and so what we did, the air force game and with the proposal my feeling was, don't talk to the air force. talk to the infantry. but i just came back from afghanistan, and i was told that we -- our troops are no longer engaged in the fighting. we are not providing close air ground support at this point. and the kayten cannot go into a congested area. we have to have control of the skies before the kayten is able to be used for close air caboclos ground support. now i cannot support the offset provided. we do not have the ability to take a half a billion dollars from operation and maintenance out of the o.c. font. it just is not there. will we did instead of doing the air force's proposal to basically mothball these we said , no when you have told them to where we can bring them back if something happens next year and we get the money and are able to pick me up so you, we have 62 members on this committee, the largest committee in congress. if we would each kopeks two or three or four members and do the same thing that mr. turner just talked about, we need to drive more money to the top li

you talked about the continuum of services, an idea within the air force. are the other service branches doing -- i'm just curious -- things similar to the air force force structure analysis or is that more being done as part of this military retirement and modernization commission? >> senator, we look at our structure every single year. we do a comprehensive review of our structure and how it fits and what the cost is and how it fits within our requirements, so we're constantly doing this. we also look at optimizing the great mralt within the structure. what are the right grades, the right leader to lead ratio. in the operational force versus generating force. we're constantly doing this assessment pvrp year we look at it anew to make sure we keep it in balance and have it right. that is part of this. but the army is in a -- we're all in different places. we're significantly reducing in strength and structure now so we're doing just about everything we can in that area and that's why for us it's important to take a look at some of these other areas as well.

as for the cost, the air force has already spent $50 million and believes that figure will double at least. >> woodruff: you can continue to track this story online. we will post links to both the kirtland air force base project and the advocacy group citizen action along with the transcript from this report. >> ifill: next, the second of a two-part look at a best-seller that's provoking discussion and debate about inequality and growth in america. the book is called "capital in the 21st century" by the french economist, thomas piketty. last night, economics correspondent paul solman, laid out a key part of his thesis: wealth, and the income derived from it, magnifies the problems of inequality over time. paul talked to piketty, and explained the heart of his argument. >> everybody knew what the rate of return was and that it was four or five, and not two or three or six or seven. these numbers were important. >> reporter: they're of particular importance to piketty because his book's new contribution to economics is said to be this very simple and, to him, ominous equation: r is grea

the air force did say that the security forces simply were, quoting here, not familiar with a complexcenario exercise, which is very strange considering two years ago this security team was promoted and the air force called it a secret weapon that was expected to perform flawlessly in whatever scenario was thrown their way. apparently in this case, that scenario turned out to be the wrong one and the secret weapon failed. >> if memory serves, there have been a lot of problems with the people who take car of our nukes. >> yes, and the hiss was going. a year ago two nuclear officers were breaking rule because they left a blast center door open. where you get in and set off the nukes. one officer fell asleep in january, two nuclear weapons officers were busted for drugs and the same month, 100 missile officers at the air force base allegedly cheated on proficiency test thouz operate the missiles. and missile officers have a higher number of misconduct and court-martials in the air force. one more to add to the list. >> very much. breaking news now. u.s. official says the united states ha

the air expo was immediately shut down. about 85-thousand spectators were out here for yesterday's show,. and, the air force believes today's crowd may have been even larger. > > once an aircraft mishap occurs, we will immediately respond to anybody who is hurt on the ground or the runway. > > the air force says the national transportation safety board will lead the investigation into the cause of the crash. including whether or not wind played a role. though, we're told that it wasn't as windy today as it was yesterday. live at travis air force base, philippe djegal, kron four news. a little more information about the man who lost his life on the airfield today. eddie andreini's been flying since he was 16 years old. this is video from previous air shows - doing inverted maneuvers like the one he performed today. a respected stunt pilot considered one of the greats of aerobatics.from half moon bay, he was inducted into the international air show hall of fame. just last year. eddie andreini was 77. carving his name into the sky.doing what he loved. witnesses say that the air force base had some major winds

