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Follow, they want to go on twitter and follow this and find the cash, the twitter handle is athiddencash. >> or chicks. >> dr. charles williams of drexel university, thank you very much. >> thats a feel-good story this morning. thats nice to report. >> it explains why we get so excited about that. 29 minutes after the top of the hour. >> this is a live look right now. youre looking at the president of the united states in poland. were following this closely and well let you know if any news brea...

The money and you sort of dont have -- >> there are a lot of proud americans that have served for all of the right reasons. >> ask people around this table. >> hold on a second. lets be very clear. thats a small percentage of the population. >> right. i didnt mean to gloss over it. ask people at the table who they know who are serving or many people who are responding to some sort of call, mission. it just doesnt seem like our millennials feel like they are needed in any way. >> i have a cousin ...

Make that not so, was this place, waller county, texas. waller county is not all that far from houston, but is a relatively rural county. it has one university called prairie view a&m. prairie view is a historically black university, founded after the civil war on old plantation land. today prairie view has several thousand students, most but not all of them are african-american. the school graduates a lot of engineers, nurses, teachers through the rotc program, it graduates a lot of army office...

California and says he hoped to move forward after "slipping my moorings,." this is what he said. >> let me allow me to begin my remarks by reiterating how deeply i regret and apologize for the circumstances that led to my resignation from the cia and caused such pain for my family, friends, and supporters. >> the retired general has reportedly hires an agent, shopping for a book deal none of that is surprising. lee reynolds attended the event where petraeus spoke. he is currently a professor of...

Him personally. what did you talk about? did he give you insight into his future? >> yeah, he really hosted a dinner for all of the rotc staff at university of southern california. and his focus, he really opened it up to us, if we had questions for him. you know, as part of the military profession, he knows hes had some great experiences and he wants us to -- really gave us the floor to ask questions. but the focus really was on the military profession, on moving forward and some questions look...

An incredible milestone has been reached by a cnn hero made possible by her desire to remind american military men and women serving abroad they are noter forgotten at home, and one day she may be joining their ranks. anderson cooper reports. >> reporter: caylee became a cnn hero as she was a sophomore. and she and her organization sent hundreds of dvds and cds to the troops. >> there is absolutely nothing i would change, because it has made a difference in peoples lives. >> reporter: today she ...

Few years away. we are going in the right direction. >> the labor department says that nearly 14 million people are looking for work right now, including the 8 million who lost a job in the last recession. >> shepard: thank you so much. harvard welcoming the united states military back to campus for the first time since the vietnam war. the university banned the rotc program at first because of antiwar protests during vietnam, later over the policy on gays in military. now that the pentagon is i...

Launching towards space right now doesnt have the speed to reach orbit. about an hour ago, nasa launched a rocket carrying a satellite named glory. the rocket did go up but unfortunately, it never separated. nasa expected to provide an update a little bit later on. it lifted off from the air force base in california. harvard university and the navy signed an agreement this afternoon that will allow the rotc program on campus for the first time since the vietnam war. right now, harvard students p...

Federal grants to colleges and krufrts that deny rotc or military recruitment on campus. why would the president need to ask these institutions to do so? >> were talking about harvard, yale, stanford. military issues go back a long ways for the institutions to vietnam even and kind of their anti-military views of students. and you know, at standford university right now, the students specifically have concerns that lesbian, gay and by sexual students are included in the rotc program but we haven...

Is starting college in the fall, can you believe it? >> cant believe it. >> i just turned 40 and i have one going to college. anyway, im hoping he goes into the rotc program. >> shannon: we are glad you channeled into something like this this people can enjoy. thanks for telling us all about it. >> shannon: we tried to be professional when was here but if you did grow up watching silver spoons im not sure we accomplished that. there are a lot more things ricky wasned while rick here. the film fe...