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Afghanistan. and what zeller when he was leaving afghanistan, he promised me that he will save my life and he will get me to united states and he did. now i'm in the united states and i'm safe. >> matt, why did it take four years? >> well, the state department sat on his application for two of them. and for the first two, quite honestly, janis is that brave of a guy. he figured afghanistan was his country, he wanted toly. he wanted the taliban to go. he never covered up his face in any of our fire fights. when i asked him why, he said, i want them to fear me. i don't want them to ever think i'...

Listen to this. >> governor christie represents the worst combination of bully and bosses. that's what has motivated some of these elected democrats to support him. >> voters go to the polls, well, today, right? steve? >> this is the election for lautenberg, too. >> apologies there. all right. then there is this story. a former army captain who survived one of the deadliest fire fights in afghanistan is proving yet that he is a true patriot. moments after william swenson received the medal of honor, he announced that he wants to return to active duty. swenson risked his life four years ago to ...

Three d.c. area airports. little known fact, my first name is william, so i'm looking forward to a speedy trip through security. for only the second time in a half a century the nation's highest medal for valor has been awarded to two survivors of the same battle. as we showed you briefly at the top of the program, a second hero from one of the deadliest fire fights in the afghanistan war was honored today. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has the story. >> reporter: nearly overlooked by the army, some say intentionally, today a former army captain, william swenson, received ...

Of concern that he could die or his health could significantly deteriorate, he was brought to the united states. in court today, he did look quite frail. he said his age is 49 years old. that is the same age that has been released in the past. but he looked like a man significantly older than 49. he was moving slowly. he seemed to struggle as he was getting in and out of his chair. did aside from his looking frail, he wasn't showing any obvious signs of illness. >> we're following developing news out of the white house. in fact we have live pictures up of the east room where moments from now, ...

This is going to be an ongoing concern in the summer. you mentioned prescott, arizona. the temperatures are soaring and wind gusts in express of 30 miles per hour and no rain in the forecast. it will cause major problems in the area for fire fights. and the threat for severe weather including tornados this evening. tornado watch boxes and we could see hail and damaging winds and tornados, this is crossing over from wyoming to nebraska and south. and we'll watch that. and we'll watch the threat for hail and damaging winds and tornados and then in the midwest potential for flash flooding, back t...