democracy and he warned about factionalism which i think in today s vocabulary would speak to the tribalism of the two parties. this is an important day in history. 73 years ago today from reames, the supreme commander of the expeditionary force, the dwight eisenhower sent a message back that said the mission of this force was fulfilled at 0200 hours local time may 7, 1945. peace was at hand in europe. there was no grand eloquent statement. that was the statement by the man, the general of the army who had commanded the most powerful military force ever assembled in all of human history to strike down the most evil regime that ever existed in human history. to defense of this country is the most solemn obligation for
that said that the chiefs of the branches, army, navy, air force, marine caught off guard. keep in mind, they have been looking into this issue for some months and i was told that they had found that the branches were able to accommodate trance gender members of the military. this official described them to me as our brothers and sisters. they had given that message back, asked the question could you handle them and they said yes, we can accommodate them and consider them valued members of those services. i should note now there is great concern. you saw the answer from the white house about what happens now. what is the time line and how do they handle current members? are they immediately discharged? these are very basic questions, but unsettling ones. it is pretty stunning. not only were they surprised. people might say, were they surprised by the method by which he chose to release this, ie, twitter.
64 others were wounded. many of them teenagers. this city is known for its vibrant entertainment scene including sports and music venues. and the mayor urged people to carry on with business as usual. in the end this is the answer, for people to come together and say, this is these are our values. and in the end, that i think is the best the best answer. terrorists want to divide us. greater manchester sent a message back tonight, you will never do that here. right now, britain is at its highest terror threat level of critical for only the third time in the nation s history. the british prime minister theresa may says another attack may be imminent and announced a boost in security at certain sites. this means that armed peace officers responsible for duties such as guarding key sites will
feed, but i m sure it s going every second. richard quest has been answering questions of mine as well. people want to know about the families, but they want to know operationally what happened and also where the plane is. i want to pose this question to richard. this is the first one i picked from bob ray, 7425. he said to don elements an, it s 370 questions. if the satellites tracked to plane for 6-7 hours, why don t they know where it went down. something doesn t make sense. i ll say. because the satellite was not tracking the plane. what was happening is every hour the satellite was looking for planes and it came across one and sends a signal saying hello, who are you? the plane didn t reply. if it did, it send a basic message back. this is where we are.
maintenance base. is it your sense that if these pilots were alive and well and could message back, hey, we got trouble, that they would have done it or is this not as weird as it seems to me? you know, pilots first job is to fly the airplane and get it out of the mess that it s in, whatever is happening. so we don t immediately talk and try to say something. so if once they get the airplane under control, finish the checklist, then they probably have time to talk to somebody. and it s possible that they did and because in that area they may have been on the hf radios, that s an old-fashioned world war ii type radio communication, which unfortunately certain part of the world they still use it. that s comforting. don t fly to malaysia, note to self. have you got a gut on this