commission in 1938, the enterprise was involved in 20 battles in world war ii world war ii's pacific theater, which included battles at midway, guadalcanal, and iwo jima. this is about an hour. >> good afternoon. i'm barber. this is the poisoned pen in scottsdale, arizona. it's our pleasure today to welcome back barrett tillman who is a local author in some sense because he lives in mesa, arizona. it's all one big megalopolis, but he's actually from oregon. he was first published at the age of 15. he has written 45 books or possibly more, but the figure that blows me away is 600 magazine articles. wow. what do you do? right in your sleep? >> i've been told i laugh in my sleep. >> awesome. in any case, his works of fiction include collaboration with harold coyle and stephen coots, and he is one whole string of awards, and probably the most relevant to today is his 2091 the u.s. naval institute general prize. he has won awards from the air force for historical writings, the north american society for history. anyway, he grew up wanting to become an aviator but his eyesight did it in. so

war the only enterprise remained afloat of our six carriers that had combat in the pacific in 1922. the only other survivor was the uss saratoga that sustained a heavy battle damage on two locations and therefore missed the entirety of that year, so considering that he wrote a 200,000 word book about the enterprise what is it that 50 years later or in some other ones, and i thank there's a couple of reasons. number one, the book is superb on the aspects of the various units that went through the air prize dealing with the entire war but he's told me in a couple of e-mails he wished he had been able to write longer book and it took him five years to read this one that would include the ship's company with the navy calls white hats, the sailors between them and the commission officers and the chief petty officers who made the ship work and consequently, i wanted to devote a good portion of my book to the enlisted who were so instrumental in the success. the other aspect is advancing scholarship apart from the fact that my book includes the design and the construction of the enterprise

the pacific force can observe the defeat. and by february the japanese are attempting their own dunkirk. they're able to evacuate the last of their start bedraggle garrison of quadalcanal. guzman, you talk to lustration victims. that was the state of the japanese infantry in quadalcanal because of the destructive force of our naval forces, its net of three said. the six month campaign of attrition is frankly ghastly. what happens to his ship but it is set like this and the men aboard that ship. it was necessary. only one way to beat the japanese was to step up and smacked in the mouth. midway with our naval air force and we did the old-fashioned way it is a story that i try to bring together comprehensively. said lee after writing -- my first book was about a single naval engagement that lasted two hours. it doesn't close for one battle. the extraordinary victory little warp. my second book was a story of one ship, the uss houston lost earlier the war. but i have tried to tackle an entire campaign that i have never understood

there is a weather system in the pacific that is getting closer to us. mainly headed this way towards the pacific northwest. we will see the possibility of a few showers coming up as we go into the day on wednesday. the best chance of showers will be in the north bay. here's a look at future cast 4. it will be partly sunny on tuesday but there rain hangs out well to the north and by wednesday, we could have a few showers in the north bay. the highs tomorrow will be really nice. temperatures will be warmer than will we have seen this weekend. it does begin to cool off for tuesday. cooler by the end of the work week it looks like the chance of rain for next week and is now out of the forecast and we could see dry weather next saturday and sunday. >>gabe: and other news i am giving away a waist pack with a hidden, built in a mobile personal security system checked the where and provide security. pull the rip cord and it will set off an alarm system included a siren and a bright flashing lights. [ teen ] times are good, aren't they, kids? it's nice having u-v

smaller one is carrying debris toward the pacific northwest, the larger one will bring debris right at the california coastline. what doesn't wash ashore will likely get caught up in a pacific garbage patch that is five times the size of texas. >> they are looking for tsunami debris that may come here. this is run by the most landing marine laboratory. >> if it floets floats, it will make it across the pacific and land up on our shore. >> and punch us in the stomachs of wildlife. >> we expected it in the next month or two. >> they are gearing up for what might be a massive cleanup. they are keeping a close eye on the california coastline. >> it's covered by the pacific ocean so it could be millions of tons of debris it's difficult to find out what it is. >> epa provided with us this video. coastguard looked for debris near midway island, they found nothing on this flight, but it highlights how difficult it will be to find huge fields of debris from the air. this was taken by the russian research boat by the hawaiian islands. this size and scope of things to come. >> large massive debri

