>> they loved the navy. they loved the fleet. the fleet that they helped build and sustain. >> once again, they have the ceremony under way. one week since the gunman open fired at the nation' navy yard e nation's capitol. we'll live in. >> the report that no service men were killed. just civilians and contractors. and that is flat wrong. these patriots designed and built our ships. they sustained and set the standards for our ships. they connected us to each other and to the fleet, and they protected and sustained our headquarters. these 12 members of our navy team, our navy family, they were killed in the line of duty. they died in service to our navy, in service just a that the committed to just as any of us in uniform. for that service we honor them. for that service we will never forget them. i salute these american heroes. >> i want to bring in my colleague who is joining us from washington, where she is just outside of the ceremony. if you will, jeanne, give us a preview of what we can expect throughout the hour. >> well, they're expecting 4,000 people to attend the service here to commemorate those 12 individuals who were killed here last monday. there were an array of speakers on the roster to speak. among them secretary of defense, and even joint chief of staff general dempsey will speak. we don't know the substance of president obama's remarks yet, and whether or not he will touch on the issue of gun control. these are things he has come back to in other shooting events in this country. whether he'll raise it here, we certainly don't know. gun control has been bus pushedk in national conversation. wayne la pierre blames what happened here as poor security and he wants to blame the mental health system that would flag people's oh problems or keep them off the street. but that's certainly not going to end the debate on whether there need to be tougher background checks. the question is whether anything can be accomplished. the president did push forward something earlier this year in congress, but it was not successful. >> all right, geanne, thank you. stand by for just a moment. we'll get back to the navy yard memorial after a very quick break. >> we're reviewing the response to learn as many lessons as we can from this event. but there's one lesson that is already abundantly clear. arthur daniels was 51 years old, and that day the simple act of going to work, going to work in the morning cost him his life. priscilla told me that going to work cost him his life. but it's a fact of life which we must stop accepting. the navy yard, sandy hook, aurora, virginia tech, columbine, the streets of our cities. why is it that these tragic consequences and these tragic occurrences never seem to move us any closer to insuring that guns don't get into the hands of criminals or mentally unstable people? i don't know the answer, but i do know this, that this time it happened within the view of our capitol dome, and i for one will not be violent about the fact that the time has come for action. thank you. >> ladies and gentlemen, as the admiral indicated we lost 12 teammates. these were members of our navy family. these were our ship mates. they are mothers and fathers, sons and daughters going to work to provide for their families and serve their nation. you know, the nature of our navy family is that we serve together, and we depend on each other in times of need. we celebrate each other's successes and our triumphs, and we grieve together in times of sorrow. now these ship mates dedicated their careers to building and maintaining the finest navy in the world. they worked along side one another for a purpose greater than themselves. simply put, they are the best naval engineering team i in the world. they planned budgets, researched, designed, and built our future. this team is the genesis of the united states sea power. it all starts here. but above all else they are part of the navy, and navy strength has been and will continue to be the resilience and endurance of our people during times of crisis. whether in an attack on pearl harpearlharbor, the result is wl together when damage strikes. it was apparent in the actions of, for example, a navy shipmate who happened to be a former hospital corp man who carried out one of the they are fallen . this is what defines the navy family. ship mates taking care of ship mates. we will take care of the fallen and become stronger as an institution maintaining the world's finest navy. to the families here and our navy yard ship mates we mourn with you stay. we stand with you in the difficult times ahead. we will remember your loved ones and we will be with you. god bless you, our navy, and the united states of america. thank you. >> you're listening to admiral grenard, we'll take a very quick break and have move coming from the navy yard memorial coming up in just a moment. ç] >> the navy facilities-- >> and welcome back to our special live coverage of the navy yard memorial. we're listening to secretary of the navy. let's listen in. >> we are a family. ruin form and civilian, we work together, serve together, overcome together as a family. as a family we grieve together. together we hav we will assure t they like those who go on before them will be honored as heroes because that is what they are, heroes. ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances. an ordinary monday became a day of extraordinary horror, but also extraordinary heroism as officers and first responders ran to give aid and protect one another, friends, strangers, away from danger even at the risk of their own lives. we memorialize those we lost and honor the heroes we have here today. the courage we witnessed on monday did not end with the closing on that awful day. on tuesday people return to their work, and by thursday when much of the navy yard reopened thousands whose lives had been in real peril three days before would not let fear keep them away. still we know it will take time for those with wounds, visible or invisible, to heal. the shock and anger of what occurred on monday will take us time to deal with this act of evil defies comprehension, defies understanding. 12 wives, husbands, brothers, sisters, children, workmates, colleagues, taken from us suddenly, violently. but what can never be taken is the love and our memories, and we--and as we remember these individuals we cherish, it should not be as victims. their lives should not be defined by the terrible inexplicable way they were ended, but rather how they lived and the rich legacies each of them left. and these are unique individua individuals. as i have spoken to their families and friends and common threads emerge, love of family and of country, the value and pride played on working for america and the values that others placed on their work and on their lives today, one by one, we will hear their names and remember them and mourn. they join so many navy and marine corp heroes whose lives, indeed, shine forever bright. we remain forever courageous, for faithful. >> once again you're watching the navy yard memorial where 4,000 people have gathered here. this is the washington marine bear ricks just blocks where 12 people were horrifically gunned down. let's listen to secretary chuck hagel. >> mr. president, mrs. obama, among those serving across the nation and all over the world, i want to express our deepest sympathy to the families here today. no that our thoughts and prayers are with all of you. today we come together at this historic post to begin a long road of healing and recovery. it is a path we walk together. we walk with the families, all who loved the fallen, to help ease the pain, hoping that grief and sadness will one day leave, and cherish memories of those we love will take it's place. we help those who struggle with this senseless act of violence regain their strength. and together we will recover. we will remember the first responders. we will remember all. the first responders who ran towards the sounds of gunfire, including officers scott williams, injured in the line of duty. we will remember the valor of the navy yard personnel, all the people in the building 197. and we will remember that in the face of tragedy the united states navy is once again responding with is he involve as we remember the fallen, we note the timeliness of th finallinesy supported. we remember our family and friends today, and god bless our country. >> once again you're listening to the honorable charles hagel, secretary of defense. we're anticipating president obama in a moment and the 4,000 invited guests. let's listen in. >> secretary hagel, secretary mavis, admirals grenard and valardes. mayor gray, and leaders across this city, and armed forces, to all the outstanding first responders, most of all, the families whose hearts have been broken. we cannot begin to comprehend your loss. we know that no words we offer today are equal to the magnitude, to the depths of that loss. we come together as a grateful nation to honor your loved ones, to grieve with you, and to offer as best we can some solace and some comfort. on the night that we lost martin luther king jr. to a gunman's bullet, robert kennedy stood before a stunned and angry crowd in indianapolis, and he broke the terrible news. in the anguish of that moment he turned to the words of an ancient greek poet, even in our sleep pain, which we cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart until in our own despair against our will comes wisdom through the awful grace of god. pain, which cannot forget, drop by drop upon the heart. the tragedy and the pain that brings us here today is extraordinary. it is unique. the lives that were taken from us were unique. the memories that their loved ones carry are unique, and they will carry them and endure long after the news cameras are gone. but part of what wears on as well the sense that this has happened before. part of what wears on us, what troubles us so deeply as we gather here today is how this senseless violence that took place in the navy yard echos other recent tragedies. as president i have now grieved with five american community ripped apart by mass violence: fort hood, tucson, aurora, sandy hook, and now the washington navy yard. these mass shootings occur against the backdrop of daily tragedies, as an epidemic of gun violence tears apart communities across america from the streets of chicago to neighborhoods not far from here. and so once again we remember our fellow americans, who are just going about their day, doing their jobs, doing what they loved. in this case, the unheralded work that keeps our country strong and the navy the finest fleet in the world. these patriots doing the work that they were so proud of now taken away from us by unspeakable violence. once more we come together to mourn the lives of beauty and comfort the wonderful families who cherish them. once more we pay tribute to all who rushed towards the danger, who risked their lives so others might live, and who are in our prayers today including officer scott williams. once more our hearts are broken. once more we ask why. once more we seek strength and wisdom through god's grace. you and your families, this navy family, are still in the early hour of your grief. i'm here today to say that there is nothing routine about this tragedy. there is nothing routine about your loss. your loved ones will not be forgotten. they will endure in the hearts of the american people and in the hearts of the navy that they helped to keep strong, in the hearts of their coworkers, friends, and their neighbors. i want them to know how she lived, jessica gaarde said of her daughter kathy. she is not a number nor a statistic. none of these 12 fellow americans are statistics. today i want every american to see how these men and women lived. you may never have met them, but you know them. they're your neighbors. like arthur daniels out on the weekend polishing his white crown victoria. and kenneth proctor with his yellow mustang when if asked he would fix your car, too. she was the friendly face at the store, sylvia frasier with her unforgettable gold hair who took a second job at walmart because she just loved people. kathy gaarde loved her hockey and her cats. there were the volunteers who made your community better. frank kohler giving dictionaries to every third grader in his county. marty boudre teaching bible study at church. vishnu pandit left everything he knew in india and came here to raise his family and gave everything of himself to the united states navy. make arnold, who became one the navy's leading architects. one of his colleagues said no one knew those ships like him. they were dedicated as far as f. they were loving mothers like mary francis knight, devoted to her daughters, and who had just watched with joy as her older daughter got married. they were doting grandparents like john johnson, always smiling, giving bear hugs to his ten grandchildren and who would have welcomed his 11th grandchild this fall. these are not statistics. they are the lives that have been taken from us. this is how far a single act of violence can ripple. a husband has lost his wife. wives have lost their husbands. sons and daughters have lost their moms and their dads. little children have lost their grandparents. hundreds in our communities have lost a neighbor, and thousands here have lost a friend. as has been mentioned for one family, the daniels family, old wounds are opened again. priscilla lost her husband, only 30 years ago another shooting took the life of their son, only 14 years old. i can't believe this is happening again, priscilla says. these families have endured a shattering tragedy. it out to be a shock to all of us as a nation and as a people. it ought to upset us. it ought to lead to some sort of transfer imagination. that's what happens in other countries when they experience similar tragedies. in the united kingdom, in australia. when just a single mass shooting occurred in those countries, they understood there was nothing ordinary about this type of carnage. they endured heartbreak, but they also mobilized and they changed. and mass shootings became a great rarity. yet, here in the united states after the round-the-clock coverage on cable news, after the heartbreaking interviews with families, after all the speeches and all the punditry and all the commentary nothing happens. along side the anguish of these american families, along side the accumulated outrage so many of us feel, sometimes i fear there is a creeping resignation that these tragedies are just some how the way it is. that this is some how the new normal. we can't accept this. as americans bound in grief and love, we must insist here today there is nothing normal about innocent men and women being gunned down where they work. there is nothing normal about our children being gunned down in their classrooms. there is nothing normal about children dying in our streets from stray bullets. no other advance nation endures this kind of violence. none. here in america the murder rate is three times what it is in other developed nations. the murder rate with guns is ten times what it is in other developed nations. there is nothing inevitable about it. it comes about because of decisions we make or fail to make. it falls upon us to make it different. sometimes it takes an unexpected voice to break through, to help remind us what we know to be true. we heard one of those voices last week. dr. janice orlowski's team at the hospital center treated the wounded. iin the midst of one of her briefings she spoke honestly as someone who treats daily and nightly carnage. all the shootings, she said, this is not america. it is a challenge to all of us, she said, and we have to work together to get rid of this. that's the wisdom we should be taking away from this tragedy and so many others. not accepting these shooting as inevitable, but asking what can we do to prevent them from happening again and again and again. i've said before we cannot stop every act of senseless violence. we cannot know every evil that lurks in troubled minds, but if we can prevent even one tragedy like this, save even one life, spare other families what these families are going through, surely we've got an obligation to try. it's true that each of the tragedies i mentioned is different, and in this case it's clear we need to do a better job of securing our military facilities. deciding who gets access to them, and as commander in chief i've ordered a review of procedures up and down the chain, and i know secretary hagel is moving aggressively on that. as a society it's clear we've got to do a better job of insuring those who neat mental healthcare actually get t and in those efforts we don't stigmatize those who need help. those things clear, and we've got to move to address them. but we americans are not inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. we're not inherently more prone to mental health problems. the main difference that sets our nation apart, what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings is that we don't do enough, we don't take the basic common-sense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. what's different in america is easy to get your hands on a gun. a lot of us know this. but the politics are difficult, as we saw again this spring. that's sometimes where the resignation comes from. the sense that our politics are frozen and that nothing will change. well, i cannot accept that. i do not accept that we do not find a common-sense way to preserve our tradition, the rights of law abiding gun owners while at the same time reduce the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem that occurs on a regular basis. it may not happen tomorrow, it may not happen next week, it may not happen next month, but it will happen, it's the change that we need and its supported by the majority of americans. by now, though, it should be clear that the change we need will not come from washington even when tragedy strikes washington. change will come the only way it has ever come, and that is by the american people. so the question now is whether as americans we care in moments of tragedy. clearly we care. our hearts are broken again. we care so deeply about these families, but the question is do we care enough? do we care enough to keep standing up for the country that we know is possible even if it's hard, and even if it's politically uncomfortable. do we care enough to sustain the passion and the pressure to make our communities safer and our countries safer? do we care enough to do everything we can to spare our families the pain that is felt here today. our tears are not enough. our words and our prayers are not enough. if we really want to honor these 12 men and women, if we really want to be a country where we can go to work and go to school and walk our streets free from senseless violence without so many lives being stolen by a bullet and from a gun, then we're going to have to change. we're going to have to change. on monday morning these 12 men and women woke up like they did every day. they left home, and they headed off to work. gerald reed's wife said, see you tonight for dinner. john johnson said to his wife the same thing he always said when he departed, good night, beautiful, i love you so much. even in our sleep pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until in our own despair against our will comes wisdom through the awful grace of god. what robert kennedy understan u, what dr. king understood, what other great leaders understood, wisdom does not come from tragedy alone or some sense of resignation in the fallibility of man, wisdom comes from the recognition that tragedies like this are not inevitable, and we possess the ability to act and spare others the drops of pain that are on our hearts. so in our grief let us seek that grace. let us find that wisdom, and in doing so, let us truly honor these 12 american patriots. may got hold close the souls taken from us and grant them eternal peace. may he comfort and watch over these families, and may god grant us the strength and wisdom to keep safe our united states of america. >> president obama speaking before the invited 4,000 guests saying once more our hearts are broken as 12 lives are being remembered right now. i want to bring in to discuss the navy yard memorial services al jazeera american national security contributor jj green, and kim russell, national director of outreach from moms demand action for gun sense in america. thank you to both of you for joining us. jj to you first, your reaction to the president's remarks? >> it was very clear that he is upset about the continued shootings that have taken place on his watch. you know, he spoke about obviously the grief, the condolences. he spoke about the heroism and he spoke about the speeches. but then he spoke about that pattern that we get right back in to almost before the event itself has grown old, and that is the refusal to make any changes. he says that he refuses to accept that and that's something that seemed to be very painful to him, and some of the other speakers today, mayor gray from the district echoed the same thing. they appear to be just beside themselves in grief for the families, and also because of the fact that they haven't, and the president specifically been able to stop this process that keeps opening the door, he believes, to this kind of violence. >> kim, you know about this pain all too well. you are a victim of gun violence. >> yes, i was. >> tell me about that, 1999? >> yes, four days after columbine, which is a shocking coincidence of mass shooting. my friend was a high school teacher, and we talked about his fears about his students, and recognizing perhaps something that could set them off. he was worried about their safety and his safety, and we left dinner to go to another event. we were robbed. my friend was killed, and i was grazed by a bullet. >> when you hear about these tragedies, and the president mentioned past tragedies, and when you hear about them over and over again what goes through your mind? >> it is far beyond time for congress to act. sitting in the studio and looking at the faces of this new round of victims it is heartbreaking because i know it goes beyond them. they all have parents, children, nieces, nephews, cousins, gun violence ripples. it goes out and it.s so many people beyond the actual victim. it never goes away. it never leaves. i'm just wondering to myself, which of these victims is going to come forward in a month, two months and join me on stage at press conferences with other victims telling stories. i can't tell you how many times i meet people like me all over the country. we're tired of telling our story. we're tired of doing this. it is not easy. it's time for our congress to show the courage that we all show and stand up to this. >> jj the president echoed those words that kim just mentioned. were you surprised at all that the president in his remarks mentioned that more needs to be done? >> no, not at all because even though it hasn't been a major platform in his administration, it's been running in the background throughout his administration. he mentioned five events including the navy yard that have all been through these devastating shootings that shocked the nation and we've watched them unfold. how is it that it's happening this way in the u.s.? i'm not surprised at all. this is something that he made very clear from the very beginning that he wants stopped. but he's also very, very pained by the fact that you santa seem to find a way to get beyond the political process. >> but where do we go from here? we have columbine, aurora, the navy yard shooting. where do we go from here? >> i understand where the navy is going from here, i understand that they're going to head up a review at the pentagon to figure out what has to be done and what can be done. what everyone is talking about in the law enforcement community, the mental health community is everyone taking a closer look at what is happening, why it's happening, and asking themselves the question of what can i do to stop it. that's the one thing that i think all across the board is being done in the national security community. the question what can i do to make a difference? >> kim, you have devoted much of your life now for change. what changes would you like to see when it comes to gun control. >> the easiest change that could happen tomorrow is expanding background check system. this could greatly reduce gun violence across the country. we need to look at what the criteria are that disqualifies a person from getting a gun. aaron alexis should not have gotten a gun. he passed the pass ground check even though he had to misdemeanors involving a gun. in california that would not have happened. we need to make it hard for get a gun. >> what would your message being moving forward? >> like i said, a macgroun a bad check system, it's a no-brainer. all we have to do is get our congress to cosign the same bill that the senate failed to pass in april. it is so simple. it does not infringe on anyone's second amendment rights. it is beyond me that it has not happened yet. it has been nine months since sandy hook happened, and nothing has been done on a federal level. it's atrocious. >> jj, has the system failed us in a sense? >> yes, from a reporter's point of view i can tell you that i've covered a number of shootings. so you know, in the last few years there have been a number of shootings, and the pattern seems to rebea repeat itself. now whether or not politicians are doing the right thing i cannot answer that question, but i can tell you from a national security and law enforcement and intelligence perspective, people are very tired of facing the same thing. and recognize, too, in this situation that took place on monday, and taking aaron alexis out of the equation, there was very little that could have been done at point of impact to stop him. that's something that is very difficult for folks in the national security and intelligence community to come to at this point. >> kim, what are these families going through right now? what are they dealing with? >> they're dealing with hell. there is nothing worse than losing a loved one. it is just--i can't even imagine what they're going through. you go through shock. you're in fog. i suffered from post traumatic stress disorder for years, and still have occasional bouts of it. it resurfaced after sandy hook happened. it never goes away. you never recover from the loss of a loved one, especially from gun violence. >> the president just a moment ago talking about the past tragedies. let's listen in. >> as president i have now grieved with five american communities ripped apart by mass violence: fort hood, tucson, aurora, sandy hook, and now the washington navy yard. these mass shootings occur against a backdrop of daily tragedies as an epidemic of gun violence tears apart communities across america from the streets of chicago to neighborhoods not far from here. >> jj, the president also saying these 12 lives are not statistics. what have we learned from this latest mass shooting? >> we have learned that again one of the nation's most important and certainly productive military installations can be a victory of this type of violence. most folks don't think of that kind of violence hitting a military base. fort hood was not an anomaly ws the message we heard here. it stretches across the board. this is probably the one case that a lot of people go every single day thinking hey, i'm safer here than i am in any other place, going to a military base. it says to us that at this point in our society there is no place that appears to be immune from this type of violence. adults, children, politicians, you name it, this is the message that these shootings keep sending us, and the one that took place at the navy yard sent a strong message again at the military. >> tell me about your organization "moms for action." >> a woman went on line looking for mothers against drunk driving for gun reform. she couldn't find one and she started a facebook page. we started it the next day. mothers across the country are outraged. the more we learn about what is going on, the more we learn about the easy access people have to guns in this country, and it's not just mass shootings. it's day-to-day gun violence. it's gun violence in chicago. it's happening all over the place. when we learn more about how easy individuals who shouldn't have guns can get their hands on guns, we're disgusted. something must be done and it must be done now. i was in washington last week attending meetings on preventing gun violence. and there was this gun violence. it just never stops. >> kim and jj i want to you listen to another remark by the president and get your thoughts. let's listen. >> we can't accept this. we must insist here today there is nothing normal about innocent men and women being gunned down where they work. there is nothing normal about our children being gunned down in their classrooms. there is nothing normal about children dieing in our streets from stray bullets. no other advanced nation endures this kind of violence, none. >> there is nothing normal about this, jj, yet it continues to happen. >> one of the things that keeps happening is when these episodes take place most of the general public is shocked, and just beyond belief and grieved as we rightfully should be. but covering national security and law enforcement on a daily basis, i can tell you for sure every single day, at least every week or two there is some kind of bulletin, some kind of roll call notice that is sent out to these folks in the first responder community warning about the possibility of these kinds of things. warning about the possibility of some kind of domestic terror attack involving guns or some other type of scenario. so what the president and what everyone else is facing and dealing with is a culture that not everyone american views, kimberly out there and doing yeoman's work, but there is a heck of a lot more going on behind the scenes that people don't know about, and how big a threat, and how big a risk is going on in this country putting people at risk for this type of situation on a daily basis. >> jj, in your reporting where does the national rifle association fall into the mix. >> they don't. most likely just looking at where i report and what i report, i don't get into political issues, but what i do is report on operational and active situations. this is one that th the national rifle association, the name comes up a few times, and people have their points of view. but at the end of the day i'm sure the national rifle association, as everyone else in this situation, is looking at this and thinking there has to be something that we can do to fix this. >> are you surprised, kim, by the strong opposition against gun control in this country? >> yes, that wa we are a strongd loud minority. i can tell you what wayne lapierre had to say this morning on "meet the press." his answer is the same old-same old, more guns is the answer. our organization feels that absolutely more guns is not the answer. if more guns was the answer, we would be the safest country in the world. it is not the solution. >> as a victim of gun violence what would you say to organizations like the nra? >> well, first of all i feel like a lot of people speak about gun violence as if they've experienced it, and i can tell you from firsthand had i had a gun on me the night of my incident i most certainly would be dead right now. your brain reacts in very strange way when you're in extreme danger. your motor skills that you rely on every day just disappears. unless you're training with a weapon over and over and over again you are not going to have the wherewithal to shoot and aim and hit your target. what is likely going to happen is you're going to hurt yourself or an innocent bystander. even our trained new york city police officers only hit their targets 34% of the time. these are trained police officers. so how is your average citizen just walking down the street with a weapon supposed to have that type of training? to do the right thing? it is just not going to happen. more guns are not the answer. what we need to do is deal with the accessibility. there is mental health problems in every country. there are violent video games in every country. our country is very similar in most ways except for the accessibility. >> what would you say to the argument that for the most part people with guns are safe? there are those who are mentally ill, those who are unstable who possess guns. >> we have to work hard to make sure that these people do not get guns. those are one of the things that we're working so hard to do. that's why we feel an expanded background check would reduce the violence that is happening. >> jj, the president is calling for an overview of the procedures. can you tell us more about that? >> yes, as we mentioned earlier, one of the things that is going to take place, indeed, it has started over, ashton carter has started a review at the pentagon. should we hear names of people who will participate in that review process. i was told recently that this will take time less time than more. in other words, it's going to wrap up sooner than later because authorities and officials at the pentagon want to get something going here and get some progress, make some progress on this, but again one of the things that they're being painfully confronted with again is that they don't see very many ways that they can change very many things at least as they are on the security front from an operational point of view to prevent what happened from happening once he gets to that base. now in terms of clearances there is a lot going on on that front, and i'm expecting there could be a lot of changes specifically with reference who gets to do those clearances and how they're done. >> kim, your final thoughts on today's ceremonies? >> well, i'm pleased president obama is reignited this gun issue. it needs to happen. >> jj green, thank you for joining us. honoring the victims of navy yard massacre. more from nairobi in two minutes. stay with us. my name is jonathan betz. i'm from dallas, texas, and i'm an anchor for al jazeera america. >>my name is ranjani chakraborty, i'm from houston, texas. >>i'm kim bondy. >>nicole deford. >>and i'm from new orleans. >>san francisco, california. when i was a little kid, i just really loved the news. >>news was always important in my family. >>i knew as a kid that was exactly what i 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navy yard last week. it was apparent in the actions of, for example, a navy civilian shipmate who happened to be a former hospital corpsman, as she carried one of her fallen co- workers and performed c.p.r. in an attempt to save his life. or the individual that ensured the safe evacuation of a blind co-worker. these are examples of what defines our navy shipyard. it is ship mates taking care of shipmates. we will remember what happened on monday, and we will grow stronger as an institution maintaining our commitment to build the world's strongest navy. to the families here and to the navy yard shipmates, we mourn with you today. we will stand with you going forward in the difficult times ahead. we will remember your loved ones, and we will be with you. god bless you, our navy, and the united states of america. thank you. >> as a military organization, we have experienced all too often the searing pain of combat losses and honored the main who, in lincoln's words, have sacrificed their lives on the altar of freedom. today we honor 12 patriots who made the same sacrifice in the service of their nation, this time here at home. we rightly set aside special days and solemn rituals to recognize, honor, and ref veer the men and women in uniform who have paid the final price in the defense of our freedoms. these nine men and three women deserve no less. their work, and that of thousands of their civilian colleagues around this city and country is critical to our nation's security. without the civilians at naval sea systems command, we literally would not have a fleet to put to sea, and we could not operate without the navy's capacity and command. l we are a critical part of the navy marine corps team and the navy marine corps family. and we are a family. uniform and civilian, we work together, serve together, and overcome together. as a family, we grieve together. together we will assure that they, like those who have gone before them, will be remembered and honored as heros. because that's what they are. heros. ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances. an ordinary monday became a day of extraordinary horror, but also extraordinary heroism as law enforcement officers and other first responders ran into danger to aid and protect others, as colleagues, friends, and strangers assisted each other in danger even at the risk of their own lives. we memorialize those we lost. the courage we witnessed on monday did not end with that awful day. on tuesday people returned to their work, and by thursday much of the navy yard reopened. thousands whose lives had been in real peril three days before would not let fear keep them away. still, we know it will take time for those with wounds, physical or invisible, to heal. the shock and anger of what occurred on monday will take us time to deal with. this act of evil defies comprehension, defies understanding. 12 wives, husbands, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, children, workmates, colleagues taken from us suddenly, violently, cruelly. but what can never be taken is the love and our memories. and as we remember these individuals we cherished, it should not be as victims. their lives should not be defined by the terrible, inexplicable way they were ended, but rather how they lived and the rich legacies each of them left. and these are unique individuals. as i've spoken to their families and friends and common threads emerge, love of family and country and the value and pride placed on working for america and the values that others place on their work and on their lives. today, one by one, we will hear their names and remember them and mourn. they join so many other navy and marine corps heroes whose lives shine forever bright. we remember semper fortis, semper fidelis. we remain forever faithful, forever courageous. >> mr. president, mrs. obama, on behalf of the more than three million men and women at the department of defense serving across the nation and all over the world, i want to express our deepest sympathy to the families here today. know that our thoughts and our prayers are with all of you. today we come together at this historic post to begin a long road of healing and recovery. it is a path we walk together. we walk with the families, all who loved the fallen, to help ease the pain, hoping that grief and sadness will one day end and cherished memories of those we loved so much will take their place. we walk with those injured and scarred by this senseless act of violence to help them regain their strength, hoping the horrors of lost monday will soon recede. and together we will recover. we will remember the first responders. we will remember all. the first responders who ran toward the sounds of gunfire, including officers -- officer scott williams, injured in the line of duty. we will remember the valor of the navy yard personnel, all the people in the building 197, and we will remember that in the face of tragedy, the united states navy is, once again, responding with resolve as we remember the fallen, we also note the timeliness resilience of the institution that the victims were part of, that they so proudly supported and the nation they so humbly serve. god bless the families and friends of those who we remember today. and god bless our country. >> secretary hagel, secretary mavis, admirals greenert and hilliares, and mayor gray. leaders from across this city and armed forces, to all the outstanding first responders, and most of all, the families whose hearts have been broken, we cannot begin to comprehend your loss. we know that no words we offer today are equal to the magnitude, for the deaths of that loss. but we come together as a grateful nation to honor your loved ones, to grieve with you and to offer as best we can some solace and some comfort. now, on the night that we lost martin luther king, jr., to a gunman's bullet, robert kennedy stood before a stunned and angry crowd in indianapolis and he broke the terrible news. in the anguish of that moment, he turned to the words an ancient greek greek playwright aeschylus. "even in our sleep, pain which we cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the --ful grace of god." ["pain pain which cannot forget, drop by drop upon the heart." the tragedy and the pain that brings us here today is extraordinary. it is unique. the lives that were taken from us were unique. the memories their loved ones carried are unique, and they will carry them and endure long after the news cameras are gone. but part of what wears on as well is the sense that this has happened before. part of what troubles us so deeply as we gather here today is how this senseless violence that took place here in the navy yard echos other recent tragedies. as president i have now grieved when five different communities were ripped apart by mass violence -- fort hood, tucson, aurora, sandy hook, and now the washington navy yard. and these mass shootings occur against the backdrop of daily tragedies as an epidemic of gun violence tears apart families across america from the streets of chicago to neighborhoods not far from here. and so once again we remember our fellow americans who were just going about their day, doing their jobs, doing what they loved. in this case, the unheralded work that keeps our country strong and our navy the finest fleet in the world, these patriots, doing their work that they were so proud of, and who have now been taken away from us by unspeakable violence. once more we come together to --urn the lives of beauty, the and to comfort the wonderful families who cherished them. once more we pay tribute to all who rush toward the danger, who risked their lives so others might live and who are in our prayers today, including officer scott williams. once more our hearts are broken. once more we ask, why? once more we seek strength and wisdom through god's grace. you and your families, this navy family, are still in the early hour of your grief. and i'm here today to say that there is nothing routine about this tragedy. there is nothing routine about your loss. your loved ones will not be forgotten. they will endure in the hearts of the american people and in the hearts of the navy that they help to keep strong, and in the hearts of their co-workers and their friends and their neighbors. i want them to know how she lived, jessica gaarde, said of her mother kathy. she is not a number or some statistic. none of these 12 fellow americans are statistics. today i want every american to see how these men and women lived. you may have never met them, but you know them. they are your neighbors, like arthur daniels out there on the weekend policy irving his white crown victoria. and kenneth proctor who, if you asked, would fix your car, too. sylvia frasier was the friendly face at the store who took a second job at walmart because she loved working with people. she was the die hard fan you saw at the game. kathy gaarde loved her hockey and her caps. season ticket holder for 25 years. they were the volunteers who made your community better. frank kohler giving dictionaries to every third grader in the county. michael arnold leading the gospel at church. a man who left everything he knew in india and raised his family here and dedicated himself to the united states navy, vishnu pandit. they were proud americans, like gerald read who wore the uniform 25 years, and michael arnold who became one of the navy's leading architects of whom a colleague said, "nobody knew those ships like him." they were dedicated fathers, like martin bodrog, coaching his daughter's softball -- like mike rigel, coaching his daughter's softball teams, joining facebook just to keep up with his girls. one of whom said he was always the cool dad. they were loving mothers, like mary francis knight, devoted to her daughters and who had just recently watched with joy as their older daughter got married. they were doting grandparents, like john johnson, always smiling. giving bear hugs to 10 grandchildren and who would have welcomed his 11th grandchild this fall. these are not statistics. they are the lives that have been taken from us. this is how far a single act of violence can ripple. a husband has lost his wife. wives have lost their husbands. sons and daughters have lost their moms and their dads. little children have lost their grandparents. hundreds in our communities have lost a neighbor and thousands here have lost a friend. as has been mentioned for one family, the daniels family, old wounds are ripped open again. pricilla lost arthur, her husband of 30 years, only a few years ago. another shooting took the life of their son, just 14 years old. i can't believe this is happening again, pricilla said. these families have endured a shattering tragedy. if ought to be a shock to all of us as a nation and as a people. it ought to upset us. it ought to lead to some sort of transformation. that's what happened in other countries when they experienced similar tragedies. in the united kingdom, in australia, when just a single mass shooting occurred in those countries they understood there was nothing ordinary about this kind of carnage. they endured great heartbreak, but they also mobilized and they changed. and mass shootings became a great rarity. yet here in the united states after the round-the-clock coverage on cable news, after the heartbreaking interviews with families, after all the speeches and all the punditry and all the commentary, nothing happens. alongside the anguish of these american families, alongside the accumulated outrage that all of us feel, sometimes i fear there is a creeping resignation that these tragedies are just somehow the way it is, that this is somehow the new normal. we can't accept this. as americans bound in grief and love, we must insist here today, there is nothing normal about innocent men and women being gunned down where they work. there is nothing normal about our children being gunned down in their classrooms. there is nothing normal about children dying in our streets from stray bullets. no other advanced nation endures this kind of violence. none. here in america, the murder rate is three times what it is in other developed nations. the murder rate with guns is 10 times what it is in other developed nations. and there is nothing inevitable about it. it comes about because of decisions we make or fail to make, and it falls upon us to make it differenr. sometimes it takes an unexpected voice to break through, to help remind us what we know to be true. we heard one of those voices last week, dr. janice wolowsky's team treated the wounded. in the mft of one of the briefings, she spoke with honesty as someone who sees often much violence. "we are a great country," she said, "but there is something wrong. all these shootings, all these victims. this is not america." "it is a challenge to all of us," she said," and we have to work together to get rid of this." and that's the wisdom we should be taking away from this tragedy and so many others. not accepting these shootings as inevitable, but asking, what can we do to prevent them from happening again and again and again. i've said before, we cannot stop every act of senseless violence. we cannot know every evil that lurks in troubled minds. but if we can prevent even one tragedy like this, save even one life, spare other families what these families are going through, surely we've got an obligation to try. it's true that each of the tragedies i've mentioned is different, and in this case it is clear we need to do a better job of securing our military facilities, deciding who gets access to them. as commander-in-chief i've ordered a review of procedures up and down the chain. i know secretary hagel is moving aggressively on that. as a society we clearly have to do a better job of ensuring those that need mental health care actually get it. and that in those efforts we don't stigmatize those that need help. those things are clear, and we have to move to address them. but we americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. we're not inherently more prone to mental health problems. the main difference that sets our nation apart, what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings is that we don't do enough, we don't take the basic common sense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. what's different in america is that it is easy to get your hands on a gun. and a lot of us know this. but the politics are difficult, as we saw again this spring. and that's sometimes where the resignation comes from, the sense that our politics are frozen and that nothing will change. well, i cannot accept that. i do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law-abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis. and it may not happen tomorrow, and it may not happen next week. it may not happen next month. but it will happen. because it's the change that we need. and it is a change overwhelmingly supported by the majority of americans. by now, though, it should be clear that the change we need will not come from washington, even when tragedy strikes washington. change will come the only way it ever has come, and that's from the american people. so the question now is not whether as americans we care in moments of tragedy. clearly we care. our hearts are broken again. and we care so deeply about these families. but the question is, do we care enough? do we care enough to keep standing up for the country that we know is possible, even if it is hard and even if it is politically uncomfortable? do we care enough to sustain the passion and the pressure to make our communities safer and our country safer? do we care enough to do everything we can to spare other families the pain that is felt here today? our tears are not enough. our words and our prayers are not enough. if we really want to honor these 12 men and women, if we really want to be a country where we can go to work and go to school and walk our streets free from senseless violence without so many lives being stolen by a bullet from a gun, then we're going to have to change. we're going to have to change. on monday morning these 12 men and women woke up like they did today. they left home and they headed off to work. gerald read's wife, said, be home for dinner. and john johnson said what he always said. "good-bye, beautiful. i love you so much." even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop-by-drop upon the heart until in our own despair against will comes some wisdom through the awful grace of god. what robert kennedy understood, what dr. king understood, what all our great leaders have always understood, is that wisdom does not come from damage did i alone -- from tragedy alone or from some sense of resignation in the falibility of man, wisdom comes through the recognition that tragedies such as this are not inevitable, and that we have the ability to act and to change to spare others the pain that drops on our hearts. so in our grief, let us seek that grace. let us find that wisdom. and in doing so, let us truly honor these 12 american patriots. may god hold close the souls taken from us and grant them eternal peace. may he comfort and watch over these families. and may god grant us the strength and wisdom to keep safe our united states of america. ♪ ♪ ♪ o beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain for purple mountains' majesty above the fruited plain america, america god shed his grace on thee and crown thy good with brotherhood ♪rom sea to shining sea ♪ o beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years thine alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears america, america god shed his grace on thee and crown thy good with brotherhood ♪rom sea to shining sea ♪ ♪ ♪ america, america♪ ♪ america http://twitter.com/cspanw ♪ >> [speaking foreign language] in the translation it says, from bhagavad gita, holy scripture, "weapons cannot cut it, nor can fire burn it. water cannot wet it, nor can wind dry it." the second passage. [speaking foreign language] the translation, "as a man sheds his worn out clothes, takes other new ones likewise, the embodied soul casting off worn out body enters into other new bodies." a small prayer in from hindu scripture. [speaking foreign language] and this translation, "from untruths lead us to the truth. from darkness, lead us to the light. from death lead us to immortality. o peace, peace, and peace." may the treasured souls of our 12 dear friends rest in peace. >> a reading from the letter to the romans. it is god who acquits us. who will condemn? it is christ jesus who died, yes, who was raised and is at the right hand of god, who indeed intercedes for us. what will separate us from the love of christ? will anger, distress, persecution, famine? nakedness, peril, or the sword? no. in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who has loved us. for i am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels nor rulers nor things present nor things to come nor powers nor height nor depth nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of god in christ jesus our lord. the word of the lord. >> would all of you join with me in praying and reading together from the ancient prayer book we know as psalms. this reading is from the 23rd psalm. will you read together with me? the lord is my shepherd. i shall not want. he maketh me to lie down in green pastures. he leadeth me beside the still waters. he restoreth my soul. he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil. for thou art with me. thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies. thou anointest my head with oil. my cup runneth over. surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and i will dwell in the house of the lord forever. let us pray. almighty and eternal god, we have gathered today to honor our fallen colleagues who died while serving their nation. these whom we regard as civilian sailors, as shipmates, were beloved fathers and mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, and they were our colleagues, our neighbors, our friends. as we remember them this day, we give thanks for what they have meant to us. for their love, for their courage, for their dedication to service, to our navy, to our nation. we mourn their deaths and we grieve and we miss them terribly. and even as we grieve, we are also thankful for those who responded in the face of terrifying violence, for those who strove to end it, for those who gave medical assistance. for those who lent a helping hand or put an arm around a shoulder, we give thanks. gracious lord, you heal the broken hearted. you bind up their wounds. we commend to your care the families and the friends of those whom we have lost. the psalmist reminds us that we are not alone. whether we ascend to the heights or we descend to the depths or take the wings of the morning and dwell in the utter most parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead us. if we walk through the valley of the shadow of death itself, your right hand shall hold us. so we ask you, hold us now. comfort each one of us with the great power of your love. and in our grief and our confusion, give us light to guide us into the assurance of your love. we pray this in your holy name. amen. would you please rise as we recall the names of those whom we have lost, and remain standing for the navy hymn and for taps. following taps, please remain in place for the departure of president and mrs. obama and the families. these are our fallen colleagues. michael wells arnold. martin bodrog. arthur lee daniels. sylvia rene frasier. kathleen gaarde. john roger johnson. mary francis knight. frank edwin kohler. vishnu pandit. kenneth bernard proctor. gerald eugene read. ♪nd richard michael rigdell. ♪ ♪ almighty father, strong to save, whose arm hath bound the restless wave, who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep its own appointed limits keep: o hear us when we cry to thee ♪or those in peril on the sea. ♪ [taps] ♪ ♪ [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord he is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored he has loosed the wrathful lightning of his terrible swift sword ♪ truth is marching on cracks on the next "washington journal," we discussed the debate over the federal budget. then, jay hancock talks about the health care law's impact on full and part-time employees. and we speak with washington times investigative reporter. is all on washington journal, live on c-span. the senate hears a committee on human trafficking taking place discuss measures they can take to stop trafficking. that is live here on c-span. archives willine redefine social studies education in america. the video library and clipping capability are treasures. it is easy. click on what you want to watch, and press play. you can search for a specific topic or keyword. go to the bio page and scroll down to their appearances. the c-span video library. searchable, easy, and free. created by the cable tv industry, and funded a your local cable or satellite provider. theonight, "q&a with agriculture secretary general. then, the washington navy yard memorial service, for victims of the families of monday's shooting. >> this week on queuing day, phyllis fong. ofir of the council inspectors general on integrity and efficiency. >> phyllis fong, what is inspector general? 