united states of america and may he hold you in the palm of his hand. thank you. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the united states air force band brass quintet. ♪ [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the democratic leader of the united states house of representatives, the honorable nancy pelosi. >> good afternoon. thank you for that beautiful rendition of "america the beautiful." my favorite verse is the one that begins, "o beautiful for patriot's dreams that survive beyond the years." major vasquez, former major general wolf, i am honored to be with everyone who made this possible. leader reid, senator mcconnell. thank you for introducing this legislation. time and again a cross our history, at the darkest moments of national need, everyday citizens have stepped forward to confront the enemy and defend our country. our nation faced harrowing months following our surprise entry into world war ii. even after president roosevelt efforts to ready the nation, our military was not as prepared or equipped and unable to match the axis war machine. german u-boats patrolled the coast with near impunity, taking a terrible toll on shi

may god bless you, may god bless the united states of america and may he hold you in the palm of his hand. thank you. >> ladies and gentlemen, the united states air forceand brass quintet. ♪ [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, do democratic leader of the honorable nancy pelosi. >> good afternoon. thank you for that beautiful rendition of " america the beautiful." my favorite verses the one that begins -- that is what our civilian air patrolmen did. general vasquez, lester wolff so honored to be here with you as i am to be with our speaker who made this all possible peter reid, peter mcconnell thanks to you and henry for introducing this legislation. time and time again, across our history, at the darkest and most desperate hours of our national need, everyday citizens have stepped forward to confront the enemy and defend our country. our nation faced harrowing months following our surprise entry into world war ii will start this week marks the anniversary of the observance of pearl harbor. even after president's efforts to ready the nation, our military was not as prepared or equipped and unable to match the machine. once more at the time of national e

i'm proud to have worn the uniform of the united states air force. [cheers and applause] i am proud of young men and women who travel to far-flung regions of the world to fight for all that is right in the world. [cheers and applause] there is nothing wrong in america today that can't be fixed with new leadership. the next two years are about hope and revival and a vision to restore america's place in the world. america is looking for a new path forward and starting today, right here in iowa, let's give it to them! god bless you, and god bless america. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> i think it's pretty clear there's no backing up or backing off with rick perry. [laughter] he will just wade down into it or stand and deliver. our next guest speaker comes from a similar mold. it is governor chris christie in new jersey. [cheers and applause] he and his wife have lived in new jersey all their lives. he was born in newark. in 2001, chris christie was appointed by governor bush 43 to be a u.s. attorney for new jersey. he began to take on aggressively

success than failure and here you have got a city called kobani where the strongest air force in the world the united states air force has been unable to drive them out of that town? there has been a few successes but it's one of the reasons why power has not been more effective because we don't have boots on the ground in the form of forward air controllers. >> do you think president obama is thinking now about how do we get those 3,000 home or is he thinking now oh we have got to increase the 3,000 because it's getting worse there? what do you think is going on? >> i think that they have ignored reality. they are ignoring the fact that they treat syria isis one way and iraq and another way in syria. i think they are delusional when they say they are going to recruit young men to go and train and equip them and then send them back in their area to be bombed by bashar assad and to only fight isis. the government in baghdad although better has still got, you know i mean we saw the reports the thousands of quote ghost soldiers that they were paying: a lot of the fighting is now being done by she a militia whi

. >> the commanding counter of the united state >> the commanding general of the united states air forceneral carl spotts has asked me to tell you something about this picture. i don't think i can do any better than just to read from his telegram to me. "thunderbolt" was made in 1944. ancient history. it was made about one fighter bomber group in the italian campaign. it happens to be an american group. the same story could well be told of the royal air force groups which participated so gallantly in the same air offensive. as a matter of fact, the story belongs to all men who fought for freedom and did it a long way from home. signed spotts. thank you. >> to the italian man in the street, or what's left of the street, this is the fulfillment of a promise. the promise of the fascists to build a 20th century roman empire conceived in tyranny and dedicated to the proposition that some men were meant to be slaves of other men. special victims were the children. they saw things not meant for children's eyes. from the air, italy is more remote. the airmen never sees the face of the people, on

