we were at that time representing the warfighting of the marine corps. it is the largest warfighting unit. it has a ground compune component, a wing component, and a lodgistics component, which today is a marine lodgistics group. so i had representatives from those three components with me living and working in kuwait in case saddam hussein kind of went berzerks -- berzerk or something. we were the forward force. >> what was your last day of the marine corps? >> jan 1, 2003. that was my official retirement. but i'm still in the marine corps. >> and were you nominated by bush -- >> yes. >> what happened with that? >> the president withdrew the nomination under pressure, i think. that's water under the bridge. >> what kind of pressure? >> i don't know. and i don't ask questions. i heard it came from secretary rums felled because we were about to embark, if you remember, this was post 9/11, and i was told secretary rumsfeld felt he couldn't justify sending an active duty officer back to a civilian agency. >> does it work? putting a military man in a civilian

on iwo, because trimble was a pitcher for the third marine version and the six marine corps, the six divisions in a world series, and erskin was a baseball nut and wanted to win the series. and sure enough, jimmy trimble, if you're at the dipper dinner saturday night, you'll see motion pictures of him pitching in this series. low and behold, he was the outstanding pitcher in the third marine version and they did win the world series making trimble a favorite of the general. and i was trimble's buddy, so i tagged along for the good times that came with it. when we landed on iwo, frank touched on it. frank didn't make it ashore on the 20th because of the clutter that there was, but our platoon was sent ashore on the 20th. and we did get ashore. and our reason was to set up erskin's sleep quarters. but when we got ashore on the 20th, the fifth division had just about cut across the island. we ended up fighting with the 77th regiment. and we didn't get a chance to quite look for the c.p. in the headquarters. but i never saw anything like it when i landed. there was broken equipment, ther

. -- there was a lot of problems with his paperwork when he got out of the marine corps. and he wasn't a very aggressive person.

so i set out to join the marine corps. i talk about it in the book. and it's a long story, but eventually i got into the marine corps. and i found then a real taste of jim crow as we traveled south and i stepped up to window to purchase a ticket, a bus ticket, and the clerk said round the back, boy. and then i knew. these are the days of white and colored water fountains and such. and i might add that in those days black soldiers, tuskegee airmen -- i'm sure you all know about the tuskegee airmen and people like rosco brown, who i call the fighter pilot -- they and black marines were treated less well than german and italian prisoners of war in the south. this, mind you, while the war was still going on. and immediately after it ended. so i learned about jim crow firsthand. well, then my stepmother sort of insisted that i go to college. i had the g.i. bill, it made sense to go, but i didn't want to go to college. i had $2 or $300, more money than i ever had at one time if life, and i wanted to party. [laughter] so, but she was insistent. i said, well,

the sequester defense budget falls short in meeting the marine corps's requirements and those of the joint force. your marine corps is ready today. in order to maintain readiness within the current fiscal environment, we are mortgages the readiness of tomorrow's marine corps to do so. we are ready today because your marines are resilient and determined to defend the united states of america. despite year after year continuing resolutions, the budget control act, furloughs and the government shutdown, the monday and women who wear my cloth are patriots first. the defense of our fellow americans and our way of life is our number one priority, even over the comforts of self. last month's furlough of more than 14,000 of our civilian marines was a grave disservice to an honorable and dedicated workforce who wants nothing more than to advance the security of the american people. our civilian marines are a vital part of our team. they are the technicians, the experts, the teachers, the clerks in our commissaries and our exchanges. they are our corporate memory. they are our surge capacity or

the u.s. marine corps. they say his use of an unsecure yahoo! others say the warning could have saved lives. what do you think would have happened if the commanders had listened to the advice of major brezler? >> i would have my son. >> reporter: less than two weeks after he sent the e-mail, buckley's son, greg buckley jr., was shot and killed along with two other marines at the same base. >> he was in the gym with his friend, just working out. they walked in with a ak-47 given to him, and sanwar, and executed three marines. >> the only reason that the shooter was on that base and had access to weapons is because he was the child sex abuse victim of the afghan district police chief. >> reporter: the suspected shooter was reportedly a teenage servant of sawar john. afghan officials say they do not know their current whereabouts. 14 months later, u.s. central command has yet to publish the results of an investigation into the incident. the only person facing any charges is major brezler for using an unsecured e-mail account. >> it's wrong to be goi

