but ernie vallebuona has no doubt.elieves there is a connection between his cancer and the dust. >> i firmly believe that. >> it's a tough thing to prove, isn't it? >> oh, sure. >> and now, almost ten years after 9/11, vallebuona is reeling again. after years of aggressive therapy, he thought he was cancer free. >> they were ready to pin the little cured button on me. but my last visit to the doctor, they actually detected something inside of me and they're not too sure what it is. i'm being told now that my cancer could possibly be back. starting my progresso soup for lunch plan, huh. nope, just having some tender chicken and some tasty noodles. let's see...south western vegetables...60 calories. ya' know those jeans look nice. they do? yup. so you were checking me out? yup. [ male announcer ] progresso. 40 soups 100 calories or less. >>> thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> for the past two months, ernie vallebuona has lived in a state of emotional paralysis, anxiously awaiting test results to find out if his cancer is b

lieutenant ernie. when was the last gun buy back we had? >> approximately 2 months ago. >> how many more will we have? >> again. it's all a matter of putting together the resource. we do get a lot of resolvers. it's a matter of getting all the people together. >> what people are you talking about? who do you need to make it happen. it's a resource program. the police department needs officers to do the leg work and footwork. we need the community also. i always call san francisco a village not a city. people transverse so easy. east san jose and west jose. they are here. one shooting effects everybody in this room. i hate to talk statistic. one crime affects you. you. it doesn't matter who it is. >> why is it so hard to get people together? >> let's make it a priority >> can i say, i mentioned earlier. i think that it's beginning to happen. i don't want to negate those efforts are being made from the mayors office and d.c. yf. i think john osaki mentioned it before. getting people to come together for the betterment of the community not for

ernie valabona is a former vice cop with the new york city police department. these partners arrived at ground zero within minutes of the collapse. >> we were watching the teams of firefighters going in with their tools and packs. they would disappear. >> from the distance i am to you? >> where your hand, your partner would disappear. i had to grab on to him. i had to hold on to the hood of his jacket. he would disappear. i would lose him. >> nobody had any respirators in the police department. we didn't have any. we were trying to wrap bandanas around our faces. >> in a statement, the city of new york said despite challenges, several hundred thousand respirators were made available to the workers within a week. in the chaos, they say they never got a hold of one. three years later, valebona was diagnosed with cancer. a rare stage of lymphoma. a type that may be caused by toxins in the environment. >> how is everything going with your treatment? >> i finished the last treatment. i have to go back to see if i'm done. >> there are so many rescue workers in his ci

that is a very unique exposure. >> as for ernie, this study doesn't confirm his cancer was caused by the dust. for him, there is no doubt. >> i firmly believe that. >> it's a tough thing to prove, isn't it? >> oh, sure. maybe there's no scientific study to firmly prove that but, you know, just the common man, common sense answer would be, yeah, there's too many people getting these blood disorders and other cancers and respiratory problems. >> there's a lot more to ernie's story as well. you can see it all and what other police and firefighters have gone through, also rare never before seen footage from that day. my full investigation of the health fallout from 9/11, it's this wednesday, "er iter in the dust," 11 p.m. eastern. >>> the test that could show if you're at risk for a heart attack. it was something i was eager to know myself. maybe you are as well. that's right after a quick break. nothing helped me beat arthritis pain. until i tried this. it's salonpas. pain relief that works at the site of pain... up to 12 hours. salonpas. really? 25 grams of protein. what do we have? al