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>> i rise to engage to join in a colloquy. i appreciate his willingness to are come debate when there natural disasters and i appreciate your efforts. in colorado, we are experiencing a major flood that has impacted his team counties, crossing over approximately 2000 square miles. certain areas have received over 20 inches of rain. damagedomes have been or destroyed in the destroyed count is above 2000 homes. many areas are still in crisis trade federal emergency management agency will be unable to provide an accurate damage assessment or at least early days. additionally, the colorado department of transportation estimates cost could exceed the $100 million cap that would exceed the cap on funds in a disaster relief act. the tragedy and devastation caused by this severe flood the federal government. >> will the gentleman yield? >> i yield to the gentleman. >> i want to thank the gentleman from colorado for all of his efforts to help colorado through all of this turmoil. i'm awareisaster area of the dire need to help colorado and provide access to emergency resources, including access to emergency transportation dollars and i look forward to working with the gentleman to address this funding manager as expeditiously as possible. i know i speak for all of the house when i say our hearts are with you and our prayers are with you and thank you for our -- thank you for your great service. kentuckyntleman from reserves trade the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. >> the gentleman from connecticut is recognized for three minutes. >> i rise in strong opposition to this cynical and ms. conceived funding bill designed to push us into a government shut down. majority, we saw this on a partyline vote rob buddha low incomeuth of americans including children, seniors and veterans. would onlytion further punish american families and accelerate the majority's race to the bottom. in fact, the majority's leadership has been quite explicit about their intentions. they want to lock in the cuts we have seen to education programs, health programs, they want to make those cuts permanent. that is their opening position. they have been quite upfront that the only way they would mitigate against these cut is in exchange for cuts to social security, medicare and medicaid. even though these deep cuts are producing harmful results over the country, the majority wants to use them as leverage for further negotiations. it is about ideology and it is just a game to them. people's lives don't seem to matter. let me remind this hottie what is happening all over america because of the across-the-board cuts. more than 50,000 children are losing access to early learning through head start. children that thousands of schools across america would use -- would lose access to schools they need to provide access to instruction they need. overboard and agencies are asking to pick up a higher share for the cost of educating more than 6 million students with special needs and kids are losing access to childcare and putting economic security more at risk. hundreds of thousands of unemployed adult veterans are losing access to job training programs. though biomedical research that saves lives and cancer, diabetes, autism, that research is being curtailed. i am a cancer survivor. biomedical research and the grace of god have allowed me to stand here today, but they would cut off while medical research. it is either going to be delayed or lost. food safety, public health, we andromise our economy health and well-being of american families and our very future as a nation. instead of working to pass a compromise bill that addresses the budget and a serious and responsible manner, they have used this ross us to try yet again to derail the affordable care act and deny americans affordable health care. these members have health insurance. most americans do not. >> she is an recognize for an additional one minute. >> members of congress have health insurance. people in this station cannot afford health insurance. they would cut off. they would make it impossible for people to get preventive care to get their kids up to age 26 on their own health insurance coverage and say to the insurance companies, go for it can deny health care coverage and talk about pre- existing conditions. families all over america are struggling. this is not a game. we are talking about people's lives. we have a moral responsibility and we are here to represent the our own people, not personal agenda or political agenda and don't ideology. better, so we must vote against this bill and i yield back the balance of my time. >> the gentlewoman reserves. kentucky --man from >> can i ask how much time remains? >> the gentlewoman has 11 minutes and the gentleman has asked minutes. >> i reserve great >> madam's beaker, i am pleased to yield 10 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from georgia, john lewis. >> the german from georgia is recognized for two minutes. >> madam speaker, i want to thank my friends and colleagues for yielding. madam speaker, this is unbelievable. i cannot believe we are here done,with so much to be so much good that we could do, this republican congress wants to stop the country to deny the people a chance to see a doctor. how many times are we going to do this? next?s medicare? medicaid? social security? this is not right. this is not fair. it is not just. madam speaker, the voters have spoken. the supreme court has ruled. the affordable care act is the rule of the land. it is constitutional. it is compassionate. it is what is right. .t is what is necessary so much progress has been made that young people can stay insured under their parents. more people will have coverage to help them see a doctor when they need to. coverage that covers. the american people are counting on us trade we must fulfill our constitutional responsibilities to fund the federal government. the prong -- the promise of health care to american people. we will not go back words. we have come too far and we cannot turn back. madam speaker, health care is a right. it is not a privilege for the oflthy grade every citizen the united states should be able to see a doctor when they need to. every single one. this is not the american way. it is not the america we believe in. we should care for each other. we should look out for one another. we are one family, one house, the american house, and we shall put the roof down on our heads. we should not pull the roof down on our heads to when political points. vote no on this backward deal. vote for what is right am a fair and just. >> the gentleman's time is expired. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized great >> i reserve. >> the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. >> i am pleased to yield one minute to the distinguished leader, ms. pelosi from california. >> the gentlewoman from california is recognized for one minute. you very much, madam speaker. madam speaker, i come to the floor in anyways as a mother. as a mother concerned about the children of america, as a grandmother concerned about all of america's children, but as a mother who steps into this chamber to say this place is a mess. let's get our house in order. we are legislators. we have come here to do a job for the american people, and job means we have to make the government for the good of the people. not here to expand government, but we are not here to eliminate government. if the idea is to limit government, let's work together to do that. but what is brought to the floor today is without a doubt a measure designed to shut down government. it could have no other intent. its purpose is clear. if our colleagues on the republican side deny that, then they have no idea of the gravity of the situation -- to quote "the music man" of the trouble that is contained in this resolution today. it is a wolf and wolf's clothing. the underlying bill to shut down government is reason enough to object to it. cost at least a million jobs in the course of the next year. will cost a million jobs. , itill not only do that will cut our investments in the future in education, biomedical the national education -- national institutes of health has the power to cure. we have a moral obligation to resources and the respect the talent, intellect and god-given intellect of the science to cure and what do we do in this will? say no, we cut it. doing serious damage to science, health and not only that, to our competitiveness as a nation. that, it is -- if the underlying ill were not bad enough or reason enough to say , thene you kidding, no they cloak it in wolves clothing and say in their view they are going to defund the affordable care act. nina what that is about. it is simply about putting their friends, the insurance companies, back in charge of the medical decisions for your family. but it goes farther than that. if that were not bad enough, it slashes the strongly bipartisan children's health insurance or graham by 70%. effectively eliminating an initiative that provides much- needed help to millions of low- income children. that will passed the senate in a bipartisan way with a vetoproof majority. but that's not good enough for you. you have to slashes by 70% to harm those children. once again this week. it wreaks havoc on health care for seniors by disrupting provider payments for medicare and medicaid. either you don't know what you are doing more this is one of the most intentional act of brutality you have cooked up with this competition for that honor. it cuts billions of dollars again from the national institutes of health, delaying important research and denying medical breakthroughs for future generations. democrats have a responsible proposal that balances, reduces the deficit under the leadership of chris van hollen, our ranking member on the budget committee. it reduces the deficit in a responsible way and the devastating across-the-board cuts of the sequester and makes investments in the future and keeps government open as opposed to this bill intended to shut cut -- shut government down. i know my colleague mr. hoyer has been very vocal on this subject and he will quote some republicans on what they have said great don't take it from us. take it from you, mr. chairman -- i will extended to have the exact quote. it doesn't enable us to do the work of government. i urge a no vote on this continuing revolution -- resolution. a terrible vote for our country and it is time for us to work together to help ensure and not in danger the economic security and prosperity of the american people. i urge my colleagues to vote no and yield back the balance of my time. back. gentlewoman yield the gentlewoman from kentucky is recognized. >> i yield one minute to the distinguished majority leader of the house, mr. cantor of virginia. virginiantleman from is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, madam speaker at a want to thank the gentleman from kentucky for his leadership running this bill forward. madam speaker, i rise today in strong support of this measure providing for the continuing resolution. millions of americans across this country are struggling to find good paying jobs and struggling to pay their bills and their frustration with government continues to grow. these americans, these hard- working middle-class americans are counting on their own elected representatives to show leadership during these hard times. resolution will keep the government funded at its current level without increasing spending on the discretionary level while congress finishes working on a tiredudget. americans are of seeing their government continue to spend more and more of their hard-earned tax dollars and for the first time since the korean war, it will be possible to have two consecutive years of discretionary spending cuts. this resolution will protect the working middle class from the devastating effects of obamacare. we hear stories about how both major employers and small businesses are cutting back benefits and cutting back hours. the president's health care law is turning our full-time economy into a part-time economy. even the heads of major unions who were once so supportive of obamacare want to see this law drastically changed to avoid further nightmare scenarios. let's defund this lot now and protect the american people from the economic calamity that we know of obamacare will create. americans back home are fighting for their families. to washington by our constituents to fight for them. they have put faith in their leaders to do what's right. for this entire congress, the house has led on restoring faith in our economy and trust in our government. we should pass this continuing revolution so the senate can finally begin to do the same. i would like to thank the gentleman from kentucky for his work on this measure along with the help of the gentleman from louisiana, the republican study committee member for their hard work on the issue and i urge my colleagues to support this resolution. >> the gentleman from kentucky reserves. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. >> i am very pleased to yield three minutes to the distinguished with, mr. steny ther from maryland area >> gentleman from maryland is recognized for three minutes. >> thank you for yielding. arem speaker, today, we considering a measure to fund government only if the democratic senate and president will agree to dismantle a health care reform law that will help millions of americans access quality, affordable care. that isn't going to happen and it is a latent act of hostagetaking. lays thelican cr groundwork for a default on our debt, an unthinkable act. by instituting a page china first revision. dangerousmbraces the and irrational policy of sequester. this bill enshrines and confirms the dissent into an economy destroying national security undermining and ineffective rendering of the government are country and our people need. itsmajority party with distractive obsession with the repeal of the affordable care act and it unrestrained hostility toward government has offered this bill notwithstanding the hollow claims of irrationality of the sequester policy their party adopt. the majority does so notwithstanding their chairman's accurate description of their policy of sequester and i quote the distinguished chair mr. rogers as unrealistic and ill- conceived. his words, not mine. a policy which chairman rogers himself says must be brought to an end. his words, not mine. chairman rogers vote today i will expect do just the opposite. they will vote to continue a policy that will inevitably lead to an american decline in retreat. party to the disinvestment in america's great men -- greatness. undermines the education of our children, the security of our seniors, the present and future hall of our people, the strength training and readiness of our armed forces, the growth of our economy and the creation of jobs, the viability of our properructure, the compensation and respect for those who labor in the public sector and most certainly the honoring of america's debt and obligations. today's bills undermines all of those priorities and more. i urgenot support it and my colleagues to oppose it. outontinues on the path set lee described by chairman rogers -- his words, not mine, as lurching path from fiscal crisis to fiscal crisis. i urge my colleagues with wisdom and courage on your side of the aisle to oppose this bill. dirty additional seconds? >> the gentleman is recognized for 30 additional seconds. >> madam speaker, i am for a comprehensive, balanced and responsible policy that will put this nation on a fiscally sustainable path. been and continue to be willing to work with all my colleagues to adopt such a bill. i take nothing off the table. i believe it will take both reason and political courage to achieve such objectives. americans are hoping and yes writing we will have such wisdom and courage. i urge my colleagues to oppose this bill and commit themselves to adopting a bipartisan and effective alternative to this distractive and irrational path. i yield back the balance of my time. >> gentleman's time has expired. from kentucky is recognized. >> i yield one minute to the gentleman from hell for you, mr. mcclintock. >> the gentleman from california is recognized for one minute. the minority whip is dead wrong. this measure protects the full faith and credit of the united states by assuring our sovereign debt will be paid in full and on time. imperative our creditors know whatever battles rage in congress, their loans to the government are absolutely secure . our ability to pay all of our bills depends on our credit in this resolution guarantees it. it also addresses to fiscal concerns -- i'm getting frantic heartbreaking calls from folks who just received staggering increases in health and human who have been notified of their health plans being dropped or having their work hours cut back as a result of obamacare. this stops that train wreck. second, it is for limited duration. responsibility. they should only be used as stopgap measures in this will does that. this keeps the government open while meeting these vital test. i yield back. >> the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. >> i am pleased to yield one minute to the gentleman from virginia. >> the gentleman from virginia is recognized for one minute great >> thank you. theses about more than throwaway provisions which we know are not going to be taken seriously and should not be by the senator by the country. but i'm going to oppose it for another reason. i used to be very proud of this institution. to go to my able community and many of those who serve as long as i have know what it was like to be proud to be a member of congress and know that we had improved the lives of our constituents and help them build bridges and buildings and roads that we could walk through the campus proud of what biomedical for research, knowing we were improving lives in curing illnesses. we know what the government can do. this bill does not allow the government to do what can to improve the lives of our people trade we need to believe in this government again. we need to do what this congress was meant to do. we need to fund the government adequately to be a first class society with a first-class economy that can compete with them beat anyone. that's why we ought to vote against this. thank you. >> the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. >> i yield one minute to the of ourrking member appropriations committee, mr. nunley of mississippi. frome gentleman mississippi is recognized for one minute. >> thank you. i would like to thank the chairman for yielding and his leadership. the people sent me to congress to help preserve liberty for future generations by limiting the government and growing the economy. there is not a single law worse limited government or job creation and obamacare. we must get rid of obamacare and replace it with a system that provides choice, lower cost, and put -- put patient in charge of their health care decisions. fory, we are standing up our principles, our constituents, and for americans. we will pass this bill today and i encourage my conservative colleagues to take up this fight suretand with us to make we defund obamacare. i yield back the balance of my time. >> the gentleman from kentucky reserves. >> i am pleased yield one minute to the distinguished gentlewoman from the district of columbia. >> the gentlewoman from the district of columbia is recognized for one minute. >> all of us are trying to keep the government open, yet the federal government at the moment is engaged in contingency plans in case of a shut down and so the district of columbia because it budget is here. this eight ilion dollars in local funds right here because $3000 and $131,000 is what it cost us in 2011 to prepare for a shut down. when speaker newt gingrich was the speaker of the house, he worked with me to keep the district of columbia even as the federal government closed down because one thing that is clear, the only thing worse than closing down the united states government is closing down an innocent bystander with not a dime in this fight, they capital city of the united states, free the budget of the district of columbia. don't close down the nations capital. >> the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. >> may i inquire as to the time remaining? >> there three minutes remaining. gentlewoman has two and a half its remaining. >> i yield one minute to the gentlewoman from nebraska. >> the gentlewoman from nebraska is recognized. >> the evidence is clear obamacare is actually hurting people. in the last week, i've heard from several constituents who told me they recently received their notice that they no longer have their insurance policy and must go into the exchange. cost anywhereill from 50% to 100% more and have higher deductibles and co-pays. they are not sure what land they can go on or what the totality of the benefits and cost will be. on a fixed income and is older and may have to have a policy with coverage she doesn't want or need. i hear the heartbreaking stories like this are my constituents and these are just three real- obamacareles of how is truly hurting people and squeezing them. i want that to join us in act in gone in eliminating defunding obamacare. let's start over in a real bipartisan way and really help care theythat health need. >> the gentleman's time is expired. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. >> how much time do i have remaining? ask the gentlewoman from new york has two and a half minutes remaining. >> madam speaker, yield myself the remaining time. >> madam speaker, the american people are counting on us to do our jobs, to work together, to create jobs, to keep the government open and keep the economy running. this is not the time or the bill relitigating health reform or holding up the administration possibility to protect the full faith and credit of the united states of america. with the great suffering in the wake of another national disaster -- another natural disaster in colorado, and my heart goes out to all those families who lost lives, who have lost loved ones, who have lost property, this is not the friend, to limit the availability of the united states of america to his relief to those losing loved ones, homes and livelihood. republicans refuse to work together with the senate and white house to bring a constructive ease of legislation to this floor today. bill we we consider a know is destined for failure in the senate and would be vetoed by the white house area for months, the majority has failed to lead. they have refused to appoint members to work with the senate on a topline spending number. they cannot even pass their own spending bills in this chamber. we remember how the transportation and had bill had to be pulled off the floor because they couldn't find the votes. and today, they risk halting government services functions vital to the american people and our economy. even when their own appropriations chairman, my friend, mr. rogers, has said we should end the sequester, find a balanced plan forward just days before the end of the fiscal year, they are still playing political games. i urge my colleagues to oppose this bill, support the responsible's plate -- responsible replacement of the sequester with a balanced plan to create jobs and keep our economy moving. benow we can do it. i would pleased to be part of that partnership with the chair, mr. rogers. >> the gentleman's time has expired. the tillman from kentucky is recognized for two remaining minutes. >> i think the speaker. cram speaker, we are doing a even though the appropriations committee on the house side past 11 of the 12 bills through the committee. four of them across the floor of the house. waiting forg one is floor time as we have run out of time. consequently, this continuing resolution will continue the government passed the september dirtiest end of the fiscal year. we are unable to pass the appropriations bill singly on the floor because of lack of floor time. but also because the house and senate never agreed to an overall number to which we can mark. consequently, we were not able to bring those bills out because of that limitation. this cr, if we are given a with which we need to mark the individual 12 bills, we will do so. this is a hard-working committee. we are pragmatists. toknow we have to pass bills pass the government. if we were intending to close down the government and should down we would not be here with this hill. we would just sit there. this is an effort by the majority party of the house to continue the government and avoid a shutdown while we work out the differences on these funding bills for fiscal or teen. this continuing resolution is straightforward. it is clean, it is short term, incontinues reductions spending. we have cut discretionary spending the last two years by $120 billion. the first time that has occurred since world war ii. we are trying to be responsible. this bill is responsible and i urge a yes vote. >> after the debate and vote which passed 232 100 and nine, john boehner and republican leaders hope to reporters. [applause] >> good morning and thank you, everyone for joining us following this important vote. today, the house is acted to keep the government open to control spending and protect people from an unworkable law making it harder on them. my colleagues have all voted in favor of this law because it's going to help moms and dads and young people and seniors all across this country. that is who this is all about august,n i was home in i heard this story from individuals and families who are concerned and panicked over the implementation of this bill and the effect it is having on their lives area that is white house has acted and today, we urge the senate to take action. we urge the american people to push the senate to have this important debate on the floor of the senate because if we are going to take action on behalf of the american people, we need the senate to have this debate on the floor of the senate area -- on the floor of the senate. [applause] >> when we started this health care debate, the president led with a very big promise to the american people. -- if you like the health care you have, you can keep it. today, the headline reads 20,000 americans who work for home depot will no longer be the case. obamacare does not allow that. that is why it wasn't just a group of republicans but a partisan vote. want to make sure you write that correctly. vote. a bipartisan [applause] it is a privilege to sit in this office and i will tell you this -- as the founders crafted this country, they crafted two bodies to work. the house has done their work and we call upon the senate to do theirs as well area -- to do theirs as well. [applause] >> the house has been fighting to stop obamacare since 2009. we have said over and over again this law is going to increase the cost of working middle-class family that we are now seeing from theve said beginning this law will harm our economy and we are seeing our economy turn from a full-time job economy into a our time job economy. that is why we are doing our job and it's up to senate democrats to show responsibility and follow the house's lead. [applause] many senate republicans have calmest to leave no stone unturned fighting this bill and all of us here support that effort. [applause] we are calling on senate democrats to do the same thing. i want to know where senator pryor stands over protecting the middle class. from the consequences of this horrific bill. earlier this summer, a nonprofit group in fort smith, arkansas, that provides care for seniors announced they are cutting hours for hundreds of staff in verse 228 hours a week area kay hagan in north carolina. does she understand the consequences that obama care is having in her state? store the president has said it's not feasible or sustainable to extend coverage for all the 1100 employees he has. he may have to cut hours for much of his workforce. what about mary landrieu of louisiana? her hard-is hurting working taxpayers in that state. in july, the owner of a diner told the senator at a committee hearing that he may have to lay off as many as 16 workers. middle-classking americans just trying to make ends meet. finally, what about mark a gauge of alaska? in alaska, it is pretty good premiums could rise between 30 and 80% grade what is the senator going to do about this? we are into the fight and we want the senate to join us. [applause] >> we had a victory today for the american people. and we also had a victory for common sense. senator baucus said it right several months ago when he said this law is a train wreck. it is a train wreck. president said if we pass this law, health care costs will go down. now we find out health care costs are going up for most americans. the president said would you like to help -- if you like your health insurance also, you can keep it. now he found out that's not accurate either. millions of americans are going to find out it's just not quite true. constituentsng our treated hurting the american people at a time when the economy is barely eking along, wages are not increasing and new jobs are not available. what are we doing? putting more cost and inconvenience on the american people. it is time for us to say no and stop this before it causes any more damage to american families and businesses. we've got businesses all over the country were not hiring because of the impact of this law. businesses reducing the hour for their employees because of this law. our message to the united states senate israel simple. the american people don't want the government shutdown and they don't want obama care. [applause] the house has listened to the american people. now it's time for the united states and to listen as well area -- to listen as well. [applause] >> last night, president obama talked about the house bill and the amendment to defend the health care law while he was speaking at the congressional black caucus awards dinner. seeing an extreme faction of these folks convincing their leadership to shut down the government if we don't shut down the affordable care act. some of them are actually willing to see the united states default on its obligations to plunge this country back into a recession if they cannot deny the basic security of health care to millions of americans. is an interesting thing to ponder. that your top agenda is making sure 20 million people don't have health insurance. willing to shut down the government and potentially default for the first time in the united states history because it bothers you so much that we are going to make sure everybody has affordable health care. can,e say as clearly as i it is not going to happen. -- wee come too far area have come too far. we will not negotiate over whether or not america should keep its word and meet its obligations. we are not owing to allow anyone to inflict economic pain on a millions of people just to make an ideological point and those folks are going to get some health care in this country. we have been waiting for years for it. [applause] it's time for these folks to stop the burning by crisis. start focusing on what really jobs,s. creating new growing our economy, expanding opportunity for ourselves, looking after our children, doing something about the violence out there. weekend on "newsmakers" the chairman of the republican studies committee talked about the health care law and the deficit. there is a public outcry going on throughout the country and the problem so many senators like senator landrieu in louisiana, she's going to face reelection, how do they go home and they cast the deciding vote and say they're going to keep it in place even though the president has admitted it unworkable. there are aes back, lot of legislative tools we have available. the cr is one, the debt ceiling is coming up, and we land on tackling the debt ceiling and saying we're going to make sure the company pays our debts and make sure the health care law will be delayed and address the economy and put some revisions like the keystone pipeline in the bill and say this will create over 25,000 jobs. the president has turned those jobs away for now, but why don't we say yes and get our economy moving again. passills we are going to to the senate ensure we will keep government funded and address the problems like the health care law. this morning on fox news sunday, senators ted cruz and claire mccaskill weighed in on the bill. the first order of business is to ask harry reid if you agree to allow amendments to be subject to a 60 vote threshold. that is typical in the senate. we have a lot of amendments subject to a 60 vote threshold. in all likelihood, he will say no because he wants to use brute lyrical power to push obamacare through, exactly the same way past the bill three years ago. if he does that, center republicans have the bill -- have the tool we always use when the majority leader is abusing his power, which is we can't deny cloture, filibuster and say theill not allow you to add funding back to obamacare with just 51 votes. >> sir, if i may, you say this is brute political power, others times you said it's a procedural gimmick. it is senate rule 22 which has been around for years. it's part of the senate rules and it says after you allow debate and take cloture, that you can pass an amendment by simple majority. that's the rule. >> what's good for the goose is good for the gander. that's one rule but there's another rule that says it takes 60 votes to get cloture. we workthe reason why out an agreement for it to be subject to a 60 vote threshold is goingf the majority to run the minority over with the train, the minority has the ability to stop it. if harry reid says i'm going to run the republicans over, i'm going to ignore the bills passed by the house of representatives and i'm going to do this on a 51 vote threshold. from my mind, it should the an easy decision for center republicans to stand united in support house republicans. any vote for cloture to allow harry reid to allow funding for a 51 voltwith threshold, a vote for cloture is a vote for obamacare. republicans will stand side-by-side with speaker boehner and house republicans listening to the people and stopping this train wreck. forces not rude political that is refusing to defund obamacare. it's called the american people and election. i don't think in america we should throw tantrums when we lose and threatened to shut down the government and refused to pay the bills. choicerican people had a last november between someone who said repeal obamacare and president obama. not since ronald reagan has a president been elected twice by more than 50% of the american people. look in the senate. every single democratic senator who voted for obamacare was reelected, most of them by double digits. and we didn't lose seats in the senate, we picked them up. even in the house, the democrats got more votes. gerrymandering gave them the majority. how is thisk you, going to play out? >> i cannot believe they're going to throw a tantrum and throw the american people and our economic recovery under the bus. it is really going to hurt real people. and this is just political point making. running fort president with ted cruz. this is not meaningful statesmanship. this is doing what we are sent to washington to do, and that is optimize and run the government. let's sit at the table and try to make obamacare better. let sit at the table and talk about lower spending in our federal government. >> a senate will be in on monday. votes will not be held until tuesday. confirmation votes are scheduled tuesday just before noon and the senate is expected to take up all past and house to fund the federal government through mid- december. lawmakers return on wednesday and they are preparing to tie a one-year increase in the debt limit to a one-year delay in health care law. you are going to head out now to the national mall where people are checking out the c-span bus which travels around the country. on the second day of the national book is tumbled. network, wenion have readings from the history and biography tends taking place talking with others on the sidelines and taking your phone calls grade that is underway now if you want to check that out on our companion network, c-span2 or online at www.c-span.org. president obama will be attending the memorial service for those killed at the washington navy yard. we will take you there for his remarks starting live at 5:00 and time. congress andnda in today's "washington journal." this is about 40 minutes. host: the debate now moves to the senate. walk us through what we can expect tomorrow and tuesday. >> in light of the expected filibuster, i think you will see senator reed wrote to the floor and file cloture on the motion to proceed. he will probably move to block .ny and all amendments that will be successful. he will get the 60 votes and we will spend up to 30 hours post cloture on the so-called filibuster and wrap up either on friday or in the weekend, successfully sending the bill back to the house with the so- called obamacare language strip out. as you know, this is an interesting situation that highlights how much of a joke this debate is. opposed toare obamacare are going to be in the unique position of filibustering thehill that strips out obamacare language, so i can't wait for this. >> this is the headline from the washington examiner -- can he what is house? different today under his leadership? lex i think you have seen this rise of outside groups that are now raising money on tactical strategy. freedom works, the club for fund, the conservatives they are going on fox news and other outlets, msnbc or whatever, advertising against republicans at raising money. that has made it much more difficult for john boehner to have any kind of discipline in getting the team to work together. what we didn't have back then was a tea party. you didn't have these tea party republicans who don't identify with the leadership have their own power centers. outfall fromof the mccain feingold that has limited the role of local parties and outside groups much more ability to participate in the political process. that might be good in some ways but it is hard for john boehner to have discipline as a result. >> that like to come back to something we've talked about before, the institutional divide between house and senate. this is from senator rand paul who was speaking over the weekend. we probably cannot get rid of obamacare. he said it is unlikely, but starting with our position, by not funding it, maybe we get a position where we make obamacare less bad. i think rand paul and ted cruz, they have fine tuned their strategy because they've gone in with the meat cleaver running these ads basically saying we promise you we are going to defund obamacare which they knew darn well that was going to be impossible. what we have here is a president to sign the law and the law is named after he was never going to repeal it. if you want to fix it, that's one thing and i think there is a lot to be fixed on. it istting rid of unrealistic when you have a senate controlled by the democrats and a president who actually signed the law initially who is named for it. the is the problem and debate within the republican party still happening today. >> interestingly enough, i would not be doing my job if i didn't point out after that story ran yesterday afternoon, he and his staff tweeted furiously to remind everybody he did in fact support the repeal of obamacare. he knew the extent to which you try to manage it the best he shows there are about 40 or 50 house republicans now living in some sort of toernative reality, prepared vote against everything, especially if it has to do with the president grade for better or worse, i guess for worse, actually, there are increasingly more and more senate republicans that feel the same way. , he of principle, i'm not sure he has voted for one bill yet in the united till batch in the united states senate in his nine month or so that he has been here so far. these folks are living in an alternative reality in this debate over the cr just highlights that. the fact of the matter is republicans have already lost on this debate. they can do it the easy way or the hard way, but they are going to lose on the crna are going to lose on the debt limit debate as well. this is from msnbc, congressman john effie. this runs about one minute. let's watch. >> we came out with our strategy that we're are going to vote on a cr to defund obamacare, give ted cruz and others what they wanted. several hours later, he sent out a press release saying we can't really hold the senate. we are not going to filibuster, we are not going to fight. and house has to hold. you should have been on the floor in the cloak room. there was so much anger and frustration because we have been abused by these guys for so long. what you see happening now is people calling them out for the hypocrisy of these big, tough conservatives who know how to fight but will never get in the ring. they can hold a filibuster in the senate if they want, but they cannot hold the senate conservatives together. they can hold the senate and have this fight as long as they want, but they are not willing to do it. ashington goes to senator ted cruz. getting caught by your own site, you had the worst week in washington. what's going on? we won the argument on obamacare. he deserves some credit for highlighting that. i think the tactics were kind of silly. we should not try to threaten us the shutdown of the government. this is really unpopular. a lot was passed and jammed down the throat of the american people. the more they know about it the more they see their premiums go up. there has got to be a way to fix it. repealing is almost impossible. he was not terribly amused by the commons. he promised that after a big picture in the house this will move to the senate where it belongs. i expect my colleagues to be up. it is put up or shut up. the irony of the situation is that they are going to be filibustering a bill that does exactly what they want to do and that is stripped out obamacare. do you know what is funny about all of this? look, i am more than willing to concede that the administration has had a tough couple of months when it comes to syria for instance and the larry summers nomination. things got a little rocky there, but the fact of the matter is that one of the best things they have going for them right now is this republican on republican violence. the only thing that is going to happen coming out of this is that democrats are going to stand united with the president and take it on the republicans because all the proposals are wildly out of the mainstream and vastly unpopular with the american people. guest: i think the republicans are much more lockstep in their attitude towards obamacare. he made some mistakes by not focusing how to fix it. it's not ready for prime time. the president acknowledged that when he delayed the implementation of a business mandate for your -- for a year. i think we should probably do the same thing for the rest of the american people. people want less spending from washington dc. they don't want their taxes to go up. so there are some -- there is some rhetoric and it gets over here it -- it gets overheated. i think that republicans are actually going to do well this next election because they are really where the people are, especially in their districts. >> i want to see if guest: i would make the observation that republicans lost some seats, but they did lose the house in 96 or 98. despite having some turbulent times. they definitely lost a lot of the momentum coming from the contract with america. they have a balanced budget or their economic budget as people may remember has been pretty successful. not only have they gotten the ballots budget but a surplus. they lost the public relations war but i don't think they lost the policy war. guest: president clinton was elected in a landslide after said shutdown. it just highlights how out of step and out of reality these folks are and the revision of history that is going around that the 1995-96 shutdowns were not disastrous for the republicans. i don't have the faintest idea what they are talking about and it shows how delusional they are. host: let me share with you two sentences from their piece this morning. guest: the only way you can really govern in a divided government is through crisis. it is not ready or nice or fun and we have this " perils of pauline" miniseries going on in congress where they are hanging off the cliff all the time but that's how you cut deals. whatever you learned when you were in middle school when you had to put off the term paper to the last possible moment, congress has taken that with them. >> but they are not cutting deals, that is the issue. i don't agree with much of what he just said. you have 40 or 50 democrats -- 40 or 50 republicans in the house that are not prepared to accept anything. they have come to town to try to take that building down and tear it apart, prepare to vote no on everything, compromise is a dirty word to them. as you know, i worked for senator kennedy for 12 years. one of the highlights of his tenure was his belief and his willingness to try to cut deals and try to reach compromise, recognizing he may get half a loaf now but further in the future, you can continue to build on that. for many of these guys in the house and increasingly in the senate, that is not hardly work. it is my way or the highway. you have many little dictators like ted cruz running around or david vitter last week trying to dictate how the united states senate will run and that's not how the process is set up. guest: david fitter said that congress should take the same responsibility under obamacare as the rest of the country. that's the mainstream. they will pass some stupid law -- that the american people want congress to abide by. the democrats are doing a slime campaign which is outrageous because they have a law they put on the american people. this is the problem. there has been some compromises. we got some stuff done with the 98% of the bush tax cuts that were enacted into law and we agreed on a process to get spending under control. it is not everything and there has been some hiccups along the way put i don't think they will shut the government down or default on the debt. host: the tom delay conviction was overturned, your former boss, what is your reaction? guest: "the new york times" and "the washington post" editorialized in favor of tom delay. the prosecution against him was idiotic and so political. it's about time that justice was done. host: our guests are two veterans of capitol hill. we will get to your calls and comments and you can also send us an e-mail or send us a tweet. jim from greenville, south carolina, republican, what's on your mind? caller: i have two quick points for mr. manley. the last time we lost the election in 1997 -- 1998, bill clinton and that congress repealed glass-steagall and they did a whole revamping of the financial bill which led to the near catastrophe in the housing market and the banking sector. you mentioned the republicans are the far right are not living in reality but it is also the far left not reliving in reality. i watched c-span all the time and there is always left people from the house saying that everyone should have mental health care and everybody should receive that. there is not enough mental health counselors qualified to even give everyone in this country unlimited health care for mental needs. what you guys would do and what the far left wants to do is basically tell the people who cannot afford it -- the people that can afford it that you get to only go for half an hour instead of an hour in counseling because we will ratify healthcare. guest: on point number one, agreed, that was the result of president clinton's time in office. on point number two, i am more than willing to agree that increasingly things on capitol hill are becoming dominated by hyper artisanship on the left and the right. the left certainly is feeling their oats, if you will, after the summer's nomination. the tea party is alive and well in the united states house of representatives. guest: first of all, i would make the observation that larry summers did not get the fed chairmanship because of this backlash on glass-steagall repeal. that is where this anger toward those folks who did that in 1998 comes from. the second point on mental health -- there is a real mental health crisis in this country. it is like a cancer. this is not something we've got to come to grips with it -- maybe not everyone should be mandated. it is very expensive but we should treat mental health as the real crisis it is and not ignore it. host: the house voted on friday afternoon to defund the president's health care law tied in with the cr that keeps the government running through december. even if that did not pass, we would still be doing this in a couple of months but the president traveled to a ford motor plant in kansas and talked about his legislative accomplishments a mastic way, obamacare. [video clip] >> unfortunately, there is a faction in the republican party, not everybody but it is a big faction who convinced their leadership to threaten a government shutdown and potentially threaten to not raise the debt ceiling if they cannot shut off the affordable care act, also known as obamacare. think about this -- they are not talking now about spending cuts or entitlement reforms. now they are talking about something that has nothing to do with the budget, right? they are actually willing to plunge america into default if we cannot defund the affordable care act. let's put this in perspective -- the affordable care act has been in the law for 3.5 years after it passed both houses of congress and the supreme court ruled a constitutional and it was an issue in laster's election. the guide was running against me said he would repeal it and we won. host: the president last friday at a ford motor plant as he traveled and talked about jobs, the economy, and healthcare. i want to share with you what kathleen harker who is a supporter of the president talked about dealing obamacare -- what to you say to a supporter that says to delay this? guest: i categorically reject that suggestion. we have a healthcare system that is in crisis and changes need to occur. this was an attempt and i saw it all play out, to do the best job we could to put together the best health care proposal we with no help from republicans. with all due respect to kathleen, she may have heard deeply held views, but what i think is going on here is that republicans, similar to what they did with social security in 1990 -- in 2005 when they try to privatize it, democrats stood up and said this was an attack on the new deal. this is nothing more than attack on the president's signature domestic policy initiative. the bottom line is that president obama is for it and they are against it. we are spending way too much on healthcare right now. doing nothing is not an alternative. let's get this thing up and running. let's modify it where we can. we would like to try to do it on the hill but republicans will not take any offer to try to modify it. they just want to repeal it. host: one of our viewers says -- guest: i don't think that's the case. the biggest fear is that it will push up dramatically the premiums and ends of the 40 hour workweek. president obama's biggest supporter is big labor and they aren't desperately afraid of this bill because they think it will and the 40 hour workweek. they want to delay it and they have written letters and done rallies. kathleen parker is more moderate. she's not really a supporter of the president but she nails it. host: she has been more supportive of the president over the last five years. guest: anyway, labor has been overwhelmingly supporter of the present and they do not like this bill. they are panicked about it because it will hurt working people. let's delay this for one year. let's give it a chance to get these exchanges up. this is right around the corner and this is not ready for prime time. host: we will hear from congressman eric cantor in a moment but let's go to michigan, republican -- good morning. caller: good morning, i want to thank you for addressing mental health as it relates to having healthcare coverage print you kind of spoke out of your mouth both ways when you said delay it. you cannot delay mental health for a person, it does not work. in terms of big labor, as a child of a victory worker, my father, he would have supported the affordable care act. he is deceased. my brother still works for gm and does supported. - it. perhaps some people are afraid to lose those high-quality benefits and that's wrong. as far as mr. cantor, he has been in one of the most beautiful late -- places in the world. what he doesn't see is his waters are polluted and have been for decades. host: senator rand paul was in mackinac island in michigan, not eric cantor. guest: it's beautiful up there. you are right, labor is worried about losing their benefits. there is a lot of people losing benefits. they are in fear of healthcare at higher costs. this law is a disaster. that's why the pew ratings are going down and that's why republicans are right about obamacare. they just picked the wrong strategy on how to get it altered. host: we will go to susan joining us next from boston, independent. caller: thank you, c-span. i have a couple of questions. we have 12 mayoral candidates running on tuesday in boston. although i regret we are a one- party town, to a person, they articulate, creative -- they have great ideas. i think our city will be a great laboratory for innovation and cost effective but results oriented governing in the next decade or multiple decades. i have hope with the states and the cities. washington sold out in both houses. the far left, the far right and everybody in between has sold out to global business interests whose loyalties are not with our nation. they are financial robber barons of the world. they do not care about the american public. i think the repeal of glass- steagall as well as the congressional redistricting which allow these crazy fringe, non-compromising, non- statesmanlike people to take over the halls of congress has been a disgrace. although i am not a liberal, i would agree with the wonderful tribute to senator kennedy -- like-minded great legislators of the past -- senator dole, these people have compromised. tip o'neill -- i can think of hundreds of republicans that represent this you those of taking half the low. with regard to healthcare, let's start it and let it lumber along. if we keep delaying it, we will never iron out the kinks. host: the front-page story of "the boston globe" -- a look at tuesday's mayoral primary. guest: i have more than a passing familiarity with that race because of former colleague from my time with my work was senator kennedy is one of those currently on the city council. he is one of those running in that race. host: did you want to respond to her other points? guest: the only other thing i would say to that is john worked with someone who is willing to compromise when he worked with former congressman bob michael. guest: the leader, bob michael, a great american, worked closely with tip o'neill. they disagreed passionately on issues but they were able to get together and hammer out things. the guy who invented the phrase take half a loaf is ronald reagan. all those folks that say ronald reagan was a non-compromiser is not true. he worked for the betterment of the nation. what the caller was pointing to was this populist discontent with the financial system as it is with globalization and with this idea that the world has destroyed jobs with exporting these jobs. there is probably an element of truth to that. we do need to focus on jobs and i think one of the worst aspects of this administration is the complete lack of focus on jobs. he is all over the place and is not talking about jobs. host: friday in washington after the house had voted on the continuing resolution and the health-care law, republican leaders spoke to reporters at an event sponsored by house speaker john boehner and among those speaking was eric cantor of virginia. [video clip] >> the house has been fighting to stop obamacare since 2009 and and we have said over and over again -- this law will increase the cost for the working middle class families of this country and we are now seeing it. we have said from the beginning that this law will harm our economy and we are seeing our economy turned from a full-time job economy into a part-time job economy. that is why we are doing our job and now it is up to senate democrats to show some responsibility and follow the houses lead. [applause] many senate republicans have ron must to leave no stone unturned fighting this bill and all of us here support that effort. host: this is what the 43rd vote? guest: the republicans don't like obamacare, i don't know if you know this. they are working hard anyway they can to pass that message on to their constituents. the problem is the senate is controlled by senator reed, jim's old boss, and that resident still has the veto pen so you can attack as many of these things as we want but what the divided government, you will not get much done. republicans need to pivot to a progrowth strategy because that's what the voters want. host: the next vote is raising the debt limit. guest: i could not agree more. well said -- as far as i am aware, we are the only major industrialized country that requires such a vote on the debt limit. it's an anomaly that exists nowhere else. i also agreed that it should be common routine vote but in recent years, it is not. the fact of the matter is, once we get the path to cr, these guys will attach everything and the kitchen sink to the debt limit vote. i want to be very clear -- we just saw a bunch of republicans cheering, having a rally, cheering that they will shut down the government. if that's not incredibly cynical, i don't know what is. guest: they were not cheering that's -- they were cheering that the fact that they pass this to the senate and the upper body will get a chance to do what it will. this is the issue here. you really need to find a way to reach common ground but the only way you can do that is when you have these types of crises. the debt limit is a speed bump. we have to slow down when we go over ace bead bump and find out where we are going as a nation. we are going bankrupt. the president says he will not negotiate over the debt limit. that is not -- we have to have a conversation about how we are not going to pass a $13 more onto our grandchildren. this is a debate that needs to happen and the only way you have that debate is by having a vote on the debt limit. i think it is an important vote and i hope we can have a bigger discussion not only about increasing the debt limit but also having a debate about how we will cut spending in the future. host: let's go to edward from georgia, republican line, good morning. caller: good morning. i appreciate you taking my call. i got one question -- there are so many things wrong with this government. the main thing i want to know is -- why, if the obamacare is so good for everybody else, why exempt anybody? if it is not good for everybody, it should not be good at all. if everybody has to go on it, the government, the unions, and everybody else then tell everybody they are covered. we should not have it otherwise. i would like to know why it is not good for everyone. host: stay on the line and we will get a response and if