i was -- rotc. i was actually recruited for this in the very early days of the career field being open to women. i was actually a crew commander. i commanded a four-person titan ii missile combat crew here at the site when it was operational. i was stationed here from 1980 to 1984. when i first came back here after they opened the museum, it was 1998 and the museum had been open for about 12 years so the site had actually been off alert since 1982 and i happened to come back to tucson to live after i got out of the air force. an uncle visited me and he wanted to come here and i remember when we came through the access portal into the entrapment area with a tour group, the smell of the missile site hit me with an impact i did not expect. the first job i ever had was the most important job in my career. i started my career at the apex and everything that came after that is at least one level below because i will never have as much responsibility in my lifetime again as i had when i was a crew commande

i was in college at the university of virginia at the time in reserve officer training, rotc. i was recruited for this in the very early days of the career field being open to women. i was actually a crew commander. i commanded a four-person titan ii missile combat crew at the site when it was operational. i was stationed here from 1980 to 1984. when i came back here after they opened it up as a museum, it was 1998. years. -- the museum had been open for 12 years. the site had been off alert since 1982. and i happened to come back to tucson to live after i got out of the air force. and an uncle visited me and really wanted to come here. i remember when we came through the access portal into the entrapment area with the tour group the smell of the missile site was the same. it hit me with an impact i had not expected. there is something to be said for the fact that your sense of smell can trigger more intense memories. i think that was true. looking back on it now with the benefit of hindsight i think i , probably started my adult career, the very first job i ever had as adult,

>> i had taken rotc in high school and i certainly knew i didn't want the infantry. >> and you end upith the marines. had you ever seen a ship before? >> i'd never seen a ship before. >> these new replacements joined other battle-tested marines to bring the division back up to fighting strength of some 19,000 officers and men. but this hastily chosen island was no resort. >> some also who was assigned to find a place for the 1st division base picked pavuvu out from the air. >> he grew up in columbus, now part of the 17th regiment and 1st marine division, he knew he was no longer living in the comforts of home. >> we were moved there in the very early stages of its conversion from a -- strictly a coconut grove to the base. we went to the beautiful coconut island of pavuvu, where rats were a foot long, land crabs, you name it. >> growing up in dallas, texas, 24-year-old martin clayton was a private first class with 5th marine regiment when he arrived on that hellish island. >> it was a horrible situation. and from the general on down will tell you, it was not conducive for training. >>

she's studying at uva on an rotc scholarship. her mother says she feels helpless, however she knows natalie is strong and insists she will keep protesting against what she believes is wrong. >> it should not happen anymore. not to her. it should not happen anymore. >> natalie had a cracked skull and needed stitches, however she is expected to recover from her injuries. >>> hundreds gathered in center city last night. we spoke to some of the people in the crowd about why they came together. >> the white supremacy, kkk is no longer welcome here in the u.s. >> we are brothers and sisters here, and that's why everybody is here today to say we're one, here to speak out against any injustices that may occur here in the country. >> one sign in the crowd read white supremacy is terrorism. a crowd gathered there for a peaceful rally. senator chris a rally yesterday at 7th and hamlingten streets, clergy members joined the community in denouncing the violence in charlottesville. you can count on nbc 10 to bring you the latest developments a

among the 19 people also injured, 20-year-old natalie romero, an rotc student at uva who suffered a fracturedkull. her mother in texas. >> she's my hero. and before this she's always been my hero. >> reporter: heather heyer's family says they're heartbroken. >> she was a strong opinionated woman that was willing to stand up for what she believed in. >> i'm trying to honor my daughter in the way that i know she would want to be honored with speaking up for what she believed in and in the way she believed in it without hate, without anger, without fear. >> the nationalist community defended ourselves against thugs. >> reporter: outside the courthouse today two self-proclaimed white nationalists began screaming that police, the media and counterprotesters were to blame for saturday's violence. >> the nationalist community came to charlottesville to defend our heritage. to stand for our beliefs. >> reporter: today this photo of suspect fields standing among white nationalists at saturday's rally. meanwhile, police who lost two troopers in a helicopter crash saturday responded to allegations they

