happy 4th of july. it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five"." it's independence day and it is a day of backyard barbecues, picnics, parades and fireworks and the day we give thanks to the men and women serving our country. espn put together a touching piece. >> she hasn't seen her son in a year and a half. >> very special treat for you, as well.

♪ i'm going home but to a place where i belong ♪ ♪ where your love has always been enough for me ♪ ♪ >> oh, my god. turn around. >> dad! >> please welcome home your son! >> daddy. >> hi, buddy. >> i missed you. >> i missed you, too.

>> dad! >> so i watched that the other night and i cried like a baby. >> i brought you a tissue just in case since you hadn't seen it yet. thoughts on that or do you not have a voice yet. i was wondering if you were going to cry. >> i did cry and then i was listening to greg. >> it makes me depressed because that is the opposite reaction that my family gives me. when i show up they are running. >> when you come here to "the five" we are so excited. >> they turn out the lights. >> i gave you a big hug. what are you talking about? >> one of the things when i sent this out the other night, one of the things that somebody wrote back is they said don't feel bad for us. it is great to experience feelings like that with having a

reunion. military families go through a lot and experience a different things. i might not ever feel something like they have felt on a reunion like that. >> so emotional. the kids, the parents do what they do. the father goes away or the mom goes away, the wife stays home or the husband stays home but the emotion with the kids. the surprise. you have to have a heart in there somewhere. >> you don't like surprises. >> so heart warming. >> you don't like to be surprised by things. >> i'm not big for surprises. >> i would like a surprise like that or i might not be able to take it. i have never been surprised. >> i love the element of surprise. the kids at at school, the ones who see their parents walking down the hallway. i commend you for opening the block. i couldn't get through it. >> i watched it a couple of times so it helps. >> i think it is a good thing for people to watch with their families.

>> and their dogs. >> you like it when the dogs -- when you see the troops come back and the dog recognizes it you c cannot control yourself. >> i thought the segment was when the dog comes home from the vet. >> that is good, too. >> we might have that tomorrow. >> i can get over feeling the way i feel. when i got out of prison that is how my family greeted me. >> how long were you in jail? >> about six months. >> really? >> i didn't know that. >> it was for different reasons. >> happy 4th of july everybody. prison stories and everything. >> we had another thing -- >> a county jail. >> we do love those reunions. a lot of them aren't on film. i like that espn took the time to put it together. we love to see them. they put it all in one spot. thanks to espn for that. we have one other thing we

wanted to show you. one of the troubles troops face is when they come home they can't find a job. 744,000 vets are unumployed. with the hem of the wounded war program he started his new job at one world trade this monday. i had a chance to sit down with andrew and paul who had never met in person until our interview. take a look. >> you took a personal approach to trying to help a veteran. can you tell us a little background. >> i work for one of the largest design firms. we have a strong commitment to responsibility. i have been working with andrew and three other folks. >> tell me about your decision in 2001 to join the military.

>> i entered the marine corps september 17, 2001. that was the first training cycle after 9/11 is. >> you were deployed twice. >> i went to iraq twice. i was there for the invasion in march 2003. i went back in june of 2004. when i left the marine corps in 2005 i went into real estate finance. we were seeing a lot of default. i was one of the lowest guys on the rung and they gave me my walking papers. >> you continued to try to find work. what were you doing? >> anything and everything. >> you also have a military background. >> i completed seven years of naval service in 1994. one of the challenges i experienced was taking the skills that i learned in the military and translating them to terms relevant to civilian. >> what did you have to do to

help get him ready for the interview? >> he has the skill sets and he has energy and he is a smart guy. it was a matter of saying what do you want to do. >> you just landed a great new job. what does it mean to you, andrew, to be going back to full-time employment but having it be at one world trade? >> it is very special because of the importance of the project. >> how do you think that your experience in the military is going to help you be successful at your new job? >> when you transition to construction industry you have a large-scale project like the world trade center it is a natural fit. it is inherently dangerous. it is keeping everybody focused on what needs to be done in a safe manner that is really parallel to the marine corps. >> your thoughts on not just having a morallal obligation, why is it important in other

ways? >> we have invested a great deal in training men and women in the military. for us to fully get the return on that investment when they come back to the military let's put them to work. >> what would you tell veterans watching today if they have been hesitant to reach out? is it a matter of making a phone call? >> go online and be proactive. just because you are out you may have lost your sense of purpose but the resources are there. they are available to you. there is always someone to call. it is really letting those people know that the people in paul's position that they are capable of helping veterans. >> people realize with just one phone call they could help three or four additional people. >> we can help a little bit. their skills will take over and good things will happen. >> for you what else is on the horizon? >> i plan on staying here in new york and hopefully --

