the navy has findings. what happened? >> it was a mess. the ship had been in the shipyard for five months. it was out for sea trials for the first time. the crew didn't know what they were doing. the instruments were not functioning. the captain hadn't slept in three days. it was a perfect storm. it will cost a lot of money to repair. >> do we have an estimate? >> $40 million. the bills have not been paid yet. it could be more or less when it comes due. >> bill, thank you for joining us. >>> coming up, my notebook. at suntrust, we help you manage your money at home. and make it easy when you're away. and where ever you go, atm fees won't follow. get back to what really matters switch to suntrust checking today suntrust. live solid, bank solid. >>> the defense secretary moved to increase the size of the army by 25,000 troops. he says more soldiers are needed to cover operations and will be phased out over the coming years. this comes at a time when there an aggressive withdraw in iraq. this will cost at lead $2 billion a year from the finite

located there and the navy excluded cherrypoint as a potential o.l.f. site because the standards specify than an o.l.f. should be no more than 120 not call miles from home base and cherrypoint is approximately 135 nautical miles from oceana, virginia, just 15 not call miles beyond the navy's current requirements. i want to work with the navy to examine the impact of having o.l.f. located just outside the current requirements and were sri on th -- and especially on e fleet. we have worked to insert additional language, first, to mandate the secretary of the navy to issue a report detailing the navy's consultations with local governments, communities, and stakeholders in north carolina and virginia regarding o.l.f. site options; and, two, to mandate the navy identify all suitable options for the location of an o.l.f. beyond the five sites identified in both states. however, i don't think that's good enough. the state of north carolina has had previous negative experiences with the manner in which the navy has implemented its o.l.f. site selection process.

vice admiral archisell of the navy says -- and i quote -- "while we generally support competition, the cost of continuing to develop a second engine versus being able to use that in procurement dollars for aircraft or in the cost also to maintain the two engines, the navy supports the department of defense in just having this one f-135 engine." lieutenant general shac shackled from the office of acquisition of the air force says -- very important quote regarding the g.a.o. report that's been cited by proponents of the second engine -- "in this particular case, the analysis that the office of secretary of defense did to look at the costs associated with a second engine yielded a different result from that -- from what the g.a.o. reported, which basically says the costs associated with development of the second engine would be something that we would consider unaffordable in the current time frame while we would be doing the development. and that benefit down the road in terms of comparative cost would be more of a wash than the more optimistic version of what the g.a.o. report said." so

rowe did enlist in the army and the navy and even briefly in the marines. though hardly in an elite capacity. >> i wasn't a -- wasn't a navy s.e.a.l. i was a cook. wasn't glamorous. wasn't neat. wasn't exciting. >> but he was familiar enough with the ways of the military. that when he was in san diego on the run from the law he found the perfect hiding place. i go down to the army/navy store and i would buy a naval officer's uniform. i would take the bus to the base. >> talked your way on to the base? >> i don't need id. nobody is going to question me with five rows of ribbons on him. >> posing as a s.e.a.l. >> talking to real life s.e.a.l.s. >> he didn't swap war stories but convinced civilian investors for a phony business supposedly cleaning ships' hulls and ran the scam from the base officer's quarter. >> $10,000 minimum investment required. and most people that invest money, all 26 of them, invest in cash. >> so you wound up with over $100,000? >> closer to 250, yeah. >> in six months? >> in three weeks. >> you're good. >> i told you that before. >> it

a we the air force are supporting the navy in every way we can. >> again, it's an overall relationship question. take a look at the f-22. obviously the decision has been made by the administration to terminate with the understanding and acceptance of the air force leadership at 187 aircraft. congress is still debating the future of the airplane. but two extremely close u.s. allies, japan and australia, are very interested in an export vearnt of the f-22. can you tell us whether and how this is likely to be resolved over time? i know that it probably comes up in virtually every meeting you have with your counterpart. >> occasionally it does come up. first of all, export of the f- 22 is forbidden by law, cod fide in the amendment. number two, even if that didn't exist the f-22 was not designed to be an exported fighter. >> that's right, because its systems are not tamper proof, as are any of the other systems. >> and i'm not going to go into details of what makes a fighter exportable, but there would have to be significant redesign. it would take time, a lot of expense. but let's go to t

here are some of his comments about how the military overall and the navy in particular restructuring itself to meet what they say are the threats of the future. >> the aircraft carrier abraham lincoln was quietly in port in hong kong. by saturday, she was providing 50,000 pounds of food and water a day to the tsunami-affected area in indonesia. that event also let us to adjust our strategy in a very significant way. as i said, we have been responding to disasters throughout our history. let's see what we can do proactively. we begin a series of humanitarian missions. they have touched four hundred thousand patients from our ships. that is in south america, the pacific, and in africa. if you consider the four hundred 9000 patients, that is like going to the verizon center, packing the house, and then having doctors treat every single one of the people 20 times. that is not an insignificant contribution that our people are making. host: the admiral went on to explain that it is this approach that the military is moving more into humanitarian efforts to help prevent future conflicts. th

