. >>> the governor of okinawa has said he wants the u.s. marines to shut down their futenma air station within five years. the marines commander says it won't happen until a replacement facility is ready. lieutenant general john whistler says it would be difficult to move aircraft and troops temporarily from futenma to bases elsewhere in japan. he says they aren't equipped to take the same aircraft. the leaders of japan and the u.s. have agreed to move the base from densely populated urban area to a coastal district within the prefecture. okinawa's governor last year approved the landfill project for replacement facility. some residents are opposed to that plan. they want the base moved out of okinawa. >>> the president of venezuela has sat down with opposition leaders to try and find a way to stem the country's worst political violence in years. talks between nicolas maduro and the opposition were the first since the unrest broke out in february. as many as 40 people have been killed in clashes between anti-government demonstrators, and se

of the big proponent thefic realignment -- governor last year signed a landfill agreement on okinawa. that paves the way for a lot of things to happen. it will close when the new airfield is complete. one begets the other. we are good stewards of the land. i would argue we are ahead of schedule. land down and the itrage facilities, we have in the way of warehouses. new facilities are being built further north. we are prepared to give that land back and there is a schedule to do that. i think we are heading in the right direction. i am very optimistic about the japanese government. am respectful of his position. -- he has read a bit to resolve this. >> thank you very much. >> regarding the realignment congress -- i think it has been a couple of years. >> the national defense authorization act was very clear last year and congress has said that we need to come forward with a master plan for the entire pacific realignment. on the backside of all the realignment -- okinawa moves up to camp schwab and then going to and and buildout of guam then down to australia, the last part of that is h

i was in okinawa. i was doing standup at some uso tour. it was a military base.mmy: and i called the front desk. i go, "you gotta get me out of here. there's a roach on my wall, a a giant roach." the guy was like, "yeah, it's okinawa, dude. [ laughter ] it's humid, there's gonna be roaches." so i go, "okay." so i put my luggage out, i went and did the standup gig. came back, there's a giant lizard on my wall. i called the front desk. "you got get me out of here --" >> i knew about that -- >> jimmy: "there's a lizard on the wall." and he goes, "that's a good sign, the lizard eats the roaches." [ laughter ] ♪ the circle of life >> i know that lizard. and i actually ate a roach in a a movie called "vampire's kiss." and because i know that story i had that lizard tattooed on my back. >> jimmy: that's what i'm talking about! [ applause ] thank you! thank you. finally the truth comes out. >> the truth finally came out. >> jimmy: well, sorry. we got to get back to"joe." i'm sorry, i go off on tangents. but it's great movie, great script, awesomely acted. kind of scarily

the carusos, jim, pam, erica, and amanda are a military family stationed in okinawa. after a relaxing summer vacation in australia, their scheduled landing seems routine. >> we landed normally, i stood up, and we were starting to collect the girls' things, and i looked out and saw smoke. two seconds later the entire right wing is a ball of fire. >> a loose bolt has punctured a small hole in the fuel line causing one of the engines to catch fire. very quickly, the flames engulf the plane's wings, and those wings are filled with fuel. >> when i looked at the windows, they were completely covered in smoke. >> i was really scared. >> you're in a metal can that's on fire. >> the family seats are in the worst possible location. >> we were in the middle of the plane, and normally it's not a bad thing to be close to the over wing exits, but when the wings are what's on fire, then that's really not a place you want to be. >> to make matters worse, the aisle in back of them is blocked. >> the woman right behind us, she was just indicating to my husband the overhead above his he

sure whether can we get the reform was awesome niko niko the area of okinawa first jailed in august twenty twelve also performing a protest song in moscow's main cathedral. is on. that's a lot of detail how they relate to. abortion nationals president leon. a new friend. he says holding then on sunday. president when that's all for this week. the concurrent burdensome in its eye. ay ay ay ay. fan. it is. each the poor chew shoe. i did. ch during the city the guests among them the whole family all gathered for the nobel banquet. though. think about this. i don't don't have to listen to them. but it's all in. the ticket. he has done in time. the court observed if i'm forced to collect in vietnam to stomach was going on. notice that the continued to fall. so be it tomorrow this disgusts them hooked up the severity of the decade it's a late day sell the unit. today i managed it this was one of the cia identity to be . you will will will will. the ill health. welcome to the world is like and you don't run into a joke here's a look at some other stories we're following this hour the japanese in