>> maybe meet a lady? >> yes. >> dating site? three of the four vets that paul has taken under his wings since april 13 are now employed. i love the story because it is a wonderful company. the individual junction of somebody who is a dad, has a busy job, maybe one-on-one tutoring would make a difference. he said being a vet himself he could understand what it is like to look at the resume and say this is way too -- it is like military speak. let's switch this around. he has already helped three people land a job in two months. >> and he is smart. why wouldn't you hire someone with that commitment, dedication, doesn't complain. you know he is going to be on time? it is the best way to say thank you. you think what they do for us every day. if you could hire just one

veteran you make a difference in their lives. i think we do bash government a little bit. i do think the military is obviously a different animal. these guys and gals are incredible. i think they can work with private and public partnerships to help inform business owners of who is available and who they can hire and who needs work. >> one of the things that andrew said is it -- he would go to the job fairs that they had. there are a lot of companies and programs that work together. he just needed to make a phone call. he said if you went to a job fair he was there with a thousand other vets and there was no individualized attention. it made a difference talking to one person. >> job fairs i remember going to them, are incredibly depressing. it is sad because you feel like a nobody with a sheet of paper that nobody reads. i feel there should be

affirmative action for vets. if there is anybody that deserves to get a cut in line given the amount of work they have done for the country it is then. when you think about military service isn't that the real college when you think about the contemporary campus and what is being taught on campus to play video games and get high it seems military experience is where you get life experience. it is the new college campus. it is like the opposite of the campus. it is where you really learn something. and the discipline that you get from military service translates much more easily to work than the stuff you learn on campus. >> that is an interesting point. i wonder if you can talk about this because andrew signed up to go to the marines when he was a senior in high school. 9/11 had not happened. he started boot camp september 17. they had this comradery. look at the experience he got. when he got that job and was

laid off he didn't wait around. he worked in construction off broadway. he worked in a meat packing plant. these guys want to work. >> there is no reason not to hire a vet. they are committed and hard working. they are task oriented and problem solvers. side story, when i was trading at wall street 2,000 people would stand on the floor. individuals, we all risked our own money. sometimes you would have to bring people in, the best workers, the best employees, the best clerks were always with the military back grounds because they are focused. they know how to work hard. when they are confronted with a problem they figure out how to solve the problem, not trying to figure out how to run out the back door and blame it on somebody else. >> the number of vets unemployed, that number can be very overwhelming. you can think i will just send

money to programs. you do one-on-one mentoring for people for lots of different things. what do you think about that personal connection? if everybody watching wanted to help a vet, if they knew they could help, you have done that type of thing before. >> i think it really matters. more importantly, let me size my own experience. what this one guy said here i thought was very, very important. you mentioned it, that we pay all of this money to train these people. they get the top of the line training. they learn a lot of skills. it seems to me what better people to go and hire. i think we made that investment we might as well get it coming out of the back end. >> wounded warrior project when paul said to them, it was at the end of the presentation paul said i may could help people. they said how many can you help. he said three.

they said i will give you four. >> we didn't hire a military veteran for president. >> look what happened. >> what about references? >> every job i have ever had i got through someone knowing somebody or making the opportunity available. if everyone could just refer a veteran or keep an eye out for veterans coming home and refer them to other people, the connecting i think is probably something that maybe isn't as good. >> because you have been serving overseas and you have two tours you haven't done the networking that other people in more of an urban setting might have done. >> that wasn't a jab at president obama. that was credit to john mccain. >> seems the government ought to do more. >> andrew said he thinks the government does do a fairly good

job of having the programs. it is just sort of getting the information to the vet and the vet being willing to make a call and ask for help. if you need help you know where to call. if you can help wounded warrior project is a great place. ahead on "the five" it is independence day and nancy pelosi has an unusual idea about how to celebrate. the boys used double miles from their capital one venture card to fly home for the big family reunion. you must be garth's father? hello. mother. mother! traveling is easy with the venture card because you can fly any airline anytime. two words. double miles! this guy can act. wanna play dodge rock? oh, you guys! and with double miles you can actuay use, you never miss the fun. o!

