to the eisenhower administration in the '50s, the country split into south and north vietnam. you have communists in the north and so the united states is very eager to preserve the south from a communist takeover. >> the communist north vietnamese believed in nationalism, uniting their country under their own control. >> the cold war conspiracy was that if the vietnamese communist won the war in vietnam, all of southeast asia would fall. the dominos would fall, one after another. >> there is no doubt the fall of south vietnam would have serious repercussions on other countries of southeast asia. this is fundamentally the reason why we're in south vietnam. >> after all, eastern europe has fallen to communism. china has fallen to communism. we can't lose southeast asia. so we have to stabilize south vietnam. >> on january 2nd, 1963, south vietnamese troops surprise a vietcong battalion at a village called ap bac. five american helicopters are shot down. three american advisers are killed. 63 south vietnamese die, half of them shooting at each other. >> we've got u.s. military ad

south vietnamese unit also attack the headquarters for the entire communist military operation in south vietnamis is not an invasion of cambodia. >> nixon's conviction is that what you've got to do is cut off the supplies that the north vietnamese are funneling into the south to the vietcong. and the way to do it is take out the ho chi minh trail, the route they're using through cambodia. >> they don't quite realize cambodia is its own country, a country that's always had tenuous relationships with vietnam. once they destabilize cambodia, you have all hell breaking out. >> the cambodian operation will continue during the coming days. american units searching for north vietnamese, troops and installations. but how long they will be here, no one can say for sure. >> the active, large-scale american and south vietnamese participation in the fighting in cambodia, has brought a cry of anger from many college campuses. kent state university in ohio turned into a riot with thousands facing national guardsmen and police. >> four students are killed at kent state. two students are killed at jackson stat

vietnam regime. we supported the south. >> it's what becomes known as the domino theory.ia laos, cambodia, the philippines, they might be defeated. >> as i believe i reported upon my return from previous visits, i'm very much encouraged by the progress the south vietnamese have been making and the assist our forces have rendered to them. >> when vietnam started up, they believed that they so expertly micro managed the cuban missile crisis that they can do the same in the southeast asian nation 10,000 miles away. the north vietnamese were very different from the soviets and khrushchev. and the attempt to resolve the vietnamese crisis through controlled escalation simply didn't work. >> the government of south vietnam has been overthrown by a military coup. >> if we are at all involved i hope we don't have another bay of pigs on our hands. >> are we winning the war in south vietnam? >> winning? no, we're losing it. >> kennedy says to one of his principal aides that after he is re-elected in '64, then he can talk about getting out of vietnam. it is difficult to believe that

that we are at war not only with south vietnam, but north vietnam and its strong army. ahead light even higher casualties, a point that every g.i. and general is acutely aware of. a point that many feel has not been fully grasped at home. we will not try to get the order of battle. there was none. we will try to give them move and feel of those farm -- five weeks. pleime.tarted at routine attack on this triangle shaped cap. this was a new kind of attack by a new kind of army. this was a full scale sustained atolls by regulars, aimed at wiping pleime off the map. this is what stopped than doing it. american air power. as they attacked our fighter-bombers roared in with rockets, firebombs and guns blazing. heavieste concentration of tactical air power ever unleashed in the vietnam war. nearly 10 bombing missions in our round-the-clock. the united states determined it would not. despite mounting losses, the north the these troops continued to storm the camp perimeter. we were shooting them straight off the wire, said one pilot. they were everywhere, like ants. defender, th

communists are massing in south vietnam, and so are we. they feel we are divided.re impressed by student demonstrations. hanoi, a student is a rare and honored member of society. the enemy knows he cannot defeat us in the field, but by killing americans, he hopes to demoralize us at home. that is what happened to france in 1954. forces are willing to take necessary casualties to seek out and destroy the enemy. the question remains, are the american people willing to lose more and more young men in vietnam? ♪ this has been a cbs news special report, the battle of ia drang valley. >> this prerecorded broadcast was produced under the supervision and control of cbs news. the firsts after full-scale engagement between u.s. troops and the people's army of vietnam, the vietnam archive at texas tech university interviewed veterans from the battle of ia drang valley. these battles the north vietnamese forces began engaging in guerrilla warfare. the americans, outnumbered by the army, prevailed, but at a heavy cost. inxt, an interview with capta l" freeman, a helicopter who