the most superior close air support weapon that we have. >> senator what i said is our soldiers have the most confidence in the a-10, they're used to working with it. i also said that the air force has provided close air support with other platforms which has also been successful. >> does it give you comfort to know that the b-1 is one of the replacement ideas that the the air force has put forward presently in afghanistan? that would mean a six-hour flight from its base in a different country, as opposed to a minimum of one hour and those weapons are delivered from very high altitude. >> senator, first off the air force understads the immediacy of necessity of close air support. i believe the systems they have in place will provide us that immediacy. again, as we use different platforms, we will have to work -- we will work through with the air force how we use those and how they're best effective in supporting our ground forces as we move forward. >> find it curious that you come over here with all the necessity for cost savings and the a-10 costs for flying air is $17,000 for flying hour, the b-1, $54,000 per flying hour. i as i said before, general welsh, i challenge you to

the aarp program that the air force -- drp program that the air force canceled -- erp program that the air force canceled, let's talk about it. has anyone done and after scrub of that? have obligations, it will markedly impact auditability. -- if they have complications, it will markedly impact auditability. has there been a review of that? i noticed that we settled at $150 million to the contractor. to me, that says we don't know what we want. we were not managing the contract right, otherwise we should have had the contractor paying us. what have we learned from that? has happened inside in terms of the inspector general's office looking at that? and what does gao see in terms of it being a prime example of how not to do it? done a follow-up strategy on the system you mentioned. is of the lessons learned not to have too big of systems be put out there in one increment. you should implement them in smaller chunks and add various stages that are tried and tested before you move forward. that was one of the key elements -- nine clicks for continuous improvement? >> absolutely. that was

, one of the four virtues of the air force -- a former chief of the air force. t the end of the day we walked away saying that the military forces have the opportunity to upgrade significantly more in ] he to each other. and calculation is great, to deal with that friction we must do better to matters that friction. we do not want something like another island incident that happened before. it was a great visit, we got to see a lot of the equipment, and spend a lot of time with their military. it is obvious the nation is doing extremely well. a closey, australia is partner that we fought closely with in world war i. it is an amazing partnership, if you look at what they have for their nation. they have named a new defense chief for the air force of australia. that is good for the united states government have a great relationship with us. many nations were represented, all of our allies, and many of our friends and partners from throughout the region. it was incredibly valuable. those are a set of twins from a guy named flight officer mobs be. he was australian p

air force. exercises, red flag which is the full-spectrum high-end part of training. is what separates us from other air forces. it is where we integrate with the other services with ground forces and our allies. all the things that take us from doing low intensity work to being able to fight a full-spectrum fight were affected dramatically. >> we saw that after the grounding of the squadrons, that the cost of getting them ready exceeds the amount that would have been saved at that time, is that accurate? >> that is accurate. >> anybody else? >> senator, when you and i discussed this hearing, you were in norfolk. the problem is, if somebody is deployed and we need another carrier to deploy due to a contingency, syria or the issues in europe, those that are out there now have to stand that watch, because we don't have the response for a contingency that we would normally have. the folks on trained enough to do that. it takes us longer to train them up to deploy. onre kind of deploying just time. we need a better forced to deal with the contingencies today. >> i appreci

the air force was neutered. the russian air force seems to have a low tolerance for casualties to begin with. when the russians come across the water with their tanks and armored vehicles, that they can take them out. both places pitch such a high price on the russian game, that the russians have no chance of getting their people to put up with the casualty rate they are going to incur if they come in there. i would like your comment on that. >> and let me take one more. ir, right over here. >> i am from georgia. my question is on the nato potential contingency in the baltic direction. today russians officially notified the lithuanian side they are suspending weapon information exchange. this was a formal notification they received. i presume there will be some with ment, particularly tactical nukes. my question would be if the future if well see something in one of the baltic countries. article five considers support an armed attack on a member country. would it be considered an armed attack in this potential sc

let me give you an example of someone who has done it right in the air force. neral is responsible $16 billion at supply depots. three years ago she instituted a continuous process improvement. most people in the pentagon did not even have any idea what that is. but it is how every other modern business combines their audit information with their management so that they achieve savings. the general and her team have saved year to date in laster about $680 million. and they did it because they actually know what they are doing because they got good numbers. the question i asked for she made her presentation, could you pass an audit? of course. we cannot pass a continuing process improvement if we did not pass and on. i want to take us away from audit in this, which is the buzzword we're hearing in this hearing him to having an organization that has the initial controls with which to make the property decisions, because ash the proper decisions, because that is the basis. the check to see if you have the information systems, the financial aid. i have one other and