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on july 3, 1776 john adams wrote a letter about his thoughts on celebrating the 4th. he said it ought to be games, bonfires and illuminations from one end of the continent to the other from this time forward forever more. americans will be doing just

that today lighting fireworks across the nation except marines at camp lejune. budget cuts due to sequestration forced them to cancel the fireworks celebrations. this is unfortunate. i am wondering if you are willing to pay the roughly $100,000 that it costs. why can't they find the money for fireworks when they can find it for joe biden to spend millions of dollars on hotels. >> they spent money going to africa for the week. they have to cut somewhere. >> that is an entirely different budget. >> here is the joke of this whole thing. sequestration is going to hurt. president obama hasn't changed his spending and traveling and those things. there are things like budget cuts, closing the white house tours. can't spend 17 grand a week on

white house tours. the picking and the choosing where they want to do it is a slap in the face to our troops number one and americans. they have cancelled a lot of fireworks displays. they cancelled the flyovers. >> these trips are booked a year in advance. >> they can't change plans? >> there is no reason they can't move money around to take care of fireworks. >> every time one of these stories comes out it is usually followed by a story about excessive wasteful spending. why don't they do something to fix it, just to look like they are doing something to help the troops? >> i think the military made a good decision because sequestration was meant to have some sort of impact. and they want --

>> having enough bullets and being able to kill the enemy, i am okay with it. i am upset with the death of fireworks in general. if you look all over the country it is hard to find a really good fireworks stand because they are deemed unsafe. and whatqfç

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happier or approve of our lifestyle? when you see movies you can't smell it. you know back in the 1700s it smelled awful. you can see when they arrive here they say obama care. they go what is this? moist towels. >> something does stink and it is nancy pelosi's newest label for independence day. leave it up to minority leader pelosi to rename july 4th. >> when we celebrate independence day we are also observing health independence. this week marks one year since the supreme court upheld the affordable care act. it captures the spirit of our

founders, the spirit they wrote in the declaration of independence. life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. >> i guess you do have independence if you lose your job. >> it should be called obama day. >> it might be. >> let's not forget these words of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. life has a lot to do with health. >> how is obama care health independence? now you have to pay for it? that is independent. >> you don't have to worry about it. a lot of people do. >> the same day this statement was made lunch ladies at east penn school district lost their jobs because of obama care. maybe that is what she meant. maybe now they have all the time in the world to become artists. >> that is a real stretch there. they didn't need to have that

press conference. they should have gone home and enjoyed the 4th of july. >> i doubt they lost their jobs for that reason. greg has a list of dos and don'ts. we have the best music you should have on your summer play list. stay right there.

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♪ the summer work parties are upon us, kind where you can see co workers in swim suits, vomiting in hedges. here is the list of the dos and the don'ts. any clothing that reveals more than 40% of your body is a no-no. don't wear anything to show co workers how zany you are. novelty t shirts are for 12 year olds. the pool is for kids, too.

you are too old to belly flop and no one wants to see you exit the pool minus your shorts. don't talk shop with the boss. don't bring up a coworker's behavior in front of their spouse. arrive late, leave early. don't be the awkward conversation sandwich. there in the beginning alone with the host and as the family is cleaning up talking like a dumb drunk. don't talk to kids. they will probably aaccuse you of something. get everything out of your system before you arrive like ms. manners said number one guests never leave a number two. don't hit on the help until they are done packing up. don't bring a friend you don't know well. last thing you need is a multiple homicide. let the host deal with complaining neighbors. you can be a hero in your mind. clearly mark your prescription

drugs in the medicine cabinet especially when i am invited. did i leave anything out? >> do not wear speedoes. that is very, very important. what else? >> there goes mine. >> you can't wear your speedo to this 4th of july party. don't get too drunk. you hit on that one. that is a big one. don't tell jokes. people always have a joke to lesson the mood to show your aunserious side. >> i always say the joke in front of a family and there is a 5-year-old kid and then you have to edit it and it makes no sense, bob. bob, you must have been the life of many company parties. >> i certainly was. the ones i can remember. i didn't take the drunk thing to heart. i should have. the drugs, well, in the guest bathroom. i didn't steal prescription drugs. it is one of the biggest deals

of real estate people go through people's medicine cabinets. >> you are always house hunting. i have looked at 143 houses so far. if it isn't for your boss -- if anybody else is inviting you to the party don't go. >> only go if your boss is there. >> that is an economical tip. >> bring a gift. >> you should bring a gift. >> just booze? or food? >> both. also i'm most worried about with bob is don't talk about what goes on at work with your co worker's wife. not that anything bad goes on. >> bob, you are a vault. >> here is the deal. here is what i am driving at. if you are not a regular watcher of "the five" we talk a lot in the breaks. the one thing you have to be careful of if you don't want it

