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sousar on police were called to this fire that caused traffic delays. when the truck began rolling backward toward police cars on friday, one police officer tried to move his car to escape but it filled with smoke and he had to get out as the truck rolled across the highway and suffered minor injuries. >> pretty unbelievable. the officer couldn't get the car in gear fast enough so he said, let me just run. what i would have done too. >> the best option is to run. the ongoing cbs news investigation of the wounded warrior project prompted a question in thursday night's republican debate. >> just today, a wounded warrior organization designed to help wounded veterans and their
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for raising tens of millions of dollars, but spending almost half of that on travel and hotels and dinners and luxury lavish conferences. so taking care of veterans is a huge issue in the country to help so many who have served and sacrificed so much. if you were president would you police these charity organizations that say they are helping vets? >> of course. there are all sorts of ways that can be done at the state, local and federal level to do that. the first duty of the next president of the united states is fix the mess in the department of veterans affairs. >> another response to our investigation, charity navigator, a national evaluator of charities put the wounded warrior project on its watch list. chip reid has the latest findings. >> reporter: the nation's most prominent veterans charity is facing criticism from more than 40 former employees about how it spends more than 800 million dollars it's raised the past six years. we asked mark owens, a former
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organizations at the irs to review the wounded warrior project's tax documents. what was your biggest concern in reading these forms? >> that i couldn't tell the number of people that were assisted. i thought that was truly unusual. if the organization is asking for money and spending money, purportedly spending money to assist with veterans, i'd like to know. >> reporter: wounded warrior project says 80% of their money is spent on programs for veterans, that's because they include some promotional items, direct response advertising and shipping and pom posage costs and take that out and the figures look more like what charity watchdogs are saying 65% to 60% go to help members. they say the funding could be included in the services. your response? >> i'd be curious to know how
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to the assistance of wounded veterans. >> reporter: steven gnarhas been ceo in 2014. he was paid $500,000 and many employees told us they thought it was too much. he defended his salary to our norfolk affiliate last april. >> my salary is less than one tenth of 1% of the donations that come in and i am running an organization that is helping hundreds of thousands of warriors. >> reporter: last year, wwp gave $150,000 grant to a group that defends higher spending on overhead, executive salaries, and fund-raising by charities. nardezzi says the more money the charity raises the more it can spend on veterans. >> if your only fixation is spending the most on programs that is feeling but not necessarily doing good. you can run a lot of program
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>> reporter: but charity watchdog daniel borekoff says the group is sitting on 248 million dollar surplus and not enough spent on veterans. >> it would be helpful if the hundreds of millions of dollars were being spent to help veterans in the shorter term, in the year, too, rather than being held for longer term. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning: saturday," i'm chip reid in washington. the wounded warrior project has strongly rejected several of the claims in our report. the ceo has not responded to multiple requests for an interview. coming up, the next president of the united states
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but that ship is drilling into the bottom, obtaining samples of muds and rocks for scientific analysis. >> in 1961, scientists drilled a hole into the ocean floor off california's coast. they hoped to break through the earth's crust and reach the mantle beneath but they failed. >> now other scientists are trying to make history again. a two-month expedition ocean returns today with samples to unlock some of the earth's deepest secrets. jeffrey klein joins us. >> good morning. >> you know science scares me. >> scares me too. >> but, like, it doesn't seem like a good idea to drill into the core of the earth. what comes out? what are they finding? >> here is the thing. we think if you drill that deep you pop the earth and we will suddenly deflate. where they are going is the mantle which is 85% of the earth so the largest part of the earth we know nothing about.
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part of the ocean where the trust is thin enough, you can actually sort of get a head start and drill down into an area of the earth where you get pristine samples that haven't seen light since the earliest days of the solar system. >> they started this in 1961 and got down pretty far but stopped. what happened? >> they had attack breakdowns. so funding dried up. >> we lost interest? >> we lost interest. it was guys in silver pressure suits or roughnecks on drill boats and there was no competition. >> we have had other samples of the crust before. what is different? >> we haven't actually gotten down to the mantle. we have gotten close. and what they have gotten to on this first expedition, this first round this time was about 2,300 feet down which isn't bad because if you can get 1.6 miles
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so they have gotten closer than ever before and already they brought. the largest piece of crustal material so they are lorng more about the trust as well. >> what are we hoping to find in this? >> here is a couple of fascinating things. first of all, seismic sentencecientists know when you get below a certain level, something that sounds like jibberish. it's where seismic waves speed up. if you learn more about those seismic waves you can learn more about earthquakes and you can also maybe find extreme life forms that deep down. >> really? think? >> you have life forms on earth that survive in extreme environments and locked in desert rocks. here, it's possible you will find forms of life that deep in the earth that live on methane
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for extra terrestrial createses. >> face two andwhat happens necks?xt? >> they have gotten a half a mile down and need to get to a mile and 1.6 miles and feel that could happen by 2020. >> are there any exciting prediction what they might find? >> again, the hope is, fir of all, that you'll get a sample of the solar system in its earliest phase. this is material that hasn't been touched. this is a way that will give us a sense of when we go out to the moon and tighten around saturn and when we go out to the moon, we could be looking for. >> i can't imagine the drill bit one has to have. >> some of those drill bits are broken because you get down to brittle material that clogs it and you break a tool, we go to
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