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believe me, that is saying something. this has been the worst fire season in texas history, and this is the worst of more than 35 fires burning right now. it's southeast of austin in bass strup county. and 1,000 other homes are threaten threatened. firefighters are attacking on the ground and in the air. and chris welch is in the thick of it. are they making any headway at all? >> caller: not exactly. this is a very bad day for fighting a fire to put it lightly. officials here caution, you know, they asked everybody to evacuate yesterday in the hardest hit areas. this fire continues ...

Properly account for what happened to that money. revenue from iraqi oil, frozen iraqi assets and leftover funds from the united nations oil for food program, money set aside to develop and rebuild a roiraq. more than $9 billion went to the department of defense to pay for reconstruction contracts in iraq. a new audit finds the pentagon is having trouble accounting for most of it. $8.7 billion of that money. of particular concern to the inspector general's office in charge of overseeing reconstruction, $2.6 billion transferred to the defense department in cold, hard cash with absolutely no pap...

Development, would oversee america's relief effort. the government of haiti set up the ihrc interim haiti recovery commission, to coordinate. two men were named co-chairs of the ihrc executive committee. haitian prime minister and bill clinton himself. the idea was to not just fix things but improve them. in an interview with esquire, president clinton had big plans, saying quote, wouldn't it be great if they became the first wireless nation in the world. they could. i'm telling you, they really could. but it wasn't at all clear that the people of haiti would be the big winners in the disaster...