based on guarding the navy, the navy ports, navy yards. basically being cops. defeated. how was it defeated? it was defeated because the american rose up and one of the marine's fathers was head of the naval affairs committee and basically brought it to america's attention. and they said, no, we want marines. a lot of it was based on china and guantanamo bay. you can start to see people irritated with these marines. once the army, especially, so they survive. and then comes 1914 and vera cruz. and the marines have almost gone out of business this time by the navy and they said, marines, we challenge you to make a landing. and they anticipated the 1914 naval exercise. and if you can't do it, your funding is gone. so luckily, john lejeune, the greatest naval commander of all, takes that unit down there to calabra and succeeds in planting the guns and bringing in some aviation into the fleet exercises. so it's another time the marines could have gone away but an uprising in mexico brought the marines to vera cruz in april 1914. so the marines are luckily there from the vera

they take it up to the secretary of the navy. it takes a presidential declaration by president wilson to get the regiment to france. regiment gets to go on board the transport and the army says we can't transport you, we are full. the navy says we will take you on our ships. the fifth marines get there with the first division. they are again be first to fight. the marine corps is looking at an entire division to go in. an entire division. included heavy artillery, the whole bit. he started putting them along the supply and guarding things. the things that marines do. he said they are too different from us. they have different regulations and so forth. again, back to wilson. wilson says send over the sixth marines. another declaration. it takes the president twice to send marines to france. the marines got their nose under the tent and want to keep being -- sending marines over. what does he keep doing with them? he says i will use these gentlemen in their best duty, which is to guard things, but no combat. and then, wilson goes t

a thai navy s.e.a.l. and that underscored how challenging this will be and it could take hours and the parents won't know for a long time, all of the parents, whether their sons will come out safely from the back of that mountain behind me. >> david, this is such an international effort at this point. but the decision on who comes out first actually comes down to those boys, correct? >> reporter: it does. imagine the human drama unfolding in that cave system. the governor telling us it will be up to the boys and to a consulting doctor who is assessing their health, who will decide to go first. who will be the first one. and that first boy that they pull through is so important because then they get to test the entire theory how they will get the kids out, through this zero visibility tunnel under the earth in the water through possibly some glow sticks they mark some sense of where they are going with the specialist divers. imagine that decision. there will be several boys i'm sure ready to do it but some

navy s.e.a.l.es, the best trained s.e.a.l.es who can barry figure this out. >> and the urgency, it was oxygen at one point. they've got a tube pumping oxygen into the cave. but as the rains fall. the flood waters could come higher. >> let's bring in the coordinator of a national rescue cave mission. we're watching this so closely. help us better understand what will be going on through the next 11 hours or so. >> well, they're going to be starting to get the boys out. they've got several sections that they're going to have to dive and then are places they have to swim across the passengers and they'll have to walk. the big problem that they're facing, of course, is that none of these kids knew how to swim. they've only had crash courses in diving. and spent nine days with no food. and that starvation made them weak. a healthy person would have trouble doing this, now you have added complications on top of that. i think the thing that's going to help them is they've spent a lot of time building a re

thai navy s ea ls lost earlier, that one former thai navy seals lost his life. while these boys made it out alive, this mission was incredibly conjugated and delicate. it really was and that the risk -- delicate. it really was and that the risk —— that is the risk that we as rescu e rs risk —— that is the risk that we as rescuers faced every day. there is another story going on in france right now with a good friend of mine passed away while cave diving is one of the rescuers lost his life going to get him. these are the kind of things that we face. every we go in ona things that we face. every we go in on a rescue body recovery, panic divers will take you outjust like that. it's just one of the risks that. it's just one of the risks that we take and it shows how professional the team on site are. to get them out against all odds. these boys don't know how to swim, that's a sure sign that somebody is going to panic and how those boys put their lives in these rescuers' hands and said, i trust you to get me out of here, i remember saying that tattoo—mac

the navy conducted an independent strategic readiness review composed of retired navy admirals as well as current senior civilian executives in the aftermath of the tragic u.s.s. fitzgerald and u.s.s. mccain collisions. is strategic readiness resulted in a weaker navy. factors that contribute to total navy readiness include the total number of assets. we know them as ships. manning and training. that is in particular personnel and how well they perform their jobs. equipping and maintaining. that means providing sailors' gear and maintaining ships. command and control, which means establishing clear lines of leadership and funding. and operations, which is the tempo at which our men and women in uniform execute their missions. . if one or all of these total readiness factors are lacking, the satisfy will suffer. that's the y, situation we find ourselves in today. but we didn't arrive here by accident. i believe we have a tendency to respond to the crisis of the day rather than prepare for the long-term stredge -- strategic problems with corresponding solutions. make no mistake about t.

