proxima gulf and east coast the u.s. navy brought an approximate 12 million gallons of aviation fuel to germany every month. we carried enough gas for the trip and return. one of our gang institute a little. tiny handkerchief parachutes. great guy. candy and handkerchiefs good flying jobs with the rest of us the power and gave them breathing room, each plane got an altitude in the moving block of space. the most modern communication facilities in the airlift work. that is how we could fly three roundtrips a day and supply of food and fuel to city of two and half million with a handful of planes. and even supplied the kids who waited on a certain hill. our nl available online c-span.org/history. >> welcome to finding a source. i am carmichael of gettysburg college also the director of the civil institute. with my assistant director of the civil institute, good evening ashley how are you? >> i'm doing all right pete's. tonight get amy greenberg with this, she's thero

proxima gulf and east coast the u.s. navy brought an approximate 12 million gallons of aviation fuel to germany every month. we carried enough gas for the trip and return. one of our gang institute a little. tiny handkerchief parachutes. great guy. candy and handkerchiefs good flying jobs with the rest of us the power and gave them breathing room, each plane got an altitude in the moving block of space. the most modern communication facilities in the airlift work. that is how we could fly three roundtrips a day and supply of food and fuel to city of two and half million with a handful of planes. and even supplied the kids who waited on a certain hill. >> and you know all of c-span's american history programs are available to watch online. go to c-span.org/history and type in your topic of interest in the search box. thousands of problems look at the people and places that shaped our nation all available online c-span.org/history. >> welcome to finding a source. i am carmichael of gettysburg college also the director of t

and now mississippi requesting the u.s. navy hospital ship comfort. they say their health care system could collapse in a week. >>> also tonight, the severe storms as we come on the air. watching in the east. d.c. up through philadelphia. and the images coming in, a possible tornado in wisconsin. the life-threatening heat from washington state all the way to the northeast. and now the tropical storm set to hit the u.s. by the end of the week. rob marciano timing it out. >>> 24 hours after new york governor andrew cuomo's bomb shell reveal that he will resign, tonight, the lieutenant governor, kay think hochul, making her first public comments. what she declared her message to new yorkers and what she said when asked about governor cuomo. >>> tonight, president biden marking another victory in his push for his agenda, 24 hours after passing his trillion dollar infrastructure plan with democrats and republicans. tonight, the senate now approving his $3.5 trillion budget resolution. but democrats only. and will they stay onboard with this price tag? >>>

it was 22 u.s. navy seals. three u.s. air force airman, five u.s. army and national guard soldiers. seven commandoes from the afghan national art me, seven afghan commandoes and afghan translators, also u.s. military working dog that was assigned to one of the members of the seal team on board. 38 personnel on board, all 38 of them killed. that was the single deadliest combat incident in the history of the u.s. navy seals. that was the single deadliest combat incident in the history of u.s. special forces of all kind. it was the single deadliest incident in the entirety of the u.s. war in afghanistan, for u.s. forces. and at the time this happened, again, ten years ago this month, we were just about ten years into the war. at the time that helicopter was shot down the re-something on the order of 98,000 u.s. personnel in country, 98,000 u.s. troops. it was at a time where our troop presence was at its highest point, it's most sprawling point, we had more personnel there, and in more parts of afghanistan than we had in most parts of the war. that was ten years ago. today, the u.s. tr

that witness also saying mays "hates" the u.s. navy and the fleet. mays had dropped out of navy s.e.a.l. training after five days in 2019, before being reassigned to the "ussbonhomme richard." the massive blaze breaking out last july on the large amphibious assault ship docked in san diego. at least 71 were injured. investigators finding a bottle that tested positive for highly flammable liquids and evidence of a tampered crime scene, including fire hoses that had been disconnected. the blaze gutting the warship, forcing the navy to put it out of service in april. the estimated cost to replace it topping $4 billion. mays is charged with aggravated arson and willfully hazarding a vessel. his lawyer tells us there is no evidence that directly points to mays and that his client was not an about his s.e.a.l. experience. mays maintains his innocence. whit? >> stephanie ramos, thank you. >>> now to the heat and fire threat in the west. more than 96 large fires burning in 14 states now. the forest service saying this season is unprecednted, calling it a nat

