>>host: relay marine? >> i joined 1995 out of college i served on active duty five years and then the reserves. >> where have you served? >> afghanistan. and also camper issue in. >>host: what are some of the tensions the marines have because there is a dependent relationship? >> there are not major tensions now but you can hide in the past without too much work for the president. of the modern court today is the. >> line has been spent two negative time we pay for the equipment that you use. and you should read the help o -- helpful we're here. after rover to the story changed if you lose the navy. >> the relationship in the global but the power is radically different now than screw my then they created office with four people now they have been elaborate and successful brand. by all accounts and more films and videos and television shows you could imagine. this is evidence of their ability to create powerful civilian alliances to protect their interest. >>host: midterm marine is misleading? >> nowadays i

. >> i talked a little bit about mou's and relationships with the marines. maybe we can talk about how is the national guard and dod resources and capabilities integrated into the command and control at the fire and also the supporting ops centers whether it be the gac or other centers down there. maybe our military personnel can talk about that, or ray. >> it's important to note that we are the supporting effort to cal fire and we get called in when they are basically out of assets. we are working for cal fire, they are the incident commanders, we follow their coordination, typically we're the last ones in and the first ones out. we do have an on-going relationship with cal fire, i'm in contact with cal fire all the time. we have good situational awareness what's going on in the state of california. they normally put us in an alert stat us so we're prepared to respond in an attack mode. i don't often work with chief chaney in southern california, about a month ago we had 9 aircraft at our peak working fires throughout northern california if that answers you

we greatly respect navy, marine corps and guard safety policy. cal fire has an aviation policy as well. we work cooperatively with the agencies here at the table to ensure when we are engaged in an aerial fire fighting event we are working within each other's policies. we have trained in a work around, we can do close air support with navy and marine corps aircraft, with the current system we have. would we like to improve upon it? absolutely. we have gone very high up in the organization to try and look at getting the r210 radio modified to the point where it can work on our vhf spectrums, that's one of our challenges we need to move forward with. but overall we're confident when we do call upon dod assets to integrate with civilian aircraft, the training regimen we put forth will keep aircrews safe and also have them be effective. there was a lot of questions from a political level as well as a public level. you've got aircraft sitting at north island, just launch them, get them in the fight. it was hard to explain to them that that's a very de

first marine decision, first marine expeditionary force forward entered southwest afghanistan during 2009. we arrived in 2010 so it was a bit more stable. and we went straight to helman and nimruz province. very complex dynamic environment that we were operating in but before i begin it talk to you about the operational picture, i just want to give you a snapshot of afghanistan. when we got there i want to set the frame here so you understand what we're dealing with. afghanistan ranged 180th out of 1 86 on the world bank list of developed countries. 20 percent of the babies won't reach their first year of life. there is a 44 year life span for your average citizen. it has a less than 20 percent literacy rate and girls in afghanistan will marry by the time they are 15 and will likely birth their second child by the time they are 20. so this is the long-term effects of violence and civil wars within a failed state by every measure. the marines who are currently still in southwest afghanistan, they are surrounded by very conservative culture. in 2010, this is not true now but narco traf

here we have a young man from fremont volunteers for the marines becomes a marine goes to afghanistan. and then comes home safely. he celebrating with a friend in southern california, has a run- in with cops, and now he's dead. so the family is very concerned about this. they would like to have some kind of answers to their questions. they are now demanding an investigation by the united states marine corps. they said that they have contacted washington, d.c. but it's never clear that that sort of thing is going to help. at this point, we have a very grief-stricken family looking for answers. the 22-year-old marine was killed by palm springs police in the early-morning hours of saturday, november 10. corp allen def lena was stationed at camp pendleton in southern california after returning from afghanistan. his family says he was planning to go to college. >> my son was a great kid well loved with charisma. his uppers in the marines, they loved him. everybody. he's worked different platoons in the battalion and he is well love. >> reporter: palm springs say he and a fellow marine why

to her left, commander steve everett, to his left lieutenant colonel dana, marine corps installation west. thank you. let me go ahead and start off by talking a little bit and just going back over some of the discussions yesterday that i think are going to play into this discussion. we had vice admiral beeman talk a little bit yesterday about capabilities and vice admiral zunkoff talked about partnerships, unity of effort, unity of command. mayor lee talked about dod efforts, expertise, community efforts and as we go into all those discussions today you will see best practices applied during the 10 years from those fires. i have the pleasure of working for administrator fuget in fema headquarters. fema's role is to coordinate response between state and local governments and his focus, his direction to us really comes down it 3 things. he asks us to always plan for the worst case, the maximum of the maximums and it's go to see the department of defense is incorporating this within the catastrophe policy that was spoken about a little earlier. no. 2, he asked us to sppbld and are able

