the navy just handed it over to the city.fowler brings this story. >> reporter: many call it the gateway to the pacific. for 67 years it has served the country in the heat of war and in times of peace. but now it has the look of a ghost town. after a three year decommissioning process most of the buildings are empty and tomorrow the 1,700 acres base will officially close. a far different scene from the days of world war ii when this base was maintaining thousands of war planes. war raged on two fronts and 20,000 people worked on this bay 24 hours a day. gusmusio was one of the thousands working here. >> a total of 39 years. >> you worked in this building? >> yes. >> reporter: he worked here in the supply building from 1940 the year the base opened to 1979. >> looks kind of deserted. usually there's a lot of activity. >> reporter: there are weeds growing on the tarmac and deserted buildings everywhere you look. >> this has to be the best base in the country no doubt about it. this is the best base in the country. >> reporter:

what the navy and marines are going to do, start publishing a list of court-martials. including sex offenders, people up on sexual assault charges. they will publish the charges. the details. the disposition of the cases, whether they are convicted, acquitted, what the punishment was. one key difference from civilian sex offenders' lists, the names will not be published. those could be gotten perhaps through a freedom of information act. why are they doing this? the military is under tremendous pressure from congress to show that it's taking action against the sexual assault crisis. the feeling in the navy is this will bring more public attention to it, it's one of several

even the navy's own shipbuilding plan for fiscal year 2014 said replacing the ohio-class submarines will have a disproportionate impact on navy shipbuilding plants. it comes at the expense of other shipbuilding abilities and navy -- and naval readiness. there are far more effective job creation plans than to undertake this initiative. our amendment offered a more balanced approach. we can easily afford to phase down or slow the replacement submarine program. the navy can deploy the thousand nuclear war heads on the submarines planned under the new start treaty with eight ohio class submarines which mean this is program can be -- this modest cut can be easily handled. the pentagon and joint chiefs of staff have determined that the united states have provide for its security with fewer nuclear weapons. yet knew leer -- nuclear acquisition programs are racing to preserve the current size of today's nuclear force. instead of wasting billions of dollars on weapons the pentagon says it will not need, we should realign our budgets with the reality that the united states plans to reduce its nucl

i came out of the navy in a survey during kennedy and johnson and the congress. we were spending 10% of gross domestic product on defense. it we spend less than four percentage. our allies in europe and spending less than 2%. and the signal that goes out to the world now with their sequestration is that we have cut the pentagon budget and we are about to cut another half a trillion. ..

the navy has certified compliance. y interest in this is that in the president's budget, the navy plans to gradually draw down your manned platforms before ,oing over to the p-8 platform and then to field a fleet of tritons, tehe uavs. understanding that the secretary of the navy is supportive of this position. have you all spoken to the combatant commanders to confirm if these isr capabilities fulfill the requirements? >> i have not recently covered slice of thear combatant commander requirements. they are going to have their integrated priority list due to -- do over the course of the fall. constant updates could i would have to take it up for the record on whether specifically in that area we are answering their needs. >> i would appreciate it. i think that there is some concern in the secretary's office about this transition, and to see that those manned platforms are utilized so that there is not a gap while we are transitioning over and getting the combined fleet between unmanned and manned. once we are withdrawin

the focus is on small craft. house members told navyare worried the program to build them is moving ahead to quickly and that it may be to late to hit the brakes. the new report found that the navy is risking $40 billion by buying the ships faster than the technology can be tested. >> we could end up in a situation where we have a very expensive program, that's not delivering what the taxpayers want. >> the navy said every new ship building project has rough waters but insist the program is on track. the navy plans to eventually build 52 ships. >> new at five a new video posted online shows out a bay area group is getting crafty in making a social statement about same sex marriage. this movement is a low tech version of hacking. david stevenson is live to explain how they are changing the definition of marriage. >> reporter: that's right. the folks have hacked this dictionary are remaking the definition of marriage it's a movement to modernize the meaning of marriage using old fashioned ink and paper. they posted this online video shot

