sides. >> he fought under patton known as the blackhawks. >> where patton was directing the tanks in that movie, he remembers seeing patton off from a distance, he was in that mess there too. >> they won in germany so, like many americans, he was sent off to japan to pin issue the war. but he never quite made it there. >> that's when they let off the atom bomb. >> right. >> and so that turned around a lot of troops like him. >> mr. brooks married, had two kids, and eventually two grandchildren. he lived in walnut creek and was an accountant for browners furniture store until he retired. >> well-loved, respected person here by the entire neighborhood, didn't have a grouchy bone in his body. you can't say that a lot about many 90-year-olds let alone some 56-year-olds such as me. >> he was passionate about his old unit the blackhawks. he was the member master that chronicled his colleagues from the generation. even though he never was one for sharing war stories with his family. >> his generation was them, they saved the world. >> yeah, yeah, and we're -- were quiet about it too. you kn

patton off from a distance. he was in that mud nest there, too. >> reporter: they won in germany so like many young americans he was sent off to japan to finish the war but never made it there. >> that's when they let off the atom bombs and so that turned around a lot of troops like his. >> reporter: mr. brooks married, had two children and eventually two grandchildren. he lived in walnut creek and was an accountant until he retired. >> well loved, respected person here by the entire neighborhood. didn't have a grouchy bone in his body. you can't say that a lot about many 90-year-olds let alone some 56-year-olds such as me. [ laughter ] >> reporter: he was passionate about his old unit the blackhawks. he was the webmaster for the website that chronicled the lives and deaths of many of his colleagues from the greatest generation. even though he never was one for sharing war stories with his family. his generation was him them. saved the world. >> yeah. were quiet about it, too. just their job. >> reporter: joe va

>> where patton was directing the tanks, in that movie, he remembers seeing patton off from a distance. he was in that mud mess there, too. >> reporter: they won in germany. so like many young americans he was september off to japan to finish the war but he never quite made it there. >> that's when they let off the atom bomb. and so that turned around a lot of troops. right there. >> reporter: mr. brooks married. had two kids. eventually two grandchildren. he lived in walnut creek and was an accountant for bruiner's furniture store until he retired. >> well respected person here in the entire neighborhood. didn't have a grouch about anybody. you can't say that a lot about many 90-year-olds and let alone 56-year-olds such as me. >> he was passionate about his old unit the blackhawk and the web master for the web site that chronicled the lives and deaths of many of his colleagues from the greatest generation. and even though keith brook senior was never one for sharing war stories with his family. >> the generation was him, they saved the world. >> yeah we're quiet about it, too. you kno

he lands as a brigadier general in north africa, part of patton's invasion. he doesn't know what he's doing any more than anybody else does, but this sifting out that's going on among other things, people sift to the top who tend to be really very capable and lucky, and lucien is one of those. by the end of the war he goes from in 1942 being a one-star general to commanding an army in italy. and in between he does a lot of admirable things including taking over the force at anzio and preserving the force. he's ree mark bl. remarkable. so there are a number of tactical commanders like that. i tend to be less enthusiastic, frankly, about some. omar bradley, i think, is overrated. george patton is, sure, a lot of fun to write about, but i clearly see his efficiencies as a commander -- deficiencies as a commander. i think that slapping the soldiers in sicily, two soldiers, two incidents a week apart in august 1943 was unpardonable. it shows a real defect in character. do you want your son to be slapped by his commander? that's not how we run our military. so i, i

. >> where patton was directing the tanks in that movie, he remembers seeing patton off in a distance. >> reporter: they won in germany, so like many young americans, he was sent off to japan to finish the war. but he never quite made it there. >> that's when they let off the atom bomb and that turned around a lot of troops like him. >> reporter: he married, had two kids and two grandchildren. he was an accountant until he retired. >> well loved, respected person here. didn't have a grouchy bone in his body. you can't say that a lot about many 90-year-olds. >> reporter: he was passionate about his old unit, the blackhawkss. in fact, he was a web master for the website that chronicled many of his colleagues' lives. >> they saved the world. >> yeah, we're quiet about it, too. you know, it was just our job. >> reporter: so we're back live, fire efficienting are reported -- fire officials are reporting tonight that only one alarm was working. he used to joke with his family that he crossed under the golden gate bridge three times before ever being on it. that's a reference to the fact he

