paying their respects at the traveling vietnam veterans memorial wall. here are the names of more than 58,000 service members who were killed or went missing during the vietnam war. and at the u.s. military academy in westpoint, new york, vice president joe biden speaking at the graduation ceremonies. the cadets becoming second lieutenants in the united states army. and in mississippi, the navy s newest submarine, the u.s.s. mississippi spending the weekend in the proud state which she was named. she will officially be commissioned next week. gregg: and new york s fleet week just one of the many events to honor our nation s fallen heroes. ships from around the world flanking the big apple on all sides. boats and ships ranging from the tall ones to guided missile destroyers dropping anchor.
washington bridge, turning around and passing the ten million tear rewarships, one of which you see here of course. we are seeing ships from japan, canada, finland and the u.k. in addition to the u.s. navy line up which has the coast guard missile destroyers that we are seeing. the ships will dock at pierce all through manhattan, brooklyn and staten island. fleet week celebrations. over 6,000 sailors, marines and other service members will participate in fleet week. this is the 25th fleet week here in the big apple and this year is even more special as you mentioned because of the tall ship aspect. the combination of the tall ships, the warships is a somewhat rare event that has than been seen here in 12 years. this year designed to commemorate the war of 1812 and the arrival of the star-spangled banner. you know to see this military hardware of this magnitude is an honor and thrill for so many, and fleet week is the perfect time of course to say thank you to all of our men and women s
zone. another thing that will happen in the early days, look at this libyan military installations. these are places from which gadhafi have launch plains. the bases in tripoli have been used against the opposition. this will be another goal, bomb the runway that s will make it hard to take off and land from the runways. french fighters did launch the first bombs of this campaign but overwhelmingly in the early days we are told look for tomahawk cruise missiles. there s a british sub out there as well, uss barry. both guided missile destroyers in the mediterranean. they fire this, the tomahawk cruise missile. it hovers close to the ground and can be programmed over the tarkts. 110 fired and some the older version and some newer version. all programmed aboard the ships
we are live from our washington bureau. doug i d imagine they re assessing this imagery and other pictures? they are. but there is a lot after sesment to do. we ve gotten final totals of the day from the pentagon confirmed now. 114 cruise missiles fired from three u.s. ships including guided missile destroyers as well as the mount whitney. three u.s. submarines also fired cruise missiles. a british submarine participated in that. the next stop is bomb damage assess many going to be done with global hawk unmanned aircraft they don t need daylight for that. they have capabilities there to do assessments at night time as well. a u.s. official, not coming from the white house confirms to fox news gaddafi s air
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 of the mediterranean sea and also from the uss florida and uss providence that carry cruise missiles and british submarine as well we re told. here s a picture of the missile. hovers close to the ground. there is a newer version that can hover over a target, send back images and then pick the