on the pace was far greater than imagined in 2009. one navy document states that the toll losses from underground storage tanks could have reached beyond 1 million gallons and produced a known carcinogen. i would think that anyone here today that found out the water they had been drinking contained gasoline would find that a little alarming. there are over one and 70,000 members of the cablevision a community, to have registered with a ring -- camp lejeune community, who have registered with the marine corps. i have been meeting veterans and their families who lived on base. we have discovered over 70 men who lived at camp lejeune that now have male breast cancer, a rare disease that affects only 2000 men a year in the entire united states. this issue is the subject of an award winning documentary, which will be shown in the capital at the visitors' center. i hope you will take a closer look at this issue and look at the scope of the contamination issue and how it affects love and their families. i urge you to see the film. this story is final

the size of the navy right now is about 282 ships. the ground floor goal of 313 and all of the vital national interests that we have with respect to the stability of east and southeast asia will be very important for us to look at. in that regard, i would like to raise two points with respect to the situation in east asia and i would also like to ask you about the situation in libya. first, when we are looking at the tempo in east asia, we see clearly that the chinese military activities have dramatically increased in the past 15 or 16 months. the most glaring examples of that were the situation with japan about one year ago and most recently, the chinese naval vessels cutting the table of a vietnamese ship that was exploring the possibilities of oil in the south china sea. these are basically related to sovereignty issues. they are not only national security issues, they also have downstream economic consequences. to me, they clearly talk to the commitments that we have for stability in this region. we have made these commitments. i t

the city will receive land from the navy in fairly large chunks. there will be an additional chunk that makes up half the island. we, in turn, passed that on to the developer in two block increment. they have given us plans that have been approved to say that they are building things that are consistent with approval. that is to say yes, the infrastructure they are proposing is consistent with our infrastructure program with financial guarantees that the developer will build up. dda also includes housing plans, infrastructure plans, and jobs programs that we talked about. the agreement is our agreement with the treasure island home was developed initiative. we have formulated this plan over the past decade and we owe them a lot of credit. lies with our 1996 agreement with them, the main components being that we provide them with subsidies to build units for new housing. we would also support them in their training efforts, including funding from the project. the navy agreement memorializes the purchase of treasure island made it over 10 years. we pa

the navy has not cleaned up that land, and we're looking at developing treasure island. these issues must be dealt with, and we have to make sure the united states government pays for the damage they created and then returns the property to the state of california. i opposed every one of these issues before the board. perce were it to government code 65, and i am going on record again to oppose all these proceedings because the title to the property is not the federal government's to sell. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> supervisors good evening. my name is tony. san francisco is an iconic city, which my family helped build in the 1700's. you are now poised to destroy one such icon, treasurer and. before you come it proposes to add scores of high-rises and will have an impact far beyond the island itself. it will be closed for further input and scrutiny for 20 years. it can run rampant. is this what the sentences will board of supervisors now represent an alameda of you represent a fitting history in any sense of what also add the island should be complete the

i warned the city that the 1994 memorandum of understanding with the navy was voided because the navy was withholding information on toxic contamination. in 1999, we want the city not to lease a building of the shipyard because it sat on top of a pcb dump. mr. cohen argued we should move forward with it. the dump broke the surface and burned from august until april 2000. it caused ongoing cleanup for the next 10 years. we have worked very hard to assure you understand this. in response to comments, the city has stated that the navy has accepted responsibility for all the debris found on treasure island, including that related to incineration site 12. on the other hand, article 12 of the economic development conveyance -- i am going to jump ahead. chairperson mar: i would like to ask you to simply try to wrap up, if you can. >> if you look at article 21, the navy says something very different than that. we have a number of cleanup projects on the island. this product is unstable, with many unknowns. we are concerned these will vastly modify the project proposal. thank you very much for

, but those collections on the history, the building of the island, the clippers, the navy, would be the basis of the museum, together with a new way approachable by younger people in this century that deals with the innovation, the fact that this island is built to be green, to be sustainable, and these assets, bringing together this team of innovation past, present, and future, will be very exciting as the program for our museum. also, we might even be able to hire some people. we had wonderful success with a young veteran from the navy who showed up, and he just loved what we were doing, and he was reimbursed and interpreted the little exhibition, which happen to be about c services in the pacific. we are very excited, and we are partnering on this with just about everybody because we all admire what each other are doing, but most of all, we are pleased that the developer has seen the importance of making space available for this museum, which will be in a sense, the soul of the new development called treasure island. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. next speaker please. >> go