the united states, which, after all, has 40,000 troops stationed all around the country, including okinawalose to the senkakku islands islands. >> mike viqueira updating us on the late ns the obama tour of asia. >>> we have a story coming in from afghanistan involving a security guard working at a hospital in kabul. he has importantly opened fire. three women have been kid. let's get the latest from our correspondent, who is live in kabul. bring us up to date. what more do you know? >> well, this morning an afghan security guard was supposed to secure the hospital. he opened fire on the hospital and killed three foreigners and injured two. now it is the second similar attack on foreigners in three weeks. earlier, three weeks ago, an afghan policeman opened fire on two journalists, killing one, injuring another. these attacks affected the work of foreigners, that aid was coming and delivering by the foreigners. afghan police is telling us that the guy who - the policeman who opened fire on the foreigners in the hospital is under arrest, and he has injured himself. >> live in kabul, thank yo

japan's agriculture ministry statement this was confirmed in the southern prefecture of okinawa in october. it has since spread to more than two hundred and seventy fines in twenty one creek bank shares mostly in southwestern japan it's the first time the virus has shown up in the country in seven years. i'm a stickler for sale in tokyo says the disease has not yet resulted in a drop in the amount of queen chance on rising prices. but the president of the stuff for my kid says his team told by a supplier that if the outbreak continues that the current rate for sale prices may go up by twenty to thirty percent. even in my mind started to pull the chance to keep prices low and maybe only so much i can do it. rossi by this the ministry is calling on the days to use disinfectant fact the entrance to their minds and to vaccinate their peaks. the operator of the ocean and ninety nuclear plant stand and dance to filter was behind the latest breakdown of the watergate contaminating the temp workers and tokyo are like a power company shut down the advanced liquid processing system or alps last mont

chinese early warning aircraft and bombers flying over international waters between miyako island and okinawa's main island has also increased since last summer. aircraft were scrambled against russian planes nearly 360 times last year, up about 110 from the previous year. >>> time now for a check of the weather. a cyclone is heading to northeastern australia. our meteorologist robert speta is here with an update. robert? >> yes. we are watching out here as now a very severe and potentially very dangerous or deadly storm system, if people do not take the proper precautions out ahead of this. this is cyclone ita. it's continues to track to the west. now a category 5 on the meteorology scale. this is the highest it goes. take a look at the visible satellite imagery. you can get a little more detail on this storm system. the eye really defined in that center of circulation. here's your eye wall where winds, well, right now about 205 kilometers per hour sustained. put that in perspective. that's equivalent of an f-2 if we were talking about the fujita scale which measures tornadoes. definitely very

the ease of thinking to push ahead with plans to ease the burden of us bases on okinawa they're expected to say the planned relocation of the marine corps air station and integration of other cases where ensure a sustainable us military presence. i then obama are also hoping to get to push the cause of the trans pacific partnership japanese and american negotiators and the thing trouble reaching an agreement on their part of the free trade deal. japanese officials say what's been happening in the talks will be replanted in a statement a spokesperson for the chinese foreign ministry reacted even before the summit he said the security treaty should not cover the islands. sing dance and the japan us alliance was established during the cold war. he said they should not undermine china's sovereignty its territory and its legitimate interests he said china strongly opposes the treaty covering the islands. in other news the divers continue stitching for the missing e mails south korea is a fatal ferry accidents four hundred and seventy six people on board this it will more than one hundred and

the new unit of japan's as self defense lawyers has been deployed in okinawa. it's never slow money to the skies and seas around remote islands in the southwestern i keep telling him. the defence ministry said of the units that knock on base. included for early warning radar planes. japanese defence ministry. it's a dirty bomb and an active part in a ceremony to mark the launch of the units. so to the continuing attempts to change the way to school by force. sitting on their identification so no pic east china sea. losing a friend to the rule of law the situation is dangerous and could have unpredictable consequences. one day countdown has announced a carefully monitored remote areas including the same country islands to cancun chauncey and china and timeline and clean them. in this east as the e t c aircraft are equipped with the dish you can read on the planes will play an important role as atlanta based week i cannot fully comfort thee in riyadh pushing. china's rise for one. in rome. come to dubai pollution. it switches over to withdraw its relations with i

