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The environmental and health impact has already upended thousands of peoples lives, indefinitely. norfolk southern today released their latest corporate tally on help they are providing locally for the recovery, norfolk southern say they have committed more than $11 million to support the community, which includes $5 million in direct assistance to families, plus some monies for schools, plus a sort of running tab of a small scale good deeds such as the 104 or agents -- bought from a local flowe...

The senators continue to stream out of there. meantime, we turn back to the issue of health care. theres north korea, theres taxes, theres also health care today. republicans now, heres the deal, theyve got a compromise among themselves. they got some of the members, some of the members of the house freedom caucus now are onboard with health care reform. overhauling obamacare, passing this republican replacement plan. but it still leaves the open question, remember, republicans tried this a fe...

Tell with a story that might surprise you, dan? >> reporter: sure will, jon. it is called state recovery. it has been around since congress passed a law in 1993 when states were going broke over rising medicaid costs. under obama care many more will be affected. six million more people are eligible for medicaid. many own a home and may have other assets. states are allowed to keep a running tab on medicaid bills from age 55 to 64. after your death can attach a lien on your estate. >> i think tha...

>> you aint a journalist. >> i contacted these people. why didnt the people that wrote this book -- they may be good journalists. >> they are good. >> why didnt they say hey its been five years, has there been retribution to you? i bet theyll say no. >> anna, when you look at it, lets be honest, we may not call it a hit list but dont we keep a running tab of people that have done us favors and not done us favors. john is on my hit list. we may not write it down. republican and democrat a like, i...

♪ to each other. ♪ keeping -- accountability. >> well, that paid off for gsa employees. these documents obtained by fox news, 7 a pages in all show that more than 3700 employees at that conference received cash awards averaging about $1,000 per emilyee. it cost taxpayers $3.6 million. gsa kept a running tab of the cost which it go d. not always do for some of its out-of-town conferences. several of the 77 fsa conferences that the house committee on transportation and infrastructure wants to ...

Completely different reports. some of our good sources say this happens all the time. men will be men. and others say, no, the secret service is squeaky clean and these are outliars. >>reporter: i spoke to a security consultant who hired employees and says is an understanding among the rank and file what happens in las vegas stays in las vegas or stays wherever it may be. i spoke to another former white house official assistant would was 30 years tabling trips with the secret service who describ...

River valleys. thats where weve seen all of this flooding from these rivers during the month of april and start of may, so not good news. even if we dont see severe weather, were talking about hard rainfall. alisyn: we dont seem to get a break this spring. but maria, lets hope people are hearing your warning this morning. thank you. rick: this has been a punishing tornado season, so far, there have been 910 confirmed tornado, -- tornado, 875 in april, there have been roughly 14 deaths so far as ...

I pointed out this is costing u.s. taxpayers so far several hundred million dollars, tomahawk cruise missiles, close to a billion dollars so far. he agreed it would be a good idea to keep a running tab and deduct from the frozen libyan assets in the united states whoever it costs to liberate libya right now. he went one step further. listen to what he said. >> not the united states should do it, nato, france should do it. countries involved on the ground and air, yes, the answer is yes. >> do yo...

Total control of libya. >> so were talking about prolonged stalemate. is that what you sense? >> its a prolonged stalemate unless nato ratchets it up. president obama has said regime change is not the objective of u.s. involvement in libya. its a humanitarian mission. if the mission is not to get rid of gadhafi, he will stay in power. >> i interviewed harry reid this week, and he agreed, he liked the idea that the u.s. should keep a running tab of how much its spending, how much american taxpaye...

700 million. he says keep a running tab and deduct it from the 33 billion in frozen libyan assets in the united states. is that realistic? >> theres a lot of legal questions. whose money is that? thats not the u.s.s money to determine what to use and how to spend and how to allocate that money and say, were going to use it for -- to cover our military expenses, are we going to cover nato expenses. this belongs to the people of libya and at this point in time i dont think we in a legal court of w...