schaffer has taken to social media contacting "action news" through facebook and posting his dad story my dad got up to get a cup of coffee and my step-mom stood there at the gate when he didn't come back he got worried. >> his dad and pom were in terminal d playing from houston soto surprise him when his dad had a heart attack. a nurse passing by stopped to help his dad, grabbing a nearby defibry later. >> i strongly believe without that rn that happened to be passing by, giving him those first two shots until the paramedics arrived i don't know he would have made it. >> they talked to everyone involved that day and no one knows who this woman s they think she probably was a passenger that went on to catch her next flight. >> thank you first of all first and foremost that can't even come close to my gratitude. i want to personally be able to thank them and tell them welcome to the family. >> schaffer is helping with a little help from some on-line friends he will have a chance do just that. at philadelphia international, eva pilgrim, "action news" at 10 on phl17. >> and australian man

penn township police say schaffer called westmoreland county's 911 center three times on july 30th. the first time he claimed he'd fallen down some stairs. when paramedics arrived, he was waiting for them. authorities say he was intoxicated but not hurt. >>> stuck in the dark. hundreds of thousands of people were without power for days after last winter's ice storm. tough to think about. plans are already in the works to prevent outages like that from happening again. what pico and a local town are doing to prepare for mother nature's worst. >>> flu season isn't far way. the big question is, are you prepared to battle the bug? we have new information now about how many people across the tri-state area have gotten their flu shots. >>> a developing story in philadelphia. you're looking live now at concerned community members are hoping an informational picket outside central high school. this is outside the logan school where roughly 200 people have gathered. by the way, it's back to school night in the central communities, apparently using the occasion to protest the second year of d

looking at the number of breaches in recent years, utah congressman jason schaffer says it better. >> one secret service agent that i talked to said we just keep getting lucky. we can't rely on luck. we have great men and women, but leadership and protocol, i got serious questions about that. >> and he'll have a chance to ask those questions tomorrow. the house committee overseeing the secret service will question director julia pierson tomorrow about those security lapses. >>> the u.s. military says the campaign against isis is working even as president obama made a surprise confession about the terrorist group. on 60 minutes the president admitted he didn't see immediately the sunni terrorist group was gathering strength. >> our head of the intelligence community, jim clapper, has acknowledged that i think they underestimated what had been taking place in syria. president obama explained isis became stronger during syria's two year civil war. so far america and its allies have carried out 229 airstrikes in iraq and 59 in syria. military officials say there's no evidence of any civil

bob schaffer has more on what it after a lot of the plot and tax dollars spent and other things to tell us why we need to go metric is in trick system that's about to go. he wasn't talking about ronald reagan didn't ask the metric system. he descended a something called the u.s. metric board delete either was playing in one of them earlier. the report went on to interview a few folks about these issues including these two who are arch enemies. tom wolfe was working on the vanities but his big point had been the right stuff of astronauts. so he goes on and was noting that nassau has managed to go to the moon and it was to blame on the blame on the collectibles he believed things were done better in europe and for the most obedient colonials when it comes to things intellectual. the other guy wolves have actually introduced and have been one of the merry pranksters that he had gone on to found the catalog in his commencement speech they called google. he was against anything in the world against the global capitalism which he took the metric system was doing. he also believed really deepl

coming to schaffer meetings for four decades or even more, it's a little short of remarkable that we're marking 25 years since the fall of the berlin wall. it's remarkable because on the one hand we can recall that event so vividly, but on the other hand, it sometimes seems like it took place a lifetime ago. it's also remarkable because for those of us who pursued our degrees and published our first books during the preceding decades, in some cases before the construction of the wall -- [ laughter ] -- its collapse seemed so unimaginable. in fact, if i can indulge you for a second, the year before the collapse, i organized a conference on john foster dulles. no one was more associated with the cold war. some of you were there. there was lots of talk about the integration of europe. the soviets new thinking. glasnost. perestroika but no one was talking about the reunification this was the time john gaddes began their conferences on soviet and american relations. first time soviet and american scholars got together. and scott armstrong had just come up with the idea of this thing called a

