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Workforce is private contractors. these contractors are trusted to craft war plans, spy on foreign governments and even kill enemy fighters. here with me now terrorism analyst roger. roger, good to see you. >> you, too, norah. >> let's go through some of this. the report details that there are now 854,000 people with top secret security clarence, 265,000 of those are private contractors. does that concern you? >> well, it's not the numbers that should be concerning people. the question is, are we using these cleared individuals effectively and are they supporting the government's missions? i t...

There are u.s. soldiers in both theaters right now. that's got to tell you something. >> when we're looking at 854,000 people with top secret clearances and 265,000 of them are private contractors, how top secret can our top secret information really be? >> well, that's a great point, when you start spreading this out to that many people, that many people know about it, you're having a security problem. you see, that really is the dichotomy with all of these things, we always talked about the failure to connect the dots after 9/11, so the idea is you wanted to share information, but if you hav...

Retired workers. those pension benefits are really at the sorgs of the insolvency of so many states. governor crestie offered this example, a teacher in new jersey pays about $67,000 into his or her pension fund over the time they're working, then takes out $1.4 million in pension and another $265,000 worth of health benefits. that kind of mismatch, what the teacher puts in and what the teacher takes out, makes it simply unaffordable. that's the national significance because these pensions are a problem nationwide. gregg: and he was put into office to take those fixes and what do you bet there...

Paula. now burned 25,000 acres. >> more than 265,000 customers right now without power. school distributes have announced closures for today. officials say one person has been killed in a car accident related to the fire. again, these evacuations are under way right now. we'll have the latest throughout the morning. one week before alabama voters go to the polls a new fracture in the republican party over senate candidate roy moore. on monday president trump for the first time threw his full support behind moore. first in his tweet democrats refusing to give one vet for massive tax cuts is w...

Later on today or tomorrow, the flooding will continue. we simply need more people in these boats, in these vehicles going door-to-door. this is a door-by-door process to make sure we get every home evacuated. >> the scope of this is staggering by any measure. we should make clear, we are nowhere near understanding the full impact because the storm continues. take a look at some of what we know. 58 counties in the state of texas. look at that giant land mass there under disaster declaration. 450,000 people, still an estimate, trying to get ahold of the scope here. people asking for disaster as...