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Austrian mathematician Abraham Wald was a World War II hero. He worked out of a nondescript apartment building in Harlem for the Applied Mathematics Panel. Wald’s ability to see the unseen was a significant factor in the Allied victory in World War II.  Allied bomber planes were being shot down at such an alarming rate that bomber airmen were called “ghosts already.” The Air Force concluded that more armor was needed on the planes but adding armor would add weight. David McRaney, the author of several books on cognitive biases, tells the story of how Wald saved the military from a m...

Leland: america's longest war, and you said world war i. the bloodiest conflict america has been in has been world war ii. >> that is correct. we lost 116,000 in world war i and over 400,000 in world war ii. leland: we look at this wall, it's mobile. it's a platform right here next to lincoln memorial. what happens to this after memorial day? >> we break it down and take it back to usaa in san antonio, and our hopes is to do this every year either on the mall or an appropriate place to continue to educate and raise awareness. leland: you were in the navy for 30-plus years. you have friends who...

>> it was here in this patch of paradise, said cal, that he woke up one morning years ago to find that his wife, michele, wasn't home. she had gone to work the evening before, didn't come back. mary harris is cal's aunt. >> he didn't know where she was and didn't know what had happened. >> he woke up and she wasn't there. >> and honestly he didn't -- it wasn't something that he seemed comfortable talking about a lot. i think it was very emotional for him. >> she was gone. gone without warning. her friends, distraught, called her cell phone. >> where the hell are you? you need to call me as soo...

In their mind uncooperative, who didn't answer questions, who didn't come back, and the documents as well that they were unable to get, for example, receipts from hotels to place people at certain places at certain times. these are all of the things that they did not have the power to gain before. that said there is some skepticism among democrats quietly that to get to that step of the subpoena is going to be a long road because they want to be in good faith. they want to show that they are trying to do this the right way, to get this information. once the subpoenas are issued there's a long ...

On the phone with the next of kin. that is all by way of asking you to explain this title. "every day is extra." >> well, the title, brian, is a reflection of an attitude and a saying that a lot of my friends and particularly my crew and others came back with from vietnam. we were the lucky ones. and believe me, it was luck. there were countless bullet holes in the boat. there were any number of occasions when anybody could have been killed. and those who came back weren't. and i think it's a reflection of the sense of a gift, with it an enormous responsibility to live a life of purpose, to li...