air force. he's been serving overseas. he's home. he has been serving 20 years in the united states air force. bill: welcome home. a surprise reunion on ice. oh hey, neill, how are you? you'd expect us to have a highly skilled call center. kevin, neill holley's on line one. ok, great. and we do. it's how edward jones makes sense of investing. bill: a pilot make an emergency landing in new jersey. he says he had to bring down the single-engine plane on a highway. he land with the flow of traffic. the pilot was only one on the plane, no one was injured. martha: hip hop mogul shug knight turned himself in to authorities in connection with a hit-and-run that left one person dead. he's being health on $2 million bail. a lot of interesting details and william lajeunesse brings us the latest chapter in the saga. >> reporter: shug knight is a legend, a rags to relationships story of a kid who grew up on the streets of los angeles to become one of the most powerful people in the music business. he stands accused of murder. the attorneys say it was an accident. he turned himself into the sheriff's department just after mid

. >> since its debut in the 1950s, boeing's b-52 airplane has been the powerhouse of the united states air forcet's the most versatile weapons delivery system the air force has. high altitude, low altitude. it can deliver missiles. short range, long range. >> the pilots' friends and family members are also watching. >> what the animals look like. yeah. we've got the gang up here. >> among them is teenager pat mcgeehan. his father, lieutenant colonel mark mcgeehan is in the co-pilot's seat. >> my mother and i, along with my younger brother, brendan, were watching from our front yard. i was waving at the plane thinking maybe my father might be able to see us down there. >> lieutenant colonel arthur "bud" holland is the lead pilot. holland is skilled and experienced with thousands of hours in the b-52. but he's known to take risks in violation of air force safety regulations. >> bud having a reputation of knowing the aircraft very well. i think that that's kind of how he saw the boundaries was if he could, you know, make it do something, it had a new boundary. >> the air show flight plan calls for

i'm proud to have worn the uniform of the united states air force.eers and applause] i am proud of young men and women who travel to far-flung regions of the world to fight for all that is right in the world. [cheers and applause] you know, there is nothing wrong in america today that can't be fixed with new leadership. the next two years are about hope and revival and a vision to restore america's place in the world. america is looking for a new path forward and starting today, right here in iowa, let's give it to them! god bless you, and god bless america. thank you. [cheers and applause] ♪

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mentioned that adding training, et cetera things like that i am a member of the auxiliary of the united states air forceo 90 to 95% of inland search and rescue. we don't wait for someone to get lost to go look for them we practice all year long on simulated exercises so when the real thing happens, we know what to do. and those are the kinds of exercises that metro i would hope would be doing, and training employees and first responders how to work in the environment of the tunnel. they may have waited because they were waiting for power to be turned off to the third rail so that the first responders don't become people who have to be rescued by hitting the third rail. but there are ways to work around active third rails. maybe first responders need to be trained in that sort of thing so that they don't have to wait for power to be cut off. there's all manner of items that have to be considered and looked at in light of what occurred. >> absolutely. to your point, the mayor of d.c. says it is unclear whether firefighters thought they could safely enter the tunnel where trains are electrified by the thir

operations and programs at the department of homeland security, previously serving in the united states air force has director of command and control communications and cyber systems. without objection the full statement will be made part of the record. ambassador if you would like to begin. if you could summarize your remarks we we will go to questions. quick thank you very much. thank you for inviting me today along with my colleagues to testify about north korea. as we responded to the destabilizing provocative and aggressive policies and actions we appreciate the interest and attention you and the community have given the support issue. in recent weeks the american people and the international community have been deeply troubled by the destructive cyber attack on sony pictures entertainment. an extensive investigation was concluded that the attack was conducted by the government of north korea. that is why the president made clear the united states would respond proportionately in a time and manner of our choosing. our response to the attack is consistent with our policy across the board one

of the air force we have dealt with many issues that are enormously critical to national security. first, the united states air force remains fully engaged in combat operations. to date we have provided more than 60 percent of the 16,000 plus. we also continue at the same time our enduring efforts to provide air and space superiority, intelligence, surveillance reconnaissance rapid global mobility nuclear forces and command-and-control. these of course, are our five core missions. we have never wavered, even even with this operation ongoing in the middle east with our sizable and long-standing commitment in europe and throughout the pacific and certainly will not in the future. additionally we have been navigating through some challenging issues that are facing us as an institution including shortfalls in nuclear enterprise tackling sexual assaults and the tough decisions involving the downsizing. in order to increase our perspective the chief and i have i have made a commitment to routinely get outside the beltway and ensure we are getting first-hand feedback and looks at the missions being performed by o

