. >> didi saunders shops for her infant grandson at a thrift store in texas. her daughter is a soldier at the nearby army base, fort hood. >> that's how she pays her ren. >> saunders is worried how her daughter's family will get through a government shutdown. she is worried about all soldiers. >> they are fighting, doing stuff for the country. why don't the government do it. >> more than 42,000 soldiers are stationed at fort hood. without a congressional resolution they'll report to duty on tuesday and work without pay until a bill gets the president's sit. only then will soldiers be compensated retroactively. >> nothing can do, helpless. >> this woman works at the thrift store to make ends meet. if her husband, a sergeant, loses their paycheck, the family of six will be unable to meet basic needs. >> our rent, our utilities - do you know what i mean? necessities. survival. >> if a shutdown happens, the first missed military paycheck will be october 15th, applying to soldiers who are deployed. usaa offering banking services to soldiers will allow soldiers to t

. >> deedee saunders shops for her infant grandson at a thrift store. her daughter is a soldier at the nearby army base, fort hood. >> that's how she pays her rent is from the military. >> saunders is worried about how her daughter's family will get through a government shutdown. she says she is worried about all of the soldiers. >> they are fighting and doing stuff for the country. why don't the government do out there and see what it's like and have something took away from them. >> more than 42,000 soldiers are stationed here at forthood. without a congressional resolution, those soldiers will report to duty on tuesday and work without pay until a spending bill gets the president's signature. only then will soldiers be compensated retroactively. >> nothing i can do. like totally helpless. >> monsana rodriguez works at the thrift store. she said if her husband, a sarge event, loses his paycheck, their family of six would be unable to meet their basic needs. >> our rent, our utilities. you know what i mean? necessities. survival. >> if a shutdown happe

. >> didi saunders shops for her infant grandson at a thrift store. her daughter is a soldier at the nearby base fort hood. >> saunders is worried how her daughter's family will get through the shutdown, and is worried about all soldiers. >> they are fighting for the county. >> more than 42,000 soldiers are based at fort hood. without a congressional resolution the soldiers will report to work tuesday and work out pay until the bill gets the president's signature. only then will they be compensated retro actively. >> nothing i can do. >> this woman works at the thrift store to make ends meet. she said if her husband, a sergeant, loses his pay the family will be unable to meet basic needs. >> our rent, our utilities - do you know what i mean. necessities. survival. >> if a shutdown happen the first missed military pay check will be october 15th. that applies to soldiers that are deployed. usaa offering banking services to soldiers will allow members to take out no interest payroll advance loans. >> these are families serving our country and it's unfort

welcome, george saunders. [ applause ] >> nice to have you here. >> thank you very much. incredible year for you. your book "tenth of december" shoots to the of the best seller list at the beginning of the year. the speech goes viral. we found out yesterday you got nominated for the national book award. >> that's wonderful. >> that's great. >> yeah. >> tell us about the commencement speech. i read that you didn't actually know the power of it from the first reaction. >> no. it was a nice reaction. but you know, as often when you're doing a thing like that, you're focused on the three people asleep. so, it was a nice reaction. and i went home and thought, i'm done. now, i can get through my summer. and a couple months later, it kind of took off. >> it completely blew up. >> where did it spring from? i know you sit down to write it. and there's something crystallizes. what is that? >> in this case, i had done the middle school graduation for our daughter when she was graduating. so, i had that speech in mind. i thought, i'll just crib from that. but i couldn't find it. and

though boat owner sherri saunders tells us by phone she and her husband have heard from the police. >ell you or what do they want to know? >> they haven't really told us much. i don't know. they haven't told us anything. they have been taking pictures. >> this is what the boat looks like now. it was towed from washington harbor to a marina in alexandria and for the moment it is sitting in the parking lot. >> it has an obvious hole and the inside is completely ruined, damaged, because the fuel was leaking. >> saunders say they lent the boat to a friend saturday evening. fortunately the friend had gone ashore to eat and no one was on the boat when it was hit. no one seems to know for sure but several boaters said they heard police were responding to a call about people in the water. >> it's kind of scary, but i mean, i think now that they know something like that can happen, they will be more cautious. >> everyone seems to agree, the police boat was going entirely too fast. >> i'm glad it wasn't my boat and i hope whoever it was is embarrassed, ashamed and that the district takes care o