in several coastal towns and killed more compliant hundred people it seems that a mortal sin from okinawa the weekend go the cover. chile's president michelle partially declared a state of emergency in three regions around the quake disaster zone on wednesday promising troops police reinforcements to maintain order. addressing the nation she praised the authorities initial response to the tremor. they examined the tsunami alert was promptly put in place in the store and ordered evacuation with people comply in may. the country has come to the fest as of this emergency email and any chance. in the cia over delight to watch the people who live in the affected regions to keep calm. follow the instructions of the authorities and to do everything necessary for the safety of the people on their family is here. then cia director son he did for me. it's great to bolster security seen as an attempt to prevent a mass bleaching which took place during previous national emergencies nature says is suspending minute incident in cooperation with russia at this annexation of ukraine's crimean region. it

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forces launched the invasion of okinawa during world war ii.2 days and resulted in the highest number of casualties in the pacific theater during the war. >>> happy birthday to hillary scott, 28. msnbc host rachel maddow, 41. actress debbie reynolds, 82 years young. have a great day, from "early today." >> right now scattered showers across the buy area. a live look at our interactive radar lit up in yellow and green. not only rain but hail, snow, on some of the bay area peaks g. tuesday morning. good stormy morning. it's 4:30. i'm scott mcgrew. >> i'm peggy bunker in for laura garcia-cannon. waking up to raindrops outside in san francisco, a live look seeing what's going on. then the drive flew the south bay and san jose. we'll watch that commute with this weather. mike has his eye on that. first up meteorologist christina loren, she has been tracking the spring storm. a lot of rain. >> a lot of rain, lightning, and more thunder on the way as we head throughout the day. good morningo

the construction of a coastal monitoring bracelet depends on the island in the local law to okinawa upbefore the county's our country's ground self defense forces has begun to japan's defense minister will attend the groundbreaking ceremony the plan involves building a fifteen to twenty hectare monitoring station of quarters and a hello porch within four years depends military units planned to begin deployment on the island by the end of twenty fifteen the base of the new military facility japan wants to strengthen the defence capacity of the south western maritime area but some of the island's residents are against this plan and expected to organize protests. a report by china's commerce ministry shows of the us has relaxes all arms and satellite export controls the ministry has issued its foreign market access reports that two thousand fourteen the report focuses on changes in trade and investment policy by china's thirty major trade partners the top five the us eu japan brazil and russia account for just over half of china's total foreign trade the report said that the us has transf

went on to him on the train takes on sunday from the high base of japan's self defense forces in okinawa for whole condo across two would be deployed from the base and newspapers that this is to strengthen its rate of eight south western audience on saturday japanese. no data that ended in the grounds of defence forces he did. how does the west and a second i can be lightened the new art space is just one hundred and fifty kilometers from the two speech until gone to. one hundred seventh grade i had been with the point that if the very first time china is hosting the western pacific neighbors symposium which begins on monday in the coastal city of qingdao the wp and has counted among its members in the us australia chile canada and a number of asian countries including china japan and south korea for more on that sunday we told our reporter hunting discovery good times although the uw madison was founded in nineteen eighty seven the shrine is one of the nice dinners. it is now at twenty one members of the toughest has disabled the naval chiefs and their representatives to give the green

security cooperation, we continued to make progress to realigning forces in the region, including okinawaacting also on local communities. as we modernize defence, forces in japan includes advanced military capabilities. we stand together in calling for disputes in the reege job, including maritime issues to be resolved peacefully, through dialogue. we share a commitment to fundamental principles to freedom of international law. our commitment to jap jp is resolute and article 5 covers up, including the islands. >> we are united with "ya in determine -- korea in determination to bring about denuclearization. we stand with japan as it seeks to resolve the nooe jp abductions of japanese citizens. beyond north-east asia, japan and the united states are working to enhance diplomatic relations with asian part yours. we are deep nipping our cooperation from the relief delivered after the typhoons in the philippines, to the military intervention in ukraine. we made important progress in the ppp, supporting good jobs and growth in the united states, as well as economic reform and revitalization i