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rather than taking these concerns seriously, the navy entirely. there has been a consistent practice of environmental racism. black, latino, samoan, and lower-income children have been impacted by the health effects. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you very much. >> i want to thank you all for having this hearing today. we released a report as part of a coalition. 30 organizations nationally signed on. we did a freedom of information act request that went back to 2006. we reviewed hundreds of females that were going back and forth between the department of public health related to environmental review of the shipyard. i brought videotapes. hundreds of people were coming down here. we were door-knocking. people were getting rashes, nosebleeds. it was literally plumes of dust coming over the community. it has been documented that throughout that time, lenar was not monitoring the dust. they did not have data. they said they forgot to put batteries in air monitors that were supposed to record how much asbestos was being released into the community

i am a veteran of the navy. i am stunned. i look around this room. it is full of accountants and lawyers and developers. i cannot see one document with the cost. san francisco is obviously paying for its. you cannot find one document related to the project. this has been part of the problem. you have undocumented expenses. i am part of the public. i cannot find one document that spells cells a name. -- that spells out a name. i do not see one supervisor here that will answer that question. this is a massive project. this is a good price. i would like to see some numbers in documents with names, phone numbers, a statement to what each project will cost. you guys handed 34 $5 million. we cannot even produce a business card for me. you have to start looking at all these projects. you are not paying for it. the city and county is. it goes toward properties like this. thank you for your time. >> thank you. next speaker. >> i am a resident. i strongly support this project. i urge you to support this. thank you. >> i am a practicing architect. i am a member

today, commander mark kelly announced he is retiring from the navy and from nasa, to take care of his wife. congresswoman gabby giffords. to help her fight for recovery from the gunshot wound to her head. and bob woodruff starts us off with their story tonight. >> reporter: after 25 years of service, mark kelly announced his retirement today on faceweek facebook, writing, "gabrielle is working hard every day and he mission of recovery. i want to be by her side." giffords will remain in houston while she continues her outpatient rehab. kelly says her comprehension is almost back to 100%. she continues to work on issues like vocabulary and mobility. after spending so much of his career flying high above the earth, mark's coworkers at nasa say he'll be missed. >> it's great to see that stability. he's a great role model for us. >> reporter: for this all-american hero, whose military career spanned combat

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they believe the chinese navy aims to improve its long-term activities in the open sea. china's defense ministry has said the navy fleet will conduct exercises in the west pacific from mid through late june, adding that the drills are routine and comply with international laws. on thursday, three more chinese navy ships were spotted on the same route. >>> vietnam has accused china of harassing its oil exploration vessel for the second time in two weeks near disputed islands in the south china sea on thursday. foreign ministry spokesperson nguyen phuong nga spoke about the incident on thursday. she said three ships presumably chinese fishing boats cut an exploration vessel while they surveyed waters off the southern province of bac lieu. [ speaking foreign language ] vietnam previously criticized china for obstructing another oil probe vessel in the south china sea on may 26th. it also said warning shots were fired at vietnamese fishing boats by chinese ships on may 31st. mounting anger towards china sparked recent rare protest demonstrations in vietnam. observers say the

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. >>> up to $24 million, that is how much the u.s. navy to spent to clean up a shoreline are treasure island. david stevenson tells us which feathered friend is at risk if the investment is not made. >> reporter: baseball owner remembers the days when sailing from treasure island meant watching out for friendly fire. >> used to be over here in the hangar area and we had to sail around that. >> reporter: sailors used the portion of clipper cove as a range from 1941-1989p to date the navy is planning to reduce lead shot that may endanger diving ducks. >> they go down and eat the shot. >> reporter: is is accessible to the deaths. they are now proposing to spend between $2,000,000.22 million to clean the code in the most expensive plan includes dredging times of lead contaminated sediment. the cheaper plan simply buries the contaminated sediment in the landfill. >> i am looking at the animals that actually dive into the sediment where a lead shot has fallen down into its. >> reporter: a public meeting to remove the lead and protect the diving

the navy is obviously crucial to that mission. i agree with the ship numbers that have to be developed for the navy in order to do that. the key will be something that has happened in your own state, which is shipbuilding operations have to develop greater efficiency. yours is a great example of having developed those type of efficiencies that help us on the cost control side and at the same time allows us to continue our shipbuilding capability. i think that a greater competition, a greater presence of an industrial base here that deals with those issues, will provide the type of cost savings that we need. >> thank you. i look forward to working with you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator collins. >> i do not know if you are going to take a break -- >> yes, it sounds to me like we're going to take a break. this will not be a lunch break. this will be a brief five-minute break. >> great. >> a very quick break, we will finish the question is, and then you have a lunch break. >> the armed services committee came in this