you're not satisfied, you can follow up. guest: what can i say? as a strong proponent of single- payer, i could not agree with the caller more. i don't think that is necessarily what he means. let's be clear, single-payer healthcare were everyone is covered is the only way to go. the political reality was -- i was there -- we had to do whatever we could to put together a bill that eventually passed. i don't think there is anything wrong with compromises and tweaks if something is not working right to try to make it better. like i said, the republicans are the ones that prevented us from doing universal healthcare, so- called single-payer. we have cobbled together a bill that by all estimates will cover at least one 2 million more additional americans. guest: big business already has their exemption. big labor wants their exemption and now congress is really furious because they say congress should not get an exemption. you are absolutely right, if you're going to have a law like this, you cannot do special favors to your friends. it does not work at way. host: did that answer your question? caller: yes, like i say, everybody under it or nobody under it. this president will have a legacy -- the only thing i can see he has accomplished is he have moved jimmy carter up from the worst president to next to the worst president. thank you for taking my call. host: thank you. host: this is for you -- guest: probably 44. at some point in time, republicans will have to accept the reality that the president will not sign or appeal so they have to embark on a strategy to fix it. they have been loathe to do that because of, care is not fixable in their minds. there are many things that could be fixed. the first tweet -- the government provides essential services. it is not necessarily supposed to be a for-profit organization but i think there needs to be strict looking at how the money goes out. taxpayer money is wasted on a lot of different things. host: bethlehem, pennsylvania, democrats line, welcome to the program. caller: array to the lady of massachusetts who has the most sense of anyone who calls. you have to be more specific when you talk about things like redistricting. north carolina had nine republicans elected and only four democrats elected to the house and those for democrats had 81,000 more votes than those nine republicans. it's amazing how democracy works when you're totally unfair? it's impossible to a wide in the long run. we have no democracy anymore. let's get real here. are we in a retarded democracy? thank you very much. host: tied into that is this tweet -- based on his: this point, let me go back to something you said earlier. what about working on compromise? guest: that's a good question and i think what has happened and tends to happen in divided government is that you only get compromise when you have to make compromise per you only reach a deal when it is essential to reach a deal. the president has not done much work on the hill. he does not kind of to the real hard work of getting congress in a room and working together. i think you deserve some blame but the redistricting is a big part of it. you have extremes on both sides. this has been with america a while and comes and goes and is a little worse now than it has been. the 2010 election was a real rejection of president obama and with it swept and a lot of state legislatures that gave a lot of republicans the ability to draw maps as they see fit. compromise is hard and the other truth here is that we have a big country and there is a wide gap in perceptions and expectations between more urban areas and the more rural areas. sometimes reaching agreement on the best way forward for the country is not that easy. host: you spent most of your government service on capitol hill on the house side than on the senate side, why? guest: a love of politics, love of policy and the chance to work with people that were going to affect change for the better. host: but you never worked on the house side? guest: i had a chance over the 21 years and the senate to start of working for then majority leader george mitchell as a press assistant and his office where i was the guy that did the clips. then i spent 12 years with senator kennedy as his press secretary on health, education, and labor pensions committee where i saw him do numerous deals with then congressman john boehner on no child left behind, pension reform and other legislation and i had a chance to work for the democratic leader, harry reid for six years, serving as senior communications advisor. i got extraordinarily lucky. it was not just because of smarts but a willingness to work hard and get the job done. i just never felt the need to go to the house. i thank the lord above that i got lucky working for the three people that i did. guest: you never went to the senate, you just stayed in the house. guest: the upper chamber is too noisy toy the four may. i have a bipartisan marriage. i span 15 years in the house and work for michael, tom delay and i had great bosses, all three of them had different strengths and i learned a lot from all of them. you kind of gain expertise and after my 15 years on the house side, i think i did my government service. i moved on. the house has its strengths. the senate is a more diffuse body. they tend to do more debating over there and we kind of get stuff done. i like places where they get stuff done. host: if you could put a percentage, what is the likelihood we would see a government shut down october 1? guest: i think it's about 30%. it would be a short-term government shut down unlike when i worked for tom delay and the newt gingrich leadership, this leadership understands that shutting down the government is not really in their best strategic interest. i don't think it will happen. i think they will find a way to reach agreement to keep the government open even if it is a short term scenario. host: that -- if the house is presented with a clean cr as senator reed takes out the funding measure, what will happen? guest: the leadership will then be stuck with the question of whether to accept that and live to fight another day on the debt limit or if they will make some modifications and set it back -- and send it back to the senate days before the october 1 deadline and try to " jam the senate." they might take away health care coverage for congressional staff members, for instance. i need to get this off my chest -- as got is my witness, i don't understand how we got in the situation where republicans are citing a bill to provide health care for 20 million americans as an excuse to take away health care for congressional staff and members. members want to opt out, that's fine but many large employers in this country offer health care. there is no reason the united states should not offer it as well. anyways, sorry to go off on a tangent. i think that's what will happen. the question is whether they will try to send it back to the senate one more time or whether smart morning we will have the president of a committee for a responsible federal budget. she will talk about the potential for a government shutdown. we will also hear from jay hancock about the affordable care act and how this affects workers. and how members of congress spend tax dollars overseas. we will hear from philip swarts. all that tomorrow morning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. tweetingf congress are about the budget legislation in washington. morgan griffith writes that the aree of representatives putting this through. chris murphy held a town hall in his home state of connecticut today. he tweets to discuss real-world impact of reckless d.c. budget games. barbara mikulski mentions today navy yard memorial. they're headed to memorial with president obama by those affected by senseless tragedy. we will bring you live coverage at 5:00 p.m. eastern here on c- span. live today. today,the national mall they are letting people check bear.e the we are hearing from one of the authors there now. you can check this out on our companion network and also online. >> the subject of whistleblowers is a very important and sensitive subject. on whistleblowers. it is important they feel comfortable and saying i have information that you need to concerned am very about a potential reprisal. that the statute requires us to extend protections. we will do ishat them protections to say to the extent you can give us specific information, that is much more helpful. sometimes in the course of providing specific information. this is to the identity of the whistleblower. you need to be aware of this risk. >> more with phyllis and the role of the inspector general. tonight at 8:00. >> last week the ceo of berkshire hathaway spoke at georgetown university. he talked about philanthropy and the economy. he was interviewed by the ceo of bank of america brian moynihan. he talked about one hour. [applause] >> good evening, georgetown. it is a pleasure to be here. for those of you who were here last year, we had bono come talk to you about what he did. this year, i was thinking about who we should bring in. i talked to bono and he said if you want to bring a real rock star, bring warren buffett. he has done things that i could never do. last year we brought you a rock star. this year, we brought you a real rock star. [applause] i am going to ask warren buffett a few questions and then we will take your questions in the crowd. i will start where the president left off. this is your hometown. what are your best memories of being around georgetown? >> i delivered papers in georgetown 66 years ago. i developed this affinity because in the hospital, people tipped. my regular customers, the ones who knew me, never tipped. one of the things they would do, they would give me cash checks. it would also tell me if a woman would give birth to a baby that was eight pounds. the numbers racket was big and they thought they were giving me this terribly valuable information. i have a lot of memories of georgetown. i was here during world war ii, which was a fascinating time to be in washington. it was really a window on an extraordinary time in america. at that time, we were probably more united than anytime in my lifetime around a common goal. time when people went down and enlisted when the war broke out and people did so voluntarily at a high percentage. they played by the rules. we all bought savings bonds at schools to help out the troops. it was crap -- quite a time. >> somewhere along the line you started investing. i have read stories that you started investing at her team. >> 11. >> what created the fascination with investing? >> i had to save $120. it took me five years to save $120. my dad originally was in the investment business. he was not interested in it. i would go down saturday morning and he had these books in the office and i had read all of them. i had read all of the books in the library on investing by the time we moved to washington. when i got here, there was the library of congress. i found it fascinating. incidentally, i find it fascinating today. it is an activity. if you are a baseball player, your legs may go. my legs have long gone, but it doesn't make any difference what i do. i have always had fun working. i have as much fun now as i have had in my life. i am doing what i love you and it does not get any better than that. >> do you tap dance to work everyday? >> to demonstrate. >> it was nice to get that round of applause at the start. but i am 83 and they are not sure if i will be around at the end of the talk. >> you have more energy than anyone i know. you talked about the giving pledge. how did you come up with the idea and how are you doing on it? >> it was three or four years ago. bill and melinda and i were in california talking. we decided to call david rockefeller and asked if he would host a dinner in new york for about 16 or 18 people to talk about philanthropy. oprah winfrey came and mayor bloomberg was there. i started having these people talk around the table as to how they developed their philosophy on philanthropy. people were really interested in it. we thought maybe there would be a possibility of taken this -- taking this passion people have shown an going to other people who have a great deal of money to see if we could develop something where people would pledge at least half of their net worth. we now have about 115 people. i have been dialing for dollars. i call these billionaires up. sometimes, they tell me how they cannot do it. i tell them i will write a book on how to live on $500 million. they cannot seem to figure out how to do it. they need help. it has been very rewording. i received a letter from one woman. she and her -- it has been very rewarding. she said they had not really faced it. she and her husband had changed things. over half of that $10 billion was going to go to philanthropy. they do tend to postpone decisions. i tell them the last will is what counts. i am talking to a 70-year-old and i tell them, do you really think your decision-making ability will be better with some blonde on your lap? let's get on board now. [laughter] bill has gotten people around the world because he travels more than i do. what we are hoping is that people pick up on norms. when i was young, i read about carnegie and rockefeller. you pick up the savior from those who come before. -- behavior from those who come before. we have the letters that are up on the website and they are pretty remarkable. we want to get the young people like arc zuckerberg to join us. he will a -- like mark zuckerberg to join us. he will appeal to a younger group. we hope it will become this gospel of wealth that andrew carnegie came up with. we have got better stories than that in these letters. i will emphasize one thing. nobody in our group has given away a dollar that anyway affects how they live. i have greater admiration for the person who robs one dollar or five dollar -- drops one dollar or five dollars in a collection plate. they are giving up something that has utility to them. i am giving up nothing that has utility to me. i have everything i wanted that could be bought by money. i have a whole lot of stocks that have no utility to me. they could have utility to other people. people who give up something that actually can have utility to their family and give that to some other person so that it has utility, those are the people who deserve the kudos. it is still nice to go where the money is, though willie sutton approach. if we can work on polio, something that takes contributions, we will go after it. >> the unique thing you have done is bill and melinda gates and the foundation. the other thing is almost all of your wealth. talk about the gates foundation as opposed to your own foundation. >> originally, my wife and i planned when we were in our 20s that when we had everything we needed, we would give the rest to society. i thought she would outlive me because women live longer. she died in 2004. i had to come out -- come up with a different plan. if you are good at one thing, you are not necessarily good at another. you need to get someone and give where your talents are more useful. when my wife had babies, i went to an obstetrician. i did not deliver them myself. i wanted to go to people who were good at giving away money and who were younger, energetic, smart, and had the same of captives in philanthropy. the basic principle is that every human life has equal value. if you start with that as your basic assumption, a lot of things flow from that. i have foundations for each one of my three children that are a significant size. you can read the letters that i wrote them on the berkshire hathaway website. i tell them if they succeed at everything they do in philanthropy, they are doing the wrong things. the important ones are the tough ones and you are going to fail at some of those. i have very energetic people, common objectives, and they work for nothing. that is not a bad deal. >> that stretches the money a long way. what i read is that you require them to move the money out. >> they have to spend it. when i die, all of the money has to be spent within 10 years after the estate is closed. i cannot pick out some great, great grandchild. you have to be born. they will be the best facilitators. i won the money to get spent properly. i do not -- want the money to get spent properly. i do not believe and controlling beyond the grave. i can't think outside the box, but inking outside that particular box about -- [laughter] >> recently, i read an article about eastlake. c.j. finishes his term at eastlake, a golf course in atlanta. there is development work that he does with communities. talk a little about that. >> it is the same thing about loving people who are putting in their own time and energy and are successful into a project that is worthwhile. he is an extraordinary man. he took this terrible neighborhood called eastlake in atlanta and against a lot of community opposition -- it was crime-ridden and he decided he had to apply a holistic approach to it. he could not just attack this thing or that thing. he worked 10 years to develop this entirely new community out of this total disaster. we talked about it and he said, everybody is going to say that can only be done because you are tom cousins and you live in atlanta. he and i and julian robertson decided to see if we could replicate this in other communities. new orleans was a great way to do it. they have been harassed by katrina and other things. we took it to new orleans, where we had hundreds of people. it is a mixed income-type community. we do not want to have it with everyone subsidize. we want to create a new kind of community were different races and different people work together. we went to indianapolis and it has been successful there. tom cousins has come up with something. he had an op-ed in the wall street journal about a week ago. when you get a chance to join forces with somebody who is as high quality as that in energetic and smart and putting his own funds in it, you have to jump at the chance. >> we will switch from philanthropy to the economy. you can do these wonderful and great things. what do you see in your operating companies from an investor's point of view? >> business has come out well from five years ago and the panic. we were right on the edge of the cliff. i give enormous credit to ben bernanke and hank paulson and tim geithner and frankly, even though i did not vote bank for him, president bush. people -- and, frankly, even though i did not vote for him, president bush. he really came out with a great economic insight and he did it with 10 words in september of 2008. he said, if money doesn't loosen up, this sucker could go down. [applause] and he backed up those fellows. we have come back from it. this news has come back. a lot of companies are having record profits, including a lot of hours. the american populace has not come back. the forbes 400, which just came out, showed aggregate wealth of the forbes 400 of $2 trillion. $300 billion to $2 trillion. the median income is in the same place in terms of real purchasing power. since 1989, it has not changed. inequality is getting wider. the rich are doing extraordinarily well. this is profit margins are terrific compared to the record, historically. is this returns on equity are terrific. a great many people in our country -- taken the bottom 20 %, 24 million households -- 20%, 24 million households, live on $22,000. we have any, need -- an economy that is delivering $50,000 on gdp. we have not learned how to have everyone share in the bounty we have. >> do you think we just have to grow out of it? >> we are growing. if you think about it, people are still unhappy with two percent a year. the population rose one percent a year. in 20 years, that is a 20% gain in gdp per capita. that is not bad in a generation. the question is how it gets distributed. this system works. i was born in 19 30. i was conceived in 19 -- i was born in 1930. i was conceived in 1929. after the stock market crash, he did not -- my father did not have anything to do. i look back with great fondness on the 1929 crash. since i was born in 1930, real gdp has increased f sixor 1. we went centuries -- since i was born in 1930, real gdp has increased 6 for 1. it is a fabulous country. in my view, we have to make sure everybody participates to a reasonable degree. we do not want to eat quality of results -- equality of results. >> you talked about the george bush economic statement about it could go down. what do you think the lessons are from the last couple of cycles? we have a lot of young kids out there. you have lived through a lot of cycles in the 50 or 60 years you have been investing. >> 70 years. >> what should young people take away? >> the lessons are people will continue to make the same mistakes they have made. it does not correlate to iq. when they get greedy and we have this huge bubble in the most important asset in housing -- you had a huge bubble in something you could borrow heavily against. the conditions got very lax. when that bubble popped, people came into that gradually. when they get fearful, it happens all at once. we had them all leave at one time. that will happen again with a different set of circumstances. the human animal will keep behaving pretty much the way it has in the past. we've had periodic recessions. we have the occasional panic. all recessions do not come from panics. if you look at the 20th century, in the 20th century we had two world wars. we have the great depression, the flu epidemic, the cold war, the atom bomb. the dow jones average went from 66 to 11,497 with all of these world wars. we have the great depression, the flu epidemic, the cold war, the atom bomb. the dow jones average went from 66 to 11,497 with all of these terrible things happening. america works. when i bought my first stock when i was 11, that was in the spring of 1942. that was a few months after pearl harbor. we were getting clobbered in the south pacific. the blitz was on and the dow was about 100. look at where we are now. it seems to me the obligation of a six i.t. as diverse -- obligation of a society as diverse as ours is to see that no one gets left behind. >> last year, bono's speech was one of the best speeches about american optimism that you could have by a person who is not an american by birth. what makes you optimistic about the next decade in america? >> imagine 1789. go back a few hundred years. there was nothing here. the guy who designed st. paul's cathedral is buried there. there is a plaque that says, if you seek my monument -- we had less than 4 million people when we became a country. china had 300 million people at that time. a were just as smart as we were. they had natural resources similar to ours. we end up with a quarter of the world's gdp. we have got something that works and we do not want to mess that up. we want to figure out what to do with it. you do not have to worry about the system working. you will have periodic recessions and occasional panic brought on by something and who knows where it comes from. i wrote an op-ed piece in the new york times in the fall of 2008. i said the country will come back. it will go through a recession and it will come back and it is coming back. don't ever worry about america. you are in the right place. >> you have been famous about your investment strategy. that has served you well. what is your favorite time you are able to accomplish that? >> i would say my favorite time is going to be tomorrow. it has always been fun. there is a company here in washington called geico. i first got exposed to that in 1950. it was 1951, i am sorry. i was 21 years old. i came down on a saturday because i learned that my professor was the chairman. i got down there in the door was locked. it was a saturday and i pounded on the door and a janitor let me in. there was someone who spent four hours with me. when you get to be my age, you realize all of the help you have received from other people. obama got in trouble when he said that on the campaign. nobody does it by themselves. we all sit in the shade of trees planted by others. we need to plant a few trees ourselves if we have had good luck. it has been a great ride, but it is not over. >> when did you actually buygeic -- buy geico? when did you invest for the first time? >> i went out to my aunt alice and she would have bought anything from me. she bought 100 shares of stock from me. the first stock i ever sold. a lot of years past and mr. davidson was kind to me in a variety of ways. i went in different directions. in 1976, he got into a lot of trouble. they miscalculated their reserves and they were going broke. i came back and bought a third of the company in a short time. in 1995, one third had become a half because they had re- purchased their shares. mr. davidson had a bunch of stock in geico. i said, if i make an offer for this company for cash, you are going to pay a big tax. i am not going to make this offer unless it is alright with you. he said, i have offered this all my life. so we bought the rest of the company. >> let's turn it over to some student questions. they will put a microphone out here and we will have you queue up if you have questions for warren. all right. let's take the first question. tell us who you are and ask away. >> i am a senior. i was wondering if you have any stock tips for the students. we are trying to make a little living. >> i didn't think they taught that at georgetown. i bought a book in 1949 called the intelligent investor. i do not remember what i paid. aside from what i paid for my two marriage licenses, that was the best investment i ever made. it is very important to have the right framework. you need to have an approach to investing that is sound. the graham approach is simple. some people adopt to it, which i did immediately, and most people do not. if you have the right philosophy, you will find opportunities as you go through the next 20, 30, 40, 50 years. you are more likely to find them in times like five years ago when we were having the panic. stocks sell at silly prices from time to time. most stocks will sell at silly prices at some point. it does not take a high iq to figure out that they are cheap. it does take a temperament that is willing to step up. i tell people, if they are going into the investment business and they have 160 iq, sell 30 points to someone else because you will not need it. you do not have to be that smart in this business but you have to have the right temperament. it have to be able to ignore what other people are saying and simply look at the facts and decide, is this stock selling for x with 2x? that is my generalized stock tip. no names. >> i will make it simple. us by bank of america. -- just by bank of america -- buy banc of america. >> good afternoon. my name is nicholas -- bank of america. >> good afternoon. my name is nicholas walker. are you tempted to venture into the brazil market next? >> you did the heinz deal. the question is, are you going to invest in brazil next. >> i do not know where i will invest next. if you went out and laid golf and every drive when in the hole, you would give up. the game would not be interesting. i love the fact that i do not know what you'll sway going to do next. in 2000 -- i love the fact that i do not know what i will do next. in 2006, someone said, i want to tell you a little bit about my company. he said if his family sold his company, the only company they wanted to sell it to was berkshire hathaway. they would come over from israel to talk to me. next. in 2006, someone said, i want to i e-mailed them and they came over very shortly and we bought the business. we handed them $4 billion for 80% of the company. i said, i do not go to council bluffs iowa. i am doing fine in omaha. he said, you have to see it. i said, we can make a deal without seeing it. we bought the company and i went over there and it is true. i had never seen plants like this. someone said to me, that's why i wanted you to come over. i said, if i had seen them, i would have paid more money. we have a wonderful partnership with the people in israel. our partnership with the people in brazil -- they are sensational people. i was on the board of gillette. the opportunity to buy into a wonderful business like heinz -- they do all of the heavy lifting. it is a great opportunity for us. i do not know what the opportunity will be tomorrow. last december, i was going out to boulder, colorado. he said, i have an idea that might interest you. as i came back on the plane, he said -- i said,, i'm in. after i said that, he sent me a one-page governance description of how it would work between the two of us. he sent me a brief description of what he thought would be a fair deal between us. i did not have to change a word. that is the kind of people you want to work with. >> you mentioned that people will make the same mistakes in terms of the boom-bust cycle. there have been recent developments, such as the creation of derivatives that hasn't -- have exploded recently. he once called derivatives weapons of mass destruction. relatives are a 700 trillion dollar industry. do you see this -- $700 trillion dollar industry. do you see this as where the next crash will be? >> they enacted. frank. -- they enacted dodd-frank. they poured $485 billion into aig. hank paulson guaranteed money market funds at a time when 30 million americans with money market funds were panicking. $300 billion in three days had gone out of the non-government market funds. re-hundred billion dollars. that was almost equal to the deposits of wells fargo or walkover via -- wachovia. i do not think they can do that under dodd-frank. i do not think burning he did and i do not think hank paulson could do what he did. when there is a panic, the only thing that will stop it is when somebody who has the ability and the will says, i am going to do whatever it takes. that is what bernanke and paulson and congress said to the american public. if bernanke said, i will do whatever it takes, he did it. they called it the change stabilization fund of the treasury. it was enacted in 1934. you had these strong characters who had the ability to print money. they said, we will do whatever it takes and the president was behind them. that is the way to in the real panic. congress does not like to give anybody that kind of authority. i tip my hat to them. there will be another panic. where it comes from, who knows? when that time comes, the question will be, will the people who caused the economic engine to stop come back and be doing something? i am not sure what has been enacted is a plus or a minus. regardless, the country will come through. it is hard to write regulations that will keep people from acting foolishly, particularly when acting foolishly has been proving -- has been proven profitable. humans all think they are cinderella at the ball. as the night goes along, the music it's better and the drinks the music gets better and the drinks flow. there are no clocks on the wall and they are still dance in. it will happen again. but buy when it happens. i will be buying. >> my name is john ross. i am from georgia. you talk little bit about income inequality. you look at class mobility rates i am from georgia. and average household income for middle-class families measured with inflation. a lot of these rates have been trimming down since the 1970s. some would argue that it is harder today for the middle class than it has been in 30 years. i was wondering if you have any thoughts on how a rising tide can it all holds -- boats. >> that is what john f. kennedy talked about, a rising tide lifting all yachts. there is a structural problem as the market system gets more structural lies. if you go back to an agrarian society, most people fit most job requirements. the world has become more and more specialized. we keep moving away from that. the market system will not pay well significant percentage of society. they are not needed to keep gdp itself. government has to entrust that. i sometimes tossed out to students this proposition. imagine that it is 24 hours before you are born and you are sitting there, johnny or joni, and you are in the womb, and a genie comes and says, you strike me as a remarkable human being. i am going to give you an enormous responsibility. i will let you decide how the world is going to work into enormous responsibility. which you are going to emerge you can decide on the economic system, the social system, the political system. whatever you design, that will be the system in which you live, your children live, your grandchildren live. you are wise beyond your minus 24 hours of age. you say, what is the catch? just before you emerge, having designed the system, you are going to go over that there'll that has b --arrekk -- barrell that has a slip for every person on the planet. it may say united states or it may say bangladesh. not knowing which ticket you were going to pull out, which -- what kind of world do you want to design? you want to design a world that produces lots of business services. you want a lot of stuff around. it could be the world's terrorist society, but if it is on a barren island, it does not work. you certainly want something that it laminates fear from everybody's life. that means fear of old age, fear of health, all of those problems. you want a system that takes care of the people who do not survive in that market system. i think we have done a wonderful job at the first stage. we have turned out lots of stuff. this country has developed in thinking how a rich family has behaved. we need to focus more on making sure that people who get the bad tickets do better than they are. we said that blacks or slaves were 3/5 of a person. we said all men were created equal but then we said blacks were 3/5 of a person. it was 1920 before we passed the 19th amendment for women. we treated women as an essentially different class all of those years. we have gone significantly in the right direction in terms of behaving as a society. i think we have to a dress the question of how do you treat the people left behind in -- address the question of how do you treat the people left behind. >> i am in the school of foreign service, first year. you are an outspoken fan of ben bernanke. he will be stepping down in january of next year. whomever takes over the position, should they continue the controversial buyback program and if so, for how long? >> they should take bernanke's approach. it means more improvement in the economy. i am not hugely disappointed, but mildly disappointed in the rate of improvement in the economy in the last few years. just the other day, he said he would extend it further. he is not pre-judging exactly when it is going to happen. he is telling the conditions under which it will change. the economy is getting better. we are in an experiment that has not been tried before. the fed has a 3.5 trillion dollar balance sheet. buying securities is usually easier than selling securities. we do not know how this game plays out. just the announcement a few months ago that the tapering would occur had a significant market reaction, probably 100 basis points. what will happen if they actually deleverage the fed? if the fed deleverage is that in a big way, that -- deleverages that in a big way, it will be a the fed has a 3.5 trillion big deal. >> the peace people do not take into account is that they will stay there -- piece people don't take into account is that they will stay there. >> they got about 1.8 trillion dollars. the fed is the fourth largest contributor to the united states government's revenues that there is now. it is under no pressure. if you have somebody wise, and i think bernanke is wise and i expect his successor to be -- it can be handled. it is something that has not been done on this scale. >> we have seen the market moving ahead and back based on the last few days. we will take one more question. >> i am from china. i am a graduate student at georgetown. my friends and i are a big fan of you. we read your book and you had a system of criteria on how to evaluate a company. it is confusion -- confusing but you said we are always staying away from an industry we do not know. the world is changing. we are living in a new era. the business models are changing. everybody is shopping online. in a few years, maybe everybody will pay with their iphone. non--profit is a new model. -- non-moffett is a new model. -- non-profit is a new model. >> he has a flip phone he wants to show you. lex i just turned in the one alexander graham -- >> i just turned in the one alexander graham bell gave me. >> in the venture capital industry, what is the most important thing in evaluating a company? i am not asking about doing average, but about excellent or remarkable. name one aim. -- thing. >> the most important thing is to be able to define which one you can come to an intelligent decision on and which ones are beyond your capacity to evaluate. i met bill gates in 1991. he said, you have to have a computer. i said why and he said, you can do your income tax on it. i said, i do not have an income. he said you can take -- you can keep track of your portfolio. he said, i only have one stock. he said, it is going to change everything. i said, will it change whether or not people will chew gum, and he said it will change the kind of gum that people chew. there are all kinds of businesses people use. i am able to understand some given percentage. there was a book called the science of hitting. you have a diagram and the strike zone is divided into 77 squares. he says, if i only swing at pitches in my swing zone, it shows what the batting average will be. he said, the most important thing in hitting is waiting for the right pitch. he was at a disadvantage. even if he was only going to bat to 30 -- 230. he still had to swing. i only get a strike called if i swing at a pitch. i can look at thousands of companies day after day. only when i see something i understand and when i like the prices that are selling, it is a strike. it is an enormously advantageous thing. it is a terrible mistake to think you need to have an opinion on everything. you only have to have an opinion on a few things. i have told students that if they got a punchcard with 20 punches on it and that was all of the investment decisions they had to make their entire life, they would hit very rich because they had to think about each one. you do not need 20 investments to get rich. 4 or 5 would be enough. if you understand some of these businesses coming along and you can spot things -- amazon is a tremendous accomplishment. i tip my hat to him. he is a wonderful businessman and a good guy. what i have anticipated he would be the success and 10 others would not be? i am not good enough to do that. i did form an opinion on bank of america and i formed an opinion on coca cola. there are 1.8 billion eight ounce servings of coca-cola products sold every day. if you take one penny and get one penny extra at $18 million a day and 18 million times 365 is 700 or 80 billion annually six billion 700 -- annually, $6 billion. those are the kind of decisions i like to make. you might have an entirely different field of expertise than i have you can get very rich if you just understand a few of them. we go intoheinz -- we go into heinz and we looked at people pouring ketchup on hamburgers. some products do not travel well. cap berry bars in england, -- cadbury bars in england do not sell very well here. >> thank you. [applause] warren, i want to thank you for taking the time to work with the students today. this is a person with a passion he still has an 83 to make right investment decisions. the ability to try to do something with all of that wealth that will help a near- term set of goals in society. you will find few people in the world able to do things that well. thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> a memorial about to begin near the marine corps barracks, murmur -- memorializing the victims of last week's shootings. obama and his wife are meeting with family members of the victims. we will have the event live for you here on c-span. you can see that family members taking their seats now. also in attendance, ella for -- , as well as chuck hagel. before the service begins we will take a look at some of his review of security at military installations. >> we will return to the marine barracks when the services begin. in the meantime, the secretaries review is about 25 minutes. >> hi. good morning. me begin with a few words about monday's tragedy. as the investigation proceeds into the shooting at the washington navy yard, i have been consulting closely with dod's leadership, including secretary mavis and the chief of naval operations, admiral greener. lawell as with federal enforcement officials. yesterday i conferred with law , thecement directors attorney general, and president obama. at first our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and have families and all who been affected by what happened at the navy shipyard on monday. we will grieve, we will remember , we will comfort each other. the department of defense is a strong and resilient community and we will do everything we can to help our colleagues get through this terrible, terrible time. in the coming days more information will come to light about what happened, about what went wrong and, importantly, what must he fixed. yesterday i conducted tw oh departmentwide reviews. these reviews will be led by carter.y ash we will do everything possible to prevent this from happening again. first, a review of physical security access procedures at worldwide.tallations the highest responsibilities that leaders have are to take care of their people and our people deserve safe and secure workplaces, wherever they are. deputy secretary carter will lead a review of practice procedures for granting and renewing security clearances, including those held by congress . this review will be closely coordinated with federal agencies examining these features, including the dni and omb. have directed an independent panel to be established that will conduct its own assessment and our clearance procedure practices. their work will strengthen the secretaries efforts and they will provide their findings directly to me. the department of defense will carefully examine the conclusions and recommendations within the reviews and we will effectively implement them. navy is conducting its own review and those results will bleed into the rotter department of defense review worldwide. where there are gaps, we will close them. where there are inadequacies, we .ill address them where there are failures, we will correct them. we know the victims, we know their families. >> thank you, secretary. i wanted to add my condolences over monday's horrific shootings at the navy yard. i want -- my heart goes out to those involved. while i cannot discuss the details of an ongoing investigation, i can discuss the bravery of the first responders. even in the midst of tragedy or -- midst of tragedy, there are moments of triumph. ,ur military police and emt's there were other unseen moments iat were equally heraldic. was especially inspired by the story of omar brandt, a civilian employee who helped a blind , running towards danger to help someone in need. our military family will continue to help those in need. the secretary of the navy has .rovided designee status there is a series of military chaplains in the area to administer to those in need and counseling services are available for all those affected the rampage on monday. i look forward to your questions. >> [indiscernible] general public [indiscernible] bradley manning, and now this, it looks as though -- there are studies that something may happen again. you did extensive studies after the impound incident. what changes were not made then that should have been made? are there gaps? securitylook at clearances, should we lower the bar to include more personal information? take note of more personal information? >> first, obviously something went wrong. that is in the point of the directives in the reviews i have made. as i said in my comments, we will review everything. from that review, the intensity of that review, the depth withed to in that review, the question -- how can we do it better? starting with monday's tragedy, we dou mentioned others, not live in a risk-free society. every day all the millions of apartment of defense employees come to work to help this country contribute to the safety of this country. there is always some risk, but that is not good enough answer. they deserve the security of a good environment. we will find those gaps and we will fix them. to go beyond that in the specific areas of your question, i believe that to the review. i think that the intensity of the security clearance has told me that they have done certain things the way that they do. but we need answers. >> i understand what the secretary said. changed afterat those earlier incidents, earlier indications are that they a less terrible outcome, where alert notices and ,ther agencies of government training for employees and law enforcement on active shooter scenarios -- some of the things we did as a result of those earlier incidents we believe that we reap the benefit that we intended. of this is onese that we clearly have to take another look at and the secretary has directed us to do so. >> do you believe that security procedures investigations are not rigorous enough or that lower-level security i and a 10 year time frame might be too long? again, a question for you, general, on syria. you have expressed concerns before about the difficulties in securing those chemical weapons of sites in syria. if serious should agree to open up the sites to not only inspection but seizure by the end of this week or at any time, just how difficult would that be? is it even possible to secure those weapons during the civil war? on your question regarding time frames on security clearances, the specifics and components of clearances, the timeframe and the kind, accessing the clearances for different individuals, obviously the longer the clearances go , there is some jeopardy the that. a look atng to take every one of those components. syria, my current role in the military is to provide some planning assistance to the organization for the prevention of chemical weapons. as well as to maintain the , should threat by force the diplomatic track fail. comments about the security of the stockpile, that is to say it is a very challenging environment. indicators at this point are that the regime does have control against stockpile and so long as they agree to the framework which causes them to be responsible for the security, movement, and protection of the investigators or inspectors, i think that to answer your question it is feasible. but we have got to make sure we keep our eye on all those things. >> syria, with the help of otherational assistance, foreign militaries -- would that involve the u.s., by the way? iraqis been trying for decades, in the process, for decades to read the u.s. and russia as well of theirs. how can this be done in such a short timeframe in the middle of a civil war? >> it calls for controlled combination,some it is feasible, but those details would have to be worked out. dempsey, do you think that today mr. assad is stronger where you assess chuck hagel? could you talk about what you're feeling of this -- how does -- are you comfortable with the path that the united states is on? need to keep a military pressure? >> you know, i have not spent too much time trying to understand assad's personal feeling about the recent turn of events. i have said it previously and i will say it again, these kinds of politics at the and flow. we know from open source reporting that the opposition is concerned about the focus on chemicals that will detract from the willingness of the united dates partners. i will tell you, in terms of direct threats to u.s. interests thatave said previously the elimination of the assad regime's chemical capabilities are right at the top of our national interests. they haves process achieved their stated purpose and will be in a better position. >> i think -- first, it is clear. there is a credible threat of u.s. force. it led to the diplomatic process of where we are. yes, we should keep that military option exactly where it is. we need to make sure that our assets and posture remain the same. at the same time you asked if i was comfortable with the process now, yes. that was always connected to the present diplomatic solution. it is wise to let that process play out. to goer, the resolution to congress was about chemical weapons. the track we are on, the diplomatic process, is a responsible and wise approach, a credible force of threat that got us to where we are and we continue to have that credible option available. you, even though these reviews are going on about security procedures, could he have been stopped? alexis called and said that he was hearing voices. how concerned are you that the navy did not act on it? if i could ask you a question on egypt, you have several foundations i and which there have been conversations and talk about flyers for u.s. military equipment. talking about the delivery of the next batch of >> no finalopters. decision has been made. on the question regarding the rhode island incident, we are reviewing all of that and i am aware. we will obviously get those kinds of specifics. they will be a part of the mix. what should have been done that was not done. getting more done. how could we have helped those found? that will all be part of that. >> could be maybe explain to you it was planted by the secret security clearance? despite a police record. why was he allowed to keep that? despite a growing number of reasons. >> the quick answer is no. we will continue to see more of it. -- have asked some basin basic, relevant questions. they are going back to the history of it all. >> is the pentagon going to take charge of arming the syrian could you both give us an idea of the factors involved? >> the president has said that he is looking at all options. at present the pentagon is not directly involved in weapons activities. the president continues to look at those options. >> would you advise that? >> as i have said, previously, we have any number of options under development that could expand support to the moderate opposition, but no decision has been taken. has now lostment people in three major gun violence incidents. aurora, fort hood, and this. you have to have a fuse, but is that good enough at this wing why not get involved with , get involved in the public debate in this country? we have not heard either of you say you are supporting the on gunnt's position violence and registration. , can we hear your views on gun violence in this country? now that you have lost so many people, what do you think needs to be done? with gun violence being an issue. it is tragic. every american who has witnessed , such is our years sense of it this morning, our thoughts and prayers are with everyone who was a victim. gun violence is a violation of the law. it is not a matter of trying to defend it or achieve it is to our opposition here. my role as the secretary of inense, i am not involved those issues. >> it is pretty difficult to separate those, so i try not to do that. role to become involved in domestic political issues. saying, noboth disrespect, you have lost people , but you are genuinely going to stay out of the public debate on this question? >> i would say that my role is not one of policymaker. i answered questions about security and the aspects of it. engage in military policy, that is not my role. the president was very critical of the policy in syria last night. the military having taken over a couple of bases, launching a couple of missiles over a couple the secretary was also equally critical. general dempsey, did budget cuts have to do anything with the attack on monday? in order to de-stigmatize ptsd? do you think that mental health questions should be returned to havingurity reviews, tried to de-stigmatize these issues on the one hand? >> i have the greatest respect for secretaries. obviously, they have every right to their opinion. leave yougoing to this now and take you live to the memorial service getting underway near capitol hill for the shooting victims of last week's navy yard shooting. ♪ grace -- >> ♪ amazing grace how sweet the sound d a wretch like me loste was but now am found see ♪ind but now i >> please be seated. let us pray. almighty god, whose waves are in the sea, whose powers are in the great waters, whose command is over all, whose love never fails, thank you for these extraordinary men and women that died as a result of the tragedy at the washington navy yard. they died in service to their country. may their spirits return in ace to you and with you have everlasting life. in your holy words, you warned us that there would be moments when we would not understand how come good people seem to die before their time. but you promise that when they die, no calamity can hurt them. that they would find peace as they live forever with you. love for that your them and as for each of us would never die. and that not even death itself can take from us that which is eternal. comfort their families, as the nation pauses, pauses to honor the ones they dearly love, pauses to remember sacred stories of how they cherish life, faith, family, friendship, reedom, and the joy of life. we pause this day to proclaim to the world that though our colleagues may now rest from their labors, their good examples and godly deeds will live on through each of us and through all those they were blessed to touch. we join with the bereaved families as they pray for those who are recovering, both physically and emotionally. we are forever grateful to all who responded and for the outpouring of love and support. .ow, lord, god, speak to us give us hope that is beyond our grief, and grant us your great strength and the gift of your surpasses all understanding. n your holy name, we pray. men. >> before i start, on behalf of everyone who works in the navy yard, thank you to all in the d.c. area, especially those first responders, for everything you have done for us during this tragedy. it has been an honor for all of us to have served with the 12 great americans we mourn here today. they loved their country, they loved their navy, they loved the fleet, the fleet they helped build and sustain. most of them dedicated their entire adult lives to building and sustaining our navy's ships. as i mourned with the families, i said i would correct what was said. e note was no civilians were no service people were killed, just civilians and contractors. that is flat wrong. these patriots designed and built our ships. they sustained and set the standards for our ships. they connected us to each other and to the fleet and they protected and sustained our head quarters. these people of our navy team, our navy family were killed in the line of duty. they died in the service to our nation, the service to our navy. in service they were jft as -- just as committed to as any of us in uniform. for that service we honor them. for that service, we will never forget them. i salute these american heros. >> good evening. last monday's horrific shootings at the navy yard were a tragedy for the nation, for the navy yard, but most importantly, for the loved ones of those lost and for those who suffered injuries. it also was a tragedy here in he district of columbia. residents of our cities lost friends, neighbors, mothers, fathers, colleagues and fellow church members. and our brave first responders joined their federal counterparts in doing their duty fearlessly and unselfishly. among those injured on monday is one of our own metropolitan police officers. officer scott williams was one of the first to respond, and he was shot in both legs. his bravery is symbolic of countless other personnel from our metropolitan police department, our fire and emergency medical services, and our federal and local public safety agencies to answer the call to duty without hesitation. we are reviewing their response to learn as many lessons as we can in this event. but there is one lesson that is already abundantly clear. our country is drowning in a sea of guns. one of monday's victims was a district resident whose family already had been tragically touched by gun violence. arthur daniels was 51 years old. that day, the simple act of going to work, going work in the orning, cost him his life. sadly it was a price his family had paid once before. me howow, pricilla, told their 14-year-old son was murdered just four years ago, shot in the back while running from an assailant. senseless gun violence like this is an all too everyday fact of life here in the district and in our nation's other big cities. but it is a fact of life which we must stop accepting. the navy yard, sandy hook, aurora, virginia it can, columbine, the streets of our cities. why is it that every time we seem to let ourselves become enured to the horrific violence that these places represent? why is it that these tragic consequences and these tragic occurrences never seem to move us any closer to ensuring that guns don't get into the hands of criminals or mentally unstable people? i don't know the answer. this time is, that it happened within the view of our capitol dome. i, for one, will not be silent about the fact that the time has come for action. thank you. >> ladies and gentlemen, as admiral hillard has indicated, our navy lost 12 teammates during monday's attack. these were members of our navy family. these are our shipmates. they are mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, going to work to provide for their families and serve their nation. you know, the nature of our navy family is that we serve together and we depend on each other in times of need. we celebrate each other's successes and our triumphs, and we grieve together in times of sorrow. now these shipmates dedicated their careers to building and maintaining the finest navy in the world. they worked alongside one another for a purpose greater than themselves. simply put, they are the best naval engineering team in the world, a team that designs, repairs, maintains our ships and submarines. they plan and manage budgets, and they research, design, and build our future. this team is the genesis of the united states seapower. it all starts here. but above all else, they are part of the navy. navy strength has been and will ontinue to be the resilience and endurens -- endurance of our people during times of crisis. whether an attack on pearl harbor or more recently the bombing of the united states ship cole, our navy pulls together with resolve when tragedy strikes. members of our navy family demonstrated true courage at the navy yard last week. it was parent in the actions of, for example, a navy civilian shipmate who happened to be a former hospital corpsman, as she carried one of her fallen co-workers and performed c.p.r. in an attempt to save his life. or the individual that ensured the safe evacuation of a blind co-worker. these are examples of what defines our navy shipyard. it is ship mates taking care of shipmates. we will remember what happened on monday, and we will grow stronger as an institution maintaining our commitment to build the world's strongest navy. to the families here and to the navy yard shipmates, we mourn with you today. we will stand with you going forward in the difficult times ahead. we will remember your loved ones, and we will be with you. god bless you, our navy, and the united states of america. thank you. >> as a military organization, we have experienced all too often the searing pain of combat losses and honored the main who, in lincoln's words, have acrificed their lives on the altar of freedom. today we honor 12 patriots who made the same sacrifice in the service of their nation, this time here at home. we rightly set aside special days and solemn rituals to recognize, honor, and ref veer the men and women in uniform who have paid the final price in the defense of our freedoms. these nine men and three women deserve no less. their work, and that of thousands of their civilian colleagues around this city and country is critical to our nation's security. without the civilians at naval sea systems command, we literally would not have a fleet to put to sea, and we could not operate without the navy's apacity and command. l we are a critical part of the navy marine corps team and the navy marine corps family. and we are a family. uniform and civilian, we work together, serve together, and overcome together. as a family, we grieve together. together we will assure that they, like those who have gone before them, will be remembered and honored as heros. because that's what they are. heros. ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances. an ordinary monday became a day of extraordinary horror, but also extraordinary heroism as law enforcement officers and other first responders ran into danger to aid and protect others friends, and s, strangers assisted each other in danger even at the risk of their own lives. we moslem more aal -- we memorialize those we lost. the courage we witnessed on monday did not end with that awful day. on tuesday people returned to their work, and by thursday much of the navy yard reopened. thousands whose lives had been in real peril three days before would not let fear keep them away. still, we know it will take time for those with wounds, physical or invisible, to heal. the shock and anger of what occurred on monday will take us time to deal with. this act of evil defies comprehension, defies understanding. 12 wives, husbands, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, children, workmates, colleagues taken from us suddenly, violently, cruelly. but what can never be taken is the love and our memories. and as we remember these individuals we cherished, it should not be as victims. their lives should not be defined by the terrible, inexplicable way they were ended, but rather how they lived and the rich legacies each of them left. and these are unique individuals . as i've spoken to their families and friends and common threads emerge, love of family and country and the value and pride placed on working for america and the values that others place on their work and on their lives . today, one by one, we will hear their names and remember them and mourn. they join so many other navy and arine corps heroes whose lives shine forever bright. we remember semper fortis, semper fidelis. we remain forever faithful, forever courageous. >> mr. president, mrs. obama, on behalf of the more than three million men and women at the department of defense serving across the nation and all over the world, i want to express our deepest sympathy to the families here today. know that our thoughts and our prayers are with all of you. today we come together at this historic post to begin a long road of healing and recovery. it is a path we walk together. we walk with the families, all who loved the fallen, to help ease the pain, hoping that grief and sadness will one day end and cherished memories of those we loved so much will take their place. we walk with those injured and scarred by this senseless act of violence to help them regain their strength, hoping the horrors of lost monday will soon recede. and together we will remember. we will remember the first responders. we will remember all. the first responders who ran toward the sounds of gunfire, including officers -- officer scott williams, injured in the line of duty. we will remember the valor of the navy yard personnel, all the people in the building 197, and we will remember that in the face of tragedy, the united states navy is, once again, responding with resolve as we remember the fallen, we also te the timeliness resilience of the institution that the victims were part of, that they so proudly supported and the nation they so humbly serve. god bless the families and friends of those who we remember today. and god bless our country. >> secretary hagel, secretary vis, admirals greenert and hilliares, and mayor gray. leaders from across this city and armed forces, to all the outstanding first responders, nd most of all, the families whose hearts have been broken, we cannot begin to comprehend your loss. we know that no words we offer today are equal to the magnitude , for the deaths of that loss. but we come together as a grateful nation to honor your loved ones, to grieve with you and to offer as best we can some solace and some comfort. now on the night that we lost martin luther king, jr., to a gunman's bullet, robert kennedy stood before a stunned and angry owd in indianapolis and he broke the terrible news. in the anguish of that moment, he turned to the words an escors. reek poet, "even in our sleep pain, which we cannot forget falls drop by rop upon the heart auntil in our own despair, against our through the sdom awful grace of god." "pain which cannot forget, drop by drop upon the heart." the tragedy and the pain that brings us here today is extraordinary. it is unique. the lives that were taken from us were unique. the memories their loved ones carried are unique, and they will carry them and endure long .fter the news cameras are gone but part of what wears on as well is the sense that this has happened before. part of what troubles us so deeply as we gather here today is how this senseless violence that took place here in the navy yard echos other recent tragedies. as president i have now grieved when five different communities were ripped apart by mass violence -- fort hood, tucson, aurora, sandy hook, and now the washington navy yard. and these mass shootings occur against the backdrop of daily tragedies as an epidemic of gun violence tears apart families across america from the streets of chicago to neighborhoods not far from here. and so once again we remember our fellow americans who were just going about their day, doing their jobs, doing what they loved. in this case, the unheralded work that keeps our country strong and our navy the finest fleet in the world, these patriots doing their work that they were so proud of and who have now been taken away from us by unspeakable violence. once more we come together to mourn the lives of beauty, the comfort, and the wonderful families who cherished them. once more we pay tribute to all who rush toward the danger, who risked their lives so others might live and who are in our prayers today, including officer scott williams. once more our hearts are broken. once more we ask, why? once more we seek strength and isdom through god's grace. you and your families, this navy family, are still in the early hour of your grief. and i'm here today to say that there is nothing routine about this tragedy. there is nothing routine about your loss. your loved ones will not be forgotten. they will endure in the hearts of the american people and in the hearts of the navy that they help to keep strong, and in the hearts of their co-workers and their friends and their neighbors. i want them to know how she lived, jessica gaarde, said of her mother kathy. she is not a number or some statistic. one of these 12 fellow americans are statistics. today i want every american to see how these men and women lived. you may have never met them, but you know them. they are your neighbors, like arthur daniels out there on the weekend policy irving his white crown victoria. proctor who, if you sked, would fix your car, too. sylvia frasier was the friendly face at the store who took a second job at walmart because she loved working with people. she was the die hard fan you saw at the game. kathy gaarde loved her team. they were the volunteers who made your community better. frank kohler giving dictionaries to every third grader in the county. michael arnold leading the gospel at church. a man who left everything he raised his and family here and dedicated himself to the united states navy, vishnu pandit. they were proud americans, like gerald reed who wore the uniform 25 years, and michael arnold who became one of the navy's leading architects of whom a colleague said, "nobody knew those ships like him." they were dedicated fathers, like mike, coaching his daughter's softball teams, joining facebook just to keep up with his girls. one of whom said he was always he cool dad. they were loving mothers, like mary francis knight, devoted to her daughters and who had just recently watched with joy as their older daughter got married . they were doting grandparents, like john johnson, always smiling. giving bear hugs to 10 grandchildren and who would have welcomed his 11th grandchild this fall. these are not statistics. they are the lives that have been taken from us. this is how far a single act of violence can ripple. a husband has lost his wife. wives have lost their husbands. sons and daughters have lost their moms and their dads. little children have lost their grandparents. hundreds in our communities have lost a neighbor and thousands here have lost a friend. as has been mentioned for one family, the daniels family, old wounds are ripped open again. y cilia -- pricilla lost arthur, her husband, and only a few years ago, another shooting took the life of their son, just 14 years old. i can't believe this is appening again, pricilla said. these families have endured a shattering tragedy. if ought to be a shock to all of s as a nation and as a people. it ought to upset us. it ought to lead to some sort of transformation. that's what happened in other countries when they experienced similar tragedies. in the united kingdom, in australia, when just a single mass shooting occurred in those countries they understood there was nothing ordinary about this kind of carnage. they endured great heartbreak, but they also mobilized and they changed. and mass shootings became a reat rarity. yet here in the united states after the round-the-clock coverage on cable news, after the heartbreaking interviews with families, after all the speeches and all the punditry and all the commentary, nothing happens. alongside the anguish of these theican families, alongside accumulated outrage that all of us feel, sometimes i fear there is a creeping resignation that these tragedies are just somehow the way it is, that this is somehow the new normal. we can't accept this. as americans bound in grief and love, we must insist here today, there is nothing normal about innocent men and women being gunned down where they work. there is nothing normal about our children being gunned down in their classrooms. there is nothing normal about children dying in our streets from stray bullets. no other advanced nation endures this kind of violence. none. ere in america the murder rate is three times what it is in other developed nations. the murder rate with guns is 10 times what it is in other developed nations. and there is nothing inevitable about it. it comes in fact because of decisions we make or fail to make, and it falls upon us to make a difference. sometimes it takes an unexpected voice to break through, to help remind us what we know to be true. we heard one of those voices wolowsky'sdr. janice team treated the wounded. in the mft of one of the briefings, she spoke with honesty as someone who sees often much violence. "we are a great country," she said, "but there is something wrong. all these shootings, all these victims. this is not america." "it is a challenge to all of us," she said," and we have to work together to get rid of this." and that's the wisdom we should be taking away from this tragedy and so many others. not accepting these shootings as inevitable, but asking, what can we do to prevent them from happening again and again and again. i've said before, we cannot stop every act of senseless violence. we cannot know every evil that lurkeds -- lurks in troubled minds. but if we can prevent even one tragedy like this, save even one life, spare other families what these families are going through, surely we've got an obligation to try. it's true that each of the tragedies i've mentioned is different, and in this case it is clear we need to do a better job of securing our military facilities, deciding who gets access to them. as commander-in-chief i've ordered a review of procedures up and down the chain. i know secretary hagel is moving aggressively on that. as a society we clearly have to do a better job of ensuring those that need mental health care actually get it. and that in those efforts we don't stigmatize those that need help. those things are clear, and we ave to move to address them. but we americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. we're not inherently more prone to mental health problems. the main difference that sets our nation apart, what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings is that we don't do enough, we don't take the basic common sense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. what's different in america is that it is easy to get your hands on a gun. and a lot of us know this. but the politics are difficult, as we saw again this spring. and that's sometimes where the resignation comes from, the sense that our politics are frozen and that nothing will change. well, i cannot accept that. i do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law-abiding gun owners while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis. and it may not happen tomorrow, and it may not happen next week. it may not happen next month. but it will happen. because it's the change that we need. and it is a change overwhelmingly supported by the majority of americans. by now, though, it should be clear that the change we need will not come from washington, even when tragedy strikes washington. change will come the only way it ever has come, and that's from the american people. so the question now is not whether as americans we care in moments of tragedy. clearly we care. our hearts are broken again. and we care so deeply about these families. but the question is, do we care enough? do we care enough to keep standing up for the country that we know is possible, even if it is hard and even if it is politically uncomfortable? do we care enough to sustain the passion and the pressure to make our communities safer and our consumer -- country safer? do we care enough to do everything we can to spare other families the pain that is felt ere today? our tears are not enough. our words and our prayers are not enough. if we really want to honor these 12 men and women, if we really want to be a country where we can go to work and go to school and walk our streets free from enseless violence without so many lives being stolen by a bullet from a gun, then we're going to have to change. we're going to have to change. on monday morning these 12 men and women woke up like they did today. they left home and they headed off to work. gerald reed's wife, said, be home for dinner. and john johnson said what he always said. "good-bye, beautiful. i love you so much." even in our sleep pain which we cannot forget falls drop-by-drop upon the heart until in our own despair against will comes some wisdom through the awful grace of god. what robert kennedy understood, what dr. king understood, what all our great leaders have always understood, is that wisdom does not come from damage did i alone or from some sense of resignation in the falibility of man, wisdom comes through the recognition that tragedies such e, and are not inevitabl that we have the ability to act and to change to spare others the pain that drops on our hearts. so in our grief, let us seek that grace. that wisdom. and in doing so, let us truly honor these 12 american patriots. may god hold close the souls taken from us and grant them eternal peace. may he comfort and watch over these families. and may god grant us the strength and wisdom to keep safe ur united states of america. ♪ beautiful for spashese -- spacious skies or amber waves of grain s majesty mountain above the fruited plain america, america od shed his grace on thee and crown thy good with brotherhood shining sea ♪ -- o beautifulce for pilgrim feet ose stern impasione stress fare of freedom beat !cross the wilderness america! america! thee d his grace on nd groun thy good with brotherhood shining sea america! ! ♪ ♪ america speaking foreign language] in the translation it says, from gita, holy scripture, weapons cannot cut it, nor can fire burn it. water cannot wet it, nor can wind dry it. the second passage. speaking foreign language] the translation, as a man sheds his worn out clothes, takes her new ones likewise, the embodied soul casting off worn t body enters into other new bodies. a small prayer in from hindu scripture. [speaking foreign language] and this translation, from untruths lead us to the truth. from darkness, lead us to the light. from death lead us to immortality. o peace, peace, and peace. of our reasured souls 12 dear friends rest in peace. >> a reading from the letter to the romans. it is god who acquits us. who will condemn? it is christ jesus who died yes who was raised and is at the right hand of god, who indeed interest seeds for us. -- intercedes for us. what will separate us from the love of christ? will anger, distress, persecution, famine? nakedness, peril, or the sword? no. in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who has loved us. for i am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels nor rulers nor things present nor things to come nor powers nor height nor depth nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of god in christ jesus our lord. the word of the lord. >> would all of you join with me in praying and reading together from the ancient prayer book we know as the salms. -- psalms. this reading is from the 23rd psalm. will you read together with me. the lord is my shepard. i shall not want. he maketh me to lie down in green pass tours. he leadeth me beside the still waters. he restoreth my soul. he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. yea though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i art ear no evil for thou with me, my rod and my stag staff. thou prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. thou anoint my head with oil. my cup runneth over. surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the dafse days of my life. and i shall dwell in the house of the lord forever. let us pray. almighty and eternal god, we have gathered today to honor our fallen colleagues who died while serving their nation. these whom we regard as civilian sailors, as shipmates, were beloved fathers and mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, and they were our colleagues, our neighbors, our friends. as we remember them this day, we give thanks for what they have meant to us. for their love, for their courage, for their dedication to service, to our navy, to our nation. we mourn their deaths and we grieve and we miss them terribly. and even as we grieve, we are also thankful for those who responded in the face of terrifying violence, for those it, trofe -- strove to end for those who gave medical assistance. for those who lent a helping hand or put an arm around a shoulder, we give thanks. gracious lord, you heal the broken hearted. you bind up their wounds. we commend to your care the families and the friends of those whom we have lost. the psalmist reminds us that we are not alone. whether we ascend to the heights or we descend to the depths or take the wings of the morning and dwell in the utter most parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead us. if we walk through the valley of yourhadow of death itself, right hand shall hold us. . we ask you, hold us now comfort each one of us with the great power of your love. and in our grief and our confusion, give us light to ide us into the assurance of your love. we pray this in your holy name. men. would you please rise as we recall the names of those whom we have lost, and remain standing for the navy hymn and for taps. after taps, please remain in place for the departure of president and mrs. obama and the amilies. >> these are our colleagues. michael wells ben ard. rthur lee daniels. sylvia rene frasier. kathleen gaarde. ohn roger johnson. ary francis knight. frank edwin kohler. vishnu kisinparit. kenneth proctor. gerald eugene reed. rigeaut.rd michael [bell] oful lead us [taps] ♪ ♪ [taps]
-- will help bring pressure on the iranian regime. >> inc. you. >> i want to thank you for your willingness to serve. you are at an interesting time. also regional security issues. i think you are going at a fascinating time and that you are up to the challenges in your future. willingnessr your to serve. >> thank you, and you have a lot of friends in auboston. time to you for taking visit with me last week to -- tos u.s. -- japan discuss u.s.-japan relationships. while there are many topics to cover from our security alliance gas,pan's need for natural i want to focus our time on one of our significant exports. as i mentioned previously, soda ashes some and you talked about in the past. -- something you talked about in the past. he talked about how he stood with the wyoming commission, and that putoming 15 votes your father over the top to get the nomination. but 50 yearsit, spokeesident john kennedy .t the university in laramie 13,000 people attended. was on the stage with president kennedy, as was the secretary of the interior who serves on the committee. moment formorable many folks across my state. president kennedy talked about scientific application of knowledge. ash, and people thought it was a skin condition. a few years ago there was no need for it. even if it had been sought, it be found because techniques had not been developed. now it is a necessary agreement in the production of glass, steel, and other products. as a result of harnessing science for the use of man, this great new industry has opened up. the united states is the most competitive supplier of so -- in ash in the- of soda world. the green river basin has the deposits.est known it is a key component of glass and chemicals. long been regarded as a standard of quality. japan has a 3.3% tariff, which we discussed. now we have formally join the trend. transpacific harner ship. of all the countries, japan is the only country with a ash.f on u.s. soda it is important to eliminate the terroris when -- the -- tarriff. my question is will you commit -- if you will advocate for the elimination of this natural soda ash imports. soda >> i would definitely make that commandment. i did pass along your concerns, and they have soda ash so that -- will be important in their negotiations. i look forward to working on this with you. >> we talked about the cash crop. forward toing pursuing every opportunity to eliminate trade barriers, increase imports to japan for all u.s. industry. i appreciate your efforts. to talk aboute liquefied natural gas, where we had the opportunity to export. i know talking to the ambassador with japan that they have great interest in importing. >> there has been a 43% increase in our sales from japan this and hopefully they will continue to accept more high- quality u.s. beef and natural .as senator cardinal just approved a project, so it is a win for both countries. i look forward to working on that, because it is a benefit for all of us. >> thank you very much. about sodaow more than i ever did. >> congratulations. this is an exciting hearing. i was struck about the appointment the -- about the poignancy. your father received a congressional medal of honor, and here you are about to receive this post, which is attributed to the deep friendship between the nations. accident.'t happen by it happened because of diplomacy. it happens because of the of the people. we don't have to assume ostilities are permanent. who are we at odds with today? wonderful allies in a few decades. there is a real element of hope and optimism because of this lives ofnd how it the our two nations. two questions i want to ask. in thenormous upside because of the specific status of negotiations, but i wonder, are there any potential downside is? is there any in your dialogue with folks on the japanese side thus far or your briefings -- that there is a worry in a rebound and with asia generally? is there a concern it would deemphasize the strong relationship between u.s. and that we continue to make sure japan knows how special this relationship is? you for reminding us all. i am conscious of the evolution and how mytionship family and my appointment is emblematic of that, and it is something i am honored by. states ande united japan are facing an important moment, but it is a moment that is all promised. the asia-pacific region is the future in many ways. trade,% of the world's and there are many opportunities to strengthen this alliance. hopefully i can contribute to that. i am hopeful that whatever issues crop up we can work through as we have done so far. just to connect a couple of dots, the japanese continued is aase of oil from iran troubling thing. continue to do what enron -- make sure iran does not obtain nuclear weapons. japan has scaled down. we think they can do more, but they have their own energy challenges, especially after fukushima, that put constraints on them. there is a connection between their ability to go further and this issue. i had a dialogue recently with official inrnment another asian country that does not need to be named, but i was really focusing on this issue -- how could we help you reduce your reliance on oil from iran, and they said the main thing you can do is increase natural gas. important asset for us to contemplate in working with japan. the better they are, the more they may be able to take usitional steps and help with that important goal we share of making sure enron -- he doesn't develop nuclear weapons. i want to encourage you in that regard. >> thank you. senator mccain. >> thank you. welcome, family members and our beloved vicki. i know ted is very proud to have traditionontinuing a of long-standing service to our nation. i had several meetings, but i think it's important to re-emphasize several points. that tensions between japan and china are higher than any time since the end of world war ii. is very high on the agenda of japan and china, and significanteen presence,a military and the new prime minister on new prime minister is committed to defense spending on the part of japan. a lot of that has to do with concern over the aggressive nature of china in the south china sea. i'm sure you are aware of those tensions, and i'm wondering if you share my concern about this situation. >> i think it's a matter of great concern. i think as we spoke about the u.s. military and the japan cornerstone ofa the region, and the u.s. is committed under article five of our security treaty to support japan, but overall, our priority is this needs to be resolved through diplomacy and for all parties in the region to seek to lower tensions as much as possible. >> you know the united states position has been that we support japanese management of the islands but do not ornowledge the sovereignty integral part of japan that the policy embodies. do you agree with that policy? it's a long-standing policy of the united states, so that would be a policy i would try to take further. view of thef our region, there has been an announcement a couple years ago by the administration -- at first they used a word pivot, of there-balancing military in the region. one thing we have been wrestling the movements is of u.s. marines in okinawa. it's a very volatile issue with the people of okinawa. be accomplished, and we have watched with great we still havend not achieved the movement of the to aes out of okinawa suitable replacement base. we know that some will go to guam. some will go to a new base that is being built. i hope you will give this issue of very high priority. okinawa,incident in and you will see a very serious reaction from the people of okinawa, and they have to be ensured we are making progress on the issue, which in my view, has been fraught with delays and expenditures, which is almost an embarrassment. >> i take seriously your concerns, and i thank you for expressing them to me in your office as well as here this morning, and i look forward to learning as much as i can and studying this closely and move thisth you to forward. >> we look forward to visiting with you and your future at taxpayers expense. think you for your willingness to serve. >> think you. you.ank >> massachusetts is very proud of you today. your mother and father, aunt and all of your family inspired generations of people to public service. you are the embodiment of someone who has dedicated her people and your uncle ted -- every member of really was very special in the lives of our you are continuing that story, and i think it's important for the country to given asking not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country, and you are doing that today, and all of us appreciate it, following in this tradition your family represents sitting behind you today. i was wondering -- are there any personal priorities you might have going to japan? is there anything you might want to share with us that might be part of something you might want to accomplish during your time in japan representing our country? markey, you, senator and they give for mentioning my family. i feel i am the most fortunate to be part of such an inspiring family, and i am fortunate that not only is my immediate family here but my cousin timmy who , so the special olympics i'm very honored and happy to have their support. ofope i can make them proud me. in terms of my own priorities, as a woman, i have opportunities to represent the united states and the progress we have made on some of these issues and the dialogue about what needs to be done here and there, so i am looking forward to learning about those issues if i am confirmed. backgroundause of my and because i have been engaged ,n helping younger generations i am hopeful that because president abe has made education part of his reform, i hope i role inve a significant encouraging young people of japan so this alliance can continue to go forward and they friendshipse same they have enjoyed until now. >> the ambassador lamented the number of japanese students coming to the united states, and that is a big part of the understanding between the nations. your focus is absolutely on the money. it's where we have to be. i just want to tell you how and i think of you, you're a gold ted is really proud of you -- i think your uncle ted is really proud of you and your service. >> thank you very much. >> you have acquitted yourself very well. >> the record will remain open until the close of his miss on friday. if the nominee receives any questions, we ask you to enter them expeditiously so we can consider them at the next business meeting, and with that, you are excused. >> thank you for this hearing. >> here is a look at the week ahead for congress. the senate meets tomorrow at 2:00 eastern time. on tuesday they will return to executive session to debate and negotiate a judicial nomination. they are expected to debate a bill that funds the government through september. you can watch the senate live on c-span 2. the house will gavel back in wednesday at noon. expected to come up, a bill to increase the debt limit. members will be looking for what action the senate takes. you can watch the house live on c-span. >> we bring public affairs of vents from washington directly to you, putting you in the room hearings, white house of vents, and offering comp lead gavel-to-gavel coverage of the u.s. house, all as a public service. the cableated by industry and funded by your satellite provider. now you can watch us in hd. televisionring on laws. ingorneys represent communication testify in this two and a half hour hearing. >> i think were ready to go. good morning, ladies and gentlemen. to theome you subcommittee on television laws. circumstances surrounding disputes over our satellite .elevision laws when it comes to video, i believe there are some points with which we can all agree. americans love to watch and want to have as many choices available at the lowest possible price. instances the licenses are served effectively, i believe it is safe to say that they are not without shortcomings. the classic example is when a popular show is suddenly unavailable. you go home, looking forward to seeing that particular show, and you are unable to get it. you are likely to turn off the television and call someone to complain. learn one truth. as we begin this review of satellite licenses, one of goals .o situations our priority will be to protect , butnterests of consumers when there is a problem consumers are left with no recourse. highlyast by our qualified panel of witnesses. i am pleased to represent the ranking member for his opening statement. is thek you, and today first of what i believe to be a series of meetings to discuss the 119 which extended license until 2014. created aiewer act copyright compulsory license for the benefit of the satellite industry to retransmit television signals to transcribers. the license was originally intended to ensure the availability of programming to satellite or fighters and to foster competition with the cable industry, which has enjoyed a compulsory license to andansmit content in local instant broadcast symbols since the passage of the act of 1976. the intent of providing licensesy copyright was to facilitate investment in new creative works in the cable industries by eliminating the direct negotiation with the copyright owners for the use of signal programming. through the 119 compulsory license -- although it is and therefore the focus of reauthorization, it is statutory,omplex, and regulatory framework governing satellite retransmission of broadband signals, making it virtually impossible to consider whether to reauthorize in a vacuum. the committee which has jurisdiction on key regulations that govern the broadcast market has held multiple hearings in this congress on whether to repeal, revise, or reauthorize stella. years ago the judiciary committee also grappled with a number of issues that emerged in the marketplace in an effort to simplify and modernize what was largely received as an thehronistic regime for revision of broadcast program. most immediately we addressed the transition from analog to digital television. issues the committee considered remained unresolved while new technologies further disrupted the market with innovations we could not foresee less than a decade ago. i believe we have a unique opportunity to tackle some of the big issues that will define the future of video. comp also re-licenses represent complementary licenses represent a departure. when compulsory licenses were first enacted, the cable and satellite industries were in their embryonic stages. is estimated over 90% of american households subscribed to a pay-tv service. myriad of elements that should be under consideration. these licenses are still necessary to foster competition, of it?ld they be part how many consumers truly benefit from these licenses? is copyright functioning in a way that meets the goals of national media policy? it cannot be denied that incumbents have entrenched interest and investment in a complex framework created while -- created by law. would an abrupt dismantling of this structure be unfair to those industries and harmful to consumers? 10 current law keep pace with new technologies -- can current law keep pace with technologies that seek to export ambiguities in the legal framework? what constitutes a public performance or retransmission -- for retransmission and consent purposes? the cbs time warner cable dispute resulted in a temporary blackout for some consumers. is that evidence of a broken system, or does it reflect a robust free-market? also, how should we address or should we address a nascent online video distribution model that in the future may very well displace the traditional distribution methods altogether? are these internet-based video distribution models the new kids on the block, entitled to comparable statutory imposed obligations and prohibitions, or is the time for government intervention over? these are a few of the broad policy questions that i think are relevant in this space. i believe we must determine whether the current regime is working to ensure that content providers and distributors, old and new, are appropriately compensated and incentivized in a way that provides a competitive environment for consumers. we have an impressive and diverse group of expert witnesses today, with very different views on how the marketplace works, and how it has developed, and most probably what the rules of the road should be moving forward. i look forward to the testimony today, and to continuing this dialogue in the future. i yield back, mr. chairman. >> thank you. the distinguished gentleman from virginia, mr. bob goodlatte. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i look forward to the testimony of the witnesses. for decades, the vast majority of americans have relied upon satellite and cable services for access to a wide variety of video content ranging from nighttime entertainment for their families, educational shows for their children, local and national news with information that informs them, and public access channels that empower americans to see their local state and federal representatives in action. as a numbers of content continues to increase, consumers subscribe to additional sources. americans are embracing these additional services to such a degree that society has coined two new terms. cord shavers, and cord cutters. for those who are reducing or eliminating traditional video subscriptions. according to the fcc's latest report, in addition to free broadcast content, 100% of americans have access to two satellite services. 98% have access to these services, and one local alternative. 35% have access to two satellite services and two local alternatives. marketplace competition has grown significantly since the last activity in this area in 2010, when congress enacted the satellite television extension and localism act. there are three compulsory licenses in title 17 impacting this industry, one of which expires at the end of 2014. this committee will concern whether a reauthorization of this compulsory license is warranted. as the written testimony demonstrates, some interested parties are advocating for congress to undertake more than a simple reauthorization, and look at other matters surrounding the video marketplace and competition policies that appear to have become more prominent recently. one core factor this committee will weigh as we consider these important issues is ensuring that copyright owners maintain the right to distribute their intellectual property as they choose, and this committee has traditionally disfavored compulsory licenses. another core factor we will weigh is ensuring competition in the marketplace. consumers and intermediaries benefit where there is robust competition. efforts that involve competition issues deserve this committee's oversight and ongoing attention. the written testimony of the witnesses this morning highlights the importance of both issues to the video marketplace. as this committee continues its oversight and legislative activities, i look forward to hearing from all interested parties about their perspectives and concerns. i thank the chairman and yield back. >> the chair recognizes the distinguished gentleman from michigan. >> the satellite television extension and localism act is full of options that we have witnesses to. i want to thank the chairman for keeping the witness list down to seven. i understand we ran out of tables and were not able to put on any more people than are here. i want to consider these options. i look forward to the witness testimony. two considerations. one about copyright owners, and the other about consumers. we must protect copyright owners because it is there a property that forms the basis of the entire scheme. compulsory licenses are generally not favored because they distort the marketplace and result in below market rates being paid to content owners. second, we must enact policies that protect consumers and safeguard competition. consumers benefit from increased competition because more competition usually produces lower prices. copyright owners do not benefit financially from retransmission consent agreements, which is at the heart of these disputes, despite the fact that the signal only has worth because of the programming contained on the signal. i think we must focus on principles of localism, people who subscribe to cable or satellite television have so many options, there is never a shortage of something to watch. even with all these choices, people still highly value their local news, their local sports. they need these local channels to deliver emergency information. localism and the affiliate relationship also benefits copyright owners by allowing their programming to be publicly performed in every market across the country. i conclude by observing that there will be circumstances in which these principles will conflict. i look forward to working to ensure that the public interest can best be served through satellite carriage of broadcast television signals. i think the chairman for allowing me to make these brief remarks. >> we have a very distinguished panel before us today. i will begin by swearing and the witnesses. if you would please rise? do you swear the testimony you're about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you god? let the record show that all witnesses concur with that. i will now introduce our panel. we appreciate everyone's attendance at this hearing. our first witness, executive vice president, chief research. he's responsible for overseeing development and research, while serving as deals liaison to his industry associations. he received his ba in psychology and sociology from the state university of new york at stony brook. our second witness is executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of the dish network. he is responsible for legal and government affairs forh es. he received his bs from the university of vermont. the third witness testifiedtoy l association of broadcasters. he has more than 25 experience years of experience. he received his ba degree from the university of virginia. chairman goodlatte has asked permission to introduce our next witness. >> it's my pleasure to welcome our fourth witness and my constituent, mr. earl mckenzie, chief operating officer, testifying on behalf of the american cable association with 35 years telecom experience. he is responsible for daily operations of many subsidiaries. he received his ba in accounting from the college of william and mary. >> our next witness is our fifth witness today, vice president of public policy. he's responsible for the company's regulatory and legislative affairs, and received his bachelor's degree from santa clara university. our six witness -- sixth witness has testified today on behalf of major league baseball. he joined in 1977 and has served as outside counsel to major league baseball on copyright and telecom issues for more than 35 years. he attended northwestern university. our seventh and final witness has testified -- is testifying on his own behalf today. he served as former president of abc television network, and former executive vice president of the walt disney company. he received his ba from the university of maryland. we will start with you. you will be the leadoff hitter today. as is obvious to all, we have seven witnesses. this can take a long time. we try to apply the five minute rule. when that green light turns to amber, that is your signal that the time is running out and you have a minute to go. at that point, we would appreciate it if you would wrap it up. we will a tried -- try to apply the five minute rule to ourselves as well. why don't you start us off? >> thank you. my name is paul do not owe, and i'm executive vice president chief research offer -- officer for nielson. nielsen is a global media and marketing research company that measures what people watch in 100 countries. in the u.s., we are widely known for our television audience measurement service. over the years, nielsen has developed innovative technologies allowing us to expand our measurement services. through these technologies, nielsen has the capability to measure consumer internet purchase habits, listening trends on terrestrial internet and satellite radio, and help consumers utilize social media. our instrument reports are relied on by a range of public and private sector stakeholders to facilitate business transactions and engage consumer trends. it is also used by the federal government to define markets. most discussions of stella and its predecessors begin with a conversation about nielsen's dna. the designated market area is a collection of counties which share a predominance of viewing to broadcast stations licensed to operate within a given standard metropolitan statistical area, as defined by the omb. predominance or dominance of viewing is defined to indicate that for a particular county, homes may view broadcast stations licensed to operate from different but generally nearby metro areas. the dma with the predominant viewing is that metro area whose broadcast stations have the highest share of audience for that county. we start with new york and los angeles and continue on through the 201 dna markets. existing dna regions are testified -- tested to verify that the dominant share of viewing from each county continues to be from broadcast stations licensed to operate from within that same home metro. all assignments are based on share of household tuning between 6:00 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. sunday through saturday -- tuesday through saturday. there are rules that nielsen exercises when it appears that the predominance of viewing may be shifting. these rules try to balance the need for stability in television markets. at the same time, the need to assure that town these are assigned to dna -- counties are assigned to dna. if there is a shift to broadcast stations from another dna, that shift must be statistically significant. nielsen instituted the dna system in the mid-1960's to measure the number of viewers in a particular area, and to connect sellers and buyers of advertising. it allowed for the creation of a market where buyers and sellers of local television advertising could do business with each other based on impartial information by third-party. advertisers need to know that they are directing towards audiences they want to serve. with an estimate of $72 billion for the entire year, that is a market that fuels the great entertainment and news programs this country produces. with the emergence of satellite and cable, the landscape of the industry changed. the new technology allowed companies that carried television programming to expand their boundaries, specifically television stations who were previously limited to being viewed in the local dna. while new technologies open new horizons, they also create new problems for the television industry. the industry needed rules to determine which local stations could be carried in which local markets. in 1992, congress and the fcc established rules governing which local television stations could be carried in which local markets. nielsen's designated market areas were adopted as a guideline for determining which local stations could be carried. nielsen did not recommend the use of the dna's purpose, nor were we ask for technical assistance on the use of the dnas. it was a decision made entirely by congress. as he were to learn more about future trends and video use, we will be happy to assist you however we can. i look forward to your questions. >> thank you, and congratulations. you beat the illumination of the red light. your entire statements will be made part of the record. >> chairman goodlatte, ranking members, members of the subcommittee, i appreciate the opportunity to testify today. i am general counsel of dish network. dish is the nation's third largest paid tv provider. we are the only provider of local television service in all 210 local dma's. consumers can use features to have greater choice and control over their viewing experience. dish pays billions of dollars for the right to distribute content. we believe that outdated laws need to be upgraded. public policy should support preservation and expansion of consumer video choices. as distributors like dish offer advances in technology, some programmers are crying wolf, saying this time the threat is real and they will not be able to survive the onslaught of innovation. the challenges to the dvr are a perfect example. we believe in consumer choice. we believe congress should protect consumers against the growing problem of blackouts caused by retransmission consent dispute. in 2010, there were 12 blackouts. in 2011, 51. in 2012, almost 100. in 2013, we have had 84 blackouts which puts us on track for a record-setting year of 120. the length of the blackouts a number of consumers impacted are increasing. the consumers are the real victims of these one-sided negotiations. some broadcasters are coordinating their negotiations with each other. the american television alliance, a coalition whose membership encompasses cable, satellite and telco providers, and in which dish is a member, has unified and called for changes to the outdated retransmission consent rules. we propose that when a local network station is pulled from a consumer due to a retransmission consent dispute, the video distributor should be able to provide another market's network signal. the broadcaster whose signal is supported would be compensated under the distance signal royalty rate. this will at least allow consumers to keep their network programming while negotiations continue. if the broadcaster's local content is as valuable as they assort -- assert, importing signal is a poor substitute, and there will be incentive to reach agreement. americans living in remote and underserved areas have benefited from stella. stella allows americans residing in predominately rural areas to receive distant network signals. the distance signal license sunsets at the end of 2014 and without reauthorization, 1.5 million american households will be disenfranchised. third, in the three years since the last authorization, the video industry has not been sitting still. americans increasingly want to watch on the go. over the years, dishes has done much to responding -- respond to change. in summary, we believe the government should work to ensure competitive realities. thank you, and i look forward to answering any questions you may have. >> thank you, mr. dodge. i commend you for beating the light. >> good morning. my name is jerry waldron. i'm testifying on behalf of more than 1000 free local over the air television members of the national association of broadcasters. your broadcast constituents urge you to keep in mind two principles. first, free, locally focused broadcast television should remain available to american households. your review of stella should not be used to create new exceptions to copyright law that undermine those contractual relationships between broadcasters and satellite or cable companies that enable broadcast. for broadcasters, localism is coverage of local news, severe weather and emergency alerts, school closings, high school ports -- sports, local elections and affairs. our broadcast stations are also a way the local businesses inform the public about its and services -- goods and services, and create jobs and support your economies. there is no doubt that your constituents rely on our service. broadcast television remains unique because it is free, it is local, and it is always on even when other forms of communication may fail. the subcommittee should ask whether the expiring section 119 signal license continues to promote localism, and whether it is in the public interest. it could be argued that the distance signal license served its purpose in 1988, when the satellite industry was getting started. served its purpose when dish and directv first launched their small receiver services in the mid-1990's. in 2013, when dish and directv are two of the largest three paid tv providers in the country, the distance signal license is a vestige of a bygone area -- era. over 98% of all u.s. television households can view their local network affiliates by satellite. the number is growing all the time. no public policy justifies treating satellite subscribers in the local markets as unserved, which would deprive viewers of the benefits of locally focused service. there are no technical reasons for failing to serve all markets. the subcommittee should continue to encourage localism and consider whether the section 119 license should expire. in re-examining stella, you are likely to hear from those seeking enactment of new exceptions to the copyright laws that would undermine broadcast retransmission consent rights. arguments that broadcasters have too much leverage, or that retransmission fees are directly responsible for rising cable bills are wrong. local broadcasters and pay tv providers both have an incentive to complete retransmission consent negotiations. they always do, before any disruption occurs. there are exceptions, but they are rare. disruptions from retransmission consent represent 1/100th of 1% of all annual u.s. television viewing hours. consumers are 20 times more likely to use television programming service because of a power outage than because of a retransmission consent dispute. in the small number of instances where these negotiations have resulted in disruptions, there is one distinct pattern. the involvement of time warner, directv, and dish. since 2012, these three companies have been party to 89% of all the disruptions nationwide. in contrast to what some suggest, retransmission consent payments are not responsible for high and rising paid tv prices. two cents of every cable bill dollar goes to consent fees. that is true despite the fact that during the 2011 season, 96 of the top 100 most-watched primetime programs were on broadcast television. the committee should understand the retransmission consent negotiations are about more than just fees. these negotiations increasingly include hard discussions about how we can distribute our content across a variety of new platforms, such as hulu. your local broadcast constituents urge you to rebuff calls from the paid tv industry to expand the narrowest examination of stella solely to give them an unfair leverage to market-based negotiations. they give for your time -- thank you for your time. >> good morning. your mic is not on. >> good morning. as a smaller rural provider, our costs per subscriber are greater. despite the higher cost, we still provide our customers with the same service enjoyed by urban customers. it is a challenge not made any easier by certain laws and rules that govern our business. one of the simplest issues i have raced to the committee today is the competitive disparity that stems from the fact that certain laws governing the tv industry are reauthorized every five years. the cable industry does not benefit from such periodic reviews. congress has not made a broad legislative change to the cable rules since the 1990's. if congress wants to conduct such a review, one set of rules that has worked and should not be changed is the cable copyright license. it continues to serve its goals and compensating copyright holders for the retransmission of their work. any stakeholders agree no significant change to the license is necessary. if congress were to repeal the license, it would be burdensome for the cable firms to anticipate all the copyrighted works that would need to be cleared before they are aired on broadcast stations. the repeal would create uncertainty in the marketplace for us and our customers. should congress reach a different conclusion, any change to the existing license must coincide with reform to the broadcast carriage rules such as retransmission consent, because they are legally intertwined. there are a number of problems related to outdated rules and regulations governing the cable industry. with limited time, i will focus on two. this committee should be aware that there are dozens of instances where separately owned broadcasters in the same market are colluding against the cable operator with her negotiation retransmission consent. this typically means that two broadcast stations with exclusive market rights that are protected by the government use the same negotiator to conduct negotiations. ♪ are is but there is one lesson that is already abundantly clear. our country is drowning in a sea of guns. one of monday's victims was a district resident whose family already had been tragically touched by gun violence. arthur daniels was 51 years old. that day, the simple act of going to work, going work in the morning, cost him his life. sadly it was a price his family had paid once before. his widow, priscilla, told me how their 14-year-old son was murdered just four years ago, shot in the back while running from an assailant. senseless gun violence like this is an all too everyday fact of life here in the district and in our nation's other big cities. but it is a fact of life which we must stop accepting. the navy yard, sandy hook, aurora, virginia tech, columbine, the streets of our cities. why is it that every time we seem to let ourselves become inured to the horrific violence that these places represent? why is it that these tragic consequences and these tragic occurrences never seem to move us any closer to ensuring that guns don't get into the hands of criminals or mentally unstable people? i don't know the answer. i do know this, that this time it happened within the view of our capitol dome. i, for one, will not be silent about the fact that the time has come for action. thank you. >> ladies and gentlemen, as admiral hillard has indicated, our navy lost 12 teammates during monday's attack. these were members of our navy family. these are our shipmates. they are mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, going to work to provide for their families and serve their nation. you know, the nature of our navy family is that we serve together and we depend on each other in times of need. we celebrate each other's successes and our triumphs, and we grieve together in times of sorrow. now these shipmates dedicated their careers to building and maintaining the finest navy in the world. they worked alongside one another for a purpose greater than themselves. simply put, they are the best naval engineering team in the world, a team that designs, repairs, maintains our ships and submarines. they plan and manage budgets, and they research, design, and build our future. this team is the genesis of the united states seapower. it all starts here. but above all else, they are part of the navy. navy strength has been and will continue to be the resilience and endurance of our people during times of crisis. whether an attack on pearl harbor or more recently the bombing of the united states ship cole, our navy pulls together with resolve when tragedy strikes. members of our navy family demonstrated true courage at the navy yard last week. it was apparent in the actions of, for example, a navy civilian shipmate who happened to be a former hospital corpsman, as she carried one of her fallen co- workers and performed c.p.r. in an attempt to save his life. or the individual who ensured the safe evacuation of a blind co-worker. these are examples of what defines our navy shipyard. it is ship mates taking care of shipmates. we will remember the fallen in the events of last monday, and we will grow stronger as an institution maintaining our commitment to build the world's strongest navy. to the families here and to the navy yard shipmates, we mourn with you today. we will stand with you going forward in the difficult times ahead. we will remember your loved ones, and we will be with you. god bless you, our navy, and the united states of america. thank you. >> as a military organization, we have experienced all too often the searing pain of combat losses and honored the main who, in lincoln's words, have sacrificed their lives on the altar of freedom. today we honor 12 patriots who made the same sacrifice in the service of their nation, this time here at home. we rightly set aside special days and solemn rituals to recognize, honor, and revere the men and women in uniform who have paid the final price in the defense of our freedoms. these nine men and three women deserve no less. their work, and that of thousands of their civilian colleagues around this city and country is critical to our nation's security. without the civilians at naval sea systems command, we literally would not have a fleet to put to sea, and we could not operate without the navy's capacity and command. -- are a critical part of the navy marine corps team and the navy marine corps family. and we are a family. uniform and civilian, we work together, serve together, and overcome together. as a family, we grieve together. together we will assure that they, like those who have gone before them, will be remembered and honored as heros. because that's what they are. heroes. ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances. an ordinary monday became a day of extraordinary horror, but also extraordinary heroism as law enforcement officers and other first responders ran into danger to aid and protect others, as colleagues, friends, and strangers assisted each other in danger even at the risk of their own lives. we memorialize those we lost. the courage we witnessed on monday did not end with that awful day. on tuesday people returned to their work, and by thursday much of the navy yard reopened. thousands whose lives had been in real peril three days before would not let fear keep them away. still, we know it will take time for those with wounds, physical or invisible, to heal. the shock and anger of what occurred on monday will take us time to deal with. this act of evil defies comprehension, defies understanding. 12 wives, husbands, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, children, workmates, colleagues taken from us suddenly, violently, cruelly. but what can never be taken is the love and our memories. and as we remember these individuals we cherished, it should not be as victims. their lives should not be defined by the terrible, inexplicable way they were ended, but rather how they lived and the rich legacies each of them left. and these are unique individuals. as i've spoken to their families and friends and common threads emerge, love of family and country and the value and pride placed on working for america and the values that others place on their work and on their lives. today, one by one, we will hear their names and remember them and mourn. they join so many other navy and marine corps heroes whose lives shine forever bright. we remember semper fortis, semper fidelis. we remain forever faithful, forever courageous. >> mr. president, mrs. obama, on behalf of the more than three million men and women at the department of defense serving across the nation and all over the world, i want to express our deepest sympathy to the families here today. know that our thoughts and our prayers are with all of you. today we come together at this historic post to begin a long road of healing and recovery. it is a path we walk together. we walk with the families, all who loved the fallen, to help ease the pain, hoping that grief and sadness will one day end and cherished memories of those we loved so much will take their place. we walk with those injured and scarred by this senseless act of violence to help them regain their strength, hoping the horrors of last monday will soon recede. and together we will recover. we will remember the first responders. we will remember all. the first responders who ran toward the sounds of gunfire, including officers -- officer scott williams, injured in the line of duty. we will remember the valor of the navy yard personnel, all the people in the building 197, and we will remember that in the face of tragedy, the united states navy is, once again, responding with resolve. as we remember the fallen, we also note the timeless resilience of the institution that the victims were part of, that they so proudly supported and the nation they so humbly serve. god bless the families and friends of those who we remember today. and god bless our country. >> secretary hagel, secretary mavis, admirals greenert and hilliares, and mayor gray. leaders from across this city and armed forces, to all the outstanding first responders, and most of all, the families whose hearts have been broken, we cannot begin to comprehend your loss. we know that no words we offer today are equal to the magnitude, for the deaths of that loss. but we come together as a grateful nation to honor your loved ones, to grieve with you and to offer as best we can some solace and some comfort. now, on the night that we lost martin luther king, jr., to a gunman's bullet, robert kennedy stood before a stunned and angry crowd in indianapolis and he broke the terrible news. in the anguish of that moment, he turned to the words of an ancient greek poet, aeschylus. "even in our sleep, pain which we cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of god. pain, which cannot forget, drop by drop upon the heart." the tragedy and the pain that brings us here today is extraordinary. it is unique. the lives that were taken from us were unique. the memories their loved ones carry are unique, and they will carry them and endure long after the news cameras are gone. but part of what wears on as well is the sense that this has happened before. part of what troubles us so deeply as we gather here today is how this senseless violence that took place here in the navy yard echoes other recent tragedies. as president i have now grieved with five different communities were ripped apart by mass violence -- fort hood, tucson, aurora, sandy hook, and now the washington navy yard. and these mass shootings occur against the backdrop of daily tragedies as an epidemic of gun violence tears apart communities across america from the streets of chicago to neighborhoods not far from here. and so once again we remember our fellow americans, who were just going about their day, doing their jobs, doing what they loved. in this case, the unheralded work that keeps our country strong and our navy the finest fleet in the world. these patriots, doing their work that they were so proud of, and who have now been taken away from us by unspeakable violence. once more we come together to mourn the lives of beauty and to comfort the wonderful families who cherished them. once more we pay tribute to all who rush toward the danger, who risked their lives so others might live and who are in our prayers today, including officer scott williams. once more our hearts are broken. once more we ask, why? once more we seek strength and wisdom through god's grace. you and your families, this navy family, are still in the early hour of your grief. and i'm here today to say that there is nothing routine about this tragedy. there is nothing routine about your loss. your loved ones will not be forgotten. they will endure in the hearts of the american people and in the hearts of the navy that they help to keep strong, and in the hearts of their co-workers and their friends and their neighbors. i want them to know how she lived, jessica gaarde said of her mother kathy. she is not a number or some statistic. none of these 12 fellow americans are statistics. today i want every american to see how these men and women lived. you may have never met them, but you know them. they are your neighbors, like arthur daniels out there on the weekend polishing his white crown victoria. and kenneth proctor who, if you asked, would fix your car, too. sylvia frasier was the friendly face at the store, who took a second job at walmart because she loved working with people. she was the diehard fan you saw at the game. kathy gaarde loved her hockey and her caps. season ticket holder for 25 years. they were the volunteers who made your community better. frank kohler giving dictionaries to every third grader in the county. marty boudreau leading the gospel at church. a man who left everything he knew in india and raised his family here and dedicated himself to the united states navy, vishnu pandit. they were proud americans, like gerald read who wore the uniform 25 years, and michael arnold who became one of the navy's leading architects, of whom a colleague said, "nobody knew those ships like him." they were dedicated fathers, like mike brigel coaching his daughter's softball teams, joining facebook just to keep up with his girls. one of whom said he was always the cool dad. they were loving mothers, like mary francis knight, devoted to her daughters and who had just recently watched with joy as their older daughter got married. they were doting grandparents, like john johnson, always smiling. giving bear hugs to 10 grandchildren and who would have welcomed his 11th grandchild this fall. these are not statistics. they are the lives that have been taken from us. this is how far a single act of violence can ripple. a husband has lost his wife. wives have lost their husbands. sons and daughters have lost their moms and their dads. little children have lost their grandparents. hundreds in our communities have lost a neighbor and thousands here have lost a friend. as has been mentioned for one family, the daniels family, old wounds are ripped open again. priscilla lost arthur, her husband of 30 years, only a few years ago. another shooting took the life of their son, just 14 years old. i can't believe this is happening again, pricilla said. these families have endured a shattering tragedy. if ought to be a shock to all of us as a nation and as a people. it ought to upset us. it ought to lead to some sort of transformation. that's what happened in other countries when they experienced similar tragedies. in the united kingdom, in australia, when just a single mass shooting occurred in those countries they understood there was nothing ordinary about this kind of carnage. they endured great heartbreak, but they also mobilized and they changed. and mass shootings became a great rarity. yet here in the united states after the round-the-clock coverage on cable news, after the heartbreaking interviews with families, after all the speeches and all the punditry and all the commentary, nothing happens. alongside the anguish of these american families, alongside the accumulated outrage so many of us feel, sometimes i fear there is a creeping resignation that these tragedies are just somehow the way it is, that this is somehow the new normal. we can't accept this. as americans bound in grief and love, we must insist here today, there is nothing normal about innocent men and women being gunned down where they work. there is nothing normal about our children being gunned down in their classrooms. there is nothing normal about children dying in our streets from stray bullets. no other advanced nation endures this kind of violence. none. here in america, the murder rate is three times what it is in other developed nations. the murder rate with guns is 10 times what it is in other developed nations. and there is nothing inevitable about it. it comes about because of decisions we make or fail to make, and it falls upon us to make it different. sometimes it takes an unexpected voice to break through, to help remind us what we know to be true. we heard one of those voices last week. dr. janice wolowsky's team treated the wounded. in the midst of one of the briefings, she spoke with honesty as someone who sees often much violence. "we are a great country," she said, "but there is something wrong. all these shootings, all these victims. this is not america." "it is a challenge to all of us," she said, "and we have to work together to get rid of this." and that's the wisdom we should be taking away from this tragedy and so many others. not accepting these shootings as inevitable, but asking, what can we do to prevent them from happening again and again and again. i've said before, we cannot stop every act of senseless violence. we cannot know every evil that lurks in troubled minds. but if we can prevent even one tragedy like this, save even one life, spare other families what these families are going through, surely we've got an obligation to try. it's true that each of the tragedies i've mentioned is different, and in this case it is clear we need to do a better job of securing our military facilities, deciding who gets access to them. as commander-in-chief i've ordered a review of procedures up and down the chain. i know secretary hagel is moving aggressively on that. as a society we clearly have to do a better job of ensuring those that need mental health care actually get it. and that in those efforts we don't stigmatize those who need help. those things are clear, and we have to move to address them. but we americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. we're not inherently more prone to mental health problems. the main difference that sets our nation apart, what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings is that we don't do enough, we don't take the basic common sense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. what's different in america is that it is easy to get your hands on a gun. and a lot of us know this. but the politics are difficult, as we saw again this spring. and that's sometimes where the resignation comes from, the sense that our politics are frozen and that nothing will change. well, i cannot accept that. i do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law-abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis. and it may not happen tomorrow, and it may not happen next week. it may not happen next month. but it will happen. because it's the change that we need. and it is a change overwhelmingly supported by the majority of americans. by now, though, it should be clear that the change we need will not come from washington, even when tragedy strikes washington. change will come the only way it ever has come, and that's from the american people. so the question now is not whether as americans we care in moments of tragedy. clearly we care. our hearts are broken again. and we care so deeply about these families. but the question is, do we care enough? do we care enough to keep standing up for the country that we know is possible, even if it is hard and even if it is politically uncomfortable? do we care enough to sustain the passion and the pressure to make our communities safer and our consumer -- country safer? do we care enough to do everything we can to spare other families the pain that is felt here today? our tears are not enough. our words and our prayers are not enough. if we really want to honor these 12 men and women, if we really want to be a country where we can go to work and go to school and walk our streets free from senseless violence, without so many lives being stolen by a bullet from a gun, then we're going to have to change. we're going to have to change. on monday morning these 12 men and women woke up like they did every day. they left home and they headed off to work. gerald read's wife, said, be home for dinner. and john johnson said what he always said. "good-bye, beautiful. i love you so much." even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop-by-drop upon the heart until in our own despair against will comes some wisdom through the awful grace of god. what robert kennedy understood, what dr. king understood, what all our great leaders have always understood, is that wisdom does not come from tragedy alone or from some sense of resignation in the falibility of man, wisdom comes through the recognition that tragedies such as this are not inevitable, and that we have the ability to act and to change to spare others the pain that drops on our hearts. so in our grief, let us seek that grace. let us find that wisdom. and in doing so, let us truly honor these 12 american patriots. may god hold close the souls taken from us and grant them eternal peace. may he comfort and watch over these families. and may god grant us the strength and wisdom to keep safe ♪ur united states of america. o beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain for purple mountains' majesty above the fruited plain america, america god shed his grace on thee and crown thy good with brotherhood ♪rom sea to shining sea o beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years thine alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears america, america god shed his grace on thee and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea america, america america >> [speaking foreign language] in the translation it says, from bhagavad gita, hindu holy scripture, "weapons cannot cut it, nor can fire burn it. water cannot wet it, nor can wind dry it." the second passage. [speaking foreign language] the translation, "as a man sheds his worn out clothes, takes other new ones likewise, the embodied soul casting off worn out body enters into other new bodies." a small prayer in from hindu scripture. [speaking foreign language] and this translation, "from untruths lead us to the truth. from darkness, lead us to the light. from death lead us to immortality. o peace, peace, and peace." may the treasured souls of our 12 dear friends rest in peace. >> a reading from the letter to the romans. it is god who acquits us. who will condemn? it is christ jesus who died, yes, who was raised and is at the right hand of god, who indeed intercedes for us. what will separate us from the love of christ? will anger, distress, persecution, famine? nakedness, peril, or the sword? no. in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who has loved us. for i am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels nor rulers nor things present nor things to come nor powers nor height nor depth nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of god in christ jesus our lord. the word of the lord. >> would all of you join with me in praying and reading together from the ancient prayer book we know as psalms. this reading is from the 23rd psalm. will you read together with me? the lord is my shepherd. i shall not want. he maketh me to lie down in green pastures. he leadeth me beside the still waters. he restoreth my soul. he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil. .for thou art with me. thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies. thou anointest my head with oil. my cup runneth over. surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and i will dwell in the house of the lord forever. let us pray. almighty and eternal god, we have gathered today to honor our fallen colleagues who died while serving their nation. these whom we regard as civilian sailors, as shipmates, were beloved fathers and mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, and they were our colleagues, our neighbors, our friends. as we remember them this day, we give thanks for what they have meant to us. for their love, for their courage, for their dedication to service, to our navy, to our nation. we mourn their deaths and we grieve and we miss them terribly. and even as we grieve, we are also thankful for those who responded in the face of terrifying violence, for those who strove to end it, for those who gave medical assistance. for those who lent a helping hand or put an arm around a shoulder, we give thanks. gracious lord, you heal the broken hearted. you bind up their wounds. we commend to your care the families and the friends of those whom we have lost. the psalmist reminds us that we are not alone. whether we ascend to the heights or we descend to the depths or take the wings of the morning and dwell in the utter most parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead us. if we walk through the valley of the shadow of death itself, your right hand shall hold us. so we ask you, hold us now. comfort each one of us with the great power of your love. and in our grief and our confusion, give us light to guide us into the assurance of your love. we pray this in your holy name. amen. would you please rise as we recall the names of those whom we have lost, and remain standing for the navy hymn and for taps. following taps, please remain in place for the departure of president and mrs. obama and the families. these are our fallen colleagues. michael wells arnold. martin bodrog. arthur lee daniels. sylvia rene frasier. kathleen gaarde. john roger johnson. mary francis knight. frank edwin kohler. vishnu pandit. kenneth bernard proctor. gerald eugene read. ♪nd richard michael rigdell. almighty father, strong to save, whose arm hath bound the restless wave, who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep its own appointed limits keep o hear us when we cry to thee ♪or those in peril on the sea. [taps] ♪ [chorus sings the battle hymn of the republic] his truth is marching on. amen. amen. ♪ she talks about her role within the agricultural department and her duties as chair of the council of inspector general on integrity and efficiency. after that, "washington journal their co-later in the day that two: 30 eastern, live on capitol hill for a homeland security meeting on human trafficking. >> this week on q&a, phyllis fong, and the chair of the objectivity and efficiency. >> phyllis fong, what's an inspector general? >> an inspector general is a public official whose responsibility it is to review the operations of that inspector general's agency, to make sure that programs are delivered effectively and with integrity. >> what does your background have to be? >> well, the statute that created inspectors general stetz that ieg's need to have generated expertise in a number of professions, any one of them, auditing, investigations, law enforcement, public management, and above all, be people of the integrity. >> how long have you been the inspector general for the agriculture department. >> since december of 2002. >> how would you drip this specific job at agriculture? describe this particular job at agriculture? >> at agriculture, my job is to oversee the operations of all of usd a's programs to make sure that they are being delivered as effectively as possible. and so what that means on a day-to-day basis is that we in the iag's office conduct audits to make sure that programs are running effectively, that improper payments are not going out the door. and we also conduct investigations. when ever there are allegations of wrongdoing in a program, either by a department employee or by a person who's receiving benefits, it's our jurts to run
december 16. harry reid has said the senate will attempt to remove any cuts to the health law friday cr. the house will have a brief form forma session. republicans are also tying a one-year increase to the debt limit expected to be reached by october and november with a one year delay of the health-care law. this life at 2:00 p.m. eastern. the senate homeland security committee will hold a hearing on human trafficking within the u.s. life cover because at 2:30 p.m. eastern. for more detail on the weekend had come up we spoke this morning with a congressional reporter. host: here is a headline, the clock is ticking with obama care. this week onplace capitol hill to discuss more about it. in the national journal congressional correspondent. thank you for giving up with us this morning. talk about the potential timeline. showing our readers a story from last week. inside the plan to avoid a government shutdown. what is the timeframe? guest: with the filing as early as today, a motion to begin to proceed. this could stretch out the route the week with a couple of procedural vote and perhaps in the senate a final vote on how sedwill handle the house pas a bill that includes the defunding of obama care along with a continued funding of government. is it looking like it is going to go right up to that ending deadline again? guest: it does. the house does not get back to washington or underway until thursday morning. wednesday.ive they probably will not receive anything back until this weekend. fordeadline is next tuesday when the funding runs out. operations arel on front unless there is a new spending bill passed. host: visiting when talking about some kind of compromise? this is not leaving a lot of room for negotiation. guest: it is not. if it speaker bain are in a tough position if you were to senateill back by the monday or sunday. he will have to decide how to proceed. a bill is brought back to the house that does not include obama care funding he will have relycide whether or not to on democratic votes to help him get it passed. or he would have to decide on some other procedure or letting the government shutdown and blaming it on the democrats. compromises, house republicans life thursday or maybe friday morning may vote on another track, a debt ceiling bill that would allow government to continue borrowing beyond what is anticipated to be in exhaustion of the current summit in october. they would add to that bill other provisions. it may not be a compromise. it will be another way for house republicans to save face only thought this is an obama care battle. we are continuing our fight. host: what is the timeframe, mid-october? exactly. about october 18, mid-october. the treasury anticipates the current ceiling will be hit. congress and the white house .ill have to decide the republican congress members say they have to have a say on that and plan to and will force a vote on whether that can be raised or delayed for a year. billy house is the national journal congressional correspondent. on twitter.ow him thanks for getting up with us this morning. guest: i appreciate it. >> the house returns for legislative work wednesday afternoon. you can see the senate today starting with general speeches at 2:00 p.m. on c-span2. and michellema obama are heading to new york city for the opening of the united nations general assembly. the president will attend a bilateral meeting with the president of nigeria. 945 a.m. eastern president obama will address the yuan in a speech where he is expected to talk about the use of chemical and nuclear weapons as well as the middle east peace process. check our website for coverage on the u.n.. that is that www.c-span.org. it in aident yesterday memorial service honoring the 12 victims of last week's shooting at the washington navy yard. tragic such traffic -- incident should not reflect a new normal and americans should demand common sense solutions. let's look at his remarks. >> secretary hagel, secretary mabus, admirals greenert and hilarides, mayor gray, leaders from across this city and our armed forces, to all the outstanding first responders, and, most of all, the families whose hearts have been broken -- we cannot begin to comprehend your loss. we know that no words we offer today are equal to the magnitude, to the depths of that loss. but we come together as a grateful nation to honor your loved ones, to grieve with you, and to offer, as best we can, some solace and comfort. on the night that we lost martin luther king jr. to a gunman's bullet, robert kennedy stood before a stunned and angry crowd in indianapolis and he broke the terrible news. and in the anguish of that moment, he turned to the words of an ancient greek poet, aeschylus, "even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of god." pain which cannot forget -- drop by drop upon the heart. the tragedy and the pain that brings us here today is extraordinary. it is unique. the lives that were taken from us were unique. the memories their loved ones carry are unique, and they will carry them and endure long after the news cameras are gone. but part of what wears on as well is the sense that this has happened before. part of what wears on us, what troubles us so deeply as we gather here today, is how this senseless violence that took place in the navy yard echoes other recent tragedies. as president, i have now grieved with five american communities ripped apart by mass violence. fort hood. tucson. aurora. sandy hook. and now, the washington navy yard. and these mass shootings occur against a backdrop of daily tragedies, as an epidemic of gun violence tears apart communities across america -- from the streets of chicago to neighborhoods not far from here. and so, once again, we remember our fellow americans who were just going about their day doing their jobs, doing what they loved -- in this case, the unheralded work that keeps our country strong and our navy the finest fleet in the world. these patriots doing their work that they were so proud of, and who have now been taken away from us by unspeakable violence. once more we come together to mourn the lives of beauty and to comfort the wonderful families who cherished them. once more we pay tribute to all who rushed towards the danger, who risked their lives so others might live, and who are in our prayers today, including officer scott williams. once more our hearts are broken. once more we ask why. once more we seek strength and wisdom through god's grace. you and your families, this navy family, are still in the early hour of your grief. and i'm here today to say that there is nothing routine about this tragedy. there is nothing routine about your loss. your loved ones will not be forgotten. they will endure in the hearts of the american people and in the hearts of the navy that they helped to keep strong, and the hearts of their coworkers and their friends and their neighbors. "i want them to know how she lived," jessica gaarde said of her mother kathy. "she is not a number, or some statistic." none of these 12 fellow americans are statistics. today, i want every american to see how these men and women lived. you may have never met them, but you know them. they're your neighbors -- like arthur daniels, out there on the weekend, polishing his white crown victoria, and kenneth proctor, with his beloved yellow mustang, who, if you asked, would fix your car, too. she was the friendly face at the store. sylvia frasier, with her unforgettable gold hair, who took a second job at walmart because, she said, she just loved working with people. she was the diehard fan you sat next to at the game. kathy gaarde loved her hockey and her caps, a season ticket holder for 25 years. they were the volunteers who made your community better. frank kohler, giving dictionaries to every third- grader in his county, marty bodrog, leading the children's bible study at church. they lived the american dream -- like kisan pandit, who left everything he knew in india for this land of opportunity, and raised a wonderful family and dedicated himself to the united states navy. they were proud veterans -- like gerald read, who wore the army uniform for more than 25 years, and michael arnold, who became one of the navy's leading architects, of whom a colleague said, "nobody knew those ships like him." they were dedicated fathers -- like mike ridgell, coaching his daughter's softball teams, joining facebook just to keep up with his girls, one of whom said, "he was always the cool dad." they were loving mothers -- like mary francis knight, devoted to her daughters, and who had just recently watched with joy as her older daughter got married. they were doting grandparents -- like john johnson, always smiling, giving bear hugs to his 10 grandchildren, and who would have welcomed his 11th grandchild this fall. these are not statistics. they are the lives that have been taken from us. this is how far a single act of violence can ripple. a husband has lost his wife. wives have lost their husbands. sons and daughters have lost their moms and their dads. little children have lost their grandparents. hundreds in our communities have lost a neighbor, and thousands here have lost a friend. as has been mentioned, for one family, the daniels family, old wounds are ripped open again. priscilla has lost arthur, her husband of 30 years. only a few years ago, as mayor gray indicated, another shooting took the life of their son, just 14 years old. "i can't believe this is happening again," priscilla says. so these families have endured a shattering tragedy. it ought to be a shock to us all as a nation and as a people. it ought to obsess us. it ought to lead to some sort of transformation. that's what happened in other countries when they experienced similar tragedies. in the united kingdom, in australia, when just a single mass shooting occurred in those countries, they understood that there was nothing ordinary about this kind of carnage. they endured great heartbreak, but they also mobilized and they changed, and mass shootings became a great rarity. and yet, here in the united states, after the round-of-clock coverage on cable news, after the heartbreaking interviews with families, after all the speeches and all the punditry and all the commentary, nothing happens. alongside the anguish of these american families, alongside the accumulated outrage so many of us feel, sometimes i fear there's a creeping resignation that these tragedies are just somehow the way it is, that this is somehow the new normal. we can't accept this. as americans bound in grief and love, we must insist here today there is nothing normal about innocent men and women being gunned down where they work. there is nothing normal about our children being gunned down in their classrooms. there is nothing normal about children dying in our streets from stray bullets. no other advanced nation endures this kind of violence -- none. here in america, the murder rate is three times what it is in other developed nations. the murder rate with guns is ten times what it is in other developed nations. and there is nothing inevitable about it. it comes about because of decisions we make or fail to make. and it falls upon us to make it different. sometimes it takes an unexpected voice to break through, to help remind us what we know to be true. and we heard one of those voices last week. dr. janis orlowski's team at medstar washington hospital center treated the wounded. and in the midst of one of her briefings, she spoke with heartbreaking honesty as somebody who sees, daily and nightly, the awful carnage of so much violence. we are a great country, she said, but "there's something wrong." all these shootings, all these victims, she said, ?this is not america." it is a challenge to all of us," she said, and ?we have to work together to get rid of this.? and that's the wisdom we should be taking away from this tragedy and so many others -- not accepting these shootings as inevitable, but asking what can we do to prevent them from happening again and again and again. i've said before, we cannot stop every act of senseless violence. we cannot know every evil that lurks in troubled minds. but if we can prevent even one tragedy like this, save even one life, spare other families what these families are going through, surely we've got an obligation to try. it's true that each of the tragedies i've mentioned is different. and in this case, it's clear we need to do a better job of securing our military facilities and deciding who gets access to them. and as commander in chief, i have ordered a review of procedures up and down the chain, and i know that secretary hagel is moving aggressively on that. as a society, it?s clear we've got to do a better job of ensuring that those who need mental health care actually get it, and that in those efforts we don't stigmatize those who need help. those things are clear, and we've got to move to address them. but we americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. we're not inherently more prone to mental health problems. the main difference that sets our nation apart, what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings, is that we don?t do we don't take the basic, common- sense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. what's different in america is it's easy to get your hands on gun -- and a lot of us know this. but the politics are difficult, as we saw again this spring. and that's sometimes where the resignation comes from -- the sense that our politics are frozen and that nothing will change. well, i cannot accept that. i do not accept that we cannot find a common-sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law-abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis. and it may not happen tomorrow and it may not happen next week, it may not happen next month -- but it will happen. because it's the change that we need, and it's a change overwhelmingly supported by the majority of americans. by now, though, it should be clear that the change we need will not come from washington, even when tragedy strikes washington. change will come the only way it ever has come, and that's from the american people. so the question now is not whether, as americans, we care in moments of tragedy. clearly, we care. our hearts are broken -- again. and we care so deeply about these families. but the question is, do we care enough? do we care enough to keep standing up for the country that we know is possible, even if it's hard, and even if it's politically uncomfortable? do we care enough to sustain the passion and the pressure to make our communities safer and our country safer? do we care enough to do everything we can to spare other families the pain that is felt here today? our tears are not enough. our words and our prayers are not enough. if we really want to honor these 12 men and women, if we really want to be a country where we can go to work, and go to school, and walk our streets free from senseless violence, without so many lives being stolen by a bullet from a gun, then we're going to have to change. we're going to have to change. on monday morning, these 12 men and women woke up like they did every day. they left home and they headed off to work. gerald read's wife cathy said, "see you tonight for dinner." and john johnson looked at his wife judy and said what he always said whenever they parted, "goodbye beautiful. i love you so much." in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of god." what robert kennedy understood, what dr. king understood, what all our great leaders have always understood, is that wisdom does not come from tragedy alone or from some sense of resignation in the fallibility of man. wisdom comes through the recognition that tragedies such as this are not inevitable, and that we possess the ability to act and to change, and to spare others the pain that drops upon our hearts. so in our grief, let us seek that grace. let us find that wisdom. and in doing so, let us truly honor these 12 american patriots. may god hold close the souls taken from us and grant them eternal peace. may he comfort and watch over these families. and may god grant us the strength and the wisdom to keep safe our united states of america. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> the president yesterday, he and first lady michelle and obama will be heading to new york city for the united nations general assembly. he will attend a bilateral meeting with the residents of the federal republic of nigeria before he takes part in a civil society roundtable. tomorrow the president will address the human in a speech in which he is expected to talk about the rain in syria and the use of chemical weapons -- iran and syria and the use of chemical weapons. check out our website at www.c- span.org for more information. law enforcement officials are testifying about efforts to reduce human trafficking within u.s. orders -- borders. it nearly 20,000 pupils are u.s. ford to the prostitution or domestic servitude. that will be live at 2:30 p.m. eastern. it is back to work for congress this week as a look to find ways to avoid a government shutdown. they debate a house approved though that would extend federal funding through december 16 which strips all moneys for the nation's health care law. kerry read has already said the senate would attempt to remove any cuts to the -- here you read has tardy said the senate would attempt to remove any cuts. return wednesday afternoon for legislative work as they await senate action. house republicans are also preparing a bill that ties an increase in the debt lives in -- limit with a one-year delay in the health care law. the house live right here on c-span when members return for that pro forma session. a discussion now on how the implementation of the health care law is impacting employees from today's " washington journal." host: we turned to the topic of the affordable care act. today we are joined by jay hancock, a senior correspondent with kaiser health news about how the laws affect temporary employees. with the opening of the health- and exchanges, we of rdc some companies make changes to their employee health plans. what do they need to be watching for as this moves forward? >> they should watch for it changes in the company-sponsored plans. open enrollment starts october 1 for the public health exchanges which are a key aspect of obama care. is theneous to this traditional open enrollment season for employment-based benefits for the next year. it takes place in the all. company thator a has health insurance you probably gotten packets from your hr department showing all of the moving parts. this year more than ever you need to dig into the details and look for changes in terms of differing from what it was before. deductibles are going up. employees that might have been used to a $500 deductible, those to a thousand dollars or $2000. if you anticipate going to the doctor next year, maybe the option that you were signed up before is not the right option, so look at the details. host: we are splitting up the phone lines differently this morning. those who are full-time employees, they can call 202 -- five -- 20 two-585-3 88 zero, part-time and temporary employees can call 202-585-3881, and employers can call 202-585- 3882. jay hancock, talk about part- time employees and what they should be looking out for. guest: part-time employees have always been on the bubble, on the edge of coverage and have typically not had robust offerings from employers. having any kind of health coverage for part-time is more the exception than the rule. because of this they are more among the groups being affected by the affordable care act more so than full-time employees. this requires coverage from employers of more than 30 hours per week. what is going on is employers are looking at their workforces and trying to figure out what the costs are going to be and in some cases are reportedly cutting back hours. other employers are shifting around how they cover the part- timers. host: what are some examples you have seen? guest: trader joe's a few weeks ago, a boutique grocery chain, shifting their part-time employees into what are called private health exchanges. they are providing a stipend to employees, but instead of getting coverage to the company the employees are going to go into private exchanges that we should point out, this is not obamacare. one misunderstanding out there about some of this shifting that companies are doing, the public exchanges eligible for tax what is going on with employer- sponsored insurance is they are changing the structure of how employees shop for health insurance. typically you would be in an open enrollment season as an employer and you might be offered a few different plans with different amounts coming out of your paycheck depending on what the plan was. it might've been hmo, ppo, blue cross. you will see the same kinds of choices, but the platform is going to be an exchange run by an outside human resources benefits company and it will kind of look like the obamacare exchanges that are supposed to open next week. >> statistics on companies offering health benefits to their employees, small firms, those with 32 199 workers, 57 % offering -- 57% offering it. larger firms with over 200 employees, 99% offer health benefits. we already have questions coming in for you. this is an e-mail from biloxi, mississippi, on the subject of part-time employees. guest: the changes that employers are shifting even more workers to part-time. in the job figures this year that come out at the beginning of every month, the labor department measures employment growth and a lot of those jobs that have been created are part- time jobs. critics of the health law are saying that it is hindering the creation of full-time jobs and point to these part-time statistics that show a large amount of part-time jobs as the evidence of that. it is unclear as to whether this is cause and effect. there are certainly a lot of part-time jobs being created right now. host: how much of this is to blame for the changes of the affordable care act, and how much of this is businesses using it as an opportune time to make changes? guest: it is hard to piece that out. the united parcel service, ups, big brown last month, they told employees that it was going to be removing spouses of ups employees who had access based on working spouses who had access to coverage at their other employers. they will not be eligible to be on the ups plan next year. this attracted a lot of attention, because they kind of went out of their way to blame the affordable care act. there was a lot of discussion about how much to blame it really was. aca does have an effect on large employers, like ups. there are some taxes involved that they say are raising their costs. there is a limit on out-of- pocket spending for employees that goes into effect for large employers in 2015 that they say are raising their costs. it is what is called the cadillac tax on high benefit plans. ups said that this was partly caused by the affordable care act but also said that it was caused by their continuing rising costs for medical care in general. this has been an issue for employers for 25 years now. a lot of people say that these are just the latest tactics to try to deal with law -- with rising costs, to try to get this under control and it is not hugely related to the affordable care act. >> here is how it came out on the front page of the wednesday issue of "the wall street journal," last week. host: we want to hear what is happening with you at your company. we have lined the setup for full-time, part-time, and temporary employees. timothy is up first. you are on with jay hancock caller: of kaiser health news. -- kaiser health news. caller: i work for a large employer and i think i have what is called the cadillac land. my question is, will i have to pay taxes on the amount of my plan for whatever it would be worth? guest: the simple answer is no, the employer is liable for the tax on the cadillac plan. we should point out that it does not kick in until 2018 and there is some debate as to what degree it will apply to generous employer-based plans. the thresholds are fairly high, fairly much higher than the value of plans now. some of the predictions that people made about how affected the plans would the were predicated on health care costs rising at the traditional historical rate. they have actually slowed down an appreciable amount and there is some doubt about how soon it will hit the cadillac tax threshold. in any event, the employee is not liable. host: this question come through twitter -- what was the news about walgreens last week? guest: they are shifting their active, full-time employees to the private exchanges that we discussed earlier. let me try to make a point here. we should not exaggerate how big of a change this is. walgreens is still contributing enormous amounts of money to its employees health coverage. we do not know if it is declining or how much it is declining, but there are still employers on certain health coverage is at walgreens, the drugstore chain. what is changing is how employees are choosing the coverage, which is going to a private online marketplace rketace, but in many ways is also very different. the obamacare marketplace is financed by your money, you, the consumer, with very generous tax subsidies. the private marketplaces are financed to a very large degree by the employers that have always offered company-based health coverage. that is going to be going on. what is changing here is how you choose the coverage, not large changes in who pays for it. >> we are talking about changes for employees under the affordable care act. we want to hear your stories. how is this affecting you? al is next from ohio. good morning. caller: good morning, c-span. good morning, jay. i have a quick statement. i wish that mr. obama was upfront and told us that it would be attacks a tax on the american people instead of the mandate. the question is, december 1 is when we have to sign up? the health care does not start until 2014. my employer says i have to get signed up, so there are three months there that i will not have health care. i am not sure what to do. should i wait for three months and hope i do not get hurt? all right? thank you. guest: let me ask you a question, stay on a second. you have coverage with your employer now? why is it ending? caller: the first it will end. guest: that is kind of weird. caller: home depot, you have heard of them. guest: what are they doing echo caller: you do not -- doing? caller: you do not get health insurance or you quit. guest: part-timers? caller: yes. guest: cliff that is what is happening, you do have the option to go out and buy a short-term policy. depending on what kind of policy you have, you may be covered under the cobra provision, where you can extend your coverage that you have now. i would go find a registered insurance agent and talk to them about your options and see what your options are. that would be my recommendation. host: richard is on next for our line with all others. caller: hello, there. really enjoying your program. i appreciate you. [heavy breathing] host: go ahead with your comment. caller: i really appreciate your program. i am a senior citizen with a degree in statistics. looking at the obama health care being misused, not being properly coded, the majority of the american people are being told that 16% of those want single-payer. they are really not against health care change, which is being used by the republicans and those people, businesses and news people who are being paid by the corporations that believe in republican health care, republican people. the supreme court has said that we are a government for the corporations. guest: you make a point that has often been made that is kind of a double standard, a disconnect in the polls. numerous pollsters have shown that if you call it a obamacare and say that this is the affordable care act, are you for it or against it, the majority of americans are not for it, but if you break it down and you talk about the individual parts of the law, if you say -- ok, argue in favor of insurance companies not being able to deny you if you have a pre-existing condition? argue in favor of putting a cap on the out-of-pocket costs that consumers have to pay? in favor of keeping adult children on their insurance plan for their parents? people are in favor of that. there is a bit of a debate out there over what the american people actually want, but it is clear that as they understand it, the affordable care act is not hugely popular. host: this would be a good time to note that kaiser health news has been helping us to break down this law for many weeks now, a nonprofit editorial news business that is separate from the kaiser family foundation. they are not affiliated with kaiser permanente. they cover the health laws of hospitals, doctors, and insurance. jay hancock, your specialty echo -- your specialty echo guest: the news and business -- your specialty? guest: while we are doing some housekeeping, let me correct something i said earlier. we were talking about trader joe's and the part-time workers. i said they were shifting to the private exchanges, i believe i was wrong about that. the trader joe's folks are being sent into the public obamacare exchanges with, i believe, a $500 stipend from the company. in fact a lot of them will probably wind up being better off, because once they go into the public exchanges they will be eligible for fairly generous subsidies, tax credits that they would not have if they stayed on another plan. guest: a question from ricky -- host: a question from ricky from e-mail -- guest: a great question, which people are only now starting to figure out. there were twl big aspects of obamacare that they had an option on. one was whether to expand the medicaid program for the poor, the other was whether or not to run their own online marketplace , these online exchanges we have been talking about. again, a big aspect of the affordable care act will begin next week when you can go online and shop for this subsidized coverage that we have been talking about, if you are under certain income levels. so, a little more than half of the state is changing week to week, a little more than half the states have decided to expand their medicaid program. so, this will ensure coverage for folks who make -- if you are an individual, a low about $15,000 per year. >> for the states who are planning to expand and participate, this is from the wall street journal, a map that shows which states are planning to participate and which are planning to not expand. the gold color here are the states planning to participate and the red are states planning not to expand. the gray in their are those who are uncertain. go ahead. guest: they are still on the fence. pennsylvania is moving to expanding medicaid. south dakota is talking about it, but they do not know where they are. the other aspect, the online exchanges, states were presented with three options, they could set up the exchange and run it entirely themselves, about 16 states and the district of columbia are doing that. they are generally liberal states with a high degree of interest in implementing the aca. places like maryland, connecticut, vermont, california. host: we have a map of that as well that we are showing our viewers. the yellow is doing the federally run exchange, those are the state run exchanges on this map. the green states are doing the joint and federal exchanges. guest: there is a partnership. a lot of states are default into the department of health and human services in washington to run their exchanges, which what that means is the feds are going to run the backbone, sort of the infrastructure of the online marketplace and the consumers will see little, if any difference. they will go to healthcare.gov to access their insurance choices in their state rather than the url for the state exchange. but the idea is the same. you will go on in your state and if you lack insurance now as a family member lacks insurance, you will go on these exchanges and punch in your income, your employment status, whether or not you want to keep your doctor , the computer will show you your options and what the cost to you would be after the subsidies. you plug in your income and the computer figures out the subsidies you are eligible for and you will be able to see then that cost of these plans. -- you will be able to then see then that plans of these costs. host: this question comes to us -- our private exchanges comparable to private -- to a obamacare exchanges? guest: i do not see them stifling the success of obamacare. i see private exchanges as operating in parallel. it really is too early to say what sort of features and benefits they will have. they are brand-new. it is kind of breathtaking how quickly this subject of private exchange has come out of nowhere. there are large employer groups and benefits groups that sort of track what employers are doing in offering health benefits. a year or twl ago they were not even asking questions about this and now companies like jan hewitt are setting up these exchanges, offering them to employers, and a good analogy that i like to use for the private exchanges is that the private exchange is to traditional health care as the 401(k) plan is to traditional pension. in one case the employer is responsibly covering the coverage. we