that's 2,400 for the air force, 1,100 for the navy and the marine corps. most of these aircrafts were purchased at high annual rates during the 1980's. these aircrafts will reach the end of their service in the next 10 years. so what we're talking about is something that maybe could be more important in the next decade or within the next decade than, you know, might be to people today. but the aircraft -- the air force will replace the a-10, the f-16 and the f-15 with the f-22 and the f-35 joint strike fighter. to give you the idea of some of these ages, there are 350 a-10's with an average age of 28 years. 470 f-15's with aaverage of 26 years. 220 f-15's with an average of 17 years. 1,200 f-16 s' with an average of 20 years. we have roughly 140 raptors to replace the fleet and have no f-35 is' s and will not have them -- f-35 s's and will not have them in 10 years. that's the navy. the air force will replace the harriers with superhornets. and the f-35 j's joint strike fighters. the reason they're doing this, we have 125 harriers with an average age of 14

great many people in england, the idea that britain could not have won the war was attractive for the navy, for the british army, even for opposition politicians who had opposed the war all along by saying it was an on winnable war that presented them in a better light. but, i don't think that is true. i think the british could have won the war in 1776 and should have won the war in 1776. i think the british, have the british had a more resolute, more active commander then sir william howe, they would have defeated washington's army on long island, or on manhattan island, and could probably have ended the war then. even in 1777, i think the british might have won the war. the basic british idea was for an army to come in 1777 was for an army ender. in to invade new york from candidate while general powell took his army with the royal navy off the hudson river and joined with. in and alben. at dominik last minnick howe change plans. howe went after washington at philadelphia and it turned out to be an egregious blunder on howe's part. most people think that the british could not have won th

i would like to ask you a little bit about the balance of the navy. we did have an 80 when this all started out and the britons came and overpowering force. could you talk about that force and with what was the decisive turning point of that? wasn't when the french came up? or was it before that? >> well, actually you mentioned earlier that james mcpherson is coming soon, and mcpherson wonderful book, battle cry on the civil war, mcpherson argues that in a war as long as the civil war, there wasn't a turning point but there were several turning points. and i think that's true in the revolutionary war as well. i think there were five or six turning point in that war. bunker hill, the first pitched battle of the conflict in june of 1775 was absolutely crucial because it demonstrated to the americans that they could stand up against british regulars. i think the naval engagement on lake champlain when benedict arnold built the navy for america and slow down the british so that when the british tried to invade new york at ticonderoga in the fall of 1776, t

two new ships sailed into baltimore this morning, the australian navy vessels the hmas sydney and sky team 11 was over the scene. it is part of a six-month deployment which kicked off in april. the ships will open to the public from 10:00 to 4:00 tomorrow. >> parts of our viewing area a little stormy this evening. h.d. doppler radar shows one area just north of us in harford county. a couple cells up there. maybe some hail coming out of that. another strong cell just north of jarretsville. to the west, a severe thunderstorm warning in effect for frederick, jefferson, washington and berkeley counties until 6:45 this evening. there is a therm cell 2.8 miles southwest -- all that yellow shading is the warning area, again, until 6:45 this evening. that is the strongest thunderstorm activity right now. the one up in baltimore county just about ready to cross i-83, that's more than likely a hail producer as well. let's look at what the temperatures are doing right now. 80 degrees at annapolis. easton, 84. same at b.w.i.-marshall. 85 at the inner harbor. only 60's in the lancaster and york.

then-secretary of the navy lehman says in 1983, i was in the pentagon meeting that launched the f-22. the plan was to buy 648 jets beginning in 1996 for $60 million each. that was $1983. now they cost $350 million a piece and the obama budget cost the cost at 187 jets. then he adds, at least they're safe from cyberattack since no one in china knows how to program the '83 vintage ibm software that runs them and then goes on to cite other problems including navy ship-building fiascoes, et cetera, et cetera. the army's future combat system, which was meant to re-equip the entire army and has had a 400% cost overrun and the new air force weather satellite with a similar cost overlun so it's out of control i say to my colleagues. i will match my commitment to equipping the men and women in the military with anyone in this body. but it's got to stop and this vote -- this vote on the f-22 will determine whether it's business as usual, with earmarking, pork barreling, billions of dollars which has bred corruption, which has bred corruption. we have former members of the united states congres