we enhance our army and marine corps structure presence in the pacific, and we also maintain a strong presence in the middle east. third, for elsewhere in the world, and we have responsibilities elsewhere, we can't ignore europe or latin america or africa. what we have recommended is that we built innovative partnerships and strengthen key alliances and partnerships in those areas. it makes -- the strategy makes clear that even though asia pacific and the middle east represent areas of growing strategic priority, the united states will strengthen its key alliances, nato, the other alliances that we have in the pacific, build better partnerships. and one of the recommendations is to develop innovative ways such as rotational deployments using the marines, using the army, using special forces to sustain u.s. presence elsewhere in the world. fourthly, we need to insure that we can confront and defeat aggress from any adversary, any time, anywhere. we have to have the capability to defeat more than one enemy at a time. this is the 21st century. and our adversaries will come at us using 21

coast guard has opened fire on a japanese fishing boat drifting in the north pacific since last year's devastating tsunami. the coast guard is trying to sink a ship deemed a threat to navigation. they fired at the 60-meter long ship on thursday using a 25 millimeter machine gun. the ship was ripped from its moorings in the northern japanese port by tsunami. it was spotted drifting off canada's queen charlotte islands on march 20th. 50i the vessel has floated north to waters off alaska. an estimated 3 million tons of debris from the tsunami is said to be drifting east in the pacific ocean and most expected to reach the west coast of north america next year. iran's foreign minister said that his country is considering asking neighboring iraq or china to serve as the venue for the next round of nuclear negotiations. >>> talks between iran and six western countries over its nuclear program are scheduled for april 13th. the last round was held 15 months ago. an iranian proposal to hold the talks in istanbul, turkey, collapsed because of differences between the two sides over syria. iran is

in the pacific. we eventually lost the island and the bombing and the philippines and the british eventually lost, kong and singapore, so they went after midway but we didn't hold midway and then after it got to midway again in 42 but we would win the decisive battle. spec i would be glad to recognize audience questions if he would want to put your hand up at any time i will catch you otherwise we will keep on going from up here. i would like to go for a few people. what about the admiral? >> a true dictum. if he had been recently installed as the head of the pacific, and one was unaware, was getting more warnings from washington as well as the army general in charge of garrison walter short, but in the days after pearl harbor, scapegoats were friendly needed. and the blame there was calls for the congressional investigation and the media wanted to know what happened, and how did this happen, how were we caught with our pants down, and quite frankly the blame was either going to go to roosevelt or go

in the pacific. we eventually lost the island and the bombing and the philippines and the british eventually lost, kong and singapore, so they went after midway but we didn't hold midway and then after it got to midway again in 42 but we would win the decisive battle. spec i would be glad to recognize audience questions if he would want to put your hand up at any time i will catch you otherwise we will keep on going from up here. i would like to go for a few people. what about the admiral? >> a true dictum. if he had been recently installed as the head of the pacific, and one was unaware, was getting more warnings from washington as well as the army general in charge of garrison walter short, but in the days after pearl harbor, scapegoats were friendly needed. and the blame there was calls for the congressional investigation and the media wanted to know what happened, and how did this happen, how were we caught with our pants down, and quite frankly the blame was either going to go to roosevelt or go

we still see the active weather going on in the pacific northwest. lots of sunshine for the central and northern plains, as well as the southern plains. as we head over to friday when he are expecting to see is warm conditions creeping back up in to the nation's midsection. more wet the and very active weather for the northwest. rain, maybe upper elevation snow there. we will see wet conditions into the northeast as well but a lot of people will get into the field and at least get field work done. stay tuned, we will have more weather in the next half hour. . >>> i realize many of you may have just eaten but i will be bringing up a topic today that may provoke a strong visc era l reaction. i'm talking about the first day on our farm. like any start up the first day almost never proceeds according to plan but since we were starting a new planter, a new tracker and computer system all from different makers, we were prepared for a considerable effort to get going. we are facing the mother of all trouble shooting challenges, the failure. we still haven't

he is the uss enterprise, alaska in the south pacific. he's got two battleships, the washington and south dakota. these are magnificent fast battleships. the reason the old perl battle partnerships, they were prepared and modernize, the reason they're not here is fuel. they didn't have the tankers, the fuel storage to offer his carriers on a south pacific. so the auld battleship stay on the west coast. this was the cruisers, destroyers and carriers come into the new more fuel-efficient ships come into the theater. a little background there. admiral halsey has two battleships that holding close to the enterprise. as the japanese come back the night of the 15th, halsey's only choice to oppose this renewed attack, which he has detected from a research, is to release these two magnificent ships and send them into these confined waters. battleships are not supposed to fight in confined kind of island shall waters like this. these are massive ships with huge turning radius. but is the only choice that halsey has that night. he releases the washi