thousand more marines based in okinawa will be sent to conquer the pots over the country on goal the two amphibious ships. del bring along a launch vehicles as well. up to date the marine corps ball sprite transport aircraft will fly from looking out onto the philippines and the coming days to fill in the u s operations. several us naval vessels including the new kayak cost carrier uss george washington of all the tv guide and relief operations in what is the type who hit the gas ofcom bomb exploded in kabul near the site where i'm gonna do with the us will discuss to continue the station and of us forces beyond the two thousand for me. obama went off in less trouble is that by killing six people killed and twenty of us went unchecked. police say a vehicle exploded while they were suing. although no one has claimed responsibility for the blouse. police suspect in the town of them suicide bomber was responsible. things can occur at any of the lowly and chilled out last awesome place. next to us bank officials will meet to discuss a controversial security agreement with the united states the security of gold would allow us forces who pay enough damage on the final withdrawal o

that's the commandant of the marine corps. such an outcome would be immoral and a dereliction of duty. if we expect the men and women of our military to go into harm's way to protect america, we have an obligation to provide them with the training, technology and capabilities required to decisively overwhelm any adversary at any time and return safely home to the loved ones. under this sequestration, we can't do it. this is what i am talking about when i say we are talking about the obligation to provide the training, technology and capabilities. that's all of that orange. that means that's not what we're going to do. this is why ending sequestration ant protecting the readiness of our military men and women remains my top priority. however, something must be done now to mitigate the devastating impacts to readiness until we can find a long-term solution. this is why now again i'm just talking a little bit about the significance of having our defense authorization bill come to the floor, get it started, start working on amendme

. >>> the marine corp. today identified the four marines killed at camp pendelton. there was an explosion. the marines were from long beach, san diego county, louisiana and missouri. their job is said to be one of the most dangerous in the marine corp. >>> the government of the philippines says it's doing the best it can to assist all the survivors of typhoon haiyan. the arrival of the u.s. aircraft carrier u.s.s. george washington should help. it has 21 helicopters that can deliver supplies. for now packages of food and water are slowly getting to the survivors. over 1 million people have been displaced. mass burials of people were began today but the exact number is unclear. >>> the west based filipino center says it's been overwhelmed by the generosity of the public. kids in the afterschool program are helping pack up the donations. >> they have no food, no water. they won't survive if there's no food or water. >> it was hard work because we have to put all the stuff in those boxes. >> reporter: the center is also asking for help donations. that money will go to t

. >>> the marine corp. today identified the four marines killed at camp pendelton. ere was an explosion. the marines were from long beach, san diego county, louisiana and missouri. their job is said to be one of the most dangerous in the marine corp. >>> the government of the philippines says it's doing the best it can to assist all the survivors of typhoon haiyan. the arrival of the u.s. aircraft carrier u.s.s. george washington should help. it has 21 helicopters that can deliver supplies. for now packages of food and water are slowly getting to the survivors. over 1 million people have been displaced. mass burials of people were began today but the exact number is unclear. >>> the west based filipino center says it's been overwhelmed by the generosity of the public. kids in the afterschool program are helping pack up the donations. >> they have no food, no water. they won't survive if there's no food or water. >> it was hard work because we have to put all the stuff in those boxes. >> reporter: the center is also asking for help donations. that money will go to the

the u.s. marine corp. i actually have plans for one of the buildings. not the one that i worked on. i got the other plans and when i found out i had the wrong plans i gave them to the owner of the other building and similar and built for world war ii and one of the fascinating things instead of stairs in the buildings they have spiral slides so in an emergency you didn't run down the stairs and told the guy to hop in the slide and out the building and that was their emergency e aggress. >> and they're designed if there an explosion it doesn't blow the walls out. and one of my favorite is the old pump station and now used as the headquarters of the fire department and one thing that makes this -- dare i say odd building and has live tidal sea water from the cove. >> the bu bay used to be right about there. >> the bay was about a couple hundred yards away -- maybe 800-yards away and so there is now an under ground i have duct that -- via duct that brings this here and can take water from the bay and into the high pressure system for most earthquake or fire protection. >> if they ran o

