joe koch has spent more time here than any of them.the volunteering to you is the right way to spend the retirement? >> yes. it's worth keeping me alive. >> hope is the real magic medicine here. hope and ice cream for breakfast. >> there you go. >> mark strassmann, cbs news, kissimmee, florida. >>> that's where we'll leave it this friday morning. before we go, after your local news on "cbs this morning," the latest on the race for the white house as mitt romney tackles medicare and his taxes. we'll get reaction from republican wisconsin governor scott walker. plus, gun sales across the country are at record highs. we'll see what's behind the increase and andy grammar stops by studio 57. at and more a little later on "cbs this morning." that is the "cbs morning news" for this friday. happy friday everybody. have a great weekend. appreciate you watching as always. i'm terrell brown. take care. i'm terrell brown. take care. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> we are on the scene of some breaking news right now in s

. >> reporter: joe koch retired as a philadelphia mailman in 1989. >> hello!ree days a week, he still delivers gifts for children who need reason to smile. the 84-year-old has volunteered for nearly 20 years at give kids the world. you spent how many hours here over the years? >> well, over 20,000 now. >> reporter: okay, that's a full-time job for about 10 years. >> yeah. >> reporter: give kids the world is a charity resort that houses sick kids and their families while they visit orlando's theme parks free of charge. last year, more than 7,000 families came here for what is too often their last vacation together. volunteers like koch try to give them the best week of their lives. >> things have happened where the children never open their eyes or never even talked until they came here. i mean, it's a miracle. it's like a miracle place. >> reporter: 11 years ago, alyssa pietruszka came to the resort. she had been in hospice care with stage three kidney cancer. this is alyssa today. >> right when my parents got the news that i was diagnosed, i saw them cry real

koch brothers, of course. for the issue of the day, i have to ask you about a comment that the vice president made yesterday here for all of our viewers and listeners, vice president joed romney's plan to, as he calls it unshackle wall street by getting rid of all of the government regulations. >> romney wants -- he said in the first 100 days, he is going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, unchain wall street. they are going to put y'all back in chains. >> romney calls it a new low in american politics, elliott . >> this is, again, the romney campaign desperate to find something to change the topic. they are the ones used the metaphor of being shack he would. >> unchain wall street. >> you know, they are going to shackle you. i don't even know where to start. it's all this kind of popped onto the wires. this is worse thank silliness. finally, talking about substance. let's stay on substance. let's talk medicare. let's talk taxes. let's talk the real issues we are down to about, you know, 12 weeks to go or something, if i am right. let's get serious about this. >> i think clearly, joe biden was making a play on words, on their own words. right? to u

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