[female narrator] army specialist andrew pike was paralyzed while serving in iraq.drew pike] my injury was a gunshot wound to the left abdomen from a sniper. my first contact with the paralyzed veterans was in walter reed. [national service officer michael killen] we try to reassure him what benefits are out there, and we try to educate him and take some of that stress away from him. p-v-a did a fantastic job making sure that he got those benefits in a timely basis. [michael killen] we helped him apply for automobile grants, special adaptive housing and vocational rehabilitation [andrew pike] right now, i'm going back to school to earn a degree. i'm working with a real estate agency in town with my realtor's license. and i'm just spending time with my wife and child, and just moving on with our lives. just as anyone in my age group would do. [female narrator] paralyzed veterans of america helping veterans secure their benefits and rebuild their lives. you can help. visit p-v-a dot org. >>> breaking news tonight at 11:00. multiple people shot and tonight that shooter

i suffered hearing loss while serving my country as an army specialist in iraq.ered in combat is making it even harder to fit back in as a civilian. when i was growing up, understanding my teachers was really difficult. i started to lose my hearing in college. social situations became awkward. it was hard for me to tell my friends about my hearing loss. 50 million people in this country have hearing loss. that includes one in five teenagers. 60 percent of the veterans returning from iraq and afghanistan have suffered hearing loss. with your help we can restore hearing. help make hearing loss a thing of the past. we are just some of the many faces of hearing loss. hearing health foundation is working to restore hearing. to learn more about their research for a cure visit hearing health foundation dot org. a public service from hearing health foundation. >> two *very* different kinds of storms are hitting china. heavy snow swept one region of the country... stranding motorists in a mountainous area. firefighteres and military dogs were sent in to rescue them. a sib

[female narrator] army specialist andrew pike was paralyzed while serving in iraq.y was a gunshot wound to the left abdomen from a sniper. my first contact with the paralyzed veterans was in walter reed. [national service officer michael killen] we try to reassure him what benefits are out there, and we try to educate him and take some of that stress away from him. p-v-a did a fantastic job making sure that he got those benefits in a timely basis. [michael killen] we helped him apply for automobile grants, special adaptive housing and vocational rehabilitation [andrew pike] right now, i'm going back to school to earn a degree. i'm working with a real estate agency in town with my realtor's license. and i'm just spending time with my wife and child, and just moving on with our lives. just as anyone in my age group would do. [female narrator] paralyzed veterans of america helping veterans secure their benefits and rebuild their lives. you can help. visit p-v-a dot org.

the army specialist is brittany gordon from florida. the name of the cia officer has not been released yet. another suicide bombing today at a u.s. post in eastern afghanistan. the car bomber detonated the explosives at the gate of the base, wounding 45 people. the taliban is claiming responsibility for this attack. >> promising news for the pakistani girl shot by gunman. the hospital released a statement saying she is in stable condition and continues to impress doctors. the girl was air lifted to the england hospital for more specialized care after being shot in the head last week on the way home from school. the taliban says she was targeted for promoting education for young girls. >> thank you. >> still ahead at 6:00, the pharmacy under investigation for prescription refills. >> evil elmo. why the character is turning heads here in the bay area. >> and good evening. i'm in the nbc weather center. record setting temperatures, even hotter as we head into thursday. that will bring that air quality up to some moderate levels for the eas

also dead, 24 yearly army specialist britney gordon. bomb woras a member of afghan intelligence agency. afghan officials are denying that. russian president vladmir putin is taking heat for providing supplies to the government at war with its own citizens in syria. putin saying today, only the u.n. security council can restrict the sale of russian arms abroad. his comments appear to be in response to criticism he is getting now. >>> where's the most expensive zip code in the world? well according to "forbes", it is a neighborhood on the upper east side of manhattan. zip code 10065, edging ought alpine, new jersey to grab the top spot. get this, the median asking price for a home in this part of manhattan is over $6 million. those are your news headlines on the fox business network. now back to ashley and tracy. what do you think of that? tracy: rick folbaum do you live up there on that high side of town? >> no, ma'am. tracy: see you soon. i don't know. ash, you're up there too, aren't you? ashley: no, no. one day perhaps. not quite yet.

the army communication specialist spoke to her mother by speaker phone, and then at the last minute thedier daughter popped out. she is on a two-week leave from afghanistan and plans to take the whole family to an nfl game next week. and that's the fox watch. >>> tim tebow has always been a quarterback who can run. and this sunday we may see a few more snaps at him at running back. a couple of the jet backs are really -- jetses backs are really banged up and rex ryan says it is possible tebow may take a few handoffs for the green. tebow has power and the back up qb knows all of the informations. all of the positions. so far tim has run the ball 18 times for 64 yards. >>> some folks live by an all important rule, if your food falls on the floor you have five seconds to pick it up and eat it. scientists have put that to the test, believe it or not. the not so surprising answer to the five-second rule. that's next. >>> next time you drop your cheetoe on the floor, you can forget the five-second rule. the germ maze have already done their damage. the clorox cleaning company paid for a study