, as part of the celebration of the marine corps tomorrow. it's also part of veterans day festivities this weekend. >>> also, russian cosmonauts getting in the olympic spirit by bringing the olympic torch on a spacewalk for the first time outside of the international space station. russia will host the winter olympics next year. for safety reasons, the torch will not be lit inside the station, good call. it's the second time the torch has been brought into space. i'm jamie colby. keep it right here on the fox news channel. back to neil cavuto and neil cavuto ne"cavuto on business." >>> look out, dough boy. the feds are fed up, and they're hunting your fat i can say that. i had no idea. the government is pushing to eliminate so-called transfats from all food products. you can find them in things like frozen pizzas and chocolate chip cookies. this has a lot of food companies that have been cutting back on their own, but apparently it's not good enough. >> we always have this debate. this is more in my mind a nanny state stuff. there are so many

so i set out to join the marine corps. i talk about it in the book. and it's a long story, but eventually i got into the ma reap corps. marine corps. and i found then a real taste of jim crow as we traveled south, and i stepped up to window to purchase a ticket, a bus ticket, and the clerk said round the back, boy. and then i knew. these are the days of white and colored water fountains and such. and i might add that in those those days black soldiers, tuskegee airmen -- i'm sure you all know about the discuss tuskegee airmen -- they and black marines were treated less well than german and italian prisoners of war in the south. this, mind you, while the war was still going on. and immediately after that. so i learned about jim crow firsthand. well, then my stepmother sort of insisted that i go to college. i had the g.i. bill, it made sense to go, but i didn't want to go to college. i had 2 or $300, more money than i'd had at one time in life, and i wanted to party. [laughter] but she was insistent. i said, well, it's august. school starts in september,

urban and crowded those are well understood 20 years ago in the marine corps in particular or to talk about the three block for or there were guys in the army as military theorist who wrote all about the stuff way back and well understood. but what has happened in the 10 years since the 11th, the military has been dragged off to this environment of a landlocked remote environment of afghanistan and the planet has changed. in the year 2000 there were only 30,000 as telephones in nigeria. today there are 130 million. doing field work in mogadishu i was walking around interviewing people about how to make a living in 24% of somalis use a cell phone. there is a big fight to but has said memorialized in a movie called plaque caulked around that happened around a major market downtown mogadishu. i was talking to traders in the market were the somali currency surviving 20 years without a central bank is traded on the floating interest-rate they have computers set up, they're on the internet, the understand international currency in they trade the currency on the floor on the bottom floor fiv

before joining the marine corp. they had a dance for our veterans. st always our relatives and when we came back your introduced to the black leggings warriors society. regardless of the war, the conflict whether you agreed with it or not we always honored our indian people. so we are going asking smokey basis singers a veteran song please to honor those veterans before you. please stand if you'reable. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> all right. thank you for standing and thank you veterans. carry on with the plan of attack hey. all right. mayor ed lee has worked hard to keep san francisco economy and recovery on track and create jobs for san franciscans. he makes a city like san francisco to celebrate diversity in education and health care and in the environment for future generation. mayor ed lee began his career as a civil rights attorney he later served as a director of the human rights commission fighting for people then as director of the public works and later as city administrator now as mayor of san francisco h

. >> tom lost his legs and fingers in an ied explosion while serving in the marine corps in afghanistan. >> the reason i did what i did was for my family a to ensure that we as americans can keep living the way that we do. >> the way he and his wife live is about to get much easier. >> the shower is 48. >> thanks to a nonprofit holmes for our troops that they will soon call this new home in broad run, virginia, their own. and it is not costing them a dime. >> i thought it was a joke. i was like nobody hands out this for free. especially like this. >> it is not a joke. this home has been built just for his needs. the mortgage is paid in full. >> it is definitely a dream. there is a therapeutic tub. low sinks that come on when he claps. wide hallways and doors. nick may be doing more cooking now now that he can reach the stove and appliances. no more struggling to open doors with doorknobs. they are all automatic. press a button and walk through. this is one of more than 150 special features for what's become their dream home. it is the 142nd home the organization donated. they are worth

