0 morning commute before poem were heading into the offices and some people were already at work. immediately there is cause for concern. this is the world trade center the center of a terrorist bombing some years ago. the questions have to be asked was this an accident or could it have been an intentional act? either way extensive damage has been done to the building. also there was smoke coming out of the east side of the building. 1-800-smoke white smoke. we talked with somebody about that. judge jennifer. a producer here on the today show, me where you are and what you saw? . i live in this area and returned to my apartment, but i was walking down the sidewalk delivering my young daughter to school and we heard a very loud sound, the kind of sound you hear when a plane is going fast. followed by an enormous crash and immediate explosion. i don t think we can feel shock waves, but we felt like we did. we can see the trade center misdemeanor immediately and a fireball that m
aircraft and air force bombers, mobility and tanker aircraft. due to fiscal constraints the navy had to make some cuts specifically one destroyer and one submarine. this mark facilitates the navy being able to restore both the destroyer and the submarine providing much needed stability to the navy and the industrial base while authorizing a multi year procurement for both up to a quantity of ten. all told our subcommittee added roughly a billion dollars to navy ship building. with the delivery of the 30-year ship building plan we found that the new target for structure for the navy is 300 ships down from the previous floor of 313. this is somewhat strange when the national strategy after a decade of land wars has pivoted to the asia, pacific and middle east where both c power and air force projection forces are critical due to larger distances involved. the obama administration proposal to pivot to asia while cutting navy ship building and air force projection power makes no
are good people and it is a pleasure to work with them as well as the members of the personal staff that support this committee. if i were to go down the emerging threats of this mark, i would put it this way. one, we try to support the people and missions of the special operations command while at the same time providing objective oversight of what they do. involved in some cutting edge legal and policy issues as well as being on the cutting edge of efforts to keep our country safe. too much of what they do has been in the press lately, in my opinion, but nonetheless, they are incredibly professional. secondly, we try to ensure that we are planting and nurturing seeds for tomorrow. tomorrow s national security capability through the s and t programs and, third, we try to take a couple steps forward on cyber, especially by asking d.o.d. to identify the laws and authorities that may be at issue. we also add a quarterly briefing requirement on cyber operations. mr. chairman, in
again, as one survive said, the floor just buckled up under him and the roof caved in on him. mik, thank you very much. we want to move a couple miles away from you to the white house where bob kur is standing by. we understand that building has been evacuated? caller: it s utterly surreal. as soon as word came of the pentagon incident, we were rather forcefully removed from the white house. the scene was one of administrators administrators, cooks, whatever, running at fairly high speed out of the building, to the top gates. then we huddled for a while in lafayette park. and we ve been moved now from there a block or so away. the offices along jackson place which are across the street from the white house and adjacent to lafayette park also have been evacuated. and in the most surreal of this morning s scenes here at the white house, a white plane, a very big jet, was flying in unusual pattern near the white house, over lafayette park, very slowly. it made one circle and
caller: it s utterly surreal. as soon as word came of the pentagon incident, we were rather forcefully removed from the white house. the scene was one of administrators administrators, cooks, whatever, running at fairly high speed out of the building, to the top gates. then we huddled for a while in lafayette park. and we ve been moved now from there a block or so away. the offices along jackson place which are across the street from the white house and adjacent to lafayette park also have been evacuated. and in the most surreal of this morning s scenes here at the white house, a white plane, a very big jet, was flying in unusual pattern near the white house, over lafayette park, very slowly. it made one circle and then we have not seen it since. there was a lot of concern about what that plane might be. but, again, it s only speculation. but most people say that since flights have been cleared from u.s. air space and it was a totally white plane, looked unusual to all of u