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Monday through sunday. >> eric: that is fantastic. what was a problem? originally, because you have wounded service members and they may not be able to see their families and other parts of the country. >> share, of course paid what people do not understand, the government will fly to family members out to the bedside of a wounded warrior. they will also provide a per diem, daily assistance of one family member can stay, and take care of the wounded warrior as a nonmedical attendant. however, once that person, mother, wife, flies home, then the coverage ends. the mother or the wife in this exa...

Why was this cause so important to you chb. >> thanks for having us. it was important to me for a lot of reasons. i get that question a lot and it's interesting. i lost my father without a chance to say good-bye to him. that was part of it. you know, i know what happened on 9/11. i know what we're doing, i know the fight we're fighting. and to see our, to see our fellow americans go into battle on your behalf, they come back injured. and we found out in 2007 that our wounded warriors at the military hospitals like walter reid, they get some support in terms of travel for their family. they're ...

The government provides three airplane tickets when a service member is oned. so the service member wakes up at walter reed or in other recovery hospital and has three people with him. two will go home and third will stay. when the third goes home, the government coverage ends. and so what luke's wings does, is number one, we reach out to the family, we make sure the entire family is there when the wounded warrior wakes up. we also set up rotation plans to make sure for the long and difficult recovery process the wounded warrior has all the family there that they need and that the mom gets to ...

Get away from here for a little while. >> i know you have other responsibilities for other interviews. thank you very much. i appreciate your time. thank you. when we come back, we will continue our coverage here in san bernardino and the political topic of is it really time for a change when it comes the gun control edlegislation from capil ll or after the cameras go away from san bernardino and the coverage ends, does it go back to business as usual? we will talk about that when we come back.