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So we can understand where these ships are and aid or provide intelligence to the saudis and others so that if they choose to interdict them they can. i think fareed is absolutely correct. while we may not have a direct dog in this fight, clearly what you're seeing is yemen being used as a fulcrum between the two large players, saudi arabia and iran. with the navy being there, it's obviously important, obviously, we are sending a very strong signal that we do have a dog in this fight, in that we consider it vitally important to maintain the sea lanes of communication open open to the straight ...

With the government in bagdad and the shias over here. we and the iranians both are opposed to ice sis, this group that is increasingly getting ahold of the sunni areas. >> we don't have many other goals that align. >> exactly. although we're both supporting the government in bagdad. iran is supporting the government because it's a sectarian shiite government. we want them to be a national unity government. we in iran have the same enemies and to some extent the same allies but different goals for those allies. >> do you think the united states will be sitting down at the table with iran. >> i...

Street into the arms of this stranger, and we were just hugging. >> reporter: the quake centered around 25 miles south of downtown los angeles on the quinta hills fault. >> when we have a big earthquake on the qunta hills, the big shaking is going to be downtown hollywood, east l.a. >> reporter: mostly minor injuries, tremors were a wakeup call, what it means to live in a quake country. they haven't seen a major one since the 1994 north ridge quake. the quake was felt as far aways as los angeles. >> what was learned after that happened? >> we saw in north ridge we need to have those channels o...

Injuries reported and damage mostly minor, the tremors were a wakeup call of what it means to live in quake country. california hasn't seen a major one since the 1994 northridge quake. the magnitude 6.7 was felt as far away as las vegas. 57 were killed and 5,000 injured. property damage estimated at $20 billion. what was learned after that happened? >> we saw in northridge that we need to have those channels of communication open, that we need to be able to respond very quickly, not just internally and among ourselves but with city and some of the nearby agencies. it's probably one of the big ...

Keep channels of communication open. i would hope what the president would do would be drawing a clear line and indicating what the costs are to our relationship in real terms, economic terms. if the troops aren't withdrawn and if there isn't a political path forward. >> colonel schaffer, in terms of what the united states can do, you know, aside from diplomacy, i would not send the sixth fleet or any element, major element of the united states navy into the black sea. it is a tub right there. you can't get in or out of it. sending planes to poland in the nato country, those of that nature i h...