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It. >> reporter: how is this for a man cave? a private space with a couch, chairs, tv, a weight set, this isnt your cousins basement. its a u.s. government facility, a warehouse in landover, maryland, overseen by the environmental protection agency. leased and operated by a private contractor for $1.6 million of your tax dollars a year. >> when the auditors first saw it, it was overwhelming. >> reporter: robert adachi was the lead auditor who just issued a report on the facility. the document lo...

Partitions, curtains and piled up boxes. the epa says we cant have access inside this warehouse, but efa officials say as soon as they learned what the inspector general found, they had the building owners escorted out, prohibited them from coming back and began to take inventory of everything inside. it is not just the getaway space that is raised concerns, the little specks on the box, lower right. >> we did take pictures of where there was rat feces all throughout the building. >> reporter: o...

The lead auditor who just issued a report on the facility. the document looks like a brochure with pictures of other man caves in the same warehouse. heres a space with an even larger tv, a chair, art work on the wall, some had personal photos and pinups and -- >> they put in refrigerator, microwave ovens. >> that is a hair trimmer. i spoke about all this with taxpayer advocate ryan alexander. >> we hired these people. we pay taxpayer money for these people to manage our inventory, take care of ...

Spending scandal. jay russell george will be testifying. hes the treasury department inspector general whose scathing report detailed $50 million in irs spending an employee conferences from 2010 to 2012. two years, $50 million. and new this morning, the irs placing two employees on administrative leave for allegedly taking $1,100 in free food and other items during a 2010 conference in anaheim. that conference cost taxpayers more than $4 million. >> more of your hard-earned tax dollars at work ...

Maryland, overseen by the environment protection agency. leased and operated by a private contractor for $1.6 million of your tax dollars a year. >> when the auditors first saw it, it was overwhelming. >> reporter: robert was the lead auditor for the epas inspector general who just issued a report on the facility. the document looks like a brochure, with pictures of other man caves in the same warehouse. heres a space with an even larger tv, a chair, artwork on the wall. some had personal photos...

Did you see any increased security at all during the day? there have been some reports there were sniffer dogs around certain parts of the track earlier in the day but that may have been just normal security procedure. >> yeah, i started the day at the starting line at 5:30 this morning and came in to cover the finish line. i had my credential, i was out there on the finish line and everything was going along fine. it was no different than any other year. partitions were up between the spectator...

Youre working? what do you do then? >> yeah, no. so i got to keep filming this. you want to get close but not too close. i wasnt going to be panning cameras over bodies on the sidewalk but i wanted to get an essence of what the scene was. i knew to stay close. i was just in the middle of all that mass confusion an those initial moments where people were trying to get to victims, marathon volunteers, police officers, fire, some of the soldiers running in the marathon helped pull those partitions ...

He ran the marathon carrying his sons boots. thats my lasting image from last year. here it is a year later where people are going through the same types of death and injury right here on the course feet from the finish line. >> willie, we should assure people throughout this country and throughout the world that -- steve, im sure would back me up here -- there will and marathon next year and there are far more good people than there are evil people and the good people, as steve just indicated, ...

Portuguese authorities will reopen the case. she went missing five years ago while on vacation with her family. thank goodness for partitions. take a look at this as she tries to make a snack out of her baby. it happened at the oregon zoo. a little guy named jack completely unphased by the giant cat behind him. his parents a little unnerved but still giggling in the background video now a you tube sensation. all right. >> thats fantastic. >> the lion thinks the kid is a tiger because it has on s...

become victims of the violence they were covering there on the ground in syria. just hours before her death, american-born journalist marie colvin told anderson cooper just last night, quote, the syrian army is shelling the city of cold, stavrving civilians, end quote. colvin and remi ochik were killed in the shelling there. he was just 28 years old. he was a veteran war correspondent with the "new york times" for more than two decades. i have cnns ivan watson and jim clancy joining me...