. >> where patton was directing the tanks in that movie, he remembers seeing patton off from a distance. he was in that mud nest there, too. >> after the war in europe ended, brooks eventually came home. he got married and started a family. yesterday's fire caused $150,000 in damage. >>> a sinkhole in the east bay shut down an interstate on- ramp. at this hour, repairs are being done at cummings skyway on eastbound 80. crews started working last night. this morning, they partially re- opened the on-ramp. the sinkhole, 12 feet by 4 feet and about 8" deep. california highway patrol did not know the cause of the sinkhole but they are guessing that the recent bad weather may have been a factor. >>> from sinkholes to potholes, they will soon be repaired on the freeway between walnut creek and danville. next year, caltrans plans to replace nearly 13 miles of interstate 680. it will also extend the carpool lane for a southbound 680 by a mile into walnut creek. the work was supposed to start last summer but the "contra costa times" reports that it was delayed because of the state budget stalema

scott patton, who has 200 acres, is one of many family growers who supply the company with manzanilla olives. >> my grandpa started back in the early fifties, and my dad, jim patton, really brought the--and kind of organized the whole orchards and got things going, and... why i like olives? olives are good for you. olives--we were just talking about olive extract. you can eat an olive, and it helps reduce cholesterol. there's a lot of good things about olives. olive oil--that's a great thing. >> but tell me a little bit--these are your babies basically. >> well, yes, they are. yes. a lot of times you'll get years where there's just an olive here a@d an olive there. but the pollination was great this year, so we have olives prepty uniformly in the--throughout the canopy. so we sell--the majority of our olives go to bell-carter. um, they've been great for the industry, and they produce a great, great product. >> california's weather is perfect for olives, and some of these trees can grow for several hundred years. but you may be surprised to know that harvesting in california is largely

in the 1940s he fought under general patton as a member of the 86th infantry. >> where patton was directing the attention in that movie, he remembers seeing patton off from a distance. he was in that mud mess there, too. >> after the war in europe ended, brooks was sent to japan but the u.s. dropped two atomic bombs before he got there. then he came home, got married and started a family. he was trying to track members of his old blackhawks unit. the cause of the fire under known. >>> a bill to ban raves in public venues in california is now on hold. san francisco assemblywoman fiona ma says she wants to talk with various groups before moving forward with her bill. the "chronicle" reports ma plans to meet with people from the entertainment industry, local government official, law enforcement as well as young people about this issue. >>> and a proposed sale of state buildings is on hold. at least for the time being. a state appeals court said yesterday a stay will remain in effect at least until a hearing in late january. so unless the california supreme court steps in this week, the sales w

a look at the presentation it shows photos of generals dwight eisenhower omar bradley and george patton barton says that speaker john boehner is our dwight eisenhower in the battle against the obama administration what jordi leader eric cantor is our omar bradley and i want to be george patton put anything in my scope and i will shoot it wonderful wonderful so congressman barton is actually comparing the g.o.p. to world war two leaders and the obama white house as the enemy regimes of that era was born you know who the enemy was during world war two you know the nazis that's a really tasteful they at least he isn't calling democrats socialists right sounds like joe barton has done of the get made another dumb and irresponsible comment and that's why his nights to a time where. now for the holiday season how would you like to get your hands on the hottest item out there it's shiny it flies without a pilot and it can do a whole lot of damage any guesses yet well if you're thinking drones then you're right according to wired dot com several countries are looking to the united states to ful

we understand he served in the 86th black infantry division and had some contacts with general patton in world war ii and also served in the pacific. his son said his father sailed under the golden gate bridge three times in world war ii before he was able to drive across the bridge. we are learning more about his history and his contributions during world war ii. we will have more and pictures coming up at 10:00. >>> the christmas weekend blizzard on the east coast created a mess for thousands of air travelers. here in the bay area, thousands of flights were canceled today. most flights are booked solid soap one is canceled it is not that easy to find seats on the next plane. >> you have lights running at near capacity and you have flights that are canceled. before 9/11, they would send out other airplanes. >> filed here in the bay area caused flights to be delayed and some passengers missed their connections. >>> instead of flight delays, some airport simply closed down. >> reporter: along the east coast, up to 23 inches of snow and wind gusts as fast as 80 miles per hour cost airli