and by doing so, he got that toehold on the pacific northwest. by doing so, he made the united states a continental nation. and guess what? adams had read latour's report. he can give up -- he can make some concessions there because it's just a matter of time before those americans will find their way into texas and take it for themselves. well, you know, some of my distinguished fellow speakers will tell you about how that really happened. but in a nutshell, jefferson's vision is coming to reality here. and beginning in the early 1820s -- come on up, there we go. stephen f. austin, as you know, will begin leading settlers into texas. other impresarios will bring americans into texas. how quickly were they coming? well, by 1824, there were roughly 2,000. by 1830, there were 20,000, and by 1835, there were 35,000. someone has turned the spigot on and forgot to turn it off, just as jefferson and latour had prophesized. you know, jefferson was hoping 100,000. well, he was well on his way to getting that many people there. well, of course, you guys kn

then it became apparent that the new southwest pacific commander had another plan. ad meant exactly, i shall return. he was determined to carry the war to the enemy, to new guinea, which was the direct route back to the philippines. a long struggle lay ahead against huge numbers on countless islands, there seemed to be but one way, blast the enemy from every one of his islands in the pacific. victories came, knowing the area, knowing the enemy, utiz g utilzinizing all of our air and navl skill, the commander captured his plan to observe only a few key positions on their way to the philippines. now against these key positions, the pattern of attack, first heavy preparitory fire to soften up the objective. next the landing. these were very unpredictable. in each case the selection was dictated by strategy rather than by sympathetic terrain. there were many beaches, some were ideal, hardly more than a matter of getting one's feet wet. meanwhile the gain was tremendous, the enemy never pe

invasions in the southwest pacific continue. he commander, these hard fought steps were preliminaries, necessary ones. finally having gained the northwest part of the islands, with thousands of the enemy bypassed, there was tho question in his mind as to the next objective. but the president, the commander in chief, was not so sure. in a meet ng 1944, where should we duofrom here? there are many urgent military reasons for the choice presented. one less tangible reason for going into the philippines, said macarthur, on moral grounds, we have to support the filipinos, our allies and friends, the decision was made. lady gulf, lawsuit macarthur had made a survey of this area, it's potentiality and needs in case of war. now off of the star board was lady again. once more, the enemy had not been ready for an attack. the commander watched with growing gratification. americans held the beach and now on the beaches of lady, a seemingly limitless simply of men and equipment. the result of carefully laid plans. directing the attack, the ge

the situation in the asia pacific region and various and global challenges among others. were able to confirm from broader perspectives the present day significance of the japan/u.s. alliance and where the relations should be headed in the longer term. the president just now spoke about support and i would like to take this opportunity to say thank you for all the unsparing support given by government and people of the united states. starting with operation conducted by u.s. forces at the time of the great east japan earthquake of last year. yesterday, i met with the families of kaayla anderson who passed away but who took care of children until the very last moment following the great east japan earthquake. i also met with representatives of the fairfax county search and rescue team who came immediately following the earthquake, deployed in the disaster affected region to help the people. so i was able to meet myself with these true friends of japan. now i have always held the conviction that our bilateral alliance is the lynchpin of japan's diplomacy. having had convers

. >>> big waves out in the pacific the past few days. >> we've had a high surf advisory in affect. the as swells 13 to 20 feet. you don't want to be out there with waves that hey. the big wave will county for tomorrow. the high surf advisory continues interest tomorrow. the rain all out of here with the exception of a little rain up around eureka. that's it. we're going to be dry for tomorrow and for tuesday, and the winds we've had to deal with this weekend they have calmed down as well. most places showing calm winds for this evening up around 12 miles per hour for santa rosa. this is the san mateo bridge. there are still some high winds on the bridge. the advisory board there telling about that. now for this evening at midnight clear skies and the winds will continue to diminish for tomorrow morning mostly sunny skies. as we go into the afternoon things really starting to warm up. we'll begin the day with readings in the 40s most spots. there we are with the dark blue in the 40s. purple shows the 30s. coolest place necessary the upper 30s like santa rosa. things are really begin

