and, um, when we seeked out the foundations, they were able to assist us like semper fi fund and operation home front, soldiers' angels. i mean, there's so many that, um, that do -- there are great foundations that help and assist, yes. >> great. thank you. >> uh-huh. >> mr. rieckhoff, infoáó your written testimony you state that long-term costs between 600 billion and a trillion to care for oef, oif veterans alone. i mentioned learning more about your estimate. is this a study conducted by you folk or any other organization that would come up -- >> i think this is, actually, to the doctor's earlier point. estimates are all over the place. and in part because we don't have real good research on a lot of things. um, so, you know, these are high-end, low-end estimates that come from a variety of places ranging from, um, from rand to harvard researchers to veterans' groups. and i think two things we have to identify to earlier questions is on homelessness the va just released their new numbers of 10,000. those numbers are really fuzzy. places like veterans don't even count people when they go

this story as well about the aristocracy in america the one point two trillion dollar peak under semper fifth two thousand and eight the combined outstanding balance under the seven programs tallied by bloomberg was almost three times the size of the us federal budget deficit that year so again federal budget deficit huge story riling up the masses where where is it about the banks where do they why don't they care about it but it's a debt ceiling debate that is washington for weeks compared to one point two trillion dollars in looting and again yes the point you make is a good one you can. test a gay looters on the street in london and point to them as being morally reprehensible while at the same time being accommodating for the looting going on in the banking system in the city of london and i don't understand why this is such a stretch for david cameron and i see tony blair opened his paw a hole last week and so on to demoralise now that he's good friends with the pope about what really should be done in a society that respects human rights while he is the guy who oversaw the transf

he's someone who came from a very much a al qaeda semper if you are sympathetic background, and with the matured through some really unusual circumstances to become an informant for the cia while all the time being in al qaeda's campus and sympathies, he played a double game with us and made him a triple agent working for al qaeda spying for the united states. >> guest: if he's a triple agent what did each person who dealt with this, he's a doctor, a pediatrician, what did they think they were getting from him before the bombing he carried out in afghanistan? >> guest: the weekend to the intelligence agency was as a blocker for the chehab web site. he was a very radicalized young man, doctor who lived a fairly normal life and he decided to write off this very caustic internet blog under an assumed name and did this a number of years in which he criticized his own government, criticized u.s. policy and israel and was very much pro al qaeda and would sometimes take al qaeda's words and try to interpret them and bring them down to language that ordinary young people could understand. he

>> semper fi, north carolina. we survived irene in nyc! >> and everybody else did here. >>> let's get to the boards. there's more tropics on the board here. take a look at jose, this one not expected to be a threat to the u.s. mainland. we're going to watch that. see that other tropical depression on the lower end, that could easily become katia. we got to watch that very carefully. very comfortable this morning. little cool for me. but, okay, it's nice. philly coming in at 78. gets up into the 80s. also nice on the west coast. portland at 78. but inland, that's where all of the heatatnd fires are roaring through so >> we're live in times square with our storm survivors. robin, george and lara. >> thank you sam. >>> and here's a look at what's coming up -- the best, the worst and the weirdest fashions from music's biggest night. >>> and are you obsessed with your pores, would you do anything to shrink them to get smooth skin? the latest skin treatments. >>> and finally, we went shopping at some pawnshops across the country, you won't believe some of the things that we fo