the latest to chime in. >> she is a quitter. she could never make it as a frogman or a navy seal, because if you enter the words in basic training, i quit, you are gone. if she has got plans of running for higher office, i would never vote for her, because if it gets too hot in the kitchen, she is likely to quit. laura: joining us now is leslie marshall and noel, a republican strategist. leslie, i want to start with you. i do not know what jesse ventura is up to. last time i checked, sarah pailin was never portraying herself as navy seal material. she was leader of the state of alaska and made the decision for a variety of reasons to step down. >> i would agree with the navy seals scenario -- i do not agree with the navy seals scenario, but what i do agree with is the quitting as it. if people believe in you as the people of alaska did, she did quit and let them down. one reason we know is money. where is the family value in that? certainly, to say you love the state of alaska, you can see russia from your backyard, but you're ready to leave. laura: i think there were a lot

under the navy and a lot of people from the navy are working at navy and the commander is not the first person to step into unknown territory. an underling steps into the unknown territory. but he had so alienated nasa executives that they decided they really wanted armstrong, who reminded them of charles lindbergh whether or not you think that's a good idea, they thought it was a good idea at the time, so they wanted armstrong to be first. and then -- but they didn't really want to say this was motivated for any personal or political reasons. so in the dress rehearsals of apollo 9 and 10, they found inside the lunar module it's so tiny in there that trying to get the second in command out of the door which was next to the commander was very difficult. so they gave that as the reason for why they had armstrong be first. however, if you talk to many people who worked at nasa at that time, including mike collins, they believe that this was armstrong's command decision that he would be first so there you have three answers to the question how did they decide armstrong would be first. now,

i 295 northbound come up there has been an accident before the exit of the navy yard. one lane is closed. be where. i am getting a lot of -- be aware. i am getting a lot of calls by the navy research lab. >> thank you. >>> selling at sotomayor returns to capitol hill in a few hours to face -- sonia sotomayor returns to capitol hill in a few hours to face more questioning. >> courtney robinson is live with more. >> sonia sotomayor has referred to her 17-year record on her bench. republicans and democrats are saying she is doing well in these hearings. judge sonia sotomayor will once again face tough questions asked lawmakers and the president's supreme court pick return for round 3. >> i do not base my judgment on my personal experiences or my feelings or my biases. >> it remains the concern from some that her background might outweigh which she calls fidelity to the law. she addressed her remarks yesterday and said the words were meant to inspire. >> you do believe your background will affect your result in cases. >> at no point in time have permitted my personal views

in april or early may of 1780 the royal navy moved the jersey too well about bay or she was presumably refitted to begin receiving prisoners. hoping the jersey for use as a prison ship began with a mole of her mass candice lines, or illness, figurehead and writer, her downpours for then sealed and replaced by two small rose at airports part with and lattices for the benefit of prisoners confined on her lower tax. on the quarterdeck enlarge on in our tent shelter 30 on marines who watched through holes in a 10-foot high barricade when the prisoners came up on deck to exercise. on the part of the gun deck directly below the quarterback for the officers kevin and various store rooms. between the court rejected and the gun deck known as the spar deck, it too was successful the prisoners during the day though a good bit of it was only a per. foreign where half of this is kept pace with their own consumption. in the bay massive chain cables for an after anchored the jersey securely in the shallow channels that lived between the mud flats, she lay about 100 yards off shore opposite that mouth

he told the admiral porter, the navy man, he said you got to get us out of this place where i can moveroops down the river south -- away from vicksburg and potter agreed with that and they did and they ran the batteries which they considered not a smart thing to do and these were big guns the confederates had out there. and they did it at night and they even it got some transport ships through by tieing them on the sides of the you're classes, you know, at least away from the side of the guns, at least to start transporting troops and they went to a place called hard times. they wanted to transport from there but it was under water from all this flooding and they went south from there a little bit. and for some reason, grant picked general mcclernan, his political enemy to lead this expedition across the river. mainly because he was the only one:, of grant's major general who actually agreed with it. i mean, sherman was aghast. he said we'll all be killed. this is crazy. you can't -- we can't do this. you have no -- you have nothing to eat on the other side of the river. and various t

the army, the navy, the air force -- i have no idea what that means. the military is having maneuvers. if we're going to go towards a dictatorship of the thugs, that is very frightening for us and for israel. i do not know what israel is going to do. i think discipline is waiting. we do not know which direction we are going. >> we are both at a crossroads and out of time. let me underline the fact that one of the themes of the presentations is how much we do not nel. being -- we do not know. being in that situation, we are best device to collect as much information as we can and not take any action right away. please join me in thanking our speakers and thank you all for attending. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2008] >> how is c-span funded? >> i don't know. >> 30 years ago america's cable companies created c-span as a public service, a private business initiatives, no government mandates, no government money. >> "washington journal" is next. followed by heritage fo

