because of port smith, i can do work in the other shipyards. port smith is a major part of a ship maintenance enterprise that we must have. and i worry about it in sequestration. >> thank you very much. does anybody want to add the -- to the impact on depots and the country? opening statements, we talk about trust and we talk about retaining high quality people, predictability is important to people. and i fear that some of the folks that were furloughed won't come back as they do have other opportunities. >> i share that. and admiral greenert, i know you appreciate this, one thing i heard from shipyard employees is as we're looking at an 18 workforce and the need to hire new people and the shortage of stem educated people that engineers, mathematicians, scientists, are in small supply. they'll look in the private sector and that creates a real question for all of us. >> i could add, you know, we already reduced 4500 out of our depos, what we found following the furlough is as you pointed out, our doctors, engineers, our behavior health special

im because of port smith, i can do work in the other shipyards. port smith is a major part of a ship maintenance enterprise that we must have. and i worry about it in sequestration. >> thank you very much. does anybody want to add the -- hat to the impact on depots and the ch. country? >> senator, i can add from an aviation perspective. we lost a lot of engineers and artisans and now 50% of however ks f-18s are out of reporting. it was mentioned in most of our opening statements we talk about trust and we talk about retaining high quality people predictability is important to people.d and iin fear h that some of the t folks that were furloughed won'ty come back as they do have other that opportunities. >> i share that. and admiral greenert i know you appreciate this, one thing i >> i heard from shipyard employees isow you as we're looking at an 18 ha workforce and the need to hire new people and the shortage of stem educated people that engineers, mathematicians, scientist scientists are in small supply.e they'll look in the private if sector and

back into southern portions of nump nump port smith and back up into portland, maine.ve a chance of at least two feet maybe three feet of snow and that's why this will be an historic storm. talking life-threatening storm. emergency workers will not be able to get to these people. thinking, 29 million people. probably a couple hundred of them pregnant near full term. you got people making tough decisions now. imagine you're expecting. what do you do? go to the hospital now or risk being at home and going into labor? so many problems are going to be because of this. >> and bill, you're saying monday morning. you're saying really this is going to be a problem, the first, the snow and bitter cold until at least thursday? >> i bet power crews won't get all the power on until the end of the weekend, that bad. power crew don't have snow plows. they have to wait for the roads to be cleared. tuesday, the storm, lose power. snowed in. wednesday plows try to go to work. hopefully done by the end of wednesday and then the power crews on thursday get out to start their work. talkin

i. 95 from maine, bang door portland port smith area.hen we go to the cameras and reporters live towards plymouth and eastern mass it's a full-outrages blizzard. as we said hartford to new york city to new jersey it's going to be you clean up from a little might be nor snowstorm and go about your business later today. >> no doubt about it. as you said it is eastern new england's problem right now. that means it's john yang's problem because he's in the heart of the storm right now up in portland maine. john, we're looking at the maps. you are just getting absolutely hammered. tell us how bad it is right now and what a contrast it is in new york. >> joe, you're right. for the last couple of hours, it's been snowing at this rate. it's about a rate of a little more than -- more than two inches an hour. the winds have been about 20 miles an hour. not as strong as bill was talking about down south of us in massachusetts. but still, it's blowing the snow. you've already got the snow building up in drifts. it is going to keep snowing at this ra

it's a deep water port on casco bay, an inlet to the atlantic ocean, which explains its role as a major fishing center. pearl smith worked as a fish packer. every day, she boxed crates of fish for shipment around the country. it was hard work with little pay. after work, she was a frequent customer at a bar near the docks, as was bill bruns, a man 13 years her senior. bruns was a trucker. his job was hauling fish from maine to montreal. the two had a lot in common. they liked to drink, and they were unlucky in love. pearl had been divorced five times, and bill's third marriage had just ended. they fell in love and were married in the summer of 1986. their relationship appeared to be close. they met for lunch each day at this restaurant on the docks. but on august 13th, 1991, pearl's daughter called police to report her mother missing. she said pearl failed to show up for a family gathering she had been looking forward to. >> my mother was very loving, very caring. everybody's best friend. >> south portland detective linda barker was assigned to the investigation. at the bruns home, she noticed that none of pearl's

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