i said i didn't have any intention of being a pilot and you have other officers in the united states air forcey, and they said, we're sorry, we are not going to leave you in rotc. so i got a student deferment but upon graduation i was number one on the list that the draft board was going to call the next month. so i immediately joined the utah national guard, and that was a seven-year commitment to avoid the a two-year commitment. and you could say, well, how smart was that? [laughter] well the guard didn't wasn't full serve years. the two years was two full years. the guard sent me on active duty for six months, and then i had another six and a half years of going to meetings every monday evening and two weeks of summer camp. it was a shared experience with every other young man in the country. when i showed up at fort odder in california to go -- ford ord in california to go through basic training where they fired live ammunition over your head just to convince you they were serious, in my unit of basic training i had african-americans from the inner city i had southern rednecks from the dee

i'm proud to have worn the uniform of the united states air force.and applause] i am proud of young men and women who travel to far-flung regions of the world to fight for all that is right in the world. [cheers and applause] you know, there is nothing wrong in america today that can't be fixed with new leadership. the next two years are about hope and revival and a vision to restore america's place in the world. america is looking for a new path forward and starting today, right here in iowa, let's give it to them! god bless you, and god bless america. thank you. [cheers and applause] ♪ >> on "newsmakers," we look at president obama's tax proposals in the big issues expected in congress in 2015 including efforts to roll back the dodd frank law and the future of fannie mae. tuesdays at 6:00 p.m. on c-span. >> we are showing you some of the speakers from the iowa freedom summit in des moines. the next, chris christie and mike huckabee. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you very much. thank you all for being here today. i want to thank my frien

operations and programs at the department of homeland security previously he served in the united states air force as the chief information officer and director of command, control communications, and cyber systems. at u.s. transportation command. and so without objection, the briefers' full prepared statement will be made part of the record here. members will have five calendar days to submit any statements to you, or questions or put any extraneous material into the record. and ambassador kim, if you would like to begin, and if you could summarize your remarks and then we'll go to questions. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. ranking member engel, and members of the committee. thank you very much for inviting me today. along with my colleagues from treasury and homeland security to testify about north korea. as we respond to north korea's destabilizing, provocative and repressive policies and actions, we appreciate the interest and attention you and the committee have given to this important issue. in recent weeks, mr. chairman, the american people and the international community have been de

of the program are classified as rightly so, but i will duly pass on your concern to the united states air force. [laughter] >> the follow-up on the training again, the u.s. military trainers would then take over the smaller program the cia has been carrying out? will they merge? >> i will not speak for another agency. i can only talk about what we are doing. this is a new program that is being established. we want to get it right more than we wanted fast. it is being established, created from the ground up. the general is working very hard at this. i think he is optimistic. should everything continue to go well we will start to see this training commonplace early this spring -- go into place this spring. you are? [laughter] >> can you say if there is any decision -- ican you say this is not been the idea to merge the programs? >> well, justin, what i can tell he was the general is working on this program. it is a dod program. i'm not -- what i will say and i alluded to this earlier is that in the vetting process, we are going to pull all resources that already exist and that already have inform

united states will retain the infrastructure in europe needed to support our permanently stationed forces additional rotational forces and contingency requirements. on that note, today we are announcing that the united states air force will permanently base the f-35 joint strike fighter in europe and that the secretary of defense has selected the united kingdom as the first location to host two squadrons of f-35's. this decision is just the latest example of the special relationship between the united states and the united kingdom. the presence of u.s. f-35's will lead to new possibilities for collaboration with the united kingdom such as a potential for greater training and wider support opportunities. taken together, these decisions on force presence in europe will enhance operational readiness and mission posture at reduced funding levels all toward the objective of maintaining a strong trans atlantic alliance and meeting our common security interests. with that i'll turn it over to john conger for details on the prose esand decisions made here. >> thanks. >> so i'm john conger and responsible for installations and infrastructure at the department. i've had the responsibility for managing the e.i.c. process

becoming the secretary of the air force about 13 months ago, our air force has dealt with many issues that are enormously critical to our national security. first, the united states air force remains fully engaged in combat operations against isil forces in iraq and syria. to date we have provided more than 60% of the 16,000-plus soaredies that have been flown. we also continue at the same time our enduring efforts to provide air and space superiority, intelligence, surveillance and recon assistancesense, our nuclear forces and command and control. these of course are five core missions and we deliver them through the air, space and cyber space domains. we have never waivered even with this operation ongoing in the middle east with our sizable and long-standing commitments in europe and throughout the pacific, and we certainly won't be wavering in the future. we have been navigating in our air force through some very challenging issues that are facing us as an institution, including short falls in our nuclear enterprise tackling sexual assault and the very tough decisions involving the downsizing. in order to increase our perspective, the chief and i have made a

