didn't attach much importance by our marine corps until they realized the larger ambitions of the south pacific intervention. they realized they were seriously threatened by a u.s. position in the southern solomons, and through august, september, october and november the japanese eventually, their main base -- a truck in the central pacific -- the carolina islands through a series of -- threw a series of hammer blows down on our foothold that produced seven major naval battles. five of them were midnight surface slug fests fought between destroyers, cruisers and battleships, often we're talking about horrific affairs with heavy casualties on both sides. five surface actions of that nature plus two sort of battle of midway style engagements fought in the waters around guadalcanal. the campaign lasted six months, and by the end of it in those seven naval battles, nearly 5,000 u.s. sailors were killed, an approximate number of -- about the same number of japanese as well. those 5,000 killed in action were three times the number of men who died in the fighting on the itself. so especially if you kn

he is the uss enterprise, alaska in the south pacific. he's got two battleships, the washington and south dakota. these are magnificent fast battleships. the reason the old perl battle partnerships, they were prepared and modernize, the reason they're not here is fuel. they didn't have the tankers, the fuel storage to offer his carriers on a south pacific. so the auld battleship stay on the west coast. this was the cruisers, destroyers and carriers come into the new more fuel-efficient ships come into the theater. a little background there. admiral halsey has two battleships that holding close to the enterprise. as the japanese come back the night of the 15th, halsey's only choice to oppose this renewed attack, which he has detected from a research, is to release these two magnificent ships and send them into these confined waters. battleships are not supposed to fight in confined kind of island shall waters like this. these are massive ships with huge turning radius. but is the only choice that halsey has that night. he releases the wash

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: this moves to the senate as current and former gsa executives try to explain everything from south pacific vacations to missing ipods. what contactually was happening wasn't easy to -- what exactly was happening wasn't easy to figure out. >> we turned over every stone every time we turned over a stone we found 50 more with all sorts of things crawling up,. >> reporter: current and former gsa officials struggled to explain what was going on in the agency the latest poster child for abuse of money. the one person missing, jeff neely the man responsible for holding that lavish las vegas conference that cost more than $800,000 his wife's photos of him in vegas didn't help >> i see why mr. neely is not with us today the only ping which you ares i can get of him are in his hot tub suite. >> reporter: he won't talk because he could face criminal charges congress learned he and his wife planned a 17 day taxpayer paid trip to the south papa sick in part to -- south pacific in part to celebrate her birthday and then the missing ipods. >> 115 ipods missing, apple provided us with some of the addresse

the collections she brings in the book is an maizing cache of letters that nixson wrote from the south pacific in 1943, 44, and 45. if he is not telling her that he's going become president in these letters, i don't know what he is telling her. he was not captain of the football team. he exuded an extraordinary sense of himself. i am sure linda and lucy have stories or something that relatives -- a man of extraordinary drive. my grandfather, my father told the story in 1938 or 9. they were living in manila. the idea tsh the suggestion is that my grandfather was wasting his time. why are you wasting your time. you had one offer after another. based in manila. why are you wasting your time? and his reply was i believe the war is going break out in 24 to 36 months and when it does i will live in fear. he is a colonel. these are -- i don't want to be mystical about this but they are unusual people. i think there is an element of them that is unnoble. >> history is full of ref rens to the tensions between eisenhower and nixon. how would you character that? >> the answer is that it is amazing that t

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and a 17-day trip to the south pacific he took his wife along on, as her birthday present. >> we were concerned this was an unnecessary trip and a waste of money and you saw the e-mail, he says it is a birthday gift for his wife. and they quote "it's your party we will party like your party," there were 115 ipods missing, apple provided us with some of the addresses where itunes were downloaded and one of the ipods was located in his personal possession. >>stuart: the evidence mounts and the judge says criminal charges could be next. judge napolitano, stolen inbads, a 17-day trip taking your wife along, is that criminal activity? >>judge napolitano: presuming the federal government paid for the trip, yes, it is the misuse of government funds. his wife is not a government employees, and he went to preside over a ribbon cutting. if the government paid for the trip back-and-forth and the 17 days it is a serious misuse, morning application of government funding. >>stuart: what is the crime? >>judge napolitano: theft of services or theft of government property in the form of having the gov

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excessive gifts, including ipods, digital cameras, other electronics and a two-week trip to the south pacific. >> as each level of evidence was peeled back, there was mto >> today's hearing was scheduled before the scandal broke and was supposed to focus on the agency's 2013 budget. the gsa allocated $25 billion a year. in washington, craig boswell. >> the crews are about to take it out. a special ceremony will be held tomorrow. it will roll out of the mew se yum. endover is headed to new york. >>> lawmakers in virginia made big progress. laura evans is live. >> the state passed a $780 million because of a dispute. the state's government has been shut down three times in two months. the operation will keep things funded for yo years. a virginia man locked up for more than four months under another man's name. riched a settlement. clark will get money. it went uncorrected despite pneumonia rouse pleas for help and orders from a judge. someone broke into the auditor's office and took several items, including two laptops. the burglary happened earlier this word. no word on what kind of informati

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atlanta, california, hawaii, and the south pacific.to note that each trip came long after the agency's inspectors warned the gsa about its abuses. but in an email to his wife, that man in the hot tub, neeley, boasted that the 17-day trip to the south pacific would be her birthday gift. to which she replied and i quote: it's your birthday, we're going to party like it's your birthday. apologies to 50. mike emanuel on capitol hill with this. it just keeps coming. some of these numbers are really kind of -- popping there, mike. >> shep, we got a look at preliminary numbers of what was spent in 2010 on luxuries hotels places like marina del ray in california. san francisco, of course. and napa wine country second to the las vegas conference that we talked about so much about was the intern conference in palm springs, california where it appears at least that $66,000 were spent on hotel rooms alone, leading congressman john mica to this conclusion. >> smelled a rat. and we asked for data because if you look at the budget and expenditures fo

