i am with the san francisco fleet week board of directors. we are very pleased to have the senior leadership seminar taking place this year on the bonhomme richard. just a little quick remark, in may 2010, i got a phone call saying to come on over for lunch, so we can talk about fleet week. i showed up in a room over at the marine memorial, and he had a big chart laid out and had a bunch of his friends sitting there and said, you are all going to be volunteers. isn't this great? then he proceeded to tell me about a wonderful idea that one of our honor read cochairs that, former secretary of state george shultz. he said since we have all these military folks in san francisco, why don't we use the opportunity to do some training to better prepare ourselves for disaster response, so we took that mission very seriously. we talked about having a tabletop exercise in 2010. but if you know anything but tabletop exercise, and i think a lot of you people do, the back room planning is just an incredible process. hours and hours and hours are put in for

the mission of our fleet has expand and grown expo tentally more complex. r all that those conduct commerce, but our responsibilities spread to every corner of globe and we work in every corner of the globe with our allies from britain and canada. the challenges of the world now, both actually and potentially, are immeasurable variable and multi-dimensional ranging from conventional warfare to irregular war to cyber and humanitarian aid and disaster relief. 200 years has not changed the fact that the vast majority of the world's populations live near the sea, that a vast majority of the world's commerce travels over the sea and that we are counted on to keep the peace and our sea-lanes open. to deter aggression and when needed to win the fight. some of the tall sail that is you've seen over the weekend represent the fleet as it existed 200 years ago. wooden ships fighting each other at close range and powered by wind. wind gave way to coal, coal to oil and then to nuclear power. each transformation increased our combat effectiveness and reaffirmed naval supr

thought they had to do something similar. >> they decided that a nonstop flight to hawaii where the fleetas based would be suitably spectacular. >> reporter: two navy planes would fly from san francisco to hawaii. the navy chose commander mitchell. >> he was a pilot, not a very good one. but he was an excellent navigator and he was considered to be the best dead reckoning navigator. >> reporter: what the navy did not tell the press if they were not sure the plane could carry enough fuel to make it to hawaii. >> it fell one hour and a half short requirement to get to hawaii. >> reporter: yet they took off in planes that probably weren't going to get there. >> it gets worse. they had rallied this flight, they could hardly get out of it. they had to take off on the flight. >> reporter: two planes took off from san pablo bay and headed out through the golden gate which of course did not have a bridge in 1925. the third plane had been judged unready for the journey. after 300 miles the second plane had to turn back with a broken fuel line. rogers and his crew of five flew on and hit head winds

that is something we will losthe presenting its september, along with the fleet plan. g a five-year ypp and men and plans for that simultaneously. lastly, as the cac report indicated, we have also added -- requiring a commitment from the hd vehicles in a state of repair including an mid life overhaul program to allow the hybrids to exceed our meet their useful life and guidance. >> how many miles is considered a life? >> i believe it is measured in years. i believe 14 years, at least. there might also be a mileage requirement, but maybe somebody can jump on that. commissioner cohen: i have a superficial question, but a question nonetheless about the potential new replacement. what color will it be? >> that: i will defer to mta staff on the details.k i would assume it would be in line with the current fleet. >> commissioners, jonathan from the mta. the first question was about the useful life of a vehicle. it depends on the type. this type of hybrid-electric vehicle has a life of about 20 years. we run our vehicles millions of more miles than some of our sister agencies

the crew of the general in commands command of charleston turned himself over to the fleet. it made it even tougher because the confederate is watching more closely what is going on. they had reckoned the determination of robert smalls. he is going to make his plan. but on the night of may 12th. while the vessels went ashore for the night. they went to work. the boiler stoked, the crew, that went along with smalls, not all of the screw did, it could be five to 7 members, slipped the borings to a neighboring wharf daughter and wife and sister and a slave sailor and another lady and a child. while wearing the captain's coat and straw hat he blew the vessel's steam whistle and was allowed to pass. he hoisted a white flag, toll, sheets that his wife had brought along. in the morning mist came alongside of the vessel onward. the onward was preparing for action. readying the guns and the captain reported that passengers emerged on deck dancing, singing, whistling and some faced fort sumpter and uttered cour curses. some union soul jguided her tow buford. she is brought up alongside