with war looming in the pacific, washington made him an offer. would he assume command of the navy's small decrypt unit at pearl? at first he hesitated. he wasn't sure he wanted that job for all kinds of reasons that had to do with his health and the toll it took on his health in the 1920s. but the offer had come from his old mentor at the state department, his first teacher, lieutenant lawrence stafford. stafford now ran that controversial group op 20g. rochefort did take the job, but he drove a hard garon. -- bargain. he would regard the commander in chief of the pacific fleet -- this was now admiral kimmel, as his primary client. he would report his radio findings first to kimmel and only secondarily to op 20g. he thought it was very important for the intelligence officer to have a direct relationship with the fleet commander. this reporting relationship worked fine as long as stafford was in charge of op 20g. that changed after the disaster on december 7, 1941. a new commander at the u.s. fleet, err necessary king -- ernest king, thought the c

expanding its power outside to that is to fix the problem is that you extend itself outside to the pacific you need to bypass of taiwan and the philippines and as we know i want in the philippines are very strong u.s. allies and so beijing is always concerned about u.s. military exercises with the philippines and taiwan. a complex situation as you know as you say then there's been a week long deadlock between the philippine and chinese vessels in the south china sea and both sides seem determined to stick it out so what's the endgame here what's going to happen. well we have understand that for the past few years there's been a lot of kenshin in the south twenty china sea in fact a lot of experts feel that the world's next conflict will happen in the south china sea just because there's so much conflict in that region. a very important region called a strait of malacca is located in sub sub trying to see and that's where a lot of the world trade gold goes go go go through solar stuff try to see it's a very strategic and a very volatile place so it's not a truly actually for china and the p

rain with this is pushing this away into the pacific northwest. although we will start to see some increasing high clouds from the system for tomorrow afternoon. here is midnight tonight and we have low clouds spilling into the bay for this evening. so by the time we get into tomorrow morning around 6:00, 7:00, look for some patchy low clouds inside the bay at the coast, and maybe even sneaking in towards livermore and into some of the inland valleys. that should clear back quickly by9:00 a.m. and see sunshine. now for the giant's game tomorrow, pirates in town once again. and we'll see temperatures in the 50s and the 60s for the afternoon with a mixture of sunshine and clouds. for tomorrow morning, temperatures in the 40s for santa rosa, napa, vallejo and concord. for the afternoon, highs warmer than what we saw today. san josi close to 70, should be a nice day and as we look at seven-day around the bay, you will notice that dry weather is the theme here as we go through the next seven days. monday a little warmer. now there could be a couple of s

it would then tracked for 4,500 miles across the pacific. it's the journey's end is canada's islands. it will not be the last piece of some americans to make the journey appeared as much as 5 million tons of debris have been estimated to wash out to sea. , the united states coast guard say they have no choice but to sink the ship. there are fears that it could still have these long board. the coast guard says that the threat of pollution is minimal because in the fuel would quickly disperse. it should take about an hour for the ship to disappear. >> petty officer says that the ship is still afloat. >> the vessel is currently located about 195 miles from the town of sitka, alaska. it is well offshore pick our operations to sink it commenced about 1:00 p.m. local here in alaska. we're continuing to work on sinking the vessel. it is on fire and is taking on water. but it has not completely solved. >> before it undertook this operation, did you ask the permission of the japanese ship owner if you could undertake this operation? >> we were in touc

it drifted across the pacific. it will not be the last piece of tsunami wreckage to make the journey. 5 million tons of debris is estimated to have washed out to sea. much of it is expected to head for the north american coast. the united states coastguard say they have no choice. it has no lights or communication systems. there are fears it could still have diesel on board. the effect of pollution is minimal. and the fuel would quickly dissipate. >> for more on that, i am joined by petty officer from the u.s. coast guard and alaska. thank you for joining us. which meant it did the u.s. coast guard used to sink this -- which method did the u.s. coast guard used to sink this method? >> we utilize a high-powered cannon to puncture holes and cause it to take on water and sank. -- sink. >> did the u.s. coast guard seek the permission of the japanese government and the japanese ship and air before it a bit of this operation? -- ship owner before it took on this operation? >> we did contact them. there was no interest. at

. >> woodruff: from the pacific northwest, tom bearden reports on efforts to ready the region for the next big earthquake. >> on the average, they occur about every 300 years. the last one was 312 years ago. >> do the math. >> exactly.

