Has ordered the vessel and not to go anywhere. And it digging into the investigation of why it swiped the tower 6 of the bay bridge and the National Transportation safety board has announced that it is investigating the crash is is that it is a major marine casualty with one half a Million Dollars in damage, so far. Kron4s Maureen Kelly attended a coast guard briefing where they outlined their next steps in the investigation. Reporter tuesday investitgators interviewed the bar pilot. The local person tasked with helping to manuever the 752 foot vessel thru these waters. The captain and key members of the crew will also be interviewed. Drug and Alcohol Testing is already underway. The coast guard says human error is one of the possibilities they are looking at. That is something that we will always look at is. Pilot error, can lend her. Reporter inspectors and investigators plan to go thru every inch of the ship. Including testing the navigation equiptment meant to help guide the tanker
President ial election underway, and the chinese were using a not too subtle way of explaining to them what they wanted the outcome of that election to be. Thises was an unacceptable form of military coercion and both the general and i agreed that a strong response was needed by the United States, something more than a diplomatic letter of protest. After some discussion we agreed to send two Carrier Battle Groups to taiwan. Within an hour the president had approved our recommendation and before the day was over, though Carrier Battle Groups were underway steaming to taiwan. At a press conference the next day, i was asked would i not fear this would lead to military clash with china. I said, i was not concerned of that. And when asked why, i said, i think, well, because we have the best damn navy in the world. This was not an extravagant or hyper bolic statement t. Was simply a statement of fact. It was a fact that not only i knew. It was a fact which other nations understood. Even one
Of the San Francisco bay area. Fleet week for many years in San Francisco was a somewhat [inaudible] affair and it has been transformed into this great coming together by the military and the first responders, the great coming together of our uniformed personnel and a great [speaker not understood] of San Francisco. This amazing transformation in the last few years was due primarily to the vision and the dedication of three people, george and Charlotte Schultz and mike myers. Id like to pause to thank all three of them for this work. applause and in april of 1996, my last year as secretary of defense, i met one morning intelligence briefing at 7 oclock along with general charlie. The previous day general hughes had briefed us that the Chinese Military were to begin extensive military maneuvers in the taiwan strait. This morning we were stunned to learn that they had fired two missiles that landed just 10 miles off the coast of taiwan. The taiwanese had a president ial election underway
Shine has more energy needs for more energy than they can produce themselves, and to maintain the Economic Growth which they believe is essential. We observed that the South China Sea is a potential source of Energy Supplies for china and that there is a contention among the nations in that region as to where the ownership and rights of access are to the South China Sea. And this is conceivable that china might seek to reestablish its claim there by military coercion and that could lead them into a confrontation with the United States desire to maintain free access. The best way of avoiding that military conflict is what we should see because the military conflict with china would be catastrophic for both nations, indeed for the whole region. So, we want to avoid that. I believe the best way of avoiding that is by maintaining a continuing to maintain a strong naval presence in the region, and by having an unambiguous commitment to doing that. I believe that our new National Security st
We observed that the South China Sea is a potential source of Energy Supplies for china and that there is a contention among the nations in that region as to where the ownership and rights of access are to the South China Sea. And this is conceivable that china might seek to reestablish its claim there by military coercion and that could lead them into a confrontation with the United States desire to maintain free access. The best way of avoiding that military conflict is what we should see because the military conflict with china would be catastrophic for both nations, indeed for the whole region. So, we want to avoid that. I believe the best way of avoiding that is by maintaining a continuing to maintain a strong naval presence in the region, and by having an unambiguous commitment to doing that. I believe that our new National Security strategy is that unambiguous commitment, and i believe that the u. S. Navy is capable of maintaining that unambiguous military strength. As we sit he