the israeli ministry released a statement saying that the navy had intercepted this vessel because it was trying to violate what it describes as the illegal blockade on gaza it said that the navy had been monitoring and indeed the interception of this vessel was carried out according to international law it was around about the same time that the old when a zation responsible for this flotilla put out a statement calling on the governments of the various people on board to act immediately now the organization the international freedom flotilla coalition says that it was fully aware that there was a very strong chomps that israel was going to do this that israel was going to stop this flotilla from reaching but he said it was important that it was done anyway as a means of trying to highlight the suffering of the gazans on the international stage and i have just come from gaza today and trying to describe the conditions for the two million people living there is very very difficult fifty percent of the population living in under the poverty line around fifty percent unemployed not enou

through those waters, a navy diver collapsed and died. if it could happen to him, it would happen to any one of these boys. we don't know which came out first, the oldest or the strongest. but medical teams were assessing the health of these boys. they were fully briefed before this began. and each one of them gave their conse consent. they were clean to get out. and the commander launched this operation with dramatic words. we may lose the window. this is d-day. and the reason they acted right now was two reasons. falling oxygen hell alevels. it was like the cave system on a high mountain range, like everest. the air was getting thinner and thinner. that would weaken everyone in this cave complex. the seconds thing was the rain. we were in a torrential downpour and there was a red line between the amount of rain falling and the water they could pump out of there. the commander decided the red line had been reached. bethink below me, where i'm standing now, boys are wading, even diving through the murky water. this is an extraordinary ope

divers and five thai navy s.e.a.l.s being voinvolved. this is after a diver died after delivering supplies to them in the cave. talk about the rescuers. >> that is always the concern. the rescuer doesn't want to be the person who has to be rescued. but as this one case with a thai navy s.e.a.l. showed, diving is very dangerous. it can be anything from lack of oxygen to embolus, something blocking their bloodstream, all of these things can cause death in diving. and especially when you have a long five-hour dive, that's going to be something everyone is concerned about. >> some of the letters that went from the kids to their parents, it sort of struck me -- it reestablished how young they were, talking about things like what they wanted to eat when they left. is it possible that due to their age that this wasn't something that they really recognized, just the gravity of their situation? >> i've said before that in many ways their younger age is somewhat of a blessing. because not only are they, as you mentioned, mentally they probably don

luttrell, a navy combat diver. your reaction to what looks like a plan extremely well-educated. >> congratulations to our sisters over in thailand, our finest hour. pulled off a finest hour, to get that done, get the kids out of there, amazing, man. great job. ashley: did you think it was possible when you first heard the story? >> well, it was tough. i mean i couldn't even imagine getting pushed down in a cave that deep with 12 kids. that soccer coach, to have all of them come out in the state they're in a absolutely amazing. funny, i watch the diagram y'all have been using in a cave, i will make a little adjustment to it, if you don't mind. imagine, a row of school buses for two miles sitting at bottom of the ocean end to end. one end you have the backdoor open with a bunch of kids, they don't know how to swim or how to dive. they have been in there, dehydrated, terrified, they have no idea what is going on. at the other end is the door open. literal to do what they had to do, slow is smooth, smooth is fast. that