i am specialist andres ryan u.s. army drill team. good morning, washington. >> good morning to you as well. 6:13. sander levin 6 million people down theower up and east coast. people in our region without power. 6 million people up and down the east coast. latest outages on your screen. >> all three of those utilities brought in crews from other parts of the country. up, they willomes out and start repairs. is 6:39 now. in with jacqui jeras. people in theof dark. could break loose any .imbs this morning there could still be some problems. gusts could break loose limbs. here in the belfort furniture are watchingr, we n sandy.st o it's no longer a hurricane. have tropical characteristics anymore. it is moving across central but it still has some strength. 65 miles an hour is the maximum sustained wind. ofll continue getting a lot h this throughout the day. up another half- inch. about asave not talked snow -- the snow element. seen incredible snowfall of 2,000 feet in west virginia. in elkins, west virginia, look at how a tree limbs ar

army's bravo company 216, including specialist ethan mccord, are on patrol in a rundown neighborhood that morning the battalion comes under mortar fire as it leaves the base. while the soldiers patrol, they hear sporadic gunfire. >> this area had been a troublesome area so bravo company was tasked out to go in and kind of flush people out. >> two apache helicopters are providing air support, and cameras mounted on their gun sights are recording the mission. wikileaks added the subtitles on the video, but the audio you hear is the pilot's actual radio chatter. >> okay, we got a target 15 coming at you. >> the pilots spot a group of men they suspect are insurgents carrying weapons. >> slow down. crazy horse 1-8, have individuals with weapons. >> nope, he's got a weapon too. >> there's at least 20 of them. >> oh, yeah. >> because the men are all dressed similarly, the pilots don't realize that two of them are journalists. photographer amir nouradeen and his driver. the apache soldiers seem to mistake namir's camera for a rocket-propelled grenade. >> he's got an rpg. >> we've got a guy w

army special forces medic and weapons specialist on an a team, and i served in combat carrying out specialrations on behalf of our country. >> so you were in it. >> yes, yes, i was and with a lot of my friends and, you know, it's one of the reasons i'm so passionate about our veterans and making sure that they get the education and training they deserve, that their va benefits are preserved, and that we should be awarding them combat bonuses. congressman flake, of course, has voted down all those things. be there's no higher calling than honoring these young men and women who so bravely serve us. right now i'm real disappointed in how congressman flake has done that. i won't do that. i will support or veterans and seniors as well as some of the areas congressman flake has moved away from because it's politically convenient for him. >> you know that movie "born of the fourth of july" where everybody cheers him when he goes off to fight but when he comes back dismembered, there's not a lot of bugles playing.\ they're good at the beginning but not so good when we meet the casualties. >> i thi

international norms and rules official says the whole incident was illegal to army what do you think well i'm not a specialist at all in international of civil war so i don't know really what it says and what rights a country has to forced on a civil airliner and so much of this. we don't know much about just heard what do you broadcast some of that has been confirmed or has been more substantiated in the turkish media this report saying that the that the crew of the airliner was in fact . one report saying it actually forced a statement saying that the plane had to make an emergency landing which would seem to be correct because everyone knows that it was forced to land when it comes to what was inside the plane or your statement you just broadcast is quite specific all we've got here in the media is from the foreign minister saying that objectionable material was found in the plane and we have no idea what that might be not the spirit. told given what the texts already say they found it's either a craft or whatever moved another has given any reference i've seen to the syrian crew asking for certificate for

that killed ambassador chris stichs, information specialist sean smith and glen dohertyy and tyrone woods. andrew wood is a green beret with the utah armyational guard. he told cbs, it is unbelievable to him that the state department decreased security in libya when they did because he showed them how dangerous and volatile and unpredictable the entire environment in libya was with at least 13 security incidents before september 11, backing up his case. as for his testimony this week, former u.s. ambassador to the u.n., john bolton, toll us today, he happenings the state department needs to listen and learn quickly. >> the state department should not wait for the conclusion of its own administrative review board, which won't report for 60 days, there ought to be an ongoing process to try to enhance the security of diplomatic and other official personnel in the middle-east and elsewhere. >> reporter: at the house oversight hearing, we will hear from sharl eep lamb, the deputy assistant secretary for programs at the bureau of diplomatic security and eric nordstrom, a regional security officer for the state department. >> shannon: thank yo

army hospital. her condition is said to be stable and her surgical team says that at the moment there's no plan to move her abroad for more specialist treatment. malala yousufzai's shooting last week by taliban extremists in her home town near the afghan border has shocked the country. just 14 years old, she and two classmates also injured but less seriously were attacked after gunmen stopped their school bus. the girls say the men were specifically after malala yousufzai. it's no surprise. since 2009 defying local taliban edicts she's been a fearless campaigner for pakistani girls right to an education. unusually even some of the most conservative religious figures in pakistan have condemned the shooting. one group of clerics even issued a fatwa, specifically saying islam approves of women seeking knowledge. pakistanis of all ages and walks of life deeply shaken by this savage attack are now praying for malala yousufzai's recovery. however, it's far from clear that the gunmen will be arrested. in the rugged area where the shooting occurred police say they have detained and released several people already but not the man who pulled