i was part of the rotc there and part of black radio, wchu, i started at central state and then wentto howard for my masters and doctoral studies. host: what position in volleyball? omarosa: i was a setter. quarterback. [laughter] i can't imagine, even though i am tall, i have incredible jumping ability, the setter really sets the pace of the game and the strategy for how to win. that is why i love to that position. host: let me go back to the college presidents meeting with the president, some graffiti was written. one of them, welcome to the trump plantation, the overseer. what was your reaction? omarosa: i was a rambunctious student. i was part of protest, i was part of the agitations that brought about the change we wanted. i think those protests the students are meeting is important. it is the only way to affect hange. i was not surprised. i know the students well. i'm a graduate and i taught there, served on the advisory board for mba programs. if students are unhappy with the leadership, you will hear from them in a form of protest. in this case, they used graffiti. other time

. >> among the 19 injured natalie an rotc student at uva who suffer add fractured skull. her mother in texas. >> the guy has to pay for this. >> james alex fields being held without bond and this photo going viral. online people across the country exposing people making sure their neighbors, employers and schools all know about their names and their affiliations. several web sites hosting services both say they will no longer allow web sites to be hosted on their services and facebook says it is cracking down on posts that glorify what happened here as there seems to be a very public backlash. back to you. >>> members of a community hit the streets last night to rise up against hate and violence. in new town there is a walk and vigil in response to this past weekend's violence. they don't like the tone sweeping across the country. one woman said she was a french freedom fighter during world war ii. she says too much of what she sees today reminds her of the past. >> there are to many people that think hitler is all right. that's why i came out to fight against it. i don't

thank you to the high school and the junior rotc honor guard and lisa.ests that are with us this evening. please welcome two members from the board of directors of the richard nixon foundation, john barr and sandy clinton. [applause] orange county supervisor todd fischer. [applause] members of the yorba linda city council including mayor peggy, jeanne hernando's and city manager mark vallone delete [applause] close friend friend of the richd nixon foundation, rutan and ruth shannon. [applause] the national archives and records administration direct about the nixon library in his associate cliff wallis director of education. [applause] and our most important resource that is the envy of the other 12 presidential libraries, those that are here tonight to represent 150 volunteers, thank you. [applause] the nixon foundation is largely supported by its members. members support educational programs and opportunities for the youth to engage in the civic discourse and learning. memberships also supports special engagement programs like this evenings event. the i

if you have proper rotc on the way to a restaurant and sitting with someone not indoctrinated to thisof them. go outside and take a picture of them. it is everybody's first idea when they feel captured by something, is to fight back. part of it is intellectual. this idea, you cannot contain me. we are talking hyperextending myself way beyond what should be taking place because all i want to do is get back to where it is clean. here is who i am coming here is what i do, i promise you i am this, not that. charlie: the reason they wanted to characterize you that way is simply because -- of timeere was a period when i was -- it is hard to explain. i am still unpacking it in my own mind. it is just a situation where you fall into -- i dated a lot of big names. dated a lot of big names. people get the name -- size of the name next up with the number of people i dated. biglie: so if you dated two names they think you are with a lot of women. john: people do not google search me or think about me all day. they take a glance at you and that is the take away. they're not going to say, what did

including 20-year-old natalie romero who was an rotc student. she suffered a skull fracture. an update on the suspect. 20-year-old alex fields who appeared in court yesterday, as you know, charged with second degree murder. he does not have bond. he did not enter a plea and told the judge he didn't have money for an attorney making $600 every two weeks or so as a security guard. the security company has since fired him. the judge has appointed a public defender in his case. his next appointment or appearance before the court will be at the end of august. the concern now is whether these white nationalists groups might percolate up elsewhere in the country and try t more violence. we asked the police chief here whether anybody was the sole ins gator. he said this was an alt right rally and they did not live up to their agreement with the police on where they would enter the park and it quickly deteriorated. it's been a busy few days here. we're hoping for a calm few days going forward. i'm tom costello in charlottesville. back to you. >> 6:34. these are some of our top stories

