the united states of america. the united states army, the united states marine corps, the united states navy, the united states aire united states coast guard. and remembrance of those young lives and loves captured, missing, or killed, the cry of their spirits continues to be heard, harboring their rages, deprived of their precious freedom, locked up in wire, bamboo, and concrete cages. oppressed by the enemy in the darkness of doom, never to surrender and a passion to live, spiritually driven by the red, white, and blue. the pow, mia, missing warriors table has many symbols. the table is round, symbolizing our ever-lasting concern for our missing comrades. the table cloth is white, symbolizing the purity of their motives in answering their country's call to arms so that children could remain free and be given a chance. the single red rose displayed in a vase reminds us of the life of each of the missing and their loved ones and friends who continue the faith, awaiting answers and continue the faith, awaiting their return home. the vase is tied with a red ribbon, symbol of our continued determination to account f

the relationship between united states and usual. the first snapshot was taken several years ago where one day out of the blue i get a call from the united states navy. the united states navy asks me where the interest in flying out to the u.s. as truman aircraft carrier, that time patrolling the eastern mediterranean, and give a lecture on the history of the u.s.-israel relationship. i thought about this for maybe a quarter of a second. i said are you kidding? of course i want to do this. so one day they brought me up to an airfield outside of tel aviv. there was a prop plane, enable probably the extravagant, put a helmet on me. we went airborne, and no one bothered to tell me that this aircraft was going to go from a 180 miles an hour to zero in less than one second when it landed on the truman. when i landed i thought we had crashed. my eyeballs were some were over there. i don't recommend you ever do this. they thought it was pretty funny. it wasn't. but when it emerged from this aircraft, there was this floating american island somewhere between the island of rhodes and the coast of turkey, 5200 crew members, and officers, all standing at atten

the united states and israel. the first snapshot was taken several years ago where one day out of the blue i get a call from the united states navy. the united states navy asks me would i be interested in flying out to the uss truman aircraft carrier, at that time patrolling the eastern mediterranean, and give a lecture on the history of the u.s./israel relationship. i thought about this for maybe a quarter of a second and i said are you kidding? of course i want to do this. so one day they brought me out to an airfield outside of tel aviv. there was a prop plane, a naval prop plane there. they strapped me in, put a helmet on me. we went airborne and no one bothered to tell me that this aircraft was going to go from about 188 miles an hour to 0 in less than one second when it landed on the truman. when i landed, i thought we had crashed because i was here, my eyeballs were somewhere over there and i don't recommend you ever do this. they thought it was very funny. it wasn't. but when i emerged from this aircraft, there was this floating american island somewhere between the island of rhodes and the coast of turkey, 5200 crew memb

we are the united states navy band commodores, the premier jazz ensemble of the united states navy. > this kind of thing where military bands come out and we support them and they put on a great show on the holidays. they work the holidays. holiday >> they are still giving their lives us for and giving us this comfort of being safe and knowing that, if anything happens, they're there. >> it is cotton candy bubble gum. >> yum. is it melting too fast for you? >> no, it hasn't melted even once. once. >> being a new yorker, after 9- 11, it was such a tragedy for everyone. it is a wonderful thing just to know that our men and women are out there giving their lives for us and keeping us safe. ng >> they're having such a good time, you could tell. >> those snow cones looked so good. >> they will be celebrating mousse nikkei different way on t street remembering the life of a legend. >> : our melanie alnwick is on that story. >> good morning. preparations are under way. they are getting ready for a massive public gathering here at the howard theater. a final day of appreciation for the life a

. >> we are the united states navy band commadores, premere jazz ensemble of the united states navy >e this kind of thing where military bands come out. they put on a great show on the holidays. they work the holiday ♪ [ music ] ♪ >> this day, they are still giving their lives for us and giving us this comfort of you know, being safe and knowing that if anything happens they are there. >> cotton candy bubble gum. >> yum. sit melting too fast for you? >> no. it hasn't melted even once. >> being a new yorker after 9/11 it was such a tragedy for everyone, and it is a wonderful thing just to know that they are giving their lives for us and keeping us safe. [ applause ] >> looks like everyone had fun. >> plenty of people showed their colors and spirit. drill teams, marching bands, community groups and military units entertained the crowds that came out to watch. >> i think you need to think of you know in the sense of memorial day the people who sacrificed their lives in some sense it is sad they are no longer with us but be happy we have people willing to go out and make at that ultimate