in okinawa, the prime minister questioned whether or not the navy should be able to operate out of there, so for us to go help them, and then for a few of us to sue the electric power company for what happened, i completely understand the u.s. navy taking this political side to be able to keep on the good spirits of the japanese government, so i don't blame them whatsoever. that's the stance they have to take, so it's understood with me. >> michael, i hope you get well, and also hope that for all the other sailors, they will have to see what comes of this congressionally mandated investigation. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you very much. >> we'll be back with more. >> the beyond is undoubtedly the greatest military power in the world but has it forgotten how to win wars? >> according to a provocative article: for more, i'm joined by professor of international relations at boston university and author of many books. great to have you with us. in the article, you say the u.s. military is second to none with it comes to skills and gadgets, but struggles to finish the job. wh

likely spread quickly, because we had bombers armed to go over china and drop bombs on china from okinawa. blow off the to soviet union. that was eisenhower's plan. because what eisenhower did in his eight years of office was to make nuclear weapons an alternative to conventional weapons, because we didn't have the size of the conventional weapons of the soviets, so we were ready to use nuclear. we were ready to go, and washington was in the sights. the whole world, i don't think -- i think, would have gone up. khrushchev and kennedy at the last second, through dobrynin and his brother robert, said, no, basically to their hardliners. dearly.ost both men the generals were furious with kennedy. lemay was raging at the meeting that was described by mcnamara and others. lost.said, we we lost. this was our moment. and khrushchev was criticized by his own people, but the soviets were inferior in strength. but they built up after that crisis. they built up significantly, so by the late 1970's, they were almost achieving parity. in other words, kennedy and khrushchev saved -- what were saying is

november 13th, 2009, a japanese ferry named iyake was traveling from tokyo to okinawa.s than 12 hours into the journey, the ocean current was very rough, says professor. he says the current shifted the cargo to one side, causing the ship to capsize. the ferry doesn't just look like the korean ferry accident, the two ships were made by the same builder, run by the same operator. they weighed almost the same and capsized nearly the same time into their journey. but here is a major difference, says professor watanabe. when the koreans bought the ferry from japan, they expanded it to pack in more people, turn:00 it into a ticking time bomb. the koreans bought a used vessel from japan and added lots of cabin says watanabe and cabins were built on top. the japanese ferry had only 29 passengers and crew aboard and the crew saved everyone, pulling them to the upper deck and deploying all the lifeboats. in the wake of its ferry accident, japan toughened ship regulations to lock down and limit cargo, especially in poor weather or currents. since that change in the law, japan has

from the election commission say that estimates put in around seven point five million people of okinawa to war to that of made in hven which is made u much a significant rise from t lti it was oy the four point fiv million billbs i thousand o the these elections of eighteen portends for the word and for the above is the committee itself because of the fact that this is the year that that nato and the us allied forces are going to put out and be right now with the cars that go with the karzai government that had a dead dog with the security back to the mend but now they are expecting a different team from dr as all i have shown interest in signing the security pact with it. i met with him at a console that having the troops opted to put out of ten thousand that easily does it not wise i'm so tired right now and in the first ever democratic transition in and out why it's not often he saw the fog of the divine in two thousand wind was at the same time the nato without answer to the eisteddfod. everybody's really happy about what assad where the risen lord of the woman a daughter fiona befo

my father brought home a quarter sized hole from okinawa. he lost in the mid-30s but my brothers are marines, one fully disabled, has been for years in vietnam had to write the senator after spending too long in the philippines they would send him and they finally got to go. the federal law enforcement he died at a young age but my daughter was in the marine corps foundation but having said that, as an older mother i guess like many i tend to break out into tears every time i hear of another soldier death. i don't know if that is from being 57-years-old or just being a patriotic american, but i'm sort of an avid history lover and especially war history. the concept changes so much since world war i without adding a different word against ideology now. and despite the technological advances because the united states is so far superior, how -- i have totally different questions. how do we fight this against the islam ideology number one, and i'm not trying to import that islam is bad or anything like that, that how do we fight that ended numbe

