the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. officialormer pentagonspeaking out for the first time in this broadcast exclusive. john crane, former senior official at the news -- pentagon revealed major privacy and , security lapses within the government's whistleblower program. for 25 years he worked for the department of defense inspector general's office, which helps federal employees expose abuse and corruption. and we're joined by mark hertsgaard, who tells crane's a story in "bravehearts: whistle-blowing in the age of snowden." john crane, you were ever 25 years. you're not working there anymore. >> i was summit into ms. hal lbrook's office and walked out of the building. the pentagon inspector general building. it was not a surprising occurrence. amy: when was this? >> in february 2013. that since i was responsible for the overall whistleblower program, that within the inspector general's office, we had various whistleblowers stepping forward. and they hadad concerns regardig the audit function. they had concerns the way we investigated reprisal

this is the bill that projects pentagon's programs for the coming fiscal year. what stood out in your mind in in this the items authorization bill. guest: every year, this has a ot of different procedures and policies in it that are of importance. this is the second year where is real headline on it exactly how they're funding the measure. it's another controversy over this. the white house has issued a veto threat saying, look, you're going beyond the budget caps and we got the agreement last fall. basically what we got it down to aside about 18et billion of the temporary war funding, of the contingency funding, and put that back in the base budget. what the white house is saying is, look, that's not the deal. we have that separate. you're not supposed to use that money that way. what republicans are saying is, look, this is a readiness issue. we've got to get the money in up our end o plus strength, got to better fund troops and equipment and if we don't put the money in, it will cause bigger problems down the road. out the difference in between the house vers

the pentagon tactics for promoting innovation and figured how to soldiersocial media to and make money in the process. welcome to defense news. aitoro.l here is a look at the top headlines. turkey's prime minister resigned and a successor is expected to be named this month. he resignation amid-rising tension with the e.u. and ongoing disagreements between the prime minister and turkey president. lockheed martin continues to nuclear the portable fusion generator. rob weiss announced they are four months into more significant investment. megawatt r a 100 device to fit on the back of large truck and power city up to 100,000 people. a coalition of countries attling the islamic state in syria and iraq pledge to pour more resources into the fight. defense secretary ash carter met with the defense islamics from the jantz state coalition. he drove home the mission all deviate ore to hope to jihadists. here is the senior fellow from he foundation of defense democracy. thank you for joining us. let's start with kinds of a bit a general question. pentagon's up the strategy thus far? >> it is an a

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david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >> ninan: that's the cbs weekend news for tonight.e news continues now on our 24-hour digital network cbsn. i'm reena ninan in new york. for all of us from cbs news, thank you for joining us and good night. >> announcer: the following program is sponsored by operation smile. every year, hundreds of thousands of children are born with cleft lip and or cleft palate. >> dr. bill magee: why should any child, anywhere on this planet, have to live a life of misery. >> kathy majette: a lot of people think that children that are born with these deformities are cursed. just imagine a life alone, that nobody wanted to be around you. >> norrie oelkers: and we had children coming in for screening with brown bags over their head. they're never allowed to leave their house unless they have a bag on their heads. >> kathy majette: some children don't live, because they have problems with eating, and drinking, and die of malnutrition. >> mel: and they see us as their last resort. >> dr. jill gora: every child deserves a fair chance at life, >> peggy s

debate how this sets up on the actual spending measure for the pentagon. guest: in the house, we had the defense appropriations committee pass their version this week following the same sort of guidelines. the house is together on how they want to fund things. we will use the temporary money to supplement the base and make sure we have enough. the senate takes up its bill next week. one of the senate committees will take up the defense bill. they have said we will stay within the budget caps. senator mccain said he will go to the floor and argue that needs to be a $17 billion plus on the floor. all this goes back to the issue of the 2011 budget control act, sequestration, spending caps, and the fact congress has not been able to find a way to get around that and find a long-term fix. we have seen short-term deals. when democrats and the white house are pointing out is if they go ahead with this house spending plan, next year when the budget caps go back into effect, we will see defense spending come down and there will be a giant cliff the military falls of

