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Over the last month weve been telling you about the tens of thousands of children coming alone across the southern bored he of the united states. since october more than 27,000 children have reached the border. many of them fleeing brutal violence and extreme poverty in their home countries. as part of the obama administrations effort to stem the tide of people crossing the border the united states is sending $225 million in aid money to the three countries of origin for most of the migrant chil...

Force, but many are wondering if that plane did travel for hours away, would this kind of search be shifting in that direction and maybe even scouring the land? that is a very big question. bob woodruff, abc news. >> with the investigation changing moment to moment, stay with abc news as we incover the latest. look for updates on "america this morning" and "good morning america." there is a deal in the senate to extend long-term jobless benefits. that aid program ran out in late december cutti...

To mmubutu of zaire for purely strategic reasons with no attempt to aid the country. theres aid for science, general public health and economic development. the reality is foreign aid programs have to be well designed, properly targeted, and well implemented, like any other effort in the real world, public or private. they must be monitored for corruption and unintended effects. but when these conditions apply, and they do in many, many cases, foreign aid has a big positive effect. and how much ...

Among them china, mexico, brazil, malaysia, singapore, south korea, morocco, peru. china is in fact now a big donor of foreign aid. part of the problem here is that we lump together all kinds of aid. theres assistance that was given during the cold war, say to mobutu of zaire for purely strategic reasons with no attempt to aid the country. theres aid for science, general public health and economic development. the reality is foreign aid programs have to be well designed, properly targeted, and w...

President obama is calling on both sides to stop. >> the egyptian people deserve better than what we have seen over the last several days. to the egyptian people, let me say the cycle of violence and escalation needs to stop. we call on the egyptian authorities to respect the universal rights of the people. we call on those who are protesting to do so peacefully and condemn the attacks we have seen by protesters including on churches. >> the state department is said to be reviewing the egyptian ...

Years. thats $1 million a year. what is your reaction to this? because pakistan is at the same time, many say, extorting us on the cost for re-opening those supply routes to get in and out of afghanistan. critically important supply routes. >> well, andrea, i think youre asking me about pakistan and a vote that the appropriations subcommittee took about our aid program to pakistan. we have a very important but very conflicted relationship with pakistan. obviously theyre closing off supply routes...

the historic headline from the white house this week, the president of the united states endorses same-sex marriage. but the story behind the headlines may be just as dramatic and it culminated with vice president joe biden apologizing to president obama for forcing his hand on this hot button issue, a sore subject among some white house insiders. our chief whereas correspondent jessica yellen has been working the story for us. tell our viewers what you are hearing right now. >> i unde...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com anyone cheering president obamas new stance on same-sex marriage has vice president joe biden to thank. the president himself is now confirming what many had suspected that the vice president forced the presidents hand when biden announced his support for gay marriage over the weekend and now were hearing thats a sore subject at least among some white house insiders. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is working the story for us. ...

Make a profit on the troubled asset relief program. known as tarp. the special inspector general dismisses that prediction in a new report to congress writing its a wildly held misconception that tarp will make a profit. the most recent cost estimate for tarp is a loss of $60 billion. treasury is sticking by the original estimate telling the huffington post most of the remaining cost is related to a different aid program that it admits was never intended to be recovered. massachusetts congressma...

Marvin kalb. thank you very much for joiningous this easter. your memories of mike wallace? >> well, mike was one of the great ones. there is no question about that. you have already talked about his interview style which was mikes and mikes alone. he did not come up in the traditional way. he had bounced withacking. he start aid program in new york, a local television program in the 1950s where hing would sit in a close-up shot and he would be moking and the smoke would curl up in front of his ...