very small, really just a bunch of rocks in the middle of the ocean, sort of equidistant between okinawa and the chinese mainland now a dispute between china and japan's. tensions have been rising and it's gotten to where the united states and president obama had a step in and make a very clear statement. >> mike, thank you very much. >> the u.s. embassy in kabul says three americans have been killed in afghanistan and afghan security guard accused of shooting them at a hospital in coinkabul. he was a member of the police protection force guarding the hospital. it is the latest incident in which local security forces targeted foreign civilians. we have the latest. >> what happened 10:00 this morning, an asp began policeman working as a security guard for the hospital run by an american charity opened fire, the policeman opened fire on the staff of the hospital. it was believed he killed three foreigners and it's believed all three of american and injured another staff of the hospital. now, it is the second attack in less than three weeks on foreign civilians in afghanistan. on april fool

nicholas survived guam, sambings ipan and okinawa but fell victim to legionnaire's disease in pittsburgh. over the last year i have worked with my colleagues to demand accountability for the families f mr. nicholas and others. the first of these veterans to fall to legionnaire's disease died in 2011. the last died in november of 2012. it's been almost one and a half years since mr. nicholas died and almost three years since the first one died. where's the accountability and where's the transparency. we have asked v.a. secretary shin sec key what actions they'll -- shinseki what actions they'll take to hold accountable for these deaths. officials at the v.a. owe the families answers but have provided none. more outrageous, the regional director at the time of these deaths was awarded and accepted the highest award for civil servants and a $63,000 bonus only three day that was inspector general found that systemic failures resulted in these deaths. across the nation, the v.a. has demonstrated a widespread and systemic lack of accountability, according to a recent investigation by the veter

a japanese ferry was traveling from tokyo to okinawa, less than 12 hours into the journey the ocean currentrgo to one side, causing the ship to capsize. the ferry doesn't just look like the korean ferry accident. the two ships were made by the same builder, run by the same operator. they weighed almost the same and capsized nearly the same time into the journey. here is a major difference, says the professor. when the koreans bought the ferry from japan, they expanded it to pack in more people, turning it into a ticking time bomb. the koreans bought a used vessel from japan and added lots of cabins, and the cabins were built on top. the japanese ferry accident had only 29 passengers and crew aboard, and the crew saved everyone, pulling them to the upper deck and deploying all lifeboats, in the wake of its ferry accident, japan toughened ship regulations to lockdown and limit cargo, especially in poor weather or currents. since that change in the law, japan has had zero accidents in vessels of this size. the korean ferry company appears not to have known much about the risks of cargo and the

about what they were doing at the small unit level because his experience had been in guadalcanal and okinawa, and his name was general wald. so e sent me out to the different battlefields where i'd been fighting to write about them so there'd be some sort of doctrine we could hand on to the junior officers going out op the battlefields. so i saw a lot of different kinds of action in vietnam. >> host: how long were you there? >> guest: well, i went back and forth several times for the marines, and then i joined what was called the rand corporation, and they sent me right back there to be an analyst, so altogether i guess i spent 18-24 months in vietnam. but i got a chance to go all over the place. >> host: in hindsight, should we have gone into vietnam? should we have worked with south vietnam? >> guest: that's an interesting question. i come down on the side of, yes. i -- this will never be resolved about what happened in vietnam. and there are two schools of thought. one school of thought is that there was decay in the government such that it was going to topple anyway. that's the dominant

he was among the first soldiers to land in okinawa. he came home as a disabled veteran. he was awarded the prosecute pell -- award the purple heart and later diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. he became too sick to work at the five-and-dime store that he managed and my mom became his caregiver. that was no small burden for my mom who had to also raise seven children, care for my dad and was now all of a sudden the primary source of income for our family. today, after more than a decade of two wars, men and women in uniform like my father, have done everything that has been asked of them and so much more. but now, as our role in this conflict winds down, the support we provide cannot end when the war no longer leads the nightly news broadcasts and disappears from the front pages of our newspapers. it is an enduring commitment for those who will first need help now or those who may need help later in their lives. and it is a lifetime of care for so many. in so many cases the responsibility of providing that care often falls on the loved ones of severely injured veterans. t