that is some bullllll, oh, maurice, are you a god send, unlike those dick nozzles at the pentagon. 's a tip, pentagon, when your decision makers decide to mislead congress on how good they are in making decisions, maybe they shouldn't be the ones making decisions! now i get it. the military wants control over these cases as much as beyonce wanted control over lemonade. except in beyonce's case, the only things that were assaulted were those cars. damn, bey, they couldn't have all belonged to jay-z. (laughter) if you need any more proof that sexual assault should be taken out of the chain of command, take a look at the numbers. >> in 2012 an estimated 26000 service members experienced sexual assault. out of all those, only 3,374 were reported. a big reason for that, according to gill i grant is-- gillibrand is the chain of command. >> what? no, no no! oh, oh, not you, maurice. no, your fingers are like the healing butter on the warm sponge cake of my back. i mean those stats. those stats are worse than roose bolton's chances of sitting on the iron throne. seriously, he ain't waking u

david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >> ninan: that's the cbs weekend news for tonight.news continues now on our 24-hour digital network cbsn. i'm reena ninan in new york. for all of us from cbs news, thank you for joining us and good night. >> announcer: the following program is sponsored by operation smile. every three minutes, a child is born with cleft lip or cleft palate. in many countries, they can't get the surgery they need. >> interpreter: i feel bad when they stare at her. they say, "look how ugly she is." i feel very happy. i don't know how to explain it. she s >> interpreter: he gets upset when he drinks because it falls out of his mouth. before, he looked so different, but now he looks good, and that makes me happy. he's very handsome now. >> interpreter: people say he was born like a monster. we have prayed for this moment to happen. he's gorgeous, precious - very precious. no one is going to recognize him at home. ♪ >> imagine if your child were born with a cleft lip or cleft palate and you were too poor to afford the surgery to repair it. you'd feel helpl

so the pentagon challenged hackers to assault its cyber security system. the experiment ended today. here's david martin with the revenge of the nerds. >> reporter: walking the halls of the pentagon in his hoodie, chris lynch has been mistaken for a repairman, as in "how long will it take you to fix my phone?" >> this is the weirdest moment of my life. i never thought i'd show up in government. i never thought that i'd be working at the pentagon. >> reporter: a software entrepreneur from seattle, lynch was brought in by defense secretary carter to head a new office called the defense digital service. >> the title on the door says "rebel alliance." >> i like to say that the rebel alliance is anybody who wants to be part of working around and changing the bureaucracy. and i believe that is our mission. if we don't i don't know who else will. wars," this rebel alliance, actually a staff of 12, is out to do battle with a mighty empire -- the old and slow pentagon bureaucracy. >> we're kind of a s.w.a.t. team for nerds. >> bureaucracy busters. >> yeah, we have a

hernandez a lead explosive investigator for the pentagon took his own life last month. his colleagues say it happened after the 25% hazardous pay was suddenlyue and unexpectedly taken away in january of 2015. >> reason was because she was the first person i hired. when he came over. he told a couple of his friendsh to come over to work, which very good individuals. they also, some of the peoplepl law enforcement he felt guilty i because he convinced friends to come over now they're having financial problems. >> reporter: for the past 18 18 months the team has been fighting the pay cut that began because of a complaint of and employee of another division ofa the pentagon protection agency.o washington head quarter servicer then decided the hazardous payus was a mistake. even though the pay bump wasump used to recruit the employees. >> letter 25%. >> reporter: fernando the fathef of two whoer took his own life would have had to pay back a some in the neighborhood of 140 thousand dollars according to to his boss. coleman asked that the pentagonn bomb squad is anticipating a

david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >> ninan: and that's the "cbs weekend news" for tonight.e news continues now on our 24-hour digital network cbsn. that's www.cbsnews.com. i'm reena ninan in new york. from all of us at cbs news, thank you for joining us, and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org bees on the attack in one b area city. they've already killed two dogs. they even went after our own reporter. >>> new at clock bees on the attack in one bay area city. they have they are already killed two dogs and gone after our own reporter. >> we'll show you where they're swarming. >> san francisco's brace -- how the city is bracing for "bay to breakers." >> what i learned in life. >> today i'm going to try to tell you what i learned in death. >> a moving commencement at cal as facebook's employee turns a loss into something else. >> it's like a scene from the birds except it's the bees. aggressive bees are on the attack in an east bay neighborhood stinging people, killing animals. the problem is so bad, even the police a