the navy is spending nearly $3 billion on dozens of building projects here in san diego county including125 million being spent on new barracks. with a base currently with a reported 10,000 construction workers. the biggest project is a new report on the base being funded with the help and material stimulus. >> that's the 7-13 and will be about 1.5 billion. as far as general growth with the 4,000 new people coming for camp pendleton will be spending three billion for that. know every place we can plan a building, that's what we are doing. >> all that work being handed out by the navy lured in out of work engineers and architects and builders and locally based harper construction is busy being approached by global players by joint ventures. they know the ins and outs of working with the military. >> south carolina has interview and washington and oklahoma and maine and they are willing to be hired for anybody. these are presidents and executives of companies and they run work themselves and owned companies for 15 to 20 years and they are saying they will do anything at any price i top the

to be known as the department of navy and marine corps. i am grateful to chairman ike skelton who included the language of h.r. 24 in the national defense authorization act which passed the full house last month. this is the eighth year in a row that language to properly recognize the marine corps has been included in the house version of the bill. unfortunately each year the language has been stripped in the senate. this year i'm grateful to have the support of senator pat roberts, a former marine, who introduced the same bill in the senate, s. 504. with his help i'm hopeful this will be the year the senate supports the house position and joins in bringing proper respect to the fighting team of the navy and marine corps. madam speaker, some people might ask why is the change so important? is it renaming department just symbolic? what's in a name? well, madam speaker, the name of the marine corps represents more than two centuries of service alongside the navy. what's in the name? the flag raising at iwo jima? what's in the name, honor, cou

no one was hurt when the plane went down. navyfficials say that they may salvage the plane and restore it for display in a museum. >>> a morning walk turned in a a big scare for a florida man whose dog was attacked by an alligator. it happened in west palm beach. david grounds was walking his dog when she got a little too close to the gator before he knew it the gator had mandy in its jaws. grounds pulled on the dog with one hand and punched and poked the gator in the eye with the other hand. the alligator finally let go but not before taking a chunk out much grounds' hand. >>> the police may know now how a six-foot-long shark ended up in the middle of a city street. it was found last night in the middle of a road in the overtown section of miami. the nurse shark is a protected species. investigats atsathy they received reports of two people trying unsuccessfully to sell it to local restaurants. they say it was likely the pair decided to just dump the shark in the middle stft when they could not get money for it. >> get that shark

franklin roosevelt was assistant secretary of the navy. in that capacity he traveled to france in the last part of the first world war to see how the navy was doing and figure out what to do with some of the naval installations and naval equipment. while he was there he got letters from lucy. until this time he and lucy had been living in washington. so they didn't have occasion to write to each other. they could speak to each other. they could telephone to each other. but now he is across the ocean and she writes letters. franklin roosevelt inherited a characteristic of the dell know family -- delano family and that was never to throw anything away. so he kept the letters. and that might have been that except that also, on the voyage back from france he became deathly ill. when he arrived in new york he was dell leer just with fever. he had to be carried from the ship to the town house on the upper east side and his bags were taken, by a couple of naval attaches took bags up. he is lying in bed dell leer just eleanor uncovers uncovers the

. >>> the navy has identified at the sailor who w fsndoundd ea th ainiton aba mil.ary se ceyrmthfimaoned anda snell was found monday after she did not report to work on a sunday night. at this point, it is not known how she died. the naval criminal investigation unit is waiting for the autopsy results. >>> sonia sotomayor faced another round of tough questions, but it appears she avoided answering a number of questions, leading to fireworks. >> if i say something today, will that make the statements about i will pre-judge someone else? >> let's say i am 38 weeks pregnant and we discover a small spina bifida sack. would it be legal to terminate that child's life? >> i cannot answer that question in the abstract because i would have to look at what the state of the state's law was on that question. >> sonia sotomayor did not give her personal views when asked about that. regulators, the financial market, and she said nobody in the obama it ministration asked whether she was pro-life or pro- choice -- nobody in the obama administration asked if she was a pro-life or pro-choice. >>> the othe

it's been turned into the brooklyn navy. the rising and falling tide kept the water and the channel moving but never swiftly enough to clear away the greasy putrescent slick that encircle her after the necessary tubbs were brought from below and emptied over the side in the morning, a daily ritual. a flock of smaller vessels usually covered nearby among them don't always the same time. john, bristol pac and eight export the sometimes also took prisoners. when the jersey began to receive american prisoners isn't clear. it may have been when she was still in service as a hospital ship. but once she became a prison called the numbers soared and conditions rapidly deteriorated. among her first prisoners which john van dyke a furloughed artillery man who had the misfortune to be traveling on the brink taken by the enemy frigate iris. he and others when i came on board, vandyke recalled, her stench was so great i thought it would soon kill me. the rations he received were so short a person would think it was not passable, possible

