259 Billion News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

As you can imagine, treatment of alzheimer's like the other diseases i've been talking to but here is costly. $259 billion is spent in treatment each year. 68% of this comes from medicaid or medicare. that's why this is such an important part of this discussion. cost of treatment isn't exclusively monetary, either. last year, more than 15 million americans contributed to the more than 18 billion hours, get this, of unpaid care to individuals who are affected by alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. so this is a really important part of this. if you have someone in your family or close to yo...

Back to you. >> jonathan glad to hear the damage was minimal. up next fireworks in the middle east and not the fourth of july kind. but first here's what some of our fox affiliates are covering tonight. fox 10 in phoenix with a chicken recall. california based foster farms issued a recall for 170 different chicken products that came from its fresno facilities in march. they are linked to an antibiotic resistant strain of salmonella. >> the one time monk won $259 billion powerball jackpot. he plans to use most of the money to start a foundation to support performing arts organizations all ove...

In 1965 it had risen to $3 billion. in 1929 at the time of the stock market crash it had risen to 17 billion. towards the end of world war ii it was 259 billion. all those numbers pale in comparison to president obama, more than all the president's combined. >> a pretty picture, not so much. bill: some of these warnings now the national debt is nearing dangerous levels. steven moore is here with the "wall street journal." what does it mean that the warnings are there, steve. >> the amazing thing about this debt. i was thinking when i first came to washington which was in the early 1980s, the d...

The takedown was successful, but no word yet on their condition. martha: all right, this has been getting my attention lately, folks. get ready to fork over more of your taxpayer cash, because fannie mae it in the hole for $4.5 billion now the mortgage giant is going back to the u.s. government for yet another bailout. this is the largest bailout in the history of this financial debacle and eric bolling is the perfect person to bring in to ask about this, fox business network and of course from "the five". eric, when i heard this, they're going back to the till for $4.6 million, we already gav...

American treasure. we have spent a trillion dollars in the last decade. now some portion of that trillion dollars should be used to build highways and schools. >> brian: should we be adding $259 billion out of the next five years? >> there are many weapon systems that don't work that, are kept alive because of various special interests and congressmen lobbying for their districts. there has to be an objective look at this massive expenditure >> steve: during the commercial, you two can continue this. we'll be -- >> it's not the vatican. >> gretchen: you guys can continue. if you forgot to pay ...