>> the u.s. navy said they and the u.s.arine corps are working with australian authorities to investigate the incident. >> thieves don't have to steal your cell phone to get access to it. 750 million phones may be at risk. >> visions of a brighter future for the tenderloin. the neighborhood got a splash of color today. >>> >> your cell phone may be helping commit a crime against you. cybercriminals can easily take control of your phone. a german security expert found a flaw in the simm card. a virus can be sent to the card via text, letting someone buy stuff through your phone's mobile payment system. estimated 750 million phones may be vulnerable. >> watch abc live stream is now available in the bay area. abc7 is the first local station and abc the first broadcast network to bring you a live stream of your local news and all your favorite abc tv shows. you now never have to miss a minute of the news. you can bring abc7 with you wherever you want to be. it's a special new benefit brought to you by abc, comcast, and charter

the navy appears to have addressed that problem. while the cost to build the sea frames for the follow-up ships is still did double the program's originally overoptimistic cost estimate, which is not unusual, the cost to complete their construction appears to have stabilized at about $450 million each. today i'm concerned about another very serious problem that the navy will buy too many of these ships before the combination of their sea frames, with their interchangeable mission modules, has been proven capable of performing the missions these ships are supposed to perform. in other words, the navy won't know whether this literal combat ship meets the combatant commander's operational requirements until after it has procured more than half of the 52 planned ships. this is particularly troubling inasmuch as the literal combat ship complete will comprise more than one-third of the navy's surface combatant ships. the program works against small boats, especially in the littorals. these three primary missions appear oriented towards cou

they extended the ability of the sixth fleet to scout out our navy. submarines, as you may or may not know, sit relatively low in the water. they can only see 6 or 7 miles towards the horizon. that limits their scouting ability, particularly in the days before they had radar. and when these subs were conceived, there was no radar. but a sub with an airplane can easily extend its range and its field of view by 2 or 300 miles. so that meant the farther away japan could discover our fleet, the better and sooner it would be able to destroy our fleet before it reached japan. so the incredible thing about these e-400 subs wasn't their size, and it really wasn't the fact that they were underwater aircraft carriers. it was the audacious mission that yamamoto dreamed up for them. yamamoto built the e-400 subs because he wanted to change the course of world war ii. and the way he intended to do that was to send these subs more than halfway around the world, surface them off the east coast of america and launch their planes in a surprise aerial attack against new

and britain cooperated in the 1830's where the british and american navy ship patrol off the coast of africa looking for illegal slaves from either country and if the british happened to catch an american slave trade ship they would bring it over to the american navy and vice versa. there was an unofficial cultivation the navy's worked on their own on the other side of the world and eventually the government said what are you doing there isn't a treaty that covers this. this just isn't something the governments want to do so one of the consequences was the because the u.s. wasn't able to consistently invest in the sort of naval protections and enforce the ban on sleeve trading by the american ships there were time period engaged in the house slave trade so it wasn't until 1852 in the middle of the civil war president lincoln's administration sent the treaty to the senate and was ratified that they joined the system of international courts and really dramatically right after they joined the system. there was only one bit that was active which was the trade to cuba and was carried on he

and she also was someone to be reckoned with as she lobbied for the formation of the navy waves, although she could not get credit for it, and could never join, because of the race and age and that the government has drafted (inaudible) and she actually got involved in the way and forming it because after the pearl harbor and we joined the war, she volunteered to be a front line servant and she was turned down because she was a women and that drove her nuts and so therefore, they sent years and many, many meet togs get the waves created which she did finally have a handle in. and lately, san francisco is counting on mom chung to get the job done, and the real mom chung she got the job done. she through sheer determination and hard work, became a physician. she is the eldest child of 11 kids. back then, traditionally she should have been helping mom and dad take care of all of the younger kids. but no she wanted to be a doctor and she said that i am going to be a doctor. because the thing is that she had her mother's support and that is what made everything okay. but could you imagine, 11