and on november # 7th, 1861, with 17 vessels, the largest fleet ever organized by the united states up to this time will seize port royal sound. they will drive away the confederate army and the vast majority of the land owners and the planters within the sea islands. they will come ashore and control 8,000 slaves. though not initially prepared to deal with the slaves, the united states will establish a program designed to recruit into the army the region's former slaves. more individuals are going to be termed the port royal experiment. some of these individuals will play an important role in the robert smalls story. another important individual will be mansfield french. he will be a key player in the robert smalls story. the 51-year-old french had been among the founders of the experiment. another major player was david hunter. he was in command of the army forces that occupied the sea islands and in march of 1862, he received a directive from the war dreepartment and he found tt a lot of the former slaves weren't that interested and thought that he needed to give them something to f

they went further on up river and found the fleet entirely scuttled except for one vessel that the fuse went out on and they were able to capture this vessel and bring it down river with them. there was also a series of merchant vessels that had moved up river with barney's flotilla to try to avoid capture from the british and these were also either scuttled or the british themselves set them on fire and destroyed them. the river was certainly deeper during that time period but we know it got very shallow up river where the flotilla was scuttled because they were taken up river as far as they could possibly go. there was some thought about trying to take them over land to the south river but it was decided that would be futile because the british would bottle them up in the south river. they were gone so far up river that the deeper draft vessels, "s "scorpion" and the supply ship were left as far up as they could go and shallow draft vessels could only go up river in single file in only a few feet of water. the buoy we see up there marks the wreck. we're over the site of the shipwreck.

we worked on everything from the d day ship wrecks to a scuttled revolutionary war fleet up in maine. it's probably one of the best known and best preserved vessels. >> so you dive in the water here yourself. what's it like diving in this water that looks pretty hard to see through? >> kind of like diving in pea soup. the visibility is not very good at all. the best we ever get to is a foot or two. it's hard -- it is hard to measure and read tapes and to work, since you almost have to work by braille, by feel or by touch, but you can get used to it. if you're an underwater archaeologist, you worked in black water, you do get used to, you know, maneuvering around when you have very limited visibility and also, you can determine what you're working on and what you're feeling by touch. so your other senses kind of improve with time when you have low visibility. however, the visibility here, even though it looks pretty bad, we have had at times, you know, up to a foot or two and so we have been able to take some video of the wreck site as well. and to see a little bit of what we're doing

fleet. and finally, the contract my touring unit. the mayor's office is proposing to transfer the local business compliance unit and the domestic unit from the city administrator's office, hopefully with an effective date of july 1st, 2012. the goal for the function is to begin the process of creating the one-stop shop. as has been discussed over the past decade, there has been report after report over the past 10 to 12 years, whether the blue-ribbon report, georgia report, the reportrural report -- rural report or the federal grand jury, there has been a process of competing stakeholder interests inconsistent with stakeholder ownership. the city-wide outcome would be optimal. this is the extent of consolidating, starting the process of moving these positions into a centralized unit within the city administrator's office. in the future, may be moving the office of economic workforce development, moving local contractors into the same development. >> i want to thank the mayor's office for your efforts in working forward with us. we sp

it was in 2007 the county bought a fleet of 50 buses. a couple of years after they started catching fire and the fight has continued until today. county executive ike leggett made it official these buses will not return onto the streets again. no one was hurt in this morning's bus fire in silver spring. the cause is still under investigation, but early speculation is that it had something to do with an electrical issue. since 2009 this particular model of bus, the champion model, has had 13 instances where they just go up in flames. the president of the union that represents the drivers says in all cases it's been due to stress put on the buses. he says they weren't built to be used the way montgomery county officials have been using them and the result is more than a dozen of them catching fire, a fight both the union and county have agonized over for years. following today's event the executive ordered the remaining 37 buses on the fleet to be taken off the streets. >> we have been lucky. we've defied the odds out here. i could just env