ensure that the united states will maintain the researcher in europe to station forces, additional rotational forces, and contingency requirements. we are announcing that the united states airforce will permanently base the f-35 joint strike fighter in europe and that the secretary of defense has selected the united kingdom as the first location to host two squadrons of f-35's. this is an example of the special relationship between the united states and the united kingdom. the presence of the f-35's will lead to new possibilities for collaboration with the united kingdom, such as greater training and wider support opportunities. taken together these decisions on our force presence in europe will enhance operational readiness. all towards the objective of maintaining a strong transatlantic alliance and meeting our common security interest. >> "washington journal" continues. host: congressman tom cole of oklahoma is our guest for the next segment of "washington journal." congressman cole, we are hearing of amid the -- i'm eating midmorning of the republican conference, probably talking about how to move forward on the spending on homeland security. can you clueless in on poss

the gcast system we're working on right now in the united states air force and navy. ... i can say and you probably want to answer this is how do we go about that and what is the rulemaking going to be when they talk abo

united states will retain the infrastructure in europe needed to support our permanently stationed forces additional rotational forces and contingency requirements. on that note today, we are announcing that the united states air force will permanently base the f-35 joint strike fighter in europe and that the secretary of defense has selected the united kingdom as the first location to host two squadron of f-35s. this decision is just the latest example of the special relationship between the united states and the united kingdom. the presence of u.s. f-35s will lead to new possibilities for collaboration with the united kingdom such as the potential for greater training and wider support opportunities. taken together, these decisions on our forced presence in europe will enhance our operational readiness and mission posture reduced funding levels all toward the objective of maintaining a strong transatlantic alliance and meeting our common security interests. with that, i'd like to turn it over to my colleague john conger who led the effort for the details on the process and the decisions made here. >> thanks. so i'm john conger and responsible for installations and infrastructure at the department. and the re

the gcas system that we are work rg on right now in the united states air force and navy, we put that uas system because flying an airplane into the ground was not what a pilot wanted to do. so you put that on a uas and hopefully the software worked, which it did, and the plane didn't crash. and then you might get a test pilot to do that. but my questions are more in line with privacy and how congress is going to move forward in the next 20 years, especially when it comes to law enforcement. law enforcement has been part of the uas discussion over the last ten years especially if you have a helicopter that is chasing a bad guy and he flurs that area down there, we have decided that's okay. but if you used a uas, we have decided that that's probably not okay. so the discussion is going to go and i can already see how do we go about that? how is the law making? how is the rule making going to be when we talk about uass in the law enforcement arena. >> i think that's a great question. thank you. i think for law enforcement it is probably the easiest to solve because you just simply say t

operations and programs at the department of homeland security previously he served in the united states air force the chief information officer and director of command, control communications, and cyber systems. at u.s. transportation command. and so without objection, the briefers' full prepared statement will be made part of the record here. members will have five calendar days to submit any statements to you, or questions or put any extraneous material into the record. and ambassador kim, if you would like to begin, and if you could summarize your remarks and then we'll go to questions. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. ranking member engel, and members of the committee. thank you very much for inviting me today. along with my colleagues from treasury and homeland security to testify about north korea. as we respond to north korea's destabilizing, provocative and repressive policies and actions we appreciate the interest and attention you and the committee have given to this important issue. in recent weeks, mr. chairman, the american people and the international community have been deeply

and you have other officers in the united states air force that can't fly and they said, we're sorry.re not going to leave you in rotc. so i got a student deferment but upon graduation i was number one on the list that the draft board was going to call, the next month. so i immediately joined the utah national guard and that was a seven-year commitment to avoid a]-]÷ two-year commitment. and you could say, well, how smart was that? well, the guard didn't -- wasn't full seven years. two years was two full years. the guard sent me on active duty for six months and then i had another six and a half years of going to meetings every monday evening and two to three weeks of summer camp. it was a]'t6ñ shared experience with every other young man in the country. when i went and showed up at fort orem, california tork, to go through basic training where they fired live ammunition over your head just to convince you they were serious in my unit of basic training, i had african-americans from the inner city i had southern rednecks from the deep south there were a couple of other college graduate