he had warned the cabinet of the need to build up the navy before the war even started. and he inevitably came into conflict with his colleagues because he had to think about the global war. he had to consider the defense of britain as a priority over winning in america. in words which held true, so many of the men who lost america one contemporary said of his problems that they originated quote more from the nature of the war than the full of lords sandage. the punishment however fell upon him. it's popular to portray these individuals as incompetent blunders than to explain british defeat in terms of poor leadership. this is equally true i would stress in britain as in america. it's most apparent of course in the movies. films like mel gibson's the patriots, sounds like al pacino's revolution. it's pronounced in popular history. the first third of barbara tat and's is dedicated to what is almost a period of the british leadership during the british reform and even permeates the academic scholars who use words like incompetent and mediocre to describe leadership. this v

you are british and guess what, we're tracking and the british navy to fight against the war against france. this a long been tension between u.s. and britain. it was not popular in the u.s. it did go to a different version, the treaty went to the senate to the senate attached a bunch of reservations or changes to it. including a provision that the cases would be tried in american courts rather than in these international courts. they changed the geographical scope and the british were not willing to go along with that. the treaty failed in 1820s. the u.s. and britain cooperated for a while, the 1830s were british ships and american navy ships would patrol off the coast of africa looking for illegal slave ships of the the country. at the british happened to catch an american slave trade ship, the bring it over to the american navy and vice versa. that was kind of an unofficial cooperation, the two navies it worked out on their own on the other side of world. eventually the government said hey, what are you guys doing? there's not a treaty that covers this. this isn't something the go

and, of course, oversight of the navy's organization is priority. that he continue to focus on the services for our residents. we project 8.7 million from our housing and 3 pointed 1 from housing. on the cost side our expenses are working order driven. our contracts includes professional services with landscaping services and janitoral services. each of which provide employment opportunity to disadvantaged san franciscans. on our contract they include the operation of our give him managed by ymca. and we have a childcare development center. we have culturally sensitive services. the operations and development work orders to the city for administration services. we have great street paving. our fire department budget is covered for this and we want to staff an online clinic. the objective of our focus year 2014 revenues are anticipated to decrease as we move through the second half of the fiscal year and proceeded to the waterfront. we anticipate expenses will be lower mainly on city work orders. despite our challenges we are more diverse. there is n

and in 1992 the navy base was returned to the philippines. the area is currently being developed as a special economic zone. the philippines wants to strengthen its alliance with the united states to counterbalance the rising military power of its neighbor, china. the philippines and china have competing claims over this area of the south china sea. their dispute has become increasingly tense making it an important strategic location once again. the proposed facility would give washington a foothold from which to monitor the south china sea and the maritime activities of china. the area contains shipping lanes critical to the functioning of the world economy. the philippine constitution bans foreign troops from keeping a permanent base in the country. the proposed joint-use facility will be governed by the philippine military to sidestep any constitutional issues. even so, the anticipated return of the u.s. military has already steered hostile demonstrations. ambassador chose his words carefully to try and ease public concern. >> let me stres

but in the same week, the navy launched a massive campaign about the dangers of bath salts, includinghis public service announcement. the psa starts with the reenactment of a sailor going through a bad bath salts trip. >> when people are using bath salts, they're not their normal self. >> reporter: in the video, the lieutenant in san diego describes why service members should stay away from synthetic drugs. >> ultimately, these people are jacking up their brains with the stuff they're doing. >> reporter: the navy's campaign illustrates that synthetic drugs are a growing concern in the military. but chris has some views about his own use. >> i have been sober now since november 11th, 2011. >> reporter: chris says that quitting was not entirely his choice. a few days after we last saw him chris was pulled over by military police. as he was being questioned about his strange behavior, chris admitted to using bath salts. chris is now being processed out of the marines, and says that it was not military authorities that convinced him to stop using. >> i gave my life back to god. every day

the u.s. navyl -- naval presence that has been dominant all around the world, it is were rrisome, the trend. >> i do not know all of the underlying assumptions used. you take sequestration for 10 --rs, that is a worry some worrisome trend when you look at the requirements we have today. we need to reconcile that and it would be difficult. >> over the long haul, what happens to the u.s. navy? >> i worry all the time. it is my primary job. but we have to do is reconcile what kind of navy we can deliver with this kind of funding and what we wanted to. what do we expect that navy to do? withre also millionaire the strategic concept management review -- you are familiar with the strategic concept management review. we collectively provide that for the secretary of defense. given the scenarios, this is the reality for the fiscal numbers that you would have. he was able to get a snapshot based on a certain set of assumptions. you can manipulate their requirements. that is what we have to do as we work thr

