discussion right now. given what they knew about this man, authorities knew this man, man haron monis wrote threatening letters to the australian parents of servicemen who died fighting in afghanistan. they knew he d been investigated for violent acts, domestic abuse, perhaps plotting to kill his wife. given what they knew about his tendency to violence, how did that affect how this siege ended? did it necessitate going in in force more quickly? i think what happens in all sieges is they follow a very strict protocol. when a hostage is injured or threatened to be killed that s the moment authorities will move in the tactical police train with military commandos in night operations and rescues so they re well equipped to handle that kind of rescue at that tim
are seeing coming to them. there are people, an old man died there last night, three people have given birth there. they re dealing with all manner of injuries. so there s still a lot of needs. that s just here at the airport. i want to bring in captain john seamus, correct? correct. you re here with the air force. what s your job here? i m with combat patrollers. our primary job is to help the filipinos re-establish this air field and make sure it s efficient for 24 hours a day. that s the priority to get this up and running in 24 hours. what does that require? no, yesterday we arrived and the lights on the runway weren t working. we set up lights. as of yesterday the lights are working again. but then the next question can we do night operations. what we bring to the effort is to assist during 24-hour operations which includes 12 hours a night operations.
yes. good, i didn t mess it up. you re here, you re with the air forcer what s your job here? i m with the air fighter squadron based in japan. i m with the combat patrollers. our primary job is to help the filipinos re-establish this air field and make sure it s efficient for 24 hours a day. that s the priority to get this up and running in 24 hours. how long is that going to take and what does that require? well, for example, yesterday, we arrived, and the lights on the runway weren t working. we set up lights. as of yesterday the lights are working again. but then the next question can we do night operations. what we bring to the effort is to assist during 24-hour operations which includes 12 hours a night operations. so you re hoping can you put a time frame on when you think you might get it up and running? tonight, right now, it s operational. so we re using our capabilities to make sure this is running efficiently starting tonight 1800 our guys will be
they are dealing with all injuries. there are a lot of needs that and that s just here at the airport. i want to bring in captain john sh shamous. you re here with the air force, what is your job. i m here with the small combat controllers and rescuers and our primary job is to help the them reestablish the air field and make sure it s efficient 24 hours a day. how long will that take and what does that require? for example, yesterday we arrived and the lights on the runway weren t working. we had the ability to set up lights. as of yesterday, the lights are working again but the next question is can we do night operations. what we bring to the fight or effort is assist in 24 hour operations, 12 hours of night operations. are you hoping can you put a time frame on when you think you ll get it up and run sng. tonight we re operational.
injuries. i want to bring in captain john shay muss. right? correct. you re here with the air force. what s your job here? i m with a squad to continue pa pararescue. and our primary job is to reestablish this airfield and make sure it s efficient for 24 hours a day. how long is that going to take? and what does that require? well, for example yesterday we arrived and the lights on the runway weren t working. so we have the ability to set up lights. as of yesterday the lights are working again. but then the next question is can we do night operations? what we bring to the fight is the effort to assist in 24 hour operations which includes 12 hours of night operations. are you hoping, i mean, can you put a time frame on when you think you might get it up and running? tonight, right now, it s operational. we re using our capabilities.