you're in the cnn newsroom. the news unfolds live this saturday september 17th, st. patrick's day. we now know the name of the soldier blamed for a deadly rampage in afghanistan. the pentagon identified him as robert bails. he is an army staff saegt and now in solitary confinement at ft. levinworth, kansas. we're going live to his home base in washington state in just a moment. >> meantime, crowds of people in afghanistan today are furious that bails was returned to the united states. they want him to stand trial in afghanistan under islamic law. >> the price of gas is on the rise again.

it went up .4% overnight. it is the eighth straight day of price hikes. the national average for a gallon of gas is now $3.83. it's 31 cents higher than it was just one month ago. with gas prices on the rise, what kind of car you drive can make a big difference. san diego judge has approved a class action lawsuit against honda motor company about 200,000 civic hybrid owners will now receive up to $200. they claim they didn't get the gas mileage they were promised. candidates are facing off in three races. missouri holds caucuses to day. this is missouri's second time around. it held a primary last month but that was just a beauty contest. no delegates were awarded. today's caucuses will determine who gets missouri's 52 delegates. tomorrow, puerto rico holds its primary. 23 delegates at stake there. tuesday, it's primary day in i will will 54 delegates up for

grabs. a day of upsets in the ncaa basketball tournament. number two seed duke, 75-70 last night and 15th seed norfolk state won. we'll have an ncaa bracket showdown, so to speak. who saw any of this coming? 5:00 eastern time today. the army makes it official. it revealed the name of the sergeant accused of killing 16 afghan civilians last weekend. he is staff sergeant robert bales. he is married, father of two and 38 years old. right now bales is in solitary confinement at the military's maximum security prison in ft. levinworth in kansas. let's go to casey wyan where he

is stationed and his family lives nearby. you met some of the people who know sergeant robert bales. what have they been saying about him? >> reporter: well, we did go to his neighborhood where his house is. it's in a very nice neighborhood. picturesque, near a lake, not too far from here. most of the neighbors who we spoke with actually did not know the family. but, of course, those who did know the bales family expressed shock at what's happened. >> i was completely blown away. yeah, i was devastated, heart broken. i mean -- completely shocked. i would describe him -- he was super fun to hang around with. kind of the life of the party kind of guy. super loving. friendly to everybody he met. great with his kids. i just -- i don't -- i can't see how this has happened. >> reporter: now the bales'

residence is actually an older home that is surrounded by a lot of newer homes. one of the neighbors who is backyard backs up against the bales' residence said that up until about four days ago she noticed lights were on in the house all the time. but in the last several days, those light have been off and had a is, of course, because bales wife and children have been moved here to joint for their own protection. one other note, that home was put on the market as a short sale on monday, just one day after the shootings in afghanistan. >> and overall, even for those who don't necessarily know of bales, what has been the feeling at that military base about his alleged involvement and the proceedings about to ensue? >> reporter: well, in terms of the soldiers and the people around this military base, most people have not been willing to talk about it. throughout the week, there has been a gag order, if you will, a military personnel and their family members have been ordered not to speak about this case at

all and most of people have respected that. those military members that we have been able to speak with said that what was most shocking about this incident to them was that children were killed. one soldier we spoke with said i can understand, perhaps, someone, you know, going on a shooting rampage against people they us is specked might be terrorists. but women and children, they could not understand that. now in terms of the legal strategy, it's very clear that his attorney is going to concentrate on sergeant bales' three previous deployments to iraq. during two of the deployments, he was injured and one of those injuries was a traumatic brain injury. here's what his attorney had to say when we spoke with him. >> it's a tragedy all the way around. there's no question about that. i think it's of interest that we have a soldier who has an exemplary record, decorated soldier who was injured in iraq

to his brain and to his body and then despite having a setback, i think that's an issue. i think it's a concern. i think the message for the public in general is he's one of our boys. we need to treat him fairly. >> reporter: now the attorney has spoken to staff sergeant bales briefly. he described his demeanor during that brief phone conversation as something like a deer in a headlight, deer in the headlights and perhaps not completely understanding all the events that have happened over the last week or so. >> all right. thank you so much for that update. revealing the power of a tornado, we have some pretty amazing video coming up next.

all right. even the president of the united states getting involved in the st. patrick's day celebration today. he's at a pub there off capitol hill in washington, d.c., after coming off a day in atlanta of campaigning and raising money for his re-election campaign. this time he decided to throw one back with the folks at the dubliner in washington, d.c. boy, to the folks surprise there, they're like hey we knew we were going to have a good day at the dubliner but little did we know we would be throwing back a brewsky with the

president of the united states. all right. those images now just coming in. i want to share that with you. and folks having a good time there on capitol hill. getting a few pictures in for memory's sake. speaking of memories, it's one that a lot of people do not want to forget there in indiana. and now there is video to kind of help them remember the power of the tornado. these surveillance cameras are from henryville junior high school where on march 2nd those tornadoes or that tornado swept into the area and destroyed a number of homes and businesses as well, students were already on the school buses so they weren't actually in that school. and it is just frightening for a lot of people to see these images and get a better understanding of the power of a tornado. let's check in with jackie gerris now. really can't get enough of some of the images. we've been seeing a lot of new images over the past couple weeks after that tornado swept