his mother in michigan says he was an rotc and moved to south jersey with his naval officer father. a friend says he always wanted to go into the navy to follow in his father's footsteps. he was serving on the u.s.s. john mccain as it made its way to singapore. they are offering prayers and the search for the missing sailors continue. a a high school friend tells us kenny is super resourceful and if anyone can make it out of a blad situation, it's him. >> and we just got a statement in from his father. i will read you part of that. he says, quote, i want to thank all those who have, pressed concern and offered prayers and support as i await word from the navy on my son. i appreciate the courageous work of the crew in the aftermath of the collision and the ongoing rescue efforts. that is the father of kenneth smith here in cherry hill, new jersey. still waiting for word on his missing son. live in cherry hill, lauren mayk, nbc 10 news. >>> to the weather now. a brutally hot day across the area. humidity starts to drop. as that happens, we're keeping an eye on a line of storms moving

collins who was killed by a white supremacist, a young man commissioned as a second commander in the rotcthe mosque in minnesota a week ago, these are incidents that we've heard nothing from the president on. we've heard very little from jeff sessions. so to judge him today, his statement was anemic and unacceptable and it has to be placed in the context of this broader set of incidents that have been going on since the inauguration and we've heard nothing from the president. leadership requires the president to speak out on this and you've heard republican senators saying you have to call it domestic terrorism. at this point in the country, i know many people have been shocked by the election and paralyzed but at this point in 2017, after birmingham and the freedom rides and john lewis and james bird and everything that this country has been through and what we have fought for to confront racial violence, we cannot pretend that it is normal for the president of the united states not to speak out forcefully against white supremacy that we've been seeing throughout this country in the last

. >> reporter: among the 19 people injured in the crash, 20-year-old natalie romero, an rotc student at uva who suffered a fractured skull. her mother in texas -- >> the guy has to pay for this and we need to be strong and these kinds of crimes have to stop. >> reporter: james alex fields, now being held without bond and this photo with him standing among white nationalists going viral. online, people across the country have been banding together, exposing people who attending the white nationalist rally, making sure their neighbors and schools and employers know about their names and their affiliations. this man was one of the protesters named and shamed. he says he received death threats and calls to be expelled. >> you can call me nazi, hate my ideology, but i wouldn't threaten anymore. >> reporter: his university under pressure releasing a statement saying in part, "we remain firm in our commitment in denouncing all forms of bigotry and racist." cole white resigned from his job in berkeley, california, after he was identified on twitter. his former employer posting this letter on

they burned down the rotc building on the campus and then on monday the crowds got out there and theional guard were backing up the hill and pieces of concrete and rocks and things were thrown at them. campuses exploded and nixon was blamed. it was awful for the president and then he had a press conference that friday night and then saturday morning had a famous visit to the lincoln memorial where he got up in the middle of the night, to the capital and to make ou -- mayflr for breakfast and two days later students at jackson state were shot and african-american students who had nothing to do with the riots that had gone on in the streets. i saw him in those days. i'd never seei've never seen hid i've got my book and then knows how the staff into the country was divided. i've never seen the president have it so tough and how he got through it alone is a remarkable tribute because there were a lot of people even who were inside the white house and let the president know that they thought he hadn't done the right thing to do. let me move to the politics of the political grand strategy

bob schieffer's story in journalism began in the united states air force by way of an rotc program. following stints with a dallas tv station, he joined cbs news where he remained for 46 years. he became the networks chief washington correspondent in 1982 and has covered every major beat from white house to the hill and from the pentagon to the state department. he began abecame -- tenure of face the nation. he is a recipient of eight emmys. 2013, was named a living legend by the library of congress. it doesn't get any better than that. it is now my pleasure to turn the program over to our moderator for the evening. [applause] bob schieffer: thank you. thank you. in the age of instant celebrity, where it is possible to become ,amous for simply being famous it is easy in times like that to border the line between heroes and celebrities. but we are here tonight to talk about heroes. the one we are talking about also became a celebrity. childst of all, he was a american hero. some heroes become famous for doing great things and some do great things and few even know about it. parents w