we are the united states navy band commodores, is premier jazz ensemble of the united states navy. >>d of thing where military bands come out and we support them and they put on a great show on the holidays. they work the holidays. [ music ] ] >> to this day they're still giving their lives for us and doing this, this comfort of being safe and knowing that if anything happens they're there. >> cotton candy bubblegum. >> yum. is it melting too fast for you? >> no. it hasn't melted even once. [ music ] >> being a new yorker after 9/11 it was such a tragedy for everyone and it's a wonderful thing just to know that our military men and women are there every day for us keeping us safe. [ music ] [ applause ] >> looks like they're having fun. it was a hot day out there. >> staying hydrated, having some water out there, a little bit of shade. >> one more day like this and then it's going to cool off a little bit, all right? we'll have some thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening. that will signal the change and bring about instead of temperatures around 90 and heat indexes in the

back in a moment, stay with us and talk to the secretary of the navy, ray mabus. >> ray mabus is here, united statessecretary of the navy, he has had a long and varied career as a politician, diplomat and businessman, he served as governor of mississippi from 1988 to 1992, he was also former ambassador to saudi arabia and ceo of a manufacturing company. he played the pivotal role in u.s. defense policy in the obama shifts its focus to the asia pacific region i am pleased to have him here on this program for the first time, welcome. >> thank you, charlie, i am glad to be here. >> rose: we now know that this president has announced clearly the kind of shift to asia. how does that affect the navy and its role and its significance? >> well, this new defense strategy which the president announced in january, and which he was in intimately involved in crafting, and had a all of the joint chiefs, all the service secretary, secretary of defense very involved in this, it is mainly a maritime strategy and focuses on the western pacific and focuses on the arabian gulf region, both of which are maritime, entiti

at the same time the united states navy wanted me to go the nuclear power school. they offer me a bonus of $15,000 and you can buy a house at that price. talking to a lot of people that lived in the district at the time, they used to be a dusty road in the 30's and a speakeasy and a house of prostitution. it wasn't paid, it was dusty and s&p. the lifeguard was also in the olympics in 1936. the largest pool in the world at my job, somewhere in the 30's, johnny weissmuller that was in the olympics trained in that pool. i never swam in it, but billy nichols did, occasionally. this is about 1975, he managed to say that one day they pushed it in and made the story out of it. if you love, it is the gateway, in my opinion, to the peninsula. you go straight to the peninsula from here. i am shocked -- the only dispute i will have, i have seen the 690,000 people based on an ad hoc census. i don't know if that is why crime is down.

documents like this which is the war plan for the united states navy, wpl how the navy would conduct itself once the war started. it was believed by many that war would start somewhere out there not come out here to pearl harbor. on the morning of december 7th. that's exactly what happened. as you can see over here it was the entire island of oahu. this map shows the air defenses on oahu on 1941. this shows some of the army defenses prior to 1941. it was believed that the idea of attacking oahu would be impossible by any enemy. but the advance of aircraft and aircraft carriers made that a very probable prospect. we also have interactive exhibits like this one in which you can actually spin these dials, hit this button and then try to detect the japanese force coming in to oahu. in fact, in actuality, 230 miles of oa hurks then launched 350 aircraft towards the island. when you really think of it the audience that comes into this museum is this was the attack on oahu. i guess interpret for them that it wasn't just pearl harbor. but to look at oahu as a battlefield. also there was this

if the united states is to assert its historical role as a global maritime power, and we have without question the strongest navy in the world, but if we're going to continue to assert our role as a maritime power, it's essential that we accede to this important convention. being here with secretary clinton, chairman dempsey, their presence alone is a testament to the conviction of our democratic and military leadership that this -- this convention is absolutely essential to strengthening our position in the world. let me outline some of the critical arguments with regards to u.s. national security. and why it's time to move forward with this issue. first of all, it as has been pointed out, as the world's strongest preeminent maritime power, we are a country that has one of the longest coastlines and one of the largest extended continental shelves in the world. we have more to gain by approving this convention than almost any other country. there's 161 countries that have approved. we're the only industrial power that has failed to do that. and as a result, we don't have a seat at the table. if we are sitting at

