and george nichols meeting with shimon peres, she in the region with peace talks between israelis and palestinians. >> gregg: since 1997, congress has spent close to $100 million a year replenishing beach sand to cape may to san diego. recipients dumping tons of it in front of luxury hotels and each year like sand, it all gets washed away. william takes a look at your tax dollars at work. >> this is the worst type of pork barrel federal projects for the wealthiest people. >> congress gives $100 million on sand on american beaches every year. >> literally after the first year the sand washes away. >> from flawed to florida to california, coastal communities lobby congress to buff up their beaches over and over again. they replenished one beach in new jersey for $24 million, another 22 times for $83 million. >> this is another part of maintaining an absolutely critical aspect and basically the reason why most of us move to the coast in the first place. >> the beach in encinitas cost $14 million but the mayor says it's worth it. >> when you think how important the beach is to people's qu

referring to the reaction of the former israeli president shimon peres. it reads "peres, u.n. gaza report makes mockery of history." >>> the united nations report, while accusing both israel and hamas, singled out israel for particularly harsh criticism. the israeli government refused to cooperate with the investigation, saying that the outcome was prejudged. joining us now for more on the israeli government's position is yossi peled, administer in the current government and a former general in the israeli army. welcome to "worldfocus." why won't israel investigate what happened in gaza? >> israel investigated in many ways what happened in gaza. what we think about this report of this committee is the first time that hamas get the -- by the mandate of this committee the first time that hamas get the kind of legitimate organization by mandate. secondly, in this report, nothing has been mentioned about seven, eight years the south part of israel was under attack by hamas shelling, rockets. >> well, the report does single out both the israeli government's actions and hamas, but i

yesterday on cnn, russian president dimitri medvedev and israeli president shimon peres assured him, said that -- peres assured him that israel would not launch a strike against iran's facilities. foreign minister responded today he said the russian president might have misunderstood or misinterpreted peres. >> i don't think that with all due respect that the russian president is authorized to speak for israel and certainly we have not taken any option off t table. >> the head of the israeli military rarely gives interviews but today he too spoke out on the issue. he said diplomatic pressure remains the best way to deal with iran's nuclear program but the military option remains on the table. iranian officials say they plan to use their nuclear facilities solely to generate energy but there is international concern that iran may have a secret nuclear weapons program. >>> we're continuing to follow developments from a murder investigation that stretch fresflorida to haiti. the associated press reports fleece haiti have now detained a man wanted for questioning in the murder of his wif