i'm with first marine briged. i've been coming to san francisco since may for the planning efforts and i got to participate in the com drill with 6 marines and we were dispersed from all 3 different sites. >> good morning, everybody, my name is michelle geddis, i'm with the san francisco department of emergency management, i'm responsible for the project management ofrs and one of our major programs is the interoperatability program. so i was more than delighted to be part of this com exercise, i was able to be an evaluator at the ocean beach location and we have a lot of lessons learned to talk about. thanks. >> one of the challenges that we have in civilian and also you as military is that common operating picture. how do we make sure that all of our resources in the field, back in the command post, have the same operating picture and we can ensure that we have an unity of effort of everyone. and with the command and control exercise that we started with, this was one great opportunity for the military and the c

so some marine small sea life in there absolutely disappeared. that's another effect you can see a lighthouse in there before tsunami and where is the lighthouse in the middle of the island down there after the tsunami. so the bottom is absolutely came up. another example. another effect of -- global effect. because of the change of the mass of the earth, because it moves so it change slightly the configuration, it has an effect in the axis rotation of the globe. it moved 8 centimeters north pole to the east and that means rotation increased 1.26 millions of seconds so you work less because of chili right now, but it's an impact you have to take into account that happened because of that earthquake. here i can show you a set of photographs of the destruction in the coastal villages, most of them was because of the tsunami. the waves came in there and destroy everything. it goes about 300 meters inland, so nothing was safe. in the port activities, the containers, it's impressive derelict, you have it take that into account in places where you put

lands, i should say the marin mammal center recently. we have a visitor coming from australia that wants to get over there. if you have the bus on saturday, that will be wonderful. and i will appreciate if you have more publicity regarding it because a lot of people don't know that exists. and if we could see like the places where you're going to have the bus stop and the whole schedule, that would be helpful also. and i thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> tony ann, followed by susan casey, and then bridget boy lan. is mr. ahn here? no, susan casey. followed by bridget boy lan. >> good afternoon, ms. casey. >>> good afternoon. i'm also very excited about having the 76 expanded to saturday. i mainly wanted more information about why we wanted to eliminate stops, what the reasoning was behind that. >> thanks much. next speaker, please. >> last speaker who submitted a card, bridget boy lan. is ms. boy lan here? not. >> thank you very much. members of the board, do you want to do a presentation? we have seen it. speak for myself

marines. he was actually in town last weekend touring local colleges. it was his hope to study sound engineering, he had a passion for music. bob redell, "today in the bay." >>> the man behind a multimillion dollar company in silicon valley is in hiding this morning. at this point he's refusing to talk to police in central america after his neighbor was found dead. marla tellez is joining us from the newsroom with more details on this ongoing manhunt for john mcafee. good morning, marla. >> reporter: jon, good morning. john mcafee made a $100 million fortune when he sold his antivirus company in santa clara almost 20 years ago. you could say he took the money and ran to belize to retire. now he's running from police. authorities in belize say the 67-year-old is a person of interest in the death of his neighbor, greg fall, seen right here. he was shot to death at his beachside property sunday. mcafee contacted "wired" magazine to declare his innocence saying he's worried who may have shot his neighbor may have actually been aiming for him. he tells the r

after that he enlisted with the marines before september eleventh. i had to give my written consent because he was just seventeen in the house. that's the legal age for enrollment in the us army. the iraq war began on march twentieth. on the twenty eighth just eight days later and three soldiers came to see me. you know they called me at work and i came home. and they said mr suarez your son is a hero but you know he died tonight in the battlefield the iraqi soldiers shot him in the head. i swear to those words destroyed my life. three days later a journalist called me. and you said mr suarez they lied to you and your son wasn't killed by the enemy so he was killed by friendly fire in here explained what happened. it is during the night of march twenty sixth. planes twenty thousand cluster bombs. anything to see it on march twenty seventh my son's unit marched on baghdad. and he stepped on an american cluster bomb. i mean nobody's paying me to talk to you no matter what i do will never come back. me my grandson will never see his father again. but in

and this was the united states marine corps not marine corps which is where i??ñ?ñ? joined. so i would like to present that issue to perhaps this commission, maybe the board of supervisors, so÷lñ?ñ? that people who work for the city who did not join san francisco -- join the service in san francisco, could get consideration because we all serve side fought or whatever we did in the service. and this is what i did in the marine corps. my second issue is i'd like to see just a little ñ?ñ?ñ bit more done for veterans coming out of the military not only veterans coming out of the military, but also homeless veterans and veterans coming5wñ?ñ? out of pretty prison. before i came to2s5cdt$@v the city i worked for the -- as a jobs developer working in a 26 construction apprenticeship programs. so i worked a lot with ex-offenders, people coming out of prison and wase=(Ñr in jail and was able to get those people in the 26 trades actively working. that's been 20 years ago. and i still run into some of them today who are now foremen on the job, teaching at apprenticeship school

