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Apathetic. >> last week the justice department announced drastic cuts to claim payouts, some as steep as 70%. that's because the fund is close to exceeding its total limit of $7.3 billion. 9/11 first responder spoke to you are a andrea mitchell about the financial toll this is all taking. >> john, i've been told you've gone to 181 funerals of responders. >> yes, ma'am, and i paid for nine of them because they couldn't afford to bury their loved ones. >> there are more than 20,000 approved claims in the victim compensation fund program right now. about 12,000 claims still need to be processed, ...

9/11 first responder john field spoke to our andrea mitchell about the emotional and financial toll this is all taking. >> john, i've been told you've gone to 181 funerals of responders. >> yes, ma'am, and i paid for nine of them because they couldn't afford to bury their loved ones. >> there are more than 20,000 approved claims in the victim compensation fund program right now. about 12,000 claims still need to be processed, another 9,000 are currently going through the route of appeals. please note this. the new york city fire department lost 343 members that day when those buildings came do...

>> john, i've been told you've gone to 181 funerals of responders. >> yes, ma'am, and i paid for nine of them because they couldn't afford to bury their loved ones. >> there are more than 20,000 approved claims in the victim compensation fund program right now. about 12,000 claims still need to be processed, another 9,000 are currently going through the route of appeals. please note this. the new york city fire department lost 343 members that day when those buildings came down on 9/11. the number of exposure-related deaths to new york city firefighters who worked on that pile is on pace to ex...

Types of cancers to develop, cancer rates in the 9/11 responder community are rising higher and faster than ever before. that means in our 9/11 heroes are going to need the victim compensation fund program more urgently in largely numbers than ever before. just over a week ago, we all heard the horrible news that the vcf will need to make severe cuts between 50 and 70 percent. this will hurt -- >> that's new york senator kirsten gillibrand. she's fighting for more funding for 9/11 first responders victims. let get to mike emmanuel. >> reporter: lot of emotion