Uss Providence News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

A blowing, blinding mess. the wind and snow not letting up, even through the morning. the boston fire department digging out the stranded. even shuttling hospital workers. some doctors skiing to work. tens of thousands without power across the region. in connecticut, 30-plus inches of snow in spots burying cars. in rhode island, winds toppling the massive wooden "uss providence." travel ban in five states. over two feet of snow in suffolk county, long island, on the long island expressway, an army of snowplows. the storm's eastward track saving new york city from the worst with of it. the trav...

Conversation they had. new information in the death of a man outside of the kansas city chiefs stadium. 30-year-old kyle van winkle was viciously beaten by tailgaters. his death now ruled a homicide. he was only 30 years old. police say he was sitting in someone else's truck in a parking lot after that game when the truck's owner saw him and a fight broke out. one man is now in custody. what lurks under the sea? drones. the navy launching a drone from a submarine for the first time. look at that. check out these time-lapsed pictures of a launch in the bahamas from the u.s.s. providence. th...

I think-- >> tony, talk about some of the u.s. assets that could be used in this operation. what can you tell us about the missiles that may be deployed at this point? >> jennifer griffin had it correct. i think i would hazard to say at this moment on the u.s.s. providence, the submarine if not already, they're getting ready to launch aircraft, ready to launch surface to surface missiles, the tomahawks or some class of cruise missiles, approximately 50 sa-6 weapons and this is the same that was deployed in bosnia. and frankly since the french have put up aircraft there, i have to say this is t...

Well. shorter range they're also among early targetses. the goal to devastate gadhafi to use his military to strike coalition targets. how is this done? let me close this down and take a closer look at it. the first thing i'd like to look at -- bring this in here and show you just the u.s. naval assets available offshore. these two where the focus. "uss stout" and "uss barry." they are guided missile destroyers and have the capability to fire cruise missiles. as you just noted 110, maybe 112 cruise missiles used. they came from the "uss stout" and "uss barry." guided missile destroyers on top ...

Libya. you have essentially five naval vessels, two destroyers, the u.s.s. scout and the u.s.s. barry and then you also have the two amphibious warships, the u.s.s. kearsarge, you have the u.s.s. providence, a submarine, and the control ship u.s.s. mount whitney. you do not have an aircraft carrier. the enterprise crossed, is back in the fifth fleet zone in the cent-com area and they're the not in the mediterranean, towards the gulf of aden as of a few days ago, but we're also told that don't rule out the fact that that aircraft carrier, even from the position towards the gulf of aden could pa...