will be doing more of a decision-making process in the hands of you, the employee, in terms of the cost-sharing as well. host: a comment from barbara this morning -- no employer has ever hired full-time employees that they do not need. employers decide what coverage to offer with no input from the employees. we need to take the employer and insurance companies out of the matter. it is time for single-payer health coverage for all. guest: there is that sentiment out there. most other developed, rich nations like the united states have substantially different systems than we do. switzerland, the netherlands, it is sort of similar to obamacare, but there are still important differences. the argument for single-payer is -- look, let's expand single-payer for everyone and we will get rid of a lot of administrative costs represented by the insurance companies. the fact is that single-payer is not going to happen in this country any time soon. if obamacare succeeds, we may never see single-payer. if the affordable care act is somehow repealed or does not succeed, single-payer may be back on the table again, which is what many cited as an interest that the insurance companies should have in ensuring that it is a success. about how it is affecting them. we want to hear your stories this morning. setup for full-time employees. you are on with jay hancock. caller: hi, thank you for taking my call. i just wanted to say -- i hope you do not cut me off, but i just wanted to say that republicans have spent billions of dollars since the passage of obamacare to misinform the american people. and when you hear propaganda 24/7, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, on what used to be considered the liberal media bias -- guest: can you give us an example of the propaganda? caller: yes, i can. the fact that there are death panels, that is one. the fact that people who are working full-time or working part-time, their coverage is going to go up. it is going to be higher. they will not be up to see their same doctors anymore. guest: you are talking about arguments, publicity, assertions made against the affordable care act. caller: yes, sir. guest: you like the law and you are unhappy about the attacks being made on it. caller: it is not just about being unhappy. it is about the fact that the american people have been propagandized and they do not know what to think or believe. and because you hear a lie over and over -- i do not care if it is obamacare or anything else, the budget, the deficit. when you hear this stuff over and over and over again, you began to believe it. the fact is you begin to vote against your own best interests. guest: there is certainly a lot of discussion around the affordable care act, and you are going to hear a lot more evident it this week and next because october 1 is the date that these online exchanges are supposed to open up. you are absolutely correct, there are assertions being made, not only by people who oppose the affordable care act, against the affordable care act, but there is some confusing information on the other side as well. we are trying to do our best at kaiser health news to cut through it. if i can do a little plug here, i would recommend our coverage host: let's go to oklahoma city, oklahoma on our line for part- time and temporary employees. caller: my understanding is there is a mandatory list of required coverages that the insurance companies must offer, and if you have a religious objection, objection to any of these items and you are forced onto the exchange or you choose to go on to the affordable health care exchanges, what are you supposed to do? for example, prescription medicine is not an option for some. why do you need prescription medicine if you go to your backyard and get what you need? or you do not want artificial birth control or sterilization, you are not going to do it anyway -- are these things necessary to have on your plan? and if you choose not to have them on your plan for religious reasons, what happens to you? guest: you sort of are talking about two different issues here. one is preventative services that are required to be on the plans. the idea was that at the very bottom, insurance companies should cover basic care to keep >> we will leave this segment to give you live coverage of the house with members gaveling in this morning for a brief pro forma session but no legislativebusiness will be conducted today. united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. he clerk: the speakers rooms washington, d.c., september 23, 2013, i apoint the honchable frank r. wolf to act as speaker pro tempore on this day, signed john a boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by father conroy. chaplain conroy: let us pray, god of the universe, we give you thanks for giving us another day. as the house is silent this day, give those who deliberate these days the wisdom to lay aside what might divide us as a people to forge a secure future for our country. we pray for all people who have special needs. may your presence be known to those who are sick, that they might feel the power of your healing spirit. be with those who suffer persecution in so many places of our world and place our troops who are engaged in the easing of those suffering. y those who struggle to make ends meet be foremost in the minds of our nation's leaders, inspire the men and women who serve in this house to be their best selves and be an inspiration to the nation and to the world. may all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. the speaker pro tempore: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house its approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1, rule 1. the jourm is approved. the chair will lead the house in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and without r all. objection, when the house adjourns today it will meet on wednesday, september 25, 2013 for morning hour debate and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. without objection, the house stands adjourned until noon on wednesday, sept >> wrapping up this brief pro forma session in the house this morning -- members return for legislative art thursday as they read -- awaits senate action on the house bill extending federal funding to the government passed the september 30 deadline. they will really move money from the healthcare law. senate plans to remove the language and return the bill to the house for consideration. you can see the house live wednesday on c-span and the senate today with general speeches beginning at 2 p.m. eastern on c-span two. the senate homeland security committee will hold a hearing today on reducing human trafficking within the u.s. live coverage here on c-span gets underway at 2:30 p.m. eastern. later this week, the house budget committee will hold a hearing on the congressional budget office's long-term budget outlook. that will be live on thursday on c-span3 at 10 a.m. eastern. are in prospect garden in princeton, new jersey that ellen wilson designed. house,e was in the white she brings the white house garden or backyard to this garden at prospect house and says let's re-create the rose section of this garden at the white house. this becomes the famous rose garden at the white house. live tragically does not to see it completed. she is dying in the summer of 1914 and is wheeled out into the space outside in her wheelchair and watches as the gardener works but she does not live to see the completion of this vision she had four roses blooming at the white house. and seconde first wife of president woodrow wilson tonight live at 9:00 eastern on c-span and c-span three and on c-span radio and www.c-span.org. of the discussion on congressional negotiations on the federal budget from this morning's "washington journal." with congress set for a budget showdown this weekend, a looming battle over raising the federal debt limit, we are joined by the president of the committee for a responsible federal budget. you look at this immediate budget situation and the potential shut down that could be taking place, how do you see this playing out over the next eight days? is a precursor to a crazy fall. we have been through this before and why are we doing this? why are we budgeting in a way where we jump from one crisis to the next, never fixing our budget, but always jeopardizing the economy by going to the last minute, the 11th hour, on all sorts of different deadlines and still not getting the work done. i think what we will see this week is the house has passed its first ever continuing resolution which means if the way we will fund the government temporarily. there is no budget in place but that will go through the middle of december while the house and senate have to work out various differences to put a longer-term budget in place and that will get kicked over to the senate. the senate will likely not pass what the house passes because the house has attached the requirement that you defund obamacare which has become a priority of theirs. the senate will send something back probably midweek and we will see how this lays out. we don't know where the votes are to pass something to temporarily fund the government. that means there are a different scenarios. the government could shut down at the end of september. that's when the fiscal year ends for the government. senate, the house and republicans and democrats could cobble together a top line number for how much they could fund the government for the next probably three months but that is up in the air. then, the real discussions begin about how you will let the debt ceiling and what kind of budget will be put in place permanently. it will be a mess. this is not how you should budget for the largest economy in the world. this is not how you should run a country. it is really disgraceful. every citizen should be frustrated we are doing this again and set of putting in place a long-term plan to get this country act on track in terms of its budget and economy. this is not a federal or government group. nonpartisane a group. we don't have a political agenda. it has been around for decades. the board of directors are people who have served in government as the heads of the treasury department and the budget committees and the , theal reserve board congressional budget office so they have been in government and experienced how hard it is to do the right thing when you try to put a budget in place. they care a lot about fiscal responsibility and have joined together to work with members of congress to try to be more fiscally responsible. it is a public organization and has a number of different projects. we work closely with members of both sides of the aisle. there is a possibility for a government shutdown with congress moving toward the possibility. theral members made it on sunday shows yesterday including house minority leader nancy pelosi and here is what she had to say. [video clip] >> let's be really clear about this -- republicans put legislation on the floor that was intended to shut down government. for them, that's a victory because they are anti- government. they want to defund obamacare? >> no, they want to shut down the government. putting the d funding of obamacare on the bill is to shut down the government. they know it will not pass. is ahey might say this disaster because this is hurting businesses. it is causing businesses to go from full time jobs to part-time jobs so they get out from under healthcare. >> it is an excuse, not a reason. for the 42nd time this week, the voted to defund affordable care act. host: we are with maya mcg uibnease guest: i think it is true that theching and d funding affordable care act to the resolution is not going to work. there are not enough votes to pass it so it is not trying to come to a resolution or compromise about how we will fund the government. it is clear that both sides have different visions about the government they want. we are supposed to have a normal budget process where you work through those differences. the house passes a budget and the senate passes a budget and they come together and hammer out the differences and you have a budget put in place in advance of when the fiscal year ends. that is what they are supposed to do and that is not what has happened. the senate passed a budget, the house passed a budget, and then they did not go to conference. primarily house republicans that did not want to put a conference together to work out the differences so that process has stalled. what i think is troubling is that we are at the last minute where we should be hammering out the differences and everybody is entitled to their different vision. at this moment, we are now up against a deadline of how to pay for the government. we should be well past these discussions. i think attaching things that are not going to pass which is more of a symbolic or political vote, the moment to do that was earlier in the process, where are our political leaders? we are hurtling toward a crisis that we know about where government shuts down. make it much worse, potentially a default is staring us in the face. where are the political leaders? they are taking potshots at each other instead of calling for discussions to figure out how to fund the government and pay our ills by raising the debt ceiling and how we will make the changes that will put this government back on track. our fiscal problems right now are looming out there with no plan and praise -- no plan in place to improve them. host: one conservative republican from arizona was on one of the sunday shows yesterday and here is his take. [video clip] >> we don't want to shut down the government. we want to shut down obamacare. the american people have made their voices clear. most of the polls i have seen over the last few weeks have said clearly there is a majority of americans that don't want obamacare. the president has postponed 41 out of 82 of the provisions. he has given exemptions to big business, congress. why doesn't he give the same exemptions to the hard-working people? >> they will strip out this thing to not defund obamacare in this bill and weight till the last minute, they will send it back over to the house and then you're going to have to vote on whether we just shut down the government. >> i would hope that senator reid would take the voice of the american people seriously and they was seriously -- with theannot come up defunding of obamacare, come up with another proposal. vote onre asking is a the floor. this is what the american people want and they have made their voice loud and clear and we are trying to enact the will of the people. congress taking the voice of the american people seriously? guest: the affordable care act is not particularly popular and there are concerns about how we can implement it. seenouse republicans have is that a lot of people are very concerned about this bill. is reallyis, it complicated, even the people of put it together. they knowledge is complicated and makes big changes and it takes public education about what will work. whether know right now the affordable care act is going to be successful as it was supposed to the. -- supposed to be. we have seen some good steps forward but we have not -- it has not been in place enough to know what it will be. and people start to talk about phasing it in, it is not very popular with the american public. on the one hand, people would say holding the government hostage by attaching this is counterproductive, the people who are attaching this to the continuing resolution are hearing in their districts that they don't want to have this bill go forward. we are in an important national discussion taking place at the wrong time. we should not be figuring this out when we have to figure out how to fund the government. we should be getting government funding in place even temporarily and then have a bigger discussion about what part of our government should stay on track and what areas need to be reformed. in many ways, the presidential election was a referendum on this health care bill. it was a big topic of discussion so the president win solidified that this is likely to stay. ont would give us more time which parts are working and which parts are not. host: if you want to contact -ya mcguineas howard is up first for mountain center, california, on a republican line. are you there? from main to michael this morning. you are on. caller: yes, good morning, how are you today? i think it is very responsible thisr government to do all baby talk type stuff. congressmenected that should be acting like adults instead of -- i did not get my toy today so i am not going to play with everybody else. they are being paid to do a job and they need to be doing it. host: that leads us into a tweet - there is a push out there for not paying members of congress. we don't have a position on that. though him budget no pay act was a helpful idea which turned into legislation which pushed the senate to put in place a budget for the senate had not had a budget for a number of years. when i talked about how the process should work, the how should pass a budget, the senate should pass a buzz at, -- a budget, they should reconcile. this time they did so we got further. they still did not reconcile the differences. the no budget no pay act requires that each body pass a budget but it did not require that there be a budget in place. should we be taking that are there and say of congress cannot pass an actual budget, they don't get paid? thoset the biggest fan of kind of tactics to get people to do with they need to do. country, i agree with the caller -- i feel like we are watching a bunch of children who cannot ever. -- who cannot govern. not one of us has a job when we have a difference of opinion with one of our colleagues or coworkers we threaten to shut down the business. likewise, we don't say we are not going to talk about it. i go back to the point of -- where are our political leaders? how can we have congress run around like a bunch of children not getting anything done and the leaders of the senate and the house and the president are not saying enough is enough. let sit down and figure out these differences. it has become so divided and so polarized. i share the caller's frustration with congress as does the american public. if you look at their popularity level, very low. i don't know who thinks they are doing a good job. host: does your committee put orth they budget proposal each year? guest: we don't. i am not going to say whether you should do this on taxes or this on social security or medicare erie it we put forth a lot of options. we spend a lot of time talking about tax reform. in the senate and the house, they are working hard on trying to come up with a plan to reform our tax code. our tax code is a disaster. it is incredibly complicated and there is tax rates of over $1 trillion per year in lost revenue that often times don't , more money from the tax breaks goes to the well off are at is a backwards tax system. they talk about how to reform the tax code. we will say here is a bunch of tax breaks you could get rid of. a lot of them are things that are quite popular but if you were to get rid of these tax breaks, you could ring tax rates down and use some of the money to close the deficit. we will go into detail about things like that and talk about fixing social security. even on our website, we have a simulator where you can look at how you can fix social security. it is headed on a course where it will run out of money before the next generation can collect. tois important we start think as a country about how to make those changes. . we put forth options there is no one right or wrong answers but we have to start dealing with these issues. we have to fix social security, reform the tax code, keep our health care costs under control. all of those changes would help their interest costs under control and we will have interest is one of the fastest- growing parts of the budget3. it is a terrible way to manage our budget. no one does that at home and we should not be doing that as a country. what we are seeing in congress is juvenile. i think from our political leaders, we should expect more and i share the caller's frustration because these are real issues that affect american families. it affects our job security and wages and what we can expect for our children and enough is enough. we should have them work it out together and compromise. host: you bring up the tax breaks that the committee for responsible federal budget has been highlighting and you can see those on your website. it is called the tax break down. that's the series highlighting those tax breaks. next from canon, georgia, independent line. caller: good morning. theyld like to say that are keeping house speaker john rainer hostage by threatening him not to keep his job. it is sickening what they do in the country now. they need to get up there and do something right for the people. i think the republican party has more sense of what they are acting like now. i think it is more like communism when they try to get out and do things. i want the republicans and the democrats to listen. if you let them get by with this, it will be medicare, medicaid, social security, anything and corporate welfare. the farm bill is welfare and i believe in helping people but you cannot have them do what they are doing now. guest: >> a lot of important comments and there. the republican party really is having its own internal divide that is spilling over and affecting the whole process. i don't think that is so surprising. kind of hard to think that republicans or democrats will walk in lockstep. at this point, the republican party is going through an extreme in the house. the most them toward an and dangerous part of it is that the ,actics that are being used holding up funding the government or worse, i cannot stress this enough -- a government shutdown is dangerous and expensive and will hurt people. talking about a default on the country is unprecedented. we have never even thought through what this can mean in this country. host: give us a time frame as to when that could happen. guest: we are going to hit the debt ceiling in the middle of october. we will run out of money to pay our bills because we will not have the official permission to borrow any more money. sometime between mid-october and the end of october. at that point, if we were to stop paying our bills, that would be a government default. it is unprecedented to imagine that something like that would happen in the united states. we have seen that in other countries around the world like developing nations that are not on their own currency but that is different. this would be self-imposed, self-imposed default, which thed send ripples through global economic system. the fact that we are doing that because small groups are saying we might not be willing to pass the debt ceiling increase is dangerous. i will say that when we come up against the debt ceiling in the middle of october, it is a speed hump that reminds us that we are borrowing too much. that is absolutely true. we are are winning more than $2 billion per day at our at that levels that are the highest they have been since post-world war ii while the deficit has come down some recently. that's only because it was so high before. where are debt level is unsustainable. when we come up with the debt ceiling, shouldn't we think about ways to change our budget situation and make changes to how much we borrow? absolutely, those changes need to be made. we should not say we will default if we do not make those changes in the way that i want. the republican party has internal tension to work out. it's not as though democrats are at the table acting responsibly. they are continuing to pull back from talking about how much we need to deal with some of the tougher issues in this country like controlling healthcare costs, securing retirement for an aging population, and dealing with the biggest programs driving the debt in this country. both parties are having a tough time talking about these things because nobody wants to talk of -- nobody wants to talk about the real choices. we have to raise taxes, cut spending, reform our entitlement spending. those are the truths that the politicians don't like to talk about. you have to look at all of those solutions and we need everybody to think about doing that. host: and terms of what is driving this debate, here is an e-mail -- biggest problem is the long-term problem. if you look at the charts about where the debt is headed over the long term, it is a march upwards to dangerous levels. host: this is the congressional budget office's report from last week talking about the federal debt held by the public as a percentage of gdp. about mid 70 plus range but expected to surpass 100% of late 2030's. guest: it is a steady and dramatic march upward. it is already having some negative effects on the economy because we know changes have to be made but we don't know what they will be so people cannot plan for their own retirement or the cost of education or how much they should be saving for their future. the lack of stability is already harming the economic recovery. verynk it will be difficult to have a sustained economic recovery until we get this debt situation under control. todoes not mean you have start reducing the deficit aggressively today. it means you have to put in place a medium-term plan where it will be on track so the deficit will start to get under control and the debt will not go up as quickly. the calls are that's the caller also talked about the sequester. getave been trying to control of our fiscal situation in this country. understand how bad it is but in the wrong ways. we have been focusing on discretionary spending. that is not the real product problem. the growth comes from health care costs aging population and borrowing. those are the big drivers of the debt. we are focusing on parts of the defense, there is plenty of room for savings in defense but domestic discretionary is part of the budget where there is room for some savings. we start squeezing out critical investments because we are unwilling to look at the real parts of the budget where the problems are. as part of the budget discussion, we need to fund the government, we need to figure out how to replace part of the sequester cuts with smarter savings. right now, we have savings that are going after the wrong part of the budget. switch them out for savings that go after the heart of the budget that makes the deficit go up and we need to put together a larger overall package that is not growing and is on a more sustainable path where the economy is growing faster than the debt. can we get it so the debt is not growing faster than the economy? will be backhouse for legislative work wednesday as they await senate action on that house bill extending federal funding for the government passed the september 30 deadline. the bill would remove money for the nation's health care law. the senate plans to remove that language and send the bill back to the house for consideration. you can watch the house live wednesday on c-span and the senate for general speeches beginning this afternoon on c- span two at 2 p.m. eastern. to get a look ahead at the congressional time and for the week, we spoke with a capitol hill reporter earlier today. host: here is a headline from the front page of "usa today" - to discuss more about it and the timeframe for votes, i want to thanks forly house, getting up with us this morning. talk about the timeline for this potential shut down and some of the votes that are going on this week. " national journal story from last week. what is the timeframe? guest: the initial procedural votes could begin as early as wednesday morning. with the filing of closure is earlier he as today, a motion to proceed -- this could stretch out throughout the week with a couple of procedural votes and perhaps in the senate, a final handle how it will the house bill includes the d funding of obamacare along with a continued funding of thisment passed --past month expiration. host: is it looking like it will go up to that funding deadline? seem that way. the house itself is not get back to washington or formally get underway until thursday morning. house members arrive wednesday. they probably will not receive anything back from the senate on till this weekend. tuesday for is next when funding runs out. the essential government nonessentialhe government operations are no longer funded unless there is a temporary spending bill passed. host: is anybody talking in terms of coming up with a compromise? the house is getting the bill back from the senate over the weekend and they tuesday deadline but it does not leave room for negotiation. guest: it doesn't and it puts speaker john boehner in a tough asition if he were to get bill backed by the senate monday or sunday. he will have to decide how to proceed. as part of that, if the bill is brought back to the house, it does not include obamacare funding, he will have to decide whether to rely on democratic votes to help him get it passed if he loses enough conservative votes or he would have to decide another procedure or decide to let the government shut down and blame it on democrats. as for compromise, house republicans by thursday or maybe friday morning may vote on anothertrack - a debt ceiling bill that would allow government to continue borrowing beyond what is anticipated to be an exhaustion of the current limit in october. they would add to that bill a delay of obamacare along with other provisions. that may not be a compromise but it might be another way for house republicans to save face and say we fought this battle on the spending bill on obamacare but we are continuing our fight with the debt ceiling. host: what is the timeframe on the debt ceiling, mid-october? exactly, about october 18. treasury says they anticipate the current $16.6 trillion ceiling will be hit. congress and the white house will have to decide -- the white house disputes and a decision has to be made -- republican congress members say they have to have a say on that and plan onand will force a vote whether that can even be raised or delayed for a year or in is thely house national correspondent. thanks for getting up this morning. reminder that the senate homeland security committee today will hold a hearing on reducing human trafficking within the u.s. we will have live coverage on c- span beginning at 2:30 p.m. eastern. later this week, the house budget committee holds a meeting on the long-term budget outlook. we'll 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keane the world's leading professional organization for journalists, committed to our profession's future through our programming with events such as this while fostering a free press worldwide. for more information, please visit our website. you can donate to programs offered to the public through our institute. on behalf of our members worldwide, i would like to welcome our speaker and those of you in our audience today. her head table includes guest of our speakers and working journalists who are club members. if you hear applause in the audience, i would note that members of the general public are also attending. it is not necessarily evidence of a lack of journalistic objectivity. to welcome ourke c-span and public radio audiences. you can follow the action today on twitter. after our tests speech concludes, we will have a question and answer period and i will ask as many question as time permits. let's introduce our head table. stand briefly as your name is announced. mark dregem, reporter for bloomberg news, bill, margaret wimmer of the american lung association, mike sorham, kenneth mccarey, husband of our speaker. gerald, project manager for financial and state news, kucrow who organize today's breakfast. cox.rend mitch hes from reuters.ko cliar picard cambridge. keith.b [applause] barely two months ago, after 136 days of delay and wrangling with senate critics as well as answering more than 100 thousand questions, our guest was confirmed as the 13th administrator of the environmental protection agency. alreadycarthy was familiar with the agency. she had served since 2009 as the assistant administrator for air and radiation. despite a background that included leading efforts on forronmental issues republican governors in massachusetts and connecticut, she could only muster six republican votes in the senate for her confirmation. that may not be surprising given that she is the point person to carry out president obama's pledge to respond to the threat of climate change knowing that failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. too many senators, that was the president's latest articulation of the so-called war on coal and economy of states that depend on its production and used to generate 40% of the nation's electricity. on june 25, president obama doubled down, directing the epa to issue by today regulations to address the emission of greenhouse gases from new coakl and natural gas-fired pyre plans. power plants. this was on display wednesday when our speaker appear before a group of and hostile lawmakers on the house energy and commerce committee. she assured members of the panel that coal would continue to play an important role in generating electricity for years to come. it may be less about the details of the new epa proposal than the fact that coal generation is being displaced by natural gas which is being produced at a record rate because of technology. she kayaks and follows her red sox and has spoken about the thrill of getting to yell play bvall at fenway park rate give a warm national press club welcome to environmental protection agency administrator, gina mccarthy. [applause] >> well thank you, angela. through theg wait confirmation prices but, boy, was it worth it to get to be in this position and work for and on behalf of the american public and the great people at epa. it is a wonderful agency and i am really out to be where i am today. ialso want to tell you that thought six republican votes was pretty good. [laughter] maybe that's just me. i worked hard for those six of those. rod, thank you for the work you did putting this together and thank you, head table, for being assembled. good morning, it is great to be here and i appreciate you coming as well. less than three months ago, president obama stood outside in sweltering heat to unveil a new national plan to confront the growing threat of climate change. opinion, one in my of the most important speeches of his presidency. i will admit that i am a little biased. in those 45 minutes, the president laid out not only a vision but a plan for protecting our kids and their families from pollution and fighting the threat of climate change. he called on agencies across the federal government including the epa to take action to cut carbon pollution, to protect our country from the impacts of an already changing climate and to lead the world in this effort. he asked us one very important question that we all need to ask ourselves -- do we have the courage to act before it is too late? how we answer that question will have a profound impact on the world that we leave behind for our children. the president called on the epa to take action and we have responded. frankly, why wouldn't we? our job is to protect public health and to protect the environment. agency solelyy focused on delivering clean air, clean water, and a safe and healthy environment to american families. for more than 40 years, it epa has done its job well with honor and with great distinction. epa has than 40 years, worked tirelessly, hand-in-hand, reaching out, understanding and developing the best science available and being transparent and our decision-making. we have done our job by working with everyone from states to businesses tongo''s and anyone in the between to make sure we progress in a way that is sensible and that addresses issues reasonably and sensibly across all regions of this country. the overwhelming judgment of science tells us that climate change is real, that human act titties are feeling that change -- human activities are fueling to avoid the most devastating consequences of that change great we know this is not just about melting glaciers. climate change caused by carbon pollution is one of the most significant public health threats of our time. that is why epa has been called to action that's what today's action that -- that's why today's action is so important and why we really need to talk about it, not just this morning, but when you go home in your own communities. it is a subject that deserves to be brought up and to be thought of as seriously as we can in our everyday lives. let me explain why it is so important and why it is so important to the epa and public health. climate change is really about water. it's about clean, reliable, sources of drinking water. water andt aging wastewater treatment facilities that end up over stressed and flooded during all these extreme weather events. it's about mudslides. it's about storm surges from pounding rains and it's about sewers that back up and overflow. it's about inadequate storm water systems that let pollution attack sensitive ecosystems like our wetlands and estuaries that threaten our fish and their wildlife. it's about all these impacts adding up, spoiling the beauty and vitality of some of this country's most iconic water bodies, that threaten our comfort, safety and livability of our communities. climate change is also about heat waves and trout. droughts drive up food prices and threaten our food supply as well as our manufacturing operations that rely on water every single day to run their businesses. climate change is about wildfires like recent ones in the southwest, fires that in 2012 alone scorched more than 9 million acres across eight states. that is an area more than 2.5 times the great state of connecticut. that property damage, the lives lost, the forests destroyed, the air pollution caused by these fires. it destroyed landscapes, it put communities and lives at risk. climate change is also about this bread of disease. warmer temperatures contribute to the rise of small creatures like mosquitoes and ticks. their bites may not seem deadly but they spread diseases like west nile virus and lyme disease. farther and wider as the climate changes. climate changey, is about clean and healthy air for all of us to breathe. it is about health. carbon pollution in hotter weather can lead to longer allergy seasons, increased heat related deaths, and direct threats to those who suffer from chronic lung and heart diseases. we all know that rising temperatures and increased smog. let me drill down on this one issue just a bit. epa has been studying and regulating pollution that leads to ground level ozone or what we call smog for decades. we know this issue. one thing we know for sure is that when the weather gets hotter, smog gets worse, and people of all ages suffer. my guess is that many of you know someone who is affected by smog. smog makes it harder to breathe and to many of us have health challenges that smog and make worse. ae daniel dolanlaughlin, retired railroad executive from wheaton, illinois who suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or copd. illnesslife-threatening that affects lungs and the respiratory system. it is exactly the kind of condition that can be made worse by smog. luckily, he received a lung transplant and his health has after hesignificantly was on death's door. last year, when he felt a little better, he made the trip to epa to tell us his story. he did that because he wanted to make one specific ask of our agency. onasked us to take action climate change because daniel understood how much climate change leads to increased air pollution which could make respiratory illnesses like the one he had been suffering from so much worse. unfortunately, daniel's story is all too familiar. it's not just adults or the elderly who suffer from air pollution. in fact, it's about our children. especially children in lower incomes in an urban community. if your child is not need to use an inhaler, then you are one lucky parent. today in theldren united states live with asthma everyday. i said that correctly -- it's one in 10. when it comes to health concerns, don't your children always come to mind first? at the end of the day, that is what this issue, climate change, is all about. epa cares about climate change and why we know we must take action now. from lowy people income environmental justice communities all across the nation are concerned about climate change. those communities are often and so often most at risk when disaster strikes. that's why groups m likeom's rising are speaking out against the climate change and pollution to protect their children from those dangers. that's why faith groups of all denominations are encouraging action. we must meet our moral obligation for the next generation and the stewards of our precious natural resources. thatthose resources provide the foundation for our health, our well-being and, yes, for our economy. the president's climate action plan calls on federal agencies to take steady, sensible, and pragmatic steps to cut the harmful carbon pollution that fuels our changing climate and impactsfor unavoidable based on the climate change that is already happening and is inevitable. he also called on us to provide continued international leadership and engage those issues more effectively so that the united states could leverage our actions internationally so we could address a global challenge in a global way. he also told us we need to continue to provide affordable and reliable energy for all. that is why we are here today. we are here to announce that epa is taking one of those important steps with a proposal to limit carbon pollution from new power plants. power plants are the single largest source of carbon pollution. i with natural gas and coal fires, can minimize their carbon emissions by taking advantage of available modern technology tummy tuck. these technologies offer a clear pathway forward today and in the long-term. but they get to the details to the proposal. these proposed standards are the first uniform national limits on carbon pollution from new power plants. they do not apply to existing power plants. it might be well if i repeated that one more time so that everybody gets it. these proposed standards are the first uniform national limits on carbon pollution from new plants. they do not apply to existing power plants. today's proposal sets separate national limits for new natural gas power plants and new coal power plants. natural gas plants would need to meet a limit of 1000 pounds of co2 per megawatt hour while new smaller natural gas plants would need to meet a limit of 1100 pounds of co2 per megawatt hour. new coal plants would need to meet a limit of 1100 pounds of co2 per megawatt hour. coal plants could choose to have additional flexibility if they want to average their admissions over multiple years by meeting a somewhat tighter limit. remember that we proposed standards for new power plants last year and you may be saying why are they starting all over again. let me explain -- we received extensive public comments on our last proposal. over 2 million comments, to be exact. considerable new data that came in through that comment period. we understood more about what technologies were available. we understood how effective those technologies could be and we took a look at the recent trends in the power sector and we did what democracy demands -- we paid attention. we read those comments. we thought about them. we decided we needed to update the proposal. that's what today's proposal reflects. that thery confident carbon pollution standards we are proposing today for lance are both flexible and achievable. they pave a path forward for the next generation of power plants in this country. the standards are flexible. they set different standards for different types of power plants. that is what the data helped us understand. these standards are achievable because they will secure a major public health and environmental protections but they reflect the demonstrate of performance of a variety of clean home-grown technologies, technologies that are already entering the market and being constructed in plants today. the standard set the stage for continued public and private investment in technologies that are so important. are technologies like carbon capture and sequestration. with these investments, technologies will eventually meet your -- mature and become as common for as scrubbers have become for well-controlled existing plants today. if there is one thing i have learned over the course of my work in implementing the clean air act, it is that power plants have really long lifespans. mine even.nger than sometimes 60 years or more. sometimes seven-day. decisions making about how to build new plants today which is one reason we need to act today. for is what makes standards new power plants so very important and why this proposal takes full advantage of all the cutting-edge technologies that increase efficiency and reduce waste. that translates into lower carbon emissions and more efficient, effective clean energy. epa is expecting we will get lots of comments on this proposal. we will do what we did before and we will give each and every comment a thorough consideration. with all this talk of cutting carbon pollution from lance, you are probably asking yourself, what is epa doing -- pollution from power plants, you are probably asking yourself what is the epa doing? addressing existing power plants is an important piece of the present climate action plan. we are committed to act on reducing carbon emissions from existing plants as well. however, those proposed standards are on a longer time frame. to release a proposal for public comment in june of next year, june, 2014. we have started the process already in order to meet that timeline. the process we have started is one that involves engagement with states, local governments, ororganizations, and businesses and others who want to weigh in. we plan to be an very close consultation with the states. we have to ensure that any guidance the epa puts out in june of 2014 can translate into flexibilities sufficient to account for the differences among our states and among the regions. course thatlow the president obama charted in his speech in june. we want to get and we will get to a point where we are welding partnerships with states, local communities, and local leaders so that we understand the options available and the options that must be available to make an existing standard and effective carbon reduction strategy. learn a lot from ongoing efforts to reduce carbon pollution. those efforts have moved us toward a cleaner a
against him. two more victims have come forward. >> involves lewd acts and touching of a child. that brings the count to four of children in regards to child molestation cases. >> reporter: they were all molested here at the day care facility this summer. he allegedly molested two girls in one day. he made a 5-year-old girl undress on a bus and took cell phone photos of her. then he molested a 6-year-old 90 minutes later. they have beefed up staffing at peak times. >> we have made sure our facilities have set up so that furniture gives a clear line of sight. >> reporter: there could be more victims come forward. >> this could be a situation where we have children disclosing information in 10 years, 20 years. >> reporter: one more charge to the list. he's facing a fifth charge of possession of pornography involving a morgan hill teenager. now to a follow-up. another suspected child molester in the south bay pleaded not guilty to exposing himself. chris miller was arrested last week. miller a convicted and registered sex offender was out on bail awaiting trial. he wore a kilt and flashed children as they walked by. they said while awaiting the sentencing for that date, a surveillance camera captured him luring a 10-year-old girl into this hallway. we continue to follow our developing story in washington, d.c. tonight we're learning more about the victims and the shooter in that navy yard massacre. there was only one shooter, the fbi has confirmed. aaron alexis was working as a sub contractor for hewlett pa packard. he did have the right security clearance to get on the case. >> reporter: the fact that aaron alexis was cleared on to this space yesterday and was able to hide a shotgun when he got in, the fact he was allowed to work here is raising questions today about how this man got his security clearance and how he kept it. some workers returned to the navy yard calling yesterday a nightmare. >> i'm glad to be alive. >> reporter: investigators searched a hotel nearby used by aaron alexis whom the fbi confirmed today acted by himself. >> this kind of lone wolf actor is very difficult to identify, unless they send up red flags on a regular basis. >> reporter: he did. he was treated by the va for paranoia. police said alexis told them last month he was hearing voices. he had runs in with police. in 2011 the navy discharged him early for insubordination. but he never lost the security clearance he had since 2008. he opened fire with a shotgun yesterday and not a rifle. during the rampage, she was saved by an officer who was then hit. >> the security officer that pushed her and her other coworkers into the fire escape right before he got shot. >> pandit was killed yesterday and kathy gaarde. >> reporter: chuck hagel placed a wreath to honor the death and the injured. the navy and washington are still reeling. >> the navy yard where the shootings happened is about a mile from the capitol and the baseball stadium. the washington nationals took the field against the braves because last night's game was postponed until today. there was a moment of silence. we continue our coverage of the shooting on our website there. you'll find the photo gallery and those text messages sent during the tense moments after the shooting started. new, a peaceful resolution on what to do with a pile of guns from a recent buy-back program. the drive netted hundreds of rifles and handguns. the sheriff's department proposed the idea of selling them back to the gun manufacturers. they approved a plan to allow deputies to buy their old service weapons. >> i think the board did an excellent job of looking at it in its totality and coming up with a solution. i've been on the job for 3 2 years. that gun is a part of my job every day. >> it won't entirely pay for the department's new weapons, but it will help. if the deputies do buy their revolvers, they cannot resell them. california is going to hire 100 new police officers. 10 of those officers will go to oakland. oakland got the most help out of all of california's cities. the grants were awarded based on financial need and crime rates. the city of hayward is also receiving funding. a string of car break-ins today. it happened in alameda valley. officials say a man in his 20s stole a chevy suburban and then crashed it on coleman. police are looking for the driver who caused a five-car pile up. it appears the driver lost control and crashed a blue jaguar. that caused a chain reaction and four other people to crash. the jaguar driver ran away leaving behind his car and his cell phone. no sight of him yet. fortunately no one was seriously hurt. on the peninsula the police are trying to find the hit-and-run driver that struck a behind man and his dog. reverend of the new sweet home church, said the female driver stopped after hitting him and after finding out he was okay, fled the scene. a first for gas prices that affects drivers nationwide. also -- >> this looks like a patch of woodchips and dog poop. >> she turned a vacant piece of land into an oasis. >> a solution to a wild pig problem. what's being done to prevent the animals from wreaking havoc. a lot of wind from the coastline into our interior valleys. we're starting to see things clear out for parts of the bay. we'll talk more about these possible showers in your seven-day coming up in just a few minutes. two vandals have behind bars tonight in san ramon caught in the act. these fee ral pigs have been tearing up lawns and flower beds in a neighborhood. because of mandatory rules, the trapper cannot release them in the wild. they have to be put down. the feral pig population has exploded in recent years. they damage more than a billion dollars worth of property each year. the flames moved so fast the residents became heros as they raced to save one of their neighbors. it broke out at a duplex and spread to two other buildings. >> my friend came and helped me. we got her out. she was screaming and running down the stairs. we ran up to his place. it was engulfed in fumes. i almost blacked out. i fell down the stairs. >> thankfully no one was hurt in this fire. superstorm sandy strikes twice. the massive fire at the jersey shore is linked to last year's storm. it was started by electrical wiring that had been damaged due to sandy. the skies over colorado are clear for a second day in a row. 12,000 people have been evacuated. the death toll rose to eight today. the torrential rainfall and flooding have damaged 18,000 homes. those numbers are expected to rise. team usa is on the brink of losing the america's cup, but mother nature intervened for at least one more day. many fans today left disappointed. high winds were the problem, so both of today's races were postponed. the wind limits were put in place as a safety protocal after a boat capsized in may killing a team member. races 11 and 12 will be bumped to tomorrow. >> the loss in may shook us pretty hard as a community, as a whole industry. our game is usually fraught with all kinds of self-interests and maneuve maneuvers. after that event, some of those self-interest arguments were set aside and we came up with these limits. >> here's where it stands. new zealand leads 7-1. it's better to ask forgiveness than permission. >> one san francisco woman thinks that's true. so do many of her neighbors. what she did without permission first is the subject of tonight's bay area proud. >> her story is a very san francisco story. she was raised in the u.k. but fell in love with this city the moment she got here and didn't want to leave. she got to an apartment and loved it so much, she didn't want to leave that area. one of the great things about living in san francisco's neighborhoods is the view. out almost any window a sight to behold. except at one time, this window. annie shaw's window. >> this looks like woodchips and dog poop basically. >> this is the plot of land annie is talking about and what it looked like in 2008 when her boyfriend said he wanted to move so they can have a garden. >> i didn't want to move house. there's a patch of land across the street. let's put flowers across the street. wrong. >> after she planted a few flowers, she felt it needed more and then some more. it was too late to turn back after she saw how much work it was. >> i just kept going. >> going for five years now. annie later learned it is now the pennsylvania street garden. >> it's amazing that people go, i didn't know there was a garden there. >> a little less than one acre of flowers, trees, and paths. an oasis in the city maintained not just by annie anymore, but a team of neighbors that volunteer one saturday morning a month to keep the garden growing. neighbors she didn't know before this whole thing got started. >> i feel like i know everyone in the neighborhood. i know how deeply involved people can be in improving their neighborhoods. >> she's glad she didn't know what she was getting into back then. >> i think being able to understand the community that i live in and accept it is something very important to me. it's been really heart warming. i love it. i love it. >> we talked about forgiveness versus permission. that was without permission. it worked so well they identified another stretch of land down the road they want to transform as well. this time they asked for permission. this time it was so much harder. she says she is done. this is enough work keeping it going. planting the flowers first and then going to cal tran. >> nobody can turn down beautiful flowers. >> it looks great. >> a lot of donations. a lot of it came out of her pocket. >> it looks beautiful. >> since they are an official nonprofit, there are grants and funding sources. to start it off, it was out of her own pocket. >> she has green thumb. let's get a check of our forecast now. i think we have a warmup and then a cooldown. >> we got a lot going on you guys, including some showers. it is all about that wind 15 to 39 miles per hour. we heard the america's cup was postponed today due to that wind. with america's cup tomorrow, we are going to be starting off with wind 15 to 25 miles per hour. then around noon we'll get some orange areas popping up off the coastline. we could have winds topping 30 miles per hour. america's cup may have more challenges tomorrow out on the water. our next challenge is this cool front that's going to be passing by later in the week. the possibility of some rain coming up in that seven-day forecast. let's get to our wednesday. no rain here expected. 5:00 a.m., most of the fog up against the immediate coastline. everyone expecting sunshine. temperatures in the mid 70s. let's take you outside right now to that high definition view on this tuesday. a little bit of fog on the western hills in san jose. not a huge marine layer right now. off to the north, foster city, some marine layer at 1500 feet. you'll get some patchy clouds for this evening. it is currently clear as we had that north wind today looking out towards san francisco. 83 here in san jose. mid 80s in the extreme south bay. about 3 to 5 degrees warmer with some of that north wind coming off the hills. we'll have some upper 7 -- 80s. san francisco at 70. 84 in santa rosa. oakland mid to upper 70s. as far as our rain goes in the forecast, we should say this is not a large storm system. saturday morning and afternoon, we could see trace amounts for the east bay. those of you in the south bay may not get anything at all. saturday that chance of showers. temperatures dropping that the 70s. our numbers start to go down and it looks very good monday and tuesday. very active storm track over the next two weeks. this is very good news for us. just ahead, a warning about a star search. the celebrity that could crash your computer. >> how silicon valley got millions of dollars to chase your taste buds. we have some breaking news out of oakland at this hour. medics are on their way to the intersection of east 17th street and 27th avenue right now. report of a child injured near a drive by shooting. we have a crew on the way. gas prices have set a new record nationwide. live pictures now of our bay area freeways. 