. >> oliver: in january 1964 the man who would command the troops william westmoreland arrives in saigon. >> he needs a larger commitment to stabilize the situation. >> do you think it's a mistake to explain? >> i think what the president, it would be wise to say as a little possible. >> the u.s. arrival of the beatles was met with youthful frenzy but in washington, lb objective had bigger things on his mind. it would really foul up his campaign strategy. >> if we're going to stay in there, we haven't done so yet. i'm not sure if it's exactly the right time. >> if you start doing it you will be called a war amonger. >> it was a war that was lost in slow motion. >> despite his growing concern over the affect on his campaign, a covert operation sent asian percent nears to carry out attacks on the communists. >> u.s. navy destroyers were on top secret gathering missions along the north vietnamese coast two august 1964 one of destroyers were attacked. >> two torpedo boats went out. they lost the fight. >> washington called the attacks unprovoked and claimed the maddux was on a routine patrol

what johnson does he under states the number of troops that general westmoreland wants and under states money it's going to take. >> oliver: initial contact was light. but they needed to be aware of booby traps. >> it was a cakewalk. >> did you have good maps? >> not very good maps. vietnam has bunch nice things like leaches and other things. >> you get into a fresh water stream and time to wash up a little bit. you have all these leaches hanging on places you don't want to talk about. >> and there would be far more than leaches to worry about. location of 2,000 vietcong. marines were ordered to take them on. >> it was totally hush, hush. >> what is going through your head? >> what the hell are we in to? >> oliver: operation starlight takes a bloody toll when war stories continues. does your phone share what you are seeing and hearing right now with the touch of a button ? droid does. does it post it instantly to facebook with sound ? droid does. droid with color for facebook. it's the ultimate status update. get a droid razr maxx by motorola for only $199.99. >>. >> oliver: in august o

westmoreland. mr. westmoreland: i thank my colleague for yielding. i want to again emphasize that according to a 2008 report, by the center for justice, law, and society, at george mason university, the total state, county, and local expenditures for indigent defense services, that same year, was almost. $4.5 billion. federal defender organizations which also use federal funds for defense services, received an additional $849 million for the same purpose that year. combined with almost $351 million in funds that the congress appropriated that year, it brings the total to $5.7 billion. of that $5.7 billion total, only 6.1% was appropriated by congress. assuming total nonlegal services corporation funding for indigent defense services, not increased since then, my amendment to reduce the agency by $128 million down to $200 million would result in a $2 -- would result in a 2.5% decrease in overall indigent defense service funding. reducing the legal services corporation funding to $200 million, as my amendment would do, would reduce overall c.j.s. fundi

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many of those veterans of that era despised mcnamara for having said in the westmoreland trial in 1984, and also earlier when the pentagon papers were published for urging them to fight a war that he knew was militarily unwinnable. if he had this great insight, why did he go on in public telling us to fight? and why did he make all these upbeat statements? now what i show in chapters 17 and 19 was that he was playing a kind of semantic game with his public statements in the later war years. he was saying, "the chiefs and general westmoreland think we're winning and the military picture looks good according to all military professionals." he kept using language like that. the fine print is, he wasn't saying he said that. now, you know, this is like a hall of mirrors here. now what he says in my book is, "i wanted them to fight on in the field because the professionals thought we were getting somewhere. i wanted to put pressure on hanoi by causing all this loss to their side to get them to come to negotiate on the political track." he kept saying, "we had two tracks." and he's absolutely

mcmillen: well, i was actually born and raised in westmoreland county so i have been aware of the conditions in herminie all my life. herminie has declined, because for any type of business of any size to come in and create jobs, they need the infrastructure there, and in herminie, it's just not there. narrator: to address community frustrations, sewickley township, home of herminie, created a sewer authority board in 1998. it's comprised of residents and business owners who worked for almost a decade to get sewage infrastructure for the area. miller: we were novices. i don't think anybody in the township knew where to go. and we were frustrated at times. we thought we were right on the cusp of getting funding, and then, something happened and we didn't get it. yeah, we could go out and float a loan, and probably people would be looking at maybe $100 a month in sewage bills. so what you have to try to do is get enough funding to keep sewage rates at a reasonable rate so people can afford them. and that's been a real problem. without grant money, it can't be done. mcmillen: they were in line,

he was general westmoreland's communication guy. he used to do the radio on the helicopter. he was like a second father to me. down here on the bottom left is his future wife. they have been married for many years. naomi little. she was like another mother to me. she became my war mother. when i came home on mid tour leave, she said, i got something for you. we were at a pow-wow. i said, okay. she said, you have to go to church. i was like, okay. i was worried going into a church. i got in there. she did a blessing. she gave me the penny that max had had. she said this will keep you safe. i had another item to carry with me to help watch over me. as i carried that item, i kept it close to my heart. had it around my dog tags. i ended up at the pow-wow where i met debra mooney. she took me around and introduced me to people. i ran across a soldier. we were taking a photo together. i saw him and i said, little. he said, yes. i said do you have a brother named max? he said it is my big brother. i said wow. he was having a hard time in iraq. he was feeling it. right before i left

