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than last year. still you have people out there looking for the cheapest gas they can find in their neighborhood and it is a welcome reprieve for consumers. yesterday we saw that those falling gas prices one reason why consumer inflation looks to have moderated a little bit in the month of july, we have producer price inflation, that is a factory-level gauge of inflation that comes out at 8:30 this morning. >> i will certainly take it if it's going to be, what, $3.70 versus $5 a gallon in the near future. thank you for that. the other major news this morning, reports that point to ...

Over and that's the cost of war. >> reporter: but it took so long to get here. before media stories on burn pits first began popping up in 2008, the pentagon knew breathing in these fumes could be dangerous, but kept using burn pits. many service members described their symptoms being ignored or misdiagnosed within the va system. forcing them to seek expensive outside care. >> having so many doors shut in our face, being told that it's in my head. >> we did our job, they need to do theirs. >> reporter: the final hurdle, last month, as desperate veterans and their allies took to sleeping on the...

All the claims. griff: here with more, former navy fighter pilot, lea gabrielle, sat down for an exclusive interview with retired general david petraeus. what they are calling the new agent orange. >> he dedicated years of his life to the wars in iraq and afghanistan. led the push into baghdad in 2003. he returned to lead the surge of the multinational force in iraq. he eventually took over u.s. central command n my sit-down with them he recalls what troops were dealing with during the wars in iraq and afghanistan. what it was like seeing the burn pits first-hand among the many, many challenge...