through the area. a lot of surveillance cameras are kind of finally revealing just how powerful and damaging it was. >> it was an ef-4 tornado. winds were estimated at 170 miles per hour. all this happened, it all unfolded in about 20 seconds. you might remember that this is the school that received a lot of damage. remember that school bus that ended up in the restaurant? there were kids on the school bus. they decided it was unsafe. they turned them back around and brought them inside of that school and amazingly, nobody was injured. so they were in those interior office areas in those indeterio hallways. also gives you an idea of what they all had to jump over and get through to get back outside of that building. and we show you that, you know, not to sensationalize what happened there in henryville, but to really show you the immense power of a tornado like this and hopefully get you to react when severe weather is threatening you. and that's something we have to deal with in the next couple of days. we do have an area here, severe weather outlook, a slight risk. today is not going to be a huge

tornado day like that. today is going to be more damaging winds and large hail. throws threats you really need to deal w and also isolated tornadoes can't be ruled out. places like st. louis, places like evansville, indiana, are under that threat for later on. tomorrow, we have what we call an upper level system. and as the atmosphere changes tomorrow, we're going to start to see turning winds. and we have a better chance of seeing tornadoes tomorrow than we do today. it's a much larger area here in the plains. this is a very slow moving system. we're going to see day after day after day a strong to severe thunderstorm in the plains. so we just want to give you a heads up. this really begins tomorrow. and this will continue at least into the early part of the week. so a system way back in the west today. it's wet and it's very windy and very wintry in the west today. we'll talk a little bit more about that next time i see you. >> all right, we look forward to. that thank you so much. appreciate that. doctors say it's a natural part of aging, a slowing

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all right. it's the number one issue in american homes, getting your financial house in order. today in our weekly "financial fix," being able to afford to care for your aging parents. it is called the sandwich generation when adults are taking care of their aging parents and at the same time they're taking care of other members in their family. it's tough. >> we cause some of this. our generation is having children later in life.

so that's why we're sandwiches together. this did just happen in my family. my mother who has been living independently had a pretty significant stroke and it caused cagneytive impairment. she went from a woman who was driving 45 minutes to the airport in her suv to come get us when we would come in to visit to needing 24/7 care. >> you found out how costly it is. >> well, we were shocked, wait until i share with you, the cost of these things. also, there are three children. but all of us are still working. we're not ready to retire. and i still have two teenagers at home. >> a lot of folks may say there is medicare for my aging parents and there's going to be that kind of health care. how much can you lean on that? >> that's what i want to start with is the medicaid system which is a subpart of medicare. it's really for impoverished people. so their income and asset limitations you must qualify for in order for medicaid to cover this. now it varies state to state. i wanted to show you here in the

state of georgia, you cannot earn more than $2,094 a month and if you're an individual, you can't have more than $2,000 as a couple, $3,000. now my concern there is a married couple that does have some savings. >> this ch is fascinating. a lot of folks say my parents, they have the home or paid forment or, et cetera, they have careers and all the other things in place. but ultimately that, ends up working against them as it pertains to care. >> you would have to spend that down in order to qualify for medicaid. and then, again if, you're part of a couple, you're leaving that other person without much. >> right. and the reason why we're talking about that is even if you handled the other assets, trying to afford the care per month is still, i mean it's crippling. >> let's talk about the cost of care. i looked at a national average study. in home care, hourly rate is $19 an hour. so let's say do you have a child

that can move in and be the night time care. but they want to go to work ten hours a day. that ten hours of care a day is going to run $69,000 a year. >> out of pocket. >> out of pocket. now in my mother's case, we wanted someone to live in the home so there is the daily rate that we found was $216 a day. almost $80,000 a year, fred. who can afford that? it is incredible. >> most people can't. how do you plan for that? >> let's quickly touch on nursing homes. i always thought were less expensive. nursing homes are running for a semiprivate room, $70,000 a year, private room, $78,000 a year. assisted living is more reasonable at $39,000 a year. fwhut is when your parents still can do some care for themselves. so what do do you? how do you plan? >> so the first thing, of course, is long term care insurance. it is a very good option. understand, it's expensive. and you got to be healthy to qualify for it.

so start with this. ask your parents, do you own a long-term care policy? hopefully they do. look at the adult children in -- if there are any, ask who is in a position to perhaps step in and provide some care for mom or dad? maybe someone who is already retired, maybe someone who hasn't worked out of the home. >> maybe they have space in their home. >> move that parent to that location while they're still healthy, fred. we did that five, six years ago. we moved my mother to where my sister lives. she was the choice of the three kids that would be able to step in. now here's an idea for people our age. let's say your parents don't have the insurance but are healthy enough to get it but can't afford it. at adultery kids could chip in together and pay those premiums on a long-term care policy for the parents. i highly encourage it. >> hopefully all the siblings are in a position to do that. >> if the parents can't afford the care, it's going to come out of your pocket, right? >> and you have to take care of your parents. >> and last for not least, don't

wait until you're 60 or 70 to buy it for yourself. you won't be able to afford it either. so start looking at long time care while you're younger. >> thank you very much. all best for your mom. >> thank you so much. thank you. >> get more information by reading karen's book, "it's just money so why does it cause so many problems"? and every sunday dr. sanjay gupta profiles innovators from all walks of life and all fields of endeavor. watch the next list tomorrow as he talks to the men who created the blue school. >> we're spending a lot of time in our workshops working on new material for vegas show when we move into the monte carlo in october. the blue man interacting with some robots on stage is a nice way for them to kind of take a look at how we're using technology and how is it using us? >> it's not really about this cold machinery. it's ultimately about, you know, how can we use the robots to show something about the human

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