on air don't say it because bob has a tendency to say what we talked about. >> before we came on the air greg told me something and said don't say anything to bob. >> you guysyou are whispering tr while i sit here. i won't do that anymore for a week. >> there are some positives to company picnics and work place parties. you get to meet people you don't normally talk to, people you snub. >> people like in the control room who you would never say hello to in the hallways. i have seen you in the hallway and how you look down at everybody. that is not possible. >> don't play sporting events. if you play company baseball somebody is going to end up with an injury. >> when you get involved with company sports somebody tries to impress somebody else and turns an ankle. >> exactly right. >> that was interesting. up next it has taken an entire year to get this awful

song out of our heads. ♪ i just met you and this is crazy ♪ ♪ but here's my number so call me maybe ♪ ♪ it's hard to look right at you baby ♪ ♪ here's my number so call me maybe ♪ >> can we play the entire song. what is this year's song of the summer going to be? our favorites when we come back. ♪ this is summer time ♪ summer summer summer time ♪ time to sit back and unwind

. welcome back, if you are a regular fiver you know how much the music means to us. i pick the music for my segment said and i never use that silly producer trick of matching the song to the topic of the segment. i love music. we wanted to give you our play list, "the five" style, the five each of us picked. >> you never chosen a song that goes with the segment? >> i don't do that. if that happens it is because someone stuck a song in there. it is a pet peeve of mine. >> you manage the music part well. i don't all the time. that is why you have sometimes crazy songs. i love country music. if i were to put together a place list. here is one i chose. "courtesy of the red, white, and blue" "american soldier" "home"

"how about you" by eric church. ♪ i cover my heart with my hat when they fly that red white and blue ♪ ♪ just like my daddy taught me about you ♪ >> why are you laughing? that is a great song. >> every song i say this is a great song. >> and it sounds exactly the same. >> you're up. >> i pick songs that sound good in a convertible going down highway 1. it has to have a groove and it has to be loud and vicious. "tobacco". if you have heard of the melvins the greatest song is "honey

bucket". jj is a band and a song called "ecstasy". these are all great summer songs with great melodys. here is "honey bucket" by the melvins. ♪ >> awesome. >> only time in history the melvins have been played on national television. >> that is what you play when you drive down the road? >> i play that when i bathe and sleep. >> you don't have a driver's license. >> you don't have a driver's license? >> it expired. >> how do you vote? >> you don't need a driver's license. >> trying to fix that problem. >> i'm surprised you have a driver's license. >> is it mine? >> you're up. >> i don't understand.

i don't know any of them, particularly greg's. my favorite list for the summer that we can put up here "sitting on the dock of the bay" with otis brown. >> otis redding. >> excuse me. quote born in the usa. >> boo. >> "patches". >> i picked out "born in the usa" by the boss. ♪ born in the usa ♪ i was born in the usa ♪ i was born in the usa ♪ born in the usa >> it is not an antiusa song. it is about people in poverty who would like to have the benefits of the usa. >> i am one of the people that

coordinates music with topics. >> every other producer in the planet wanted to use that one. >> 4th of july is my favorite holiday. nothing is better than a hot dog, cranking the music up and being on the beach. red hot chile peppers, "around the world", "teenage dream", "interstate love song" or any journey song is good in the summer time. >> your song? >> my song is, of course, the chile peppers. ♪ i know, i know for sure ♪ that life is beautiful around the world ♪ >> greg wants me to tell the red hot chile peppers to put on

their shirts. >> they are 51 years old. >> they look flabby. >> i couldn't pick one or five so i put together a quick song list. that's what we are talking about. >> all of your songs. >> how can you pick five out of that? >> you have such original taste. >> wow. >> i see guns n roses. ♪ oh say does that star spangled bannerer yet wave ♪ >> coming up bob loves his twinkies but he is looking thinner lately. could yoga be the secret to the slimming down. "the five" was out and about doing poses in times square. we grabbed the camera to capture

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summer has kicked into high gear. time to grab your speedo and head to the beach. dave has been encouraging me to try yoga. i took a class in manhattan the other day. i was quite a sight. i think my friends at the table got a kick out of it. take a look. i'm here to physically get myself in better position, spirtually, align myself with times square and align with all these people here, particularly the women. i will talk to you after i'm done.

>> this hurts. you're very good at this. >> three part breathing. >> inhale and exhale. >> i'm getting hot. >> going to learn how to breathe. watch this careful. >> go ahead. >> you guys scare me. >> what is the dipping dog? >> downward dog. >> can you show me the downward facing dog? i got to try this. >> bob, you did it. >> yoga people, really good looking women.

