marinette wisonconsin. each component of steel safely stored at this marinette shipyard. it oxidized what they call mill scale, and so what happens from this point it ll go through the next stage which will blast and prime this. jetske wauran reporting u-s-s sioux city will go through months of testing and traveling. before its operations of mine warfare and surface warfare across the globe. kevin ralston most of my crew members have experience in other platforms. and right now we re preparing to come to this platform w wch is definitely new for ususa lot of new systems that we re learning and training to be ableleo operate. jetske wauran reporting soon to aboard the ship. lcs crew 108 . they re us navy s highly trained team led by commander kevin raton. several crew members tell me the lcs-11will be their home, away from home.. they ve done an incredible job. i ve worked in a shipyard before and i would say these guys really have it together here. they re safe. they
want the fire to spread anywhere else and we want to o ke sure that everybody s safe up there and nobody falls and nobody gets hurt. it s a big drop. fire crews say the two nearest bins to the fire were checked out. one was empty and one was mostly empty. but neither had caught fire. larry the ununed states navy is anticipating the completion of u-s-s sioux city lcs-11. our jetske wauran traveled to marinette, wisconsin and joins us now with special report. jetske.. that s right guys..after 10 hours of driving to wisconsin, i finally got to see the uss sioux city, which has been under construction sinin june of 2013. it s the eleventh ship. of a new generation of high-tech fighting machines.and it s nearing its launch. matthew leles combat system, u.s. navy accomplish a really big goal and getting a ship and bringing it to life. jetskeauran reporting uss sioux city lcs-11 currently under construction. seeing this ship being built it s like watching something grow and y
breen on the uss sioux city later in ththshow. first, presidential l litics heating up in siouxland. republican presidential candidate rand paul visited morningside college today. this week alone, the u.s. senator from kentucky is visiting 11 colleges in iowa. it s all part of his iowa 10,000 college tour! rand wants at least that many students to caucus for him on february firststsaying his candidacy appeals to millenials. i think they don t want the government collecting all their phone records, they do believe in the right to privacy. they don t want the government putting them or their friends in jail for minor marijuana abuse and they don t want the government sending them off to a new war in the middle east. i m the one candidate who represents all three of those issues, said presidential candidate rand paul. after finishing in sio city, rand paul went on to speak at buena vista in storm lake. the latest fox news poll shows paul in 8th place with 3 percent support.
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good eveveng. thanks for joining us, totoght. i m matt breen. (sheila) and, i m sheila brummer. ten years ago, work started on the first of a new breed of naval combat ship. the freedom-class littoral combat ship. (matt) for the last 19-months, workers at a shipyard in wisconsin have worked to build the newest l-c-s, the uss sioux city. last month, i got rare access to the shipbuilding process. and to see the ship, up close. the sioux city. so, right now, the crew can simulate real-life situations. they re not going to let us take the ship underway if we re not ready, ralston said. .like navigation and propulsion. four water jet engigis push the sioux city through the water like a jet ski. one of the most challenging things to learn is the very complicated engineering plant,ralston said. we want to be able to operate that as safely and effectively as we can. the crew can also prepare for worst-case scenarios. making sure that when we do get the ship, that if something d