. >> didi saunders shops for her grandson at a thrift store. her daughter is a soldier at the nearby army base, fort hood. >> saunders is worried how her daughters family will get through a shutdown. >> they are fighting. why don't they do it and see what it's like. >> more than 42,000 soldiers are stationed at fort hood. without a congressional resolution they'll report to duty on tuesday and work without pay until a bill gets the president's sit. only then will the soldiers be compensated retroactively. >> nothing i can do, helpless. >> this lady works at the thrift store to make ends meet. she says if her husband, a sergeant, loses his paycheck the family of six will be unable to meet basic needs. our rent, utilities - do you know what i mean? necessities. survival. >> if the shut down happens, the first pay check would be october 15th. that applies to soldiers who are deployed. usa a, which offers banking services to soldiers says it will allow members to take out no interest payroll advance loans. . >> these are families that are serving o

joe del grasso and nathan saunders of washington, d.c. >> city schools are terrible because of unions like yours. >> i would disagree. we have progress as a result of unions. >> save our schools! >> three days before saunders led this protest march to complain about plans to pay teachers based on how well the students do on tests. the protesters evend an antitest song ♪ i think i know why the union doesn't like testing. your results are awful. they are among the lowest in the nation. >> you make an argument that it is the lowest in the nation based upon the test scores. now, i would say that ours can get better but i would say that ours are -- >> your predecessors the unions have been saying that for years. >> the unions have a advocated for high quality ed glace but not achieving it. >> our test scores are not what we choose to focus on. we choose to focus on teaching kids. >> how do you know if they are learning anything if you don't test them and compare. >> i know my kids are learning when i look in their eyes. >> the protesters had celebrity is support. actor matt damon. he was a

. >> saunders is worried how her daughter's family will get through a shutdown, and is worried about all soldiers. >> they are frightened and doing stuff for the country, why don't the government do it. >> more than 42,000 soldiers are stationed at fort hood. without a congressional resolution they will report to duty on tuesday and work without pay until the bill gets the president's signature. only then will soldiers be compensated retro actively. >> nothing i can do, helpless. >> this woman works at the tlist store to make ends meet. if her husband, a sergeant, loses his pay check their family of six will be unable to meet their basic needs. >> our rent, our utilities - do you know what i mean? necessities. survival. >> if the shutdown happens the first missed military pay check will be october 15th. it applies to deployed soldiers. usaa, which offers banking services to soldiers says it will allow members to take out no interest pay roll advance loans. >> these are families serving our country. it's unfortunate they have to deal with the uncertainty. >> the uncertainty will conti

third place, brandon saunders, queens, new york, $174,000. 94 hours in winner's row.econd place, haley jensen, from new york. there $203,000. and still unshaven, andrew krab, first place, law school grad from michigan. so, andrew, has it been a little intimidating to see devon come on and have a run? >> i got to say he's a great player, one to watch out for. >> ryan: and haley, let's grab haley, good to see you again. >> hi. >> ryan: still smiling, we like that. i understand that you decorated your pod. >> i did. i took some pictures of my family to keep me company. >> ryan: oh, well good luck. to all of you. see you out there in a little bit. coming up, nathan plays against our line jumper. we met her last night, when al roker surprised her in new york city. she's a building comedienne, who has her very own "you tube" channel. she is a lot of fun. she plays next on "the million second quiz" right back. you s 4 cell phones 7 socks and 6 weeks of sleep but one thing you don't want to lose is any more teeth. if you wear a partial, you are almost twice as likely to lose