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had left the navy but signed up to join the search is a volunteer. had been delivering canisters along the route being used by the divers in the cave in a cruel twist he lost consciousness after running out of himself on the return dive . got me. out. and. got that hoping that maybe not in the name of what would. be a back with a man. that. walked out of lebanon. but on. me and without. me. yeah that was obviously a very sobering moment at the same time we realize ok this doesn't change anything we still have twelve kids and a coach in there we still have to to go forward and do this. in the aftermath of the tragedy the mood of the rescue changes. the short lived elation after the boys were discovered has been replaced by a sense of crisis in grim determination. everyone else was starting to see the same exact logic trail that was very quickly becoming too. the point that the dive option was the only option the tice eales tola say you know it's approved so we're going to go in and we're going to do this. this preparations for the rescue moving to the

today we're happy to be a part of this rescue and ivan the herculean efforts, global effort, there were navy seals or seals that came from around the world to volunteer in that selfless way that heroes do to risk their own lives to go into that cave with blackout conditions to try to first find and then save those boys. you've been there. tell us what the amount of emergency responders and the amount of people who have come to pray and what it's been like at the base of that cave. >> yeah. i've got a lump in my throat right now because there's such a wonderful story to report and it's bittersweet because alisyn there was a diver a professional diver who lost his life in the narrow tunnels leading to where the boys are trapped all this time. the divers that we have gotten a chance to talk to, professionals have said this is the hardest thing they've ever had to do because the distance that people have to travel to reach that chamber, that cave where the boys were trapped. 2.5 miles in, four kilometers in, the mountain behind me and the sun is setting here right now and tunnels that were just

pete: we have three former navy seals. jake zweig, former navy seal. jake, looks like, sixth, seventh, eighth kid emerging from the cave, we're working to confirm from those numbers. what does that tell but the pace of this operation right now? >> they got it down at this point. yesterday was a real run. they got four out. now they understand come meetly what they're doing. they probably got all the obstacles worked out, the checkpoints. they took some corrective action overnight and they're rolling. ainsley: dan, how complex is it to get these little boys to breathe underwater, teach them how to do that? >> this is a very challenging operation. even in the best of conditions, diving is a difficult endeavor. so for these boys, it will require incredible calmness and patience. we have the seal thai divers that are the best in the world. ed: things you we don't know, how much pressure these navy seals are under. it is wonderful news, miraculous. we can't take for granted haas shun. minute detail, if one thing goes wrong they could lose one or more boys.

a major operation involving international divers and elite members of the thai navy has been taking place to free the 12 boys and their football coach. they became stranded a fortnight ago — when the tunnels became waterlogged by rain. 0ur correspondent is at the hospital. what more could you tell us? this is the main hospital in the chiang rai region, an hour by car from the cave complex where the boys have been rescued from today. four boys. i am just looking, have been rescued from today. four boys. iamjust looking, probably have been rescued from today. four boys. i am just looking, probably a military vehicle there. in the past 90 minutes, we have seen two ambulances arrived. the railings we re ambulances arrived. the railings were moved away. the traffic stopped and the ambulances raced through the entrance to the hospital. we saw police helicopters. helicopters involved in the rescue, flying overhead. and the crucial information comes from a press conference in the past few minutes, but also the thai navy seals. the elite unit. they say four of the boys have been brought out. as

there are rescue members from australia, the uk, the thai navy seals. you can cp pull moving, coming and going around the site itself. now co—ordiating the rescue mission are two british cave diving experts, john volanthen and richard stanton. joining me now, another cave diving expert and friend of the british pair in thailand is martyn farr, who operates are diving training organisation out of crichhowell near abergavenny. thank you forjoining us on bbc news. what is your initial reaction to the latest development? this is absolutely fantastic news. the boys are starting to come out of the cave. that will be a massive morale booster. it obviously is an indicator that things are going very well at this point in time. clearly it isa well at this point in time. clearly it is a big ask for everyone involved. we all understand how critical this weather window, well, it is shrinking as we speak, but the right people are doing the right things, andi right people are doing the right things, and i am optimistic that things, and i am optimistic that things wi

women are the backbone of the united states navy. all suited up, time to meet with sailors and get to work. >> we will make you an aviation mechanic. >> reporter: just arrived, a little noisy in here, the helicopter squadron, jumping one of these bad boys and go flying, not today. they will show me how to get them airborne. these things are heavy. i get to clean the windows and they are still flying. >> reporter: i see what it takes to get a helicopter in the air. now i will see what it takes to operate an aircraft carrier at sea. the uss abraham lincoln. ♪ >> reporter: request permission to come aboard. ♪ >> reporter: we are heading off in what they -- we are going to unload. what does that mean? >> life preserver is. we where this. >> reporter: how does being in the navy make you proud to be an american? >> i can go home and tell people i drove it aircraft carrier, got us from point a to b i was driving during hurricane relief were more. it is rewarding in its own way. jillian: what do we do next? >> we are going to learn one o

