we got griff back. griff? >> reporter: hi, sorry about that. not sure what happened there. the signal did not fall because of the weather. again it is not here yet, sitcom being -- it is coming. a city councilwoman i spoke to said the message to the people who stayed behind is, get out and do not wait until the height of the storm to call for help, because no one will come for you that is the message. it is not just the high winds they are worried about. if hurricane gloria the last big storm to hit, gave them any lesson it is the storm surge. beach is behind me there's low-lying bay areas headed this way and bridges that are closed and they had the storm surge of up to 5, 6, 8 feet in 1985. they are worried that is going to be a problem again. one guy i talked to stayed behind owns over 75 properties. his reasoning is because he's worried that he won't be able get in, in time to do necessary repairs. what is concerning people here is the economic impact this is a town that has been a place where people have come since the 50s and 60s. the hotels, many mom and pop owned lik

earlier today griff jenkins was on the ground outside of the white house. >> the republicans and house of representatives and democrat controlled senate americans of all stripes are upset and angry about this debt crisis. deal or no deal. it seems to be setting in. >> seems to be a huge continuum. both are pretty serious. >> i think a representative is trying to do the best they can to try to represent the people make the decisions to the betterment of the country. >> i am glad that the republicans some of them are holding their grounds. i think it's important push two minutes and make sure we are able to put a cap on spending. >> do you guys blame anybody republicans or democrats or the white house that we have gotten this far into crisis? >>> oo we have been trunk ken sailors as far as spending. we need to rain it reign it in that's the simple fact of it. >> thank you for being with us. see you all again tomorrow. we can talk all about this debt ceiling deal and the mess in washington. keep it here on fox news for the latest

earlier today griff jenkins was on the ground outside of the white house. >> the republicans and house of representatives and democrat controlled senate americans of all stripes are upset and angry about this debt crisis. deal or no deal. it seems to be setting in. >> seems to be a huge continuum. both are pretty serious. >> i think a representative is trying to do the best they can to try to represent the people make the decisions to the betterment of the country. >> i am glad that the republicans some of them are holding their grounds. i think it's important push two minutes and make sure we are able to put a cap on spending. >> do you guys blame anybody republicans or democrats or the white house that we have gotten this far into crisis? >>> oo we have been trunk ken sailors as far as spending. we need to rain it reign it in that's the simple fact of it. >> thank you for being with us. see you all again tomorrow. we can talk all about this debt ceiling deal and the mess in washington. keep it here on fox news for the latest developments. good night. we will have our usual edition of

here's griff jenkins. >> reporter: the end of july this report was issued that says among other things safe than it was 12 months ago. and june was the deadliest month on record for u.s. troops in more than two years. perhaps what is most shocking is the claims that a u.s. government contractor named an ham overcharged the pentagon and the american taxpayers for items like control switches and pvc pipe, sometimes 5,000% mark up, even 12,000 in one case. we sat down with the inspector general to get answers. >> this is an example of failed government oversight and excessive billings by the contractor. specifically, a study in weak subcontractor management and the failure to review invoices. we have an example of a pvc pipe that costs $1.41. the university is government was charged $80 for this, a 5,500% mark-up. $7 circuit switch, we were charged $900 for it. 12,000% mark-up. understandably costs are going to be higher in a war zone not that much higher. >> the anham representative that i've communicated with says what she finds astounding something the inspector general, in her words,

griff jenkins gives us an in-depth look at the 350 page gao report. >> reporter: imagine what the governmentld do if it could save one billion dollars. forget the 14 trillion debt or the 500 billion dollar budget for this or that. just one billion dollars would allow the government to give a $10,000 raise to all 100,000 troops serving in iraq and afghanistan. would it allow the government to buy two million school children a brand new ipad 2. and if the salary of 50,000 a year they could hire 20,000 new employees. what if i told you there was a plan, a blueprint already existing to do that? well, the government accountability office, the gao as it is none here in washington did an over 350 page study looking across every agency of the government and the results are remarkable. >> every agency of the government is touched in some way by this report. >> reporter: the report was prepared under the coordination of patricia dalton, chief operating officer of the gao. >> in report originated out of the mandate we had that requires the gao to look at overlap, duplication, on an annual basis. we are