it was 22 u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s, three u.s. air force airmen, five u.s. army and army national guard soldiers, seven commandos from the afghan national army. seven afghan commandos, an afghan translator. also, a u.s. military working dog that was assigned to members of one of the s.e.a.l. teams onboard. 38 personnel onboard. all 38 of them killed. that was the single deadliest combat incident in the history of the u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s. that was the single deadliest combat incident in the history of u.s. special forces of all kinds. it was the single deadliest incident in the entirety of the u.s. war in afghanistan for u.s. forces. and at the time this happened, again, ten years ago this month, we were just about ten years into the war. at the time, that chinook was shot down, there was something on the order of 98,000 u.s. personnel in country. 98,000 u.s. troops. it was at a time when our troop presence there was at one of its highest points, one of its most sprawling points. we had more personnel there then and more parts of afghanistan than we had in al

navy corpsman. one additional u.s. service member, for whom we do not haven a service affiliation.af but tonight, just as we are t, going to air, the pentagon confirmed that it's not 12, it's 13. an additional u.s. service member has now died. now, the number of u.s. service members wounded is said to be 18.e we do not know much about the severity of those injuries.e getting a handle on the toll among the afghan civilians who bore even more of the brunt of o this blast. that has been difficult to the point of impossible today. estimates at the toll among afghan civilians at the gates at the airport ranges from as low as 13 to as high as dozens, perhaps 60 or more.hi they definitely include not just men but women and children, me including some very young children. today, the commanding general for all u.s. forces in central command, the cent-com commander, general frank mackenzie, confirmed the toll among u.s. service members. and in so doing, he is a reserved commanding officer and speaks in reserved, almost clipped t

tonight, mississippi requesting help from the u.s. navy hospital ship "comfort." the ship that came to new york, they say they now need help, with health officials warning the state's hospital system there could collapse within a week. tonight, california becoming the first state in the country to require all teachers and staff to be fully vaccinated or get weekly covid tests. in tennessee, protesters chasing down health care workers who talked about masks in schools, saying they could protect children. the protesters shouting, "we will find you." tonight, vaccinations are inching up with this newest surge taking hold in this country. nearly 69% of people 12 and older now receiving at least one dose. there is also new guidance tonight involving pregnant women and this virus. we will carefully get to it all for you, and abc's victor oquendo leading us off tonight from florida. >> reporter: tonight, government officials confirming to abc news that tomorrow the fda is expected to authorize a third booster shot for immunocompromised people including kidney transplant

navy. what are some of the caveats to that statement? and where does the u.s. navy have a clear advantage over china? you hear all this and you wonder, do we have any advantage over the chinese navy? rep. luria: the numbers are the numbers and they are growing the size of the navy faster than we are and they have more ships than we do and that's not even counting all of these non-navy naval vessels. there are maritime militia and fishing vessels. think about this, you had over 100 of these fishing vessels go anchor and they are always testing these other nations and what they are going to do, and we have a mutual defense treaty with the philippines. by doing these things they are testing us. everybody is focused on china is going to invade taiwan. this could start in all kinds of places. and for all kinds of reasons. like fishing vessels, all kinds of fishing claims, all times of disputed maritime claims with a variety of different nations in different geographic areas where they are both laying claims for different islands. it could happen over different comme