if the united states navy ever wants to name a ship after me, let them go ahead. but we're not talking about that. we are talking about harvey milk to " former supervisor, this is an honor that should be given an recognize. i realize and respect every voice of the community and civilian sector, but speaking as an lgbt veteran, this is appropriate. i know our brothers and sisters in san diego or carrying the torch. let us carry this torch with them. >> thank you. >> my name is julien chang. i am a member of the board of directors of the lgbt democratic club. i'm here to support the resolution calling for naming the ship the uss harvey milk. i thought really hard to repeal don't ask, don't tell, along with a lot of other people in this room. at the core of that was equality. part of the quality message was that we cannot be invisible in any part of our lives, including the military. as supervisor wiener said, there are many lgbt people who choose to serve their country to military service. we do a great honor to be able to show a well-known gay icon on the side of a

the moderator for today's panel. captain lori manning, u.s. navy retired, served in the united states navy for over 25 years she is now the director of the women in the military project at the women's research and education project here in washington, d.c. during the persian gulf war captain manning served on the staff of the commander in naval forces europe. in this assignment she was part of a team that coordinated telecommunications requirements and support for u.s. and allied forces participating in the war. her field tours include communications officer, naval computer and telecommunications station, ncts, executive officer ncts balboa panama and commanding officer ncts diego garcia. she's served on the staff of chief of naval operations, chief of navy personnel, chief of legislative affairs and on the london staff of the commander u.s. navy forces europe. as a former army officer, you had some pretty nice assignments there, captain manning. >> i did. >> captain manning served on the secretary of veterans affairs advisory committee on women veterans from 1998 to 2004 and on the m

documents like this, which is the war plan for the united states navy, wpl-46, was a key document on how the navy would conduct itself once war started. it was believed by many that war would start somewhat out there, not come here to pearl harbor. and of course, on the morning of december 7th, that's exactly what happened. but it wasn't just pearl harbor, as you can see from over here, it was the entire island of oahu. this map shows some of the air defenses on oahu prior to 1941. this shows some of the army defenses prior to 1941. it was believed that the idea of attacking oahu would be impossible by any enemy, but the advance of aircraft and aircraft carriers made that a very probable prospect. we also have interactive exhibits like this one, in which you can actually spin these dials, hit this button, and then try to detect the japanese force coming into oahu. in fact, in actuality, the japanese strike force got within 230 miles of oahu, and then launched 150 aircraft toward the island. so when you really think of this to the audience that comes into the museum, this was an attack

the feeling that women cannot do what men can do. i think everybody is realizing that. >> they are hoping it will create a pathway for hire leadership roles for women and the navy. at the united states navy memorial, pamela brown abc news. >> a coastal expert has released his list of best beaches and in america. topping the list, coronado beach in san diego. st. george island. you can see the whole list that wjla.com. >> some people by the most expensive sunscreen thinking it is more effective. consumer reports says that is not necessarily true. the key is to pick one with i spf of 30. you need to reapply it every few hours if you are swimming. avoid using spray on sunscreen on children anke babies under six months old out of the sun altogether. >> you will need sunscreen this weekend. it will be very intense. even cloudy, you can still burned through that. let's look at the radar. a couple of showers and downpours on the eastern shore. people travel already over the beach, heading out to florida that will run into one outside of denton. that is where shower activity will remain. rain will not be a story for the next few days. this is a time lapse from ocean city. it has cleared out

americans coming in with vietnam having some time of top some type of understanding with the united states navy and so on all that in fact makes relations between china and washington rather tense so therefore russia can gain from this because they can say to the chinese basically we're in the same side we have to restrict america so therefore if putin decided to go to chicago which i doubt will he would actually may in fact say some of those things. the corner of russia expert from the university of london a great pleasure to have you want to r.t. it's a day thank you. now while the leaders settle into the g eight meeting in maryland police and protesters in chicago gear up for the upcoming nato summit. r.q. a chicago denies and demands that nato disband occupy activists are lashing out at the alliance and how authorities are preparing to respond just a few minutes here on out. the protest mood is also brewing in europe but there the targets are capitalism and austerity policies in germany thousands are rallying in the country's financial capital frankfurt marking the climax of a four day camp