live there and learn about their customs and traditions our very own a tour guide in the region tom patton shows us how people survive the cold and also what they do for entertainment. excepting soviet times has always been on the frontier of russia it required people to come here and build it from scratch and then to defend that frontier both people with the cossacks and it's their strong and self-sufficient local culture but i'm examining in my report. the view from the end of a cossacks spear but not to worry the young cossack on the other end knows what he's doing he's part of a tough rural tradition which has lasted for centuries. let's. see media they start teaching us riding on which in servant to trickle at the age of thirteen depending on chance abilities and as for me i was a very good do i do horse at eleven as well as i can handle a spear and a saber progress that's got to go after him and the others have a demanding daily schedule and horse riding is the glamorous part of the youngsters the village built this gym themselves and now the training in it will have a lot to do to p

>> if the honorable gentleman wants to doc patton mine, it won't be very long the 40th speaking look behind you. [laughter] >> the problem the problem with the educational maintenance allowance is that 90%, over 90% of those who receive it would stay on at school anyway. so the fact is because we are raising the school participation age to 18, it's right read replace the educational allows with something that is targeted at but i have to say, he's got to look at the bigger picture. the bigger picture is that we inherited a completely wrecked set of finance. and all the questions he asked, it's always about this cut or that cut. we know which cuts he's against. but he hasn't made one single suggestion of how you take the country out of the pit of debt he left us in. >> david miliband. >> truth is, mr. speaker, he began the year making promises, and now he is breaking them. the promise on nhs spending, broken. the promise on education maintenance allowances, broken. that promise on universal child benefit, broken. that promise our lifetimes, broken. new politics, broken. showed his new

caller: good morning, and merry christmas, general patton. you spoke of doing literacy training for the afghanis and i was just wondering what language you would train them in. guest: thank you for the call and merry christmas to you as well. the trainers for literacy are afghans and they educate them in their native language, be it dari or pash tune primarily. so it's training them in the native languages and also in mathematics and so forth. this, as i said earlier, the afghans are smart people but they're just not formally educated and it's a product of the education system that many of the people in the rural communities don't have access to. and so the other thing in terms of literacy is just to show you how much the literacy can contribute to a soldier, a recent noncommissioned officer that we trained, he entered the army as a lit rat man, as a high school graduate, and that immediately put him ahead of the other 70% of the army noncommissioned officers who are i will lit rat. and this noncommissioned officer after some initial training

after general patton, britain became a much smaller component. he recognized a slight discomfort with the monies that some british officers had about american power. thatth the cunease some british officers had about american power. there were maneuvers. they lost their way. he was in a jeep with an american driver. the cam across some tanks across this open plain. the driver said, general, sir, somebody would like to meet you. he got out of the jeep and walked and this gi saluted him. he said, "sgt, elvis presley." he had an american identification card. he said thank you. it was a great pleasure to meet you. when my father had an opportunity to pull this out of his pocket, he had been a fighter pilot in the world war and commanded the army in germany, but that was the more magical moment out of anything he had done. out of all this, i came to america and i came to my encounters with american military with a basically positive this position. i still do believe in what my father said that day in that golf course in germany. in a turbulent world,

after general patton, britain became a much smaller component. he recognized a slight discomfort with the unease that some british officers had about american power. to his dying day, he was terribly proud of an encounter that he had in germany during maneuvers with american forces. it was a winter day on the plains in what was then east germany where many of the forces were concentrated. there were maneuvers. they lost their way. he was in a jeep with an american driver. the cam across some tanks across this open plain. the driver said, i will see if they can tell us where headquarters is. the driver said, general, sir, somebody would like to meet you. he got out of the jeep and walked and this gi saluted him. he said, "sgt, elvis presley." he had an american identification card. he said thank you. it was a great pleasure to meet you. whenever my father had an opportunity to pull this out of his pocket, he had been a fighter pilot in the world war and commanded the army in germany, but that was the more magical moment out of anything he had done

and in the final days of the fighting, a regiment in the 80th division of patton's third army came underire. the men were traveling along a narrow trail. they were exsupposed, they were vulnerable. hundreds of soldiers were cut down by the enemy. and during the fire fight, a private named lloyd corewin stumbled 40 feet down the deep side of a ravine. and dazed and trapped, he was as good as dead. but one soldier, a friend, turned back. and with shells landing around him amid smoke and chaos and the screams of wounded men, this soldier, this friend scaled down the icy slope risking his own life to bring private corewin to safer ground. and for the rest of his years, lloyd credited this soldier, this friend named andy lee with saving his life. knowing he would never have made it out alone. it was a full four decades after the war when the two friends reunited in their golden years. and lloyd learned that the man who saved his life, his friend andy, was gay. he had no idea. and he didn't much care. lloyd knew what mattered. he knew what had kept him alive, what made it possible for him to c