. >> general westmoreland decided to down play the attack. >> the enemy has taken advantage of the troopsand in my opinion this is diversion yairy to main efforts which he had planned to take place. >> he was the governor. a lot of people were turned off by it. but it was a smart military man. >> this military historian and author of "fire in the streets". >> and johnson was the guy who took the isolation. >> he faced this man. a former schoolteacher with no formal military training. he had been a soldier since the 40s and helped drive the french out of vietnam. he had a plan to reunite the country. >> the forces would launch tactical and operational assaults throughout south vietnam. and they could show cause and overthrow the government. take the place over. >> the intelligence officers had the job of questioning prisoners that had been wounded up -- rounded up in attacks. >> we brought them up to see if they had knowledge. once that occurred our area was surrounded all of a sudden. we were interviewing everyone dragged n went from having 40 prisoners to about 250. in hours. a majority

. >> general westmoreland decided to down play the attack. >> the enemy has taken advantage of the troopsand in my opinion this is diversion yairy to main efforts which he had planned to take place. >> he was the governor. a lot of people were turned off by it. but it was a smart military man. >> this military historian and author of "fire in the streets". >> and johnson was the guy who took the isolation. >> he faced this man. a former schoolteacher with no formal military training. he had been a soldier since the 40s and helped drive the french out of vietnam. he had a plan to reunite the country. >> the forces would launch tactical and operational assaults throughout south vietnam. and they could show cause and overthrow the government. take the place over. >> the intelligence officers had the job of questioning prisoners that had been wounded up -- rounded up in attacks. >> we brought them up to see if they had knowledge. once that occurred our area was surrounded all of a sudden. we were interviewing everyone dragged n went from having 40 prisoners to about 250. in hours. a majority

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still slow inbound along 66 inside of the beltway as you try to work your way out towards westmoreland landover road now down to about 27 miles per hour. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >>> here is a question for you. looking for a more laid back lifestyle? you may want to pack up and head to the eastern shore. a new survey ranks solomon's islands at happiest seaside town in the u.s. at least one of them. solomon's island ranks 15th on the list compiled by coastal living magazine. the list take several factors into account including the number of sunny days, commute time and well-being reported by the residents. >> kiawah island reports as the top island. >> holly is steping into the ring at champion boxing fitness. >> i into it had to do something with exercise, right? >> we'll see how her jab is when we come back. e come back. >>> good morning i am holly morris on this monday morning. how would you like to burn a thousand calories in an hour. all you got to remember is you got the hit to be fit. that is the motto at champion boxing fitness live in rockville. this is not

we do have delays 66 inside of the beltway down to 4 miles per hour at westmoreland.g for the crash northbound on the gw parkway at the beltway. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. -timetraffic. >> thank you. >>> the redskins' off season is officially over. the team began their first of ten organized team activity sessions yesterday. the wet weather forced practice inside. 90 rookies and vets took to the practice field at their indoor facility in ashburn. there are lots of newcomers but none are more under the spotlight than rookie water back rg iii. he threw passes to the vets for the first time in an organized practice. >> with rookie manhuntee camp, you are more there to try to show coach hey, you drafted me, i'm as advertised. when you are awith the vets, it is more of i can help this team win, show them why coach had so much confidence in you. >> it is so evident that's a tremendous athlete i think no one will ever question that. his ability to be great for us and to be great early will be to understand what we're doing offensively and we'll be able to b

you folks will have heavy rain around westmoreland and maybe just clipping st. mary's county.e'll zoom in. these storms thankfully have weakened a little bit, still pretty heavy rain around seneca and dulles and backside of route 50. everything is pushing off to the ease, northeast. we'll put this -- east, north east. we'll put this into motion. it's going to cross 97 into bethesda and wheaton and eventually cross 650 and everything weakens which is good, but showers remain well to the west of us. we aren't clearing out any time soon. temperatures, remember that 73 downtown? look at this. 61 in sterling. it's 59 already in leesburg, so yeah, the cold front is through and the cool air is on our doorstep. 73 in rockville, but 66 in gaithersburg. as cool as it's going to be tonight it's still going to be a bit above average. the cold front moving through, a wet evening commute, windy, cooler tomorrow morning. you'll need your shades and jacket and the kids need a jacket, too. breezy and cool friday. two nice days, but a little bit on the brisk side. showers and thunderstorms endi

separate incidents 50 and 123 both clear to the shoulder big delays, eastbound, centerville traffic, westmorelanddown to 24 miles an hour. crash, gw parkway, involving a car that spun out facing the wrong direction. outer loop of the belt way headed for the wilson bridge. left side blocked average speed out of virginia, 24 miles an hour, leaving route 1. problems with a car fire tieing up your commute along old columbia pike and 198. that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. >>> julie thanks. a health alert for men a government health panel recommends healthy men should not get routine prostate cancer screening. the expert says psa blood tests lead to treatments that carry risk including heart attacks and occasionally death. in some cases tiny tumours detected would never have killed patients. >>> turns out a brand of pomegranate juice is not effective in the treatment for cancer heart disease or another illnesses despite what the company says. a federal june ruled yesterday, pom wonderful used -- judge ruled yesterday pom wonderful used deceptive advertising to say they prevented illnesses.