in that those future capabilities that the united states navy and marine corps will need going forward as we face increasing competition and antiaccess aerial denial he can it nolgs and nation that is develop technologies and capabilities trying to thwart our ability to operate from the sea. so that future balance investment has to be weighed against maintaining the current readiness of the force as we operate it. what you saw in our budget do is we reduced force structure. we took out older assets to make available those assets. we looked at our other investment accounts and made critical investments in the capabilities we needed, preserving research and development and the new technologies. we reduced procurement in some areas or delayed them to outside the fit up for affordability and really focusing on preserving the force. these investments we made today were focused on ordinance, depo maintenance to sustain the current readiness. the risk for us really boils down to capabilities. can we pace rising peer competitors, capacity, do we have the forces available to flow the combatant

post world war ii navy expedition using submarine ships to go to the north pole and on august 3rd in honor of the coast guard birthday we will have a new book by thomas from the united states coast guard national defence. again, those programs are at noon here at the navy memorial. as you all know and have been trying to get the book market's new book by little brown publishers is service a navy seal what war written with james horned fisher and we regret that we've ran out of books. i can come to light if we are not able to get books markets can sign one for you after the talk. marcus luttrell as a native of consul texas. he joined the navy in 1999, and after becoming a navy seal in 2002, he served in many dangerous special operations assignments around the world. after serving the two tours and iraq, he was deployed to afghanistan in the spring of 2005. for his actions during operation red wings, petty officer first class luttrell was awarded the navy plans for combat terrorism in 2006 by president george w. bush. after recovering from his wounds, he served as the second tour in iraq and received his discharge from the navy in june of 2007 and a very popular speaker you

neighbors of the compound do not believe he was here and people in the town even wonder whether the united states navy raid even happened despite all the compelling evidence. >> a souvenir claimed from the blackhawk tail of the hard landing of the navy seal. a local kid who had many pieces thinks the united states should never have launched the raid. he tells us pakistan should have killed bin laden. deeply humiliated by the raid, pakistan has tried to knock down the compound and expelling his family before the anniversary. >> wiping it out is hard to do when the exact strip of land the kids now play ball on is where bin laden exercised. 11-year-old says he wanted to be a permanent playground and it is no doubt pakistan's embarrassment authorities also prefer. >> pakistan has never offered the united states an apology and the pakistanis i have asked why that hasn't happened and they say america has to apologize first to the muslim world for nutting it by invading iraq and afghanistan. that's a tough one for them to get over. >>shepard: dominic, thank you, from pakistan. thank you. the president of the

point that the united states navy does a very good job of guaranteeing that. >> sean: that is our territorialaters? >> in this treaty it provides that the sea bed authority may take action to prevent pollution of the ocean. pollution includes thermal pollution. this authority could ban carbon emissions in the united states so we don't heat up the ocean. by the way, i ought to note the republicans that are going to be leading the fight for this treaty is richard lugar. the reason they are ratifying in june and not today, if he didn't want to have to defend it until the primary is over. >> sean: the law of the sea treaty. let me give you a quick list. taking the way the right of congress and president to go to war. similarly holding the president cabinet members criminally responsible if they don't do it without united nations approval, royals for offshore oil and gases and, royal yalts involved. >> international criminal court we are the only country in the world that is not a member of it. at some level it's okay. it's got the fig leaf and goes after war criminals. but they include definition

this soldier was wounded and went on for 33 years to serve in the united states navy. we have him stand and be recognized by the audience and others i introduced in the same way as the told the stories. this is the land of extraordinary heroes, heroes are people who live for something greater than themselves. they do it in ways that are beyond the bounds of normal human experience. we have it -- we have a lot of years to serve in our u.s. military. for those who serve, please raise your hand, the recognize. look at that! [cheers and applause] halite the charge in the eyes of the greatest generation is doing a bit as we lose those men and women and they become older. that light to the world we need very badly. is our time to grab the torch and holding aloft. it is a sort of represents freedom and opportunity. it is a towards that represents the greatness of america and the greatness of people around the world who seek a good things. that torch is not just america's but it is our duty and honor to hold the torch aloft. it is my conviction that we must do so and we will do

we are making the job of our navy more difficult despite the long-standing and nearly unanimous pleas of navy leaders, the united states participation in law of the sea will help them maintain navigational rights more effectively and with less risk to the men and women they command. we are turning our backs on the requests of important american industries that use the oceans and must abide by rules established under this convention. and we're diminishing our chances for energy independence by making u.s. oil and gas exploration in international waters less likely. and we will not even be able to participate in the amend process to the treaty which is far more likely to impose new requirements on our navy and ocean industries if the united states is the absent. we will feel these costs most keenly in the arctic which is why successive alaskan governors and senators of both parties have supported this treaty. in 2007, mr. powell kelly testifying on behalf of the oil and gas industry, underscored how much we very to lose in the arctic by remaining outside the treaty. he noted that under the law of the sea, the united stat

