the man in charge, his assessments have often been brutal. at least they ve been brutally blunt. here, for example, is how propublica wrote up one of his more well-known findings. quote n 2008, the u.s. bought 12 cargo plains. but just about everything you can think of was wrong. there were no spare parts for the planes, for example. the planes were also, according to the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction, quote, a death trap. so $486 million was spent on worthless planes that no one could fly. we did recoup some of the investment though. 16 of the 20 planes ended up being sold for scrap for the grand sum of $32,000. that s six cents a pound. how many hundreds of millions of dollars did those coast? john sopko also reported without fear or favor on, for example, the $43 million that we spent on
a major union challenging new faa rules on pilot fatigue. the union representing ups pilots want the rules to cover cargo plains as well as passenger planes. the new rules guarantee pilots at least ten hours between shifts, up to eight hours currently. heather: we all know this by now, occupy wall street, they made their name criticizing the one percent. but there is another one percent who could really use some serious help, america s veterans, they make up one percent of our population, and one quarter of our homeless. and now one lawmaker is looking to make sure that the people who lay their lives on the line for our freedom, they can at least at the very least come home and land a job. alicia acuna is live for us in denver with more. alicia, what is this idea? reporter: this is a bill that s been introduced by senator michael bennett of
extraordinary in number. we ve all lived through the changes taking place through the last decade. the cargo has not screened to federal standards on planes that fly over america. explain how we can fix the problem taking place with the cargo plains flying over the country. and how serious of a concern this really is. well, it s a very serious conce concern. one of the challenges are the massive amounts of cargo that are transported all the time. needless to say as we go forward we re going to have to look at points of origin. most of the plots have been a result of good intelligence analysis. human intelligence gatt ering and gathering and international