i was chosen to go to south vietnam and fly helicopters. this is in 1966.id not know where south vietnam was even at. >> january 1968 is when it was probablely one of the most terrifying experiences of my life. [gunfire ] >> reporter: we flew rash around the clock which is unheard of to fly a huey like that. they're not made to fly like that. psychologically, it was [silence ] >> there are some things i still deal with about that. there was a appeared in the '60s that if you wore a uniform, you were shunned. i experienced the brunt end of that coming out of vietnam. so now the young men and women coming into the uniform with them still having faith in our country and in our services is rewarding to me, knowing that what i did and what happened to me during the vietnam era was not lost. >> okay, dies. stop and see us again, okay? >> john tells us the one thing that got him through of tough time was the uso. the phones are rinning now. we appreciate your help. if you would like to say thank you, consider donating any money can you to go to our usa program her

states but with the cold war going full tilt, kennedy offered helicopter companies to help the south vietname vietnamese. the helicopters were nicknamed flying bananas. >> in 196 we bring the uh 1 a into vietnam and the transport. >> these were the first armed hughies but until the armies first air division arrive in 1965 there was no real plan for waging war with a helicopter. by then, u.s. troops went to vietnam and shot up to more than 150,000. >> when the unit deploys, to vietnam it redesignated to the cale vary division in air mobile. >> the division had received the first cavalry colors in a meeting ceremony in july. >> it was a famous unit. >> the seventh regulimine and se sported mustaches. >> cab patch is one of the most recognized in the world. >> general canard sported it on an eye patch he had to wear after an injury. >> i took a colored pencil and doodled it in. >> that part of vietnam is where the north voeeotietnamese tried cut the country in half. >> they tried to kill them. we thought was attempting to seize the central house. >> on november 14th, 1965 army intelligence said

.- backed army of south vietnam. ars after the fall of saigon, the war for them still hadn't ended. >> they collected money and they said that they had people on the ground in vietnam in the jungles and they were organizing. and here in houston, at the top of a restaurant, people would put on their tan and brown shirts and they would meet, and they would even do some kinds of military exercises in hopes that they could take back vietnam. for them, the war did not end. they would call themselves freedom fighters. they didn't see themselves as charging in to... to bring down a legitimate government. they were continuing a war that they had been dislodged from but still believed in. >> thompson: what was the theory that was going around about who killed dam phong? >> there was something close to a consensus that it must have been connected to the front. there were people who thought that he had it coming to him, that he was disloyal and unpatriotic, uh, for even questioning the front, and that it was somehow damaging to

states but with the cold war going full tilt, kennedy offered helicopter companies to help the south vietname vietnamese. the helicopters were nicknamed flying bananas. >> in 196 we bring the uh 1 a into vietnam and the transport. >> these were the first armed hughies but until the armies first air division arrive in 1965 there was no real plan for waging war with a helicopter. by then, u.s. troops went to vietnam and shot up to more than 150,000. >> when the unit deploys, to vietnam it redesignated to the cale vary division in air mobile. >> the division had received the first cavalry colors in a meeting ceremony in july. >> it was a famous unit. >> the seventh regulimine and se sported mustaches. >> cab patch is one of the most recognized in the world. >> general canard sported it on an eye patch he had to wear after an injury. >> i took a colored pencil and doodled it in. >> that part of vietnam is where the north voeeotietnamese tried cut the country in half. >> they tried to kill them. we thought was attempting to seize the central house. >> on november 14th, 1965 army intelligence said

korea, which was being talked about -- south vietnam being like south korea -- they did not have it. the overthrowed of the president in 1963. the cia helped to engineer that. of course, president kennedy himself, unfortunately, was to be assassinated three weeks later. therefore, you have, historically, an opportunity that early two may be prevent -- that early two may be prevent the tremendous loss of american and vietnamese life that followed the administration of president johnson and president nixon, bearing in mind that many americans died under the administration of president nexen as they did under president johnson. early on, my colleague wrote , thethis was the wrong war wrong place, the wrong time. i did not necessarily agree with him then, but i agree with him now. an extended even american effort could have forestalled an ultimate .ationalist victory a nationalist victory in vietnam would have meant the supremacy of the major force in vietnam at that time and today, the communist party. that is the best i can do in the allot

so, the united states went from having a few hundred advisors in south vietnam in 1960 to more than half a million troops there by 1968. vietnam analogy is crude and imperfect for many reasons but the logic is hauntingly familiar. you opt for incrementalism hoping to get lucky. i've supported obama's reluctance to get more deeply involved. i do not see how american intervention will resolve things militarily or improve the humanitarian situation there. if america were to succeed, if assad were to fall, damascus would explode in chaos. the syrian army would go underground and fight as an insurgency. would human rights really improve in that circumstance. yet, it's becoming hard to describe u.s. policy there as one of restraint when it now involves over 3,500 forces actively engaged in iraq and syria. in tend, i believe that obama will keep the american intervention in syria small and limited. he will leave his successor with a terrible dilemma in the way the kennedy administration left one for lyndon jackson. the next american president will face the stark reality that america's involveme

