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Fund and did a story on a quadruple amputee named staff sergeant john peck. and he told us about these incredible chairs. these track chairs. and he was like a kid at christmas time when he was given this at walter reid. they were giving away two chairs. and we realized there were 20 other guys who all wanted one of these chairs. these guys were just -- that's when i approached you. you profiled these guys. and these are life changing. >> sure. now a thousand guys had them. >> we just had the ceremony we gave away the thousandth chair. >> he we'll give away 1,000 more. >> if you hadn't talked ...

Fund and did a story on a quadruple amputee named staff sergeant john peck. and he told us about these incredible chairs. these track chairs. and he was like a kid at christmas time when he was given this at walter reid. they were giving away two chairs. and we realized there were 20 other guys who all wanted one of these chairs. these guys were just -- that's when i approached you. you profiled these guys. and these are life changing. >> sure. now a thousand guys had them. >> we just had the ceremony we gave away the thousandth chair. >> he we'll give away 1,000 more. >> if you hadn't talked ...

Fund and did a story on a quadruple amputee named staff sergeant john peck. and he told us about these incredible chairs. these track chairs. and he was like a kid at christmas time when he was given this at walter reid. they were giving away two chairs. and we realized there were 20 other guys who all wanted one of these chairs. these guys were just -- that's when i approached you. you profiled these guys. and these are life changing. >> sure. now a thousand guys had them. >> we just had the ceremony we gave away the thousandth chair. >> he we'll give away 1,000 more. >> if you hadn't talked ...

America, weather extremes. and this is all part of the pushback isn't it bill? >> oh, yeah for me it is and this is a very serious business so everybody -- i want people to think about is that this could be the future. this could be something that happens every year or every other year or every five years, and it's the loss of life of course, it's horrible but it's very expensive. when you flood the nation's fourth largest city it costs you a lot of money. when boston is under snow and restaurants can't be open for a month or six weeks, it costs you a lot of money, and so there's economic conc...

So queen zinobia, the queen of the p palmerine empire. in this painting she is overlooking palmyra and yes the 3rd century was a long time ago. the city of palmyra was around long before queen zinobia's reign in the middle of the desert when it came under roman rule in the 1st century ad. it bill an important trading group to the roman empire. palmyra is a globally amazing place. it's home to a whole lot of ruin including the great colo na de of pal many ira, basically an avenue of giant columns built. they stretch for more than half a mile. they link to this the temple of bell. which was a ma...