air force! he's been serving overseas! he is home master sergeant aaron mckeon! he has been serving 20 years in the united statesth korea. look at that hug. >> i'm just glad they didn't fall down. they were running on ice. >> gosh. >> dad's home. >> heartwarming. i love those stories. >> what a great image. >>> we're going to go back down to the super bowl out in arizona in a minute. but first the headlines. >> some news we've been following overnight. updates for you. this guy was just added to the list of the most wanted terrorists. so who is he and where is he? he may have driven you to work recently. the f.b.i. says he drove taxis in our nation's capitol. he traveled to africa in 2012 to fight with the terror group al-shabab. investigators fear that he will come back and combine that terror training with his knowledge of the dc area. there is a $50,000 reward for his arrest. so take a good look. >>> terrifying scene caught on camera at a dutch tv station. a man armed with a gun stormed into the studio took a security guard hostage of the police swat teams quickly took him down. >> may be wondering why? that

this is not the united states alone. this is air forces of canada of the united arab emirates of jordan of several of our native -- nato allies of the united states, all in combination with the united states and, of course the aid that was given to the kurds, that also wasn even though that operation was mainly based in iraq, again, jordan does have an intrinsic role to play in this coalition and, as much symbolically as operationally." it needs to be seen that a country neighboring -- neighboring syria and iraq is actively involved in this campaign and that this is not another military campaign and a military solution supposedly imposed from thousands of miles away from washington. america has had enough cautionary lessons about what's happened in iraq, it's caution in going in to syria, which president obama has -- for which president obama has under gone a lot of criticism in the united states. so, again, this is very vital that this is to be seen as an all -- an indigenous campaign which the americans obviously are providing most of th

air power. >> mitchell's visionary idea that the united states should have a separate air force made him some enemies, but it also made him friends. many of them, world war i pilots like captain robert oles. >> this is my dad. >> his son can still remember hearing the fly boys spin their yarns. >> i used to sit at the top of the stairs as a little boy and listen to my dad and his contemporaries. it was back during the depression years, so the entertainment was whatever they did right there on base. i'd hear their tales of flying. >> robin oles was born in 1922 and he'd follow his father into the skies, becoming a legendary ace and military leader. >> dad took me up on my birthday when i was about 8. it was a biplane, open cockpit. it's still a thrill to think about it. it's quite different from flying a jet. sitting there with the breeze in your face, wonderful. >> mitchell knew that overcoming the military's prejudice against the airplane required a dramatic test. in july of 1921, with scores of military brass and cameras looking on, mitchell's air crews attacked a group of obsolete american

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united states will retain the infrastructure in europe needed to support our permanently stationed forces, additional rotational forces, and contingency requirements. on that note, today we are announcing that the united states air force will permanently base the f-35 joint strike fighter in europe and that the secretary of defense has selected the united kingdom as the first location to host two squadrons of f-35's. this decision is just the latest example of the special relationship between the united states and the united kingdom. the presence of u.s. f-35's will lead to new possibilities for collaboration with the united kingdom such as a potential for greater training and wider support opportunities. taken together, these decisions on force presence in europe will enhance operational readiness and mission posture at reduced funding levels all toward the objective of maintaining a strong trans atlantic alliance and meeting our common security interests. with that i'll turn it over to john conger for details on the prose esand decisions made here. >> thanks. >> so i'm john conger and responsible for installations and infrastructure at the department. i've had the responsibility for managing the e.i.c. process

united states. >> get out the good china, mike okay, air force one going to touchdown and here are the details.iladelphia international airport. jump in the motorcade, we go for a ride into old city philadelphia. the area goes into shutdown mode. ninety-five corridor will be shutdown, on and off ramps once he arrives in old city we'll open it up. he returns wheels up at 9:00 at air force one so probably around 8:30 that motorcade will return back to the airport. so the 95 corridor will be a hot mess for evening rush hour. >> and a flyers game. >> and flyer game that starts at 7:00. so if you have a ticket to the game, you got to think outside of the box i use the schuylkill expressway. how often do you hear meows the schuylkill as an alternate? >> never. >> never. get down there early. grab yourself a soda and pretzel and hang out. same thing grab jumbo pretzel for the ride home. that will be a hot mess up and down the i-95 corridor. live look at i59 right now near philadelphia international airport, keep in mind, mike, when air force one comes in they halt all arriving and departing traffic fo