. >> these ruins are in saigon, capital of the largest city of south vietnam. >> when he went to vietnam during tet, it was the first time, and maybe the only time, that walter had shown any kind of bias in his public broadcast. >> it is increasingly clear to this report, that the only rational way out would be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy and did the best they could. >> after walter cronkite, johnson's popularity sinks. >> to most ordinary citizens, it's become obvious the war is not being won. >> opposition to the war was rising. it wasn't just beatniks and young kids. >> we are fighting a war. i'm convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the world. >> martin luther king came out against the vietnam war. his own followers said you shouldn't be focusing on that. you should be focusing on our issue. he said they're intertwined, you can't separate them. >> president kennedy said on one occasion, mankind must put an end to war. or war will put an end to mankind.

war and we ended it favorably and it was only because of congress and not ving enough money to south vietnam that vietnam fail and would that's nonsense. he's the one who quit and even his claims about linebacker are questionable. so all that goes into the whole legacy of vietnam and the annual movement played an important role. i'm sorry, i'm going on about this but what i think one of the big roles it played was that it created a countered narrative about what you could do in foreign policy. it provided an alternative to what the u.s. had been doing. it was not only demonstrations but it gave larger public, which was influenced by the anti-war movement but had its own reasons for posing the war. it gave them an alternative narrative for this kind of war. and you find it in play right now concerning syria. >> another question i had for you just from your quotes in the documents, you describe in effect a view that nixon and kissinger come into office with, which is that the road to peace in vietnam actually goes through moscow, that somehow -- and one of your lessons at the end that nuclear

-backed army of south vietnam. n a militia out of thailand to try to restart the vietnam war. meanwhile here in the u.s., the front ran its own death squad, "the k9." in interviews with the filmmakers, five former k9 members concede they carried out assassinations against political opponents. one of the members admits the responsibility for two of the journalists martyrs. the documentary also reveals richard armitage, former deputy secretary of state under president george w. bush, helped the front's leader obtain u.s. citizenship. he contacted thai generals to back the front's efforts to establish its base in thailand. the fbi investigators suspected front members of carrying out the killings, but never made a single arrest. for more we are joined by the duo behind, "terror in little saigon," a.c. thompson and rick rowley. he was nominated for an academy award for best documentary feature for the 2013 film, "dirty wars." we welcome you both to democracy now! rick rowley, why did you take on this story? >> when a.c.

he's referring in 75 to the fall of south vietnam, cambodia and laos that led millions to flee their new dictatorships and try to come here. it was republican president gerald ford who answered the call organizing emergency military effort to evacuate refugees to the u.s. hundreds of thousands came on president ford's order. after a bitter war with that very country, vietnam. that the moment in congress gop leaders are racing to pass a bill before lawmakers head home for the 10-day thanksgiving recess, called the american safe act of 2015, it would be to temporarily freeze, freeze until authorities can verify no one entering is dangerous. representative richard hudson is the author of the bill. he's joining us first on fox business network. to be clear, this would freeze or end the refugee program? >> it would freeze the program. we're not saying we're never going to allow refugees into the country again. america is a very generous country. we have a history of allowing refugees to seek asylum here. all we're saying in this case and the case of syrian refugees, we don't have the abil

was sending more troops overseas to support south vietnam's effort to ward off communist north. from connecticut, the trio remained side by side for months of training. and they even got off the same plane in vietnam together in 1968. >> it's like 105 degrees -- 110 degrees with 80% humidity. welcome to vietnam. >> at that moment, reality hit. >> uh, scared. >> even more so after they were >> oh, it was really devastating for me. i just was like "wow." >> from that point, while on their reconnaissance missions in the jungle, the three could only communicate through letters. >> paul wrote a lot. >> and each one ended with a countdown. >> "the trio will be together "in 300 days." >> however, letters between the three only flowed back and forth for two months. >> september 11, 1968. >> joe still has the letter he was reading from paul -- >> "dear joe. "hello, dummy!" >> when his base camp came under attack by north vietnamese soldiers. >> my hand's gone. my foot's ripped to shreds. i'm-- i've got a dead body across me. i panicked. >> joe was taken back to the u.s. for surgery, leavi

