that have been donated to them. trying to get people to explain how your donations, the money that you give, tens of millions of dollars in some cases, end up paying for candies and other useless knickknacks instead of making a difference in the lives of people who have made incredible sacrifices for us all. tonight, keeping them honest, they have found yet another one of these organizations. i ve got to ask you about the money, though. that doesn t answer questions about the money that they are that s it? that s all you re going to say? that s drew trying to get answers from the president of a group call help hospitalized veterans. remember that name. you re going to hear more on that shortly. hhv s mission claims it s helping sick and injured war veterans. sounds good and reputable, right? the state of california, however, says the men behind this so-called charity have been helping themselves to excessive salaries and lavish lifestyles while using accounting gimmicks
nothing, old shoes and bags of coconut m and ms that have been donated to them. and end up paying for candy and useless nicknacks for the lives that make incredible sacrifices. i ve got to ask you about the money, though. that doesn t answer questions about the money that they are that s it? that s all you re going to say? that s drew trying to get answer from help hospitalized veterans. remember that name. you re going to hear more on that shortly. hhv s mission claims it s helping sick and injured war veterans. sounds good and reputable, right? the men behind the so-called charity have been helping themselves to excessive salaries and lavish lifestyles while using accounting gimmicks to trick the public into giving more money. drew griffin in is california. reporter: they are handing out craft kits by hospitals, trying to challenge the mind and help pass the time while vets recover. but now they are seeking to make their own recovery. the civil penalties of $4 milli
it is 5:00 a.m. here in the east. we begin this morning with breaking news. a deadly past 48 hours in afghanistan. new details of two attacks. an effort to derail the transition of power there. the taliban is claiming responsibility for an attack wednesday that left four americans dead, including senior members of an army brigade after an in-ssurgent detonated a suice vest. thomas kennedy and kevin griffin and walter gray were killed along with an american aid worker and afghan interpreter. and nato confirms that three u.s. service members were killed when a sgun man wearing an afghan forces uniform opened fire in the southern helmand province this morning. no claim of responsibility there yet. new details are expected and well be live at the pentagon at the bottom of the hour with more information for you. and now let s take you inside the wisconsin temple where six peoe were killed, three others wounded by a gunman on sunday. this video shot exclusively by cnn showing
killing three soldiers in the country s southern helmand province. cnn s chris lawrence is live from the pentagon. what are your sources telling you about this attack this morning? well, john, they say they are still trying to figure out whether this was actually a true afghan police officer or someone just wearing the uniform. although the taliban is claiming that this was an actual afghan policeman who lured these three soldiers to his residence or to a party and had planned to kill them for some time. u.s. military officials are now confirming that part of the detail. but again, it speaks to a larger issue, which is trust in the fact that if this is a so-called green on blue attack, where afghan troops turn on their american allies, it would be the third time just this week. in fact, in the big picture, there have been more attacks already this year of that kind than all of last year, john. all right, chris lawrence at the pentagon. the story developing at this momen
billion dollars a day and read this one, university of new york received 389,000 to pay residents in buffalo to find out how much malt liquor they drank, it sounds insane, but 100 and 1,000, if stimulus is stimulating, it would have worked. it clearly didn t work and the main reason it doesn t work for every good dollar that went to perhaps something worthwhile. we spend 8 or $9 that went to frivolous things. brenda: go ahead, gary. yeah, brenda, i want to go directly to the question you asked. and has stimulus gotten us anywhere. we have so far, since february 2009 spent three quarters of a trillion dollars of the money. back in february of 2009, the unemployment rate was 8.2%. right now, it s 8.2%. so, if we didn t spend all that money, we d have gotten