mention three. on the first day, bennie was helping load a wounded american onto a helicopter. a vietnamese soldier sumped on -- jumped on, trying to escape battle, and aimed his weapon at the soldier. bennie placed himself directly in the line of fire, helping to save his wounded cam comrade. at another point, bennie and a few other soldiers were trapped in the mortar pit, covered in shrapnel

vietnam. he and his fellow green berets were at an isolated camp along the ho chi minh trail. a huge north vietnamese force attacked, bombarding bennie and his comrades with mortars and white phosphorous, at a time was impossible to move without being wounded or killed. but bennie ran into enemy fire, again and again, to retrieve supplies and ammo, to carry the wounded to safety, to man the mortar pit, holding off wave after wave of enemy assaults. three times explosions blasted him out of that mortar pit. and three times he returned. i have to be honest, in a battle and daring escape that lasted four days, bennie performed so many acts of bravery, we actually don't have time to talk about all of them. let me just mention three. on the first day, bennie was helping load a wounded american onto a helicopter. a vietnamese helicopter jumped on the helo and aimed his weapon directly at the wounded soldier, ready to shoot. bennie shielded his comrade, placing himself directly in the line of fire, helping to save his wounded comrade. at another point in the battle, bennie and a few other soldier

vietnam. we under estimated isis and overestimated the fighting capability. i didn't see the collapse of the security force in the north you probably know this as well. they are working for his dad in charge of all intelligence for the army and military in vietnam. it was a father-son team and this is a pretty honest evaluation. >> i think so. there is no way i'm going to say this is a perfect strategy and it's flawed and short of 200,000 american troops. so rank and file melted away. they didn't have close air support which is an important part of any modern day military. this won't be done in 30 seconds or 30 days, but this is the beginning of fighting back. we saw what happened in australia. that's coming here. we have to take them on and a radical who lived in australia had a patiently organized and working for isis and organized a threat that was thwarted and the australians say that the threat from isis was to grab people from the streets and behead them and make videos. it's incredibly shocking and scary yet at the same time you saw "the washington post" starting with general dempsey. they are not on the same pa

advisers in south vietnam, sent to help the army of the republic of vietnam in their war against homey minute and the communist northnext from 1963, a 30-minute u.s. army film documenting the activities of captain william johnston, who trains and assists south vietnamese troops while they are constantly being attacked and harassed by vietcong. 50 years ago, on august 10th, 19 of 4, the situation in vietnam was transformed when lyndon johnson signed the gulf of tonkin resolution with congress granting the president broad powers to increase american involvement in the conflict. >>> since the outbreak of hostilities in 1959, united states army advisers in vietnam have undergone a variety of experigoet learned much about the complexities of guerilla warfare in southeast asia. working through mag, these advisers have increased the number to more than 12,000, each is assigned to a specific activity or unit of the army of the republic of vietnam, commonly referred to as arvin, where his chief duties are to make certain that u.s.çtt equipt is used and maintained properly. and to teach by lecture, demonstration and by settin

until the north vietnamese forces started shelling the air base that the american ambassador really considered an evacuation. >> this is an ambassador who had lost his only son in combat in vietnam. >> reporter: as the south vietnamese army crumb belled thousands of vietnamese who -- crumbled thousands of vietnamese who had worked with americans struggled to escape. the iconic vietnamese boarding a chopper, he was arguing to get his people out. >> there were very few good options at that point. >> my dad flew a chinook helicopter in the south vietnamese air force. >> reporter: in never before seen footage kept in an attic undeveloped by a sailor aboard the uss herc, you see a south vietnamese pilot trying to escape tosses his entire family 18 feet to the death before he crashed his chopper into the sea and swam to safety. >> finally he made the helicopter roll to the right as he stepped out the door on the left. >> reporter: in the end u.s. left behind 420 people just on the embassy grounds. many of those people doomed to years in reeducation camps or death. lori kennedy says there's a message that needs to ring down through the years. >> we really need to think critically as we