. >> this is a sunrise from ernie wood in edgewater, maryland. ernie did everything right. like that. thank you. to mitt. we need your name and location and a description. >> all right, top. >>> still ahead, several cases of hate-filled vandalism in montgomery county. >> they shocked people in several communities. now police have new information on who might be behind it all. >>> she was the first female firefighter in montgomery county, but today she began her last shift. i'm lindsey mastis. that story is coming up. >> but right now, a look at the highest paid actresses in hollywood. number one is tina fey. forbes.com reports she earned $13 million last year. mp p. top paid actresses in tv. we'll be right back. state farm. this is jessica. hey, jessica, jerry neumann with a policy question. jerry, how are you doing? fine, i just got a little fender bender. oh, jerry, i'm so sorry. i would love to help but remember, you dropped us last month. yeah, you know it's funny. it only took 15 minutes to sign up for that new auto insurance company but it's taken a lot longer to hear

paloalto someone broke into ernie's wines and liquors. smashed a window and took cash and a computer. it's believed the same man involved in these two burglaries is responsible for up to 10 in several cities since 2009. . >>> a veteran san jose police officer is out on bail after an arrest on sex crime charges. 44-year-old patrick darrigo is accused of molesting a 15-year-old boy and 17-year-old boy in his home and providing the teens with alcohol. he was fired from the san jose police department after he was convicted of a drunk driving accident cover up for district attorney's investigator. he was later reinstated. . >>> san francisco police are increasing patrols after two gang related killings in just 24 hours. flowers marked the spot where 22 restaurant cook was shot and killed on tuesday. two men approached him during a smoke break and shot him in the face. police think they mistook him for a gang member. shot multiple times on hamp shier street and pronounced dead on the street. >> they are trying to saturate that area and make sur

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. >> what is the told that america has paid in terms of mayor ernie -- what is the toll that americans have paid in terms of money and manpower? >> there are many apparatus that were made after 9/11, 850,000 people with top secret clearances, 2000 companies that work at the top-secret level, another 1200 new organizations and agencies in the federal government alone, not even state government. they all claim to be counter terrorism and intelligence but in fact what we found after working three years on this is that some of those, particularly the large ones that don't have a definite focus, there are real questions about what they are contributing to the overall effort. >> this has become a kind of third rail of american politics. we are cutting budgets everywhere and when you don't touch his homeland security. >> it is. i think part of it is because the politicians will have an honest conversation about terrorism. anyone who cuts back anywhere could be blamed if anything, large or small, ever happens again. is that realistic? do we want to live a life and spend resources on things tha

ernie and kelly. they arrived at ground zero within hours of the collapse. >> we were watching the teams of firemen go in with tools and their packs and they would disappear before our eyes. >> it was the distance i am to you? >> yeah, pretty much your hand is where your partner would be as they disappeared into the dust. as we went in, i had to hold on to his jacket, and he would disappear and i would lose where we were going. >> we did not have any kind of respirators. we were trying to wrap bandanas around our faces. >> the city of new york said there were safety protocols implements. several hundred thousand respirators were made within a week. but the reality is that balboa and his partner never got one. >> you are pretty convinced your partner got sick because of what he saw at ground zero. >> i am not a doctor, and there were too many of my friends, including earnie, they were getting the strange diseases where nobody could know where they came from. >> do you wonder why you didn't get it? >> y

[ ernie ] we make our cookies the way only keebler elves can: with a little something extra. can be uncommonly good. >>> good morning and welcome back to 9news now. we were all in black yesterday and we're all in color today because it's friday! it is september 30th, the last day of the month. i'm andrea roane. >> i'm mike hydeck. monika samtani will be back with traffic momentarily. anny is in for howie. >> good morning. we'll see a little bit more sunshine today and we don't need the umbrellas for your friday. a little different story. here's a look at your day planner forecast for today. we start out sunny. but we do see some high clouds moving in this afternoon and for this evening. temperatures though in the mid- 70s by 3:00. we'll see winds out of the west and southwest which is bringing down the humidity levels. you can already feel it this morning. a little cooler today compared to yesterday. here's a look at the satellite radar picture. we still have the upper level low spinning. we'll not see unsettled conditions for today that will bring a few clouds in and also ov