we're going to send out the yearly letter writers to look at the take-home vehicles and reduce their fleets and remind them about the health the air clean transportation ordinance. we have a city car sharing agreement with city car share where we're trying to encourage departments to use city car share. we have a very good vehicle pool where we're reducing vehicles, we have a city hall and vehicle pulled. we're trying to get those in different corridors where we have groupings of offices and working with those departments. we have new technology that is helpful to us in identifying where we should put up vehicle pulls within the city and virtual pools where there -- you have these different cars in different locations that we could maybe not use that often the work with different departments where they can share those vehicles. we're working with departments through the city fleet manager and through jackie fong to work with those departments in coming up with solutions to reduce the department's fleet where they can keep their business operations moving. >> thank you. i appreciate the work

, the only fleet that's everywhere and the idea is if there's a problem, someone should just shoot them up and you plow right on through that people recognize and so forth and it's simply as a nation, losing our sense of sovereignty and our sense of ability to manage thing and why doesn't that work in the real world. >> senator, we are a party to many agreements around the world, and there is a lot of opposition to them and a lot of people were upset and we went to the wto. and what we have found a single important thing, and to adjudicate between countries and most of the time, and on occasions we'd, and when we have our own detriment, but i happen to think that we have great competence in the military. i happen to think that it could be better if we could avoid most of the need to confront militarily by joining an organization that 161 countries are already in and couldn't all be one, and having a way to participate in the process, and giving the money that pays some sort of royalties or fees is a fraction of what the government will make on this deal and clearly it would be much

this come after a series of fires on one of the system's fleets. the most recent happened yesterday morning in silver spring on ramsey avenue. the bus was south of service and no one was hurt. this is at least the seventh fire in the last three years on a smaller bus made by champion international. as a result of yesterday's bus fire, all 38 champion buses in the ride on fleet were taken out of service. those are the smaller buss that hold 30 people. >>> an update on the massive tree that fell and killed a man driving on georgetown pike last night. police say carl roach was not speeding and no alcohol was involved. his family says the 64-year-old enjoyed horses and was active in the virginia fox hunting community. people have complained about the tree that crushed his mercedes. fairfax officials say they do not know of any complaints about t. >>> another big story we are following, the majority of d.c. residents no longer support mayor vincent gray according to a new poll out by the "washington post." it is the latest fallout from the mayor's ongoin

we learned today, 19% of the fleet is out on any given day for repair. today they got money to replace some of the buses. >> reporter: they are ready to retire. that is what transportation officials say about the fleet of 800 muni buses. >> breaking down. often. they are requiring us to invest a lot of our resources to try to keep them running. >> reporter: today they got a shot of cash to replace some of the coaches. >> san francisco and the bay area transit providers together are receiving over $45 million collectively to make traveling by transit faster, more efficient, more comfortable and safer than ever. >> reporter: muni received a $15 million grant to replace the buses. >> more advanced. much cleaner. much better amenities. more comfortable. better ride. >> reporter: an additional $6 million will be spend on the x line, buses will feature new digit transit information signs on board. >> some of them need a lot of repairs. probably make me ride it more often. >> reporter: money is set to roll outlet the -- muni is set to roll out the buses in 2013.

