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>> reporter: but with so many seniors living longer, surviving on a fixed income can be a challenge. marilyn's secret -- identify what you need. not what you want. >> it's incumbent upon each individual to do their own saving. you don't have to have that particular article that you just obsessing over. take your time. go home, sleep on it. come back. do you really need it. >> reporter: poppy harlow, cnn money, philadelphia. the first man to receive a full face transplant in the united states is out of the hospital today. he says the first thing that he's going to do when he gets home is to h...

Introduces us to a retiree on a budget who says that she's living the good life. >> reporter: marilyn lasseter takes great pride in her work at this philadelphia library. >> they did -- did my book come in yet, dear? >> reporter: at 70 years old she swears she's living the good life. >> it is amazing. the freedom of not having to be someplace at a certain time. >> reporter: marilyn retired back in 2007, right before the economy soured and millions found themselves out of work. despite living on a fixed income, she was able to buy a new house and she travels extensively. >> i live on $3,500 a m...

The explosion opened a two-mile hole, flooding more than 130,000 acres of farmland in neighboring missouri. >> when you look at that, what do you think? >> i'm very sad. i look at that and i don't have a home. >> reporter: marilyn's farm has been in her family for three generations. two still be dry if the federal government hadn't blown up the levee. >> i feel like that we're having to suffer for somebody else. >> reporter: farmers ray and roy presson have 2,000 acres under water. >> we've always lived with the idea that some day they might have to blow it. the waters kept rising and we knew ...

>> we think that there had to be some sort of support network for bin laden inside of pakistan. but we don't know who or what that support network was. >> pakistan's prime minister says talk of government complicity or incompetence in the bin laden matter is absolutely absurd, in his words. he warned the united states today, pakistan will defend its airspace, if american forces mount another secret rated. raid. investigators are trying to figure out what set off two passengers on different planes. it happened this weekend. a man traveling on a yemeni passport rushed the cockpit doo...