what might take longer is the development of the navy and the airforce in order for them to protect their air and their territorial waters. that does not mean that we have to help them, there are others that can do this. this decision has to be made further down the road. the comments were taken out of context because what i said, it was based on these capabilities. >> as u.s. troops consolidate basis, do you worry that their movements become more predictable and they become easier to target with things like ied's? >> we have not just consolidated back on big bases. we have many outposts around the cities that we have established as we conducted the surge. we have not just come back into a small number of big basis. we still occupy hundreds of small outposts. we have to resupply in the cities and moved to conduct some ordination, clearly, we will continue to do all the things we do now. we will clear the routes. we will walk with the security forces to coordinate and help us. we have been doing this for a while. i feel comfortable we will continue to do it. it is not the same as being in

he told the admiral porter the navy man, event to get this out of this place where we can land and the troops and of my troops down the river south away from vicksburg. porter agreed and they did and they ran the batteries which was not considered a smart thing to do because they're the big guns up there. they didn't at night and they even got some transport ships through by putting them on the sides of the and clients police away from the guns. it enough to transport troops. so they went to a place called hard times. they want to share as part of their but it was under water from all the flubbing because it went south a little bit and for some strange reason grant picked general mcclernand. the political general, his enemy, to leave it this expedition across the river. mainly because mcclernand was the only one of graham's major generals who actually agreed with it. sherman was aghast, he said we will be killed, this is crazy, we can't do this. you have nothing to eat on the other side of the river. and various things like that. and it rick pearson didn't like it either, but anyway, m

what might take a little bit longer is the development of the navy in the air force in order for them to protect their air and their territorial waters. that does not mean we have to help them. th

in earmarks to a company in his district to build an underwater swimmer desteks sonar system for the navyo protect docks and ships but roll call newspaper reports that the company has never built a sonar system before and had no experience in sonar engineering. instead, k.d.h. defense systems sews bulletproof vests. documents indicate the company wanted to partner with local defense contractors close to murtha and it worked with a lobbying firm that employed murtha's brother and a former aide. k.d.h. ended up hiring a brittish company to do the engineering. ultimately a prototype was produced but the company president says it will have to be reengineered before the navy can use it. murtha's spokesman told "roll call" the project achieved its goal and that the program was a research and development effort, not a procurement. add this to the growing list of murtha contracting stories. colorado gubernatorial candidate scott mcginnis is learning a tough lesson in his race. mountains matter. the republican had a fote photo on his website with the headline what do you want for the future of col

. >> the navy band performs, we come out every year because of our experience here with this. >> today's event was sponsored by easter seals greater washington-baltimore region which provides services for children and adults with disabilities. >> now your 11 tains weather plus forecast. >> a beautiful day to be outside. we're watching a few rainshowers and thunderstorms push their way closer. this is associated with a slow-moving cold front, it's managed to make its arrival here a little ahead of schedule. hagerstown seeing a few thunderstorms with the first line, that's inching closer to baltimore. a few more scattered showers down south of there let's get an idea of how the storm has been progressing over the last few hours. you can see this one line fell apart over the mountains, began to fire up again in the last few hours, a lot of that courtesy of the heat and humidity. we're going to see the thunderstorms in the overnight hours. this initial line, the intensity of it should begin to wane a little bit. a severe thunderstorm watch is in effect to the north of us, it includes york an

i'm unaware of the russian navy coming over at all during the revolutionary war. the british decided early on they just didn't have a large standing army, and they were in the habit when they went to war of hiring mercenaries. and at the very outset of the war lord north, the british prime minister, attempted to hire russian mercenaries and made contacts with katherine the great, and she refused. she wanted no part of it. so lord north turned then to the german principalities and concluded treaties with several principalities which we usually mistakenly -- but nevertheless we do it -- lump them all together and call the german soldiers who served over here as british mercenaries as the hessians. >> host: this is an e-mail from richard mclean watching us in north dakota, california. first of all about your writing. i appreciate the way in which you present our early history in its full dimension, warts and all, and that in the end inspires awe and gratitude to that small band of brothers who earned our freedom today. then the question, as a stanford history major,