cooper's career in the united states air force and in the medical career in dallas texas, he's continued to revitalize health care and fitness. he's also the father of preventative medicine and known as the father of aerobics. trying to make sure that american people and the world understand how important fitness is to our life and our health. i want to express my hardy congratulations to dr. cooper on receiving this outstanding award on behalf of the national football league and i hope the american people and today the united states congress. i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition? mr. cohen: to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from tennessee is is recognized for e nu. mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. today the president will be speaking in knoxville, tennessee, on extending college education to americans. i share with the president the goal of giving more americans

abbas standing on the front line together yet you have the president of the united states of america who could take air forcetennessee to talk about free community college but couldn't find the time to go to france to stand in solidarity against this tragic accident we had. you had eric holder that was there in paris that flew out of town before the rally. you did not have the vice president or secretary of state. it shows we have an administration that is not serious about confronting this issue that continues to call nidal hasan's attack at fort hood workplace violence. they are basically denying this. you saw eric holder on several sunday morning shows who could not bring himself to say we are in a war against islamic terrorism. i call it islamic fash itch. >> he could have been there to represent the united states. what does this say about his priorities? why wasn't it important enough for him to be there or at least send the vice president or someone else within his administration? >> unfortunately i think it shows that this president and this administration does not want to tackle the issue of islamic

i think it was found in 1958 and was eventually back to the united states for display at an air force museum. >> so it is still somewhere then? >> i imagine it is the air force museum in dayton. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you, all, very much for joining me and for coming. i would like to say i mentioned to you, james bend as written wonderful books on this, but allen first in many ways is to go-to for various theaters of world war ii and he as a brilliant book about romania and the value of the oil fields there. he is in hungry as well. he is everywhere. if you want a broad-based picture of world war ii the allen first novels are it. but if you want another perspective you cannot do better than tillman. if you would like him to sign the books, you can bring them up. thank you for coming. >> guest: thank you for hosting me. >> good job. >> this is an army airplane. an a-24 and it is at the wright-patterson museum. yes, sir? how would you like that in inscribed? >> you are watching booktv. television for serious readers. >>> here is a look at books being published this week: senator ma

previously he served in the united states air force as the chief information officer and director of command control communications and cyber systems. at u.s. transportation command to answer without objection, the briefers full prepared statements will be made part of the record here. members will have five calendar days to make any statements to you, or questions are putting x-rays we go into the record. and ambassador kim if you would like to begin, and if you could summarize remarks, then will go to questions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. ranking member engel, and members of the committee, thank you very much for inviting me today. along with my colleagues from treasury and homeland security to testify about north korea. as we respond to north korea's destabilizing, provocative and repressive policies and actions, we appreciate the interest and attention you and the committee have given to this important issue. in recent weeks, mr. chairman the american people and the international community have been deeply troubled by the destructive cyber attack on sony pictures entertainment.

abas standing on the front line together putt yet you have the president of the united states of america who could take air force one to knoxville, tennessee to talk about precommunity college but yet he could not find the time to go to paris, france and stand in solidarity against this tragic incident we had just last week. >> meantime, secretary kerry who was in india during the march plans to be in paris later this week. but he's come under fire for calling the fuss over the u.s. no show quote, quibbling. all right. quibbling senator scott brown, we've heard voices from all sides of the aisle. new york daily news not a conservative newspaper with the headline today sueaying you let the world down. the white house said look. there was a scheduling conflict and our security is so massive. for once this event wasn't about us. do you really believe that the white house let everybody else have the spotlight because of security concerns? >> no. of course not. i thought he came out good in the beginning. obviously when the tragedy happened but since then is very typical in that he doesn't follow through. there's a l

introduce a sponsor of the bill yesterday, bill johnson, 26-year member of the -- veteran of the united states air force came up to the rules committee and had one of the most delightful conversations on a bipartisan basis with other democrats and republicans, talked about the attributes of jobs and natural resource. thank god we live in america and have these opportunities to where we can help other countries. mr. speaker, at this time, i would like to yield five minutes to the original sponsor of this the gentleman from ohio, mr. johnson. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. johnson: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, mr. chairman. i rise in support of h.r. -- of the rule in support of h.r. 351. during the 113th congress, identical legislation passed the house of representatives as h.r. 6. the domestic prosperity and global freedom act. long before its passage it moved through the entire legislative process at the house level. this included a hearing as well as an eventual markup at the subcommittee on energy and power. a subsequent full committee markup followed