i don't think that he enlisted with the marines before september eleventh. i had to give my written consent because he was just seventeen in the house. that's the legal age for enrollment in the u.s. army. the iraq war began on march twentieth. on the twenty eighth just eight days later the soldiers came to see me. they called me at work and i came home. and they said mr suarez your son is a hero but you know he died tonight in the battlefield they were iraqi soldiers shot him in the head. i swear to those words destroyed my life. three days later a journalist called me. so you said mr suarez they lied to you and your son wasn't killed by the enemy so he was killed by friendly fire in he explained what happened. it is during the night of march twenty sixth. planes struck and twenty thousand cluster bombs. anything to see it on march twenty seventh my son's unit marched on baghdad. and he stepped on an american cluster bomb. i mean nobody's paying me to talk to you it doesn't matter what i do this will never come back to me my grandson will never see his fath

rich and marines, one navy corpsman, three marines, one navy corpsman on her face. you want to talk about a complete culture shock. i can say right back out when. we did everything from eating to drinking to mission planning to hearing about stories of their life. it really helped us become a solid unit only learn to depend on one another and rely on one another. i want to talk about the afghan side runabout with the current events are. one of the best lessons taught as not to look at the world and not just people by their religion, skin color, financial status or anything like that, but except them for who they are. i have to tell you i'm guilty of having what i call a small-town conflict. this way you think the world is that big a message you think this has to chew tat. up to you now 24 and that's not the case anymore. but we always do that. we as humans are so fast to judge one another without getting to know each other for what they are. i guess it's something we can all take within two. said the station in northeastern afghanistan, a place called asmara nocona

marine corps retired major general, michael myatt. [applause] >> well, thank you very much, lieutenant galvin and thank all of you. i specifically want to thank the st. francis yacht club for allowing us to have in event here. it add us so much dignity here. there are so many people to thank here, particular in my case. aren't we blessed? i have these two great honorary co-chairs. secretary schulz, i thank you so much, sir for your guidance. senator finestein would be here except she's got a plane to catch because she's got a busy schedule. she said last night, tell everybody i would be here if i didn't have a big schedule, she's running for re-election this time. i do want to thanks my board of directors and specifically because i was out of pocket for a few months. jodie brekenridge made things happen. what you see today is a big part of what jodie has made happen. my job is to introduce a number of people, but the first person i want to bring up here is the biggest supporter in san francisco of what we're trying to achieve. the may

police shooting and killing a young marine just back home from war. he was based out of camp pendleton. the 22-year-old died following a confrontation with palm springs police on saturday. his family is now heading to southern california searching for any kind of answers. jean elle has more details. >> reporter: an american flag stands in front of their house in san jose. the family is driving to palm springs to learn more about why police shot and killed the 22-year-old marine. police say it happened early saturday morning in a downtown parking garage. the police chief in palm springs says police on bicycles went to check out loud voices inside the lot. officers say they recognized the marine and his friend from an earlier run-in with them, a drunken public incident. police say they ordered him to stop his car and when he drove off with one officer hanging out of the passenger side window and hit another officer, police fired, killing the san jose marine. >> after we collect all the witness statements, the statements from the officers involved and th

we work closely with cal guard, navy and marine corps aviation. we do that with squadron training. we still have khal lefrpg wills, i'm not going to lie to you. we have issues where tactical to air communication is difficult. cal guard, we purchased the radios for national guard aircraft and they installed them in their aircraft so we have robust communications with california national guard, with navy and marine corps it's still a work in progress. we have a work around with that with respect to tactical communications and we use coordinating helicopters to handle air to ground tactical situations and that is relayed to the aircraft that are in trail. it's not perfect but it's a work around and it keeps everybody in the fight. >> prior to 20011 2011 the navy fire fighting capability was concentrated in one squadron. in 2011 it began to expand to other helicopter squadrons. one consequence of that would be multiple squadrons providing aircraft to cal fire to support the fire fighting effort and one somewhat simple but very effective solution was the use of defense connect on line,

one example is marine sergeant christian ellis. he suffered a broken back during an ambush in iraq, and in many ways, he felt for a long time maybe his spirit was broken, too. until he converted his story into the most remarkable thing: an opera. pho pho photojournalist gabe ramirez has his story. >> i identified so much with being a combat marine, i didn't think anything outside the world would matter. then people started noticing other talents of mine. i met charlie enberg. he issued a challenge. i want you to create a story that can possibly be turned into a musical. i had this idea of the story being this opera. all actors of this opera come from experiences of my own life. i joined the marine corps because i was one of those young men who didn't have any goals in life, so i thought i would be this kick-ass guy with all these cool machine guns in both hands, and at that time what i perceived to be war is what i took off the movie. that was before i got into the combat zone, but when we got there, that's when everything changed.

