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You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal. there really is only one, and that is this. to fulfill the highest, most truthful expression of yourself. as a human being. you want to max out your humanity. >> advice there from oprah winfrey at harvard university on thursday, but amid the inspiration of commencement season comes heated debate. as many graduates face the prospect of maxed out student loan debt and rising costs limit those who will ever be able to finish college at all. for more now, i'm joined by m msnbc contributor goldie taylor from atlanta. goldie, i have...

>> brian: bye. >> steve: see you tomorrow bill: let's get it rolling. fox news alert. dire new warnings about the nation's financial health. set your calendar. a new report shows we have just about a month before our national credit card limit is officially, maed out. despite all the numbers on the screen maxed out. i'm bill hemmer. welcome to "america's newsroom.". martha: feels like ground hog day? i do. by partisan policy center they say the u.s. will smack its head on the debt ceiling, as early as february 15th, five weeks or so from now unless congress raises the amount of money we're all...

>> absolutely. maxed out at work? those contributions for your 401(k), often there is matching. another thing that you can do is collaborate and get all your retirement investments together and in some cases, when you do that, you might even be able to lock in some of those tax rates now. the thing about the roth ira that we should note is that you will have to pay your taxes now. however, you are locking in today's tax rates for 2012 rather than potentially going forward where they could be higher. >> brian: also a lot of people are saying social security is going to be there. that's going to...

Is gone, but their father is here and that's most important. just trying to find a new normalcy is difficult when i have to tell them everything's going to be okay and i don't know that it will be. >> dana: and then you were saying earlier, pete, about the situation with the insurance company and how you worry about then what is going to happen because you have a mortgage. >> i do. i have a $450,000 mortgage. flood cap set $250,000, that's my flood insurance, it's maxed out. if our home owners doesn't pick up any more, we're bankrupt. you know, we worked our whole lives to where we were i was ...

Here is my credit card. >> maxed out the credit card? >> i called american express and told them do what you have to do. this stuff is going on the card. >> how long did it take to you drive here? >> 19, 20 hours. you know, i stopped for gas and kept going. >> straight through? >> straight through. >> when you got here what, did you see? >> devastation. >> steve: total devastation. >> gretchen: so emotional to see. put it in perspective, that's just one family. there were more than 100 homes that blew up in that neighborhood alone and that's just one section of where the storm hit. brian, you ...