the air while emergency crews rushed onto the tarmac. sot about up at the entering. this is the first thunder over sola i air expo held here at the air force base in the past three years. and, until this accident, it's been a big success. some 85-thousand people were out here saturday and the air force believes even more were here sunday. for now, the questions into the cause of the crash and whether wind may have played a role or it was the result of human error will not be answered until the ntsb completes it's investigation. at travis afb, pd, k4n. a little more information about the man who lost his life on the airfield today. eddie andreini's been flying since he was 16 years old. this is video from previous air shows - doing inverted maneuvers like the one he performed today. a respected stunt pilot considered one of the greats of aerobatics. he was inducted into the international air show hall of fame. just last year. .it's like a blur. eddie andreini was 77. carving his name into the sky.doing exactly what he loved. we have more photos of the crash plus more detailed information on our website. just go to kron 4 dot com. breaking n

the air force has the community college of the air force which is a degree granting community college. and it actually is an accredited degree-granting institution that every airman when they finish their tech school, their tech training -- just about all of them earn an associate's degree. so they have that to help apply towards if there is an education, associate's-level education requirement, they'll have that attained. they'll have that in their pocket. the other services are looking to do the same types of things, to make sure working with the community colleges they can pair with them and get the necessary education to do it. and just one example among many that comes to mind right away is at the u.s. army military police school in fort leavenworth, kansas. they've been working a pilot study. every state has its own licensing requirements for peace officers. there's a natural transition there that you would see. military members going into being police officers. a lot of community and state, local, federal police agencies would like to have military members. what they're finding

but once the american victory unit was pretty well confirmed, the navy in the army air forces relaxed their lawyers status, and as a result the squadron which was in sacramento, california, the time was redeployed to marine corps air station in north carolina that was still under construction. and they're they're ordered to start coastal patrols against the u-boat's. meanwhile, carried out eight of featherhead these visions and wins. he sent a third of the force and to essentially nbc's looking for an invasion force. they had returned. may 42 was giving orders to carry out one of the most daring missions that you booths did during the war. he was sent to one of the five you boat bases in occupied french territory. they loaded his five torpedo tubes now with torpedoes with anti-ship mines, three per torpedo tube. and he was ordered to cross the of lentic, come right up to the mouth of chesapeake bay and lay a mine field across the channel. i was lucky in my research of a year's to actually correspond with commander dagen. and you free the admitted that they had come to the conclusion t

retired vice admiral john, association of the united states navy. retired air force general craig mckinley, president of the air force association. gentlemen, we thank you for your past svrs. we thank you for your current service to our service members that are retired and their families. i believe that the order that we are calling on you is to first call on general tellelli. thank you for being here, and please give us your statement. >> chairman levin, ranking member. >> i'm sorry. i make -- i apologize for that. i should know better. please carry on. >> members of the senate armed services committee thank you for the opportunity to discuss the 2015 year budget affecting the entire military community. on behalf the over 380,000 members and survivors and retirees of the retired officers association of america, i have the honor and privilege of being here today to represent them. at the heart of the pentagon's budget challenges is the devastating affect the sequestration that we've heard that several times today in the budget control act of 2011. while debt reductio

now the air force said that it no longer transfers pilots from the anti aircraft units rpa programs. instead they say there is a separate career field in which pilots and or string and training requirements i feed you with knowledge they've had any issue recruiting pilots both because of the state must as he did more broadly with the program can be caught as amended me and for some years that's grown significantly in recent years. still ahead here on our team protesters gathered in the scene to give me an anti deportation for taking to the protests after the break. while. she said the incineration re form stalled in the gop led house obama recently announced his administration would conduct a review on how many deportations more humane results are expected in coming weeks. they have not been enough to quell the dissent amongst immigrant rights organizations who are demanding a change in policy today a number of undocumented immigrants gathered in washington d c to make that message very clear our achievements in france has more the first signifies an official workers' holiday in many

but when we talk about aviation from stealth to drones, why is it in the air last wednesday? >> well, the air forceon't say why it was in the air except to say that it was a routine training mission. this plane was first manufactured back in 1955. we should say that the okay pits have been totally modernized but they're still very active in the air force. the air force has 3 32 of them d they're used in afghanistan to listen in on cell phone conversations and also to pick out bombs, ieds that might effect the troops there. they are still in use but starting to be retired in the next few years. >> live in washington, thank you. >> thank you. >> we've been talking about the report of climate change released by the white house today. it says every corner of the u.s. has benefited where drought is one of the biggest threats to agriculture in decades. paul, how are the ranchers in that area dealing with this drought problem? >> well, michael, as you said we're in elizabeth colorado. we're seven thousand feet high and dry, and it's getting drier. this area, this part of the country has been in the grips

was the most superior close air support weapon that we have. >> senator what i said is our soldiers have the most confidence in the a-10, they're used to working with it. i also said that the air force has provided close air support with other platforms which has also been successful. >> does it give you comfort to know that the b-1 is one of the replacement ideas that the the air force has put forward presently in afghanistan? that would mean a six-hour flight from its base in a different country, as opposed to a minimum of one hour and those weapons are delivered from very high altitude.