inside of my force, the marine corps is a young marine corps. they are somewhere between 18 years old and probably 22. they did not come into sit down at home stations. they actually like deploying. when you go visit them in afghanistan, in the western pacific, you do not get questions like, "what is the e?"uester going to do to mak they want to know if it will be their last deployment. our morale is pretty high right now, and i think it's going to stay high as long as we give them something to look forward to. the reorientation to the pacific is just reenergized -- has just reenergized a lot of marines. we talk about darwin, australia. we talk about japan. we talked about guam, and their eyes light up, so the morale in my service is pretty high. >> an anecdote -- i had two of -- my systems commands, they have a lot of civilians, and they came to me and said, "you will not have to worry about headquarters reduction and a reduction in force. we have a lot of people retiring, so that struck me because that's a lot of seniority and talent and experi

the marines. he was an aviator in the marine corps. unique in his marine career is i believe he was the only marine who served as commander of the u.s. strategic command. he culminated his military career not in the too distant past as the eighth vice chairman of joint chiefs of staff, a position he held across two administrations and noted for innovation in the areas of strategic deterrence and cyber security. at the end, we have kurt volker, ambassador volker who is executive director at the mccain institute for international leadership. he brings 23 years of service to our country in the foreign service with a number of senior nato positions. nato-related positions. he was a u.s. permanent representative or ambassador to nato. he served as under national security council staff as senior director for europe, principal departmenty secretary of state for euro nation affairs and served under secretary-general lord robinson. and general pat o'reilly. a new nonresident senior fellow. he comes from initial defense agency which he led as his

i enlisted in the marine corps as a security guard. during the time i was in the marine corps, i ran into a program where we had put people in foreign countries, czechoslovakia, hungary, poland, bulgaria, and they spoke the language and they were living as citizens of those countries and collecting intelligence on us. i'm not positive on the code name. i was going to apply for it. that has been going on for years. we have been collecting intelligence from our embassies and on top of everybody else's embassies, collecting some type of intelligence. we have a staff of snoops and we had -- people. i'm not sure the title. again form come debriefings all the time. they were very informative. the other thing -- we have been doing this -- we had the ability to listen when i was with the agency. i went with the agency in 1973, but we have the ability to listen through walls, windows, curtains. the russians did it to us, that is why we had to send cvs into the moscow embassy. now these politicians are saying things like this is outrageous. merke

the hilt. in august, 2010, that's two years later, she was gang raped by a senior marine officer and his friend who broke into her home. aryana, despite all the warnings, reported her assault but a marine corps investigation decided she had welcomed the harassment -- you know why? this is what they said. she wore makeup and she exercised in shorts and tank tops. what? the marine corps did court-martial one of aryana's rapists but never convicted him of rape. you know what he was convicted of? adultery and indecent language. please. how can anyone who listens to the victims say they're not going to vote for the kirsten gillibrand amendment? now, i want to tell you i stood with aryana along with a large group of colleagues, republicans and democrats, right here the other day. her husband is a former marine corps officer and he spoke at the press conference. and this is what he said, and it's so important to listen to what he said, -- quote -- "the first step to addressing sexual assault is to remove its prosecution from the chain of command. it is unfair to expect commanders to be able to maintain good order and discipline as long as the justice system incentivizes and empowers them to deny th

what we're seeing is while the marine corps opened up this school and the officer counterpart to women're not going to get the assignment in if they've proven they can be events thatmen. >> do whom to do they have to appeal? does it go to secretary haigle? >> we're still working our lawsuit through the system. we've got four service women who served on the battlefields of iraq and afghanistan who want to try for some of the schools that haven't been opened to women volunteers, like ranger school which is a leadership school in the army. we have tons of barriers still left in the marines corps and the army particularly where there are ground combat positions that women want to try for. women are joining the army because they do want to be infantry but even if they are succeeding at these courses, they're not being allowed to have the job. >> i should say that the pentagon says it's still studying how exactly to integrate women into these positions. so that's what their standpoint is at this point. but the there hasn't been much interest among women for infantry positions thus far. until