and the coach and the thai navy. we told them what was going to happen and said you choose your best men and out they come. so it was nothing to do with us. harry did not choose them. as has been suggested. so i think it was the bravest guys that came out first. >> so the risk level was incredibly high. and in my mind, the possibility, the problablility of success wa about as low as you can get. >> so you thought there's no chance of getting the 13 out! i didn't think there was no chance, but when i was flat out asked what do you think the probability of success was, i told the government maybe 60 or 70% chance. so i was expecting that we would accept casualties. maybe three, four, possibly five would die. making cars lighter, it's a good place to start, advanced oils for those hard-working parts. fuels that go further so drivers pump less. improving efficiency is what we do best. energy lives here. >>> it's now sunday the 8th of july. the 12 boys and their coach have been tried for 15 days. the conditions are gettin

had left the navy but signed up to join the search is a volunteer. who had been delivering canisters along the route being used by the divers in the cave in a cruel twist he lost consciousness after running out of himself on the return dive . me. and. that hoping that maybe not in the name of what would. be a bank with a man. but on. me. yeah that was obviously a very sobering moment at the same time we realized ok this doesn't change anything we still have twelve kids and a coach in there we still have to to go forward and do this. in the aftermath of the tragedy the mood of the rescue changes. the short lived elation of the boys who discovered has been replaced by a sense of crisis in grim determination. everyone else was starting to see the same exact logic trail that was very quickly becoming to. the point that the dive option was the only option the tice eales taller so you know it's approved so we're going to go in and we're going to do this. is preparations for the risky move into their final stage everyone's morale is boosted when letters wri

dozens of volunteers are helping the navy divers. this is an exhausting and sometimes dangerous operation. this television actor is one of them. "water is the main obstacle," he says. "if we can get the water level down, the boys can be brought out." but while a massive pumping effort is reducing it in the first section of caves, it's having less effect deeper in, where the boys are trapped. so, the thai army has been taking equipment to the other end of the mountains to try and lower the water table here, close to their location. they have a number of ideas they want to try. but their first effort has been to divert the streams which feed the underground pools. we followed them up, alongside pipes that had been laid just in the past few days. this creek has completely dried up. a week ago it was filled with water. so you can see that this project, with all these pipes, is definitely having an impact. higher up, we were shown in newly built dam. work like this is now going on all over these mountains. no—one is sure yet how much th

first, the security of britain and empire as well as the strength of its navy would greatly ensure the security of the united states and the western hemisphere. second, it was germany and not japan that most seriously threatened britain's security and even its survival. third, therefore it was germany that also posed the greatest danger to the security of the united states and it was therefore in the interest of both american and british security to use the full offensive strength of the united states in one single direction and atlantic first defeat germany strategy and white house adopt plan d, the word dog stands for letter d and the strategy became as plan dog and plan dog meant that the fate of the united states would you say now found to that of britain. now, even though in 1942 and most of 1943 more american forces would, in fact, be deployed against japan than against germany. plan dog nevertheless defined america's paramount wartime strategy and goals through the utterly unforeseeable events of the most destructive war in world history. and by the way, here is a footnote, if a

and still the volunteers continue their mission but with news that a former tiny navy diver has died no one can ignore the risks involved some unproven and he was thirty eight had successfully delivered tanks event to the trapped boys and their football coach but he lost consciousness on his dive back it is very risky please think about it a navy seal just passed away last night so how about a twelve year old kid. there's a renewed sense of urgency to find a way to free the twelve boys and their coach they've been stuck in this cave for almost two weeks with oxygen levels drilling and more heavy rain expected officials are aware there is no time to lose. previously we thought the boys could live there for a long time. but now everything is changed by we really only have a limited time. for the boy's relatives it makes the waiting even harder. over here to watch the news and it is still dangerous to come out here . i'm worried he has never dived but can swim a little bit. rescuers are trying to provide a line of air to reach the youth football team but as they're trapped for kilometer