navy, nevers. before have we seen the level of collaboration with the navy, just like big army, big marine corps. nce 9/11 we have had more and more upwardly mobile naval fbverse is the part of our so formations, so now we have seals and admirals and submarine admirals and other high-ranking flight officers who know sof because they did a tour of duty there. there is a real familiarity now and respect and an understanding that you cannot overstate that helps us a lot. we have only a few seals. we depend heavily on the date navy and neighbors, general force enablers, and those people normally go out back into the paysavy, and that dividends for us. >> i've been waiting patiently over here. >> i graduated from the naval academy in may. [indiscernible] i will join the submarine community. you talk about how you cannot surge trust, and we saw that in iraq and in afghanistan. -- thoset going to be teams will not be having the same capacity. how are you institutionalizing the lessons learned and those best practices and promulgating those to the other teams? >> do you want me to answer that? >> you want

the only survivor was suckeded out of the navy plane -- sucked out of the navy plane and landed on the sunnyvale municipal golf course. a young student found him, assumed he was dead, and covered the body with the parachute. >> one one of the crash trucks from the base run over the parachute shroud. it didn't hit my body, but it straddled it over the parachute. they didn't see me! then i guess someone told him, hey, there's a body under the chute! >> he says he feels for everyone involved, including emergency responders. >>> there are a dozen survivors still in the hospital tonight. three of the patients remain in critical condition. and there are two patients at stanford hospital, one in critical condition. >>> first responders, flight crew members, passengers will revisit the heroes of the flight in a special program tomorrow night, 7:00 on kpix 5. >>> overruled! >> the defense rests but not after a testy exchange. what the judge was forced to repeat three times. >> salvaging the celebration. how one engineer says the new bay bridge span can be opened this labor day weekend. >> and f

they also said the 30 people unaccounted for will most likely not be found alive. >>> a first for the navy. they have officially landed a fighter-sized drone on an aircraft carrier for the first time. it didn't come cheap. the experimental aircraft in this photo was developed for $1.4 billion. >>> the united states plans to follow through on delivery of four f-16 fighter jets to egypt even after the ousting of president mohamed morsi. the jets which are part of an annual aid package are said to arrive in the coming weeks. >>> and the san diego city council has voted unanimously to ban the retail sale of dogs, cats and rabbits. the vote is part of an effort to cut down on, quote, puppy mills where animals are mass produced and kept in inhumane conditions. good news there. >>> now for an early look at business we turn to cnbc's courtney reagan. >> good morning, paige. stocks could get a big boost today thanks to comments by ben bernanke who says interest rates will likely stay low for a long time. the economy still needs the fed's help as unemployment remains high. inflation stays low and gr

iti wanted to spend my life in public service and the navy seals fit that service. >> michael: i readchill when i was younger totally different reaction. loved the guy but i didn't go into the navy seals. you went into training, advance and basic seals training in san diego, what does it take to be a navy seal. >> if i could bottle it and figure out a way we could package it and you and i would be on an island tomorrow. it's annal can me that comes together. refusal of quitting is something you have to bring and the desire to be on that team, to do that job. i think it's beyond testing yourself. you want to be part of that elite brotherhood and that will help you see the finish line. >> michael: first of all, i always wonder this. i could step in the ring with mike tyson i could do it for $1 million, what would happen if i walked in. if i walked into day one of seal training. today i had chex mix bagel and coffee. what would happen to me on day one. >> it would an tough day. >> michael: would i live? >> you would survive it. when a young lion tells me can i get my seal training? no. i

i don't think there is a great deal of interest on the navy's part in the strategic petroleum reservend it tends to get jockeyed by both political parties as an effort to keep the price of gasoline down in the summer driving months if it looks like it might go up and create on popularity. i think it has moved reasonably far away from its original purpose and probably is not as strategically important as it once was. left.ve got a few minutes i think we will end on one from facebook -- from kevin. what can a young person do to prepare themselves to be the most competitive applicants in the fields of foreign policy like the cia and state department? >> if you have an aptitude for to start withges that. the two that are probably a strategic to the most important but not the only ones -- i would say would be chinese, mandarin, and arabic. those parts of the world are likely to have lots of dealings, good and bad, in the years to come. even if you don't end up becoming fluent or work in country but if you just know a foreign language well enough to be comfortable in its and to have read so