i became homeless and thank god i served envy country in the marine corp. and hope house took me in. those people over here they're the real thing people the real mccoy. i'm not the only one. there are hundreds of veterans who have been served by those folks and they have the integrity they help all of us everyday. the name is certainly appropriate. hope because that's what they've given me and all my co- he veterans. as a witness to the boyfriend i don't understand the arguments about i think that's a miss conception their treating this facility as if it was all in homeless people. that's not the case the homeless are there as the director said. the homeless are there. there on the steps and porches every night. there's hundreds of them. this can only bring order to a orderless situation. >> thank you. next speaker, please hello supervisor mar, farrell and avalos. i'm a homeowner. i just wanted to bring up some points in response to what the director of the agency mentioned in terms of the meetings that dusty held after the grant had already been approved.

three women graduate from the marine corps enlisted training course today. they were in a group that matched same standards as the men as the military prepares to open up combat jobs for women. >>> in 1995, president bill clinton announced a deal toans reported by nbc news. >> serbia, croatia have reached an agreement to end the war in bosnia. >>> happy birthday to jepson, 28, michael strahan turns 42, oscar winning actress goldie hawn is 68. keep it here for more news and weather, sports, and much more. i'm richard lui along with bill karins. thanks for watching "early today." have a very good day. >>> new this morning a bay area veteran trying to return home from north korea is detained in the country. why he was reportedly pulled off of his flight back to the bay area. >> also disturbing hate crime allegations against three students on one of the bay area's diverse college campuses. what concerned students are doing this morning to demand answers. >> bay area commuters on pins and needles as hundreds of thousands of b.a.r.t. riders await a crucial decision

i also told her that i was in the marine corps, which i am. >> are you currently? >> i am active duty. >> in fact, he points out that his surveillance skills as a soldier initially tipped him off that something was up. >> being in the marine corps as a sniper, i was pretty in tune to my surroundings. and so i noticed a couple vehicles that looked out of place so i left the first time. i had seen this on tv before and never thought i'd be part of it. and i didn't listen to my sixth sense that kept me alive in iraq. and i didn't do that here. >> did you have any guns in the car? >> yes, i did. i have my shotgun. it pretty much goes anywhere with me. >> and sure enough, the police did find the gun in the trunk of his car. >> all right. is there anything else? >> that's it, sir. >> there's another man outside our house here to meet a girl who told him she was 13. >> hey. you made it. >> this time, our decoy invites him in. >> come back. >> meet 37-year-old mike vestal screen name mike_vestal69. he tells the decoy, "i must warn you i am kinda big down there." and asks he

and in fact when he a woman who is currently in the marine corps come to the republican conference, and she is a woman commander, very impressive to have gotten to where she is in the marine corps. she works training our marines. i was so impressed with her experience. she's commanded at every level. she said, if we want to get this done for victims, don't make commanders a bystander. that's what makes me very worried. if i thought that taking the commanders out of the decision-making process would help victims further, i would do it. but, as she described, if you make a commander a bystander, which is what this will do -- what the proposal that is on the table that my opponent, certainly my -- the proposal that senator gillibrand has, who i very much respect, and i know her passion is very real for this, and i share it. i don't want commanders to be bystanders. if they're bystanders, how do we relieve them from command when they don't do their job? because we've taken the decision making from it. here's the other issue that concerns me. we've spent all the time, rightly so, trying to

they want to do, culinary arts seems to be something that they've gravitated towards. >> the united states marine corpsld in itself. >> make sure the potatoes are 100% covered. >> in the marine corps i had a company of first sergeant and a platoon sergeant, i was a quad leader. in your culinary field, you have your chef, and prep cooks. you've got the hierarchy. it's a lot of discipline and focus, just like the marine corps. >> veterans bring a lot to the kitchen. they tend to be very highly focused, very goal-oriented. very driven for success. they serve often as role models for our younger students a to what professional looks like. >> we can be focused and we can be disciplined and we carry that. and we know when it comes time to work, we are in there, we're ready to work. >> it is such an honor and a privilege to be able to help share with these people and give them the power, the knowledge, the courage to go on and pursue the infection phases of their life. >> thank you for that. and thank you for watching. i'm brooke baldwin. "the lead" with jake tapper starts now. >> boston, minnesoimuneapolimin