the pentagon. eral probably expecting delays and closures around 66 and 495 as well. and now to top it year event organizers invited donald trump. he's expectsed to speak out here at 2 p.m. so there is a concern that could cause even larger crowds than normal and also additional traffic. now these demonstration ride for freedom kicks off at noon from the pentagon. riders will ride across the memorial bridge and through the national mall and timely ending up at west potomac park where they will pay tribute to fallen military members. >> you know it's kind of a special year for us. ape he's been coming since he began united states marine corps and i was in the army and my kid in the air force and navy we're all veterans. and you know it's part of hono honoring ou >> and so we've been catching up and talking to people who are out here for the event today and many of them fell us they're here from around the country and sharing personal and touching stories of why they're out here riding in this rally t

marine helped save victims of the 9/11 attack on the pentagon and was hurt so badly that doctors had amputate her own leg. and she's just won a whole bunch of medals at the invictus games for wounded warriors. she'll be with us live next. but first a reminder about megyn kelly's must-see interview. she sits down with donald trump and others. it's on the fox broadcast network tonight. i said 9:00 eastern 8:00 central. that's not right. it's 8:00 eastern 7:00 central. check your local tv listings for the fox broadcast network. then complete primary coverage and here on fox news channel on satellite and cable. it's an all-fox night. two channels, two sets of trump. and megyn starts us off. [phone buzzing] [engine revving] [engine revving] [phone buzzing] ♪ some things are simply impossible to ignore. the strikingly designed lexus nx turbo and hybrid. the suv that dares to go beyond utility. this is the pursuit of perfection. >>> some people nobody can stop. they will not let the odds stand against them. and in a moment i'm going to introduce you to one such woman. her name is sarah rudde

the pentagon challenged a group of hackers to find out. walking the halls of the pentagon in his hoody, chris lynch has been mistaken for a repair man. as in how long will it take to fix my phone. >> this is the weirdest moment of my life. never thought i would show up in government or working at the pentagon. >> lynch was brought in by defense secretary carter to head a new office called the defense digital service. >> title on the door says rebel alliance. >> i would look to say the rebel alliance is anybody who wants to be part of working around and changing the bureaucracy. and i believe that is our mission. if we don't, i don't know who else will. >> just as in star wars, this rebel alliance, actually a staff of 12, is out to do battle with a mighty empire. the old and slow pentagon bureaucracy. awe kind of a swat team for nerd. >> bureaucracy busters. >> yeah, we have a type of person, one of our -- skill sets that we hire is actually a bureaucracy hacker. >> lynch's first project was hack the pentagon. pay a bounty off to an one who

we've just learned from the pentagon the u.s.argeted taliban leader in a remote area of the afghanistan-pakistan border. to be clear here, the pentagon says they are still assessing the results of this strike, which is to say they have not confirmed that he's, indeed, dead, but they conducted a strike, and he was the target. this is a story we're going to continue to follow throughout the afternoon. we'll be right back app this break. hmmmmmm..... [ "dreams" by beck ] hmmmmm... hmmmmm... the turbocharged dream machine. the volkswagen golf gti. part of the award-winning golf family. a perfect car then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you should have done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. just one of the many features that comes standard with our base policy. call for a free quote today. see car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance. are those made with all-beef, karen? yeah, they're

. >>> in last night's stanley cup playoff, bill, the pentagon -- the penguins -- [ laughter ] -- theenguins survive a pair of goals scored by the caps in the third period. beating washington 3-2 for the one-game advantage after -- >> rename them the pentagons. >> the capitals, kind of lame. the pentagons -- >> look, i'm a political guy. i see pen and i think of pentagon. >> the quiver was great. >> and the poor caps. >> now for the weather. >> did you get caught in the storms in d.c.? >> no. i didn't. >> you escaped just in time. this was in potomac, maryland, there were 112 reports of large hail in the region. we had the severe storms yesterday. not too much damage. i'm sure a couple of vehicles with dents in them. as we go throughout the morning, no longer dealing with severe storms. although there's some lightning here. a gloomy morning right down from new york city and philadelphia and d.c. a lot of light rain. the roads will have water on them. the morning will get better as we go. then the afternoon ride home should be dry. a region of concern, 9 million people at risk of sever

