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Out of all the news, out of all the stories weve seen this week, if youre going to head into the weekend thinking about one, if your life is busy with friends and family and work taking you and you really only have time to care about one story in the news, well, this is probably that one story. today, the white house announced that president obama will award the medal of honor, the highest honor we give in this country, to 24 army veterans who were previously overlooked during and after their ti...

Many who served in world war ii, korea and vietnam. only morris and two other vietnam veterans are still living. in 2002, congress ordered review of jewish and hispanic veterans war records to find out who may have suffered discrimination and not been awarded the honors they deserve. potential african-american discrimination was also found. all are now being recognized. >> i had heard rumors to the fact that there were certain people who -- people thought should have received the medal of honor....

>> we were very tight. we were very close because it was like us against all of those that were prejudiced against us. >> prejudiced against hispanics? >> hispanics, yes. and my dad fostered that because were in it together. >> in their parents day, the public schools for mcallens hispanic children only went to fifth grade, but the garzas had bigger dreams for their daughters. >> from the beginning we were told, oh, when you go to college, when you go to college. it was something that was just a...

Vietnam. only morris and two other vietnam veterans are still living. in 2002, congress ordered a review of jewish and hispanic veterans war records to find out who may have suffered is discrimination and not been awarded the honors they deserved. potential african-american discrimination was also found. all are now being recognized. >> id heard rumors to the fact that there were certain people who people thought should have received a medal of honor. >> reporter: retired marine and vietnam vet ...

Doing the other cases in which it happened as well. >> unfortunately advocates say this is not the first time something like this happened. two months before garcia was killed. the violence intervention program filed a lawsuit against the city of new york on behalf of six other hispanic domestic violence vehicles who claimed they were denied adequate translation service that. case is still pending, but in daisys case, they said after an internal review, a memo would be circulated to all of the o...

Washington. >> ray, what about that? weve heard the argument its about of georgias heritage. is it part of charles heritage? a lot of african-americans live in georgia. is that part of their heritage thats deserving of commemoration? >> it absolutely is. we actually as an organization have members of every ethnic group that lived in the south during the war from 1860 to 1865. we have black members, jewish, hispanic members. the sons of confederate veterans is not an organization that has to do w...

Name will help him reach voters. one thing he has is an inherent connection with a demographic republicans have had a hard time to reach. his mother is from mexico. >> as far as the republican party reaching out to those hispanic voters, what needs to happen? >> we dont have to change our positions and ideas. as republicans we need to change our tactics. and i believe that as republicans, its incumbent not only upon the party but also elected officials to spend time in the hispanic community. >>...

Hispanic voters and campaign in hispanic communities. >> reporter: no one believes that the change will happen overnight. it is something that is going to take time. it is pretty clear, martha, what happened in 2012 the republican party needs to do something about it and do something quick. martha: everyone assumes immigration is the big issue for latino voters s that the case in texas? >> reporter: among hispanic politicians they said it is more of a gateway issue. this barrier of trust between...

Nsa spying on him and he was the most recent foreign leader that obama has had to apologize to. the leaders are expected to talk about a free trade agreement involving a dozen countries around the pacific rim. a zone considerably bigger than nafta. democratic leaders have made clear that this is legislation that would allow the administration to negotiate a deal without having to worry about lawmakers trying to change it. so that is up in the air as well jenna: a story to watch. thank you. jon: ...

Lone star state? senior national correspondent john roberts is live in atlanta. john, this obviously was a very difficult area of voters in the last presidential election. what do these numbers reveal now? >> reporter: the numbers reveal if republicans want to make inroads among hispanic voters, remember mitt romney only got 27% in 2012. they could take a lesson from texas. a recent poll found in the lone star state, democrats hold only 19% advantage among hispanic voters. nationwide that is 30%...