>> really good looking women. anybody looking for maybe a date or something i would practice yoga if i were you. they are the nicest people in the world. these people are peaceful. there may be something to this yoga stuff that i have been missing. >> dana, i now understand the religious and physiological aspects of this. i started this earlier this morning and i pulled two muscles. eric, the women are unbelievable. greg, half the guys look like you. not much competition. if you are wearing your leotards you would stop this at one time. wish you all were here with me. peace. >> love it. >> you are crazy, dude. >> oh, my gosh. where were the other men? >> i didn't see one guy there. >> not many. >> since you are the one who

convinced me to do this because you do yoga every day there is something about it that looks like it is good for soul. >> last summer i walked by and we were having a heat wave. i think you said 16,000 people showed up today. what i like about it is you can get in shape and some of the people are amazing. it is the hour of the day that you don't spend on your phone. everybody is equal. there is no competition. everybody gets along. >> this is evil. two reasons why it is evil. yoga is not exercise. it is glorified stretching. it only makes you really good at stretching. in america who is out in the afternoon doing yoga in the street? only new yorkers. >> young people who don't have a job. >> this is sad talking about how nobody is working. >> can you take a shot of this? this is what bloomberg has done. that used to be a street. you used to be able to drive on

that street. he takes bike lanes and puts on ninth avenue. bloomberg put a parking lane in the middle of ninth avenue. not in the end at the curb. they don't have cars. they float on their little towels. >> i had some fun. i was going on the wrong way. >> where is your leotard. >> i had to sit down. i was getting exhausted. then they do this thing where they have their hands back and forth like that and -- >> this is preparation for going to the bathroom. >> bob is staring at all of the

girls in the downward dog position. >> i am exaggerating. >> nobody is hurting anybody. >> i am exaggerating my dislike for them. i had a room mate who was a yoga instructor for quite some time. >> would you date a guy who went to that? >> what? >> is this a joke? >> no. >> why not? >> there were hot dudes out there besides me. >> the guys who do yoga are probably yoga instructors. >> i like very masculine real men. >> there would be nothing in the fridge but yogurt that is good for your intestines. >> is that a good way to meet women? >> i would imagine. >> i interviewed the woman. her waist was -- i said how big is your waist. >> she said i don't know. i said you can't know because you can't see it. she said she gives private lessons. she said he is going to mexico.

i asked for a ticket to mexico. one more thing is up next.

it's time for one more thing. >> this is a very heroic story. i want to thank all of the military out there and those working in the intelligence field so you don't know their name or what they are doing. a big thanks to you on july 4th. staff sergeant travis mills is one of the men. he was in the military. fox news has been keeping up with travis since he joined the military. he is one of the only -- i think he is a quadruple amputee. jenna lee has bein following his story. >> the new you, look at myself in the mirror. i couldn't do it for a while just because i have nothing left. >> what do you see now when you look in the mirror? >> this good looking handsome face. just the same person. life is a little changed a

little bit. it is nothing i can't accomplish or get through. >> we're proud of you, travis. if you see a vet, buy him a beer, buy him a dinner. i found something kind of fun. take a listen. ♪ i chopped down a cherry tree and never told a lie ♪ ♪ my face is on the quarter and on the dollar bill ♪ and carved in granite on this hill ♪ ♪ mount rushmore rocks ♪ mount rushmore ♪ mount rushmore rocks >> i can't believe you like that. >> that is a great place nearby where my great grandfather homesteaded. a great place for fourth of july. fourth of july weekend is the deadliest traffic accident

weekend in the year. most of it is due to drunk driving. i urge you to get somebody else to drive you home. it is a deadly combination. stay away from booze if you are going to drive. >> good advice. >> or don't have a driver's license like me and you can drink all you want and pass out on your front lawn. everyone makes mistakes. in the greater scheme of things your recent errors are minor in the extreme so stop worrying about them except for the arson you committed in july of '99. apparently when you go and you want to order something healthy at a restaurant if they have an unhealthy option if you choose the unhealthy one you choose it. it is vicarious goal fulfillm t fulfillment. we had a great 4th of july. we will be here tomorrow. >> good ending.

welcome to "red eye."s it is like the wizzard of oz. let's go to andy levy for a pre game president are. what's coming up on tonight's show? >> germany, franceed in midandeu upset. some say it is horrible and who others say who cares? the majority of americans think the founding fathers would be unhappy o with the way washington works these days. and that means pretty cool in my opinion. and a washington post op-ed said the world would be better off without the internet