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These veterans are taken care of. >> if we don't make sure that we help those men and women who are coming home today get a job, help with their physical and mental injuries, get through the benefits claim process, 20 years from now, our country will have on its conscience a high number of veterans who we've lost because of suicide, who are homeless on the streets, and who have been lost and i don't want to see that happen. >> senator patty murray is sponsoring a bill that would give tax breaks to companies that would make it worth their while to hire veterans. our national unemployment rate i...

>> on this holiday morning. >> and we've got a lot of news. we begin with the weather. first a new wave of spring storms is pounding the midwest. in fact, some of the worst damage is in battle creek, michigan. a storm packing 80-mile-an-hour winds snapped trees, brought down a lot of power lines. in fact, across the state some 100,000 homes and businesses lost power. >> a violent storm hit the chicago area. ferocious winds uprooting trees and sending them on the tops of houses and cars. >> the trees just doubled. it was the strongest wind i've seen in a long time. >> that's the impor...

jobless rate is more than twice that. >> oh christine, we talk so much about the unemployment rate and our economy, but you're right, for young combat veterans coming home from war, young men aged 18 to 25, who finished their service to the country, the picture is very grim. they are facing a staggering unemployment rate, 21.9% according to the bureau of labor statistics. it's caught the attention of senator patty murray, chairman of the senate veterans affairs committee. have a listen to what she has to say about this. >> we have invested billions of dollars in training our young me...

It will show you an exact dollar amount and break down in terms of foreign aid to 1.7% for every person and plouffe is trying to make the point that taxpayers don't share a big part of the tax burden when it comes to helping out overseas, but it does show that we pay a lot more for national defense, 26.3% of everybody's income tax. health care second 24.3% and job and family sturt 21.9% and all the way down the line everything you pay to science, space and technology programs 1.2% pan some conservative watch dog groups actually think it's a useful tool for taxpayers, but the group citizens def...

The national jobless rate and what can be done to change this. our robert walker served in the military for more than five years. in 2005 he signed on with recruit military. it is a firm that helps veterans find jobs, urges companies to hire veterans. he joins us now from cincinnati. thank you so much for being with us. first of all, can you explain to us why do you suppose -- you've worked with many veterans. why are things so bad for veterans now? why are so many out of work? >> well, we did find -- i know the department of labor -- actually bureau of labor statistics put out some numbers la...