u.s. pacific fleet, admiral patrick walsh. [applause] he >> thank you. and thank you for the opportunity to join you here today. what a privilege to be able to follow the table top exercise discretion and the presentation of remarks by the governor. as i think about the work that you are embarked on and the type of steps that you would like to take in the continuum of preparation for natural disasters and the response that you would take as responsible officials, think of the next presentation as an opportunity for a case study. think about the questions that leaders need to answer in times of crisis. what will be unique and different about our discussion in this operation was that this was not one singular event. it was a series of cascading crises, aggravated by hundreds and then eventually thousands of aftershocks. it is continually challenged those who were in positions of responsibility in ways -- in complex areas that were very, very hard to anticipate. i think one question that is important to ask is how do leaders prepare themselves for a crisis

u.s. pacific fleet at pearl harbor. the attack led to the u.s.' into the second world war and changed america forever. here are some of the sights and sounds. ♪ can you se"] ♪ >> uss nevada. uss tennessee. [bell rings] u.s.s. arizona [bell rings -- [bell rings] ♪ ["taps"] ♪ >> you have been watching newsday from the bbc. i am in singapore. >> i am in london. back in a few minutes with the latest business news. bye bye for now. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. ♪ >> union bank has put its global strength to work for a wide range of financial companies. what can we do for you? >> "bbc world news america" was presented by kcet los angeles. 

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u.s. pacific territory is set to become a crucial regional hub for the american military. japan also needs u.s. help to counter the chinese military's growing influence in asia. china has taken an increasingly bold stance on territorial issues in japan's southern waters. on top of all this, the japanese government does not want north korea's new leader to take advantage of the stalled negotiations. >>> "newsline" is the place to turn to for the latest on japan post march 11th. we have two segments offering two unique perspectives on the fallout from the earthquake and tsunami. "nuclear watch" brings you insight and information on the impact of the fukushima daiichi crisis. and "the road ahead" examines japan's efforts to recover and rebuild. don't miss "nuclear watch" and "the road ahead" on "newsline." >>> south korea's intelligence agency says north korea's new leader, kim jong un will soon become the country's supreme military commander, succeeding his late father, kim jong il. south korea's national intelligence service chief gave the news at a parliament committee on t

u.s. pacific fleet in pearl harbor. the fighting showed japanese used many subs to attack u.s. ships. two dozen men all pearl harbor survivors acos the chun at this traveled to the -- traveled from all over to share their memories. >> if you go through something like that,. [audio not understandable] >> for many of them it was the first time in 70 -- 07 years they rin to the -- 70 years they return to the island. >>> today people will gather to market 7 0th anniversary of the japanese attack on pearl harbor in baltimore. and sherrie johnson is live with more on the anniversary and when's happening locally especially for the ship i see over your right shoulder sherrie. >> reporter: pier 5 in downtown baltimore and yes, right over my shoulder here we are going to talk a little bit about the decommissioning of the 25th anniversary of the decommissioning of the coast guard cutty taney that severed as a museum and memorial since 1987 right here in baltimore. it was one of the fighting shipsduring the attack on pearl harbor. chris is the executive director of the historic ships in baltimore

u.s. pacific. when he was in australia saying that with the draw downs with the troop, they were going to be focusing more on the asia pacific region to the extent of putting troop on the ground. he had talk on the countries who have expressed concerns on what they see on increased aexpressi aexpression. there have been dispute and china all over islands throughout the south china see as well. and so while we focus very, very closely on north korea and south korea and what will happen there, this relationship between the u.s. and china, one that has pn eamerimerging is going to be under the motorcycmicroscope no said that it wants to do that peacefully. it doesn't want to pring on a conflict with the united states. the u.s. has troop on the side of the pour der. their ally is sworn to defend the south of the border. they served south kree he thea during the korean war. it is really going to be interesting to see how this relationship work out and when the phone call is placed between barack obama a