brooks was a world war ii veteran who fought under general george patton. >>> san jose police have identified the man they say held up a store at the valley fair mall last thursday. the man pulled a rifle on a clerk at the men's warehouse then carjacked a white nissan. he has been identified as 28- year-old joseph jenkins. they say he is a known transient in the area and should be considered armed and dangerous. >>> san mateo police have released this sketch of a suspect in a robbery at a construction site. two workers inside an unoccupied home on maple street were held up at gunpoint december 17. this is one of the two people police are seeking. police go on to say the workers were in the remote area out of plain view and were likely targeted. >>> the sierra snow a big draw. but tonight, rescuers are on the slopes searching for a missing snowboarder. why there is a special urgency to their task. >>> you got fight for every deal. you have to -- you know, usually you are competing with five other dealers. >> the push to sell cars hits overdrive. why the end of the year deals are a gift to cons

they are no longer human beings, patton is a caricature, marshall is forgotten, eisenhower is a tremendousng. i experienced that for years. just had to make a record of it. >> you add so much -- you talked about the role of former presidents, we just saw a former president last friday in the briefing room. >> after the 22nd amendment, we require these charismatic people to step down. >> he didn't get along with john f. kennedy, at least in the drive up to the inaugural in 1960. >> this is the way it works. eisenhower wanted to see a republican victory, it's not surprising there was a certain wariness between the two. one thing i do hope that comes through is the extraordinary courtesy of president kennedy shown by president kennedy for president eisenhower as in the friendship between my grandfather and lyndon johnson. these people did get along in the final analysis. i think they were -- as you recreate the conversations that they had and so forth, there is this national interest, there is this vision of the national interest that brings them altogether. >> i hope you'll come back for a l

and in the final days of fighting, a regiment in the 80th division of patton's third army came underong a narrow trail. they were exposed and they were vulnerable. hundreds of soldiers were cut down by the enemy. and during the firefight, a private named lloyd corwin tumbled 40 feet down the deep side of a ravine. dazed and trapped, he was as good as dead. but one soldier, a friend, turned back. and with shells landing around him, amid smoke and chaos and the screams of wounded men, this soldier, this friend, scaled down the icy slope, risking his own life to bring private corwin to safer ground. now, for the rest of his years, lloyd credited this soldier, this friend named andy lee with saving his life. knowing he would never have made it out alone. it was a full four decades after the war when the two friends reunited in their golden years that lloyd learned that the man who saved his life, his friend, andy, was gay. he had no idea. and he didn't much care. lloyd knew what mattered. he knew what had kept him alive, what made it possible for him to come home and start a family and l

joining us from afghanistan will be better to do general gary -- brigadier general gary patton. at 8:30 eastern time, republican pollster frank luntz will talk about the latest numbers for 2011. juan williams of the fox news will be with us as well. thanks for being with us. happy holidays. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> coming up shortly, a forum on alzheimer's disease which affects 5.3 million people. the british youth parliament debates tuition costs and the afghanistan war. also, fcc event on teens and technology, including driving while texting followed by supreme court case to decide whether an arizona school credit violates the separation of school and state. this weekend, saturday and some become interviews from london. the labor party is public health, diane abbott under government plans for budget cuts as well as for expenses as a minority in parliament. sunday, comparing the british and american forms of government. this saturday and sunday night at 8:00 on c-span. >> alzheimer's dise

in the 1940s he fought under general patton in the 86th infanry. >>> governor schwarzenegger wants to sell 11 state buildings and then rent them back. a state appeals court says a stay will continue at least until a hearing in late january. and that will be after mr. schwarzenegger leaves office. >>> traffic and weather around the bay area coming right up. stay with us. , ,,,,,,,,,, >>> an earlier accident in hayward is cleared to the right shoulder. sluggish on southbound 880 from at least winton down to the highway 92 interchange. but again no lanes blocked any locker. quiet commute across the bay area so far. here's a live look at the nimitz freeway. quick trip up towards downtown oakland. and southbound 880 in the clear again until you reach about hayward then it's sluggish out towards highway 92. in the south bay, 280 traffic moves well out of downtown san jose. at the bay bridge toll plaza, so far there is no delay approaching the pay gates. that's your traffic. here's tracy with your forecast. >>> hey, thanks, elizabeth. well, here we are, p