lieutenant colonel tony schaffer remembers that well and is concerned if we are not careful we can repeatstory. what do we do to prevent something like that, colonel? >> first off, don't send 3,000 troops. there are things we do. this is a civil matter, not a military matter yet. and there's an organization that, a delta force of medical medical institute of infectious diseases, they're renowned in dealing with this sort of thing. but let me be clear, there's nothing we can do. they're talking about setting up 17 hospitals and essentially making this hospice care for those who die. at this point because there's no cure, the best thing you can do is isolate this so the disease burns itself out. only two things we can do, which don't require 3,000 troops, is gunfire our best and brightest folks to aid cdc, who should be the lead on this, working for w.h.o., and also looking for strategic reconnaissance, working with other allies to figure out where this disease may go vector-wise, through international travel. doesn't require 3,000 boots on the ground. >> what do you think is going to happe

the white house is deny it but lieutenant colonel tony schaffer says we're already seeing it.you know? >> i've talked to member0s the military who

the white house is deny it but lieutenant colonel tony schaffer says we're already seeing it. how do you know? >> i've talked to member0s the military who have signed ordered. there's -- -- we're talking about a thousand folks in iraq itself. then we have the special operations forces which i believe should be the chosen push and cooperative element we work with the kurds on, butxá e have boots on the ground. the president needs to be more honest. >> let's say he does spell it out to the number you alluded, a thousand. is that enough? >> i think we have sufficiently sent forces in to protect those assets, those locations we deem necessary. again, neil, it's not a bad thing. it's just i think he needs to be more clear what he is trying to do, and with that said we clearly have bombs falling on bad guys consistently. we have folks on the ground putting lasers on targets to make sure they bombs go where they're supposed to go otherwise it would be irresponsible. it's not we don't have. we just need to be honest we have returned to some level of military operations, combat operat

tony schaffer joins us now. so i'm not saying we should have boots on the ground to invade. i'm saying we have to use military force precisely with specific objectives in mind to prevent them from having to come here. you guys had mohammed on last week from london, from england. he talks about the radicalization process. we need to stop that thousand. the more people they recruit and the strong horse imagery has a strong cultural significance to them. they're winning. as long as they're able to recruit, that increases the chances of them getting folks who will be able to do operations here because they're european or american and that is what we need to prevent right now. >> tony, you just said if we know they're coming for us. do we know. do we know this is a direct national security threat? >> you sound like pentagon efficients when they were trying to kill able danger. this is not some obscure idea that if we just treat them nicer, they will understand us and leave us a

retired lieutenant colonel tony schaffer says the threat is very real. welcome back to the program. >> thank you for having me. >> a real threat? you wrote a book and it's all about how to get into america if you're a terrorist, and you say that the easiest way is across that board center. >> absolutely. for two reasons though drug dealers are already doing it. it's just a matter of time and let's be totally real here. they have already done partnerships with hezbollah to get operatives in. and the second factor becomes why are they here and what are they going to do? you saw on the news, u.s. citizens have been killed in syria who are members of isis. i'm more worried about the oness who don't get killed who come back here, go through the border and operate or recruits to do things for them. this is real and happening now. and for the audience to understand we wrote this book two years ago, understanding that we were already in a downward spiral at the southwest border. this is the next logical thing that will happen. >> can you point to any known cases

. >> next, bob schaffer host a discussion on the militant group isis and what the u.s. response should be. the panel includes a former bush administration national security office are -- advisor and julianna goldman of cbs news. also part of the csi team, senior advisor on transnational threats, homeland security, and counterterrorism. was the deputy national security advisor in the bush administration. a former federal prosecutor who worked on terrorism cases, including the investigation of the uss cole. finally, julianna goldman, our newest cbs news correspondent. she is based here in washington and she came over from bloomberg in august and has more than a decade of experience. she covered both president obama's presidential campaigns and went with them to china. she got the first one-on-one interview with the president after his reelection and reported from the white house on the night that osama bin laden was killed. wrote but after trying hard to downplay policy in syria and iraq, the white house has dived in. you said the recorded the headings of two americans ha

. >>> today cbs news bob schaffer modrates a discussion when when combatting isis. our live coverage begins at 5:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. >>> some of the upcoming cases include the racial gerrymandering of congressional districts, whistleblower protections and the religious liberties of prisoners live on c-span 2. >>> now a discussion on how the affordable care act is being implemented in southern states including florida, kentucky and texas. this forum hosted by the state university of new york's rockefeller institute is about 90 minutes. >> let's get started. good afternoon and welcome to the national press club. i'm tom gais. the public policy research arm of the state university of new york. today's forum examines implementation of the affordable care act in the south. first we hear an overview of state's responses and then we will hear from individual states from the respective research teams. finally, we will have a wide ranging discussion among four excellent analysts on what the experiences mean to national health reform. the reports and the forum come out