. >> reporter: many of the volunteers we met are military veterans, like 29-year-old jeremy woodard, who spent years fighting in iraq and afghanistan but struggled back home. >> it was hard to get a job. you can barely get a job at mcdonald's flipping a burger. they look at you, they see your resume, serving in the u.s. army honorably, but they look at you like you're a hazard, like you're going to hurt somebody. >> reporter: when the islamic state swept through iraq last summer, woodard also left family behind, jumping at the chance to get involved in the fight, in honor of his fellow soldiers who fought and died in the u.s. war in iraq. >> all those people got killed over here for fighting for a cause. i didn't want them to die in vain. >> reporter: woodard's unit has seen some combat, fighting alongside the peshmerga. back in april, they were able to establish this defensive line, after a fierce battle with i.s. fighters, a force these volunteers say is one to be reckoned with. >> we don't recognize them as terrorists, we recognize them as an actual army. they're well trained, sop

we need to establish order and there's been somewhat of a makeshift government set up run by alfre woodardtremendous actress. >> very good actress. and nathan james makes port in baltimore, which is the last place you want to die in baltimore. so from there we need to cure the sick. >> it's going to be a great season. >> bigger higher faster stronger. >> what drew you to this? this is a departure from where we last saw you as mcsteamy. this is a different turn for you and a chance to go in a very different way. what appealed most about this character for you? >> i think a lot of it had to do with the fact that it was a lot different than what i was doing. and the people involved were very appealing to me. the creators of the show are tremendous writers. and michael bay, you know is michael bay. >> enough said, right? >> i love this character. i'm having a blast with this role. it's the best job i've ever had. >> did you do a lot of research into the world of the military? did you shadow naval officers? because we know that part of it is shot -- >> yeah. we go into san diego and we're on th

>> bob woodard aim out to release the results of the 30-day review of what went wrong, and he said that he was shocked by what the investigators found in that initial investigation. and essentially, they found that the anthrax satchels that were shipped all around the world all failed to be properly neutralized at the army's dugway proving ground facility in utah. but the report didn't find any single root cause for the problem. and in fact, it says that the workers at dugway had followed the protocols correctly. it turns out that the problem was the protocols and they were the culprit. >> there's no national standard. so each of the labs had to make their own protocols and test them for their viability. obviously, in the other lacks it seemed to work. dugway, it did not. we believe we know why. there's a combination of large production volume, low sampling volume on the testing for inactivation material for viability testing and there was a very short period of time between the time dugway irradiated the sample and declared it dead, and the viability test to conclude that it was. >> so

woodard is a pediatrician. she opposed the bill. category. >> for me would it certainly be a prior vaccine reaction but also a family history of auto immune disease. so sibling had autism would i not vaccinate that next child. >> governor act the quickly in favor of the bill saying while it's true no medical intervention is without risk. evidence shows that immunization powerfully benefits and protects the community. marin county has the highest in california with vaccine exemption. number of exemptions more than doubled from 3.7% in 2002 to 7. 8% in 2012. but that number has gone down in marin county. after a 2014 law required that parents talk first with the pediatrician. >> i think the word is out that vaccines protect our kids and protect our communities and that these diseases are still around. >> also no longer can family request an exemption because of religious beliefs. >> also today assembly committee voted to approve a bill rearing that any one who works at day care center be also vaccinated. in the newsroom, abc 7 news. >