the sad reality and ken george is another nine eleven search and rescue worker he's very ill and he shared his story with me last winter we caught up with him earlier this evening and i thought i started off by asking him how with help it's now take a listen. that's the quantity skip and worse little at a time a month like t.j. was saying i'm on oxygen and you know i try not to use it too much in the house because i'm kind of embarrassed to like when my daughter's friends are over my granddaughter calls on the little string on my nose so you know ten bags can sometimes but that's what's happening to us nine eleven responders each time we keep getting sicker and sicker each time we go to about the something else is wrong you know is it just getting worse i'm so sorry to hear that i know you know one of the things when we last spoke you were looking to this is before the drug health bill had passed and now president obama has signed it and now before starting to get paid but was that a solution for many of your friends in your nine eleven first responder community who are second no doubt or

ken george was there, too. he helped recover human remains. ken, what...has your health experience been? >> ken george: oh, i got a list. >> pelley: everybody's got a list, it sounds like. >> george: it started with the 9/11 cough i had, which led me to have rads-- restricted airway disease-- which means i can't get enough oxygen in or out. like these people said, the sinuses, i have all that. so it's just started snowballing out of control, you know what i mean? and who knows if, five years down the line, if i'm going to wind up with cancer, you know. i just want to make sure i'm... my family's taken care of, if anything happens, you know? i just don't want them to be out on the street. >> luft: any pain? >> pelley: paying their medical bills has been a struggle. funding for the world trade center health program was never certain until this year, when congress guaranteed coverage. but that guarantee lasts only the next five years; the illnesses and the mental trauma are likely to last a lifetime. >> tyree bacon: one thing nobody's mentioned, but we all ha

and here now is someone else who made event sacrifices in nine eleven ken george he is a nine eleven search and rescue worker thank you for being on the show you know the last time i interviewed you i was actually in new york and i came to your house and i went to your doctor with you when you share your story with our audience you're back again today how's your health can. it's to quantity skitt worse little bit of trauma like t.j. was say you know when oxygen. but you know i try not to use it too much in the house because i'm calling a barrister and work on my daughter's friends are over that really go to calls or the street only knows so you know it's embarrassing sometimes but that's what's happening because none of their responses each time we get sick and we sit there each time we go there we've got this something else is wrong you know it's getting worse i'm so sorry to hear that i know you know one of the things when we last spoke you were looking to add that this was before there's a drug a health bill had passed and now president obama has signed and now people are starting

ken burns is, man. hey, can i ask you something? have you been to george clooney's villa? did have a drink with him the other day. >> stephen: did you really? did you keep your clothes on? >> we didn't jump in. it was cold in the mountains of colorado. >> the shrinky-dink. >> you've got a new three-part documentary. it starts this sunday. sunday, monday and tuesday at 8:00 p.m. on cbs. it's called prohibition. >>prohibition was started in 19. >> before '33. >> how drunk was america before prohibition? >> so drunk. we drank three times the quantity that we dank. that was the reason for the... >> stephen: how much would a man drink in a year? >> 90 bottles per capita. but women didn't drink, so maybe 180. >> how sweet. >> we had a saloon culture, and people were laid out, families were in distress and they decided over the course of the 19th century was that the best thing to do was to take the problem that 10% of the problem was to apply it to 100% of the people. to have the only amendment to the constitution that limits human freedom and the only one thank goodness that wa

i don't care if it is george ken and he didn't sit here and talk about about the whole defense or geopolitical strategy by fleeing out of these research studies, she said this is a direction and many convincing arguments that's where we are today. you don't have to have it perfected to read part of the enemy is good here and maybe not enough but what we are going to have to shoot for and that's why we are using this term go big because it has to bend the curve. 60% of gdp, that ratio is a serious number. if you only do one day you are going to be 75. into years you are going to be 100 that is not sustainable. it has to be multi year and i think everyone says the least fortunate are having a hard time. poverty rates are up, joblessness is there. this cannot be just honing the cuts immediately. it has to be phased in but the need to know the signal is there and then address the problems. i don't know about pete's charts but if you look at where the system is going, the discretionary spending is becoming a very small portion of the federal budget. and this being automatic programs that is going t

george w. bush and former president bill clinton, interior secretary ken sales yar is expected to attend and also tom corbit. the pentagon paying tribute to the victims there laying a wreath of white flowers by a memorial stone that's embedded in the wall of pentagon where american airlines flight 77 crashed into the building killing 184 people there. we'll have live coverage from all three 9/11 crash sites on the c-span networks through much of the day tomorrow. for today, live coverage of the gathering here in shanksville. we expect things to kick off at about 12:30 eastern time. the main ceremony is running a little bit late because of some flooding and muddy conditions in the area. again, vice president biden expected to attend and former presidents george w. bush and president bill clinton. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ laws laws. [applause] >> bringing you a live look here at shanksville pennsylvania, for the dedication of the first phase of the memorial being built at the site of the crash of flight 93 which will honor the 44 people who lost their lives nearly 10 years ago in the 9/11 attacks. we saw j