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that the nation has been on brink of this kind of crisis. let's go straight to capitol hill, our congressional current kate bolduan baldwin is standing by. >> the ability to finally fand a way out of this impasse and to avoid this looming government shut down and how this could all come out has to do with the big focus on the fema funding. the additional funding for federal disaster relief that democrats and republicans wanted to put in this short term spending bill. fema came out today to confirm that different from their prior predictions, that fema may be able to stretch their dis...

says the reporter who blew the whistle on the uk hacking scandal has been sound dead. his name is john ford, he was found today in his london home. police are calling his death unexplained. this is important because we're going to have much more on this story, got a lot of questions for our correspondent in london, we'll bring that to you coming up. but i want to begin this hour with a warning. i want you to listen to a warning. this is a warning that i'm about to show you a video of 16 men being shot to death. i'm going give you a moment here right now to go ahead and get the kids o...

Talked about around the dinner table were business and politics. so i sort of had this thoughtul that i would do it later in life. i found myself in a spot where my predecessor who was a great guy, budget hawk and all those things, had decided to run for governor here in michigan andun that really opened up the spot pour me. i knew i had to do this for myo kids and my grandkids that i haven't met yet. >> chip, you have been in the military. you had sort ofha a government career, then a private sector career with northwest airlines as a pilot. was there that defining momente for you and you sai...

>> this moment was just too soon for most of the other final 400 or so men who crossed the line. it's quarter past 3:00 on the morning of august 19. after 7 1/2 years at war, america combat troops are finally leaving the country. here we are just the other side of the kuwaiti border, it's taken four days to move some 2,600 of the men of 4th stryker brigade combat team down here all the way from baghdad. the convoy of 300 vehicles departed under the cover of darkness, amid the highest security. the military has been concerned that the insurgents would target the last of the troop to leave but w...

>> this moment was just too soon for most of the other final 400 or so men who crossed the line. it's quarter past 3:00 on the morning of august 19. after 7 1/2 years at war, america combat troops are finally leaving the country. here we are just the other side of the kuwaiti border, it's taken four days to move some 2,600 of the men of 4th stryker brigade combat team down here all the way from baghdad. the convoy of 300 vehicles departed under the cover of darkness, amid the highest security. the military has been concerned that the insurgents would target the last of the troop to leave but w...