very few high profile cases as when hundreds of reporters staked out a new york courthouse to report ernie made all submission of guilt in his ponzi scheme and there are millions and millions of dollars they owe it all the o.j. sort of day and for many of them the right to believe angry i had an ira worth one point three million and my other money it's was about one point eight million and it's gone fine how do you think he got away with this the saw was how a person has run a stand for so many years without that effect that was one of the things i thought of hippies gamble they can successfully run a scam for that long and need off was not alone the regulators are now investigating scores of similar crimes they say there is a ponzi ammonium under way has four levels of every right collar crime as they got it gives the orders the people in what is the people that know what was going on but didn't participate and the people that should have known what was going on like boards of directors or what it is but that caught this update to what they try to do is they try to. get to the culpability

know they don't see the way you know a society that takes care of itself that we you know we sort of ernie's benefits you know we we earn you know a certain safety net because you know the companies that are can flourish in our system you know if they don't provide health care you know the seating that steps in and helps people out. but the thing that blows my mind is that i mean you think back to like the sixty four convention. rockefeller got up and gave a speech asking for moderation get booed barry goldwater gave a got up and gave a speech and he got cheered for saying you know extremism in little to no support of liberty is no vice. but he was not talking about killing people he was talking about liberty you know and he didn't mean it the ron paul since i don't believe it just seems like you know i can't imagine richard nixon having tolerated this will rattle reagan even for that the common thread between all these things is the compassionate conservatism at least as far as these debates audiences are concerned is dead because one of the telling moment i'm not sure if you have was was w

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[applause] sister erniing -- ernic fennel. if you could stand up. [applause] hopefully, ken -- [inaudible] if he's not here, formerly of the afl and now of the national nurses' united. during the question period maybe she can talk a little bit more about the issues involved in that strike. readers of the hard copy of "the washington post" will notice, i'm sure, that the washington hospital center is spending tens of thousands of dollars telling the folks of this community how much they care about patient care and the quality of the care that they provide, money that would be better spent agreeing to the union's reasonable proposals for nurse/patient staffing ratios and other improvements that they need in their contract as rns to better serve the people who use that hospital. we had another strike last week of similar significance, 1200 nurses out at kaiser permanent in los angeles last wednesday. they are members of the new national union of health care workers. there's some contribution envelopes for the nuhw on the table over there and an update

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ernie was telling bruce what was going on. just -- you know went to work. >> reporter: every time she watches the video she is thankful the officers showed of when they did. >> i watched the video over and over. it is incredible. just thank god for the officers. >> reporter: dominique was rushed to the medical center. his aunt released the video she shot inside the hospital room. >> our whole family is so grateful to boca police, police officers, three officers involved. and, you know, and everyone else that happened too. >> lucky little boy indeed. >> very. >>> all right. this next story is getting a lot of buzz this morning. researchers at cornell university have used twitter as a kind of global mood ring to monitor the world's feelings. there are some amazing similarities in the 500 million tweets. >> most people generally wake up in a good mood. but it all goes downhill from there. and not surprisingly their outlook improved when friday afternoon rolled around. >> i mean. >> ain't that the truth. >> we can certainly relate

but ernie has no doubt. he believes there is a connection between his cancer and the dust. >> i firmly believe that: >> it's a tough thing to prove, isn't it? >> oh, sure. >> i saw on the interview he had the jar of dust. i don't know if you have it with you there. it's the ground zero dust. what is it in that stuff that could be -- there it is. it could be making these people so sick. >> it's -- let me tell you. one of the responders that held this, brooke, remember when i gave to him during the documentary. he became emotional. he said this is probably the most dangerous substance i've held. it gives you an idea how visceral this is to some people it was a wholly unique substance. it was an amalgamation of benzene, titanium, cement, asbestos. all these things put together and being analyzed. it has been analyzed trying to figure out what about it could lead to these various health problems. let me add one thing, brooke, that's striking. if you look at the images, in the first 48 hours or so, there were a l