the united states air force and say hooha. we will ask the next branch of the service, which is the united states navy.e? there has got to be. [applause] sounds like propeller is. it is good. how many of you have served in the united states army? it is unbelievable. i am just curious, did i leave any branch of the service out? united states marine corps. ok. at this time, tom selleck will be introducing to you our next speaker. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome a great leader and warrior. general martin dempsey. [applause] >> thanks, tom. thank you for your heartfelt words and your service in the army national guard. as we gather here at the vietnam veterans memorial, our veterans are gathering at cemeteries across the country. soldiers of the third infantry division and the honor guards of every service are on patrol making sure that 260,000 flags stand tall. row after row after row. at white pines cemetery a single window presses a flight into the ground just like she did last year and the year before that. whether by the thousands or by ourselves, we all feel a common resolve on memorial day t

. >> in the future capabilities the united states navy mandatory reen corps will need going forward as we face increasing competition and technologies and trying to thwart our ability to operate from the sea. so that future balance investment has to be weighed against maintaining the current readiness of the force and what we operate at. what you saw in our budge set we reduced forestruck which you were and took away assets and looked at accounts and made critical investments preserving research and development and reduce procurement or delayed them to outside to fitup for affordablibility. to preserve the force. the investments eeh we made today were to discuss stain the current maintenance, so the risk for us is comes down to capabilities. can we face rising competitors. capacity, do we have the forces to flow within an acceptable level of risk and how it effects is response times and what our levels are in the fleet but we think in this budget we try achieve that balance with an acceptable level of risk. >> and i'll just add, senator, that these remain challenging times, and we're f

the united states navy band is gracing us with theirs presence and their music, led by scott miceon.ying john philip sousa's "stars and stripes forever." our many thanks to them and you joining us this morning on a memorial day weekend. outside on the plaza, i'm jenna wolfe alongside lester holt. >> we always love gleam week in new york. we have the sailors, marines, they bring their families here, and we get to listen to great music. thank you so much. >> they are so much more pressed and ironed. they look great. thank you, guys. >> thank you. great job. nice to have your here. >>> coming up in this half hour, we're talking viral videos, some of the best out there right now. >> a lot of the ones people are talking about. one we showed you earlier, this 80-year-old woman who decided to go sky diving. she was going to do a tandem jump and it was tandem, but she's barely hanging on for dear life, because somehow, she slips out of her strap. there's a happy ending to this. we're going to hear what she has to say about all of this. you look at that, why would you want to ever jump out of

the united states navy will also do this for taiwan, brunei and others. they are not worried because the u.s. navy has their backs. in the context of the surface fleet, and the lcs specifically, we are building a coastguard cutter. that is what this is. in other countries, they are choosing not to build anything at all. now, they have grown accustomed to this and have sheltered under our umbrella and the have become dependent on the u.s. navy and they are not worried. many people here in washington like it that way. they like being the world's please send a guarantor of public security or the global force for good, the latest recruiting slogan. others are less inclined to protect themselves and their interests, and that's ok as many in this foreign establishment here see it. i see things differently. my colleagues here see things differently. we dispute the claim. it depends on a single superpower. at cato, we do not think it would be a bad thing to contribute more to global security but we doubt they will do so so long as the united states taxpayers are p

>> as the united states navy grew after the civil war, ports like this started dwindling in importanceery began to get larger than these rooms could facilitate. >> reporter: and there was another problem. this thing is on a sand bar. >> it is. >> reporter: how does it not sink? >> well it was hen sinking since construction began. >> reporter: but that hasn't stopped nearly 80,000 tourists a year coming by ferry or sea plane to fort jefferson, a stunning monument to america's rise as a military power. >> osgood: still to come, the island that put rum on the map. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] virtual wallet can help you be that person who's good with money. see what's free to spend. move money with a slide. save with a shake. feel good about your decisions. ♪ 15 men on a dead man's chest ♪ ♪ yo, ho ♪ >> we're off to the island on a special edition of sunday morning. here again is charles osgood. >> osgood: a bottle of rum. the pirates of old used to sing that or at least they did in robert louis stevenson's treasure island. the signature spirit of the caribbean is still very much with us. our