with a special check presentation is dave hughes, partner with turning point and also joining us elaine rogers who is with the uso metropolitan washington. so good to see you both. no. you don't have to adjust your television sets. the check is really big in more ways than one. >> i wanted to on behalf of turning point, our employees, i wanted to present this check for $15,000 to uso metro. it's just a small token of appreciation for our men and women troops that are serving our great country and their families. thanksgiving is about families and anything we can do to help in a small way bringing them together is very welcome. so thank you very much. >> thank you, thank you. i'm just going to be taking this here. this is exciting. we are almost getting to our goal. >> the goal is what, 60,000? >> yes, it is. >> how many families will that help? >> 1,200 families. >> local families. anything you give stays right here in the metro. >> it does. we've selected these families with the military, truly those that are in the most need, young military families. so we're excited. it's going to happen. >

joining me is paul cristman, vice president of the public sector at the dell company here to present elaine rogers of the uso of metropolitan washington with a large check in many ways. >> a very large check. thank you, anita. on behalf of the people of dell very pleased and proud to present this check of $15,000 to the uso of metropolitan washington to support turkeys for troops. this is our third year. >> that's wonderful. elaine, how much just to buy one basket for a family? this is going to help a lot. >> this is going to be fantastic because each basket really is forth $50 en dell just committed when we do -- worth $50. then dell just committed when we do this next year, we'll get new computers. >> this is fantastic. through donations like this and yours we are making a difference for so many troops as we head into the holiday season and their families. >> 1,200. >> congratulations. thank you for being here. you still have a little over an hour to call our phone bank, 202-895-5560 if you'd like to donate toward holiday food baskets for local military families, no amount too large or small. yo

troops program is our wusa9 president and general manager mark burdette and with him the uso's elaine rogers. you come here every year. we look forward to doing this and, mark, take it away. >> this is my first one. elaine, on behalf of the gannett foundation, usa today, please accept this big check for $10,000. >> i can't tell you how excited we are. i'm on my way to the bank right now taking it with me. this is fantastic and thank you so much. we love you all for supporting us like this. >> happy to do it, very important. we really appreciate it. >> we know this donation right here will help 200 families. so that gets us part of the way to our goal of reaching 1,200 families today. elaine and mark, thank you for presenting that. >> we want to encourage everyone to call in, lesli. it's a great cause. >> let's keep it going. if you want to help provide our local military families with holiday food baskets for thanksgiving and christmas, ring up our phones 202-895-5560 or you can go online to www.wusa9.com. click on the uso button on our homepage. everything you donate stays right here in our