expense. we have to have around the clock care are for her and our insurance company doesn t cover it so i have to cover it. that is one of the things that you have to balance the needs of your immediate family and if you look back in the previous years we did donate more are and it is an area that i need to do better and will do better. chris: we look the at your chartable returns i think since 2007 and in every case it was around 2%. it was around 3% or 4% in some cases but that is okay. again, we are dealing with a situation in our own family. i have 7 children. during those 4 years we had our little girl and it was a very costly she is very costly and again, i m not making excuse except for the fact that every family goes through periods of times where they have to donate dedicate resources to the problems in their own family and taking care of people and that is what we did. chris: absolutely. you talk about the cost of education. you caused quite a stir
expense. we have to have around the clock care are for her and our insurance company doesn t cover it so i have to cover it. that is one of the things that you have to balance the needs of your immediate family and if you look back in the previous years we did donate more are and it is an area that i need to do better and will do better. chris: we look the at your chartable returns i think since 2007 and in every case it was around 2%. it was around 3% or 4% in some cases but that is okay. again, we are dealing with a situation in our own family. i have 7 children. during those 4 years we had our little girl and it was a very costly she is very costly and again, i m not making excuse except for the fact that every family goes through periods of times where they have to donate dedicate resources to the problems in their own family and taking care of people and that is what we did. chris: absolutely. you talk about the cost of education. you caused quite a stir
he s really seen how hard gabrielle giffords has worked. absolutely. and you know, giffords did return to her home in tucson for the first time over the weekend since the shooting. she s going to be getting round the clock care in kelly s home in suburban houston. continued good recovery to her, that s for sure. we will learn more tonight about the president s time line for withdrawing thousands of troops from afghanistan. president obama s expected to call for 5,000 troops to return during the summer. he wants another 5,000 to leave afghanistan late this year, or next spring. roughly 100,000 american troops are in the country. that is three times as many as when the president took office. some people in rural indiana are let s say in shock this morning after an arrest made during a sex sting. the suspect is a 21-year-old amish man. police say the man thought he was meeting a 12-year-old girl for sex. and as wrtv s erica flye reports he showed up riding a horse and buggy. rep
from america s news headquarters i m marianne rafferty jurks sad news from the music world tonight. bruce springsteen s saxophonist has ci died. he was hospitalized a week ago after suffering a stroke at his florida home. he played in the early days of the e street band in 1972. clarence clemons was 69 years old. another key milestone in the recovery of gabrielle giffords. she will continue to get around the clock care while at home. i m marianne rafferty. we now return to a two hur special edition of justice
rita told hunters who found her that she survived mostly i have to clear my throat. i apologize this woman survived mostly on trail mix and melted snow. she says her husband albert went looking for help three days after their minivan got stranded in northwest nevada in the wilderness and has not been found. two stranded whales released off the florida keys. the pilot whales weigh about 1,000 pounds each. they re part of a pod that washed ashore last week. 14 whales died but 5 were given around the clock care in hopes they, too, can be released. it s official. this morning meredith vieira confirmed she is leaving the today show. co-host matt lauer said her final day will be in a few weeks. ann curry will replace vieira. and the youngest bride of osama bin laden was by his side. today she is facing tough questions.