navy medic. the attack was called complex. u.s. intelligence says there could be more attacks to come. >> minutes after the explosion that rocked kabul airport, france 24 reporters saw hundreds of panicked afghans rush into nearby streets and alleys, their ears still ringing from the blast. at the nearby hospital, the wounded started to pour in. >> [speaking foreign language] >> the explosion took place at the aggregate of kabul airport where hundreds of people hoping to flee the country have been massing throughout the day. another blast occurred almost simultaneously at the nearby baron hotel. both were thought to have been carried out by suicide bombers. at least a dozen people, both afan and foreigners, were killed. >> [speaking foreign language] >> a spokesman for the taliban condemned the attack and said it took place in an area where u.s. forces were responsible for security. earlier on thursday, several western intelligence services had warned of an imminent attack in kabul, citing a terrorist threat from the regional branc

there were 68 submarines now in the entire u.s. navy fleet. do we really need a lot more submarines or are we just kind of replacing the ones we have? >> i personally believe that the more submarines, the better. while people may be jaundiced or skeptical of my view given where i sit. i think from a national security perspective u.s. underwater supremacy is critical to our national security, and more submarines we can put in the water, the better we are to protect our shores and our assets. david: it takes a long time to build a submarine. three years, four years, five years? >> the attack boat, a virginia class submarine, takes about 70 months to build. we are building the ballistic missile submarine replacement in the columbia class, which is in the ohio class, part of a nuclear deterrent. that will take 84 months. these are long, complicated build cycles. david: what are the costs to build a submarine? i assume it is not cheap. >> the virginia class is about $2 billion a submarine, but they are highly survivable. by the way, as we have come

marine corps and the u.s. navy lost service members in this attack. he says, this is a solemn day for the u.s. navy and marine corps team. those warriors who died gave their lives to save thousands of men and women and children. their we pay tribute to their sacrifice. joe biden said strikes on isis-k would come at a time and choosing of the u.s. military and administration. >> thank you very much. i want to go "outfront" now to an investigative journalist in kabul this evening. i really am appreciative of you being able to speak tonight to all of us. what can you tell me about the security situation on the ground in kabul, particularly around the airport? >> reporter: the situation is volatile at the moment. there is just chaos, people are confused. the emergency services, the reality is, there is no control at all. it is a very moving situation, and the parties involved just don't seem to have their hands on it. you >> that's just incredible to hear. no control at all when you have u.s. some there is at a checkpoint. joe biden, the pentagon, the sta

on top of them is the u.s. navy and air force. we have multiple squadrons of f-18's, f-16s, b-52s, and other aircraft. we have a significant amount of aviation on the ground including attack and lift helicopters. in addition, we are working with allies and partners through our rifle companies along with british special forces. there is also a turkish security force and other international special ops forces. this force is capable of extracting significant amount of people on u.s. aircraft. right now, we are averaging 20 -- c-17's every 24 hours. weave the capability to increase that as the department of state makes evacuees available. as the secretary said, we have alreadyvacuated approximately 5000 people and we intend to increase that. in addition to the military airflow, there is a variety of commercial and charter flights taking out evacuees on behalf of other countries. the military side of the airfield is open and the civilian side is ao open. we intend to keep them both open for military, commercial, and charter flights. on

. >>> a u.s. navy warship is on its way tonight to haiti where the humanitarian crisis is growing as crews struggle to bring relief to survivors of the deadly earthquake. gabe gutierrez is there. >> reporter: these are the first patients rescued from a village in the haitian mountains days after the earthquake this child clinging to an aid worker has a critical head injury one by one they're brought off this chopper. patient after patient, over and over again. they're coming from some of the island's most remote regions that have had no access to medical care for days help is pouring into haiti, but with landslides cutting off rural roads, it's a nightmare to distribute supplies to those who need it most now the u.s. army is on the move, today rushing in aid from samaritan's purse into one of the hardest-hit regions, a place where hospitals are desperately overcrowded and overwhelmed. why is it so important for you to be here >> it's very important. nobody has been up to see these patients yet. an