the buck stops there. >> in the navy if a commanding officer if someone does something and sinks a ship and runs to the ground, and the board of inquiries that i did not do it and it was a seaman he would be dead on arrival. >> so the bottom line s these things are not that complicated. they have a responsibility under the law it has been in place since 1999. and they still do this oh, we don't understand and no it is this person and that person, and if you asked direct questions to a person, they go, oh, we are not obligated to respond. but, everything is done to avaid that responsibility. >> any further public comment? >> let's call the question. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> the motion passes unanimously and we find miss patterson has failed to respond in a timely manner and she acknowledged as much as so. >> we will move on to the next one. >> should we take the next two together? >> they go hand in hand, there was no requirement to turnover the information and we can say that they are required to follow the order, if there was a requirement then clearly she did not fo

the u.s. navy says it has dropped four bombs on australia's great barrier reef. it says two fighter jets had to jettison the bombs in a training exercise on tuesday. they had been intending to drop them on a bombing range off the coast of queensland, but were not able to. the planes were running low on fuel and could not land with the bombs still on board. the navy says the bombs did not explode and were dropped away from the coral to minimize damage to the reef. to cycling now where christopher froome is poised to win this year's tour de france. he has a commanding lead and is on course to become the second consecutive british winner of cycling's premier event. the riders should cross the finish line soon. >> christopher froome dominated the tour from the outset. no one could match his devastating speed. he showed incredible energy in the mountains, especially during a spectacular ascent. he shook off rival after rival before reaching the summit at a pace that drew unfortunate comparisons to the disgraced lance armstrong. >> i really did not see myself winning th

now it is my understanding that the navy is, the secretary of the navy is supportive of this positionhave you all spoken to the combatant commanders to confirm if these isr capabilities fulfill their requirements? >> i haven't recently covered that particular slice of the combatant commander requirements. they are going to have their integrated priority lists due to us here over this fall and we'll scan those. we also get constant feedback from the ja organizations as to whether they're received but i would have to take it up for the record on whether specifically in that area we're answering their needs. >> okay. i would appreciate it. i think that there is some concern and the secretary's office about this transition and to see that those manned platforms are utilized so that there's not a gap while we're transitioning over and getting the combined fleet between unmanned and manned. now, once we are withdrawing from afghanistan there's going to be a lot of independednt sr assets that will come back and be distributed throughout the combatant command. i sure wish that you all would t

and then the armed services the united states navy of america. can you believe that the vision and the determination so all one person or maybe 20 thousand can say oh, i'm home. i'm home. it's been an honor to be part of that. thank you all of you and thank everyone who will be and was a part of this thank you. (clapping) >> it's my pleasure to welcome supervisor mar are a cowen. she's actually on many city hall committees and boards. she was elected over the retirement system overseeing $17 billion. where is denise. $17 billion of investment money but here priority is her community. last week the supervisor helped with the family and musical and food festival. whether she's working inside or outside of city hall we know she's working hard to keep our district healthy and save. please welcome supervisor cowen >> yes $17.6 billion but whose counting. i look forward in entertaining a conversation that we will be able to have about using this funds making an investment in the community (clapping) we make investments all around the world with this fun

the navy blimp is also an asset. i have ridden in that. he amount of gas it takes for a 24-hour mission is the same for 16 to rund -- an f the runway. hopefully if we can pass immigration reform, we are going to be able to enhance the maritime border, but this is theg to bring into question desperate need to avoid a place like southern command. i spent some time with the admiral, and he walked you through what is going to happen if we have the sequester, and it is ridiculous we would be not only shooting ourselves in the foot but start to shoot so ilves up the torso, wish you would take a look at the assets and allocate some of them to southern command. thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. senator nelson. we have a vote. it is getting close to 12:15. i am going to have a two-minute second round. want to find a way to work through the issue on serious -- syria. i want to work through it, because i think there is a real uncertainty as to what your role in terms of the options you , what are the and what i amrth, going to ask you to do is give