now with a chance to win the pacific division. y coupled with a loss by the phoenix coyotes would make the start, and the number three seed in the western conference. a preview of this huge season finale. >> well, tonight's still at hp pavilion will ultimately help decide where the sharks finish in the regular season standings. but more than that for san jose, it is the opportunity to end the season, having won the team's last four straight, and get some momentum heading into the postseason. the main concern is that the team does not have a collective sigh of relief. >> that's not what we're here for. we've got to play and we've got to play hard. set this up for whatever the adventure. we have going forward is. and we want to play hard, we want to play well. >> it's all about peaking at the right time. we had our ups and downs and i think, you know, when we needed the win we did. and that says a lot about our team. >> i think we were expecting to upgrade at the right time of the year. you know, we minimize the things that have been

in the pacific. not as an officer, but quietly as a civilian. so he got back in the war somehow, but roosevelt did not want him in publicly. >> yes, sir? >> according to my recollection, the american intelligence agencies had an idea that pearl harbor was going to happen -- >> yes, there were stories after pearl harbor that we knew pearl harbor was going to happen and we were unprepared for that we wanted it to happen so we could get in the war somehow. none of it is really true. president roosevelt, quite literally, wanted to get into the war to help britain. he sent out destroyers to convoy british ships to britain, hoping they would be attacked by the germans so that he had an excuse to go to war. but even though a couple of our destroyers were sunk and others damaged and sailors killed, that didn't seem to be enough of a probe -- it took the attack on pearl harbor to do it. do we know about the attack on pearl harbor? no, we did not. we did not think the japanese could possibly have traveled that

military on the asia pacific and consistent with that strategy, the defense department has been working to realign u.s. military forced in countries like south korea and japan, and also plans to position navy and marine corps forces further to the south in countries like australia, singapore, and possibly others. as we rebalance and realign our presence in the asia pacific, it is important that we not only get strategy right but also get sustainability right. this is particularly true for the marine corps. with respect to the realignment of the u.s. marines on oakkinao we have advocated changes to the current plan in ways that support the strategic goals of the u.s. military posture in the region while also accounted for the fiscal, political, and diplomatic realities associated with long-term sustainability. last month, the u.s. and japan announced that they intend to amend certain elements of the plan, including the delinking of the movement of marines off okinawa from the progress on the replacement facility, and adjusting the unit composition and a number of marines that will move t

another system moving into the pacific northwest. ies. 60s and 70s, even new orleans pushing 90 degrees. same story in florida, another warm day. cooler in the northeast. friday, that next system pushing into the northern plains and the system that brought that severe weather to texas earlier in the week and the south will be pushing off to the southeast and off the atlantic coastline by friday. and then this weekend we're going to be seeing improvements for a few places. temperatures in the 60s, 70s and 80s from the canadian board tore the gulf coast. cooler in the pacific northwest. here's that next system on saturday, pushing in. we'll see things cool off now by saturday. boston, high of only 49. chance for a few storms around texas on sunday. around the great lakes, mainly the southern portion of the great lakes, best chance for showers and moving into the north lakes, as well. monday, another system in the pacific northwest, the eastern lakes and northern portion of the lower peninsula of michigan will have a chance for showers a

another system starting to show itself in the pacific northwest with rain and mountain snow. first trough moves to the eastern parts of the country in it wednesday that. will move off shore. still good rain on wednesday as we head through the northeast. scattered showers and thunderstorms along the cold front into florida. the southeast can use the rain as well as severe drought in parts of that area. we will start to see moisture with a zonal flow with the jet stream. little ripples from west it east through thursday and into friday. each of those will bring a chance for rain and possible thunderstorm as well, and on friday you can see that will happen in the northeast, great lakes, down in to the missouri valley, central mississippi valley and then out west we will see the next system with rain in mountain snows as well. far as temperatures for next week this would take us almost to the end of april, above normal for the southeast. west texas, western plains, below normal for maine, near normal for much of the corn belt as far as temperatures are expected to be and below no

as part of the talks, they are considering holding joint military drills in the west pacific. the officials say u.s. troops and japan's self-defense forces could conduct the drills on one of the northern mariana islanding. the japanese are considering help pay for the new facilities. they agreed to transfer the marines first. three-quarters of u.s. forces stationed in japan are based in the southern prefecture. japanese government officials are studying a u.s. request to raise japan's share of the costs for the transfer to more than $3 billion. >>> japan's trade balance in march went into the red again after february data snapped four straight months of deficits. the finance ministry said in its preliminary report on thursday that japan's trade deficit was about $1 billion last month. this led to a record trade deficit in the fiscal year that ended in march. it hit a historical high of $54 billion. exports are up for the first time in six months. that's nearly a 6% rise from a year earlier in yen terms and mainly due to an increase in shipments of autos and auto motive parts. i