i want to bring in lee saunders, president of the american federation of state, county and municipalod to see you, lee. good morning. >> good morning. >> where do you stand on obama care? >> we support obama care 100%. we know there will be some kinks that have to be worked out but you have to expect that. you had kinking in the social security program, you had kinks in the medicare program, so it's up to the concerned parties to sit down and talk about the problems that exist and work those problems out. but overall we think that it's a good program, it will be a good program. it will provide health care for millions of people across this country and we support it. >> you're a huge union so you understand what the challenges are. so what do you think specifically short of repeal would get unions on board with it? >> well, i think unions are on board. again, we just want to take a look at some of the areas that have problems. for example, the taft-hartley plans, the private sector unions where they provide their own health insurance, they are left out and they do not get the kind of

liz ann saunders from charles schaub joins us from her office in connecticut.s coming out of the woodwork saying they saw the fed was not going to taper. please tell me you were surprised by yesterday's nontaper. >> a little bit, yeah. we had no reason to be outside of the consensus. the only thing i will say, though, when i started to write my post fed commentary which i started to write before the fed announcement, thank god i didn't write the entire thing assuming they were going to do something. part of what i was thinking about was the possibility they would be contradicting themselves. a lot of people were talking about the fact they would lower their economic guidance and that would be a so-called offset to the tapering. when, in fact, that was -- that would have been a bit of a contradiction. okay, we're tapering, which sends the message that the economy is better. oh, by the way, we're also lowering our economic guidance. so what they did was a little bit more consistent. >> liz ann, how do you want to allocate capital given what we know right now from

coming up on our thousand days staring at the walls that's the fate of wiki leaks editor julian saunders who says he was still stranded inside ecuador's embassy in london with little hope of leaving following a lengthy spell of house arrest for now says on that shortly. the radiation level at japan's fukushima nuclear power plant is eighteen times higher than previously reported scans show that in some areas it could kill a person exposed to it in just four hours independent nuclear consultant sean bernie believes that the situation at the plant crippled by a two thousand and eleven earthquake and tsunami is only going to deteriorate. do you have that's the picture. as it's the picture so again with a very complex three reactor meltdown and spent fuel in the pools saying they probably don't have enough workers on site their workers and to get it going since they're not being told about the themselves or putting them in the. and then going forward this is a problem is only going to get worse there is already way we get it into absolute certainty the amount on site to keep saying it's beca

her homework on this story still counting the votes but is there actually a real chance that mr saunders could gain a seat landing can't call them outstanding exactly but poll watchers are calling a sarge a wild card candidate he's got the power to pull votes away from other australian anti-establishment parties such as family first the pirate party and the sex party you heard that right those three opposition parties he has the power to to to get good tension away from them just with his name alone and also with his campaign because it's been very colorful hasn't yes it has absolutely his campaign for a seat in australia senate as you mentioned has consisted mostly of social media blitz is in virtual town hall meetings along with a mullet wig music video where the candidates recorded his own version of oz icon john farnham activism and i'm sure the voice of that you. didn't please the president of ecuador too much that this was shot in the ecuadorian embassy but that's another story altogether but i have been making some serious points to the haven't they that we can expect you know man

hrafnsson told us the outcome of the recent high profile whistleblower trial has been worried about saunders fate it is quite. transcript of the trial against chelsea manning and see what kind of arguments were raised there and how often we can use was not mentioned in the trial that there is a very strong possibility that the next target is julia sands and it might also already be an indictment against him and all the others in our organization we see as well the escalating war against to those who commit the act of journalism and this is escalating from month to month the argument is this that bradley manning was the first whistle blower and he was history who has been. prosecuted and found guilty on the basis of espuelas journalists will come next could possibly be we could lose all the media organizations it's a real possibility and we know all about the on investigation in the u.s. into we could leave which has been now going on for three years and probably cost. quite a sum of money because it has been cited as one of the biggest criminal investigation in la times in the u.s. so it is

