CNN Smerconish December 26, 2015 23:13:00
A hostage crisis that lasted 444 days. now a multimillion dollar payout for each of the americans held hostage in iran in 1979. debra feyerick has more on who is paying for it and why this is happening after 36 years. >> the iranian hostages will get $4.4 million each. that's about $10,000 a day for each of the 444 days that they were held in captivity when those iranian revolutionaries stormed the u.s. embassy back in 1979. but this doesn't only impact these hostages. it also impacts other victims of terror. that includes those victims of the u.s. embassy bombings in kenya back in 19989.