u.s. pacific fleet was. >> oliver: there is no conclusive evidence that president roosevelt saw this communiqueeen by the new director of naval intelligence, captain theodore wilkinson and the chief of army intelligence, general sherman miles. they reported to admiral stark and general george marshall both of how many would ever deny seeing the message. shockingly, admiral kimmel never received it. >> is seemed to them prepostorrous that the japanese would attempt to attack the powerful bastion of american might, the fleet at pearl harbor. >>> president roosevelt sends ... >> gregg: live from america news headquarters, i'm gregg jarrett. we're getting new reports that the u.s. is withdrawing from an air base in pakistan. a senior pakistani official saying u.s. personnel are leaving the compound. pakistan demanded the pullout after a nato a air strike killed 24 pakistani soldiers. an investigation is under way. >> new flood fears as a huge weather system causing problems from ohio valley to texas. maria is in the weather center. >> we could have a large system we're tracking stretching from texa

u.s. pacific fleet was. >> oliver: there is no conclusive evidence that president roosevelt saw this communique but by mid october it was seen by the new director of naval intelligence, captain theodore wilkinson and the chief of army intelligence, general sherman miles. they reported to admiral stark and general george marshall both of how many would ever deny seeing the message. shockingly, admiral kimmel never received it. >> is seemed to them prepostorrous that the japanese would attempt to attack the powerful bastion of american might, the fleet at pearl harbor. >>> president roosevelt sends a secret. secret. >>> from america's news headquarters i'm marianne rafferty. a new poll suggesting former house speaker newt gingrich is surging ahead in the iowa kaw issues. the poll placing him at 25% ahead of tex conditionman ron paul with 18% and mitt romney at 16%. minnesota representative michele bachmann tied with outgoing candidate herman cain and rick perry and jon huntsman ended up at the bottom of the pack. >>> president obama urging voters to get involved in the debate surrounding the payr

u.s. pacific fleet at dawn that morning. surprise attack sank or severely damaged 21 ships and killed nearly 2,400 americans. today, as every year, several thousand people attended the ceremonies at the site overlooking the sunken battleship u.s.s. arizona. >> you the survivors as well as those who were lost earned with your blood, with your sacrifice a legacy you have passed on to those who have followed. >> sreenivasan: this year's commemoration was the last for the pearl harbor survivor's association. the group is disbanding as its numbers steadily dwindle. the association's vice president mal middlesworth appealed to future generations to keep the memories alive. >> let no author, historian or politician attempt to rewrite the history of what happened here 70 years ago. you sitting in the audience must be the guardians of our truth. >> sreenivasan: the japanese foreign minister voiced "deep emotion" today about the anniversary. but he hailed the u.s. - japanese alliance that grew out of the war. trading on wall street wa

u.s. pacific command and of course president obama and the obama administration.olf. >> did he get -- did he offer a good analysis, any sense of insight into kim jong-un, the 28 or 29-year-old successor? we do know that kim jong-un has been named the head of the funeral arrangements for his father. about 250 leaders of north korea on that committee. what did he say? because we know that general dempsey is privy to the best analysis and most sensitive information that the u.s. government has. >> reporter: well, you know, exactly. and what he talked about is the very question that you have already raised, youth and inexperience. kim jong-un is the designated successor obviously from his late father. he is the one that the u.s. is looking at. but the u.s. military is the first to acknowledge that intelligence about the north korean regime is imperfect at best. so what they are looking for is despite this young man's designation as the successor, with his youth and inexperience will he be able to take charge? will he take charge of the regime? and if he does, will he

see two storm patterns one across coming off the pacific into the pacific northwestern u.s. another one in the northern plains and residual jet stream a couple bumps or dips. storms help drag down cold air and yes we have had our shot of cold air with that nice little surprise burst of snow yesterday. this next system is going to spin up and lift the jet stream to the north. that gets us back into the mild stretch heading into the weekend. but there's a cold pocket of air in eastern canada that is waiting to dive down in our direction and it will do so next week where we are watching the system right now. iowa getting rain with north side and towards minneapolis st. paul and wisconsin's madison getting some snow this morning. but rain in chicago and that's a sign of the warm air spilling in our direction. by the way, notice people going out to cincinnati with rain this morning. and it looks like they are going to have the transition a day earlier than us which is important because of the rains game. let's bring it back home show you what we are looking at increasing clouds a