after i announced this policy, i found that the leaders of the philippines, thailand, vietnam, south korea and other nations which might be threatened by communist aggression welcomed this new direction in american foreign policy. the defense of freedom is everybody's business. not just america's business. and it is particularly the responsibility of the people whose free tomorrdom is threate. in the previous administration we americanized the war in vietnam. in this administration, we a streetna mizing. >> what does this mean broadly in the context of american cold war policy during the nixon administration? >> well, i mean, i can almost hear the shah saying exactly those words. he would frequently tell nixon that unlike many other countries, you know, we don't want to fight until the last american. look, the nixon doctrine was part of a comprehensive foreign policy strategy. it was one half of the strategy. the other half being detente. the goal of the administration was to redirect american resources and attention away from what they perceived as needless engagements, unnecessary

that he's taken to the spratly and parasol islands in, with that big expansive south china sea, it goes all the way from vietnam, sweeping down across malaysia and singapore, up by the philippines, who is taking them to court over a claim. this place or at home. there's a lot of domestic politics wrapped up into what xi jinping is doing. >> the danger is, and i heard you talking about this - that our relationship from the military perspective is such that someone can do the wrong de-escalate. >> this is a problem. when you are not talking enough military to military and don't have a hot line that is plugged in. when you have an unexpected situation on the high seas or in the air, because you have half-a-dozen reconnaissance countries trying to learn and watch and pick up intel, you have an incident and it's impossible to de-escalate without tensions getting high and without the bilateral relationship thrown off kilter, for a long period of time. it's a dangerous set of circumstances, and you have to get back to how do you manage tensions during this period. the rhetoric will be hot. you have a debate. the chine

south china sea is shown on chinese maps with a nine-dash line that stretches deep into the maritime heart of southeast asia. it clashes with claims by some asean members including the philippines and vietnam. nhk world's bureau chief in kuala lumpur hideki yabu joins us now. hideki, the south china sea will be a topic of discussion, but in the wake of the paris attacks, counterterrorism will also be high on the agenda. >> yes. the paris attacks are a brutal reminder for southeast asian nations of a threat they also face. malaysia and indonesia are majority muslim nations, and more than 500 of their citizens are believed to have joined the islamic state militants. so countering the group's influence here is an urgent task. the group has made active efforts to recruit members from southeast asia. last year in july, they uploaded an online video in the indonesian language. last month, asean nations held their first ministerial talks to discuss ways to curb extremist ideologies. the philippines also have muslim majority areas and active extremist groups. at least one group has pledged allegiance to islamic state militants. asean nations are also concerned that their citizens who have travelle

south china sea. the philippines, china, vietnam and at least three other countries all claim control over several islands there. china started bulling air fields there, but said today it is showing great restraint by not seizing the islands outright. the competition could come to a head at two regional summits in that area this week. >>> it is snowing. out west. out west right new. look at the storm, though. dumping snow on colorado at this hour. and this is what it looked like in utah overnight. more than six inches of snow fell there. as many as 18 more inches expected today. this is why we don't live in colorado. you and i, we wouldn't make it. >> weather always moves east. don't worry. today, this week, chuck, we're doing okay, still fairly warm for this time of year, right. >> warmer than average today and tomorrow and into thursday as well. that big mess of snow and severe weather in the midsection of the country, that will be impacting our thursday morning commute. thursday will be a weather alert day here for nbc 4. you should make plans to download our storm team 4 app. nbc washington app someti

personal hero, the active against the war in vietnam, active against apartheid, a picture in my favorites in the book of an older rosa parks protesting outside the south african embassy, she will continue to the end of real-life saying the struggle is not over, there is injustice in this country and she will be resolved to keep fighting and yet i think the way rosa parks is tossed is as a problem resolved in the past when the actual rosa parks said there is much more work to be done. >> host: how did you do the research on this book? >> guest: i had to do a lot of digging. i went to all sorts of archives, in part because part of rosa parks's papers were caught in a dispute over her estate, had gotten the papers to sell with all of her in effect, they languished in new york for a decade until this summer howard buffett made an incredible donation and recently gave them to the library of congress and in february theyopened. they are re >> many of this year's presidential candidates have written books to introduce themselves to voters and to promote their views on issues. here's a look at some of the candidates books. >> booktv has covered many of these