1,000 days above $3 a gallon. these prices look like they're here to stay. the $3 gallon did not start until eight years ago. the national average is $3.52 per gallon. san jose, 4.04 a gallon. oakland checks in at 4.03. your favorite foods just got a little bit closer. san francisco bay's gold belly.com finds foods from all over the country and ships them to you directly. it's catching on not just among customers, but among investors who just poured $3 million worth of venture funding into this company. >> it gives fuel to our engine to grow, to expand, to get the word out there. in our eyes, the perfect gift in a lot of ways is great nostalgic food. >> gold belly says it will use some of the money to hire new employees. search at your own risk. searching for photos of entertainer lily collins can destroy your computer. she's the most dangerous celebrity to search for. it can lead to a website with online threats such as spy ware and phishing. mark zuckerberg went back to school today. find out why next. 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outside san leandro city hall. >> i think it says that our cities are for sale. >> reporter: people at last night's city council meeting says lee said the chinese flag would help attract investors. today he backed away from that. why the chinese flag? >> acceptance, people of chinese ancestry. >> reporter: to draw in business? >> you know, i think that's a channel. >> reporter: because you said that in the past. >> yes. >> reporter: that it's to draw in business. >> well, i think i said a whole bunch of things. >> reporter: some residents and human rights organizations are angry saying the flag represents the pain the chinese government has put tibetans and their own people through. >> reporter: any comments about human flags and american concerns about it? >> i welcome their freedom, that's the best comment we can have. >> we were kind of dismayed at fact that this was being done under the auspices of bettering economic ties with china without actually thinking about the egregious human rights abuses committed by the chinese government. >> it is honoring a nation owner dorising a nation that's been virtually violating human rights and that is responsible for the death of 1.2 million tibetans. >> reporter: those who oppose the city's decision say they will be back on october 1st when the flag is officially raised on china's national day. >> the first message is that they are endorsing, you know, a brutal regime. it is like akin to kind of, you know, like honoring bin laden on the american soil. >> reporter: i asked the councilman if the city plans to raise other nation's flags in the future. he told me, quote, we're going to cross that path definitely. live in san leandro, kimberly terry, nbc bay area news. >> the list grows. more children have stepped forward to say that they were violated and abused by 20-year-old rmca day care worker. nicolas lhermine is accused of molesting four young girls, the youngest just 3 years old. lhermine back in court today facing more charges. more now live from the south county courthouse in morgan hills with the new details. >> reporter: jessica, charges now have been filed involving four victims and prosecutors now say lhermine molested two girls within two hours on the same day. nicolas lhermine could face a life sentence if he is convicted of all the charges now filed against him. two new victims have come forward. today in a morgan hill courtroom lhermine learned of the new charges he now faces. >> it involves lewd and lascivious acts of a child 7 years old and the other would be lewd and lascivious acts touching of a child who is 3 1/2 years old and that brings the count to four children in regards to child molest cases. >> reporter: prosecutors say the four girls were all molested here at the day care facility on the campus of the paradise elementary school this summer. he allegedly molested two girls in one day and made a 5-year-old girl undress on a bus and took cell phone photos of her and then just 90 minutes later he allegedly molested a 6-year-old girl. since then the ymca hired a third-party investigator to see how it could better protect kids. >> one of the things that we've added is additional staff during different times of day so that we're well above california state licensing standards. we also have added staffing. >> reporter: prosecutors say it's very possible there may be more victims, but they say they have a strong case now thanks to the young girls who have already come forward. >> there's forensic evidence taken from cell phone. still examining the laptop. it just makes this conclusive. there's no issue. there's something wrong with this guy in his pre-disposition to molest young children. >> reporter: we're learning that lhermine's mother worked at the ymca as the services director. jane lhermine is now out on leave. we're live in morgan hill, george kitiama, bay area news. in san jose a convicted child molester pled not guilty to exposing himself. 70-year-old christopher miller was arrested last week after a mountainview woman reported he touched himself while she shopped with her two children. miller, a convicted and registered sex offender, was out on bail waiting trial for another complaint. this picture of miller was taken at a renaissance fair last mall. prosecutors say he wore a kilt and flashed children who walked by. they also say while awaiting his sentencing day for that crime, a surveillance camera at a peninsula book store captured miller luring a 10-year-old girl into this hallway. miller's bail is now set at $2 million. for the latest on the developing story out of washington, d.c. today investigators say there were signs that accused shooter aaron alexis suffered from mental illness. months ago he apparently complained to rhode island police that people were talking to him through the walls and the ceilings. the investigation into the killing of the 12 people is just beginning. we go live now to nbc's steve handlesman who joins us from d.c. for the very latest. steve. >> reporter: jessica, thanks, good evening. obvious signs of mental distress. good evening from the washington navy yard. the fact that aaron alexis was cleared on to this space yesterday and concealed a shotgun, the fact that he was allowed to work here which required the special pass is prompting tough questions today about how this man got a security clearance and perhaps more importantly how he kept it. some workers returned to the navy yard calling yesterday a nightmare. >> i'm glad to be alive, you know. everyone is glad to be alive. >> reporter: investigators searched a hotel nearby, used by aaron alexis who the fbi confirmed today acted by himself. >> this type of lone wolf actor is very difficult to identify unless they send up red flags on a repeatable basis. >> reporter: but alexis did. law enforcement said he was treated by the v.a. for paranoia. police near the navy base in newport said alexis told them last month that he was hearing voices. he had run-ins with police after firing a gun in 2004 and 2010. in 20119 navy discharged him early for insubordination, but alexis never lost the security clearance he had been granted in 2008, good through 2018, and used his pass like others did today to enter the navy yard and open fire with a shotgun, not an assault rifle, says the fbi. crystal stock is hailing a hero. her mother texted crystal from the navy yard. during the rampage. she was saved by an officer who was then hit. >> the security officer that pushed her and her other co-workers into the fire escape, right before he got shot. >> reporter: among those killed yesterday was this 25-year navy employee and kathy gaarde, a 38-year d.c.-area resident. defense secretary chuck hagel placed a wreath to honor the dead and injured and the navy and washington is still reeling. the republican chairman of the house armed services committee suggested today the navy put into place an unproven security system to try to save money. live at the washington navy yard, i'm steve handlesman, nbc bay area news. >> steve, thank you. that's the next concern now. the pentagon has ordered a security review for all u.s. military bases, not just domestically, but around the world. there are plenty of questions and concerns about how the government vets its huge workforce. we continue our coverage of the navy yard shooting on the website. there you'll find a photo gallery and text messages sent out during the tense moments after the shooting. that's at nbcbayarea.com. more money, more cops. california getting nearly $20 million in federal grants to help hire more than 100 new police officers across the state. congresswoman barbara lee announced today that oakland is getting ten new overs with that portion of the money. oakland was awarded the largest grant out of the 39 california cities. the grants are awarded based on financial needs, crime rates and community policing plans. the city of heyward is also receiving funding which money will be used to hire two safety officers to address the issue of gang violence. >> b.a.r.t. says there's one more day of negotiations scheduled for this week and one next week. last night the unions did bring a new proposal to the table. this one asked for a wage increase of 13.5% over three years instead of the 21.5% increase they were previously asking for. >> still to come at 6:00, a troubling investigation. a blind man and his seeing eye dog both run down. >> also, thousands of unemployed californians left high and dry. the glitch that's leaving a trail of empty pockets across the state. >> and a v.i.p. in a hoodie, of course, the advice mark zuckerberg had today for some bay area students. plus -- >> i'm scott budman. the investment game is on again. coming up, why big companies like twitter filing to go public are helping small companies notch some delicious funding. the story just ahead. and good evening. i'm jeff ranieri in the nbc bay area weather 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the new students inspiring them to think big. >> all the ideas that really resonate people and inspire folks are really simple, and they are simple because they affect something fundamental about people's lives, and that often makes them really hard to pull off. you know, but that's what facebook and every successful company is about. it's solving a simple problem, in our case helping people connect. that's what kip is about. >> zuckerberg told his high school fan base to go after the dreams and not take the easy route. zuckerberg is well nope for having donated $100 million to schools in new jersey but rarely made public appearances in the schools here in the bay area. it's a little unusual to see a superintendent speaking at a charter school opening since many districts have had a rocky relationship with charter. the san francisco mayor ed lee says things are different in his city. >> and for us in the city, to work collaboratively with our school district and to work with the kip foundation to bring that partnership to this school is incredible. >> so what do we know about kip? it has five middle schools in the bay area, three high schools made up of mainly minority and low-income kids who apply through an open enrollment process. kip also says that 85% of the students do head off to college. well, the uc regent voted unanimously today to make emergency repairs on the old president's mansion. it's in the berkeley hills just north of the cal campus. it's been home to uc presidents for 40 years, but now it's in such bad condition it's not livable, so the uc rents a house. incoming president janet napolitano will move into an oakland home that the uc will rent for $10,000 a month. the hope is the fix'd up mansion will be a cheaper way to house president. the vote will now go before the full board tomorrow. pizza from chicago, cheesecake from brooklyn and pastrami from your favorite new york deli, it's mouth watering, not just for customers but investors in bay area startups. let's bring in our business tech reporter scott budman. talk about all that food in the 6:00 hour it gets me going. >> reporter: business good for tech startups these days, mott just for social network companies, not just for the cloud but even for companies that want you to eat better. >> new york city bagels, junior's cheesecake from brooklyn and red velvet cookies from byrd's in savannah, georgia. >> reporter: think of your favorite foods back home. now, even if you moved away they can find you, thanks to a startup called goldbelly. >> our mission is to discover every amazing bite anywhere in the country and make it accessible to people wherever they are. >> reporter: that mission just got more possible thanks to a $3 million round of venture funding, an investment that will held goldbely find more food, refine its software and hire more employees. >> so we are hiring on the engineering front, you know. it's top priority to build out further because we view ourselves as technology first and then clearly on the marketing area as well, on the content side, on the social media side. >> reporter: it's part of a flood of funding recently fattening the bank you a counts of tech companies like uber and pebble, and one of the reasons more money is starting to flow into companies is that more money is starting to flow out of companies, largely in the way of ipos, with big companies like twitter filing to go public, investing early in small companies is once again paying off big. as for goldbely it's way too early to talk ipo. >> but we wouldn't be doing what we're doing if we didn't see that opportunity. >> pretty amazing. >> reporter: perhaps giving investors and customers a taste of what's to come. >> pretty tasty. >> oh, yes. >> the best news, a lot of money going into the startups because the ipo market is hot, but the best news broadly is these companies get money, and they will hire more people and that's the lifeblood of silicon valley seeing the startups grow and then hire more people and then grow even more and that's what you're seeing with companies like goldbely. >> stone crabs from joe's stone crabs in miami. >> one of the things they will be able to do with the money besides hire more money is reach out to the customers that they already use and say what do you want and then reach out to those companies and say let's hook you up because there are people in places that you don't even want to know about. >> three customers right here. >> i'm thinking warm drawn butter. yummy. >> thank you very much. high winds caused both america's cup final races to be postponed today. races 11 and 12 were moved to tomorrow. wind limits were put in place as a safety protocol after the racing crash that killed a sailor earlier this year. emirates team new zealand can win the america's cup tomorrow if they win both races. they lead team usa 7-1. let's bring in meteorologist jeff ranieri to find out what the wind conditions will be tomorrow. >> i think they could run into problems again with the wind sticking with us at least the next 24 hours. the boaters today not only dealt with these winds over 20 miles per hour but a strong outgoing tide that was basically coming up against the prevailing wind as well. so i definitely some oppose forces there that made it difficult for those boaters. for tomorrow we'll see winds 10 to 20 miles per hour. also that small craft advisory in place and if it gusts up to the 20s like we think there definitely could be a few moments tomorrow where they may need to take a break or it may even get postponed again. just know that if you're heading out to pier 27 and 29 to view that. also catch the action live on nbc sports network at 1:00 p.m. and temperatures at the coastline, if you're going that way, will be in the upper 60s to also low 70s. now the wind right now is continuing at sfo. that's producing one to two-hour delays with increasing air traffic that's getting stacked up, so if you're doing any kind of flying tonight or tomorrow morning do watch out for those delays at sfo. let's get you outside to the high definition sky camera network. you can see clear skies in emoriville looking towards san francisco, and it's that north wind that we've had that's helped to scour out that fog. as far as the forecast goes on wednesday, let's get a first look. fog at the immediate coastline. temperatures near 60 and by 11:00 a.m. even the coastline with the windy conditions persisting will start to clear out. sunny skies there and also by the bay and inland. right around lunchtime temperatures expected in the mid-70s. on the three-day forecast we'll have the mid-80s again inland for tomorrow. temperatures warm up a little bit by thursday and notice friday. going to get some cooling in here. cloud cover is going to increase, and coming up in the seven-day forecast we'll talk about more of these showers returning and also, well, a lot cooler than 80s coming our way by this weekend, guys. >> sounds nice. thank you, jeff. coming up, san francisco gets its chance to shine. the new plan expected to bring a tv crew and big bucks to the city. the clock is ticking. the governor has a little less than a month to wade through hundreds of bills on his desk awaiting signature. it's a banner year for the california state legislature which has flexed its muscles of independence against the fed on a variety of issues. nbc's political analyst larry gerston is here to explain. >> calling it taking care of business or looking out for your own needs or whatever, but california has passed all kinds of legislation that placed the state clearly at odds with the federal government. it's very interesting and any time the state does that kind of things the partnership has caused lots of ripples. >> and can you see that with school testing. >> that's one example. we can begin with the revised school testing which has led states to scrap the federal government's no child left behind testing requirement, and why, because the state says we don't need double testing. as a result the u.s. department secretary arony duncan has threatened to withhold as much as $7 billion in federal funds if california carries that through. we'll see what happens and then the immigration reform issue. while dong dithers on this session, they have allowed bills to allow undocumented immigrants to get driver's licenses and practice law. call it immigration reform california style, and if we go to the energy front the state passed a bill to require energy companies to get permits for fracking. that's the controversial hydraulic fracturing process that breaks up shale to get oil and in the meantime they need to notify them of the contents associated with that process. each of the moves takes the state in a direction not gone by the feds or in the education case defies the fed outright. >> isn't it risky to pursue the policy on their own considering that we're dealing with the feds. >> a lot of legislators feel that the fed is too slow in adopting certain policies. >> they are tired of waiting. they feel if they act now maybe it will get new attention. it's worked on automobile requirements and stem sell research and even the right to choose legislation all of which became models for national action. what remains to be seen is the consequences down the road. have to see what happens with the california model. >> still to come here at 6:00. convicted of murdering four women and now he's learning his fate. a serial killer's final moments in court. >> and in tonight's "reality check," why the 7 million people who don't have health insurance in california are not the only ones who can take advantage of covered california. who can boy in the exchange and who benefits the most? reality check is coming up next. >> plus a chain reaction hit and run in the south bay this morning. the clue the driver left behind that could help police. there are so many things that we do on a daily 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pay for his life for killing women in the 1970s and '80s. his attorney says he's taking it in stride. he read a statement from naso outside the courtroom. >> i want to help others in prison. i am on the threshold of a new life and will make the best of it. >> while the 79-year-old will be among the oldest inmates on death row and may die of natural causes before the sentence is carried out the district attorney believes the jury's decision is the right one. >> i think anyone who is involved in a series of serial murders which he stands convictions of and the way they were. >> done. the evidence that these two attorneys presented in exceptional fashion showing what he did the verdicts are justified. >> he took something away from me that i'll never have back. i'm glad that we can put this to rest now after 35 years. naso's attorney says he feels it's his role as a fatherly figure to help other inmates who perhaps suffer from mental illness. he does have experience with that because of his mentally disabled son. the judge will formally sentence naso on friday morning. reporting live in san rafael, i'm jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. the driver who caused the five-car pile-up this morning is still on the run. the drive crashed the jaguar near the baskin avenue exit. they say the driver lost control of the new car and in a chain reaction four other people then crashed their cars, the driver ran away. shouldn't be hard to figure out who he is. left the cell phone and car behind. luckily only minor injuries were suffered. >> new at 6:00, unemployment checks are delayed for 50,000 californians. the department is struggling with a computer system upgrade. 15,000 claims were processed overnight and the rest could be finished by the end of the week. the system upgrade has affected less than 20% of the biweekly claim forms. >> skies over colorado are clear for a second day in a row giving crews a chance to rescue more stranded residents. so far 12,000 people have been evacuated with the help of helicopters. today though sadly the death toll rose to eight but nearly 600 people are unaccounted for, most likely stranded and unable to contact loved ones. the torrential rainfall and flooding started last week. it's damaged 18,000 homes, 1,600 completely destroyed, mostly in larime and boulder counties. officials say those numbers are expected to rise. an electrical malfunction. a massive fire at the jersey shore was caused by electrical wiring. the fire started under an ice cream shop and spread to several businesses on the boardwalk that was just rebuilt after sandy. officials are saying it was an accident. >> much of the nation is recovering from the economic recession but not for the poor. a census report today reveals the u.s. poverty rate is at 15% where it's been for the last three years. however, african-americans as a group fared the worst with a poverty rate of 27%. for hispanics the rate tops 25%. foot stamps get 4 million americans out of poverty and house republicans are vote on a bill to reduce food stamp enroll meant. >> we're zeroing in on the state health insurance exchange that opens october 1st. >> up to 7 million californians go without health insurance any given year but who exactly will benefit and the who can use this exchange. for answers we look at who is tracking obama care. >> last week we broke down insurance options and doesn't who might benefit from covered california and if you thought it was those with government aids, you'd be wrong and those without insurance you'd be wrong. anyone can buy health insurance on covered california. californians with health insurance and without health insurance and trying to find quality health insurance. covered california should have a little something for all comers when it launches october 1st. the only qualification is that you are a legal resident and that you are not incarcerated. >> that's it. >> dana howard with covered california helps us trace out who is likely to join and in what numbers. it will probably take a few years but projections show 1.4 medical recipients now that the poverty line has increased. now there's another 5.3 million people without health insurance and half will be eligible for subsidies, about 2.6 million and half will not and the subsidies will make a big difference. >> insurance experts like charles bocce will tell you without subsidies the health exchange options will net you much lower savings, if any, but here's what you need to keep in mind, plans on the exchange will bring you richer benefits due to new federal standards and even employees who already buy insurance through the workplace can opt out and buy products on the exchange. >> you can make that switch and drop coverage from the employer and go buy coverage in the, change or outside of the exchange if you think it's a better deal for you. >> my caution is that it's going to be difficult if you don't qualify for subs disbecause you'll be leaving the employer contribution on the table. >> if the work coverage right now eats up a certain kennebunk of your paycheck you're eligible for subsidies which the gentleman said would make a very large difference. if you can't get health care at work you should be able to find is elsewhere. that's today's reality check. >> timing is everything. you've heard that. coming up, early harvest for part of the wine country try. >> plus, norton was the best character and best loved. >> the birthday celebrations today in true san francisco style. >> and good evening, i'm jeff ranieri in the nbc bay area weather center. winds 15 to 30 miles per hour this afternoon and currently san jose with possible rain in the seven-day forecast. ♪ for a store near you go to benjaminmoore.com/bayarea. the rush is on a little bit earlier this year in some parts of the wine country. wineries in livermore have already started harvesting their grapes for red wine. this morning while most of us were asleep workers plucked ten tons of their cabernet savingon fruit and it's only mid-september. last year this happened in the first week in october. timing is everything when you're a wine-maker. you pick too early and the wine could end up with a vegetative flavor and too late it could taste a little like canned fruit. >> playoff fever in the bay area. the a's are a hot ticket. fans lining up as early as 7:00 a.m. to get their hand on upcoming playoff tickets that went on sale at 10:00 a.m. the playoffs begin october 2nd. the first place as are likely to make the playoffs. no guarantees but the fans are very excited. >> it's been way too long. i'm a dyed in the wool as fan so i'll stand in line for three hours and get these and we'll be back to get our world series tickets. >> wishful thinking. tickets for round one sold out in two hours and they will take up the darn tarps from the upper deck creating an extra 12,000 seats. the as likely to make the playoffs. >> to far away to see what the weather will be then but jeff has the forecast prepared for the next coming days. >> i'll give you a little gims. >> a little bit of fog, some sun and maybe a chance of showers. i'm just having fun. my monday. had yesterday off. live look out here in san francisco. >> we'll talk more about gusting winds in the forecast for tomorrow. hey, jim. >> a little baseball. giants open the final road trip of the season in new york, and the as, i know the fans want their tickets. they look to bounce back after monday night's loss but first it's football time. the 49ers suffering from a sunday night hangover and there's no time to pout in the nfl. a full report from santa clara as jim haar pawing and company got back to work today. that's all coming up from the xfinity sports desk next. lights, action, san francisco. not since nash bridges was filming in san francisco has there been such joy among the city leaders. hbo is filming a new tv show here called looking. a couple of video game designers who happen to be gay. estimated to bring in 2 million. hoping for another streets of san francisco that had a lucrative five year run, the stars really did film their scenes here in san francisco and not an l.a. studio. >> today one of san francisco's lesser known historical happenings, the day an eccentric business man declared himself an emperor. a lock now at how the legacy of emperor norton lives on 150 years later. >> the bay area is a place that appreciates a. >> good character which is why this has lived on in its lore for over 100 years. a large majority of the citizens of these united states. 154 years ago joshua norton, a failed san francisco businessman delivered letters to the city's newspapers declaring these famous words. >> declare and proclaim myself emperor of these united states. >> the anniversary of norton's inauguration was as good an excuse as any. >> norton's story is one that gets told over and over again. someone who came here and met with adversary and reinvented himself and was wildly successful as it. >> norton stronghold the streets issuing proclamations and fame out called for the building of a bridge between san francisco and oakland nearly 80 years before it opened and decreed congress should be and lishd. >> i think in this day and age that might be considered a plus. today one of those original notes can fetch $15,000. >> some would say he's crazy and others would say he's crazy like a faction. >> willy has the sharpest political mind in california today, but since we're and squaries we prefer the emperor norton. >> it seems this serious man with his curious ways and military gash has become the patron saint of the downtrodden and in the bay area plenty good reason. nbc bay area news. >> only in the bay area. >> i would like to get you one of those outfits. >> emperor ranieri joins us. >> emperor maathai. i'm saying you should wear it. >> it would be grand. both do it just for tv. >> let's get a look at the highs for. >> today. >> 66 in frisco and also the thing that was pretty annoying to you this often. i do think tomorrow we'll have the wind back in the forecast. >> lots of yellow tomorrow morning. winds 15 to 25 miles per hour and then as we happens this into the early evening, orange getting close to the north bay. >> coastline. may again pose some problems for the america's cup. otherwise in the seven-day forecast we'll push ahead to cooler weather and also some showers ending our way as we get a look at the forecast for tomorrow. what you find it's completely dry, and by 11:00 a.m., even at the coast, sunny skies coming on back. full on sunshine before the noon hour. let's get you outside to the high definition view and like to take you outside if you're stuck in the office all day, a chance to get the view across the pay. palo alto with a bit of haze and not a major marine layer and still clear in san francisco at this hour. that's, again, a signal of that stronger wind we've been dealing with across most of the bay area. our weather graphics, what you'll find is the fact that temperatures will go up. we'll go up to 83 in san jose and 85 in gilroy and 86 in the castro valley. 82 in sonoma and upper 70s in oakland, now, the rain in the forecast as we head through the end of the week, not a big storm system coming our yeah. it will line up to friday and friday into early saturday morning we'll start to see some rain pushing to the south. trace amounts to maybe a tenth of an inch in the north bay and those in the south bay may not see anything at all. what you should know is for saturday, when we keep the umbrella handy for the scattered showers in the area and temperatures going down into the 70s. the first time in five years we've had a. >> season arrive on sunday. maybe a typical season coming our way. who knows at this point. >> takes about five years to customize the forecast. >> we've got it done. >> thanks very much, jeff. >> let's get to sports. >> still upset about the 49ers loss. >> i'm devastated, but i kept my eyebrows just in case. all right, guys, 49ers still searching for answers after sunday night's dropping in seat. the mood of the team was somber but on tuesday the team was ready to move on and shift their focus to week three showdown against the indianapolis colt. >> the 49ers watched the game video as a team monday morning and contend their offensive problems had little to do with the seahawks. >> we knew. >> they would shift around, especially the front and play hard box. it's all about execution, and we could have done a lot better in terms of execution. >> as an offense i think the thing that we took away from that one is turnovers, drive killers, penalties. we played in long down situations early, second, third and long so we have to. >> stay away from that. the players found the video difficult to watch as they had a week of preparation even for the world setting crowd noise. >> we didn't miss anything communication wise. >> the team is teaching its coaching points from the loss against the seahawks and turningies attention towards indianapolis. the loss in seattle will stick with them as a brutal reminder of the result they can expect if they don't implement the changes. everything they did we have adjustments already there. >> we just have to make them and be more focus. a's magic number down to seven games and the schedule the rest of the way for teams not in the playoff chase. >> they have been playing great baseball. they won't make it's on us. that's the one thing they can play for is to make it tough on us and try to force us out of it. >> these team are playing with nothing to lose and that makes teams out of it still dangerous and they can still play a factor and we can't take anything for. >> granted. >> bases loaded for angel pagan. a single to right between sandoval can come in to score. >> 3-2 giants. the single to center. duda scores and then he gets caught in a run down. flores scores and mets go up 4-3. right now bottom seven and the giants have reclaimed the lead at 5-4. >> the warriors just over two weeks away and one egier to get back on the court. >> the young forward from michigan state knows a repeat performance won't come easy. >> we're still going to take it one game at a time and go out and try to win every game. >> if you try to win every game you won't win them all but you will win a lot more than if you just go out and play them. it's going to be a great year and we'll keep approaching it with that attitude an keep putting the work in to make sure it's a great year. >> draymond green is a fan favorite. that's going to do it from the sports desk. back at 11:00 a.m. highlights from the as game. raj, jess, back to you. >> and you got the tickets just in case. >> for all three of us. >> he said for all three of us. >> and jeff, too. >> you can always watch "sportsnet central" and comcast sportsnet bay area at 10:30. >> back in a moment. among the many things we discovered is emergency slides don't always work. in fact, they have a history of problems. >> that accident involving assariana revealed that nasa has received more than 1 lunn anonymous complaints in the last seven years and from 2007 to 2012 they reported difficulties with slides to the faa. here's former boeing engineer todd curtis. >> like with any other manufacturing system you're going to have failures of various types. >> for example, deploying inat verd entally and deploying incorrectly, et cetera. >> we'll have more details on that in the full investigation at 11:00. >> okay, we look forward to seeing you this evening. >> that will do it for us. see you tonight at 11:00. >> have a great night. >> bye-bye. britney's toxic helicopter ride, her emergency on the way to our interview, now on "extra." a flash mob of britney lookalikes, a chopper delivering the queen of pop. >> she's here. >> how brit's vegas grand entrance took an unexpected twist. >> she barely made it to "gma." >> then all the new details on her vegas show. >> how many hundreds of thousands she's making per show. plus, mario's shocking accident taping "extra" caught on camera. >> oh. valerie harper's courageous first night on "dancing." >> that smile on your face.
psychological picture of navy yard killer aaron alexis. one is of voices inside his head, another picture, vibrations of microwaves to send him messages. police say this information may explain why alexis's gunned down 12 people on monday. nbc's tracy pots joins us. what's the latest? >> authorities also know he was arrested at least three times, but not prosecuted, never convicted on those arrests. at least two of them were gun related. that's raising a lot of questions here on capitol hill and across the country. should aaron alexis still had clearance to get on that base and should he have been able to buy a gun? as washington remembers the victims -- >> it's a hole that will never be filled. >> reporter: the fbi is tracking every move aaron alexis made. >> how did he carry out and plan this attack, how did he get access to the weapons. >> it was a lawful purchase of a shotgun made in virginia. >> reporter: legal, even though the veterans administration was treating him for mental illness. less than a month ago, he reported hearing voices. >> i don't know how in the world he got a clearance to be able to get into the navy yard with those weapoweapons. >> reporter: he got them because it's illegal for the va to report treatment. as a contractor he had a ten-year security clearance. >> it's not that difficult to get a security clearance if you do not have major red flags in your background. >> reporter: the incident is raising more talk about gun control. >> we do not have a firm enough background check system. >> we're going to move this up as quickly as we can. and the shooting is raising questions about security. lawmakers want more answers on a pentagon report, places like washington navy yard at risk. and as a result of all that, there will be a lot of eyes object this now, richard. the president has ordered a review of all federal facilities. secretary hagel wants a review of the clearances. the husband of one of the 12 victims says he now has a hole that will never be filled. nbc's tom costello has more on those whose lives were stolen. >> reporter: taps at the navy memorial for the 12 men and women who came from all walks of life, gunned down in a place supposed to be safe. among them 53-year-old sylvia frasier. >> my sister was a person who was very giving and loving. give you, truly, her shirt off her back. >> reporter: 46-year-old bernard proctor leaves two teenage boys. his ex-wife says he loved them dearly. martin bodrog was 54. he is survived by his wife of 23 years and three daughters. 59-year-old michael arnold had been married for 30 years with two sons. >> i am so proud of him. he has been a really, really wonderful son, and a wonderful father and a wonderful husband. i'm just proud of him. >> reporter: 62-year-old kathy gaarde was a financial analyst, married for 38 years, her two children are grown. john johnson was 73. he leaves his wife and four grown daughters. >> he is such a man of joy. everywhere he goes, he brings joy. >> reporter: there is also 51-year-old mary frances knight, 52-year-old richard ridgell, 50-year-old frank kohler, 5-year-old arthur daniels, who had five children and nine grandchildren, 58-year-old gerald read and 61-year-old employee vishnu pandit. >> he loved the navy and devoted his life to the navy for years. >> the search for those missing has become more desperate as the hours pass in colorado. hundreds of people are still unaccounted for in what's been the worst flooding to hit the boulder area in decades. the death toll has been lowered from eight to six, now classifying two of those reported dead as missing. more today, first responders will be making their way into numerous towns that have been cut off by the waters. nbc meteorologist bill karins, as we look at those picture there is -- >> we'll keep looking at them. >> and hoping there's no more rain. >> no, they're fine. they're dried out. also the denver post, the big newspaper in the city, has 120 aerial images from all over the reason. you sit there clicking and can't believe it. that it's the same spot. it's different town after town. it will be a long recovery. as far as we're dealing with out there, any more troublesome weather? not much. extreme temperatures in areas of arizona. one degree off your record high in phoenix, 108 record high was 109. desert areas are still very warm. northwest has been cooler. in the 50s this morning. heavy rain moved through areas of washington, northeast corner of washington state and northern idaho last night. some areas reported almost like tropical downpours. that is moving now into montana, passing up into canada again today. as that storm moves out, we're looking good behind it. high pressure is moving into the coast. we will see a noticeable warm-up in the pacific northwest before that next storm will come in as we approach friday and into saturday. as far as all the troublesome weather goes, it's ended for denver and colorado and most areas of the west will see a dry day, just our friends in montana with a few showers and storms. >> into the northwest, we warm it up and we'll cool it back down. enjoy. >> they're crossing their fingers saying indian summer, please be two months long. >> yeah, right. direct message from starbucks ceo to gun owners. also has sex stopped selling? true to life death-defying rescue. details in two minutes. a neighborhood is praising three heroes who risked life and limb to rescue a man trapped by an apartment fire. lorenzo lopez sprang to action when he heard cries for help. a man was balancing on a window screen you see there. lopez and two building workers grabbed a ladder, traveled up and extended the ladder to a fourth floor window. one of the rescuers crossed the gap, helped lower the victim to the ladder and walked back across to safety. i think there will be a lorenzo lopez day in new york city. other stories making news on this hump day. two of president obama's former defense secretaries have come out against his strategy for dealing with syria. speaking at a college forum, both robert gates and leon panetta say they would have told the president not to seek approval from congress for a military strike. gates opposes a military strike, likening it to throwing gasoline on a fire. panetta says obama must follow through on his words. >> my view would have been that once the president came to that conclusion, that he should have directed limited action going after assad to make very clear to the world that when we draw a line and we give our word, damn it, we back it up. a federal judge has ordered a new trial for five new orleans police officers who were convicted of civil rights violations after shooting and killing two unarmed people shortly after hurricane katrina. the judge cited quote grotesque misconduct arguing that prosecutors unfairly altered the case. some experts are blaming hurricane katrina for allowing a dangerous brain-eating amoeba into local tap water systems. water fountains have been shut off and officials are trying to kill the parasite with chlorine. a house in connecticut was completely destroyed after exploding late tuesday. the cause is unknown but no injuries have been reported. talk about the great escape, or at least the great attempt. a man under arrest in ohio attempting to flee police custody just by jumping out of a moving cruiser. it didn't work out in the end too well. he tried. starbucks is asking customers to leave their guns athe home. the move is a result of increase in starbucks appreciation days where gun rights advocates show up at stores with firearms. starbucks is stopping short of a full ban. walgreens plans to shift thousands of workers to private insurance exchanges starting next year. drugstore joint will provide payments to employees so they can buy their own coverage. and tesla motor sincere getting into the driverless car game. ceo musk says they're working to produce a vehicle that runs on autopilot within the next three years. exciting. richard, back to you. >> because their stock prices aren't doing quite well enough. if you would like to get rich the old fashioned way -- no, not inheritance, lottery, the jackpot is worth $400 million. sex sell, right? at least it used to. penthouse has filed for bankruptcy protection, liability up to $1 billion and assets less than $10 million. southeast florida mansion where versace was shot dead has sold for $4.5 million at auction. new owners are a group that includes the family behind jordache jeans. super storm sandy boardwalk blaze, investigators are blaming flooding from sandy to causing damage to electrical wire and equipment that sparked the blaze be neath the candy store. officials warn others in the area to have wiring inspected to make sure that wiring is not endangering their places as well. sports is next. now let's get the latest in sports for you. remembering the victims in washington, d.c. is where we start. a moment of silence at washington nationals park a mile from navy yard. the color guard presenting flags. both teams honoring the 12 people killed in monday's shooting as well. now to orioles/red sox. tied 2-2. orioles triples. he later scores. he stopped the red sox pitcher's 37 consecutive outs. baltimore 3-2. two games back of the wild-card leaders. cincinnati and houston. astros singled. he tries to double his money on the single. cincinnati tagged him out backwards. slides into brandon phillips, his back side. so did astros losing 10-0. what are you looking at? washington's alex ovechkin chases a puck. so much strength there they break the glass in two. perhaps here because there is a little hole there. you can see the videographer right in the middle. prices for some tickets for super bowl xlviii will be way up. expected to double the price. middle tier up 50%, but the cheapest tickets down 25% to $500. division three college ball. tries a quarterback sneak. tries is the word here. on the 1 yard line. they are piled up. he fumbles. stevenson university defender grabs it. stevenson, 28-14. let's do high school football. a blocked field goal. the defense starts celebrating. the ball left on the field. that ball is still alive. the victory. 83.13 miles per hour. he rode his high-tech recumbent bicycle -- yes, in that bubble you see there, furiously pedalling like a hamster. it's more aerodynamic than a bullet. just ahead, zac effron out of rehab. plus fallon and timberlake on timberlake tuesday. welcome back. why can't we save a day like this for the weekend? beautiful in most spots. san francisco, 73. gorgeous for lunchout doors. little hot in phoenix, still. as we go into your thursday, notice the warm-up in the northwest. summer trying to -- >> let's talk miley cyrus. >> i love miley. >> it's been at least 18 minutes since we talked about that. the educational world is feeling the effects here. grand valley state university in michigan took down their pendulum statue tuesday. why? because students were using the artwork to imitate the music video. >> of course they were. >> the university released a statement saying the statue was removed for safety reasons. >> sanitary reasons. >> yeah, we heard there were students posing naked on it. snoop dogg posted a pretty incriminating photo. the rapper posed with a pound of marijuana. he said his friend had won it for him over the weekend. how do you win a pound of marijuana? i have to ask. patrick steward found fun ways to spend down time. while working on two broadway shows together. yesterday they took in views from the empire state building. looks scared. >> interesting. zac efron is spending time focusing solely on his career now. reports have it that he had a brief stint in rehab five months ago. not many people thought about that. alicia keys had a party, but she says she was confused when she and the entourage were eating and drinking in a neighbor's kitchen. how do you do that? >> whoops. they knew. >> yeah. >> fully stocked kitchen. jimmy fallon reminisced about the first time he met timberlake. the two shared camp and a duet. ♪ you like to laugh at me when we look at other girls ♪ ♪ sometimes i'm crazy and you wonder why ♪ ♪ i'm such a baby because the dolphins make me cry ♪ ♪ but there's nothing i can do ♪ i only want to be with you >> so, bill, you and i, no matter how much we try to do that -- >> they did it with retainers in their mouths, too. >> on top of that, i bet they never practiced it, they just did it. >> they obviously have chemistry. they like to do -- abbott and costello? hope we never get tired of it, that it gets old. >> this ends at the end of this month. timberlake, his new album comes out. this, as well as the evolution of end zone dancing, good stuff. i'm richard lui. this is "early today." we hope it's just the first stop of your day today on nbc. leading the news in virginia daily press, shoe leads family to missing crash victim. the injured man spent nearly a week in the woods following a motorcycle accident. he was rescued after a family friend spotted a shoe along side a road near his home. on nbcnews.com cold wet cases. oklahoma troopers stumble on six bodies in two cars at the bottom of the lake. the vehicle was spotted by divers who were conducting sonar training. police are looking at a 1970 case involving missing teens and a couple who disappeared in the early 1960s. top story we're following, naacp is calling for a charge greater than involuntary manslaughter for charlotte police officer randall kerrick, accused of shooting and killing unarmed 24-year-old jonathan farral, a former florida football player, seeking help after a car crash. officials say he was shot ten times. tropical storm manuel and hurricane ingrid are creating flooding havoc in mexico. officials say 27 have been killed in one state alone. certainly wish them the best. and al franken is urging facebook to reconsider the facial recognition program. the program helps to recognize you and tag you in photos. now facebook wants to enroll users who are not tagged but have public profile photos. franken said it has profound implications for consumer privacy. a british woman's candid moment all caught on tape has opened a door to a whole new career for her. ellie cole was spending time at a bus stop getting into a groove to her favorite song when a spectator across the street started rolling on this. good moves there. some people may be upset about their private moment uploaded to youtube. cole, doing the happy dance. she's been offered a part in a musical. >> she has a whole routine, though. >> she does. >> not a bad dancer. are you like a shower singer? >> i can't hold a tune if you hold a gun to my head. >> that doesn't mean you can't do it. >> you do one and i'll tape you while you don't know it. an interest rate announcement today. fed chief ben bernanke will announce whether interest rates will stay at their record lows or start rising. first lady michelle obama will host a let's move event focused on ways that food is marketed to children. happy birthday to jason sudakis who is 38. actress jada pinkett smith turns 42. keep it here for more news, weather and sports. i'm richard lui along with bill karins. thanks for watching "early today." new images just in of an overnight fire in the south bay. one person taken to the hospital. details next. also, we'll tell you about what we're learning about the man behind that mass shooting at the washington navy yard. new pictures just released of a man police say is connected to a string of burglaries on the peninsula. >> right now, we'll take you live outside. that is o dwe dotco. this is "today in the bay."