north attacks, and then, of course, nixon had resigned with watergate. ford was in office. we had put a congress in position where they really didn't support the war in vietnamdn't support the war, and we just weren't going to get behind getting back into the quagmire of vietnam. and so there was no support by the u.s., and they just were able to kind of... it fell like a house of cards. >> jon: it's amazing how united states' history exists in such singular fashion, and you never see a cycle of these types of... >> never repeats itself? [laughter and applause] >> jon: what's interesting about this, many people don't realize, so there are... the people that are working in saigon, the americans have these enormous support teams of vietnamese who have risked their lives to work with us. >> well, exactly. and you can imagine many people have been there over years and year. and they had... soldiers had married vietnamese. they had children who were vietnamese. they had their counterparts who they had been working with, and it's anybody from agents to cooks and people who drove the car, all of whom were then a greater risk because then, you know, we leave the cou

vietnam from march 9th to 12th, 1966. when the camp was attacked by a large north vietnamese force in the early morning hours, sergeant first class adkins rushed through intense enemy fire and manned a mortar position adjusting fire for the camp despite incurring wounds from enemy mortars. upon learning several soldiers were wounded toward the center of camp, he turned the mortar over to another soldier, ran through exploding mortar rounds and dragged several comrades to safety. as the hostile fire subsided, sergeant first class adkins exposed himself to sniper fire while carrying his wounded comrades to the camp dispensary. when sergeant first class adkins came under small armed fire, he maneuvered outside of the camp to evacuate a seriously wounded american and draw fire while successfully covering the rescue. when a resupply air drop landed outside of the camp perimeter, sergeant first class adkins moved outside of the camp wall to retrieve the much needed supplies. during the early morning hours of march 10th, 1966, enemy forces launched their main attack and within two hours sergeant first class adkins was the only man

his mission in vietnam was to get the ships out so they did not fall into the hands of the north.e told the counterparts we had theet all of the ships off island. his counterpart said it was fine but the sailors were going to need to man the ships and they were going to bring their families with them. there was dead silence on the phone. armitage did not say yes or no so they had an agreement. they hastily got together. they went to the island around the corner and there were 30 ships and 30,000 people on the ships. then he had to make the decision to bring them along. did everybody know the story? >> i think very few people know that story. i got an e-mail from his son two or three months ago saying, thank you for sharing this story. my dad never told me. [laughter] he's an amazingly humble man. is a clip of south vietnamese and american trying to enter the embassy. people holding letters saying i work for the americans, please let me in. arriving counting on being recognized, being let in by the marines. >> there was a sea of people wanting to get out by , but they looked up at

north in this direction. this is west. this system is moving to the west at 35 kilometers per hour with gusts up to 180. it is expected to make landfall in northern vietnam as we head into tuesday night local time. it will weaken, but slowly progress across the southern areas of china into vietnam. this is going to be a major rain situation with rainfall amounts from 150 to 250 millimeters possible as we go through the next couple of days. so definitely watching out for that. we have a low pressure system east of the philippines that may turn into a tropical depression for the next day or so. looking out for a possible development with this system. meanwhile, in northern japan, we have a low pressure system bringing rain and some snow being reported in the highest peak of hokkaido. that is showing wintry anticipation, i guess. colder air is moving in aloft. that means clouds and showers for tokyo on friday with 25. 24 in seoul. southern china seeing more rainfall because of the typhoon. we are watching for odile. this is a tropical storm. earlier this week, it was a category 4 hurricane. it has weakened significantly. the problem is this is a slow-moving

