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Focuses on helping wounded warriors with invisible wounds. and that means post traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, things you can't see on somebody's body. there are 472,000 troopers served in iraq and afghanistan who have some kind of invisible wound, if you will, as opposed to about 42,000 troopers who have visible wounds, and we need to care for all of them. but we're not addressing the issues with those who have the invisible wounds. i'm trying to focus on that group and bringing more attention to it. the uso has just launched a public service announcement campaign to bring ...

Show in the book, we showed the relationship with obama really changes over that year that he's in afghanistan. he was considered a bush general but i think that number one, the president chose him to serve in afghanistan to fight the war that the president believed was a war of necessity and he did advance the ball there. and then he was in a very important position. as we move away from large scale boots on the ground to more intel driven operations he's got the right man in charge. >> he was candid to john mccain when john mccain said what general recommended july 2011 of being drawn down? ...

Coincidentally for something different than that explosion, shepard. at that time they said oh, no worries there was no oil in the water for the deep water explosion a few months ago. the same thing they are hearing this time but this time they want to mike sure that there is no oil in the water. that's why they will continue to search and do all sorts of investigations, shepard, to make sure that that well has not been breached in any way. >> shepard: adam housley tonight in louisiana. thanks. it's been 136 days since the bp disaster. today the company's engineers removed a temp temporary cap...

Discovery channel headquarters. investigators say lee, described as an environmental militant, wasn't lucid during the four-hour siege. it ended when a police sniper shot lee dead. three hostages escaped unharmed. so the holiday weekend is just around the corner but on wall street there is still some very important business to be processed. namely data on the employment front. alison kosik has more on what we're hearing about jobs. alison, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, tony. you know, it's been really busy here all week. investors not able to relax ahead of the labor day weekend. th...

Snapshot of the economy. encouraging depend how you look at it. number of people falling first-time jobless claims dropped. first-time claims for last week, 472,000. that mum is down 6,000 from the week before. marks two straight weeks of declines. we will have more on this coming your way in 20 minutes. also coming up in an hour, you will see something we haven't seen in almost two years. the secretary of state hillary clinton going to be hosting the first direct middle east peace talks that we have seen in some 20 months. some cautious optimism of course. we are keeping our eye on what's h...