u.s. refocus throughout the asia pacific saying that the asia pacific -- that the u.s.re and is going to remain here with the drawdown of troops in iraq, the drawdown of troops in afghanistan. they're actually putting more troops into the region. even boots in the ground in australia. many interpreted that as a continuing effort by the u.s. to try to contain china's rise. on the chinese side, china has stated ambition is to become the prepond rapt power, and we know that there are disputes between china and other countries in the region about territory, about disputed islands and so on. this is a critical relationship, how china and the united states will try to work together and bring stability and will see a real ratcheting up or much more of a focus on that key relationship, a real defining period here. >> one thing that strikes me about this, stan, after kim jong il had his stroke back in august of 2008, he did look frail, he did look weak. but he seemed to have got better. he seemed to -- he had lost weight. he seemed to be a little bit more vibrant. certainly on t

make clear, overnitrogen democraovernight general dempsey was involved with commanders in the pacific, u.s. commanders in north korea, defense secretary leon panetta, national security officials, and they are putting together a program to keep intelligence assets focused on north korea for the coming period of time. again, to look for any signs that troops, weapons might be on the move, any signs of instability in the regime, any signs of uncertainty and what they might do with their military forces. this is it really key now because there's so little intelligence about what goes on there. they're using satellite, eavesdropping equipment, electronic intelligence gathering gear, anything they can to get whatever information they can, brooke. >> a tinderbox, as was said before, barbara starr, thank you so much. >>> next on reporter ruelet, elise labbot, our senior state department producer, in new york for us today. tell us, e-lise, how will will this change, today was supposed to be a swap food aid for perhaps -- dit's ul intertwined >> exactly. even p up until last week, the u.s. and north

tune in at 9:00 eastern, 6:00 pacific. >>> u.s.e real drone lost by the u.s. those officials also say it was probably pieced together since being recovered. we're tolad the drone that was lost had simply broken apart. some of the information on the drone may have been automatically erased. even its skin is highly valuable. the loss for u.s. intelligence is described as "stunning." >>> before we get to the weather here at home. check out what they were dealing with over in scotland yesterday. a storm with wind topping 100 miles an hour whipped up some powerful waves. the storm disrupted train and flight schedules. knocked out power and closed roads. look at that. >> folks on the train -- little scared. here at home conditions are far less extreme. rainy in south florida and south texas. lake-effect snow where you would expect. around the great lakes. and in the pacific northwest, a fifth straight day of unhealthy air quality. >> an arctic blast in the middle of the country. teens, 20s from fargo to chicago. 20s, 30s elsewhere. acros

u.s. off, imagine losing an entire day. that's what will happen in the tiny south pacific island of sawoa. o they agreed to align time with u.s. territories to assist trading with california. as the nation crosses over the international dateline, at the stroke of midnight tomorrow, time in samoa will leap forward24 hours to december 31st. no december 30th. under our government decree, all of those scheduled to work on this nonexistent friday will get paid for the day. >>> a long-time fixture of san francisco's entertainment scene will wrap up its run at its current home on new year's eve. >> it is a throw back to another time. the show opened along the embarcadero for what was supposed to be a six-month run. but the audiences just kept coming. it is being renovated for the america's cup yacht race. >> we are currently in the midst of packing everything now and crating it up, and it will be moved to a temporary location and then it will open back up on broadway and the embarcadero. >> they plan to reopen just in time for next year's holiday season. >>> larry beil is off and colin rush is her

u.s. off, imagine losing an entire day. that's what will happen in the tiny south pacific island of sawoa. ars ago they agreed to align time with u.s. territories to assist trading with california. as the nation crosses over the international dateline, at the stroke of midnight tomorrow, time in samoa will leap forward24 hours to december 31st. no december 30th. under our government decree, all of those scheduled to work on this nonexistent friday will get paid for the day. >>> a long-time fixture of san francisco's entertainment scene will wrap up its run at its current home on new year's eve. >> it is a throw back to another time. the show opened along the embarcadero for what was supposed to be a six-month run. but the audiences just kept coming. it is being renovated for the america's cup yacht race. >> we are currently in the midst of packing everything now and crating it up, and it will be moved to a temporary location and then it will open back up on broadway and the embarcadero. >> they plan to reopen just in time for next year's holiday season. >>> larry beil is off and colin rush