. >>> u.s. navy warship on the way to haiti as crews struggle to bring relief to survivors of the deadly earthquake. first victims rescued from the mountains. hit saturday morning, more than 2,000 people have died, help is pouring in but landslides cutting off the rural roads, it's tough to get supplies to those who need it most. >>> does it hold key to mystery doctors have worked for years to solve? moderna's new vaccine trial about to get under way in 30 seconds. >>> gaining ground, firefighters make a bit of progress as dixie fire rages on. >>> the smoke is back for tomorrow morning. you can see i >>> san francisco took a big step today forward to try to better contain the latest covid surge. public health department opened up a mass testing site, hoping to test 500 a day. no shortage of demand, booked solid this week. robert handa takes a look. >> reporter: many of the people who showed up first day of high volume testing site say they've been tested before, after being vaccinated didn't fee

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his community and was proud to serve in the u.s. navy. they say he was excited to make the navy up career and right here is 22 year-old marine hunter lopez. he was also from southern california. according to the riverside sheriff's association, lopez was a riverside sheriff's explorer scout for 3 years at the palm desert station and plan to join his father on the force after returning from his current deployment. and this is 20 year-old marine riley mccollum. he's from wyoming and his wife is expecting a baby in just 3 weeks. one of mccollum sisters says he was a marine before he knew he was allowed to be a marine. he was on his first deployment to afghanistan. these are just a few of the 13 service members who died in the attacks earlier this week. coming up here on the kron 4 morning news a statewide vaccine mandate is being considered for california. we have details. >> on the proposed legislation. plus, we're only 16 days away from the state's recall election. what you need to know if you plan on voting the break. scoot over. squeeze

u.s. coast guard says it has delivered near ly 7,000 pounds f medical supplies and transported over 200 patients. u.s. navy ship carrying more rescue equipment has also been deployed to the island >>> today is world humanitarian day, which was created by the uni united nations to honor people like those serving in haiti, who d dedicate their lives to helping others now this year, the u.n. wants to remind world leaders of their overdue pledge to give $100 billion annually for climate action now they're challenging people to do 100 minutes of any activity like running, swimming. supporters can join what they are calling the human race on the strava app. >>> still to come here on "early today," a new pandemic hurdle for parents. why child care costs have soared. >>> and a baby surprise from snl star colin jost and scarlett johansson. one that's been paved and one that's forever wild but freedom means you don't have to choose just one adventure ♪ ♪ you get both. introducing the all-new 3-r

the u.s. opening up the refugee program to even more at-risk afghans as the taliban hunts them down. secretary blinken says afghans who did not qualify for special visas but are in serious danger can apply. for example, that includes afghans who worked for american ngos or media organizations and now have a target on their backs. meantime, violence is escalating in afghanistan as u.s. troops withdraw today the american embassy in kabul accused taliban fighters of massacring dozens of civilians in a series of revenge killings a series of revenge dan deluse covers major an affairs for us dan, there's a imaginer catch to this refugee program >> that's right, there is a big catch. that is the afghans have to get themselves out of the country to apply for this refugee status. and that is a very dangerous prospect the taliban, it is moving fast on the march now threatening several cities in the north and the south and the west and even if they get to that country, they've got to wait a year or more

danny garza was honorably discharged from the u.s. navy after 6 years of service, including 2 deployments to the persian gulf for both operation enduring freedom in afghanistan. >> and operation iraqi freedom what they want is humanitarian aid right now because i mean, and they deserve it after we completely destroyed their infrastructure and government garza now spends his days in sacramento. >> he is a member of the nonprofit organization about face veterans against the war. a group of service members and veterans who are against all post 9.11 wars. >> he says the fall of afghanistan was inevitable. we did lose this war and the dream of democracy and afghanistan. >> is an imperialist to dream of us. overthrowing someone else's government saying you don't know how to run a government. we're going to put our government for you and look what happened in and days. why. because it wasn't their government. what is happening now? >> is just as simple. it's just simple. math. i it was either going to happen. now or 5 years ago or 5 years in