the kings and coyotes are tied for the lead in the pacific division. ere are still plenty of hockey left. >>> of total the same thing this time to move on, people wonder what is a talking about you can't get too high or get too low, 6 points are real important it is time to move on. >>> time to move on to the playoffs. that division is so tight, i think the sharks can pull it off. >>> fans are holding their breath. >>> were so used to and getting in 14 playoff appearances it is every year you expect would be when the playoffs, it may not this year. >>> a helicopter hovering over a is stricken yacht on his way to oakland tonight the latest on the costars attempt to rescue the crew. dramatic video and of a school bus drivers decision about what to do with the kids and were the bus and up. that at tonight at 10 @ does it who made an unexpected arrival. [ woman ] he was 4 months early, weighing 1 pound, 12 ounces. [ female announcer ] fortunately, sam was born at sutter health's alta bates summit medical center. [ woman ] the staff was remarkable. they made

firefighters suffered minor burns from the blast. >>> also in california, a grim and unusual sight over the pacific ocean. a salvage helicopter carried the wreckage of a yacht back to shore after a deadly accident there earlier this month. one person was killed, four others are missing and presumed dead after the yacht was hit by large waves and crashed into the rock rocks near san francisco. >>> snow came to rest on rochester, new york. one part of pennsylvania reported nearly 2 feet of snowfall. >>> and finally where else but the florida keys would you find a giant key lime pie. almost looks like a pizza, doesn't it? it's seven feet wide. uses more than 7,000 key limes and 20 pounds of dough. it was made in honor of the 30th anniversary of the tongue in cheek effort to secede from the u.s. now for a look at the weather, here is bill karins. also a fan of key lime pie i've learned. >> a little scoop of vanilla on the side and we're all set. >> it's only 4:00 in the morning. >> it's called breakfast. >> breakfast of champions. >>> temperatures continue to be the story in the west. more record highs

but after four hours, the u.s. pacific tsunami warning center has lifted all tsunami watches related to it. the u.s. geological survey said the quake struck at 8:38 utc on wednesday at a depth of 23 kilometers off aceh sumatra. the tsunami watch covered a large area of the indian ocean. strong jolts continued for several minutes and were similar to the earthquake that hit the area in 2004. another resident who lives in in northern sumatra said people evacuated to higher ground. some towns are back to normal and a number of shops have resumed operations. >>> more updates coming up in 30 minutes. i'm gene otani in tokyo.

why the asia pacific nations a siding with the u.s. and not with china. it's a case of realpolitik and i think that there are certain governments that believe that they can they can benefit from this and they're likely to side with whoever is going to be. seems to be is going to be eventual winner in this type of confrontation so obviously at this stage america has a clear superiority when it comes to conventional naval assets for example little on cyber weapons and all of the other tools of warfare that are being deployed an unmanned aerial vehicles so i think the u.s. is going to be obviously dominant player here and that a lot of governments will she cute with the devil as it were even if they don't agree with all of the u.s. policies they'll certainly go along with it in order to get facts on the diplomatic side of. this is our team from moscow coming to you live my name's kevin hague's rejection of palestinian requests to investigate alleged israeli war crimes on their territory sowing doubt over the course impartiality now we've got more on that com

here in the pacific northwest over towards the west, precipitation will be triggering more further floodingrthern california as well as oregon region. talking about temperatures, new york seeing 19 degrees as well as tokyo. so same there. and lots of sunshine for you out there as well. oklahoma city, 22 degrees. and reaching up to 15 in denver, compared to what we saw yesterday, which was just 6 degrees. denver is on a roller coaster ride temperaturewise. i'll leave you now for your extended forecast. >>> finally, we've got more proof that what's old can be new again. a japanese singer who topped the domestic charts in the '60s and '70s is popular once again. he collaborated with a american group and won a prestigious prize. yuki received an award in tokyo, and made her latest album in 1969 with u.s. jazz group pink martini. she sings japanese hits from that year. it was a surprise hit in 2011 in the u.s. and europe. that allowed yuki to hold concerts in new york and london. >> translator: i want to remind people of our music in japan. i am very happy to receive this award. ♪ >>> we'll be b

marines have arrived in australia as america boost its military presence in the asia pacific region more than two thousand personnel are said to be deployed there over the next few years and it adds to america's military footprint in such countries as the philippines and singapore all in china's backyard is one of poor guys got the latest on this from new york. but total of twenty five hundred american troops are expected to arrive. by twenty sixteen this part of a bilateral defense agreement of the two countries and now. part of that agreement also includes an increased presence of u.s. warships and military aircraft including the fifty two bombers to operate from australia's bases but of course this is part of a bigger plan that u.s. president barack obama announced in january in which he said the u.s. has a new strategy of pivoting its defense to the asia pacific mr obama said the plan is aimed at countering china's growing military and economic influence he also said it would also counter potential attempts by beijing to block u.s. capabilities and areas such as the south china china