. >> after 12 years in the marine corp and deployment in both gulf wars, he left the military in may. he's finishing a degree and looking for full-time work. so far he's landed part-time gigs. >> that's the reality we live in for a lot of us. i'm one of many veterans in a swaying like this. >> -- situation like this. the safe parking program has strict rules. you must be in by 9:00 pm and out by 7am. there's zero tolerance for alcohol, drugs or violence. an agreement to have one-on-one financial counselling. you can stay provided you work to get back into housing. >> if anybody told me i'd live in my car, i would have laughed and said that's not a possibility. >> in 2010 kevin spend nine months in the lot, unable to find work for two years he depleted a healthy saving k from a collection job that earnt him six figures. the people on the lot were professionals, attorneys, and a nurse. if they weren't on my lot, they were the people that lived next door in my house. landry landed work whilst living in his car and found his way into an apartment and new car. safe parking programs come un

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. >>> for more than two centuries the marine corps has been keeping us safe at home and abroad and todayarks the 238th birthday of the marine corps. it was established in 1775 in a continental congress and today has 270,000 active duty members. on veterans day we would like to say happy birthday. thank you to all of our marines out there for their service and the rest of our branches as well. to all of our vets thank you. today's out of the inbox question comes from shargt, north carolina. she asks when was the last time president obama met with his jobs council. the jobs council last met january 17, 2013, at the white house. the council did not meet for about a year and was officially disbanded in january of this year. white house spokesman jay carney said that was always the plan. thanks for tweeting us. if you have stories you want to hear more about or questions you'd like to ask there are all kinds of ways to reach us, twitter, facebook and more. we'll try to answer on the air. >>> it's never too early to talk 2016. we asked how do you feel about governor chris christie in 2016? ste

. >>> today three women are graduating from the marine corps's enlisted infantry training course for n a group that matched the same standards as the men as the military prepares to open up combat jobs to women. congrats to them. >>> harvard researchers tracked 119,000 men and women over a 30 year period. they found that those who ate nuts almost every gay were 20% less likely to die during the study than those who did not eat nuts at all. also, the risk of dieing from cancer was down 11% and the risk of heart disease dropped 29%. not only that, but the nut eaters stayed slimmer. the good nuts include peanuts, pistach pistachios, waalmonds and walnu. >>> and a cargo jet landed at the wrong airport. the boeing 747 was headed to mcconnell air force base, but touched down at a small airport instead before the runway is about 3,000 feet too short for the jet to take off. the incident is being investigated. >>> and now we turn to business with seema mody. >> you'll love this first story. for the first time in a decade, women are the most popular tech hires. the industry added 40,000 jobs b

the marines. it was 1956, the height of the cold war. (soldiers shouting) >> to him, the marine corps was a vehicle for escaping from all the things that were holding him down in his life. look what he got as a marine. he learned to use a rifle. he learned to travel. and he got away from his family. >> is that 200 meters? >> narrator: oswald received extensive training in marksmanship. some have claimed he was a poor shot. but military records indicate otherwise. >> he shoots on a rifle range 212, which means he qualifies for the second highest position in the marine corps, that of a sharpshooter. near the end of his stay in the marines, in 1959, he went back to requalify himself on the range, still shot 191 and still qualified as a marksman. (gunshots) >> narrator: oswald asked to be a radar controller. he received training and then shipped out for what would be his first great foreign adventure: a posting at atsugi, japan. >> what he arrived at, at atsugi air base in japan, wasn't simply an air force defense base. it was a cia base, and the cia program taking place at that base invo