but ernie vallibona has no doubt.mly believe that. >> it's a tough thing to prove, isn't it? >> oh, sure. >> now, sanjay, you have some of the actual ground zero dust, right? tell me what's inside this canister and what might have sickened the members of this club. >> this is the dust. you are absolutely right. i will just say because it's a hard thing for some people to even look at. one of the responders that held this up said he literally got emotional. this is the most dangerous thing that i've ever held. this probably in and of itself, this is remnants of the dust. it's a wholly unique combination of chemicals, kyra. benzene mixed with mercury titanium, cement, jet fuel. it is one of the few reminders, thankfully in some ways, of what happened on that day. but also from a scientific and medical perspective, what people have been analyzing and poring over, trying to figure out what was all of that dust and what could it do to the human body. they have more answers to that question than ever before. some of this is

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just how good guys were, breslin and ernie powell.ll collected in one book, and i think it can help inspire us and help raise our game. >> and keep in mind, a matter of, as working columnists, needing stuff to steal. borrowed. depending how you look at it. there are only so many stale references to "seinfeld" or the "godfather" movies. put aside the jokes and look for what's really sort of the literary journalism. creative stuff. >> so in reading these great opinion pieces, now that everything's moved to the internet i mean -- >> what's in there -- >> you can find it. >> and 1996 but on the internet it often did. the subjects we cover, war, politics, sports, humor. the vast majority isn't available on the internet. that made this process exciting. hindering on microfilm in libraries. for the first time accessible. that's why it was a labor of love and fun to do. >> awesome. the book is "deadline artists: america's greatest newspaper columns." there it is. christine, take it away. >> thanks. >>> "minding your business" next. the blockb

we're joined now by the officers that made that dramatic recovery, mike daily and ernie.ing. >> good morning. >> good morning. so, officer, you were first on the scene. did it just pop into your head that, you know, what exactly you should do? >> no, ma'am. when i arrived on scene i saw that the boy was under the vehicle. i got down to his level and looked to see where he was kind of pinned underneath the car. he was visibly shaken. he was scared and he said he was scared and he wanted to get out of there. i told him to be brave and we'll get him out in just a minute. his leg was pinned in such a way that i knew that we had to lift the car somehow. so, once i got from underneath the car i went to the rear of the vehicle and tried to get access to a jack and tried to lift it and was unsuccessful. and when i turned around i saw the officers responding and i knew we definitely have a shot at getting him. we were able to do that right away to lift the vehicle. >> let me bring in the officer because one of the issues here when we look at this video, you all seem so amazingly c

there is ernie who developed cancer afterwards and didn't have any history of it in his family. >> whate healthy guys and now they are dying as a result of what they believe is the dust. they are also upset about something that is been ongoing for some time and this compensation drill and whether or not it's going to cover some of their health expenses and compensation. >> this bill came out with research saying this dust doesn't cause some things that some people have been claiming they have been getting and therntingthey are not going to re-evaluate that until next year. >> they are looking at the big study that came out and say should we put cancer on the table and right now they say know. >> in the meantime, people are dying. >> and they will let their voices be heard. i think some of that is happening today where we are going to stay, why do we have to wait another six to ten months? look at the study. >> the administrator saying they kind of believe it's probably true but the study didn't -- their studies didn't bear it out. >> so many different studies on it. even the doctor who

ernie next on rur republican line. caller: thank you for your courtesy, and as far as i'm concerned, i'm glad they got that guy. but let me tell you something, better not go to sleep because there are more of them running around. i'm a veteran, 81 years old, and i am a veteran of the korean war. i smelled bad apples long before they got to me. that's how i survived in korea. i did not vote for the president, but i would pin a medal on him at this time for this. because of the constitution, this guy didn't believe in the constitution. he didn't care less about the constitution. he was a traitor. a whole bunch like him should be taken out. period. god bless you. host: ernest in san antonio, texas. thank you for all your calls. we appreciate you weighing in on your thoughts. you will be able to see the white house briefing later in our program schedule and also on our web site at c-span.org. we have more live from the white house this evening. now, rick miller -- perry holding his first town hall meeting live at 6:00 p.m.