. >> had kids in his rotc program that had a hard time.d take the extra time to work with him. he's one of the people that went into the military because it was the right thing to do. i think people should know that. his friends on his facebook page, friends from high school and basic and a school, there's all sorts of people that are you know, hoping that we'll hear something good. you always have that hope until they flat out tell you it's not going to happen. but it's getting harder by the minute to think that i'm going to get good news. >> just kids, doing the right thing. >> babies aging 21, 23, 39, amazing, those are some great americans. my heart goes out to that mom. pacific fleet commander scott swift told sub order natures the operational pause will take place no later than monday. leerdship and fleet, no bystanders, bystanders become weak links. >> we'll stay on that story until it ends. breaking news on the gulf coast. tropical storm harvey is forecast to make landfall as a major category 3 hurricane. a million people are under

richard collins, killed at the university of maryland, just commissioned as a second lieutenant in the rotcrd very little from the president and jeff sessions and his statement is anemic and this has been going on since the inauguration. leadership requires the president to speak out. at this point in 2017, after bedrooming ham and the freedom rides and john lewis and edmond pettis bridge and james bird and everything that we have fought for in terms of racial justice we cannot pretend that it is normal for the president of the united states not to speak out forcefully against the white supremacy that we've been seeing for the last few months. >> i looked at the second half of the statement from jeff sessions and he says it's contrary to american values and cannot be tolerated. the question that people are asking at the pit of their stomach is whether or not people with affiliations, somebody like sebastian gorka or stephen miller or being challenged by this federal government, whether or not people of color can feel safe there wasn't a huge police presence like we've seen in baltimore or f

he's not talked about richard collins, an rotc member killed at the university of maryland. he hasn't talked about the mosque bombing in minnesota a week ago. this is not the only time that the president has found the ability to restrain himself from calling something an act of terrorism that is an act of terrorism. >> right. thank you for giving us some of that very specific examples, which provide further contrast, i think. matt miller, jeffrey goldberg, who is a centrist, center right sometimes, reporter for the atlantic had pretty unsparing terms on this today. trump's refusal to call out radical white terrorism for what it is, for the leadership to take a stand against hatred, marks what might be the lowest moment of his presidency to date. matt, your view? >> i think jeffrey goldberg is absolutely right about this. i think had this been someone connected to isis, even if it had been someone connected to ms-13, i think you would have seen the president tweeting within hours, the attorney general releasing a statement within hours, not waiting until much later in the day

board of directors of our army, united states army and i was just talking to some young recruiters and rotc cadets. one of the things i always remind him of and reminding you of as well, again, we are your army. but to put it in perspective as to the service and sacrifice that these young men and women that were the uniform and those that have made it, and the legacy that they are upholding in sort of the responsibility we put in their rucksack and on the back i wish my people this june were coming up to the 242nd birthday of the united states army. the birthday of the united states army is 14 june 1775 is when the united states army was established. the birthday of the united states is fourth july 1776. that means united states army is older than the united states of america. in other words, this country was founded on the back of the united states army and its soldiers, whether minutemen at bunker hill, valley forge, like that. his army of these men and women serving, so the army our soldiers serve in is older than the republic they defend. and so i think it's important to understand is o

. >> reporter: among the 19 people injured in the crash, natalie romero, on rotc student at uva who trasuffered a fractured sku. her mother in texas. >> we need to be strong. and these kind of crimes has to stop. >> reporter: james alex fields, now being held without bond. and this photo of him standing among white nationalists going viral. online people across the country have been banding together. exposing people who attended the white nationalist rally. making sure their neighbors, employers and schools all know about their names and affiliations. university of nevada reno student was one of the protesters who was named and shamed. he says he received death threats and calls to be expelled. >> you can call me nazi and hate my ideology but i wouldn't threaten anyone. >> reporter: his university under pressure releasing a statement saying in part we remain firm in our commitment in denouncing all forms of bigotry and racism. cole white resigned from his job as a cook at top dog restaurant in berkeley, california, after he was identified on twitter. his former employer posting this letter on t