the navy vacated the 3,300-acre site in 1994. now it's being incorporated into the san pablo bay national wildlife refuge. the site restored to tidal wetlands. >> speaking on behalf of the navy, we are very pleaseded to be to be standing on official wildlife property. >> the san pablo bay national wildlife refuge lies along the north shore of the bay in sonoma, solano, and napa counties. >>> all right. let's talk about this bizarre weather that we're having. rob mayeda joins us now. it's like it's winter all over again. >> it is. if this was a winter storm scenar scenario, we'd be seeing an inch of rain in spots and even for january or february that would be impressive. the other thing that's impressive, temperatures 20 to 30 degrees below where they were. breezy as a cold front slowly heads slowly out of the bay area. when i mean slowly we're talking at times this afternoon only ten miles per hour. so we had all that moisture out there, and it kept raining and raining and raining, even sent the spider there in the san jose city

i know it differents from let's say the regular navy but how would it different from even the other navyy clear on one point here. just because are you a member of seal team 6, or a more elite seal, all seals are elite. it just means you've decided to have a different lifetile. and what i mean by that is you are even more committed to doing this type of job it becomes a lifestyle day in and day out of practicing, training, never ending. and that's why you have about probably a six to eight year training life span. >> while you're actually there, because you physically just can't keep doing that. you mentally can't keep doing that and your family is going to suffer too because if you have got kids like i have, you couldn't serve two masters, it cost me my wife and kids because i was more married to the team. so if you go to this team, it's all or nothing, you have to be completely dedicated and you know, most wives don't like it when a husband wakes up and says hey, my pager is going off, i will see you maybe in a few months. >> and you really do live like a shadow. you kind of move and d

the navy is obviously crucial to that mission. i agree with the ship numbers that have to be developed for the navy in order to do that. the key will be something that has happened in your own state, which is shipbuilding operations have to develop greater efficiency. yours is a great example of having developed those type of efficiencies that help us on the cost control side and at the same time allows us to continue our shipbuilding capability. i think that a greater competition, a greater presence of an industrial base here that deals with those issues, will provide the type of cost savings that we need. >> thank you. i look forward to working with you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator collins. >> i do not know if you are going to take a break -- >> yes, it sounds to me like we're going to take a break. this will not be a lunch break. this will be a brief five-minute break. >> great. >> a very quick break, we will finish the question is, and then you have a lunch break. >> senator blumenthal? >> thank you, mr. chai

um, certainly if you go back to his tenure as assistant secretary of the navy under woodrow wilson, um, he was a constant promoter of -- which is an interesting innocent incidens life because the president, wilson, was a kind of diffident person as far as foreign relations were concerned. he felt that the united states should refrain from interfering in foreign affairs. he department think that we thought that -- he didn't think that we thought that we should be very restrained in our use of american power. roosevelt -- wilson's secretary of state, william jennings bryan, was a pacifist who really was a pose today the exercise of american power, resigned because he thought the wilson administration was getting too belligerent by 1915. fdr's immediate boss was a will sewn yang and a disciple of bryan's who looked upon the uniform navy with kind of bemused suspicion. he was always reluctant to use the navy in any way. and, of course; this was all anathema to franklin roosevelt who spent his entire eight years as assistant secretary very, in that wonderful way of his, very charmingly but

in february of two thousand and eight the young cooper a navy veteran of the tower of babel and a film crew left los angeles on a journey that took sixty five years. still might. be. on. while doing research for my recent book the war in the pacific of retrospective i happened across a associated press report that said in effect. where hundreds of marines died there are now millions of plastic bags crumpled paper boxes and when i saw that of course. since i had been a party to. our witness to all of the killings that took place i felt a special way. and i need to do something about this. i was. in my parents' apartment building in chicago remember soul well. that the manic announcement. really shook me up as was practically all of them. america including all the big shots in washington imagine a tiny country like japan. attracting our pacific fleet in pearl harbor but indeed roland tresham purpose is making america the giant a people major. world. so i live. life fully was. a lot. closer to the united states. the phone rang it was my brother and my brother said. he was trying to decide

their response was the secretary of the navy went to the nrc and had the director of the nrc answer aetter that was written last october by the director of atsdr. that -- i'm sorry. i mean -- this is just a vision circle. >> jerry, thank you for that. the chairman that's been very kind and with me on the time that i have gone over again what i think the chair. >> important questions. thank you very much. >> senator begich. >> thank you, madame chair, i want to if i could to mr. steele and kelley and violante, i want to talk about the heros court. i want to describe it because sometimes there's -- and i read your testimony in detail and your concerns are equal treatment, fairness, reimbursements, let me describe alaska for a second. first off, i was just there on memorial day. and in quig, alaska, you have to fly from anchorage to bethel and then bethel to quig. there's no road. it took two and a half hours of travel time -- air time. in our state, we have the premier indian hill services in the country. why? indian hill services doesn't run it. we run it. our travel communities took c