. >>> the next president of the united states will take off in a brand new air force one. the pentagon announced the contract for the ngo to chicago based boeing. the current fleet of two presidential aircraft will be replaced by boeing 747-8 planes. that's the latest generation of the 747. the current air force one went into service in 1990. that was during president george h.w. hush's timebush's office. no word when it will awe've. >>> and another planet is out there with ringses like saturn, except those rings are about 200 times as large. changes in the planet's lighting clued them in on how it look. the first time scientists have found a planet other than saturn with rings. if saturn had rings as big as this one does you'd be able to see it clearly from earth just like the moon. >>> "newsweek's" latest cover story focusing on women or the lack thereof in silicone valley. look at the cover. diversity figures in the article. 69% of people who work at facebook are men. 31% are women. a similar situation at apple. globally 70% of the staff are men for apple. 30% women. sa

. >>> well the next president to the united states will take off in a brand-new air force one. take a look at this. the air force will use boeing's newest 747 to replace its current fleet of two presidential jetliners. those planes went into service 25 years ago during president george h.w. bush's time in office. >>> well we're not flying air force one anytime soon but if you're in the market for a new set of wheels or love cars you'll want to listen up. the 2015 philly auto show is set to roll into the convention center this weekend. take a look. mayor michael nutter kicked off this year's show by driving a pretty nice aston martin into the convention center. one of the 700 current, concept and classic cars on display. here to give us a preview, kevin mazukala. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. that car is not quite as fast as air force one, but pretty darn fast. >> if you need anyone to drive it around for a while, or if you want to give it to me i'm here. >> it's yours. you would look great in it. >> i would love that car. there is some changes this year for folks who

late today president obama called french president hollande from air force one offering condolences and the full support of the united states. homeland security, secret service and pentagon officials say there is no known domestic threat. still, administration officials say the paris attack is a reminder that terrorists will strike anywhere. officials in some major cities including new york and boston have beefed up security today. the president called france one of america's oldest allies and condemned the attacks. >> for us to see the kind of cowardly, evil attacks that took place today, i think, reinforces once again why it's so important for us to stand in solidarity with them just as they stand in solidarity with us. >> reporter: secretary john kerry echoed mr. obama's remarks, speaking in english and french. >> each and every american stands with you today not just in horror or in anger or in outrage for this vicious act of violence. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> reporter: now, u.s. intelligence officials have been in contact with their french counterparts throughout the day. the president on the road for three

. >>> the next president of the united states will take off in a brand-new air force one. the air force will use boeing's newest 747 like the ones you see here to replace its current fleet of two presidential jetliners. those planes went into service 25 years ago for president george h.w. bush. boeing has a plan in delaware county, but so far the company has not announced where the new air force one will be built. >>> this morning drivers in delaware have something to smile about. officials lifted the ban on smiling in driver's license photos. the ban had been in place for about five years after the state installed new facial recognition technology. officials lifted the ban after an upgrade to that system. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. >> clear skies this morning. we're waiting for sunrise. less than a half an hour away. we've got very cold temperatures this morning. completely clear. 22 degrees in the city. a little bit of a breeze makes it feel like 14. but most of the area seeing no wind, and that has really dropped the temperat

united states and south korea are regular occurrences. this one, codenamed max thunder - took place in november at the kunsan air force base 150 miles south of seoul... >> this type of exercise takes place every year but for the north korean government they consider this a provocation and a threat. >> north korea is still a flash point. we're still at a state of war with north korea. this is 1953 armistice. >> if there was someday heaven forbid a real war here we would need to work very closely. we are always practicing together always working together >> thankfully we have helped stabilize and ensure the security of the peninsula for the last 61 years, but in spite of that long time we have to be ready to fight tonight and that really is our mantra. >> north korea is under new leadership. >> kim jong-un looks funny he is overweight and sometimes does strange things. but he is smart. when his father died 7 top officials, 4 generals and 3 civilian bureaucrats, walked next to the coffin of his father in december 2011. in two years time, none of them was alive and in a high level position. >> when it comes to international relations, kim jon