the factor was more than double the fleet average. though the aircraft's minor crash rate was high. the spokesperson maintains the marines have confidence in the aircraft's safety. officials have agreed to hold more talks on ow the aircraft can be used. they discussed the public's growing concerns about the plan. 12 were unloaded this weekend. japanese officials explained that people's fears were not combined and said that residents in part of the country were worried. they promised to ensure the military equipment meet the highest safety standards. tests will be conducted at the air station and night training is planned at other locations in japan. >> i'm taking the problems very seriously. >> he said an in-house investigation on insider trading has uncovered more suspected leaks of information on client companies. a number of leaks on capitol increases were already found to have left cases on insider trading. after the accident happenscandae president of the securities has been named the new ceo of the holdings and is charged with bo

fleet week takes place once a year, the 31st year we are doing it. it is a self sustaining the event that is very important to the city, if for no other reason, then financially. day-trippers' that come into the port for plea week spend on average of $109 per person. float that number out to the apartment 1.5 million that come into the port every day and you see a huge influx of revenue coming in tanks to fleet week. it is critical to fleet week that we have birth. our ports is like -- has 7.5 miles of waterfront. how many piers can accommodate ports these days? not a lot. how about navy vessels? even less. take away the option of putting a big deck aircraft carrier on the face of 30-32 will impact fleet week. for those of you who do not live here, this event has become even more extraordinary. the fleet week organization are compromised and how we can put on funds, compromised by being able to go back to the admiral and say yes, we can accommodate ships in the sport. you will see me again. i will try to make it fun and happy, but the message will ne

outlining a plan to replace and modernize the fleet. resident obama's sunday $24 million bill last month to lease seven more air tankers. they want to be joining the fight until august. the c-130 stationed here for a grounded friday following the south dakota crash the military called it time to review and reflect but now they're back in service a critical tool during this deadly fire fighting season. >>> 3 salinger for cbs news call out springs. for the weather center good evening de leigh anne has from 65 degrees and a half moon bay was 67 and san francisco which is bought on the woman's location was sonoma and also the accords in concord a 88 that right there bright lights of the tri valley. to the left dublin in danville and to the right pleasanton and currently with the clear skies are the eastern portion of our districts were still standing with the temperatures in the '50s and '60s i will have to say this temperatures probably wrong in redwood city of more like 63 degrees over otherwise overnights the winds will dial lack of the w

the u.s. air tanker fleet is a mix of government owned and privately leased aircraft. in 2000, the forest service had contracts with private companies for 43 air tankers. now, it's just nine. some of those planes are decades old. >> we are very troubled by the crash that took place. >> tom vilsack is the secretary of agriculture. >> it is not a secret that the tankers that we have are aging. it's one of the reasons we issued a report to congress this year outlining a plan to replace and modernize the fleet. >> president obama signed a $24 million bill last month to lease seven more air tankers, but they won't be joining the fight until august. the c-130s were grounded for a day following the south dakota crash. the military called it a time to review and reflect. now they're back in service, a critical tool during this deadly firefighting season. rick sallinger for cbs news, colorado springs. >>> this morning, scientists in switzerland announced they found a new sub atomic particle that may be the got --ment the key to the form pags of the universe. the search began in

first a major modernization plan is in the works for the fleet of taxi cabs in the district. the mayor has announced a contract to put smart meters in the cab. if the dc council goes along, you will be able to pay for your fare by credit card. the devise will come with gps tracking and television and customers could summon the police with a push of a button. >>> hundreds of thousands of people around the world could be knocked off the intnet because of a malicious computer virus. the fbi is inviting people to check their computers to see if they are infected. teresa garcia tells us how. >> reporter: jake lewis is on the internet more than 15 hours a day. he was alarmed to hear about the computer virus that could knock thousands of people off line. >> i have all my documents, stored online. >> reporter: the fbi has been on the case since last year when agents busted a range of computer hackers. the scam infected hundreds of thousands of computers around the world and controlled them through rogue servers. it would rack up millions of dollars in illegal fees. >> the challenge f