air shows. of course, the travis air force base air show is a very popular show. it hasn't been held for the last three years, but people were really looking forward to this event. but around 2:00 the plane went down and the colonel of the air force base describes the maneuver that he was doing. >> he was performing a maneuver, it was the normal schedule for the air expo. he was performing the maneuver where he was inverted, cutting a ribb ribbon. i can't give you the details of how high that ribbon is or was, but i will tell you, it's fairly close to the ground. >> reporter: so the weather conditions here, as you can see, are very windy. that will be part of the investigation to see whether wind was a factor. but the commander insists that it was even windier yesterday and it was a successful air show with no incident yesterday. perhaps today it might not have been a factor but certainly it's so windy people are wondering whether that had been an influence in the crash. now, of course, with this tragic incident, the people, the organizers had to cancel the event.

the u.s. air forcend, the pentagon is being asked to downsize. general mark a. welch is the chief of staff of the air force. general, good to see you. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, ma'am. good morning. >> as we're talking about the 9/11 memorial we should think too, about our men and women who serve in our armed forces who have sacrificed as well. >> norah, thank you so much for remembering that. there was great sketch after it occurred to fireman standing in the debris handing a tattered flag to a u.s. soldier making a comment along the lines, we've got it from here and they have. the u.s. army marine corps, supported by the air force and united states navy have done phenomenal work. we lost about 6,700 of them in iraq and afghanistan since that time. over 50,000 wounded now. so a great day to remember them as well. thank you for doing that. >> indeed. >> general, you've said -- we mentioned the budget cuts you have to deal with. it's $20 billion out of the air force, correct? >> $20 billion

some of the approved air show maneuvers we had, it was just an amazing thing to see. >> since its debut in the 1950s, boeing's b-52 airplane has been the powerhouse of the united states air forcesatile weapons delivery system the air force has. high altitude, low altitude. it can deliver missiles. short range, long range. >> the pilots' friends and family members are also watching. >> what the animals look like. yeah. we've got the gang up here. >> among them is teenager pat mcgeehan. his father, lieutenant colonel mark mcgeehan is in the pilot's seat. >> my mother and i, along with my younger brother, brendan, were watching from our front yard. i was waving at the plane thinking maybe my father might be able to see us down there. >> lieutenant colonel arthur "bud" holland is the lead pilot. holland is skilled and experienced with thousands of hours in the b-52. but he's known to take risks in violation of air force safety regulations. >> bud having a reputation of knowing the aircraft very well. i think that that's kind of how he saw the boundaries was if he could, you know, make it do something, it had a new boundary. >> the air show flight plan calls for a complicated serio

philosophy of the air force. historically in my view they sometimes send mixed signals. have this. there was the idea of deep sites. so at times historical it seems like the air force says put a little more distance. what you're describing is quite different. wonder if he could put it in historical context the way you see the air force overall. >> yes, i would be more than happy to. a kind of go to my history. and it's kind of what i mentioned with the checkered flag mentality. there's some of this in here. the late great days of the cold war. you know, we have rotated continuously. it was called checkered flag, figure out where your forward operating location was and what would happen and how we would respond to that. and the pilot was a key component to that obviously. were taking that same kind of model. it's more about engagement, more of security and stability, more about forward presence and ghost of an actual presence. so no more places -- i mean, no more bases, but more places. our ability to go operate ou

suddenly onto the air force comes a cheap in charge of the jewish forces defending against the egyptian army coming up. so she said we need your planes and he said to him i'm attacking tomorrow. he said no you don't understand we need them right now. we've got the egyptians held up at this half bridge and if we don't stop them right now they are in tel aviv tonight and that is the end of israel. so they took these four planes up and the bombs didn't work, the guns didn't work. it was a total debacle but the emotional shock of seeing the stars david on the side stopped the army .-full-stop the egyptian army and kind of deflected away so that was how he at whatever age he was said this was his home. he actually just got married to a gal that was 55 and now lives in israel. >> in this book together and interviewing people in all the research that went into it, did it change your perception in terms of the current situation in the middle east and a lot of the conflict that's happening right now? >> yes. but i can confess i am not really an expert in what's going on as far as the palestinian