in the final days of fighting, a regiment in the 80th division of patton's third army came under fire. the men were traveling along a narrow trail. they were exposed, and they were vulnerable. hundreds of soldiers were cut down by the enemy. during the firefight, a private named lloyd corwin tumbled 40 feet down the deep side of a ravine. after days of being trapped, he was as good as dead. but one soldier, a friend, turned back. with shells landing around him amid smoke and chaos and the screams of wounded men, this soldier, this friend, scaled down the icy slopes, risking his own life to bring private corwin to safer ground. for the rest of his years, lloyd credited this soldier, this friend named andy lee with saving his life, knowing he would never have made it out alone. it was a full four decades after the war when the two friends reunited in their golden years that lloyd learned that the man who saved his life was gay. he had no idea, and he did not much care. lloyd knew what mattered. he knew what had kept him alive, what made it possible for him to come home and start a famil

. >> tomorrow morning, brigadier general gary patton. republican pollster frank luntz talks to us about his findings. then fox news analyst one williams -- juan williams. >> a look at presidential debates including the first- ever televised debate between jfk and richard nixon. than a discussion on whether the arizona school tax credit violates the separation of church and state. then the lighting of christmas trees at the capitol and the white house. this weekend, "q & a," continues. we will have a discussion on budget cuts and then the experience of a member of parliament as a minority member the power of the prime minister, taxes, social issues, and cost of living on "q and a." >> the first televised debate was between john kennedy and richard nixon. this was discussed by charles gibson and a number of others. is lasts an hour and 20 minutes. >> is everybody ready? welcome to the kennedy school of government and politics pur. this is the fifth anniversary of the first televised presidential debates between then senator kennedy and vic

and the last noment the second world war at which there was that kind of equivalence, once george patton and the third army got going, we very quickly became a much smaller component of it. so i'm thinking my father was referencing as an south african talking to native-bornl brits, senior levels of the armed forces recognize he felt the slight els comfort with the unease that some british officers had with the american power. and till his dying day he was terribly proud of an encount thear he had in germany during military maneuvers with american forces. it was apparently a bitter winter day on the plane. it was in east germany where many american forces were concentrated. they lost their way. he was in a jeep an american driver. they came across some tanks out somewhere in this vals open plain. the driver said, i'll see if i can transfer the field headquarters. he came running back to vehicle. general, somebody would like to meet you. so he got out of the jeep and walked around. and this g.i. saluted him and said. he was elvis presley. he signed my father's card. whenever my father had

bradley patton, orlando war, plus goes on and on and on.eir angle of hopes almost to a man come in the great exception to that is to wait eisenhower somehow comes from born in texas comes from a small town in kansas and escapes that kind of anger phobia that accepts the culture in which he isn't driving. that continues to surprise me because it really intensifies the workers on and there are all kinds of reasons for it. one of the reasons that they're fundamentally 19th century men. torch marshall etd, that 1885, eisenhower 1890. and it's not that far removed from their boyhood to the british as our hereditary enemy, with the british tried to keep us in getting their independence paper in the capital on the war of 1812 and so on. they're pretty and deeply imprinted on that. there were other reasons, too. world war i experiences and so on. but this surprises me. and clearly coalition warfare is the gain. the best team is going to win world war ii. eisenhower understands that in his bones really and that's really his job. he's a middle infiel

. -- gary patton. frank luntz joins us. washington journal which recalls of the day's headlines tomorrow morning at 7:00 eastern here on c-span. members of the u.k. use parliament recently held a debate in the house of commons. the debate covered sex education in schools, the afghanistan war, and rising tuition costs. this is 3 hours 50 minutes. on the 21st of july this year, the house of commons voted to allow the u.k. huge parliament to meet annually for the remainder of this parliament to debate the subjects which you have decided should be debated. that decision was a ringing endorsement of the outstanding success of the first ever series of debates which took place exactly one year ago. it was also members of the youth parliament who were a symbol of the commitment of the house of commons that they should engage with civil society in general and with young people in particular. a course in as in beit el many of you will know -- a course many of you know is dear to my own heart. the 21st of july as