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Willing and able to meet. he is fixated on talk to someone with the same shared experience. and twitter did it. we found harold, also a former world war ii sergeant. also the recipient of a that you were heart and also at the guadalcanal. he hopped a plane to new york city and headed to the home bill shares with his daughter and her foom fulfill this last wish. >> harold burg? this is bill. youre both marines. both ad guadalcanal. >> yeah. what outfit were you in? >> "a" company. combat engineer...

Should be doing when you have 3.5 million of your citizens in danger. >> michael, im sure you disagree with ana? >> i do, of course. just like fema director brock long said, you need unity of command in these kinds of situations. and instead of becoming part of that unity, the mayor, who represents 12% of the people of puerto rico, decided to take partisan shots at the president. there were 3,500 federal workers on the ground in puerto rico, before it started. there are 10,000 now, there are goi...

Alabama. he should have been laser focused on the 3.5 million american citizens that are in peril and in distress and such great danger right now. >> to be fair, he didnt think the rally in alabama was going to be useless, but it turned out that it was -- >> even if it wasnt going to be useless, thats not what you should be doing when you have 3.5 million of your citizens in danger. >> michael, aisim sure you disagree with ana? >> i do, of course. just like fema director brock long said, you nee...

Your family has service but your brother. >> my brother was injured out in mosul, iraq. he was injured right above his right here and shattered the skull above his eyebrow all at way around and rendered him quadriplegic. pete: after that happened to him it motivated you to serve it? >> was a promise to him if anything happened to him i would promise what he started. it was to put on the shie legacy you are all combat engineers. >> my dad did nine years as combat engineer and my brother did four ...

>> when you think about military heros, are military members our heros. then you get a guy like this who wants to get in on this without having done anything for it. >> yeah. my job was a combat year. lately, two combat engineers died in afghanistan, which they sacrificed everything for that uniform, for the country, and this guy poses as one of them, its not right. >> yeah. christian, thank you so much for calling this guy out for joining us this morning and ultimately for your service. >> than...

Tanks, artillery, combat engineers to destroy these tunnels. its a somewhat limited ground operation on the surface of it. israel says its not going to come here to the center of gaza city, which is a densely populated area, it will just do these incursions around the edges of gaza. the question is once you have troops on the ground, you dont really control anymore how things play out. it is an escalation and this is a very densely populated area whether youre just around the edges of gaza or in...

Anyway. two hours into it, rockets from gaza were launched into israeli airspace. at the end of the day, supposedly cease fire day, hundreds of mortars had been launched back and forth between israel and hamas. more than 230 palestinians have died during the bombing by gaza so far. thats for ten days. up until today, these ten days of fighting have mostly been waged by air. tonight that changed. tonight it became a ground war. chief correspondent richard engel is on the ground in gaza city tonig...

Richard, i have to ask you, what is israel hoping to accomplish here? >> reporter: israel has made it very clear what it hopes to do, which is to eliminate tunnels that hamas has dug and hamas has used to go under the border from gaza into israel to carry out attacks against israeli soldiers and israeli towns. israel says that is the goal. that is why its sending in tanks, artillery, combat engineers to destroy these tunnels. its a somewhat limited ground operation on surt fthe surface . israel ...

The israeli army put out a statement a few minutes ago saying a large israeli force is involved in this operation including tanks, artillery, combat engineers, its backed up by the israeli air force, israeli navy. we can also hear but not see the israeli drones flying over the city. theres been illumination flares in gaza. they help the drones identify targets. the israeli military says the objective is specific. it is targeting tunnels that hamas in particular has been using to infiltrate from ...

>> to clear the roads of iraq and afghanistan of deadly ieds, the army relies on companies like this, the 235th combat engineers. drawn from the california national guard, these men are truly a band of brothers. and they do a job that is one of the most dangerous -- >> fire in the hole. >> -- and terrifying on the battlefield. this is one of the units vehicle commanders. >> we essentially go down these roads looking for these bombs, looking for indicators that bombs are there, that theyve been p...