nuclear weapon. >> reporter: officially the air forcey nothing. the report only came to light because the "associated press" obtained it through a freedom of information act request. the air force security group commander was replaced. the unit went through retraining and passed the exercise several weeks later. green says standards remain high because there's just no room for failure with the nation's nuclear weapons. >> i mean, a failure can mean missing a required action by a second. it can mean responding to something, you know, a moment or two late. >> in recent months, the air force has been plagued in the nuclear sector with morale problems, disciplinary problems. the issue at hand here, this is a part of the military that operates, perhaps, in the most high-pressure environment. there is no room for failure. wolf? >> disturbing information, indeed, barbara. thank you. >>> also, there's now a new investigation of security at federal government buildings and it reveals that some of the people who guard those facilities haven't rece

>> the army air corp. >> where is that in the constitution? 1789, the constitution, where was the air forcet it back under the army air corp, the b-17s that worked over nazi germany. i wouldn't mind having the army air corp again. >> what do you make of the language in the constitution in the preamble that says we should promote the public welfare of the country? what did they mean by promote the public welfare? you say it is not in the constitution. what does that mean? >> that word welfare has been contorted out of shape and the liberals interpret it as giving money out to everybody that needs it or wants it, and that's not the way the original intent was. >> you mean the way you contort an army out of shape to include an air force? >> a few things changed in the late '40s. ever since world war ii, this country, like these piis ant wars, vietnam, the gulf, you declare war, wipe out your enemies, period. that's the way i read it. >> you think we should have killed all the north vietnamese? >> hell yeah. first declare war, then use every weapon we have to annihilate the enemies. never send

i'm a military retiree, 10 years in the marine corps, and 10 in the air force. in the marines and air force, we pulled our own mess duty, and we pulled our own guard duty. but i noticed at fort jackson sow here in columbia, the guard , or m.p.'s we used to call them, are civilian, and i understand the mess hall is even contracted out to civilians. the soldiers should be doing their own jobs, not civilians. and that's my comment. thank you. guest: i'd be interested in when he served because he's absolutely right. it used to be that way. also very unusual for someone to have served in one service and transfer to another branch. to going from the marine corps to the air force, be very interested to talk to the caller. host: too bad we still don't have him on the line. [laughter] guest: the idea of contractors, now the way the military operates, we have a much more highly educated force today, a much more highly skilled force today, they're better compensated. you know, as a result, it's an all volunteer military. and we focus on making sure our troops are highly tra

>> the words the air force used was a critical deficiency in the exercise was damaging. you have minor deficiencies. that's bold letter lang wig for -- language for this is a screw up. >> the security can pass the do over when the simulation was repeated in october. the air force report acquired by the associated press says part of the problem was a lack of standardized simulations for the security teams. what does that mean. training? >> what it means is that the security team probably was not training enough. it may have brought in new people not fully familiar with the responsibilities or, frankly, weren't up to the standard expected of them. >> are they doing simulations with regularity? you'd think they would, given the importance of this. >> the worse thing you can do is get into a rope set of standard scenarios because i think all of us recognise that the last thing you are going to expect a terrorist to do is something in the ordinarily. we never saw planes attack buildings before 9/11, and all of a sudden they did. you can expect terrorists that will go to this

of the u.s. air force. it was combined headquarters run by air force with an army deputy and the mission was very simple, just to coordinate with joint chiefs of staff, to take command of a huge organization we had, to ensure cambodia got resupplied and also take command of whatever has given you for whatever reason, has happened three times, evacuate saigon and find a container ship. when i was appointed deputy commander i had to get up-to-date on the war. the war was still going on and the idea was how did this compare to the north vietnamese. at the time there with two studies, one by the north vietnamese and the other by the d a 0 in saigon. they all said exactly the same thing, south vietnam had much more firepower, tactical mobility, better strategic mobility, much better logistics'. if that is true you wonder how did south vietnam lose the war? that is the story of my book, how they lost the war. the south vietnamese strategy was wired in politics, it is all military strategy, they said they want to