. >> bob saunder prepares for his commute to become three hours in a car to hayward. >> you can't shut things down like this. it is not good for anyone. commerce, everything loses. it's unfortunate. >> lawmakers and governor brown have no intention of intervening. the talks are long and the mood is tense. after today, there are only eight scheduled negotiations before the october 11th strike. in oak land, sue quan kpix 5. >>> tonight, four people are homeless, but no one injured. the cause of the fire is under investigation. >>> a couple of mangled police cruisers and a crash pickup is what's left after a man led cops through a chase in hayward this morning. officers say the driver sped off after they tried to pull him over. officers arrested him after he crashed into another car. those two officers surfed minor injuries. >> . >> the man behind the wheel of the car crash is in the hospital and under arrest for suspected car burglar resistant. san jose police responded to calls just after 4:00 this morning that two suspects were breaking into cars. the men fled in two separate cars. one

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welcome to the labor picture my uncle king saunders seen here in the right hand picture at my parents' wedding was a newspaperman your ported for several papers during his career and from one nine hundred thirty eight to the one nine hundred fifty s. he was the editor of the motor wheel news a weekly newspaper for one of the big auto plants in lansing michigan all the paper was paid for and published by. or we'll company it covered mostly labor issues in the may fifteenth one nine hundred thirty eight edition of the motor real news uncle king published an illustration that showed our wages the typical income of working people as opposed to rent and interest income typical income of rich people had been steadily rising since the civil war as you can see quote in eight hundred fifty approximately thirty eight percent of the national income was dispersed or paid out in wages and salaries by one thousand and nine that figure had increased to fifty four percent and today and this was written in may have nine hundred thirty eight sixty six point five percent of the national income is disper

arlene hope baker currently serves as the afl-cio's executive vice president and lee saunders serves as the president of asme. today labor unions are still on the forefront of efforts to ensure that the gains of the past are maintained and that those who fight for dignity and equality continue to march on. i encourage my colleagues in congress to continue to honor the traditions of the davis-bacon wage protections that have helped cement labor agreements and other fair practices that have helped the african-american community and all americans achieve prosperity nd economic security and as we think about what has transpired last month, with the march on washington and the commemoration of 50 years, we think about all of the great things that dr. king did in his service to our country, while god allowed him to live on this earth, and one of my favorite quotes by dr. king, and i'll close out with this, as i've said many times and believe with all my heart, the coalition that can have the greatest impact in the struggle for human dignity here in america is that of the negro and the forc

saunders -- dr. southers.gent and was fbi governor arnold schwarzenegger's deputy director for critical infrastructure. he is currently the associate director of research transition ofthe dhs's center for risk terrorism. these are the four gentlemen who authored the report. i will turn it over to peter to tell us about what they found. >> thank you, carie. thank you for having us on your bbc, forank you publishing the report. thank you to the researchers who played a critical role in the report. what does the reports that? -- say? we deal with the domestic and international threat. news on thee good domestic side and also some bad news. the good news is, the number of cases of jihadist terrorism cases has been following. it is not a perfect indication, but it is an indication. in 2009, there were 41 jihadist terrorism cases of people living in the u.s. accused of some kind of terrorism crime. this year, there have been only six. report, ae in the downward trend. another take on the domestic keaway on thea dome

if you watched million second quiz last night, brandon saunders, the big winner. -- almost $175,000. what was it like up there during the whole thing? >> well it was windy which kept my mind away from the fact that it was nerve racking to be up there with all the people and ryan seacrest. >> you had the win, you had the pressure. you're racking up the stuff. what's your strategy? >> my strategy, i try not to overthink it. i answered the question. >> this is your sleeping pod over here. >> haven't been used yet. >> you haven't slept yet? >> not yet. i'm wearing the same thing i was last night. >> i was going to say. how long have you been awake? >> i got to the million second quiz grounds at about 9:00 in the morning. >> how long do you think you'll stay awake. >> not much longer to be honest. >> okay. >> brandon, thanks so much. coming up matt, we're heading upstairs to show you this massive set and we're going to meet the latest line jumper. that's all coming up. >> all right, al, we'll check in with you in a couple of minutes. meanwhile, diana nyad is talking to