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Dr. from the u.s. southern command down in miami $150 million in upgrades or more for gitmo over the next year or so. that's hard to justify at this point in time. they are terrorists living in caves in afghanistan. in mud huts, basically. now we are saying guantanamo bay, a federal facility in the caribbean is not good enough for these guys? how bad is it down there, really? >> well, basically guantanamo was never meant to be permanent. a lot of the buildings they are trying to replace with known are expeditionary, old. some are falling apart. there definitely is need for improvements at guan...

Cinder blocks. there are now only 130 or so prisoners. it is strange to me for the military to say that that building which i saw which looked really robust and with the prisoner population 1/6 of what it was at maximum that they don't have room or the facilities. that may be right. >> general kelly whose the commander of the u.s. southern command in charge of the region is making this up? >> i find it hard to process exactly what they think they need that they haven't got with a relatively small population. >> you think the president would still like to shut it down? >> i think he is a man of...

Temporary house, and the last 12 years have taken its toll according to the head of u.s. southern command. >> the buildings, for the most part, are falling apart, and we really do need to get serious about taking care of our troops that are down there as well as improving the security. >> reporter: we need to tell you while all of this is happening with the realities of sequestration as well. uma: indeed. are there other signs the administration will not with closing the camp anytime soon? >> reporter: well, there have been for quite some time, one of the most visible is this soccer field that...

In late may jill kelley, who is in tampa, has known general petraeus for quite some time, is quite prominent socially in the tampa area, starts getting these anonymous e-mails that are quite menacing a source close to her says, suggesting that she's been socializing inappropriately with high level generals from the u.s. southern command and central command which are based in tampa and that she ought to stop it. and as the e-mails continue, they make references to her socializing with why not pa tge petraeus. and perhaps more menacing, if you will, the e-mails seem to indicate that the anonymou...

Let's get you caught up on our top stories right now. toyota is sending engineers to the san diego area to investigate a freeway scare that happened yesterday. the owner of a 2008 prius says his car suddenly accelerated. this is the prius now. and standing on the brakes didn't help. the car reportedly got up to more than 90 miles an hour before a highway patrol officer was able to help the driver stop. the u.s. naval ship "comfort" is coming home. it's scheduled to sail away from haiti tomorrow. the massive hospital ship has been anchored there since shortly after the earthquake struck in ja...