>> i think the words that the air force used was a critical deficiency in the exercise is damming in the business. you have minor defin sighs. when you say critical. that's bold letter for this was a screw up of epic proportion. it was repeated in october and they passed. part of the problem was a lack of standardized simulations for the security teams. what does that mean? what was wrong? >> what it means is the security team probably wasn't training enough, may have been bringing in people not familiar with the responsibilities, or they were not up to the standards expected of them. >> are they doing different simulations with any kind of regularity. you'd think they would, given the importance of this. >> absolutely. the worst thing you can do is get into a rope set of standard scenarios, because all of us recognise that the last thing you will expect a terrorist to do is something in the ordinary. i mean, we never saw planes attack buildings before 9/11, all of a sudden they did. you expect terrorists that will go to this effort to capture a nuclear weapon to do what you don't ex

the air show plane crash continues on www.ktvu.com. you will find the latest on the investigation along with pictures and video. look under the top story tab on our home page. the crash at travis air forcee comes just one week after a cessna collided with a plane and fell into san pablo bay. the pilot was killed. the two had flown in an air show an may have been taking pictures at the time of the collision. it is not clear exactly what caused the crash. the two airplanes were seen flying close to each other right before colliding. >>> the pentagon confirmed that a spy plane was flying nearby when the control tower at lax had a computer outage last week. ktvu's heather holmes were among the thousands of passengers delayed by the outage last wednesday. the air force u-2 spy plane was conducting training operations and had filed a flight plan. the faa says the control tower lost the ability to use the system that allows controllers to identify and direct planes at high altitudes. >>> climate change is a danger and will threaten every part of the nation. that is in a government report due out tomorrow. the 1300 page national climate assessment will be released at a formal white house event.

the rebels have made advances in idlib. days ago, supplying its forces in the north. >> translator: the regime is hitting back, using the air force, people in idlib city are afraid if government advances against rebel forces. >> here in the north it is contested territory. the rebels may not be able to win the war here but now, it seems they are preventing medium from voting. >> holding elections in the country for at least a year, who overthrew the government in the coup last week says there needs to be time for political reform. veronica pedrosa joins me. >> first time he has spoken in a televised address since he announced that the military was seizing fire last thursday. this was a dense speech, a little later than expected. at least everyone on twitter in thailand was waiting for speech to come on the air. set out a time line as you say that involves a period of reconciliation, during which time a government will be appointed. then, two to three months of watching reconciliation and then a year of reforms, after which he said elections could be held, that would choose a free and -- consume a fair and just leader. this

the air force base shut shut down. this is from a witness who was that air show. is edison carlos. the shows the smoke from the plane. even though travis air force base are not saying who the pilot is we know from the schedule the pilot scheduled to perform was named eddy and he is 74 years old. we are told she well known in the -- he is well known in the avenueiation community -- aviation community and air show community, known for doing his tricks. he was performing a trick and it appears he was too low tee had ground -- low to the ground and that caused him to crash and the wind could have played a practor in the appreciate. -- factor in the crash. colleague of mine debora villalon will have more tonight at 10:00 p.m. ntsb officials will start investigating what caused this deadly crash, live from travis air force base, cristina rendon, ktvu channel 2 news. >> again, stay with ktvu and www.ktvu.com for the latest on the news and we are posting updates on twitter and on facebook. >>> police stepped up patrols in an effort to try keep cinco de mayo festivities fr

comisary and others are a concern to our members, but none of them rose to the level of maintaining a strong and viable air force. i think if i could leave you with one point, members don't join the service. at least the air force for pay benefits and compensation. they join because of a patriotic duty to their nation, and over time we have seen adequate compensation provided to our military members. overall our members want to see a veeable air force. thank you. >> we did a survey, as i said, and we got back again 90% of the respondents had a problem with something. the one that was the biggest impact was the coal actually for them. the least was bah. with respect to the comisary, the thing i kept hearing is there are efficiencies to be had, but i don't see a forcing function that's going to require deca and the commissaries to take efficiencies instead of doing the ease where i things and raising prices. unless we have something in place for are that. >> general sullivan, do you have a priority list? >> we did sign up for the coal up at 1% because we felt that the general could, in fact, and secretary mccue co

