loose for navyt yard employees and their families. recognize him. they performed at constitution hall. the concert was a way to boost morale. they are up to community heal from the navy yard tragedy. who served ine the navy during world war ii. how about the special event at the museum tonight with actor will ferrell who talked with fans about his wildly popular movie opening in just a couple of weeks. it is a sequel. it it is anchorman 2. he is talking about how he made the decision to anchor the news at this station. you can see that tomorrow on abc 7 news at 5:00. i cannot wait to see that. no information tonight and the deadly train wrecked. the engineer is now admitting that he lied about minutes of for the crash. there are questions about whether he is to blame that remain. the rescue you have to see to believe. how a man managed to stay alive for three days 100 feet underwater. >> >> you are watching abc seven news at 11:00 with leo harris. this is abc seven news at 11:00 on your side. >> this is just an unbelievable story of survival. a man

when you take that inflexibility and you stretch it out for 10 is a navyt you have that is less and less capable of that we used surge to. it is a navy that is increasingly challenged to have the readiness standards that we need for the non-deployed units. a navy that's challenged when it comes to filling the missions of the defense strategic guidance, specifically to project power. to deter and defeat, to provide the kind of support that we need for counterterrorism and regular warfare. >> thank you. inust want to make one note the issue of the language that we use with respect to sequestration. when we talk of lifting sequestration, people who are discussing it want, generally, offsets to occur so that sequestration can be removed from the department of defense. we are not just saying increase spending. the issue of flexibility or inflexibility, there are two aspects to sequestration and i just ask you to address this in your closing comments. the bottom line number under sequestration is also not right. if we say flexibility is what needed, you are stuck with the lower numbers in capa

the navyt of how innovates and gross -- grows. we have been involved in and weon -- central asia were innovative their. in the first trip i made to afghanistan, next week i am going for my 11th trip. we have visited a profits near the pakistan border -- a province near the pakistan border that was commanded by a summer rain commander. -- submarine commander. i'm pretty sure when they joined, they did not expect to be on the side of a mountain in afghanistan. but they did and they were and they were great. , i amdo the rebalance confident the postgraduate , ourl in our rotc, academy each one gets who language training coming out of that we will have the intellectual underpinnings and capability. finally, one of the things this allows me to point out is the partnership building that is so important under the new defense strategy. the fact that many times sailors and marines are the only americans, they have to be great warriors lamotte what also great -- warriors, but also great depomed. -- diplomats. >> good afternoon. my question