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birds navy divers there are actually fifteen international divers aided by a few times navy divers and they together they tried to pass the boys through now we don't know exactly how this is happening if they will just start with the one boy and wait for him to come all the way out or if they will actually start basically filing them through so but what is confirmed is that before nine o'clock local time so that's about six hours we will not get any official update and this is the earliest that they might actually bring the first boy out. so very frightening experience for the boys and also a nightmare for the families as well involves the rescuers are also working under pressure florian there are new rains coming up and there are reports that the oxygen level in the cave is dropping what more can you tell us about that. well my latest information is that the oxygen level is actually ok it has been they have been able to stab allies that it's not like the level is in. but it's actually ok because they have managed to put in an air hose already a few days ago but c o two levels are risi

navy seal wast his life in this operation. and this was a very international operation wasn't it i mean he was involved. yeah exactly well i mean many people here also talk about this navy diver that you know didn't make it that it was that that's the guy it's during this rescue mission a little bit earlier we also saw some people here they had his picture in his hand and yes this was really an international at task force basically that was going on here already from the beginning of the thai government force saying we can do this on our own we need international hey if so they were asking for help for volunteers for professional divers so this was really a mission from the navy seals here in thailand with divers for example from denmark from the united kingdom and because of that that's what many are saying we have had this really successful operation happening today and also yesterday there was general cooper there reporting from that hospital in thailand where the rescue boys and their coach are recovering from an ordeal th

and tonight what they're doing to honor the thai navy s.e.a.l. who lost his life on a mission to save theirs. abc's james longman is in thailand. >> reporter: if freedom tastes like anything here, it's kentucky fried chicken's 11 herbs and spices. >> we have the special kfc. >> reporter: that's what 14-year-old adil dreamed about while trapped in the cave, hoping to be rescued. he says every night before going to sleep he got on his knees. here in the small baptist church he grew up in, it seems his and so many others' prayers were answered. ♪ since the end of a big celebration here, boys all over this area, their families are welcoming them home. just an extraordinary atmosphere. all over town last night, those 12 young boys who were separated from their families, stuck in a dank, dark cave for almost three weeks, finally going home. the boy nicknamed tee, swarmed by relatives, sleepy but strong. >> hello, how are you? you're happy? >> yes. >> how are you feeling? >> reporter: hours earlier flashing wide grins. clad in their uniforms, the wild

an additional five navy s.e.a.l.s. so what do you think is going through those guys' minds as they prepare for the second wave of rescues? >> you mean the divers, or -- >> yeah, the divers. >> the kids they rescue? >> the divers. >> i'm going to be honest with you. at this point, they're in the mission. so, you know, they've got laser focus. we've sent over a couple navy s.e.a.l.s. you know, they're our best and our brightest people. they're working with thai seals, t s.e.a.l.s, the cave experts from britain. when you put that talent together in the same room, the recipe is they're able to do the impossible consistently. and that's what this is about. we amassed a huge amount of talent to be successful. right now all they're worried about is the next thing on their checklist to get this next group of people out. they're not worried about anything else. they've got laser focus on the mission right now. >> jake zweig, former u.s. navy s.e.a.l., thanks for that. >>> the thai government is not alone. multiple countries are

armed forces after world war ii is probably the most lengthy of -- in terms of the army marine and navy and air force. too often historical events are without the context. if you look at the newspaper there, you will see up there a pretty picture of the marines landing in guantanamo bay. if you look at the rest of the paper, it is everybody else. he was there with him to talk about it. one of the best counts of military action was the rain. you are going to see a pattern develop class italians and regiments doing things, and famous reporters and such trailing along with them. this is 1898. take a look at this. basically, there is the marines coming off ships. they go to rescue the consulates in beijing. then, more marines come, and to regiments of army go there as well. those marines may not be gone yet. they help picture the marines. that's one of the things all of the talks today have been about is all of the impacts world war i had on america and the armed forces. we are starting to see marines and places farther away from our chores, because we are becoming an international nation f