in response, the navy charged 50 men with mutiny and all were convicted. public outrage over the unjust convictions was a key factor in the navy's 1946 decision to end race based assignments and president truman's 1948 order to integrate all of the armed forces. in 19 -- >> the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is correct. the house is not in order. we respectfully request that members remove conversations from the chamber so the gentlelady may be heard. the gentlelady may proceed. ms. bordallo: in 1992, congress designated the port chicago naval magazine memorial. this further provides that the port chicago naval magazine national memorial be managed as a unit of the national park system a change that acknowledges the actual role the n.p.s. is playing on the ground in maintaining and interpreting the memorial. the sponsor of this measure, education and labor committee chair george miller, has worked tirelessly with the army and navy as well as the national park service to move this legislation forward. chairman miller is to be c

there will be the navy hymn because of his love of sailing and also a rendition of when the saints go marching in but a new orleans-style jazz band. and that's because walter cronkite will haved new orleans jazz. in fact the director tells me that the band will be following out the final procession, sort of in new orleans style and he tells me this is really going to be a celebration of a life well lived and a life honorably lived. so a very traditional funeral here today and very private. j.c.? >> and where will mr. cronkite be buried? >> reporter: what we are learning his final resting place will be in his home state of missouri. he is from kansas city and he will be laid to rest next to his wife betsy of 65 years. he died in 2005. -- she died in 2005. she had her funeral here also. the director is the same priest that did her service. he tells me that's really when he got to know walter cronkite so well and so the service, it will be personal from all aspects from the priest that will be given the service as well as family members and his colleagues that go back to so many decades.

and as the army flight in the navy flag and all of the service members. thank you very much. [applause] . . [applause] >> next, "q&a" with authors al list and ronald radosh. and at 7:00 a.m., your calls on washington journal. coming this fall, tour the home to america's highest court, the supreme court on c-span. >> allis, tell me how you met your husband. jo well, that's a long story. i met my husband at one of the last demonstrations at the war at column beaa university jochlt what were you doing there? >> i was protesting the war. i had met him maybe a year before. we had both gone to the university of wisconsin. we met atz÷)us' poea university in 1972. >> why was he legend dari at the university of wisconsin? >> well, i was a history major and he had already made his place as an historian and in the left wing circle. >> why were you left wing? >> i began and got caught up in that. it was really, my peers all around me felt the same way in wisconsin. it seemed natural to adapt those views. although i really didn't have those views in high school. >> what's your version of

today to meet with military troops and their families and took part in a homecoming ceremony at the navy base there in norfolk welcoming sailors that completed tours in afghanistan and iraq. mrs. obama thanked them for their service and urged americans to reach out and help those serving their country. especially the spouses and children they leave behind. >> let us make a pledge here today to honor their service by doing more to serve them in our own community. let's do simple things like offer to help with a car pool. simple things like bringing over dinner. >> mrs. obama also encouraged businesses to hire military spouses and free services. >>> the navy says it conducted another test of the sea base near the hawaiian islands yesterday. the u.s.s. hopper was able to shoot down a short-range dummy missile fired from a nearby testing facility. this intercept occurred about 100 miles above the pacific ocean. >>> u.s. security officials confirmed three americans have been held by the iranians. the state department says the americans were reportedly in northern iraq near the iran border. ku

. >>> we are also following a developing story from afghanistan where the navy confirms two service members were killed in action. nato tells us they died in an insurgent bomb attack in southern afghanistan. that is where a surge of american troops nearly double the number of one yeargo are fighting the taliban. >>> metro insists it is safe despite a startling admission about a history of signal problems. not only did investigators find a problem with the signal that the text trains -- that the text trains, but they found a second sensor that communicates train speed. -- it detects trains. riders have mixed emotions. >> i am not comfortable, i will take a bus. >> it is probably worse bore the accident because they did not know about the problems. ly instead oftro is checking its rc d monthly. the transit agency posted information on how train operators and controllers are working around the circuit problems. >>> there are rising fears over the swine flu. health officials are estimating 20% to 40% of americans could become ill over the next two years. that is twice the number of people who u

. >> the navy and band came out. we come out because of our experience with this event. >> the event was sponsored by easter seals greater washington baltimore region. it provides -- it helps children and adults who have disabilities. >> getting down and dirty in a museum, but this time, it is hands on learning experience they will never forget. >> find out welcome back to cooking with delilah. today i'm making a classic sweet potato pie... everyone can enjoy, even lactose intolerant folks. while i let my friends enjoy the secret ingredient, lactaid milk. like it? mmmm. that's because delicious lactaid milk... is 100% real milk... that's lactose-free so it's easy on the stomach. which lets you enjoy that great flavor alone... and in your favorite recipes. welcome back to the table. lactaid milk. love it with lactaid. >> the number of baby boomers is surging, and many are now dealing with their parents and wondering how to deal with their parents. that's why elder care will be the topic of our "q & a" section. we will