we have patrol whether it is military police in the army, security forces in the air force, some of the other security forces. military police in the navy, coast guard response systems. that's the first here. our patrol are generally told and trained to respond. they are not investigators. they will not do anything other than protect the crime scene, making sure the victim is safe guarded. make sure everything is safe and make sure people get to the right places and the investigators notified. the second tier is the army military -- the navy calls master of arms and also what the marine corps. and navy calls -- there's a difference and u.s. army cid agents. it handle the vast majority of misdemeanors. and also some felonies. up until the repeat changes that congress made for the military criminal organizations. the security force investigators and some of the navy investigators were handling some of the nonpenetrative crimes. congress said no, we want all sexual assaults to be investigated bitçó military criminal investigations. rhyme hi-- i'm going highlight couple of things i feel str

i went back into the air force after 9/11. e last 11 years, the back has gotten worse where in the last two years, it's to the point where i need additional help. i filed my claim toward the beginning of this year, so i'm heading into my fifth month of waiting on the initial claim and that's just to be parenthesised to say yes, you can receive treatment and i have to get in another line to actually get the treatment and i've lost probably i would say in the last couple months, about 10% tefeeling in left leg. >> amber, you're a veteran, as well, how discouraging is this? >> it's absolutely frustrating to see an administration that cares more about their self-image than taking care of veterans and that's how i view it. 40 veteran s are dead. this is as big of a scandal as bin g benghazi or irs and they don't hold anybody accountable from shinseki down to sharon helman at the phoenix facility, she's on paid leave right now. so as a veteran and seeing my fellow veterans go through some of these hoff riff if i crrific it's infuriat

>> i hope so, yeah. >> reporter: today, the air force chief of star, general mark welsh awarded prisonerers in a ceremony at the pentagon. >> you'll have to forgive me, this is an incredible honor to be standing on a stage with these guys. >> reporter: the general called the men courageous and told their families their lives were the legacy of that courage. ( applause ) >> i hope that this provides some closure for you. >> yes. thank you. >> it's something that i've been looking forward to for the last 15 years. it's occupied the large part of my life. >> reporter: a nation's gratitude and recognition long elaine quijano, cbs news, the pentagon. >> pelley: and that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. >>> serious consequences for >>> new at 6:00 a street fight. firefighters say a push to protect pedestrians would have serious consequences for emergency responders. >> only on five, phil till tells u

the u.s. air force doesn't have a clue how to locate and attack these u-boats, each one had three depth charms charges but the air force pilots thought the best way to find u boat wases to fly over the ocean at 150 feet, which would be very exciting but i don't think you're going to see very far, and on the fateful day, hari cain -- hairy cane and they got 25 miles off the coast, now souther towards charleston, and harry said he saw a cloud layer at a thousand feet, and he thought to himself, i can hide in that. and so up they went. against all doctrine. and they're flying along in the clouds, kind of popping down every now and then, and they saw this thing way off in the distance, this thin little line in the water. what happened in the summer of that year, was u -- boats operating off cape hatteras had an advantage and a huge liability. the advantage was the depth of the water drops off relatively -- in a relatively short distance from shore so they could go out there and hide during the day and then

the question is will mark johnson come back? steph curry has his force. >>> want to back to the deadly air show crash at travis air force base. ousands of people watched as the stunt plane crashed to the ground. sergio quintana is live with the latest. reporter: almost immediately after this crash, there were pictures posted on social media from some spectators. let's look at a few of those we did see. you can see some pretty dark plume of smoke on the runway. we talked to few spectators who say the plane was doing what was called a ribbon-cutting maneuver and was upside down, flying just feet above the runaway, when it seemed to get closer and closer to the concrete and then skidded for several feet. white smoke, following that skid, and then it turned to black smoke, and then fire. a lot of witnesses we talked to say it seemed like the fire crews took awhile to get out to that fire. they say that the fire department was stationed behind the audience so they had to drive around them quite some bit before they could get to the scene of the fire. i did ask that of the colonel who just gave a news briefing here just a few minute