trucks of navy s.e.a.l.s driving away to cheers of those nearby. finally heading home, their mission complete. >> and james longman joins us tonight from outside the cave there. james has been on the scene for days. what an incredible day today. we can actually hear the rain falling behind you. and we're learning tonight that the parents of the children are still waiting to see their boys, but that those parents have also written a letter to the coach? >> reporter: that's right, david. the letter was written while the team was still trapped. the parents saying, quote, we're not mad at you at all, do take good care of yourself and don't forget to cover yourself with a blanket, as the weather is cold. we're worried. the parents clearly grateful the coach cared so deeply for their children. david? >> james longman leading us off tonight. james, thank you. >>> and i mentioned, you could hear the rain there, right behind james. not the only thing that happened right after this rescue was completed. we learned tonight of new details of what took place ri

navy divers have gone two hundred meters deeper into a flooded cave in thailand in search of a boys' football team and their coach video released by the tiny navy shows how murky waters in complete darkness of hampered the weeklong rescue ration rescue operation in the cave some progress has been made since the weather cleared on friday but there's still no sign of the team al-jazeera scott heide lawyer has the latest from chiang rai. a little bit of good news coming overnight saturday into sunday morning here at the mouth of the cave seal divers navy seal divers have been in the water for the last several hours and several teams have been going back and forth we know now that they are at the furthest distance they have been yet in the cave but they haven't gone that far quite honestly it's only about two hundred meters further than they had been further than that three kilometer mark there kind of stuff because of weather over the last several days and now two hundred meters further in but their immediate goal is to get to a place called poppea beach it's a cavern named after a famo

the thai navy s.e.a.l. commander said at first the rescuers thought they could keep the kids there for a while, but there's limited oxygen yet. the workers are working on an oxygen line to reach the kids. anne-marie? >> thank you so much, laura. >>> ahead on "cbs this morning," ben tracy is in thailand with morn the death of the rescue worker and the latest on the effort to rescue the soccer team. >>> president tris looking for a new epa administrator now that scott pruitt resigned. now, the president announced pruitt's resignation yesterday on twitter. pruitt is the target of ethics investigations into alleged misuse of government resources. mr. trump says he did not ask for pruitt's resignation and called him a terrific guy. mola lenghi reports. >> well, thank you, montana. what a place. >> reporter: president trump held a 70-minute campaign-style rally in montana thursday, but didn't once mention the resignation of his epa chief scott pruitt. he said there was no final straw. he said the resignation was

a boat carrying aid for gaza has been intercepted by the israeli navy and is now being a score to the port city of ashdod it was one of two boats attempting to break the blockade of gaza by israel and egypt it set off from palermo in italy a week ago carrying twenty two people including some israeli citizens charles traffic joins us live now from ash die. charles what more can you tell us about the base johnny. but we can't tell you exactly when the boat will arrive here we understand just estimating given the the distance that it where it was when it was stopped by the israeli navy we expect any time sort of three to four hours from now the israeli navy military sorry put out a statement saying that the navy stops the ship in order to to stop it violating the legal naval blockade that is on the gaza strip it also said that it had monitored and had to step to the vessel according to international law now that statement was made around about the same time that all the tweets stopped coming from that vessel the allow the ship. around about the same time the head of the organization put

came and asked them to return they refused and insisted to continue the navy then seize the boat the activists on board were hoping to reach gaza after sunset and if they had they would have received a huge welcome but as expected they haven't been allowed to get anywhere close they've been intercepted by the israeli navy and taken to the israeli port of ashdod thirty one boats have been used by international activists to try to break this israeli naval blockade over the last ten years the only time they managed was back when they started in two thousand and eight since then every single one has been intercepted by the israeli navy its passengers detained and deported the most controversial attempt was in twenty ten israeli forces stormed the mavi marmara and opened fire killing ten and wounding many more israeli troops say the passengers attacked and the controversy and protests which followed calls turkey to withdraw its ambassador from tel aviv and expelled israelis from ankara it was six years before diplomatic ties were restored and israel agreed to pay compensation to the famil

