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What he could do. 30 months isn't enough. i think it's time for congress, lawmakers to make this just a stiffer sentence than what it is. >> andrews had also asked for monetary damages about $300,000 or so. shep, we will get far less than that 'about $7,400 awarded by the judge. >> shepard: stalker gets 2 and a half years and he talked today as well. >> he did. michael barrett cried throughout his entire statement in court today telling andrews that there are no words to explain how sorry he is for what he has done. he says he hopes one day she will be able to forgive him. fat chance of that t...

Because doctors are paid according to an old points system that awards specialists like cardiologists and radiologists. the more training and procedures used the more relative value units or points are assigned to those doctors, those translate into dollars. that's leaving primary care physicians feeling short-changed. >> doctors are being paid more to do procedures rather than to necessarily think and diagnose what's wrong with the patient. >> there have been efforts over the year to level out the playing field when it comes to compensation but it's not a huge part of the health care debate. ...

We heard from andrews' attorney who says there may be at least a dozen other women who were stalked by this guy michael barrett. says there were 32 other videos in all that show that michael david barrett has done this before. not just to erin andrews that he is a bad, bad guy. >> shepard: she has done an amazing job keeping herself together in the wake of this. gadd glad to see he is gone. thank you. right across the border. i mean right on the border of the united states, a horrible set of circumstances unfolding. and it sparked new fears tonight about the mexican drug war. the targets? work...

Another method of prodding to you complete the 10 question questionnaire and mail it whack by april 1st advance letter alerting you the questionnaire is coming and postcard reminder that it did come. robert groves told me those items cost $85 million but they can drive up participation rates by 6 to 12 percentage points. >> every one percentage point for us means that we save $85 million of salary cost of sending people out to follow up on those non-responses. if we get 5 percentage point gain out of this advanced letter, we are in the 500-million-dollar range of savings. federal auditors are ...

This guy thought of himself as a modern-day james bond and nothing could be further from than reality there. shep. >> shepard: what do we know about the money in this operation, mike. >> we're told he was awarded a 22-million-dollar contract to essentially gather cultural and political information in afghanistan to try to help the military, in essence, understand some of the complexities of afghanistan. it's not clear how much that money is remaining and that's one of the questions being asked here at the pentagon tonight. what happened to the money? how much of it is left and what has it all ...