consider the five sullivan brothers who volunteered to serve our country in the navy and died together on the juneau torpedoed in 1922 with the hundreds of first responders that saved strangers that they did not know and then died when the world trade center's fell on september 11 or the millions of young and all that have offered their sweat, time, and money to the victims of hurricane katrina about four years ago. during a labor union dinner, the nobel laureate assessed the american character this way. the united states has held europe to win the first and second world wars, twice raised europe from postwar destruction for 10, 20, 30 years it has dole -- it has stood as a shield protecting europe. to avoid paying for armaments, thinking how to leave nato, knowing that in any case, america would protect them. the united states has long shown themselves as being the most generous country in the world. wherever there is a flood, an earthquake, a natural disaster, an epidemic, who is the first to help prove the united states. -- the first to help? the united states. what does it mean to

and to expand upon a questions of the navy, isn't true catherine the great of russia since the russian navy to sit i believe in the ports of baltimore and possibly new york for a short period of time during the revolution? thank you so much. >> guest: nathaniel greene was from rhode island. the green family was very powerful politically and rhode island in the late colonial period. he was not related to the green mountain boys. we usually think of ethan allen as the commander of the green mountain boys. they were from what we think of as vermont and western new hampshire at the time. i am not aware of the russian navy coming over at all during the revolutionary war. the british decided early on, if they did not have a large standing army and they were in the habit when they went to war of hiring mercenaries at the very outset of the war the british prime minister attempted to hire rush of mercenaries and made contact with catherine the great and she refused and wanted no part of it so the lord turned to the german principalities and concluded treaties with several principalities which

the navy will not -- fort myer in virginia. the navy will not release information except to the next of kin. 805,000 family members lives as well as retirees. >>> southwest airlines has spent the night inspecting 200 of its aircraft. this after a 737 en route to bwi airport from nashville, tennessee, made an emergency landing in charleston, west virginia. the cabin lost pressure and passengers reported being able to see out through a hole about one-foot square. no one was injured. about 1/3 of southwest's fleet is comprised of 737s. >>> nasa is taking a one-day break in its effort to launch the space shuttle endeavour. the astronauts were once again on board and the countdown underway last night when thunderstorms got too close to the kennedy space center. nearly the exact same scenario had played out just 24 hours earlier. now endeavour is scheduled to blast off tomorrow around 6:00 p.m. if it doesn't go by thursday, the launch will be delayed until at least july 26. >>> and wusa9.com is teaming up with historybeat.com -- >>>

after graduating from no. 0 high school, george did a stint in the navy. his mom described him as a risk taker. he is survived by a 14-year-old daughter. family members say he would call her half a dozen times a day to say i love you. 24-year-old jeffrey had a pilot's license and was trained. his brother dan released a statement of -- a statement saying he made everyone around him want to be a better person. i will truly miss him more than anyone can imagine. this is truly a devastating loss to everyone that knew him. >> he was the ceo of the sales bridge solutions consulting firm. he was a native of england who moved to the u.s. with his wife and children in 1997. he coached a youth rugby team and was a master swimmer who competed in the 2006 world championships. mr. booth was the director of a charity performed by the advanced helicopter used foundation. authorities identified the person -- before the passenger as eight regional sales manager. she had been active with a girl scouts, chairman, and the pta. the victims were taken to the state medical exami

he served as the chief of naval operations, the navy's top officer. we wanted to make sure we could hear directly from at ramallah about the many pressing security challenges -- from admiral mullen about the many pressing security challenges. he is going to dover, delaware to receive the remains of those soldiers had died in afghanistan. we stand our condolences to those families of those who died. please join me in extending a warm welcome to admiral mike mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. [applause] >> thank you for that warm introduction. the challenges that are out there are very very evident. i literally just returned from moscow yesterday evening. i had been there once before in a counter visit with the head of the russian military. our plans for the future and the engagement and our military to military discussions were part of the outcome of the summit. i will try to put my remarks in three different categories, three different areas and an open it up for questions. first, focusing on the middle east, the broader middle east, and sp

then-secretary of the navy lehman says, "in 1983 i was in the pentagon meeting that launched the f-22raptor. the plan was to buy 648 jets, beginning in 1996, for $60 million each. " that was 1983 dollars. "now they cost $350 million apiece, and the obama budget caps the program at 187 jets." then he adds, "at least they're safe from cyber attack since no one in china knows how to program the 83 vintage i.b.m. software that runs them." and then goes on to cite other problems, including navy shipbuilding fiascoes, et cetera, et cetera. "the army's future combat system, which was meant to reequip the entire army, and has had 400% cost overrun and the new air force weather satellite with a similar cost overrun." so, it's out of control, i say to my colleagues. i will match my commitment to equipping the men and women of the military with anyone in this body, but it's got to stop, and this vote -- this vote on the f-22 will determine whether it's business as usual with earmarking, pork-barreling billions of dollars, which has bred corruption. we have former members of the united states con

