to salvage whatever it can. metal like this will be sifted out and disposed of in a manner that it can be reused. always got a big piece of concrete here that we will pull this out. reporter: at one site in the rockaways there is enough wood to fill an entire football field piled higher than the goalposts. some will be mulch and other will be incinerated. we reduce the footprint. if you throw this material into a landfill, instead after 100 cubic yards of wooded debris you would have somewhere one to five cubic yards of wooded debris. reporter: so the 12 million cubic yards of debris that has been processed already, includes two million pounds of metal from brooklyn and queens alone. while the pile is smaller it is still being added to every single day, patti ann. patti ann: rick leventhal live in queens, thank you. jon: deadly floods in australia now forcing thousands of people into shelters.
carisa coony our research manager. cindy cohen and kate knots, our transplant coordinators. mary grace hands sell, operating room nurse manager. jon: if you want to continue watching the news conference we ll have it streaming live on foxnews.com. doctors at john hopkins hospital in baltimore announcing they have down a double arm transplant on a very brave army soldier, brandon marrocco. he was the first american soldier to survive the loss of two arms and two legs. it happened in an ied explosion in iraq. it is an experimental surgery but doctors say he will be discharged from the hospital today after they transplanted donor arms. they hope that they will in essence take and that he will be able to gain more utility from those transplanted arms. it is a phenomenal story and he is a very brave veteran. patti ann: just incredible.
the therapy will continue for a few years. reporter: dr. andrew lee has done almost half of the arm transplants in this country. 80 arms have been transplanted in 60 patients around the world. this is a relatively new procedure. hess team of doctors, 12 surgeons worked on him simultaneously. so he will be able to tie his shoes, an even use chop sticks down the road, patti ann. patti ann: i can t use chop sticks. jennifer griffin, thank you. jon: phenomenal. the ongoing gun control debate. we hear a lot about fbi background checks but what actually goes into them? and are there loopholes? we re live with that story. and brand new research on breast cancer. you might be surprised to learn which treatment has the best survival rate. we ll go in depth coming up.
because the supply of crude oil available to refine into gasoline is having trouble keeping up with demand. aaa blames the lack of pipelines to ship oil, pipelines like the planned keystone xl pipeline which aaa says is depriving midwest refineries of their normal oil supplies. bottom line, don t expect the price to come down anytime soon. patti ann? patti ann: adam shapiro, fox business network, thank you. jon: a new front opening up in the war on terror. how the u.s. military plans to step up our presence in a very dangerous part of the world. and what it could mean for our troops. plus, a new budget battle looming on capitol hill with the potential to shut down the federal government, just ahead. [ loud party sounds ]
patti ann: right now a food recall you need to know about. the fda issuing a warning about ground beef at the center after salmonella outbreak. rick folbaum has all the details from the breaking news desk. hi, rick. the cdc has been able to link this outbreak to two different businesses in the state of michigan. so far 16 people in five different states have gotten sick. this is a form of salmonella that can lead to severe diarrhea and fever and cramps. it is usually called by eating raw or undercooked beef and seven of the people who got sick all reported eating at the same restaurant beforehand. the two beef distributors involved, one of them is in troy, michigan, the other in sterling heights. both recalled about 500 pounds of beef each. the products involved were sold in supermarkets and as