believe you me, marines are going to do drugs. they're going to do it. >> because i was in the navy for ten years and christian carney was a marine, we did have an initial bond, and it did honestly rub me the wrong way because i feel like when you take an oath of honor and courage and commitment, you need to stand behind the code of the united states marine corps. and to see him justifying his actions as far as the drug use and the drug dealing, it did bother me. it did bother me. >> in our final interview with carney who served seven months in iraq and was awarded a good conduct medal, he once again smoke more like a marine than a convicted drug dealer and murder suspect. >> since i've been in jail i've been reduced to living out of a paper bag, i've recognized my potential. this has enabled me to recognize my potential. and i believe that sometimes in order to come up strong, you have to be put down as far as you can go. you have to be pushed to the absolute limit that you can be pushed, and to see if that's going to destroy you

he was a combat marine. the most decorated marine in history. >> i was 19 years old at the time. he was a private during the war when he saw the colonel up close. >> on the side of the road one he just said, "we've got boys."w, >> would be awarded five navy crosses. you captured the in thisr of a man culture? photographs,ty of perhaps the best way is to the man who served with him. >> i would have taken the oral history. this sculptor, an ex-marine, had stories like this one. he commanded in the bloodiest battles in world war ii and korea. chesty, after his barrell chest, is an ally part number in a poor legend. myi love that it will keep father is a legend alive. of the marineart corps. >> and now this sculpture, a chesty puller. richard reeves, abc 7 news. >> a proposal from the governor of new york. the federal help with the p from hurricane sandy. weather changes coming our way. >> maryland fans are still about the game against kentucky and now there is a big the big man. the redskins were back on the deal today. is ailing and who is out against the eagles? vick.ry latest on

. >> reporter: marines on patrol. this season thele monday province, it's the storm ravaged streets of long island. 50 marines in a community that need the muscle. especially the merchants. >> it's a huge job. they said, no problem, we can do it. >> reporter: a kindergarten teacher can't talk about her home without crying. russian immigrants, they worked for years to save enough money to buy their house. demolition is the only way to save what's left. >> of course, it's a big help. we can't do it by ourself. >> reporter: this is the kind of work that is needed all along this block. people are coming by to help out, but they're charging $3,000 to do what these marines are doing in here for free. >> reporter: in just an hour, the job was done. >> when i walked through these streets, it's like nothing i ever saw before. these homes were ripped off the foundation, fires, floods, winds. everything damaged this place so bad. >> reporter: they said at camp lejeune they were getting ready to deploy again to the middle east wh

navy, the marine corps, had something that we really needed. it's called logistics expertise. and we recognized that and with the help of our fleet week association, with the help of our honorary chair, former secretary of state george scholtz, along with senator feinstein who started fleet week, we began to appreciate in addition to appreciating the men and women in uniform and the wonderful attributes of having fleet week and the blue angels and the parade of ships, we could also be working on something very important to this city. all across the world there are examples after example and i know the men and women and leadership of the uss macon know this after their tour of duty these past months, all over the world there are disasters and emergencies that we are responding to and that you have become the humanitarian assistance and the disaster relief that is absolutely needed. why not practice that here? and so two years ago we gathered with our own departments from the port of san francisco to our sheriff to our police and fire, led by our emergency management division, g

i think that he enlisted with the marines before september eleventh. i had to give my written consent because he was just seventeen in the house. that's the legal age for enrollment in the u.s. army. the iraq war began on march twentieth. on the twenty eighth just eight days later the soldiers came to see me. i mean. they called me at work and i came home to them. and they said mr suarez your son is a hero but you know he died tonight in the battlefield they were iraqi soldiers shot him in the head. i swear to those words destroyed my life. but that is the three days later a journalist called me. you said mr suarez they lied to you and your son wasn't killed by the enemy so he was killed by friendly fire in the explained what happened. in my face. it is during the night of march twenty sixth. planes struck and twenty thousand cluster bombs. into see it on march twenty seventh my son's unit marched on baghdad. and he stepped on an american cluster bomb. i mean nobody's paying me to talk to you it doesn't matter what i do will never come back. we my gran