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George Strait and friends raised a record amount of money for U.S. veterans at a recent charity show.

George Strait and friends raised a record amount of money for U.S. veterans at a recent charity show.

George Strait and friends raised a record amount of money for U.S. veterans at a recent charity show.

George Strait and friends raised a record amount of money for U.S. veterans at a recent charity show.

George Strait and friends raised a record amount of money for U.S. veterans at a recent charity show.

George Strait and friends raised a record amount of money for U.S. veterans at a recent charity show.

neighborhoods are now raging battlegrou battlegrounds. a doctor there said bodies began coming in before the sunrise and says everyone is waiting to die. an activist echoed that earlier on cnn. >> what keeps you going? >> we have no choice, no other choice. we are dying slightly, and we tried to save each other at least, i mean, to keep somebody alive. because we believe we are all going to die here. >> with the death toll rising by the day, the u.n. is expected to take up an arab leag...

governments brutal onslaught in homs, day five, where neighborhoods are now raging battlegrou battlegrounds. a doctor there said bodies began coming in before the sunrise and says everyone is waiting to die. an activist echoed that earlier on cnn. >> what keeps you going? >> we have no choice, no other choice. we are dying slightly, and we tried to save each other at least, i mean, to keep somebody alive. because we believe we are all going to die here. >> with the death toll rising by...

>> pelley: good evening. americans appear to be saying theyve been more than patient, and now they have had enough of a 10-year-old war and unemployment that does not end. in our poll out tonight, 64% of americans want to see the number of troops in afghanistan decreased, an all-time high in our poll. and in a number the white house is bound to notice, 79% of americans say the economy is bad. we have a team on this story tonight. first, political correspondent jan crawford. >> reporter...

the job hes doing. more troublesome for the president is his approval rating on the economy, which voters say is the most significant issue. theyve been consistently low for the past year, now only 37% of voters approving. unemployment is stuck at 9%. no president has been re-elected with numbers this bad since franklin delano roosevelt. mr. obamas advisers say they know this reelection will be a fight, so throughout the summer, he will be taking his economic message on the road with s...