because of its proximity to tucson, not terribly far away. we will have one of our reporter live from tucson and elizabeth cohen, our medical correspondent, at the rehab reporting this morning. you may remember this one, we told you about the one letter to gabrielle giffords that brought her husband, tough astronaut almost to tear, from a 9-year-old boy, isaac, from creigh croft elementary school in tucson. it came with a cash donation. it was like $2.85. so, we re going to i sealed it back up. we re going to get his lunch money back to him. that s not easy to make an astronaut cry. what do you think of that? surprised. really, really surprised. there s isaac right there. mark kelly wasn t entire it wasn t isaac s lunch money. he collected stuffed animals, put them in his backpack and went to school and sold them because he wanted to be able to raise money for the congresswoman. he actually got in a bit of
isaac, tell us, what did you pick out of your toys? what did you sell? and did you tell your classmates why you were selling your toys? why you wanted to raise money? actually, i didn t really tell my classmates about it. i just started to selling some toys at school. and one of the things i sold were kind of some of the things that were really important to me. and the kind of things that are really important to you. so explain to all of us, what are those toys, then? what type of toys were your classmates buying from you? well, i sold some stuffed animals and, well, some books and some necklaces and bracelets. and how much were you able to raise? $2.85. and then you put that money into a card that you sent on to the congresswoman. what did you say in your card?
know, looking up to you, you know, and now she s gone, too. and all of the others. when do you do that? i could do it now. i don t know if that s the right thing to do. i decided it isn t. i mean, i have to wait for the appropriate time. you hear what he has been going through, what he has ahead of him and just revealing that news but he says he has been drawing strength from all of the support they have been receiving. they have been receiving a lot of cards and letters, as you can imagine. listen to him describe one he got that stood out, one he got from a little boy. i ve been looking at a lot of those letters. i think crad croft elementary school and one kid had a little card and on the back of his card was an envelope taped on to the back of the card and in the envelope was his lunch money. it was like $2.85. so i sealed it back up.
recovery is going to be like for her. it s going to be hard work. you see here, the memorial outside continues to grow outside the hospital. people continue to leave signs, cards, flowers, kandsles balloons, just to honor the victims. and the congresswoman is still recovering. he walks by this every single day, says it s spiritual for him. he talks about all of the letters and warm wishes he has been receiving. one stood out. came to a little boy, wanted to help out and sent in his lunch money, $2.85. mark kelly wants to respond and makes sure that young man gets his money back. he appreciated the gesture. growing concern about the places we call home, cities and countries. struggling to make ends meet. five cities with the biggest budget deficits. new york, number one.
reserve officials who are openly saying maybe we should have second thoughts about the policy of ben bernanke. unprecedented opposition, bill. that s what s happening. bill: a question: how many sit on the federal reserve board? i think it s 12. bill: 12. so three of the 12 are saying maybe we should rethink this. but it doesn t matter what rand paul thinks, it doesn t matter what ron paul position, it doesn t matter what sarah palish position sarah palin thinks, they don t have a vote, they don t make the decision. what they re doing is raising the possibility of serious inflation down the road. you ve gore will you ve already got some inflation. think of it, where is the $600 billion going? where is it going? i ll tell you where it s going, some of it is going into oil, which is close to $100 a barrel, 87 as of this morning, that is pushing up the price of gasoline, 2.85 national average, getting pretty close to three bucks a gallon, and as of this morning, bill, the price of