and in this particular time frame has become a religion. >> brangham: in the past, the pentagon said that the impact of letting gays and lesbians serve openly has been" negligible." they have not yet studied the impact of transgender service members. but anderson also says that transgender service members present logistical challenges. >> will there be a requirement for a third bathing and sanitary facility aboard submarines, on fire bases and so forth? >> we got stalls. we're mature enough to not-- you know, you shut the door, everybody knows, it's not like there's any secret to what going on when you walk into the bathroom. >> brangham: according to the palm center, 18 countries, including canada, the u.k. and other nato allies have allowed transgender soldiers to serve. and tannehil says there's no evidence those militaries suffered any problems or setbacks. >> they've dealt with all the same issues that the d.o.d. is looking at and they dealt with them 15, 16 to 20 years ago, including facilities, including medical care, including non discrimination and anti- harassment poli

a wave of hundreds of thousands of bikes rumbling from the pentagon to the national mall.t is the 29th year for the event to make sure our prisoners of war and those missing in action are always remembered. now it honors all who defend our country in this election year. the rally is taking on a bit of a political tone. donald trump is set to address the crowd in about an hour. we'll bring you trump's remarks live right here. >>> this weekend americans from every state in the union are honoring the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice. in new york sail hers are celebrating fleet week. a wave of ships sailed into new york harbor for days of events. they can take a bite out of the big apple, but it's also a chance for new yorkers to get a personal tour of some of the navy's ships. >>> tonight live from the west lawn of the u.s. capitol, it is national memorial day concert. coming up in a bit, one of the hosts, gary sinise, who has long supported the troops, will join us. >>> as trump speaks to rolling thunder, much attention will be paid to his tone. despite be

roger goodell acknowledging teams were paid large promotional fees by the pentagon. n $700,000 in taxpayer money, for what were billed as purely patriotic displays. the nfl now returning the money. abc news first reported on the contracts in november, also in several professional sports leagues as well. >>> a golf star in the deep rough tonight, facing insider trading allegations. the s.e.c. alleging that golfer phil mickelson, nicknamed lefty, made nearly $1 million using inside information about a dairy stock deal. mickelson's attorney saying in a statement the golfer has reached an agreement with the s.e.c. and will now repay the money. >>> and to the close encounter one scuba diver will never forget. nor will we. off the coast of florida, his boat had drifted miles away. he blew a whistle to signal for help. when he went back under, two sharks circling him. clearly not alone. another boat picking him up, and he was later reunited with his family. the smile returning to his face a little sooner than it would for the rest of us. >>> when we come back, "america stron

david martin reports from the pentagon. >> reporter: if ever there was a bittersweet moment, this is it. after 16 years of heartbreak and anger, two marine widows and their families met with the deputy secretary of defense to hear their late husbands' cleared of blame for a deadly crash. brooke gruber was eight months had when it happened and has grown up with the shadow hanging over her father. k at would your friends ask you? >> "did your father cause the crash, since he was the pilot?" o d i would have to say, "of course not." >> reporter: in april of 2000, a v-22 marine tilt-rotor osprey crashed during a night landing in arizona. the horrific fireball was ocorded by a camera on a second v-22. >> crash! crash! crash! crash! >> reporter: the two pilots lieutenant colonel john brow and major brooks gruber were killed instantly, along with 17 other marines. >> they're dead, aren't they? >> yes. >> reporter: announcing the findings of the accident tvestigation, this marine corps press release stated the fatal bctor was brow and gruber's decision to complete that night's mission by atte

the pentagon bomb squad is is anticipating a 30 day final notice. if the money isn't paid back in full after that they are threatening to deduct it from paycheck with interest. i >> close to 177 thousand dollars, tell you right now i don't have. >> reporter: pentagon did send d response that said in part there had previously been an administrative error the pay was authorized. this was through no fault of the employees involved and theyhe could not have known it was a paid error. the decision resulted in the loss # loss hof hazardous duty h pay and also required a r collection notice. not self members of the bomb under condition of anime mat they are very stressed over this issue, they also told me that hernandez death benefits are being withheld from his family until this situations figured out about whether or not they will have to be responsible forb paying back years of work of incorrect pay.t report tipping live in arlington alexandria limon fox 5 local news. >> new tonight a fire on a railroad bridge bringing all rail traffic to a halt.ff it ha

