. >> let's go to the phones and hear from mark joining us from norfolk, virginia. independent line. hi, mark. >> good morning to you. miss olson, i just recently had some interaction with your office, as a matter of fact, i'm waiting for a return response. i would say as my first experience with you all, it was an awesome one with your office out of denver, colorado. i'm not one of these ones to beat a drum saying government should be small, but in the case of the irs, that's an organization that is just so bureaucratic and huge where the toe is not connected to the foot, the foot is not connected to the ankle, and it can get so frustrating in trying to make a call even if you give up your t.i.n. if you're business, your social if you're individual. it's almost like you're out of state. has the irs truly looked at the possibility of streamlining the process, and certainly, if you could get rid of all of the pages by pages by pages, i think between -- you could shrink the government size, one; two, make the paperwork simple, i would think there would have to be some savings on the ta

so fairbanks went back to norfolk and created a thing calmed the beach jumpers, using sonic deception. nobody's quite sure where that name comes from, in any case, they used landing craft and pt boats to simulate this is the place where troops would land, practiced on the beaches of norfolk and went down to the outer banks of north carolina, a great, wonderful place i'm fond of and used the old coast guard station as a staging guard. meantime, fairbanks got mixed up with a guy named hilton howe raily. white a character. he was sort of brilliant, eccentric, probably a manic depressive by our standards. the guy, for example, discovered amelia earhart as an obscure person and put together her first flight across the atlantic as the first woman to cross. she passed as a passenger, nonetheless, it made her reputation. he did other things. while the lis tainia had been suvg in world war i, he was a serving officer at that point. after the war he put together a consortium to try to raise the sunken gold from the lusitania, which is crazy for a lot of reasons. one of which to the british it was a sack ra sankt tomb of lost souls and should

from tomorrow. >>> a new season a upon us. orioles opening day is friday. relievers get the final spots. today was the final tuneup. they played an exhibition in norfolk.er it is his second full season. there are questions and uncertainties. in talking to the team it's clear they believe they have the right nothing lead the way. >> he's there for the players. he made that statement clear. that's the only thing you can really ask for, somebody to have your back in tough times. >> i have a good feel for what they go through. i try to put myself in their head and shoes as much as possible. you try to create an atmosphere that is competitive but at the same time it has a sense of reality about it. >> baseball genius, maybe. he understands the little stuff that most people might miss. >> any situation that's going to present itself during the game we're going to be ready for it. that's all you can ask. >> now in his history his teams have shown the most improvement in his second full season. that would be this year for the o's if that trend were to continue. >>> most all of the analysts are predicting a last place finish for the o's in the american league e

according to the federal government, norfolk is also one of the city's most at risk from sea level rise. what used to be occasional floods now happen a lot more often. it used to take big storms to shut down parts of the city. now just some rain and a seasonal high tide can turn neighborhood streets into canals. >> flooding has, i mean its with a phenomena that occurred with big storms, not on a daily basis, not just when high tides came, not just when full moons got here. and now we have water seeping not city. into our streets nearly monthly. >> so the problem is getting worse. >> there's no question that the problem is getting worse. >> reporter: rise >> holman: "rising tide" airs tonight on most pbs stations. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. judy. >> woodruff: and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. "washington week" can be seen later this evening on most pbs stations. we'll see you online, and again here monday evening. have a nice weekend. thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided

us today. >> thank you. >> all right. the mayor talking about to a 55 police officers. that's just virginia beach city. we know that ladder trucks and fire crews have been sent in from norfolk to help as well. we have state police officers on the highway keeping folks off of 264. if you're just joining us again by now you may have heard the fa-18 jet had crashed into a virginia beach apartment complex about an hour and a half ago. this is birdneck road, near 24th. a couple of blocks on the other side of the interstate from the virginia beach convention center. >> i want to leave the affiliate coverage. we have tim riley. the public information officer. what can you tell us about what happened? >> hello? mayor? >> can you hear us? >> yes. >> tim riley, it's suzanne malveaux with cnn. can you hear us? >> yes, ma'am. >> can you please tell us what know? >> okay, it was an fa-18 delta. two seat that's gone down. we have an apartment building damaged. two pilots that have ejected from thecene. they were transported to the local hospital. as of now, we have not had any confirmed injuries on the ground, but i do want to say there's been significant damage to the five buildings and