>> reporter: voices in his head no problem getting a security plans or by the gun and people have questions why?and kron four talks to the >> reporter: family of the 49er fan who candlestick park. what they have to say about >> reporter:now at eight. police say the man in the surveillance tape is a registered sex offender about to expose himself to a small child in a book store. >> reporter:tonight he is in trouble again. he was in a walmart in our city, inappropriately touching himself. kron four talks to the woman police are calling a hero in his arrest today. whoosh scott whoosh >> reporter:an accused pedophile. using a ymca day care center to hill. whoosh >> reporter:he took something away from me that i'll never get back serial killer joseph naso murdered her mother when she was just six years old. hear her reaction to the jury's decision that he whoosh >> reporter:now at eight. episodes of rage. voices in his head. washington navy yard shooter aaron alexis had no trouble getting a security clearance or buyig a gun. people need to be asking the question why? whoosh (male announcer): this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. >> pam: now at 8-- >> pam: a man caught on surveillance video, after police say. he was exposing himself to children at a peninsula bookstore. has been arrested. now, we've learned, the man in the video is a registered sex offender with a long history of crimes against children. >> pam: you are looking at the man who police say, has been exposing himself to children across the bay area. dating back a year or more. this is surveillance video of miller earlier this summer at a bookstore in san molested a child. police are asking for the public's help victims. >> reporter:70-year-old christopher wendell miller was arrested by mountain view police. for masturbating in front of children at a walmart store. >> reporter:miller is a registered sex offfender, listed on megan's list for convictions of lewd dating back to 1989. >> reporter:he was also awaiting sentencing for two felony convictions for an arrest gilroy where he wore a 'kilt' as part of a costume. exposing himself to >> reporter: the woman who took the pictures at a gilroy renaissance fair is talking to kron 4. >> reporter: not allowing employees to use personal cell phones during work hours and moving furniture routes so everyone can see people. >> in watch each other in of the key is to reduce any possibility for molestation to one child at any time. >> reporter: in may will be back in court and morgan hill at the end of october and that's when he can enter his plea. with life in prison and if convicted for all of the chargers. kron 4 news. >> pam: developing tonight a child is hit by being hit with shattered glass. this is video from our helicopter partnership with abc 7 news. the shooting happened and the 1500 block of 27 ave were suspect fired several shots at each other from two separate deals. separate the upholds. vehicles >> reporter: all indications point to their word and the wrong place at the wrong time. just after 5:00 that is when police were called out to the scene appeared they found that accurate integra shot out the back window. the car seat and back was a five year-old child in the back seat when all of that glass shattered and the bullet came flying through the bullet. the child was hurt by the glass but not struck by the bullet. the woman driving the car was not struck by a bullet. but the glass shattered. i did speak with the neighbors are out there they stated that they heard things and it was down right frightening. >> it was like five or six shots and i heard screaming i've seen to kids crying and cut marks on the backside of his neck and the mother she was crying could not believe what was going on. in disbelief. total chaos. >> reporter: taken to aid local hospital with minor injuries. the woman driving also taken to hospital with no injuries patrick scott rates kron 4 news. >> reporter: >> pam: the man in the video is a registered sex offender with a long history of crimes against children. rob fladeboe reports. >> reporter: christopher miller shown here in costume are arrested for indecent exposure at renaissance fair. police have linked two more victims. to a former y- m-c-a childcare aide who is accused of child sexual abuse. convicted install all waiting sentencing alleged lee chow books store. at a wal-mart and food store or rested once again. kron 4's maureen kelly has he was inside of a wal-mart touching himself and for the two young females. the young mother saw this and decided to report this to the loss prevention security who instead decided to call us. up detained him and arrested him. son died. >> reporter: he had a clean record until last october. sending him back to jail because he is a threat to society. the time that he should be on his best behavior to get leniency and probation which is he decides to go out and the the three acts in for a small children and not and do rob fladeboe kron 4 news. >> pam: and restore it will only see on a kron4 prick them women who watched this man flashed children at a renaissance of blair. fear. fair >> i noticed that his jump was hope was hanging out of his kilt. but then i noticed he was sitting in front of a group of children and i noticed that every time the killed was wider when the children was looking appearance were lucky he turned to the size of a was a showing as much. allegedly molested and expose themselves to the children appeared i think molesters and people like that should be shot. >> pam: dating back to 1989 on the make a list. >> pam: police say that nay sole murder of at least four people having been named the first and last may 1st and last initial the same in their name. held at the superior court on friday >> pam: at candlestick park the 49 fan the family is speaking out tonight at 8 and their theory on why he died. >> reporter: his mother says she loves the picture in was having fun before he died. not wanting to appear on camera says he was a happy easygoing% and a third- generation season-ticket holder. he had been doing just that before the accident having fun in parting. >> reporter: on the way to the game where he failed to stories below. his parents cannot deny before he plunged to his death the but they do not believe he was so drunk that he could not walk out. his brother jeffrey was with him that day. >> he was bynum walking >> reporter: i'm sure he has some beers, i do not know how many. >> reporter: he tried to grab the real right here and that made him lose his balance and go over the side. but they are not blaming anyone for his death or sued the city. >> it would be easy to blame someone but it will not help me hill and it would not help me live. of kevin hayes enjoying himself before the game that fateful day.his mother says with joy" resident had been doing just the game he was walking on avenue towards the stick stories to the sidewalk below. he was so drunk he couldn't walk.that's because his his brother jeffery was with him that day.and just a foot rest. maureen kelly kron4 news contrary.kevin hayes' >> reporter:east palo alto police are searching for a person who hit a blind reverend and his dog yesterday afternoon. reverend macklin says he was walking on myrtle street when a car backed into him. >> reporter:he says the car was not going fast. but it was enough to knock him over and trap his dog, eaton under the bumber of the car. the reverend says the driver stopped and asked if he was ok. >> reporter:then something unexpected happens. the driver claimed she was going to park her car. but instead sped away from the scene. >> pam: ahead at eight. >> pam: and coming up next -- the navy base shooting. we are learning more about the gunman. including why he couldn't get help. when he heard voices in his head. >> pam: developing tonight-- the shooting rampage at the washington navy yard is raising major questions about how a veteran with a troubled past. gets access to guns. and access to military bases. >> pam: >> reporter: that a 30 the video game that causes of adults to make decisions and the mine danger associated with it. >> jacqueline: more changes and the weekend to pitcher coming up. >> pam: the mayor of washington d.c. says, the gunman, aaron alexis, exchanged gunfire with police for more than 30 minutes before being killed. >> pam: alexis was armed with a shotgun, legally purchased in virginia two days before his rampage. >> pam: officials say, within the last few weeks, he began showing signs of mental disorder. >> pam: grant lodes begins our coverage with the new details emerging today about the gunman. >> reporter: >> reporter:aaron alexis was hearing voices in his head. the navy veteran said as much in a phone call to police just a few weeks ago. >> reporter:the police alerted the navy, but the warning was apparently dismissed. and that was not the first time authorities ignored a red flag about his behavior. >>aaron was a very polite, very friendly man. he attended a buddhist temple and worked as a waiter in a thai restaurant in texas. friends say alexis was the last person they would expect to become a mass murderer. >>he was such a nice, jovial, kind, laughing. >> reporter:on the surface, alexis was a veteran of the navy reserve, honorably discharged after three years. but the record shows his time in the service was troubled. >> reporter:according to naval officials he cited at least eight times for misconduct, including insubordination and excessive absences. he was arrested once for gun violence before he enlisted, and twice more while he was serving. in 2008, he was arrested for disorderly conduct. and in 2010 for firing a gun through the ceiling of his apartment in texas. he told police he was cleaning it when it went off accidentally. alexis left the navy in 2011. >> reporter:last year he started working for a hewlett=packard subcontractor known as "the experts," his worked on the navy marines' intranet system. just six week ago, alexis phoned police from his hotel room in newport rhode island. he told them that strangers were using microwaves to send messages into his brain, prompting the police to alert the navy. for some reason, nothing was done. he arrived at the navy yard yesterday and used his own security pass to gain entrance. >> reporter:you have adocumented case where this individual was able to get a clearance. and people need to be asking the question: why?. >> reporter:lots of questions about government safety checks for sure. the navy sub-contractor that employed alexis says it asked the defense department twice to confirm his security clearance. >> reporter:the latest - just last june turned up only a minor traffic violation. the pentagon said tonight it is reviewing its procedures. >> reporter: the 12 people who died were civilians -- many of them contractors. just starting their day at the huge military compound that's normally a bastion of safety. now - 12 families have been left anguished. catherine heenan reports. >> catherine: as the victims are being honored and remembered.we're learning more about them. details on just a few of them. >> catherine: mary delorenzo knight of virginia had two daughters. >> catherine: she had just written on her facebook page that the recent wedding of one of her her girls made her so happy.she was still crying. 50-year-old frank kohler was a father of two. >> catherine: arthur daniels worked as a sub-contractor installing office furniture in government offices. a friend describes 62-year- old kathy gaarde - on the right - the mother of two - as "literally the kindest person you'll ever meet." she worked as a financial analyst. >> catherine: richard ridgell of maryland was a retired maryland state trooper. described as a fun-loving guy who loved football. >> catherine: martin bodrog was the father of three girls. he graduated from the naval acadeny in 1981. neighbors of vishnu pandit is remembered as a kind and gentle man who loved his family and his >> catherine: dog. and 59-year-old michael arnold was an avid pilot who graduated from the stanford school of business. >> catherine: his mother is devastated. arnold's wife had just called him monday when she heard an alarm in the background and he said he'd call her back. he never got the chance. >> catherine: catherine heenan kron4 it news. >> pam: more than 600-people are still unaccounted for in colorado.and at least eight have died due to the extreme flooding. >> pam: a break in the weather tuesday allowed rescue crews to continue their search for those who are stranded. nearly 18- thousand homes across the state have been damaged by relentless rain and flooding. >> pam: in the town of lyons. people returned to find that rushing waters had moved entire homes and flipped cars over. >> pam: a city spokeswoman in boulder says crews are working to cleanup after the massive flooding.and get key infrastructure up and >> jacqueline: very windy out there today but coming down for the morris park. celebration in italy.as the cruise ship that was on its calming down for the most part. it will stay warm thursday but we have the chance and the up forecast on friday to we will talk more about that and look at the extended forecast at eight to 45. >> pam: celebration in italy as the cruise ship that was on its side for nearly two years is side for nearly two years.is finally upright. this is time lapse video showing the complex engineering feat. it took 19 hours to right the massive ship. this was the first stage of the recovery process. the costa concordia will eventually be towed to a salvage yard.broken up and sold for scrap. the ship capsized 20 months ago in the waters off tuscany. killing 32 people. the captain is now on trial for manslaughter and abandoning ship. >> reporter: coming up a garbage truck leaving lichter. should it it be the other way round. >> pam: caltrans spent about 50 million dollars statewide cleaning trash off of state highways last year. crews collecting enough trash to fill eight-thousand dump trucks. now, the chp is cracking down on highway litters. whether accidental or intentional. it's this edition of people behaving badly. (male announcer): now, here's stanley roberts who found some people behaving badly. >> reporter:ok this is irony. i am out with the california highway patrol commercial enforcement division doing litter enforcement and we come upon this recology garbage truck >> reporter: if you look closely you will notice bags and paper blowing out of the truck and francisco >> reporter:the last time i checked they are suppost to pick up the garbage not leaving it .so officer lie mur will have a chat with the driver >> reporter:the reason why i stopped you is because you got garbage flying out the back of this thingid did the top close yea i don't know you had multipe bags and little pieces of paper coming out of it >> reporter:so the driver goes on top of the truck to check it out >> reporter:the chp is stepping up enforcemnt on people who litter our bay area highways and byways with zero tolerance >> reporter:the driver's paper work is check out then the driver is issued a ticket for spilling his load in the freeway which carries a fine of about 250 dollars one of the biggest complants i hear from drivers is when stuff falls from trucks. so state law required almost all loads to be covered althought there are some exceptions >> reporter:this truck is not one of those exceptions. it should be covered >>the reason why i stopped you, you don't have your load tarped rubbish laes have to be tarped when you are on the road >> reporter:in this case the officer took photos of the load and will send the ticket to the registered owner. the city of san francisco housing authority >> reporter:look at this plastic is spilling from the top if this truck if the stuff hanging falls onto the roadway it could blind a driver for a second >> reporter:not to mention this trashes our freeways, so whether it's plastic or tree braches or just little rocks if it spills on the roadway you as the driver could be liable >> reporter:oh and by the way if they happen upon you crusing with your beats by dre headphones or duel ear buds in both ears they will pull you over on highway 101 with the commerical enforcement division of the california highway patrol stanley roberts kron 4 news >> pam: still ahead-- and new ahead at 8-- >> pam: experts move in to assess the damage from the massive yosemite fire. we take a close up look at what they found. >> pam: unbelievable. shhhhh! in our day, we didn't have u-verse high speed internet. yeah, our babysitter didn't have a million ways to serve mom up on a silver platter. we had to count sheep to fall asleep. and i always worried that i was creating an overcrowded sheep farm. in my head... never looked like that farmer took proper care of those sheep. too much? a little. 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(male announcer): this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. >> pam: now at 8:30. >> pam: it's been almost a month since the rim fire began burning near yosemite that wildfire has charred more than a quarter million acres and is now 85 percent contained. even though the flames are still burning, experts are moving into the area to assess the damage. >> reporter: >> pam: new tonight, kron 4's charles clifford shows us what they have found so far. >> reporter:today a burned area response team finished the first phase of it's examination of just how destructive the rim fire has been. >> reporter:behind me here is a map of the burn zone put together by that team, it shows where the fire burned the hottest. the blue area, which covers about half of the map is were there was only limited burning, the yellow is moderate burning, and the red is where the flames were the hottest, doing the most damage to the soil. the red accounts for about7 percent of the burn zone. >> reporter:often times, wildfire can actually be good for a forest by clearing out old vegetation and rejuvenation the soil, but in these super hot areas the earth can be damaged. >> reporter:when a forest gets to hot. if fuels lay on the ground for to long and the moisture drains from them, they burn so hot that it actually scorches the soil and does more damage than good. >> reporter:this map is important, because it can be used to determine focus forest n efforts. area's that are heavily burned are at greater risk of erosion when it starts raining. rain run coul and ash into rivers and streams, possibly contaminating water supply. by knowing where to send crews, officials hope to limit the damage. >> reporter:soil stabilization teams are expected to move into the area this week and crews are also going to begin repairing damage that was created by the effort to contain the rim fire. in the newsroom, charles clifford kron 4 news. >> pam: new at 8. >> pam: obsessed with a video game. >> pam: the latest version of the wildly popular game. grand theft auto is out. and grant lodes is following the drastic steps some people are taking to play it. >> reporter: popular and most reviled video games ever--grand theft auto. and today--the newest installation of the most successful video game in history hits stores. grand theft auto five is expected to make record breaking sales. since its launch in 1997, has sold more than 125 million units. >> reporter: the game costa about a quarter to a billion dollars to make an omelet $1 billion and revenue the first month that it is out. the story is trendy on my website. >> reporter:becky: while my husband did not call in sick, he did actually take a day off. >> reporter:he left the house at 11:00pm last night, stood in line at best buy to pick up his pre-ordered gta5 game, then came home and stayed up all night to play it. he went to bed when i left for work. i don't get the fascination, but, at least he's not doing drugs or cheating on me.well, not with a woman, anyway. >> reporter: we welcome you to china and. or join our conversation >> pam: still ahead-- >> pam: forget candy and video games. meet the young man from wisconsin who decided to do a good deed with his hard- earned cash. >>". california winner." >> jacqueline: cooler today but we will see big changes to mount and warmer but then more changes into the weekend if possible range. and you will not want to miss your extended forecast coming of serious sa sa san san suspense google, what is glossophobia? glossophobia, is the fear of public speaking. ♪ ♪ the only thing we have to fear is... fear itself. ♪ ♪ >> pam: plus. 400-million and climbing. we take you to the 'lucky the bay area are heading. in >> pam: powerball fever is in full force at an east bay store known for selling winning tickets. starting early this morning, people started showing up at kavanagh liquors in san lorenzo to get their ticket. right now, the jackpot is at 400 million dollars. or 223- million if you take a cash pay out. >> pam: the statics of winning are not great, but that doesn't seem to matter to most people. ".a california winner". >> pam: tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. >> pam: we will bring you the during our newscast. >> pam: one day that's going to make a difference. if every person would do that, we would such a great world. it would be awesome!"" >> pam: still ahead-- forget candy and video >> pam: meet the young man from wisconsin who decided to do a good deed with his hard-earned cash. >> pam: while most 11-year- olds spend their money on candy and video games. .a young man from wisconsin decided to do a good deed with his cash. >> pam: watch as this boy walks into the greenfield police department, drops off a bag of change then makes a mad dash. he left no note and no name.but greenfield p-d were determined to find him. >> pam: meet 11-year-old max siepert.a sixth grader with a big smile and a giant heart. max describes donating the money and why he chose to give it to the police. >>"but i just walked up to her and said, 'i would like to donate all this money to the greenfield police department.'" "my grandpa, who i never got to meet, he was a police officer, and he died at the line of duty." >> pam: max's donation was 10-dollars and three cents. own >> reporter: tomorrow is the big day you're a i have had an iphone and never look the same. ted reporter gabe slate stay tuned out of the highlights. >> jacqueline: temperatures in the '70s and back into the '80s for some locations. potential rain this weekend coming up and about five minutes. cut! i have no idea whats's going on. maybe you're the original really big chicken com, with curly fries and a drink for just $3.99. why the cowboyat? you're the barbecue chicken combo with two chicken patties, bacon, cheese, and barbecue sauc you also come with curly fries and a drink for $39. bubbles! i have no idea what's going on. >> pam: i=phones and i=pads will look different tomorrow. i=o=s=7, apple's new mobile operating system, that was introduced back in june is finally hitting i-devices tomorrow. the update is free and should show up on your device as a software update. >> pam: kron 4's tech reporter gabe slate shows the highlights of i=o=s=7. >> reporter: i as seven is the biggest change since the introduction to iphone spirit in all >> reporter: most has a 3 g life to it. 3-d look to look. you can choose what is in your control system >> reporter: series of voice at this will soon sounds different >> also choose a male voice. serious is also getting a lot smarter spirit usa play my last song and are turned and my you to. ube. >> quiche treks to all of the songs the to our list in two stations and devices you could just tacked on history. tap >> >> reporter: activation not received huge applause from the crowd. >> if they white the device and tiring day when not be able to read activated. wipe the device. >> reporter: >> the just tapped and scrub and find the file you are looking for just like that. >> reporter: no more manual update spirit they are automatically updated. by 07 will be available toman for mac devices. coupled devicesapple devices >> jacqueline: that in the '80s for the south bay 84 in redwood city and 82 in sunnyvale. for tuesday east bay shores and 70's and 74 in hayward range of '80s for the north bay. here's a look at the extended forecast. the changes into friday with a chance of rain in may before the north that. also see cooler temperatures there. we will start to see better conditions >> pam: gary has highlights the (male announcer): now, the orchard supply sports report with gary radnich. >> gary: goodevening ! >> gary: a's relief pitcher sean doolittle is the recipient of the 2013 dave stewart community service award, which is given annually to an a's player in recognition of charitable contributions throughout northern california and across the nation. stewart will present doolittle with the award prior to wednesday's game against the los angeles angels of anaheim in a special on- field ceremony for the last two years, doolittle has supported numerous local and national charities. >> gary: the division and the a's are going to open the third deck. the o's have been copied and so far this season by the raiders who were able to get on the public television with the upper deck. there will open about 12,000 extra seats. 48,000 and will be able to attend a's baseball in the post season. >> gary: 49ers sign owen marecic >> gary: owen marecic one of jim harbaugh's favorite players when he coached him at stanford signed a 1-year contract with the team today >> gary: marecic played for the cleveland browns the last two seasons before the team cut him last month at stanford he was known as fullback and linebacker the to start both ways he won the inaugural paul horning player in college football marecic will be a backup fullback and special teams player for the 49ers . >> gary: a new motion picture in theaters talking on the dangers of football. >>video the >> gary: united states of football is a good movie for any parent to allow the children to see. the ball could lead to some to head trauma. shock you, you are an independent rebels type of gun? you did it once with bonnie gate to try to do again? >> whether it is through contact cartoons on nickelodeon or commercials in football games pickups tried to sell this to our children. i do not think that people are thinking about this. they are paying to not tell us what is going on. >> gary: do you have children? >> yes i do. i thought he was going to be a little wide receiver. but when he became the age of plain i hit pause. because former and f l player and also a lyman told me that if there were any sport you want your son to not play it would be football. >> it was a result of repetitive head trauma. >> gary: thinking you know the dangers of not allow your child to play. >> 2010 is where they actually admit that there was a correlation between brain trauma and football. >> michael operation has been great. my cooperation has been great. keeping it real. >> gary: will have audios talking about football pos itions. >> i take that as an tristan people tested as metaphors with you look at if you listen to anything he says it wasn't about metaphors he was staying every time you test this guy's hand hit you have the ability to enter him and take him out of the game. injure. >> gary: that's it for the kron 4 news at 8. stay connected with kron 4 and get latest news developments at kron4.com or download one of our mobile apps.our next newscast is tonight at 11 o'clock. see you then. goodnight. the chinese water torture cell was invented in 1911 by harry houdini. nothing like new material. he was lowered head first into the water. his ankles were locked and bolted to the top of the tank. i'm gonna need a volunteer. unteer. ooh! the guy dislocating his shoulder... could you tell the guy next to you to come up? 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>> pam: adjusting? just teen >> reporter: allegedly under the suspect care as he worked at the ymca day. when he was in court today he was shackled at the waist and did not have much of their reaction. the district attorney charged in to that with the rout in in city is behavior. the attack happened as he worked at the ymca child care program at paradise valley in morgan hill occurred today is new charges and the district attorney told kron 4 news that he would not be surprised if there were more victims out there. >> this is the kind of case that as we all know, majority of child molesters never disclosed the total of molested by the hands of this suspect i believe we will see disclosure down the road. >> reporter: in july when officers first arrested him after a six year old girl stated that he tried to force her to have sex. some of the children at the y was in direct violation of the organization's policy live at 6:00 you hear from the west and seek a in what changes that are making now after this alleged abuse. adjusting waldman kron 4 news spirit justine waldman >> pam: you are looking at the man police say has been exposing himself to children across the bay area dating back a year or more. 70-year-old christopher wendell miller was arrested by mountain view police for masturbating in front of children at a walmart store. >> pam: miller is a registered sex offender, listed on megan's list for convictions of lewd and lascivious conduct dating back to 1989. he was also awaiting sentencing for two felony convictions for an arrest last fall at festival near gilroy. deputy district attorney stuart scott explains what happened. >> reporter:you are looking at the man who police say, has been exposing himself to children across the bay area. dating back a year or more. 70-year-old christopher wendell miller was arrested by mountain view police. for masturbating in front of children at a walmart store. miller is a registered sex offfender, listed on megan's list for convictions of lewd and lascivious conduct dating back to 1989. >> reporter:he was also awaiting sentencing for two felony convictions for an arrest last fall at a festival near gilroy. deputy district attorney stuart scott explains what happened. this is a story people are >> pam: talking about on our website -- kron-4 dot com. you can stay connected with that story and many others.. >> pam: you can also share your thoughts. on our facebook and twitter pages. >> reporter:the shooting rampage at the washington navy yard is raising major questions tonight about how a veteran. with a troubled past. gets access to guns, and who gets access to military bases. >> reporter:the mayor of washington d.c. says, the gunman, aaron alexis, exchanged gunfire with police for more than 30 minutes before being killed. >> reporter:alexis was armed with a shotgun, legally purchased in virginia two days before his rampage. >> reporter:officials say, within the last few weeks, he began showing signs of mental disorder. >> reporter:grant lodes begins our coverage with the new details emerging today about the gunman. >> reporter:aaron alexis was hearing voices in his head. the navy veteran said as much in a phone call to police in rhode island just a few weeks ago. they alerted the navy, but the warning went unheeded. it wasn't the first time authorities had ignored a red flag about his behavior. >> reporter: friend sale lexus was the last person they would suspect to be a mass murder. >> jovial, kind and laughing. >> reporter: honorably discharged after three years. but the record shows that his time in the service was troubled. it cited at least eight times for misconduct including insubordination and abscessed access absences. and 2000 and he was arrested for disorderly conduct and 20 tan for firing a gun through the selling in his apartment in texas. a lexus and left the navy in 2011. parking for hewlett-packard contract company worked on a navy marines internet systems. he told that strangers were using microwaves to sell weapons in his brain prompting to police to contact the navy. for some reason and nothing was done and he arrived at the navy yard yesterday and used his own security access. >> reporter: >> but need to be asking the question why? >> reporter: the 12 people who died were civilians -- many of them contractors. just starting their day at the huge military compound that's normally a bastion of safety. now - 12 families have been left anguished. a >> reporter: as the victims are being honored and remembered we are learning more about them. details on just a few of them. mary delorenzo knight of virginia had two daughters. she had just written on her facebook page that the recent wedding of one of her her girls made her so happy.she was still crying. 50-year-old frank kohler was a father of two. arthur daniels worked as a sub-contractor installing office furniture in government offices. a friend describes 62-year- old kathy gaarde - on the right - the mother of two - as "literally the kindest person you'll ever meet." she worked as a financial analyst. richard ridgell of maryland was a retired maryland state trooper. described as a fun-loving guy who loved football. martin bodrog was the father of three girls. he graduated from the naval acadeny in 1981. >> reporter:neighbors of vishnu pandit is remembered as a kind and gentle man who loved his family and his dog. >> reporter:and 59-year-old michael arnold was an avid pilot who graduated from the stanford school of business. >> reporter:his mother is devastated. >> reporter: >> is not possible, is not cost possible that they shot him for no reason. (crying) he was such a happy person. . >> reporter:arnold's wife had just called him monday when she heard an alarm in the background and he said he'd call her back. he never got the chance. >>among the ways the victims were being remembered today.a moment of silence before the game between the washington nationals and the braves today. >> catherine: all 12 victims were between the ages of 46 and 73. all of them -- civilian employees. >> pam: coming up at five. the skies are clearing. but hundreds are still stranded. the dramatic rescues still happening across colorado. >> pam: then -- dozens of boardwalk businesses, up in flames. now investigators have tracked down what is to blame for the new jersey fire. >> pam: but first - a sunken cruise ship -- pulled from its watery grave. we'll show you the righting of the costa concordia. >> pam: happening now. [ female announcer ] safeway presents real big deals of the week. or how to get great deals the easy way. you do enough flying around. that's why we give you real big club card deals. this week, a super low price on breakfast. honey bunches of oats is only $1.88 a box. arrowhead water is just $3.33 a case. make it a triple scoop. dreyer's ice cream is just $2.88. real big deals this week and every week. only at safeway. ingredients for life. >> reporter: cruise ship that was on its side for nearly two years.is finally upright. showing the dramatic andit took 19 hours right the massive ship. this was the first stage of the recovery process. it's believed to be the largest ship-righting ever. experts used a system of steel cables, pulleys and counter-weights to right the vessel. >> reporter:the costa concordia will be towed to a salvage yard.broken up and sold for scrap. you can see the white side of the ship that's been above the water.then the brown mucky side of the ship that's been submerged. the massive ship capsized 20 months ago in the waters off tuscany.whent he captain veered off course.killing 32 people. and this is what the costa concordia looks like now. >> pam: still ahead. >> pam: it's good news if you want to go on a budget -- but bad news if you want good seats. >> pam: the major price changes. for super bowl tickets. but first. a record streak for gas prices. what it means. and the cheapest place to fill up in the bay area. >> catherine: new at five. >> catherine: it's now been confirmed that the huge boardwalk fire in new jersey was accidental. to electrical wiring and and equipment -- damaged by superstorm sandy nearly a year ago. they now know that the fire began under a building that housed a candy store and icethe announcement comes five days after the fire destroyed more than 50 boardwalk businesses. the fire wrecked some of the places that had just been repaired after sandy. nobody was seriously injured in the fire. >> catherine: today marks one thousand >> pam: consecutive days that the average price of gas will cost more than three dollars a gallon. >> pam: that statistic comes from triple a. the motor club says this streak started on december 23-rd, 20-10. and they estimate that unless there's another recession, high gas prices may be here to stay. started after hurricane katrina slammed into the gulf, destroying oil rigs. >> pam: meanwhile here in the bay area. 3-dollar gas prices would be more than welcome. since it's 4-dollars a gallon in most places. here's a look at the averages. >> pam: san francisco. $4.10 oakland. $4.03 san jose. $4.04 and the cheapest gas around here. vallejo. prices there just under the 4-dollar mark. and the cheapest gas around here. vallejo. prices there just under the 4-dollar mark. >> pam: here's a look at the averages. san francisco. $4.10 oakland. $4.03 san jose. $4.04 >> pam: a three-alarm fire in oakland has damaged two family homes. it happened early this morning when a man awoke to flames outside his window. kron 4's will tran reports on why this fire could have been worse. >> reporter: dan see the damage caused by the early morning fire. it happened right here at this light blue house. here is the video starting at 330 in the morning with a fire department starting clean up within five minutes. investigator said that this was an electrical fire in all kinds of wires and apparently many aerosol cans in the back of the place why some of the neighbors heard pops and shooting going off fortune with the fire department realized it was a victorian home and that is why they jumped all over it. they expect in front of you want to get out of thing that twitter house because they did not want to worry about their safety when they're trying to poke about the fire. put out the fire. >> i tried to open up the window and i saw it on large color and i saw that i was crazy and i checked my grandmother to see how she was doing. we were all rather house and the fire had blocked the window and ran up against the wall. and in some michael rocket sounds. >> what makes it of the tory home hard to fight hard it because there's no stunts and the wahl system. so but we did the matter what the fire is we checked to see if they had trouble occurred >> reporter: several people have been displaced and have to find out for the stick with the city is this time will be demolished and the future patrick willis trend kron 4 news. will trabne >> jacqueline: >> jacqueline: right now 70 in san jose and 80 in napa. look at the current and wind gust we are setting preconditions and half moon bay and 30 molpus and as i ask all pure and 26 in vallejo. we are also seen went to the 20 as well. it will be a lot warmer out there and to thursday with big changes of first alert hit-and-run people are sitting the pictures into kron 4. you can send in your weather pictures to to kron 4 telecom we will be showing them brought to my show. >> reporter: is to this in indication they will get plenty of policies in support. tickets on sale today and they sold out so quickly that the team decided they would remove some of the tar taking off to a big difference with tickets available to 12 and three american league divisional series. they are rolling and speaking of tickets the early this super bowl season are skyrocketing this year per premium seats are now selling for $2,600 each compared to this last year when cost about 1250 bucks. more than doubling in f else's it drives up the price will above face the value. anny york area is presenting of president the band and the spirit sabol seas are going down to $500 this upcoming year instead of the $600 range. >> reporter: >> pam: new tonight. certain crime on the rise in berkeley on the rise. there has been 35% increase in pedestrian robberies in the city of berkeley during the first 6-months of 2013 that is according to a recent berkeley police mid- year crime report recent berkeley police mid- year crime report which shows th 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is what many are hoping. no one won the last drawing this past saturday. as kron four's terisa estacio reports, people started lining up first thing this morning to get a ticket at a popular store in the east bay. >> reporter: release the winning power bought a ticket this is what people had >> i just wanted to try it so here we go. hopefully! (laughter) >> statistically it's not great but why not. >> reporter: what drives you to come by a lottery ticket? do you just purchased one or in strategy? >> i just use the machine and buy a $5 made a million and a $10 power ball. and that is my strategy. that is its (laughter) >> reporter: people say why not? they believed. taps >> reporter: shooting. monday after the navy yard shooting. tributes to the victims in the nations capital. this as officials try to piece together the motive behind the rampage of gunman aaron alexis. shannon travis is live in washington d.c. with where evening men of the details of that they're still can't emerging. a renewed debate on control and the united states with the white house wasted no time bring the issues front and center. >> everyone believes functions well the need to function better which is a bad from check. a background check. >> reporter: he did not comment on gun control directly but did criticize all president obama for politicizing deep tragedy. it will >> is hard to believe the some of the record as checkered as this man could conceivably get clearance. >> reporter: with the run-up manganous with georgia taxes after peak after he also reported having problems sleeping in hearing voices including peaty as de this order. it p t e s d ptsd disorder. >> reporter: he suggest stricter background check could restrict such incidents like these. >> reporter: obviously so many questions for the navy and how and allied with his past right hands with the law and clear mental problems that he had and sought help for the navy is taking questions as to what how did he receive clearance. those particular issues may not prevent a person receiving clearance occurred >> pam: him up quickly it is the navy yard opened today? or will be open for the rest of the week? >> reporter: it was closed today at all but closed for restricted access only for workers that are essential, pam. >> reporter: ok pam happening now is finally some dry weather and colorado. hit by the deadly blotting. you concede the roads pretty much the on crumbled under the pressure of flood waters. dry out their belongings and the less fortunate are still being evacuated by helicopter spirit hunter is under the account for. others have lost every possession that they hat. had. >> reporter:sunlen miller is in colorado >> reporter:the break in rain has here in colorado has helped rescue teams get to those still stranded. the good news - there have been >> reporter:but there are still 600 people unaccounted for. >> reporter:in the air, and on the ground, rescue crews have resumed their search for those stranded and unaccounted for in colorado's devastating flood. officials blame at least eight-deaths on the weather. >> reporter:"we're just praying for the best, we're just heartbroken." >> reporter:kay rich, like many in colorado, is getting her first look at the devastation left by days of flooding. nearly 18- thousand homes across the state have been damaged by relentless rain and flooding. >>"nervous, cause i don't know what i'm facing. if only i knew, you know. but until you get there, you don't know." >> reporter:many have no home to returnin the town of lyons, rushing water moved entire homes. >>"today is our first day up here since we've been evacuated, and i feel like it's worse than i thought it would be. we lost absolutely everything we own. >> reporter:others, like olga salazar, remain hopeful. >>"if i survived a stroke and breast cancer this is not going to fight we're going to come back." who >> reporter: runoff water is rushing out of state to neighboring nebraska. reporting in. colorado. i'm sunlen miller. now back to you. >>a developing story. >> catherine: the syrian crisis was the focus of the opening of the u-n general assembly today. with delegates from more than 190 nations hearing how rockets filled with nerve gas killed hundreds of civilians last month. these are u-n inspectors in damascus. they say they've found found definitive evidence that chemical weapons were used. today both secretary of state john kerry and the u-n secretary general were blasting the syrian government. >> but i sought the urging one delete willfully continues to slaughter its own people. >> catherine: syria has agreed to a deal brokered by russia and the u-s to hand over its chemical weapons. but kerry says the u-s wants to keep the threat of military action on the table if syria doesn't keep up its end of the agreement. >> pam: >> this just in to the kron 4 newsroom. >> pam: a child has been injured by glass and debris as a result of a shooting at 5:00 in oakland the 1500 block of 27 ave, the child was incidental because of glass that shattered when all of this was unfolding. you see this in a live picture that police are still on the scene. the child was not shocked but injured by flying glass we will continue to follow the development of oakland and [ maragno ] if the car was invented today, it would run on the most affordable energy source available. it would charge overnight. every morning, you'd wake up with a full tank, ready to go. if the car was invented today, it would be the 100% electric nissan leaf. with over 200 million gas-free miles driven and automatic hov lane access, the question isn't "why electric?" it's "why gas?" 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(male announcer): this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. >> pam: now at six-- >> pam: a man caught on surveillance video, after police say. he was exposing himself to children at a peninsula bookstore. has been arrested. >> pam: now, we've learned, the man in the video is a registered sex offender with a long history of crimes against children. >> pam: thus the police are still on the same for at the crime scene and this area to offer a bill in 27 ave. we do have grow on the way to the scene and we will bring you more affirmation. more and affirmation and this broadcast. >> reporter:kron 4's rob fladeboe >> reporter: christopher miller showman costa own was arrested for indecent closure. >> reporter: there was a visual and adult there and saw this and started taking pictures of him and called the police. >> >> reporter: scott on a surveillance camera molesting a child at a bookstore. caught on surveillance. q >> reporter: was inside a wal-mart in improperly touching himself in front of two young female spirit their mother saw this and decided to report this to the loss prodigious security who in turn called us and was able to get there on time to detain him and arrest him. >> reporter: elude in insidious attacks on children and a decent approach and had a clean record until the case last october. some him back to jail because he is a threat to society pure >> time that he was supposed to do his best behavior instead of prison which is where we are axing four and a case like this he goes out into extreme and in close proximity close to some small children. so he is a threat and is very obvious what type of threat he is. we continue to follow developing news. >> pam: >> reporter: the district attorney at it and seven year-old girl and a three and a half hour of control to the list of accusing allegedly attacked at the ymca child care program at paradise valley commission school this summer. making changes to its policy such as adding more staff at the busiest time of day and not allowing brett workers with personal cell phones to work hours and moving furniture or wrong so that everyone has a direct knight of sites to the students. >> reducing any possibility for a child to be a long >> reporter: why has it also hired a investigator. after a six year old girl reported that the teacher forced her to have sex. the interview process is a delicate part of this investigation. live and more danville justine waldman kron4 names >> pam: we continue to follow developing those in marin county superior court jury has written that recommended the death penalty the death penalty for for convicted serial killer joseph nee sell. joseph naso. >> pam: 79-year-old naso was convicted in august. of murdering 4 women. between 1977 and 1994. and dumping their bodies in rural areas. kron4's j-r stone is live in san rafael following >> reporter: the way that there were done the evidence for that these two attorneys presented in exceptional fashion showing what he did were justified under the law. joseph nasal stated in a state " i am on a threshold of a new life and i will make this the best to a new life unquote. >> pam: the judge will have the final say in sentencing will be held through court after friday. >> pam: there's growing controversy over a military plan to bury radioactive waste on the site of a former air force base near sacramento. kron 4's charles clifford has details. in a new report, the center for investigative journalism says the u.s. air force wants to bury soil contaminated with radioactive material on the site of mcclellan air force base was closed in 2001. >> reporter: the air force is currently building a 20 million waste dump near by warehouse to bury the tam it soil. teth contaminated northeastern part of the sacramento. here.. just north of interstate 80. the contaminated soil is currently siting.. here.. above ground, covered by black tarps. the dirt contains radioactive radium-226, which was used in the instrument panels. the air a 20 million dollar waste dump nearby where it hopes to bury the contaminated soil. >> reporter:the military has been working to clean up the base and wants to eventually hand it over to the city. but city and state health officials say that if the contaminated soil is buried on site, it could be a deal breaker. they want the contamination moved to a facility that's equipped to take it, but because the base is still under federal control there's not much that local agencies can do to stop the air force. >> reporter: if the city does eventually take possession of the base, the military would probably remain responsible for cleaning up the contamination. in the newsroom, charles clifford kron 4 news. . >> reporter:new at 6. >> reporter:reinforcements are coming to the oakland police department. 10 new officers will be hired over three years.thanks to federal grants totalying 4.5 million dollars. that's the highest amount awarded in the country. and the city needs all the help it can get. oakland has just over 600 officer now. compare that to 2009.when the city had 830 officers. >> reporter:the grants come as funding for the federal program has been fiercely debated in congress. >> pam: coming up. pedestrian robberies up in one east bay city. what's driving the uptick in robberies. plus, sinkhole problems for one car owner in florida. how the woman escapes the sinking smart car. a day after the deadly navy yard shooting. a renewed gun debate heats up at the nation's capitol. >> pam: navy yard shooting. 13 people killed. including the gunman.aaron alexis. authorities are combing through alexis' life. looking for a motive that to the massacre. officials say alexis. the i- t employee had been undergoing mental health the >>from veterans affairs since august. the deadly navy yard shooting -- sparked a renewed gun control debate in washington. shannon travis reports. >> reporter: every new debate on gun control and then added states. the white house wasted no time bring the issue front and center. the problem >> here is senators who refuse to do something very simple which is expand the backgrounds check the system which will function well but needs to function a little better. >> reporter: on up nearly half for all the americans believe that the laws should be more strict picture. str icter. >> >> reporter: while police are learning more about the shorter 34 your old and alexis and how he was able to get access to a secured military facility. >> we hard to believe the some one with the record as checkered as this man was able to receive clearance. >> reporter: his father's face that he was suffering fromptsd after assisting with a rescue efforts from 911. he also had problems sleeping in hearing voices project officials or looking into all military contracts and how they are screened before they get better security clearances. kron for new spiris.. >>just outside the white house. secret service agents spotted a man throwing firecrackers over the fence >>you see him in the white hat. within moments.he was tackled by one officer. >> catherine: and then a couple more officers came over to help. it's not clear why he did it.but he didn't seem fazed when caught in the act. secret service agents asked who had thrown the firecracker -- the man threw 'another' one. he was taken into custody. >> reporter: >> reporter:mexico is grappling with a deadly double-punch of tropical weather. heavy rains caused by hurricane ingrid on the country's gulf coast and tropical storm manuel on the pacific coast. have left at least 34 people dead and more than one million homeless. on the pacific side of things, officials say 15 people died in guerrero and one person died in oaxaca. on the gulf side, 12 were killed after a landslide in veracruz. inland, three died in hidalgo and three in puebla. >> reporter: smart phones in the hands of pedestrians are connected to a major increase in robberies and a city in berkeley kurtthere has been a dramatic increase in robberies in an east bay citythat is according to a new police report.investigators talked to kron4's haaziq madyun about the common threaddriving the rise in crime. >>"most of the time it is smart phones, whether it is a iphone or galaxy or whatever but we are seeing an increase in smart phone robberies" >> reporter:and those smart phones in the hands of pedestrains are connected to a major increase in robberies in the city of berkeleyaccording to a recent berkeley police mid year crime report over the first 6-months of this yearthere has been a 35% increase in pedestrian 2013compared to 177 pedestrian robberies during the first half of 2012 >> reporter:berekeley police officer jennifer coats says the theives are targeting folks walking down the street using their cell phonessomething police do not recommend these days >>"the specific victims being targeted are typically lone pedestrians walking at night, people can see the kind of phone you have and that might be the for the person committing the robbery" >> reporter:investigators say the crimes typically take place in heavily populated areas in the city like near the ashby bart station, downtown berkeleyand in the area surrounding the cal campus >>"we have extra officers on the street and we usually put them out during the times that we have seen an increase in the types of robberies we have" >> reporter:in berkeley haaziq madyun kron4news >> jacqueline: you can see the trees blowing in the wind barry won the up there this afternoon when the dust at 20 mi. an hour. in nevada and 29 and half moon bay 26. it has been rather windy out there today as we head into the evening is expected to die down derric. as we head into the west it would die down by 11:00 in much calmer conditions. as we go into the overnight hour. we are seeing clear skies over the bay area but is we look into the bay area and the north uc cloudy conditions and cooler temperatures but it is on it is way out in we will 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(male announcer): this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. >> pam: we are learning more about a shooting in oakland that left the child heard correct gunfire or winking out in the 1500's block of 27th avenue of oakland. now it appears that only the child was hurt by the flying glass and debris associated with the shooting. tides and to the incident the child is stable. this is a video with partnership abc said the new spirit this is video from our helicopter partnership with abc 7 news. >> reporter: 7 year-old of san jose was arrested in mountain view where police say he exposed himself to small children creek cut on a surveillance camera and a similar tale book store earlier this summer were he molested another child and suspected and another case in the york city. in october 2012 case where he was caught exposing himself to children and a costume festival. >> he was wearing a scottish kilt without any underwear and he was exposing himself to children walking by. >> reporter: huge increase the demand pedestrian robberies'. ♪ >> to increase about 35% offered to quit at iphone on our galaxy. people can see what took a phone you have and that to be a specific target for the person committing the robbery in berkeley kron 4 news. >> reporter: this is 20 year old nicol list literally the new charges include a set in your old girl and three and a half girl with the total number of child sexual abuse 25 and not surprised that there are more victims out there appeared in more of bill kron 4 news. >> reporter: on his way to candlestick park to fallen there and. they say that they know the 32 year-old hayward resident had consumed some beers while tell bidding before the game but his brother that was with him before the game did not appear overly dropped. they're waiting to receive results of the toxicology report. they do have their own theory as to how he died in you hear that coming up at 8:00 p.m. tonight. >> jacqueline: temperatures are jumping 5 to 10 degrees to what we saw today. it will stay warm into thursday but friday more changes to talk about. a chance of running relief for the north bay. right now the best chance of rain does seem to be in the north bay in the evening hours. we will also suggesting clients like today but a little bit stronger than today. as to look ahead into saturday marin chance of showers the sting cool saturday things will start tomorrow up sunday and monday >> pam: sales are expected to be weak this year. >> the leaves have not changed colors yet the retailers are already worrying about the holidays. shoppers track dictates sales in november and december rise with a smaller increase than 2009. many people are dealing with high gas prices and unemployment and the prospect of higher health-care costs. is still early but it shows schuller's aren't ready to splurge yet. back-to-school sales barely rose and wal- mart the borough's biggest retailer reselling week recently rebuilt a week forecast parentrevealed a weak forecast. >> reporter: wal-mart and toys r us has already listed their list of hot toys. i'm alison kosik in new york. >>hey, why did you poop in my car? snort >> catherine: here's something you don't see everyday. that's a pot-bellied pig in the back of a police car in austin texas. and he 'did' make a mess of that back seat. police officer found him wandering around.and put him in the car. >> catherine: regretted. >> catherine: in florida. >> catherine: a woman's quick thinking helped her escape from her sinking smart car just seconds before it submerged. madaline keeble says she saw what looked like a water main break.and >> catherine: decided just to drive through it. that turned out to be a mistake. she says she suddenly had water 'up to her ears.' the car is damaged.but madaline is ok. and in south carolina.one of those surprise proposals -- where there just happens to be cameras recording every moment. >> catherine: leanna smith and her friends were just hamming it up for the cameras before the south carolina-vanderbilt game when her boyfriend stepped in and proposed. there were a lot of people watching -- so fortunately.leanna said yes. ll >> reporter: the up where else can you findyou will find rainbow colored bicycles, to many to but you will also find people behaving badly , welcome to google land as i like to call it, it's real name is mountainview [ male announcer ] with at&t, you're sure to get a better bundle. just choose the two, three, even four services you want to build a bundle that works for you. 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[ male announcer ] choose at&t and build your bundle. it's whatever works for you. ♪ (male announcer): now, here's stanley roberts who found some people behaving badly. >> reporter: where you might find texting bus drivers in wife beater's and why they call those t-shirts wife beaters .google it >> reporter:apparenlty in silicon valley, the heart of technology still in the dark ages when it comes to hands free because if they didn't have a cell phone firmly attached to their ear bicylist too >> reporter:then they were texting and not a quick text which is still illegal but many were texting the entire lenth of light and even if you couldn't see the phone you could tell by the all too fimiliar head bob reading test messages looking at the light reading test messages looking at the light ' >> reporter:sometimes you get so distracted you forget that you didn't want to turn so you run the light, no worries im not watching >> reporter:i live the fact that bicylist use the walk button before riding their bikes in the crosswalk and get this they have a button for bicycles but some would rather use the crosswalk but then again some pedestrians would rather walk in the bike lane and the bikes would rather ride on the sidewalk >> reporter:i have never been to googleland but to me it's like a cross between the wizard of oz and willy wonka and the chocolate factory minus the umpa lumpas . now google that in mountain view stanley roberts kron 4 news >> reporter:that's it for the kron 4 news at 6. stay connected with kron 4 and get latest news developments at kron4.com. or download one of our mobile apps. our next newscast is coming up at 8 o'clock. see you then. >> pam: that and all the sports next with the (male announcer): it's now time for gary radnich from the jack in the box sports desk. >> gary: before released last month as stamper he won an award as the most clear and football. >> i can hear going to try to to prove to improve my game. >> gary: giants and matt are in motion appeared kazakh wheeler giants no. 1 pick want a pawn of time. 16 honk and their rebel and kept them at close. >> gary: tried to get closer as the host the angels and feel pretty good about themselves these days. the a's before play offs will take the tar off. a more intimate gathering with 12,000 extra seats in bringing capacity to 48,000. sean been known community war in recognition and of charitable contributions across the nation. >> gary: >> gary: title at the american football, the parents of a 12 year-old boy was sent to a football player that we cannot in good conscience play and found >> gary: this is a heartbreaking story that suggests the ball to lead to a brain damage, dementia, at an director producer shunt you are at independent guy. >> trying to get them to be honest that the game is sold to our children and they sell it to our children through cartoons and football games. my feeling is that potentially paid a billion dollars to not tell us the truth. and i do not think that people are thinking about this. no they are pained to not tell us what is going on i have a 15 year-old and i raise my kid he is really athletic spirit of i thought he was at the edge to where he was born to play i hit the pause button. >> told me in 2004, and if any sport you do not want your son to play football. it was in the back of my mind i never listened to never thought about it. because of the head trauma. you know the >> reporter: you know the danger so not allow your children to play thinking devil's advocate >> there is a correlation between brain trauma and no one ever told them to listen you are on the play 20 years in the nfl and we will not wish to for a brain injury or concussion. >> reporter: if i am from an nfl organization and i am a player and i hear that you want to interview me out want to run would ensure operation like. ? >> corporation has been great. core operation. >> reporter: >> gary: >> we want him running sideways spirit we want him running sideways. >> gary: >> you listen to the other things he said how it affected had it wasn't just a metaphor it was basically sing every time you heard his head and not to take him out of the game. it was by design and cannot do that at your we know these things exist occurred >> gary: will there is no nudity in this movie will people go see this? >> i think truth is more intense than nudity. >> gary: this guy grew up in the san jose area. now the deal on concussions, he has a career going. i hate to sound like a broken record but if you have options for your child away from football go ahead. its football is full block is the only avenue for him to get to college or make a few bucks to support the family and, then i think you have to go for it. but if you are really talented and more of a bigger kid then prime. but if you're back a player to be the person that is run over every day out, i would not risk it. >> pam: they have to make more stand and the union also. >> gary: you know what the deal is if you do not want to run the risk then do not play. but you come from a background with a sister one chance to better yourself the better your family will all be the one guy that will not get hurt or suffered a head trauma and i have to do with. >> gary: they will not shut down the game but maybe they can make it safer and do more things to make people aware. >> pam: >> jacqueline: at same thing in hop hockey to the want to hit spiri >> gary: as long as the in and out al are making money than they will go on and the weight is before someone lays on the field and i get up. and there and you may see some change. >> gary: we will continue in a moment. goodnight. thanks, olivia. thank you. so you can make a payment from your cell to almost anyone's phone or email. 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