u.s. presence in the asia pacific region and we've seen the u.s.f emphasis on the two key assets in northeast asia, the u.s./south korea alliance and u.s./japan alliance. when it comes to these 28,000 u.s. service personnel and their dependence in the korean peninsula, they're a very important part of this u.s./south korea deterrence stance. when it comes to the actual threat, though, northee area has a large force but it's detier yaited overtime. i think if there's sudden instability in north korea, what happens to the nuclear material? when it comes to the security of those components and materials, that's where i think the greater concern about the direct threat to u.s. national security comes in. >> what about -- and i'm peeking out of my eye because i'm looking at the white house daily briefing room. we're still waiting for that to p happen. what do you think -- here it is it -- should the obama administration, john, express condolences to north korea? >> i think at this stage there has to be a little more coordination specifically among the u

pacific instability. his passing sent asian markets lower with u.s. futures pointing downward for today. otherwise, wall street will watch europe this week, where officials are scrambling to show they're dealing with the debt crisis while trying to prevent the crumble of the euro. >>> today, europe's central bank president disappointed markets, saying the bank won't consider large bond purchases. >>> hammering out italy's crucial austerity budget enters its final phase this week, battling union opposition. back here at home, according to comscore, consumers spent 15% more in online holiday buying than last year. the average regular gas is $3.24 a gallon. that's down 24 cents over the past six weeks. >>> in deal news, canada's el dorado gold agreed to buy european gold fields for about $2.4 billion. housing data dominates the week. december homebuilder sentiment is out today. november housing starts come tuesday, followed by wednesday's previously owned home sales. new home sales are out friday. >>> watch zynga this week. its highly anticipated ipo stumbled friday, losing 5% in its debut.

pacific. >> reporter: if the new threats are indeed economic, the u.s. military clearly has its work cut out for it. the american enterprise institute's thomas donnelly says the $806 billion spent in iraq strained military resources just as our economy fell into the great recession. >> we come out of this with a much degraded industrial base to leap off of, uncertainty about what we want to do, and less money. so the situation after iraq and after afghanistan, i think, will be much murkier and will be much more uncertain, both in a strategic sense, but also in a defense industrial sense, as well. >> reporter: with automatic spending cuts set to take effect in 2013, the military is now competing with the rest of the federal budget for money. >> the future, basically, of the u.s. military-- our military power, defense industry-- is ineluctably tied to the question of entitlements. if that's not tamed, there just won't be money left over for anything else. >> reporter: and the pentagon's plans will require a great deal of money. adjusted for inflation, the

pacific. big changes to u.s. mail delivery announced to day. the postal service is facing bankruptcy. new measures to take effect in the spring will cut $3 billion in operating expenses. first-class mail delivery will be slower because half of all mail procession centers will be closed. >>> speaking of big bucks, americans spending pretty big bucks online after the busiest cyber monday ever. online sales monday through friday of last week hit a record nearly $6 billion. shoppers shelled out $1.25 billion of that on cybermonday itself. tuesday, wednesday sales hit the billion dollar mark. many customers brought in by the free shipping enticements. >>> rembeber three connecticut investment bankers who won the lottery jackpot. they made good on their prop tice help charities. giving $1 million to five groups which help veterans and service members. among organizations getting $200,000 boost is the foundation started by our own bob woodruff. >> very good donation to see there. well, tiger woods' losing streak is finally over. he clinched the chevron world challenge in california his first

pacific. >> reporter: if the new threats are indeed economic, the u.s. military clearly has its work cut out for it. the american enterprise institute's thomas donnelly says the $806 billion spent in iraq strained military resources just as our economy fell into the great recession. >> we come out of this with a much degraded industrial base to leap off of, uncertainty about what we want to do, and less money. so the situation after iraq and after afghanistan, i think, will be much murkier and will be much more uncertain, both in a strategic sense, but also in a defense industrial sense, as well. >> reporter: with automatic spending cuts set to take effect in 2013, the military is now competing with the rest of the federal budget for money. >> the future, basically, of the u.s. military-- our military power, defense industry-- is ineluctably tied to the question of entitlements. if that's not tamed, there just won't be money left over for anything else. >> reporter: and the pentagon's plans will require a great deal of money. adjusted for inflation, the