. >>> the marine corp is celebrating 238 years tomorrow. today secretary of defense chuck hagel is marking the event laying a wreath in arlington, virginia. the secretary delivered the words of the importance of the brave men and women. take a listen. >> for 238 years the marines have made a vital difference. in today's volatile and complicated world. they are as relevant and essential as ever before. there is no force that can match their agility, flexibility and expeditionary capabilities. >> the u.s. marine corp has served in every major american conflict since its founding in 1775. and today it has around 200,000 active duty members. >>> the daring raid on japan turned the tide of world war ii. next we will tell you the fitting tribute to a few survivors. the surviving members of the doolittle raiders on this veterans day weekend. >> and president obama finally acknowledging the problems with the health carrollout. health care rollout. we look at the impact it could have just ahead in the 2014 mid-term elections. rans day, it's posturepe

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. >> being in the marine corps, we're trained to react, no question asked, you just react. >> reporter: it could have been a costly act of heroism. >> i said you could have died, but you know, i'm proud of him. he has always been my hero and now he is everyone elses too. >> reporter: ann notarangelo, kpix 5. >> they don't know why the woman jumped or how she got into the closed off section. >>> president obama is in los angeles tonight as a part of a three-day west coast fundraising trip. he stopped in seattle yesterday with a rather memorable time in san francisco today. >> what i would like to do, how about, well, you guys don't need to go. >>> well, they heckled the president during a speech in china town. the recent graduate is undocumented. telling joe vazquez as to why he confronted the president. >> we're going to make our country more secure and strengthen our families. but most importantly we will live up. most importantly, we will live up to our character. >> mr. president, i need your help. i cannot celebrate thanksgiving with my family members because of my immigration stat

and the marine corps in particular had guys like general meyer from the this club or general -- [inaudible] who talks about the three-bloc war. there were guards in the army like ralph peters, sort of military theorists of the 1990s who wrote all about this stuff, you know, way back. very, very well understood. but what's happened is in the ten years or so since 9/11 or the 12 years since 9/11, two things have happened. one, the military has been dragged off into this environment that i've been talking about, the landlocked, remote, rural environment of afghanistan. and secondly, the planet has changed in that time. in the year 2000, there were only 30,000 cell phones in nigeria. today there are 113 million. when i was doing my field work in mogadishu for the book, i was walking around on the street essentially interviewing people, 24% of somalis own and use a cell phone. twenty years ago last week there was a big fight in mogadishu that's been memorialized in a movie called "black hawk down." that happened around a major market in downtown mogadishu. when i was there, i was talking to tra

remarkable thing about her that she started college at cal berkeley at 16 or she's so start the marine corps came to her to help them predict what america's enemies might do? or is it the ph.d. in neuroscience? or is the most amazing thing about ramona pearson simply that she is alive at all? >> the bumper of the car hit my throat slicing it open. i ended up with a bunch of trauma. our ajorta comes up behind your heart and it was severed, so my blood was gurgling out of my mouth, it fomd, and horrible things were happened to me. >> math genius and u.s. marine ramona pearson was run down by a drunk driver when she was just 22 years old. the extent of her injuries was staggering. in a coma for 18 months, and when she woke up, she was blind. she remained blind for 11 years. while her body was damaged, her mathematical mind continued to grow. this is pearson today as ceo of her own startup declara, which uses mathematical algorithms to help large companies connect employees. if you're thinking to yourself someone should make a movie about ramona pearson's life, a script writer has already beat y

. >> very routine in the marine corps. but anything can go wrong at any time. >> the accident at camp pendleton comes eight months after a mortar explosion killed seven marines during a training exercise in nevada. >>> a student is in custody suspected of shooting three teens outside a high school in pennsylvania. pittsburgh police say none of the injuries is considered life- threatening. investigators say the suspect was assaulted during a drug- related robbery inside the school last month. they are trying to determine if that's connected to yesterday's shooting. >>> well, the sesame street crew went to jail to help bring inmates and their children maybe a little bit closer. kpix 5's andria borba went to santa rita jail in dublin to see the new program. >> reporter: being a kid is hard enough. but try being a kid with a mom or dad behind bars. >> hi, mommy! >> reporter: enter the crew from sesame street. >> look at you! >> reporter: children's television workshop joined with the alameda county children of incarcerated pare