that brought the fleet down for more assessments on the danger of flying them.ch of containment of these out of control fires can be credited to the men and women who are in blistering heat working the front lines and some of those people literally jump out of airplanes right into the fires below. yes. we see what a day in the life is like for a smoke jumper. >> reporter: in the entire usa, there are only 430 of them. they are among the fire fighting elite. they are the smoke jumpers. many of them are in colorado right now marching onto aircraft which is their transportation to the action. their job, the fly into the fires just as new ones are starting up and stop them from getting bigger. this is video the smoke jumpers just brought back. it's hard to spot the flames from up here at 1500 feet, but they are trained to see them. it's all clear when on the ground. nowhere near any roads and sometimes a distance from civilization. if they don't get to the flames quickly, the blaze will spread rapidly. >> you talk to people you know who aren't close family and you t

in torine they killedf spokesperson for the 5th fleet toward threatening to often the gove firml negotiating rights last u.s. partner saying it will be used as political campaign. parliament's approval of the support for fukushima daiichi plant in japan. >>> public support for nuclear energy in demonstrators held their latest post-fukushima protest aimed at pressuring the government to rally was 2011 disaster. >> reporter: they brave heat and humidity to come out in historic numbers. these protesters in tokyo are demand thousands of people are here to say no power. >> translator: nuclear power is too dangerous humans inred explosio is still otest after protest urging the government to stop using atomice and academy award winning musician. they told the crowd life and health are much more important than economic people came out today to lis their own government stop restarting nuclear plants and decommission them. things. when i think about my child and other children in fukushima, i cannot help butt shame for all japanese if another nuclear accident happens again. really angry. this is terri

the u.s. air tanker fleet is a mix of government-owned and privately leased aircraft. in 2000, the forest service had contracts with private companies for 43 air tankers. now it's just nine. some of those planes are decades old. >> were troubled by the crash. >> reporter: tom vilsack is the secretary of agriculture. >> it is not a secret that the tankers that we have are aging. it's one of the reasons why we issued a report to congress this year outlining a plan to replace and modernize the fleet. >> reporter: president obama signed a $24 million bill last month to lease seven more air tankers but they won't be joining the fight until august. scott, these tankers are so important because they not only fight fires they prevent the blazes from becoming massive and that's going to be even more important in the weeks to come in what's already been a historic firefighting season. >> pelley: rick, thank you. now, a story about a lifeline being reopened for american troops in afghanistan. a logjam of critical surprise finally cleared today when the pakistanis reopened a border

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the economics of converting the heavy truck fleet from deez toll natural gas are compelling. it costs about $7,000 to do the conversion without having a new rig, without having a new engine, and that $7,000 can be made up more or less in a year, because depending on where in the u.s. you might be able to get lng or cng for a truck and that is a big issue. that is a comparison to 4.5 gallon diesel you can have the equivalent amount of natural gas feeding for somewhere between $1.10 and $2.50, so the economics on that are really compelling and we in looking potentially at 2 million barrel a day decline in u.s. consumption have a not very aggressive conversion of the trucking fleet from diesel into natural gas. i want to talk about what triggered this revolution. it was high prices. the high prices certainly had an impact in north america first with the shale gas play but it is really global and when robin and i were trying to build petroleum finance company in the early 19 and mid 1980s, one of of the things we were able to do is get a contract with the world bank where we looke

, the only fleet that's everywhere and the bold statement but the idea is if there's a problem, someone should just shoot them up and you plow right on through, that people recognize and so forth therefore all this quibbling over the royalties and therefore we're as a nation losing our sense of sovereignty, our sense of ability to manage thing and why doesn't that work in the real world? >> your turn. >> thank you. senator, we are party to many agreements around the world and there is a lot of opposition to them, a lot of people were upset we went in to the wto. what we have found a single important thing, and to way to adjudicate differences between countries and most of the time the united states has won. on a cases we've lost and even then we have ignored some of those things to our own detriment. but i happen to think while i have great confidence in the military, i happen to think it would be better to avoid most of the need to confront militarily by joining an organization that 161 countries are already in, couldn't all be wrong, and having a way to participate vigorously