the bill authorizes $32 million for the navy to restore a dry dock capability and prohibits he navy from redevelopping the hip repair area in guam. i continue to stress that it is very imperative for the navy to maintain a depot level ship repair capability on sovereign u.s. soil in the western pacific. i close beextending my gratitude, again -- by extending my gratitude, again, to the chair and ranking member and to my colleagues and the professional staff and all who participated in producing the conference agreement. and i encourage my colleagues to support it. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back, and the gentleman from washington reserves his time. the gentleman from texas. mr. thornberry: mr. speaker, i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the distinguished chair of the subcommittee on sea power and projection forces, the gentleman from virginia, mr. wittman. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. wittman: thank you, mr. speaker. i am proud of this conference report and the items included in it. i want to th

also coming up a former navy seal dies trying to rescue a football team and their coach in the flooded. series of scandals forces scott pruett to resign as head of the u.s. environmental agency. and we have to send it to find out why hundreds of people are being killed. china has responded with its own terrorists after the trumpet ministration impose duties with thirty four billion dollars on chinese imports beijing is accuse washington of launching what it calls the largest trade war in economic history china says the u.s. is that trade towers have set the stage for a long showdown between two of the world's biggest economies the bride joins us live now from beijing rob so not surprisingly china has already responded. that's absolutely right daryn the confirmation came at the ministry of foreign affairs daily briefing the spokes person confirming that china is now issuing its own list of tariffs in response to the american tariffs that have already been slapped on it was expected it was also promised by china that they would meet these terrorist from the u.s. head on imposing exactly

high risk absolutely just a couple of days ago a navy seal diver a former former navy seal diver who came back to help with his efforts he died from lack of oxygen there was something that went on with his tank or he was in the water too long so he passed out in the water was dragged out tried to be resuscitated couldn't and he died so obviously the dangers for the divers are immense and when you think about now what they've been doing over the last you know just under two weeks is really trying to make this passage as safe as possible that means it was very very dangerous before they started to probably chip away some rock of low hanging bits when they they were at the sections where they had to dive so it's very dangerous work for them and also now even now when they're diving with the boys we're told that there are two divers with each boy it's a good two two plus one if you will so two divers preach boy so you've got one with the oxygen tank kind of helping the boys go through and then you've got another one also assisting in that process now we we know that there's communication

the israeli ministry released a statement saying that the navy had intercepted this vessel because it was trying to violate what it describes as the illegal blockade on gaza he said that the navy had been monitoring and indeed the interception of this vessel was carried out according to international law it was around about the same time that the old when a zation responsible for this flotilla put out a statement calling on the governments of the various people on board to act immediately now the organization the international freedom flotilla coalition says that it was fully aware that there was a very strong chomps that israel was going to do this that israel was going to stop this flotilla from reaching but he said it was important that it was done anyway as a means of trying to highlight the suffering of the gazans on the international stage and i have just come from gaza today and trying to describe the conditions for the two million people living there is very very difficult fifty percent of the population living in under the poverty line around fifty percent unemployed not enou

there has been no communication from the boat we understand since it was intercepted by the israeli navy israeli navy put out a statement a couple of hours ago saying that they didn't say intercepted the ship. that it to europe. in order to avoid what israel describes as the illegal naval blockade that is imposed upon the gaza strip that statement also saying that the israeli navy had monitored and into set to do it in accordance with international law or it was about that time the last statement was issued from the organization behind this flotilla calling on the governments of the sixteen different nationalities of the people traveling on that ship and the relevant organizations to act immediately. it's important to point out that despite these efforts this incredible effort that this the international freedom flotilla coalition has put towards this this attempt at breaking the see the head of the organization was under no illusions and knew that the israeli navy were going to indeed stop the fertility from getting sick gaza but the whole point of the exercise according to the organiza

reviewing documents and working with the navy and the epa. we have also -- i met -- talked to the epa with several of our staff members this week and we are going to be having two meetings with them over the phone on a monthly basis to ensure that we are coordinating as well as the regulatory agency. we've had our staff member, amy, who has been our engineer in this area and i've also asked our environmental health director, stephanie kushing who will be supporting amy in the future around all of these needs and issues that we have to work closely with the epa and the navy on this. that is one of the items i wanted to ensure that the department is -- will be supporting the retesting and rescanning of this whole entire area of the shipyard. we also -- many of you have seen in the news an issue that i know has been very shocking to all of you, which is the separating of immigrant families and we believe this is inhumane and posing health risks. the department of health joins the mayor, the mayor elect, our california senators harris and feinste