the guise that we're trying to fight terrorism but really it's about resources, i believe. >> sure. and you are of course a marine. would you say that there are others in the marine corps that have similar concerns or beliefs? >> oh, yes, definitely, thousands and that's why i had to go confront them the way i did because a lot of them want to ask these questions and ask the politicians why are you doing this. >> and you seemed pretty sure in your speech that the u.s. is aiding terrorists. some of these elected officials have defended their actions by saying they're only working off the evidence they've been provided by intelligence agencies. where's the discrepancies? do you think they're getting tall information needed to make their decisions? >> i think what the politicians are liing to the american people. think they know darn well what they're doing specifically in egypt where you have 35,000 people rise up against muhammad morossi. the government gave them $1.3 million. obama was a big supporter and he's part of the muslim brotherhood. the people in egypt, they stood up 30% of those people were christians and said we're just not going to do it anymore and they th

and in fact we had a woman who is currently in the marine corps in the republican conference and she a woman commander, very impressive to have gone where she has in the marine corps, she works training our marines. i was so impressed with her experience, she has commanded at every level and she says if we want to get this done for victims don't make the commander of bystander and that what makes me very worried. if i thought it taking the commanders out of the decisionmaking process would help victims further i would do it but as she described if you make a commander a bystander which is what this will do, the proposal that is on the table, my opponent, proposal that senator gillibrand has i very much respect and dino her passion is real for this and i shared. i don't want commanders setting standards and if they are bystanders, how do we relieve them from command when they don't do their job? they have taken a decisionmaker making such. and here is the other issue that has concerned me. we spent all the time, rightly so, trying to address the issue of sexual assaults in the militar

for the first time, three enlisted women have passed the marine corps' grueling infantry course. graduated today at camp geiger in north carolina. the women endured eight weeks of tough training that included hiking for miles, carrying 87- pound packs and assault rifles, same as the men. but they will not be headed for combat, not yet. the military is still developing standards for women in the infantry. japan has gained a patch of new territory today. it was created by an undersea volcano 600 miles south of tokyo. the volcano pushed lava and rock up to the surface of the pacific ocean. the new island is about 650 feet in diameter and growing. japan has not yet named it. half a century ago, this man came face to face with an assassin. his story next. coughequence #5. the sleepless night. [ coughing ] [ crying ] sorry. [ male announcer ] new robitussin dm max nighttime. fast, powerful cough relief that helps you sleep like a baby. robitussin nighttime. don't suffer the coughequences. i remember thinking there's a lot i have to do... check my blood sugar, eat better. start insulin.

the defense budget falls short in meeting the marine corps' requirements. n order to maintain readiness within the current fiscal environment, we are mortgaging the readiness of tomorrow's marines corps to do so. and marines are resilient determined to defend the united states of america. resolutions,nuing furloughs, and the government shutdown, the men and women who wear my cloth are patriots first. the defense of our fellow americans and way of life is our number one priority. even over the comforts of self. of ournths furlough civilian marines was a disservice to an honorable and dedicated work source. our civilian marines are a vital part of our team. they are the technicians, experts, teachers, the clerks and our commissaries -- in our commissaries. --y provide unique seats unique skills. they deserve better. i am ashamed about the way they have been treated through the furloughs and uncertainty. during the first your sequestration, i have realized funds to maintain unit readiness to the highest extent possible. my priorities have remained consistent. t

the marine corps saw racial classes. in the a.m., especially in germany, there were frequent racial clashes. in december of 1970, a special investigating team reported to president nick nixon on and repd that black troops experienced "acute frustration and volatile anger because of their treatment." interesting, this report cited the major cause of this frustration, "the failure in too many instances of command leadership to exercise the authority and responsibility in monitoring the equal opportunity provisions that were already a part of military regulations." the military has made significant progress on racial opportunity. i'm sure more can and should be done. but the debate has been driven principally by command leadership at every stage, including the enforcement of the military code of military justice. the point was made by charles moscose, and mr. butler in 1996, they wrote, "perhaps surprisingly, no army regulation deals solely with race relationships or equal opportunity. instead, these issues fall under army r