randy kay, cnn, new york. >> the u.s. department of homeland security is set to run out of money today. that's the agency in charge of airport screenings and border security and that has some people worried about protecting the u.s. against attack extremist groups. >> the final accounting is done 2014 would have been the most lethal year for global terrorism. about the dangers of cutting off funding for the agency that keeps americans safe. >> american people are frightened and rightfully so. isis appears to have money. terrorist ace peer to have money. why shouldn't our homeland have the ability to protect itself? >> meanwhile the homeland security secretary is on capital hill again walking the halls, begging lawmakers to fully fund his department. >> this is not just an inside the beltway political jousting. a failure to fund the department of homeland security fully has real impacts on public safety. >> this is a vieolation of our constitution and it needs to be addressed and we are doing it. >> is it worth shutting do

rani kay looks at who -- randi kaye looks is the who is on the list and why. >> reporter: the posterds, "wanted dead or alive for crimes against islam," published by al qaeda. those picture read people who criticized or satirized the muslim faith. in the eyes will manipulatetant islam, punished by death. solomon rushdie. 1988 he publishes "the satanic verses." a book highly critical of islam. protests erupt book stores in the u.s. and britain and a newspaper are bombed. iran's ayatollah issues a fattah ordering the killing. >> i think people think because nobody's killing me there isn't anybody trying to kill me. that's not true. i wish it were. >> reporter: 2004, douche filmmaker theo van go publishes "submission," criticizing the treatment of women in islam. a few months after the film's release, virginiahe's shot to death in amsterdam. his killer an islamist serving life in prison. van go's partner in "submission" is also on the hit list. ian hearse ali. and kurt wester guard. the cartoonist draws an image of the prophet muhammad with a bomb in his tushan. muslims -- turban. musli