this comes after a series of fires on one of the system's fleets. the most recent happened yesterday morning in silver spring on ramsey avenue. the bus was out of service and no one was hurt. this is at loft the seventh fire in the last three years on the smaller buses made by champion international. as a result of yesterday's bus fire, all 38 champion buses in the ride-on fleet were taken out of seven sis. those were the smaller buss that only hold about 30 people. >>> we are learning more about the freak accident that killed a driver when a tree fell crushing his car in great falls tuesday night. police identified the driver as carl roach iii. he was driving along georgetown pike when a 100-foot oak tree fell on top of his car. people living nearby say they have complained about the old, large trees in that area. v-d.o.t. was responsible for the tree but county authorities say they never fielded any complaints. y >>> another big story this morning, more fallout from mayor vincent gray's ongoing campaign corruption scandal plaguing the d.c. governme

plans to upgrade the fleet include purchasing more recent secondhand american vessels. on the diplomatic front, there are also challenges. at this month's asean foreign ministers meeting, the philippines wanted the bloc to recognize in writing a recent standoff between its vessels and ships from china. but the chair country cambodia refused. cambodia's biggest financial supporter is china. criticism of the president's handling of the south china sea affair is rising. aquino used his speech to call for public support. >> reporter: the south china sea looks likely to dominate important meetings later this year including the asean and east asia summits. before then, aquino's challenge is to unite asean and to win backing from the international community, especially the united states. charmaine deogracias, nhk world, manila. >>> we go to sayaka mori now for a look at the weather forecast. >> typhoon vincente is downgraded, and winds are dying down, heavy rain will continue because the system will continue to drag ample moisture from the south, so areas, northern vietnam, and

the fleet also has an ad hoc branch of china's ruling communist party. china is in disputes with southeast asian nations over the ownership of the spratly islands and other territories. foreign ministers with the association of southeast asian nations focused on this territorial tug-of-war during their meetings this week in phnom penh but decisions over how to describe the disputes kept them from releasing a joint statement. >>> japan is planning to start the first trial production of shale oil this autumn. the oil is contained in a sedimentary rock called shale found in bedrocks deep under ground. its excavation had been considered difficult for a long time. but the development of new technologies has made shale oil drilling easier and surging fuel prices have made this new source of energy more attractive. the united states has been trying to tap shale oil for some time, and now japan petroleum exploration company or japex plans to go ahead with the first test production in the country. the test is scheduled 1800 meters underground at the iyukawa gas fi

samuel fran siz dupont, the largest fleet ever organized by the united states up to this time will seize port royal sound and in a short time the navy will establish a base in port royal sound and the army will establish a expeditionary force operating out of hilton head island. when the -- they not only will drive away the confederate army, but also the vast majority of the landowners and the planters within the sea islands. they will come ashore and find themselves in control of some 8,000 masterless slaves. though not initially prepared to deal with these abandoned 14r e slaves, the united states would employ a -- by the spring of 1861, the north had in place at port royal a very ambitious program operated by northerners who oversaw the growing of cotton and the running of schools. there are a number of individuals involved in establishing what becomes or what is going to be termed the port royal experiment. some of these individuals will play a very important role in the robert small story. mentioned samuel francis, another important individual being mansfield french, he will be a ke

the u.s. fifth fleet there and the fleet is a pivot point allows the u.s. maintain had similar control not only over the persian go but over the entire middle east so the united states does not want to lose that basing rights. it's one of the most secretive nations on earth where many would say nothing's changed for decades and life is lived in a communist time will but while the winds of change and exactly blowing full strength in north korea a new era could be on the horizon this week the country's military chief was suddenly sacked and now reports are emerging that major economic and agricultural reforms are pending independent journalist believes that pyongyang should be encouraged but not pressured to open up to south korea. sixty years of sanctions on north korea has not worked and i think face like the chinese opening up special economic zones in the north of the country because to buy owns that are supposedly going to go into your for a phone call we have the rise on the special economic zone in the northern part of the country and we have a case on