two months ago neely took a 17-day junket to the pacific. and in an e-mail to his wife said, guess this will be your birthday present. and last month he was part of an executive team meeting in napa, california. cost the taxpayers $40,000. >> you have to go to the wine region. >> reporter: inspector general brian miller, whose report triggered this scandal, suggests abuses at gsa are pervasive. >> we turned over every stone, and every time we turned over a stone, we found 50 more, with

may deploy a royal submarine to the asia pacific waters and as you probably know in recent months the u.k. has been making massive slashes to its military budget do you think it can truly afford to dispatch one of its most powerful submarines all the way to the asia pacific. well that question implies that dispatching a submarine tunisia because of it would be would be a drain on the reserves is rather than a way of trying to in a way put it puts some sort of commercial some sort of advertisement out there for the royal navy and the need to to expand these so it might be a ploy on the governments we have to try to show that there is some sort of need to perpetuate the rule you need to increase the funding for it well so i should know their budgets and so i mean it in a certain sense it might be a token pure operation but of course we'll have to see how that really plays out and whether or not they even decide to commit that summary james corbett editor of the independent news website the corporate report thanks for coming on r.t. . once a death row inmate now is spending life behind b

it was battered by big waves in the pacific ocean during and around the world race. two members are being treated for injuries. the boat arrived early this morning to oakland. more presidential primaries today. polls suggest that mitt romney will be pricks santorum during the republican primaries in wisconsin, md., and the district of columbia. how about whether? >> some changes in the bay area, a very nice afternoon yesterday but things changing now as a cold front works its way into town. a lot of high clouds streaming across the skies and by the afternoon to pick up some raindrops. the best chance in the north bay that will increase into the afternoon and evening hours. it will be breezy was a chance of some light showers as we had throughout the night tonight. still a cold front originating in the gulf of alaska. we're catching the trailing edge in the south part of the funds and not a whole lot of language is one. here is your cold fronts making its way into the bay area as we head into the middle of the day may be some light showers showing up in the north bay

he thinks they can't protect the pacification efforts. what you'll get out of this is a decision once again by the north to go to phase iii. and he wants to launch these coordinated attacks all across south vietnam. now, when he comes up with this plan, what becomes known as the tete offensive. his idea, his push for this offensive becomes what will drive the next element of north vietnamese strategy. the north decides they're going to launch a massive offensive tied with massive uprisings all across south vietnam. they're going to do this at the beginning of the vietnamese new year at tet. they decided that now is the time to do this. they could defeat the u.s. militarily. and they would do this during a u.s. presidential campaign, and this would force the u.s. out of south vietnam. now, mao tse-tung, they talked to mao and the chinese. mao is very supportive of their doing this. and he believed just like ho did that the u.s. would be defeated here and that the u.s. would be forced to withdraw. now, the plan for doing this is pro-pronged.

and the kings in the pacific bell began saturday night in the final game of the regular season. opening round master's took phil mickelson is all the 10. that two shot lead says that we in the masters was four shots off. tiger woods is a birdie at get mad sealed. anyway he bogeyed 17 and 18 to tie it said tiger is even par. >>> is the best player to carted in opening round 67 and here's a look at how the big names faired west that was what has the lead to even parmesan rally and can best it would be devastated if he knew he was doing is live show on cbs five. it's not the case for lead the magic had coach. did we its public to write down at the home and finds of the do. and number for the tigers signs bruce decided to move this guy at the third questions about his defense not today. the blue jays: erasmus' robs jack can the longest opening day gain in history. they think he's got to sell the base hit. did we look at the dodgers' shortstop. and guess who's letting it? $2 billion mass. >>> bill murray throughout the first digit railey field but that wasn't enough. he wanted to run

cotrs,il wknegnal adnd veme res mangithviewo building the free trade area of asia pacific. om this vantage point as well we shall advantage with the view to participating in the transpacific partnership negotiations. the shared vision also calls for the strengthening of energy cooperation as we discussed in e chamg uthhrgh chenavrs a the u.s. initiative. japan/u.s. alliance has reached new heights. together with president obama, i shall firmly advance these steps. m etrblou.co ine disdeed chen guangcheng, would the united states grant him asylum? and prime minister noda, how would japan respond to a nuclear test and what would you like the u.s. to do to respond? >> obviously, i'm aware of the press reports on the situation in china. but i'm s hits meu i o bli tt n oly ttheig thin to do because it comports with our principles and our belief in freedom and human rights. but also because we actually think china will be stronger as it opens up and liberalizes its own system. we want china to be strongtga b retish wl tat mh rongerndhi wl th mu me prosrous and strong. as you see i