drone first reported in "the daily beast" is being played down a little bit here at the pentagon. ey tell us the u.s. military is not tracking the drone and would suggest it poses no escalated risk beyond what is ordinary and they add that the chinese routinely fly drones near u.s. ships. according to one defense official here they look a lot like ours. this one is called a ch-4 and looks a lot like the american reaper drone. it's probably a copy. it can be armed with weapons. the reported buzzing incident by chinese fighters of an orion plane is being played down at the pentagon. while the fighters were close to the ep-3, 50 feet away, they were not doing barrel rolls or aggressive maneuvering as we have seen with the russians. peter cook at the pentagon. >> these kinds of incidents have been rare, and that's been a good thing. so i am not sure we're prepared to conclude at this point whether this was an isolated incident. >> reporter: the chinese do have reason to be very sensitive about u.s. surveillance. hainan island, the spy plane was about 50 miles away, is home to one of th

back in november, we broke this story about the pentagon shelling out millions of taxpayer dollars toports teams including those in the nfl for paid acts an of patriotism. >> now the nfl says it will be returning that money to the taxpayers serena marshall joins us now with the latest from d.c. good morning, serena. >> good morning. that's right. your tax dollars are being refinds for once. those emotional staples at sporting events like unfurling the american flag paid for by the pentagon. nfl commissioner roger goodell admitting his teams charged the military more than $700,000 over four seasons to honor america's audit that followed an abc news report, they'll return that money to the taxpayers. the senators investigating the praising the nfl. >> first time i can remember where an organization has not only owned up to it but actually sought to make it right. >> to win for taxpayers $700,000 is not very much money in the way we do business, but it is real money and we'll be going after the additional funds by the other professional lesion, as well. >> the senators hope the nfl's dec

there are also delays on the blue and tracking between pentagon city and the cemetery. bus service again has been requested to help passengers between roslyn and the pentagon. we're told that could be a 45-minute process. so the best thing to do is to try to avoid the station altogether if you can and, again, to expect delays up to 30-minute delays if you're caught in some of this inconvenience happening here on metro this afternoon. we'll continue to bring you the latest details. nbcwashington.com and the app. >>> darcy spencer, thank you so very much. >>> meanwhile, a great day to be on the water. a number of people in their sailboats, this is at amelia ♪ stand by me vo: for dominion, part of delivering affordable energy includes supporting those in our community who need help. our energyshare program does just that, assisting with bill pay and providing free, energy-saving upgrades. it's more than helping customers, it's helping neighbors. ♪ stand by me what are you doing? sara, i love you, and... [phone rings] ah, it's my brother. keep going... sara, will you marry.

it starts at the pentagon. thunder alley also continuing. ington app. >>> the national memorial day concert from the national mall actors gary sinese and joe montegna will again serve as hosts. >>> the search for two missing people in texas resumes as the state deals with massive flooding and torrential rain. four people have died in the floods. >>> tom is tracking rain. >> showers coming in but not until late afternoon and overnight tonight, the greater chance into monday for memorial day morning. tapers off tomorrow afternoon. >> great. >>> that's all for "news4 today." formula one racing, that's next. >> yeah. special memorial day edition. we'll be back here at 10:00 followed by "meet the press." until then, have a great sunday, everybody. vo: for dominion, part of delivering affordable energy includes supporting those in our community who need help. our energyshare program does just that, assisting with bill pay and providing free, energy-saving upgrades. it's more than helping customers, it's helping neighbors. ♪ stand by me >>> nbc spor

barbara starr live at the pentagon, thanks so much. >>> all right. , an alarming health line with the zika virus. puerto rico just confirmed its first case of zika-related microcephaly causing babies to be born with abnormally small heads. this is the first case transmitted on u.s. land. the family affected has requested privacy. health officials believe they expected a confirmed case. it was just a matter of time. they are expecting all health care providers to screen pregnant women for symptoms of zika. >>> separately today, house republicans say they are preparing to introduce a bill to fight the zika virus. a vote could happen now as early as next wednesday. this is a change in the house. >>> all right. in other news, forget frozen, mcdonald's is getting fresh. the changes that could be heading to the golden arches. my belly pain and constipation? they keep telling me "drink more water." "exercise more." i know that. "try laxatives..." i know. believe me. it's like i've. tried. everything! my chronic constipation keeps coming back. i know that. te