pacific. >> reporter: if the new threats are indeed economic, the u.s. military clearly has its work cut out for it. the american enterprise institute's thomas donnelly says the $806 billion spent in iraq strained military resources just as our economy fell into the great recession. >> we come out of this with a much degraded industrial base to leap off of, uncertainty about what we want to do, and less money. so the situation after iraq and after afghanistan, i think, will be much murkier and will be much more uncertain, both in a strategic sense, but also in a defense industrial sense, as well. >> reporter: with automatic spending cuts set to take effect in 2013, the military is now competing with the rest of the federal budget for money. >> the future, basically, of the u.s. military-- our military power, defense industry-- is ineluctably tied to the question of entitlements. if that's not tamed, there just won't be money left over for anything else. >> reporter: and the pentagon's plans will require a great deal of money. adjusted for inflation, the

clearly they want change all across africa libya was the start and look at the pacific and asia region the new the new troops new u.s. troops already sent from australia listen to clinton she is saying that the critical places for u.s. domination is not iraq and afghanistan but in asia what's emerging right now is a historic time for the next ten fifteen years where britain an american movie going down economically and militarily and they know china and russia are merging so they're really feeling that now is the crisis period to make sure that they can dominate as much as possible through sanctions and war i mean it's all it's all you know it's any means necessary i mean whether they do it through sanctions or war or funding opposition movements it's all the same they want complete domination as soon as possible. well new tough measures against iran are dominating a meeting of european foreign ministers with more sanctions are expected to be imposed but british foreign minister has accused iran's government of supporting the repression in syria and said there's a link between what's happening in both countries let'

they want major change all across africa libya was the start and look at the pacific of asia region the new the new troops new u.s. troops already sent from australia listen to clinton she is saying that the critical places for us domination is not iraq and afghanistan but in asia what's emerging right now is a historic time for next ten fifteen years where britain an american movie going down economically and militarily i don't know china russia emerging so they are really feeling that now is the crisis period to make sure sure they can dominate as much as possible through sanctions and war i mean it's all it's all you know it's any means necessary i mean whether they do it through sanctions or war or funding opposition movements it's all the same they want complete domination as soon as possible now when barefoot's from having sanctions against iran and europeans will suffer from them as well and that's the belief in five from the school of oriental studies at the university of london to science is a very strongly ordinary iranians this is a lose lose situation as many to rein in other cells have already stated

u.s. naval base in the pacific. nearly half of those killed that day were serving on the uss arizona.s documents gives us his perspective on the attack on pearl harbor. ♪ [ electronic beeping ] [ male announcer ] still getting dandruff? neutrogena® t/gel shampoo defeats dandruff after just one use. t/gel shampoo. it works. neutrogena®. it's good. honey, i love you... oh my gosh, oh my gosh.. look at these big pieces of potato. ♪ what's that? big piece of potato. [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. >> it has been 70 years since japan's surprise attack. more than 100 survivors of the attack attended today's m commemorations in hawaii. nearly 2400 americans killed, 21 ships, 323 damaged or destroyed. we will speak just a moment with a chief historian at the uss arizona at pearl harbor about how they are restoring some of the personnel records there. let's listen to a little bit of this ceremony taking place today. [ applause ] >> all of you are our family, our ohana, for what you have given and what you remind us to give. let us learn the lessons, teach them forever,

to regime change all across africa libya was the start and look at the pacific and the asia region the new the new troops new u.s. troops already sent to australia listen to clinton she is saying the critical places for us domination is not iraq and afghanistan but in asia what's emerging right now is a historic time for the next ten fifteen years where britain and america know they're going down economically and militarily and they know china russia merging so they're really feeling that now is the crisis period to make sure that they can dominate as much as possible through sanctions and war i mean it's all it's all you know it's any means necessary i mean whether they do it through sanctions or war or funding opposition movements it's all the same they want complete domination as soon as possible. the un's high commissioner for human rights has called for an international intervention in syria to protect civilians from president assad's forces she sighed the number of protesters and rebel fighters allegedly killed by pro-government forces since the civil conflict began. was also can dand by the un resolution

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