. ♪ ♪ >> virginia democratic congresswoman discusses u.s. maritime strategy at the hudson institute. she talked about the growing threat that china poses in the pacific and u.s. navy strategy to combat this. this is just over an hour. >> welcome to the hudson

danny garza was honorably discharged from the u.s. navy after 6 years of service, including 2 deployments to the persian gulf for both operation enduring freedom in afghanistan and operation iraqi freedom heartbreaking saying. >> the people of afghanistan they've been suffering for 20 years and it's just now that the cameras and point out ours and now spends his days in sacramento. >> he is a member of the nonprofit organization about face veterans against the war. a group of service members and veterans who are against all post 9.11 wars. he says the fall of afghanistan was inevitable. i think it's unfair to plane. put it all on on. >> biden. i think i think the president's sense a bush on the administration sense bush. >> have. >> and equal share to take. and disaster that happening and afghanistan right now, chuck tyler agrees with garza. >> tyler is also a member of about-face. he is based in washington, dc tyler is a u.s. army combat veteran honorably discharged after a deployment during the gulf war and another during operation

so, the hit squad relinquishment here with me too discuss his former u.s. navy seal bob o'neill. you sent osama bin laden to hell how angry are you today? >> it is a mixture of emotions kennedy. it's good to be with you which was under different circumstances. it started last week of the mishandled everything. they did at the wrong way which is the way this administration does foreign policy. first it was anger and then shot, obviously sadness today and disbelief are what we are doing. we heard general mckenzie say we've been clear of the whole. i was playing poker with someone and they said let me be clear or we have been clear i am all and they are lying, they are bluffing. i live and think they know they say it for this should not have happened in the first place. i've been saying for a while it doesn't matter how we got here but we are here. we need to do something. we certainly never shaken the taliban the chance to be 10 feet from our marines where they are securing our perimeter. and we are considering them allies almost. it's disgusting. we have the people, send in more m

navy which was continuous. i was hoping you could address kind of the role of black sailors during the war and their kind of -- their self-perception. >> absolutely. well, he actually is authorized to bring in to use black labor in ways that are kind of ambiguous that can allude to both service and -- to working as servants but also military service specifically. and that happens actually pretty early on in the war around 1861, i think you begin to see that correspondence between the secretary of war. and so there's a way in which they are permitted to kind of blur those lines a little bit. so they are incredibly important. i think it's also interesting that in the language, in that correspondence, they are oftentimes referred to as boys and so that you can employ a colored boy, right, to come work on the ships and, you know, and assist the navy. so there's still that hessitance to formally acknowledge the actual military work that they perform. and that isn't always disclosed in that correspondence so it's har

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this past march marked the 50th anniversary of the u.s. navy fighter weapons program. we are thrilled this evening to welcome the program's founder, dan pedersen. he entered the u.s. navy in 1953, went on to become the senior officer of the group of nine men who formed the topgun program at naval station miramar in 1969. he serve in combat during the vietnam war with the flies crews on uss hang caulk and three on uss enterprise. he retired as captain accumulated 6,100 flight hours, flying 39 types of aircraft 50/50. for thoesz of you know his story from to it 1986 movie topgun you'll be happy to know jerry bruk heimer is producing topgun maverick, a sequel, he had scheduled to be released in 2020. pedersen's book is available for signing and purchase following this. at the national air and space museum. now please join me in welcome dan pedersen and larry burke. >> you ready to go? okay. i'm going to take about ten minutes and just set the stanl here for larry and i to go back and forth in final preparation for the questions coming from you. the assumption tonight is n