. >> greta: i'm sending griff jenkins to catch that video at bill o'reilly's house. 11 p.m.'reilly. >> the border between the u.s. and mexico is 2,000 miles long. right now 1300 of those miles are wide open, no fence. one arizona lawmaker working to change that. wait until you hear who is helping. >> this is really wear. is colonel gadhafi in love with former secretary of state condoleeza rice? we'll show you the photos, we'll show you the photos, motorcycles, boats, even rv's. nobody knows where he got his love for racing. all we know is, it started early. casey mears, driver of the number thirteen geico toyota camry. geico, saving people money on more than just car insurance. >> this is a fox news alert from new york. the national weather service lifting the hurricane warning for south carolina late thursday. irene is expected to make landfall in north carolina. a hurricane warning has been issued for much of the wilmington area. forecasters expect irene to reach new york on sunday. as greta reported earlier, officials are preparing for the possiblities of having to shut d

. >> the ground shock. [ inaudible ] [ sirens ] >> greta: griff jenkins headed to virginia. he stopped at a school near the epicenter to find out what happen. >> reporter: we are inside a high school, perhaps one of the hardest hit of this quake. folks here were kind enough to let us in to see the extent of damage. you can see it behind me. we would like to take you through and show you some pictures. clearly, structural damage here. quite a lot seems to be a buckle in the roof here. you can see the damage that came down. more cracked walls, severely damaged wall here. the ceiling, which gave way. the school now is closed until after labor day. the building folks trying to determine whether it is safe. what kind of structural damage might have happened. that of course isn't always necessarily evident to the naked eye this is an administrative building. you can see the damage was very significant. things strewn on the walls, book shelves collapsed. files crashing to floor. the gentleman i spoke to said he saw death coming. he felt the floor was going to give. terrifying momen

cnn special investigations unit correspondent drew griff inhas the troubling story. >> he is just 18 possible double life sentence with a senseless murder of a man he never knew, darryl deadman is thin, short with stragly blond harrah cuesed of leading revellers on a mission to find and beat up anyone who is black. >> they discussed let's go get -- i mean, let's get honest, let's get a nigger, right? >> that's right. >> robert schuller smith says the witness accounts tell a story of a crime that would seem to come out of mississippi's troubled past. on june 26th leaving an all night -- rank incounty mississippi in search of a black person to "mess with. >> out of hate? >> out of hate. that's exactly. no doubt in your mind this was a racially motivated. hate motivated. let's kill a black guy crime. >> absolutely. they were looking for a black victim to assault. and even kill in this instance. >> they drove 16 miles on a freeway heading west at 5:00 a.m. that sunday morning, the teens in two vehicles took the ellis avenue off ramp leading to a predominantly black section of jackson. ju

. >> greta: i'm sending griff jenkins to catch that video at bill o'reilly's house. 11 p.m.h bill o'reilly. >> the border between the u.s. and mexico is 2,000 miles long. right now 1300 of those miles are wide open, no fence. one arizona lawmaker working to change that. wait until you hear who is helping. >> this is really wear. is colonel gadhafi in love with former secretary of state condoleeza rice? we'll show you the photos, stay tuned. [ male announcer ] do you have questions about medicare? with over 30 years of medicare experience, unitedhealthcare medicare solutions can help. just give us a call. the annual enrollment period to switch your medicare coverage is earlier this year, from october 15th to december 7th, so now is a great time to review your situation. call now or visit us online to get this free answer guide from unitedhealthcare medicare solutions. call right now. . >> greta: do you know wants to pay for a fence between arizona and the united states? you will in 60 seconds. but first let's go to our new york newsroom. >> reporter: more on hurricane irene.

host: done griff yin is on the phone with us vice president of the property casualty insurers association of america. caller: good morning. host: give us a sense of what the insurance industry is going through now and what can it expect following the storm? caller: well, as we looked at the reports that i've seen so far, what i'm seeing is this is more of a rain and flooding event more than a wind damage event, although there is some significant wind damage along the coast obviously. but the slow churning of this storm and this pace at which it's moving is causing to a lot of rain to be dumped on these areas. and that's what's probably what i'm seeing is causing more problems than anything else. that will be also key for insurance that looks to be more of a flooding event and flood insurance is a separate policy that most people buy through their agent or their company. but it's underwritten by the national flood insurance program which is a federal program. host: for those who haven't dealt with this before, what should they know about filing of claims and that type of thing? i imagine t