clearly we also need to audit the pentagon. that's why i'm pleased the house adopted the burgess-lee amendment yesterday to require report on auditability and keep moving toward auditing the pentagon. while we're working on that, we should take every opportunity to address pentagon spending this article in the "new york times" sets forth, it says the waste in budget games continue with the royce armed service committees approving a $583 billion authorization. the chair: the gentlelady is yieldsed for 30 seconds, the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from colorado reserves. the gentleman from texas. mr. thornberry: i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the distinguished chairman of the subcommittee, mr. wittman. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. wittman: i want to reiterate the importance of funding defense at the president's request. f.y. .-2017 request the 2017 request is minimally adequate and we're taking high risk as an army and as a nation when the army is funded at this level. there's still risk

thousands are at the pentagon. you can take a look, this is the 29th annual rolling thunder proceed petest ride. it's always been and is still a protest ride about issues surrounding veterans. not the least of which are those missing in action. we were over at the thunder alley earlier this morning, we ran into a gentleman here who again embodies what this is all about help his father missing in action. he was a vet rachbt conflict korea. take it a listen. >> my father was reported missing in action in korea in 1950. and he covered my father's case in this book. and my father is still missing in action. he was captured and taken to north korea. and he's still there. so hopefully i'll be able to put this in mr. trump's hands today. >> reporter: you heard him talking about mr. trump, that is one of the interesting things about this, donald trump supposed to be down here speaking today. we have seen one sign that said bikers for trump. we haven't seen a lot of that. and that is one of the rare things about this. they t

that's why the pentagon wants it. that's why the arms contractors want to make it. but it's just a return to the earlier era where every one of these new nuclear weapons systems that were -- had blueprints, were on the table over at the pentagon, or over on the defense contractors got the green light: build it. and what happened? every single time, the soviet union said, we're building the exact same kind of counterpower system of was that bringing us closer closer or further away from a nuclear war? which was the correct direction for our quun to be headed? thank god we began to talk at reykjavik, president reagan and president gorbachev. thank god we now have a new start treaty. but as part of the new start treaty, there was a faustian deal and that faustian deal was that we're going to build a new generation of usable war-fighting nuclear weapons in our own country. and that faustian deal is one that will then be lived with with this next generation of americans and citizens of this planet. so we need to ensure that we can have this debate. the fears that i think

>> the pentagon is still not confirming of the cause of this crash. i can explain of mary you the u.s. intelligence maybe able to see something. there is this system called the over head system infrared sensor system. it is a series of infrared sensors that for the most part are used for surveillance of missile watches. it has a capability of seeing a launch anywhere in the world. >> any kind of explosion in the air would have a similar infrared signal or look. so, they would the u.s. would have the ability if there is an explosion and the infrared sensor to fix on that. they would have the ability to know that there is some sort of explosi explosion. given the area that this plane went down, it is not likely that there is someone that would actively fixed and watching that area at the time. they should have the able to look at the system and see what happened in the hours past and reviewed it. we may see some sort of a flash and explosion if in fact that's what happened here. >> okay, thank you very much. we'll have much more coming up after this sho

the pentagon spokesman revealing moments ago how the u.s.aying a role. >> we have a variety of assets and personnel in the region and we have a host of capabilities. and we will be reviewing everything possible that could be helpful in the course of this investigation in terms of the immediate presence there, we did not have any ships immediately in the area, but we do have a presence in the region. and the most immediate thing we could do to be helpful in support of the search was the deployment of this aircraft and that aircraft is still right now conducting search operations. >> nbc's couney joins us live from the pentagon. we heard about the variety of assets and personnel, but this one plane in particular that was able to assist fairly quickly. how exactly is the u.s. military helping at this hour? >> so the plane that peter cook was referencing there is the u.s. navy p-3 orion. it's a turbo prop generally used for anti-submarine warfare. it can fly maritime missions over the sea, over the water, or it can fly over land. it was deployed

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every year they come back here and ride to the pentagon and the wall.oday is an interesting weekend. president obama took his trip to japan. he was at hir rochema. one of the site -- hiroshima. suzanne kennedy at at is the world war ii memorial to get reaction to the president's trip to japan. suzanne: this will be a busy weekend here at the world war ii memorial. here will be about president obama's historic trip to japan. stirring debate for veterans. some of them were in town for a honor flight from utah and they had strong opinions about mr. obamas historic trip to japan. >> i think it's horrible. it's so out of place. it dishonors everything we have stood for. >> as long as he is not making an apology for what happened. that's fine. if he is not making apologies for it, i get that 100%. it had to be done. >> the two government acknowledge the controversial nature of the visit but they hope it will go a lon way to better relations between the two former enemies. suzanne kennedy, abc7 news. jonathan: so many riders pulling in town. they are coming fr