he enters the vessels and commands the fleet as they guide the ships safely to the docks.at's what we are going to do. >> we left the tugboat bridge and went back to the company headquarters to ask eric about the company's success. >> one of the things we observed about why this company has survived is there have been pieces that you can break off. if you own a bit of your supply chain and a relative interested in the vertical, you can break that piece off and keep the lineage going. we had those pieces over the years. >> at the age of 80, brian is last living member of the fourth generation. he has plans to pass the company on to his sons. beyond that, however, he says the legacy is not his concern. >> in your dreams, how many more generations keep this company? >> hey, once you're dead, okay? iç don't dream about what coul happen two generations from now. that's my son's problem. >>> earlier today at the new york times small business summit, i hosted a panel called "where's the money." we talked about how you find funding and what you say when you talk to somebody who h

he was commander in chief for the pacific fleet. knew the nixons very well and we are proud and delighted to have him here. and, of course -- [ applause ] >> and, of course, julie, who is author of the biography of her mother entitled "pat nixon, the untold story." and also worked with her husband, david eisenhower, in writing "going home to glory." a memoir of dwight d. eisenhower from the period 1961 to '69. ladies and gentlemen, your panel. [ applause ] >> well, i hope we can get that video working before we are done because it is really good. >> because he produced it. >> we take it for granted these days that senior government officials travel all around the world, but that hasn't always been true. so i think a great place to start today would be to ask you julie, who although was only 5 years old when her parents when on their first international mission of vice president pat nixon, because she's an authority of her mother and on the biography of her mother, "pat nixon: the untold story." the biography of pat nixon. it is avail

should we look at replacing the feet -- the fleet? before we look at whether we are using them optimally, for car sharing, car pooling, and others. you cannot believe that we use all of the cars that we have at all times. how do you do that surface analysis? >> certainly, we are of limited from this standpoint. we are not making field investigations to determine actual need. however, we do look at mileage, when the car was purchased, maintenance costs, that kind of thing. looking at the number of vehicles that they have, it is all taken into consideration. >> thank you. supervisor cohen: there is something that wanted to communicate, from my perspective. there is a need for dbi to have the ability to do their outreach. one of the things i am most concerned about, when i look at their budget, they have a list of community-based organizations that have contacted with to do the community outreach. i do not believe that all of these organizations are doing exactly what they can to the best of their ability. i am in the bill that conflicted

of bahrain and that is what the world will file in about primarily because of us that there and the fleet is a pivot point allow the u.s. maintain had amount of control not only over the persian go but over the entire middle east so the united states does not want to lose that basing rights. it's so good to have you with us here now to today still to come for you in the program funded with guns or tasteless tourism. visitors to israel are being given the chance to take up almonds and what's marketed as terra com venture has given plenty of ammunition to the critics. and they all come off of last year's fukushima disaster hits u.s. shores in the form of radioactive fish so that story coming your way just a few minutes from now. ten minutes past the hour here in moscow looks like one of the world's most reclusive states north korea is taking a step in another direction its young leader is said to be set on a pall of the reform to revamp the country's economy and culture kim jong un this week dismissed the north's long standing military chief but it's understood was opposed to the plan chang

county executive isaiah luggett excepts the fleet to be replaced by august. >>> a woman had to be rescued from the middle of the tracks. this picture was taken at metro center at 10:00 last night. as you can see, the woman is standing right between the two sets of tracks. metro officials say the woman realized she was on the wrong platform and decided to jump the tracks to get to the other side. once she hopped down she decided that it was not such a good idea and froze until she could be rescued. that woman will probably face a fine. >>> today congress will look at an issue that could shape the future of washington's skyline. a house committee will hold a hearing to look at whether the district should ease restrictions on how tall buildings can be. supporters say allowing taller buildings could spur development to some neighborhoods and boost d.c.'s tax space. opponents sayal buildings can take away from the historical character. it could be years before height restrictions are changed. >>> there is new pressure for d.c. mayor to resign. 54% of washingtonians say the mayor should step do

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