it's looking the fema operations and we're trying to getty folks from fema and the navy and the private sector. if you look at the other side of the briefing sheet i you can see some of the agencies listed. so again that's may 15 that's next wednesday and we're looking forward to seeing you folks there. any questions? >> thank you jill any questions? we look forward to it and i know we'll see many of you. we're going to give ail m r e's instead of hotdogs. if there's no questions we'll move on 80 and go to our administrator. thank you >> good afternoon, everyone the lifeline council is made up of any of our department heads that are critical to restoring san francisco after an emergency and also allow our utility agrees to get our telecommunications back up and running our water and sewer. our objectives are to improve the planning and restoration and he establish collaborations and recovery following a major disaster. we've got a huge independent study and we talked about our tangible story where we collectively worked with pg&e additional solving one our of of their issues and support

the u.s. navys the two marine planes had to abandon the bombs because they were running out of fuel. the navy says two bombs were nonexplosive. the other two were but were disarmed before they were dropped. >>> a community in ohio is bracing for more victims after investigators discovered the bodies of three women wrapped in plastic. east cleveland police arrested a suspect and think he may be imitating a secretaried serial killer. reporter katie murray has the latest. >> reporter: law enforcement and dogs scour a chilling scene. an area in cleveland where three bodies were found wrapped in layers of plastic and taped up. neighbors are in disbelief. >> this is very upset. >> reporter: according to authorities, all three victims appear to be young african- american women. a car in the garage where one victim was found led investigators to this man, michael madison. he's in custody after a standoff with police. madison was convicted in 2001 of attempted rape and is a registered sex offender but has n

with no knowledge of the navy or the naval academy, i said, that's where i wanted to go. i decided to go to the naval academy in seventh grade. in ninth grade i started writing my congressmen, two state senators, and the president of the united states and vice president saying i really want to go to the naval academy. each year i would get a letter back saying, a little too early. write to us when you are a senior. i became a senior. i graduated in 1964. most people who are my age or close will remember in november of 1963, we lost president kennedy. lyndon johnson became president. i was no longer eligible for an appointment from him. i said i know you can't help, but i can't get an appointment out of south carolina. can you do something? about a week later a navy recruiter showed up at my front door and said, i understand you are interested in going to the naval academy. a couple months after that, a retired federal judge by the name of judge bennett traveled around the country at the behest of president johnson looking for young men of color who were interested in goin

in the navy, every landing on the carrier was filmed, used and analyzed. probably because it has, and in commercial operations like this, it's fairly routine. you have to scratch your head to think the last time you had a crash landing like that. certainly in the u.s. i think that's right. there is no good reason these days if you're going to film a grocery store 24/7, you probably should have video cameras strategically located at airports to help in understanding what may have happened or more importantly, prevent accidents happening before they end up like this. >> it's interesting. jim tillman, as i walk around the building at work, one camera there is a camera, the lobby there is a camera, why not on runways, jim? >> there is no good reason for not having cameras there. i can't think of one good single reason except we haven't done it. they think they use one video every 50 years so it's not worth the effort. i think it would be a very good idea, don. >> has there been a push to do that? i'm sure people have raised that. >> well, i haven't heard it, f

sean owe keefe -- >> sean o'keef had been acting director of the navy. ou have a person who is qualified, it doesn't matter if they are enlisted or not. i love my job. my job is to facilitate their success, to make them the number one place to work in government. one thing i have done is make them the best place to work, and allowed them to make us the best place to work in government. >> you mentioned chris cassidy having been in iraq and afghanistan, and he's an astronaut now. where is he now? >> he is on the international space station. he's a seal, a navy seal. >> how does that happen? >> well, he wanted to be an astronaut. you know, i haven't talked to chris about whether this was a life-long dream of his. we have a number of -- at one time about half of our astronauts were active duty military. they come from all walks of life nd from all over the military. i was a military test pilot when i applied for the space program and i was picked up. i went all the way through my 14-year career on my own from the marine corps. nasa reimbursed for my salary,