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Mr. neely will not, we can assume be working for the government again. as i say, bill, he has been sentenced to three months in prison and that will be followed by three months home detention. i'm very sorry to report, bill, i have not been able to discover whether mr. neely has a hot tub in his home. my apologies. bill: we're on standby for that. thank you, jonathan, in vegas. martha: as i said we're awaiting a news conference in washington. they have a lot of sorting out to do, what happened, any response and confirmation they had if there was need to respond to this kind of force in the d.c...

Phone call to make sure there is nothing more there. but essentially where do we go from here with all this, catherine? >> i think there are three sort of threads to follow here martha. first and foremost it is going to be the news conference from the d.c. police chief. what kind of readout we get of interview with the person who made that initial 911 call. whether this was just well-intentioned but human error. if you're going to step back here though the question that investigators always have is whether this was some kind of a probing incident or a dry run to see how d.c. emergency personne...

Of something. or this could be a called in phoney hoax. you saw over memorial day weekend there was a number of airline hoaxes called in. in new york they have a large number of hoaxes at the port authority. it could also be a diversion. get all the law enforcement forces in one location and attack somewhere else or it could be nothing at all. that's what faces law enforcement and intelligence officials. get all the law enforcement to one location, but you can't overlook anything. bill: no one has said they heard shots fired. >> was it part after coordinated policy? i can assure you the law

Obviously these states will have to put this money to work, steve. >> reporter: certainly interesting too how florida managed to get $3.5 billion yet the state was untouched by the oil. it was really the perception that hurt tourism in florida. louisiana getting $6.8 billion and of course one the worst environmental tragedies in u.s. history. that oil, you remember, five years ago, really flowed out three million barrels of oil in the gulf. it flowed for 87 days before it was finally really the states fighting hard for their money getting more than $18 billion. bp deciding to settle now instea...

10:45 but we'll look for that. bill. bill: became the face of sort for government waste. three years later a judge sentencing this former federal executive to jail. chief correspondent jonathan hunt live in our l.a. newsroom with more on this remind us what he did in last last, jonathan. >> reporter: bill, the face and the body of government waste when you take a look at that photo. who could forget jeffrey neely, so famously photographed in that said jacuzzi at a vegas resort drinking what looked like for all the world, california's finest cabernet. it was part of an $800,000 conference he or...