parks will call malcolm x her personal hero, she will be active against the war in vietnam, she will be active against south african apartheid, showing a picture with my favorites in the book about an older rosa parks protesting outside the south african embassy, she will continue until the end of her by saying the struggle is not over, there is much injustice in this country and she will be resolved to keep fighting but yet the way rosa parks is taught is a problem we salt in the past but the actual rosa parks says there's much more work to be done. susan siegel >> host: how did you do the research on this book? >> guest: i had to do a lot of digging. i did all sorts of oral history interviews, in part because part of rosa parks's favors were caught up in a dispute over her stage, got the papers themselves, they languished in new york for a decade until this summer howard buffett made an incredible donation and gave them to the library of congress and in february they opened. they are remarkable. the library of congress is open to anyone who wants to visit, you could actually read letters between rosa park

china claims 80% of the south china sea, disputed by vietnam and other countries. get more on these breaking stories at the new bloomberg.com. tom: let's do a data check. we want to get to paris. the s&p futures negative two, that does not tell the story. you are seeing new lows and weakness in commodities. oil is fragile, 41. 26. some data on the markets right now, i'm looking at the vix, 18.6. at commodities right now. the german commodities, full faith and credit, -0.38. really showing the tension in europe. goldman sachs is out with an aggressive note saying lower prices are in store. 209. 40 on chicago copper. dollar-renminbi shows the depreciation in the yuan. the commodity story is really continuing this morning. francine: there is overlap between your data port and my data board. zinc dropping to the lowest levels in's 2009 because of concerns about chinese demand. thisentioned renminbi, but is the dollar trading at its strongest and more than a decade. that is our data check. francine:'s -- tom: stunning news on zinc and copper. let's move over to the bloo

liberty mutual insurance. >>> the last major air mobile operation of the vietnam war actually took place in laos. it was a south vietnamese operation. >> it started on the 8th of february 1971. >> the south vietnamese were being drawn into a trap. >> right away we're losing people big. >> the south vietnamese lost thousands of their men and we lost 107 army helicopters. more than any operation in the war. 176 pilots and crew men were killed. about a month later the first air cav was done in vietnam and headed back home. the welcome was often not a warm one. >> one of our boys had a teacher that didn't want to teach him about his father when i came home from vietnam. >> what much of the public failed to realize was that these vietnam vets were the pioneers of a new form of warfare that saved american lives. >> general, what's the legacy of the air mobile concepts that you developed? >> i think the legacy is that now the whole army in a sense is air assault. >> time and again helicopters played a central role in america's military operations. they were part of the 1989 invasion of panama that brought manuel norie

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and we know whether it is in south america or vietnam or other conflicts in the mideast that workingnal allies to find political solutions is always better than trying to go in and do it ourselves especially with boots on the ground in uncertain areas where religious strife seems to predominate everything else. so i'm very concerned about this and i think congress should define how many people we're sending in there, how long they are going to be there. and if that doesn't happen, i'm afraid of what could come next. >> congressman, very quickly, i want you to comment on our top story and that is what happened with this russian metro jet. are you confident now having dealt with the russians that we will get real information from them about what caused this crash? >> it's been suggested they might engage in some sort of cover up. >> there is three propaganda machines here at work. first the egyptians. they don't want it to be terrorism. so without much of an investigation they are ruling that out. the russians don't want it to be an airliner mechanical failure so they are suggesting te

vietnam. the first visit and more than a decade. ofcomes against the backdrop relations strained by maritime disputes in the south china sea. john, what is the significance of this visit right now? 's visitdent xi jinping comes at a time when relations are at an extreme low. clashing claims and competing claims for territory, fishing grounds, drilling rights in the south china sea have escalated dramatically in the last two years. china placed an oil rig off the announce coast, which triggered violent clashes between the attorneys -- vietnamese boats and chinese boats. been violent anti-china riots in vietnam. the at concerned with china's efforts to reclaim reefs in the southsign a that in that china sea, creating artificial islands. rishaad: these countries have a having comeontext, to blows in the past. >> yes, they have. iny had a brief border war 1979. in in 1974, they had a clash effectively evicted vietnam from those islands. exacerbates historic animosity between the two countries, particularly on the side of the non-. chinese emperors for hundreds of years rolled the region, including vietnam, as their empire. note