when the chief of staff visited the pacific theatre on his return from tehran, our offensive was gainingisland by island, we were moving in on japan. at good enough island in 1944, marshall listened to a firsthand report on the successful operations in the gilbert islands and the planned invasion of the marshalls. marshall conferred with general douglas macarthur, theater commander, as the allies were gearing up for the big pacific push that would carry them to the doorstep of japan. italy had become a slow and painful struggle. the road to rome was a long one, and for marshall and his wife, one of extreme personal anxiety. as a tank commander under patton, marshall's stepson had been engaged in the heaviest fighting in weeks. when the americans finally broke through the lines of a stubborn enemy, the young officer fought his last fight. for general marshall, the war it turned into a personal tragedy. when the spring of 1944 brought the long planned invasion of france, marshall accompanied general eisenhower and other high ranking office ears shore for inspection of the american position

clear skies over the west coast, but we have a storm out here over the pacific. there it is, spinning around. it's really not going much of anywhere. and over the next few days and it's going to slowly make its way to the west coast, towards the bay area. by i think wednesday night and thursday we'll see the chance of rain here and in the meantime look for temperatures to continue to cool down. for tomorrow not as warm. 91 in san josi, but tomorrow look for a high of 7 degrees. fog in the morning and late morning and into the afternoon, 76 redwood city. east bay, low to mid-80s, 84 antioch, livermore, san leandro, 72 degrees. for san francisco, upper 60s, but all in all this is really nice weather. gray in the morning and sun in the afternoon and temperatures in the mid-70s for novato. temperatures continue to drop as we go into monday. look for low 70s with 60s bayside. a lot of morning fog and drizzle. chance for light rain beginning wednesday night. and it could be a rainy day on thursday as a storm system off the pacific comes in, along with cooler temperature

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in the asia pacific, we have about 50 ships supported by our base on guam, and our facilities or placesin singapore, the republic of korea and japan. they will be joined next spring by the first literal combat ship the freedom which will deploy for several months to find the concepts with the stationing of a combat ship. the less learned will help stabilize design and understand better the operational concepts of the mission packages. we're also collaborating with the marine corps to determine the support and the lift they need in order to support rotational deployments to australia. in the indian ocean, we depend on diego garcia and the air field there for logistic support. around the horn of africa, we depend on the air field to spoers the forces depending counterterrorism. in europe, we rely on places in europe and greece in support of the nato allis, and our own air atmosphere, guantanamo bay will become more important as traffic through the crossroad increases. when i assume the watch as the chief of naval operations i established three key tenants. they're the clee direction for t

. >> the search continues for the four missing sailors in the pacific ocean. we're looking live from yerba buena island. the coast guard managed to pull three people to safety. and this video was shot on saturday. search crews also found the body of one man whose body was pulled from the water on saturday. >> three people on board were members of that club. a spokesperson says he will be greatly missed. >> he loved the water. he was a great guy. >> the flag flies at half mast. >> this is a significant event. we have never experienced anything like this in our club. it is a real tragedy. we are all still grieving and waiting, hoping that something changes, right now it is very somber. >> this was a very tragic accident. the details of the tragedy will be learned of moving forward the we're focusing on a rescue efforts. >> this video shows search and rescue crews hovering above the pacific ocean about 45 mi. west of the san francisco bay. >> they will run a certain pattern and maximize the chances that there will be able to locate the object. >> over time and bas

plus american and philippine forces are flexing their muscles in the pacific and joint military exercises as troops march in lockstep we'll tell you who they're arming themselves against and what it could mean for the region. it's thursday april twenty sixth five pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our t.v. . well congress today set to debate a highly controversial cybersecurity bill known as this but critics say the cyber intelligence sharing and protection act allows companies to give private customer information so the government this includes the national security agency the f.b.i. and the department of homeland security a massachusetts congressman became worked up today on the floor over the proposed law. well let's talk about what this bill would do good company share personal information about consumers with other companies even if information had nothing to do with cybersecurity yes would companies be free from y. ability if they share that personal information of every american you know could the government use personal information despoja on americans yes