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. >> reporter: trips to the napa valley, south pacific and las vegas to plan for the conference. inspector general says every time they've turned over a stone they've found 50 more with all kinds of things crawling out. >>> if you haven't filed your tax returns yet, time is running out. this year we had two extra days, midnight is the deadline this is what the rush has looked like in previous years as last minute filers lined up at the post office to drop off returns. thanks to technology now many are e-filing so only a few post offices will be open late tonight. late drop-off and curbside service only offered at the main post offices in oakland and san jose and the evans avenue location in san francisco until 10 p.m.. the sfo post office on westfield road will be open until midnight. >> the final trip of the shuttle discovery brings tears and cheers from those who witnessed its ride into history !ñ!e >>> >>> biologists in marin county want to know why an unusual number of under nourished baby seals are being brought there? amy hollyfield is live at the center. >> reporter: you k

then to the south pacific. she alerts mr. miller. mr. miller alerts you. and yet he's still allowed to go on it and his wife, their birthday trip? you don't see a pattern here? a pattern that you've been aware of for the last year and a half. but you took immediate action. then in march this year, last month, a four-day visit to hawaii again, a trip to na pa. >> i did not know about the trips. i knew the ig has said -- >> you knew about the vegas trip. you heard them when? >> i learned about the vegas trips. i learned about the vegas conference in september 2010. when i understood that my senior counselor was going to attend a conference. that's when i learned about the conference. >> so you knew about the conference and the trips before the ig came in. >> no i did not. the ig informed me of the preplanning conference. it was through our investigation, which my deputy requested that we learn the extent of the expenditures, the contracting violation. >> so you were made aware and you had a meeting with mr. peck, ms. bre ta and several others. did they go on

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we're hearing about napa, all these different trips, south pacific, hawaii.u should get the theme. it's really stunning to watch this. it wasn't just government employee, it was also members of the families, friends who were brought on this. one of these trips. >> let me ask you, as as we herd susan brita saying, these trips weren't called off. do we know how long in terms of months or dare i say more than a year this behavior went on at gsa. >> today's 5 1/2-hour hearing as well as yesterday's long hearing, it was very clear that was a cultural issue. and one of the things that we certainly saw today. was the people beneath him felt they can't say anything. they couldn't question this idea of spending money extravagantly. listen to what -- the way one lawmaker described it today. >> we're told by witnesses that the culture in region nine was a culture that put down anyone that complained. witnessed said that the regional commissioner would put people down and he knew how to put people down. one witness said there were people who tried to raise an objection a

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congressman den m called off at the m resort, the ritz carlton, nine days in hawaii, 17 days in the south pacific. >> we found that there were about 115 ipods missing. >> the inspector general exposed a theft report, identified $20,000 in missing ipods, again leading to jeffrey. >> the subpoena from apple told us his daughter had been down loading itunes and that sort of thing. >> are some of you aware of what's being reported there? >> sited our investigation during the hearing. >> it was again last night here on wusa about the health risks that are being reported by gsa members. >> the inspector general testified he reviewed the sick and dead uncovered by the 9 wants to know investigation and determined at the agency's kansas city regional headquarters, the gsa mismanaged environmental risks. >> the risks or risks of bad pr? they spent more on bad pr. >> that's a fair statement. >> we crossed between skeptical to cancerous cynicism. >> our investigation also uncovered $26 million in annual gsa bonuses and two more hearings coming up on capitol hill this week. i'm investigative reporter, 9news n

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another trip to atlanta, another warning, susan britta warned, i guess you, about an upcoming 17-day south pacific junket headed by neely. >> actually, mr. micah, we were so concerned about it, we contacted ms. britta, the deputy administrator. >> and ms. britta, you notified mr. cox about the upcoming junket and expressed concern, right? >> i did. >> what exactly happened? >> i asked her to review the plans -- >> and that called it off, didn't it? no. then another junket, that one to california, the hawaii-guam stipend trip with staff. four-day site visit to hawaii. and then this offsite trip to napa, is that california? you got to go to the wine region. i see why mr. neely is not with us today and the only pictures i can get of him are in his hot tub suite. but i thank you, ms. britta for your coming forward and for your trying to be a good steward of taxpayer dollars, yield back. >> thank you mr. micah. mr. shaw? >> thank you for having this very important hearing today, needless to say i was appalled when i first heard about some of the things that the gsa administration had paid to the taxpay

convention, new information shows a gsa executive took expensive trips to california, hawaii and the south pacific>>> north korea is threatening to retaliate if the united states does not stick to a plan to send food aid. the u.s. decided to cancel the food agreement because north korea broke it by going ahead with a rocket launch that failed last week. >>> in syria, both sides are accusing the other of breaking the cease fire. opposition forces say that syrian troops shelled two cities yesterday while the government says they were responding to provocations designed to sabotage the truce. >>> police in texas have a person of interest in custody after a woman was shot outside a houston area hospital, and her three-day old baby boy was abducted. the infant was found and is unharmed. >>> scientists discovered a new species in a cave in new mexico. a shrimp-like creature is blind, half inch long and almost transparent, one expert says the species may have been down there for millions of years. >>> now a look at how wall street will kick off the day. dow opens at 13,115 after rising 194 points yesterd