vietnam war. kim phuc was just 9 years old. and running for her life, after the southentally dropped a bomb with napalm on her village. now, 43 years later, she has come to america, her husband by her side. an american doctor is waiting. >> i cannot wait. i am so happy. >> reporter: happy, to finally get help. >> 43 years that i suffered so much for the pain. last night, i couldn't sleep to see her. >> reporter: dr. jill waibel is a pioneer in the treatment of burn survivors using a type of laser. >> hi. >> reporter: she has now begun a series of treatments, smoothing thick scar tissue and relieving the pain after all these years. >> it doesn't really matter if a scar is two years old, ten years old, 40 years old, 80 years old. it will respond to the laser beautifully. >> kim, you're doing amazing. if you need a break, tell us. >> reporter: dr. waibel uses a fractionated laser. one small section of skin at time. and she's doing all this for free. she calls it an honor. >> she's not only a living reminder of the horrible side effects of war, including children in war. s

vietnam. the first visit and more than a decade. ofcomes against the backdrop relations strained by maritime disputes in the south china sea.is the significance of this visit right now? 's visitdent xi jinping comes

vietnam vet lost decades ago now returned. >> and traffic slow but moving. let's go to the maps and travel down south as we take a look. for some reason it is not working! all right. we'll be checking back in the next half hour. trouble spots on 95 -- 93 and phil: several g.o.p. hopefuls making a campaign push today in new hampshire. dr. ben carson officially filing papers in concord. is the db he is the last of the major g.o.p. candidates to do so. on the campaign trirblinge the syrian refugee crisis, as you >> yeah, phil, whether to allow syrian refugees into the u.s. is just one of the differences among presidential candidates. on the campaign trail today, ted cruz spoke out against the president's plan to allow syrians into the u.s. ben carson, who just filed for the new hampshire primary, says some mosques in this country may need be to monitored. >> if in fact there are mosques where there is a lot of testimony going on that's radicalizing people, they pluft be treated differently. >> if you're a christian and you're -- you're from syria, i mean they're having their heads cut off so if we're tarking anybody, take

south korea hosted that event. the philly pops will perform in honor of vietnam veterans at penn's landing.l be awarded with 50th anniversary commemorative pins. the keynote speaker will be major general wesley craig, former leader of the pennsylvania national guard. ceremonies will start in less than a half hour at noon. >>> veterans day is becoming a learning experience for some local school children. katy zachry shows us how students at one bucks county school got some special visitors. >> reporter: today so many will be spending time at veterans memorials like this one at penn's landing. but leading into today, a local principal wanted her young students to learn a big lesson a different way. ♪ this land is your land, this land is my land ♪ >> reporter: it was a warm welcome for these bucks county veterans followed by a sweeter sequen sequence. >> thank you for never giving u up. >> you gave us everything. thank you for all you have done. thank you for your service in helping america. you inspire me. >> thank you. you are like a superhero and very brave. [ applause ] >> reporter: the pr

he volunteered to go back to vietnam in 1969, 1 of the worst years of the war, just so he would get a chance to visit south korea and see his twins. fatheredny g.i.'s who children overseas in asia, especially in south korea, he was not one of those who abandoned children. he tried very ha to care for these children and support these children and later find these children and could not. on the other side of that, these twins spent their whole life thinking nobody wanted them. their father did not want them, their mother did not want them. and the opposite was true. this father was desperate to find them and we were able to make that happen tonight. jummy: we look forward to that at 10:00. thank you. watch out for the wind. doug hill back with one jummy: the weekend not looking bad. doug: windy today. comfortable enough. winter advisories north and west where the wind could gust 40 to 50 miles an hour. high temperatures much cooler. upper 50's on sunday. jummy: thank you. thank you for joining us. have a great weekend. >> life is all about second chances, and today, so is our show, because we've brought back

south china sea. >> there's also the military balance of power, and the reality is that none of these individual claimants whether it malaysia or vietnamr philippines can challenge china power. so many china chooses to ignore the ruling of the court once they differ their decision in the middle of next year, china can pursue whatever it wants to pursue in the south china sea out of military might. so the question is whether china wants to bring its claims in the south china sea as all of these other actors want to. but beijing can ignore this, and go operation. >> china knows it would lose. the 9-dash line, these dashes they have drawn on maps in the last 80 years or so that say we control 80% of the sea. they know they lose on .1 the day they walk in the door. >>> gordon are we looking at a china is a just feeling stronger speak? >> i think that that is absolutely right. you have a new-ish chinese leader who is asserting power. he is also highly depend dependant on the military. and they have been very supportive on claims. you also have a chinese communist party that is increasingly insecure with an economy that is falling apart. and