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In this episode, Brian Alvarado talks through those challenges and ways military spouses can navigate employment issues during and around a military PCS.

Whether you're an older member here or just a child, you know, we haven't gotten the full report of how everyone's doing, but i'm sure there are injuries on the train as well. >> congressman, you say kids on the train. are you talking about children of the members and senators? >> yes. when we do these -- so each year the republicans in congress and the democrats in congress will do a retreat. so this week will be the gop retreat, house and senate. i believe next week is the democratic retreat. it's something that takes place every year. it's an opportunity for us -- here over the course of th...

Policy agenda ahead, but there's a spouse program and a children's program. one of the other goals of the retreat is for spouses to be able to spend time with other spouses, children to spend time with other kids. we do spend a lot of time in washington, d.c., away from home, so one of the goals of the retreat is for them to be a little bit more involved in understanding what we're working on. for that purpose, you do have -- my train car possibly eight or ten kids. >> we got a statement from mitch mcconnell. he says my colleagues and i are deeply saddened by today's train accident. my condole...

gunned down. the supreme court begins hearing arguments this morning as 26 states challenge president obama's health care overhaul. at the heart of the debate? whether the individual insurance mandate is constitutional. and president obama is joining lead errs of more than 50 nations in seoul, south korea this morning for the 2012 nuclear security summit. the president kicking things off with a stinging warning to north korea. a developing story from afghanistan. nato officials say a gunman wearing an army uniform, an afghan army uniform, killed two coalition members in souther...

that's more than were killed by hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, and floods combined. cnn meteorologist chad meyers joins us. it's more than the heat. >> it's more than humidity. if you set your steam roam at a gym at 105. that feels like 200 degrees. even though it's 105, it feels so much hotter because your body cannot perspire, and it cannot cool itself down. a sauna is 160 or 170, but it feels cooler because the air is dry. now, this is a 10-year average, 170 people die of heat-related deaths per year, compared to 62 in tornados, and lightning, 44, and flooding 74. i know people...