this past march marked the 50th anniversary of the u.s. navy fighter weapons program. we are thrilled this evening to welcome the program's founder, dan pedersen. he entered the u.s. navy in 1953 and went on to become the senior officer in the group of nine men who formed the navy's legendary top gun program in march 1969. he served in combat during the vietnam war with a flying crews on "uss hancock" and three on uss enterprise. he retired as a captain having accumulated 6,100 flight hours and 1,005 carrier landings while flying 39 types of aircraft. for those of you who know his story from "top gun," you'll be happy to know that jerry bruk hiemer is producing a sequel, which is squeded to be released in 2020. pedersen's book, "top gun," is available for purchase and signing following this conversation. and here to keep the conversation moving is larry burke, curator of u.s. naval aviation at the national air and space museum. so, now, please join me in welcoming dan pedersen and larry burke. >> you ready to go? okay. i'm going to take about ten minutes and just set t

navy has some aircraft -- sent some aircraft to greece to help with the forest fires. the u.s. embassy made a statement about deployment to turkey. [indiscernible] >> i think in the case of greece, a p8 aircraft was already provided to assist greek authorities with basically getting a better picture. it's a surveillance aircraft. a recon and says aircraft, sorry. -- ro khanna sums -- a reconnaissance aircraft, sorry. that aircraft has already been provided. they flew operations in support of greek authorities over the course of the weekend, from the fifth to the seventh of august. as for the situation in turkey, at the request of the turkish government, the u.s. army, europe, and africa is sending two ch47 chinook aircraft very quickly with water delivery buckets. they are going to be involved in helping put out the fires. again, at the request of the turkish government. i don't have the details on whether they are there yet, whether they have started flying yet. i would refer you to u.s. army, europe, and africa. they have a better sensor with the turkish government asked for

there is a navy sailor in this sculpture. the marine corps, of course, is part of the u.s. navy and when the marines fight, they don't have their own non combat functions. they use the navy. marine corps medic is actually a -- one of the figures holding that wounded soldier will have on his sleeve the insignia of a navy format to reflect the navy service in the war. we did show gas, poison gas is the most iconic weaponry of world war i. here we have seen of a nurse holding a soldier who's been blinded by gas. the nurse herself represents american contributions on the frontlines. the soldier represents the blindness of war and to fix that technology of war. also empty artillery shell casing strewn on the ground because artillery was the greatest killer of world war i. and then we asked sabin for another image. when you look at the sculptor, you see the figures are moving left to right. moving across the line of sight of the u, or the other shoulder towards the viewer, perpendicular to the viewer. except this one figure. we asked the sculpture sculptor give us a figure that s

but there is a navy sailor in this sculpture, the marine corps, of course, is part of the u.s. navy. and when the marines fight, they don't have their own noncombat functions. they use the navy. so a marine corps medic is actually a navy corpsman. one of the figures holding that wounded soldier will have the insignia of a navy corpsman. we do show poison gas, the most iconic weaponry of world war i. here we have the scene of a nurse holding a soldier who's been blinded by gas. and the soldier represents the blindness of war and depicts that technology of war. we'll also have some empty artillery shell casings strewn on the ground because artillery was the greatest killer of world war i. and then we asked sabin for another particular image. when you look at the sculpture, you see that almost all the figures are moving left to right. they're moving across the line of sight of the viewer. they have their shoulder toward the viewer, they're perpendicular to the viewer. except this one figure. and we asked the sculptor, give us a figure that stops and stands and turns and looks out

he entered the u.s. navy in 1953. and went on to become the senior officer in the group of nine men who formed the navy's legendary top gun program at naval air station miramar in march 1969. he served in combat in the vietnam war with the flying crews on uss hancock and three on uss enterprise. he retired as a captain, having accumulated 6100 flight hours and 1,005 carrier landings while flying 39 types of aircraft. for those of you who knowpedersen's story from the 1986 movie "top gun" you'll be happy to know jerry bruckheimer is producing "top gun maveric" a sequel. peddersen's book is available for purchase and signing after the conversation. here to keep the conversation moving is larry burke from the national air and space museum. please join me in welcoming dan pedersen and larry burke. >> are you ready to go? okay. i'm going to take about ten minutes to just set the stage here for larry and i to go back and forth. in final preparation for the questions coming from you. the assumption tonight is no one -- how m