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the time of attack. we are preparing forces in benghazi as well as across libya, including tripoli. he did claim responsibility that the airce who attacked the general national congress belongs to the haftar forces. >> omar saleh in pripoli. thanks, omaver. to europe, at least 44 people have now been killed in the worst flooding for more than a century, in the balkans. thousands of people have been forced to evacuate their homes in serbia, bosnia and croatia. some towns have been completely cut off by the floods. the prime minister is describing the situation as catastrophic. peter sharp reports. >> reporter: with more than 25,000 people being driven from their homes, as the flood waters from the saba river continue to rise, the priority for the rescue crews is the evacuation of the sick and elderly. but many of the most vulnerable remain trapped and they are now running out of food and drinking water. it is a massive logistics operation that's threatening to completely overwhelm serbia's emergency services. on dry ground, helicopter did shuttle between the riverbank and local hospitals ferrying those too weak to walk. >>

the question is will mark johnson come back? steph curry has his thoughts force. >>> want to back to the deadly air show crash at travis air forcease. thousands of people watched as the stunt plane crashed to the ground. sergio quintana is live with the latest. reporter: almost immediately after this crash, there were pictures posted on social media from some spectators. let's look at a few of those we did see. you can see some pretty dark plume of smoke on the runway. we talked to few spectators who say the plane was doing what was called a ribbon-cutting maneuver and was upside down, flying just feet above the runaway, when it seemed to get closer and closer to the concrete and then skidded for several feet. white smoke, following that skid, and then it turned to black smoke, and then fire. a lot of witnesses we talked to say it seemed like the fire crews took awhile to get out to that fire. they say that the fire department was stationed behind the audience so they had to drive around them quite some bit before they could get to the scene of the fire. i did ask that of the colonel who just gave a news briefing here just a few

. >> why didn't the german air force mount to a sizable defense? the reason is because of a concerted effort of the allies really to destroy any aircraft within the region. >> there were many accounts of germans who were captured in normandy that would be taken back to prison camps in england. they were struck by how scrawney they seemed. >> some of these p.o.w.s didn't even speak german. >> these germans wanted to surrender. cover me. i didn't know exactly what that meant, but that's what john wayne had been using so i figured it had to be good. >> he was part of the invasions of sicily, italy, and the french riviera. >> i looked him right in the eye and said did you ever think you would be taken prisoner by a jew and i turned around to my men and said, take them away. we had so many millions of us that were ready to give up their lives as i was to, not with any enthusiasm, but recognizing this was a distinct possibility. >> they were waiting for us and we surprised them. they didn't think that we would come in the bad weather, but we did. >> hell

air show crash, kills a beloved bay area pilot. tonight we are learning more about the man and the accident. >> we go to travis air force base where the tragedy happened. >> reporter: 85,000 people came here to traffic air force base to watch an air show. instead they witnessed a plane crashing down, killing a pilot. you are about to see dramatic footage of that crash. the plane flew low, near the ground, they noticed the timing was off. upside down and a little early. >> reporter: the pilot went upside down earlier than expected. moments later -- oh. >> you can hear the spectators reaction as the plane glides down an open field. >> everyone stand still, stay right where you are. we had an incident. we are aware of that. >> reporter: the colonel of the air force says the 77-year- old pilot was doing a maneuver he has done many times before. >> he was about perform egg maneuver where he was inverted, cutting a ribbon, i can not give you the details how high that ribbon is or was but i will tell you it is fairly close to the ground when he was flying inverted to cut the ribbon. >> stay right where you are. >> reporter: the plane land

the air force aspirated fees air force aspirated these and their unfunded requirements. it was not under dana chairman smark where the base bill so what i have done because there is such limited funding has gone into operations and maintenance for the defense contract management agency the defense information systems agency the defense media activity, the office of the secretary of defense, the washington headquarters services, the executive general and special schedules, printing and reproduction purchase communications, in management professional support services. hitting all of those we have come up with $120 million which is the cost for the eight unfunded reapers that the air force has requested. this is a choice by thing for us between good graphics at the pentagon or a uav that is tried and true that has led the uav boom that we have had in this country. it is the predator which is the reaper. it doesn't need any more development. our soldiers sailors and marines use it every single day. it has done more good probably then many of these weapons systems we are talki

we have patrol, whether it's military police in the army, whether it's security forces in the air force, some of the other security forces, military police in the navy, coast guard response systems, that's their first tier. our patrol are generally told and trained to respond. they are not investigators. they will not do anything other than protecting the crime scene, making sure the victim is safeguarded, making sure everything's safe and making sure people get to the right places and the investigators notified. the second tier is what we call in the army military police investigators, what security forces in the air force call security forces investigators, what the navy callings their masters of arms and also what the marine corps and the navy call cid investigators. now, there's a difference between cid investigators and u.s. army cid agents. basically, that second tier will handle the vast majority of misdemeanors and also some felonies. up until the recent changes that congress paid for the military criminal investigative organizations, military police investigators -- well, actua