volunteer force then the conditions of permanent war we ended up two more years as a policy makers and the pentagon turned to the notion of defense contractors to fill the gap at a very high cost and i argue with little evidence that they were worth the money. >> i know you will sign books. thanks. [applause] we barely scratched the surface i encourage you to pick up a copy will have an "in-depth" and somewhat pessimistic understanding of the war in the middle east. [inaudible conversations] >> dash is thereby explaining myself how life began to write this book was set to mexico in 2010 i thought i would write about ordinary subjects like a regular business our oil or cars or tourism. but just as i rise of the drug war arrived in it was that time when the murder rate what was spiraling in almost doubled in the space of a few years. quickly this is what people want to think about. like the business roundtable to find it was the subject of the drugs business. cry got into the habit of business stories one we can drug habit the next then i came to see that it wasn't quite the difference that you might

the pentagon just unveiled this unmanned battleship. e 132 feet vessel went from concept to creation, in just four years. and it is able to travel up to 10,000 nautical miles on its own, to underwater mines. >> we never tended to replace people. i think in a commercial capacity, it is certainly a concern but for the navy, for our military operations, we want to make sure that we nkhav unmanned vessels like this to supplement the human vision, to supplement the human mission, so we are not putting people unduly in harm's way. >> maritime companies across the globe are looking at developing unmanned ships, as a way to cut down on operating costs and to navigate areas plagued by pirates. >>> an 87-year-old north carolina woman is alive this afternoon, thanks to her daughter's quick thinking during last night's storm. the woman was sitting in a back bedroom of her home when the storm barreled through. seconds before a large tree crashed through her ceiling, her daughter martha pulled her out of the room. >> i literally was dragging her throu

i do think it's up to the leadership in the pentagon the military and us to find out what it is and to take action today to fix it. can't wait for new president or congress to fix the budget control act to say we will put these lives at risk until we get our act together. we will go into a lot of details about where the rubber hits the road, but there is one policy related matter what to ask you about that stem set of the bill that since of take on a life of its own at this point. you had arguments happening analyst with four hours arguments about lgbt writes with federal contractors that stem from a provision that began in your committee about congressman russell deciding to introduce that amendment that was voted for to give religious organizations exempt mints -- exceptions. thatems at this point democrats not being them to get a say in the vote on that on the four are going to raise this is an issue with various appropriations bills as we saw today. budget numbers seem to matter. getting the money seems to matter. when he spoke to my paper's editorial board if expressed some regret

the rolling thunder ride began at the pentagon going over the memorial bridge in to the district.erek wafrd has the sights and sounds from today's ride. >> reporter: the sound of their bike, the rolling thunder, now the sound of this annual demonstration bringing attention to prisoners of war, those missing in action. >> it started with the eisenhower administration and been every administration since. it has been policy they don't want the families >> reporter: his father never cameome from the korean war. he said he seen proof his father was a p.o.w. >> i found film in the archives of my father as a prisoner. >> reporter: among the fixtures of the gathering, tim chambers. he holds a salute for all of the passing bikers. >> people care about each other. >> reporter: this year there is something different about his demeanor. he is nervous. >> i'm going to get married here in a few minutes. >> before the bikers came, tim would meet his bride in the middle of 23rd street with a few thousand of their closest friends and what was by necessity a brief ceremony. >> very brief. i need to

we go into the pentagon and we're in the bathroom. you know, using the facilities. dan says to me as we are standing there, you know, in the 1940's when roosevelt authorized the building of this place, there was talk of it being converted to a hospital when the war was over. and then he sort of pauses and says, you know, and away they kept their word. it is the largest insane asylum in the world. and that started my relationship with dan and phil berrigan and i ended up living with phil berrigan painting houses for the better part of a year and a half. really, it was like having an alternative education. i always say my list is my university on social media democracy now! i would say the commendation of hearing you, amy, for the first time on the radio and discovering missile world of pacifica and community media and then having daily conversations with people like phil berrigan and liz mcalister and daniel berrigan really shaped who i wanted to be. i put a picture up on twitter, amy, of you sitting with dan berrigan when my book "dirty wars" came out and i was just