. >> and the navy in the east >> time warner has been slapped with a class action lawsuit claiming thatthe network discriminates against deaf and hard of hearing. the complaintt is that cnn failed to provide captioning on the videos on the website. >> i feel that i will be more informed if a lot of the videos were captioned so i could see the candidates speak. >> cnn said they have not yet been served for the lawsuit and has no comment. >> a massive exercise under way. the navy and concord will team up to recycle 340 railroad box cars once used to move weapons and ammunition in the base. they believe that they will get 10,000 tons of steal in the box cars. >> they are looking to recycle as much as possible. using everything but the oink. we plan to do that. >> by recycling the rail card versus paying for the removal and disposal we are saving the taxpayers. >> this marks the latest step in that process. >> when we come back. a cost-cutting plan to shut down state parks could leave a man without a home. >> and you will get a look at the dark side of the moon and the lunar eclipse that yo

if you were given a last lecture today to talk about the personal element. >> well, fo me, the navy in particular, because that's where i started in the military, from the first day i went to anpolis in 1964 was the great privilege of being around unbelievable people. and that is true today. this military, 2.2 million men and women, the deaths i've sn. we were in a draft situation when i came in in the middle of vietnam. itas very diffict timeor us. and those scars, whether it was the lack of support of the american people for our military, the homeless generation of my peers that we put on the street and still are out there today. those are very important elements of my make up and eventually getting this job. i had no aspiration for this job. i had no idea i would come into this job. those aspects of my youth, in you will, including a career that went south after i was in five years and it took me a significant, almost twice that long to get back out. >> charlie: that's an important lesson it ses to me in terms of the human spirit, in terms of you're never out toally claire yourself.

their response was, the secretary of the navy went to the nrc and had the director of the nrc answer a letter that was written last october by the director of atsdr. i'm sorry, i mean, this is just a vicious circle. >> jerry, thank you for that. and the chairman has been very kind and lenient with me on my time. and i've gone over again but i thank the chair. >> an important question. thank you very much. senator begich. >> thank you, madam chair. i just want, if i could, mr. steele and mr. kelley and mr. violante, i want to talk about, i want to describe because sometimes, and i've read your testimony in detail, and your concerns are treatment, fairness, reimbursements. let me describe alaska for second. first off, i was just there on memorial day, which to get to it, you have to fly from anchorage to bethel and have to fly from battle to quake in a force you to plan. if they have one avail and the weather is good. there's no road. that total trip took two and a half hours. of travel, airtime. in our state we have the premier indian health services in the country. why? be frank with

that the russian navy. official be rich to buy something without any in the u.s. so i think there is an interest. but who will see for france but very important in the industry in terms the doc about guns because it's a way to jump through some walk in seoul but that's one reason this is going to reason is this idea that. the transformation of nato is very important and that russia should not be seen as a rebel but should be seen as a partner a partner but it is seen as a country with. which it's possible to make some strategy convergence on the front issues not on all of these shows but on the front visuals says tell my government i will be russia and act as senator and the french institute of international relations spotlight will be that shortly after a break we'll continue definitively so don't go stay where you are. the a. man louis loses. the sense to. the. innovation cluster in the center of siberia one sees as revolutionary and as for the automotive industry your expenditures then soaked in fiction s

if it's not interesting for military terms for the russian navy that's interesting because that means that the russian navy sufficiently rich to to to buy something without any any use so i think there is an interest to be honest but we will see for friends what's very important in the industry or terms not up about that and because it's a way to to give job through to some walkers soul but that's one reason this is going to reason is this idea that the evolution of the transformation of nato is very important and that russia should not be seen as a revolver but should be seen as a partner again a difficult partner but it is seen as paris as a country with. which it's possible to make some strategy convergence on different issues not on all of these issues but on the different nations says telmarc governor head of the russia and i has centered on the french institute of international relations but life will be that shortly after a break will continue dissenting felt don't go stay where you are. the a. man loses its tsu to. the out. to a limited edition cluster in the center of siberia

perspective that said they do promise to prevent these ships from reaching gaza and we know that the navy has been training apparently for months working on a new tactics how to start these ships in a way that will avoid bloodshed how do you tell us about the general attitude on the ground among israelis how do they feel about these flotilla ships i mean surely they're just packed with aids for her suffering palestinians yet the israeli view is that this is simply a provocation there's plenty of aid that is flowing into gaza especially since last year with aid ease the blockade so plenty of you know there's no major shortages of medicines there's food and so forth where the blockade is still in effect is mostly in the area of building materials if you remember there was a massive israeli military offensive to many a half years ago and there's still a lot of damage to infrastructure and especially to homes that need to be fixed israel continues to restrict the amount of building goods that gets into gaza. and . especially in the larger picture here do you believe that israel is really goin