services committee, it was whether the detainees will be entitled to more rights if they are moved off the navy base when it is scheduled to close in january 2010. the prospect of raising constitutional rights to a stated goal is to destroy the u.s. drew a strong response. >> we now have a established that it is the sue of the administration that enemy combatants, or belligerence, whatever the new name that you would like to call them, are now entitled to rights under the united states -- constitutional rights of the u.s. citizens. >> at the very least, lawmakers were told that some level of due process rights may apply to the detainees and in this debate about the future of the detention program, geography will matter. they are moving the detainees to secure facilities in afghanistan or to the u.s. to be tried under military commissions could bring alleged terrorists more rights ax top defense lawyer couched it this way. >> much of this is unchartered territory in the courts in terms of what rights, if any, would apply to these detainees. >> in a statement, the aclu slammed president obama for

the navy investigates after a sailor's body is found in the barracks at ft. -- myer. no delay.a judge denies the request to push back a trial of a woman accused of killing her own four daughters and making up the rules. questions about the safety of pedicabs after a woman dies in a ride in san diego. but first, we begin with the latest on that sailor found dead at ft. myer. >>> i am andrew stack in arlington. investigators found the both of a female sailor here at the henderson hall barrack located at fort myer early this morning. just a stone's throw from the pentagon, ncis investigators got to work on the case early this morning. after the female sailor failed to report for duty

the navy says it will not release any more information until they contacted her next of kin. it has 108,000 family he members and retirees. >>> tomorrow day two of the senate confirmation hearing sore sonia sotomayor. the role of the court is to apply the law, not make new law. and one senator offered his prediction for the outcome. first is here judge sotomayor. >> many senators have asked me about my judicial philosophy. simple. fidelity to the law. >> unless you have a complete melt down, you're going to get -- melt down, you're going to get confirmed. >> if there's going to be a melt town, it might come tomorrow. that is when members will have their chance to grill the judge on her beliefs and past statements. >>> well, we're following a story out of philadelphia that has captured national attention. now a discrimination lawsuit has been filed against a swim club. that suit says the club discripple nated against the -- discriminated against the children because they're black and hispanic. that was made out of safety consideration because there were too many children in the

what about the superhornet for the navy carriers? >> guest: there is two big chunks of pork in this bill. seven additional f-22s for $1.7 billion. they say it will cost $560 million. it will cost more than that. on the f-22s, secretary of defense gates has said that if there's a single f-22 added to this bill he will recommend a veto and obama should veto it. he is dead right about that. the f-22 is classic case of why our air force is smaller, older, less ready to fight, at ever increasing costs. it will be interesting to see if senator levin and mccain, as they said they would, do fight this. they should be able to fight it and, but the outcome's very unclear to me. you saw in the vote on this in the committee it was 13-11 vote. including four democrats, for example. senator kennedy, who has a pork interest in the f-22, voted with the f-22. demonstrates that the ties of pork are far stronger even than partisan political ties. and so, if gates and obama want to win on this fight, they need to get to work. saxby chambliss, the senator

if i may say so, i would draw your attention to the air commander, the chief of staff for the army, navy, and they're forced joint helicopter command. he said only a day or two ago, we have got more helicopters than the canadians, the dutch and the us trillion's put together up there. of course, what we've got less than the americans to -- and the australians put together out there. of course, we got less than the americans, but you would expect this. this is a pretty phenomenal and helicopter effort. and then major lieutenant- colonel richardson said there was much speculation about helicopters and how we got enough. it is a sign that the helicopters would not have saved the lives of the individuals last week. you cannot conduct a war from a helicopter. the equipment we have is very, very good. in terms of what we like more, and the commander, would say, yes, we would like more equipment, more troops, whatever it may be. but my commander is very hard over on the fact that he is sufficient to get on with the task that he has been given. i'm giving you answers from people on the ground. w

what about the civilian politicians, interviews with secretary army, secretary of the navy will make the decisions on when and where we stand the forces out? the other side of the coin. what are the insurgents think about our robots? what do they think about cost using these robots? what about news editors and places like lebanon or pakistan or india who are going to report on them and create the environment of the war of ideas out there. what about the people and places like international red cross or the jag officers or human rights watch who will argue over the law of war that's around this and so wired for war is just gathering the stories behind these people and what they're dealing with today also shines a light on some of the ripple effects roi mix are having on the politics of the war fighting, on ethics, the laws, you name it and so i would like to do the rest of the time is give you a sense of some of these ripple effect splaying out with robots. the first of these is while the future of war might involve more and more machines they are not just going to be american machines