. >> 21 days ago vietnam war veterans terry sharp and allen brown started a 300-mile miley from north white house. the purpose? to deliver an important message to president obama. >> make the call free sergeant tahmooressi. >> two weeks ago corporal sharp went "on the record" to tell us what he was up to. two marine corps veterans taking on a new mission. their goal to get president obama to take action to free cheargt andrew tahmooressi. >> i'm 100 miles away from the house. >> and today sergeant tahmooressi's 170th day in prison. our marine in a mexican prison is finally get reinforcement from these two marines and supporters. >> he is not a criminal but a honorable young man who made a wrong turn and wound up in a bad situation. these vets made it of course "on the record" will stay on the sergeant tahmooressi case. thank you for being with us tonight. if you can't watch, use your dvr. you know how to use it we have something new. foxnews.com. check it out any computer or device. right now you go to gretawire and check it out. should president obama pick up the phone and help serge

vietnam, there was hardship. you were talking about people's lives and going over to fight against the north vietnamese. in the climate debate, there's no harm coming to these people. they don't have to sacrifice anything. you saw them get into their suvs and leave. there's nothing tangible, unless they want to go to china and fight for people's right to breathe clean air, i really think their energy would be better off talking about some sort of energy independence here in america, such as fracking would be just more productive. >> they did change china's way of doing government. there are people who did protest that. the and te yes or tian'anmen's was a good example of that. >> one of the biggest kenards that the press has falleni for, that by blaming individuals for their own choices, that's not the issue, you're letting the koch brothers run our democracy, and hurt our democracy, that's what you should be paying attention to, instead of asking inane questions about what kind of car somebody drives or whether or not they use cell phones. >> it's always good when you're around a kennedy to see both ha

vietnam in. it will dry at 4:00 at 76. and 7:00 at 68. inland the clouds are crass the north bay and 72 at noon, 84 at 4:00, a colorful sunset and 76. best chance showers is at 7:00 at the coast. >>> the heaterring lights were turned on 20 minutes ago and you can see it causing quite the jam from emeryville. you have a weight on your happened that is moving law and you will be on the brakes. over the bay area you can see we are starting to see a willup of traffic in a few spots and over the altamont pass and along 880. we have a up cough accidents that are reported by our wazers. one is at a street southbound to the south, another accident, and you can see it is causing the delays at industrial parkway. we have two accidents gumming up the commute away from 238. in campbell fire for thes residents from the homes transportationing three cars at the apartment complex at union avenue and 40 people in the 16-unit building were evacuated starting at 4:00. the flames were so hot the cars' gas tanks spilled fuel. the fuel like did not spread the fire but presented a different proble

vietnam. for this country the war was finally over. but just two years later, the north with his wheels in and out of the water. here's a man flying a twin rotor helicopter by himself. at the same time he's taking off a flight suit. how you do it, i've talked to helicopter pilots, and they can't figure out how he did that, like a houdini trying to get out of this thing. finally, he made the helicopter roll to the right as he stepped out the door on the left. he swam away. the helicopter was only about 20 feet from him when it hit the water. it was amazing. >> joining me now is rory kennedy, producer and director of that documentary, called "last days in vietnam." we all thought we knew everything from the one picture of people being pushed off the ladder to get up top. what more is there to the story in pictures? >> i think that's right. a lot of us feel like we know the whole story from that picture, and it's such an extraordinary story, that impact happened during the final days of the vietnam war that so few of us really understand and appreciate. the chaos of that mo

vietnam. he and his fellow green berets were at an isolated camp along the ho chi minh trail. i huge northamese force attacked, bombarding benny and his comrades with mortars and white phosphorus. at the time it was nearly impossible to move without being wounded or killed. benny ran in to enemy fire again and again to retrieve supplies, ammo, to carry the wounded to safety, to man the mortar pit holding off wave after wave of enemy assaults. three times explosions blasted him out of the pit and three times he returned. i have to be honest. in a battle and daring escape that lasted four days, benny performed so many acts of bravery we actually don't have time to talk about all of them. let me just mention three. on the first day, benny was helping load a wounded american onto a helicopter. a vietnamese soldier jumped on to the helo trying to escape the battle and aimed his weapon directly at the wounded soldier ready to shoot. benny stepped in, shielded his comrade, placing himself directly in the line of fire, helping to save his wounded comrade. at another point in the battle benny and a