unfortunate conversation. mrs. gittens had just returned from out of the country. her dad had just passed away. i had to break this news to her. you know, the sergeant was on his third tour. he has a wife and four children. he s been in the military, spent most of his adult life there. 18 plus years. and frankly, i told the family that we ll build their home either way. again, we ve taken on more than 100 families. we won t let this deter us at all. and i guess even if they reverse the decision, the family will need to decide if they d be comfortable living there. yeah. with that neighborhood. all right. john from homes for our troops, we thank you very much for telling us this story. well, thanks for having me. thanks for and we want to know what s going to happen with this and it s an unbelievable program that you re spear heading. thanks so much. coming straight ahead, controversial plan being considered all across the nation. get rid of tenure for teachers and reward them b
talk about the republicans plan to put the corporate tax and income tax at 25%. it s on the table. see you at varney & company, is that ok? yes, please do. it s a date. thank you. appreciate it. coming up straight ahead now he came back from iraq to talk or to ask and talk to her but he was asking for her hand in marriage. but this soldier couldn t have done it without the help of all the passengers on his airplane. the couple here live to share the heart warming story. and don t blame the government for high gas prices. blame this tiny little lizard. why protecting godzilla could cost you and lead to the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs. okay guys, what sounds good for dinner tonight? i don t know, something. [ mom ] something.
haste. [laughter] harris. we gave our viewers three different videos. reporter: the twister dog, 89%. his name is mason. the home he lived in, all that was left was the back porch. when the owners returned home just a few days ago, they found little mason. he s undergone surgery to fix two broken legs, guys. crawled home on two broken legs. he s recovering in splints. a doctor, a surgeon donates his time and expertise for little mason. just a gorgeous animal, a mixeder terrier. made it home. a lot of stories coming out of that twister-torn region. this one a happy one. good luck, mason. lots of people wanted to adopt him. his owners say, nope, we re going to take him back. jon: of course they are. that s a heart warming story. thanks. a series of intense thunderstorms brings floods and power outages to the northeast. that same system that tore up the midwest and parts of the
element of this is high. i see them all over the place because i live down here. but there is a lot of green high. for every two or three miles you drive your carrots a pounds of carbon in the air. the montreal program, they found 85% of the people would have been bike, walk or bussing anyway. however, miami beach is different. tourists take cabs. and i have seen them, they take bikes. martha: if anybody gets to ride a bike our south beach, it s phil keating. bye, phil. she was a hero without a home. we brought you this story back in december. today there is lots of tail wagging for one very special little pooch.
cord left her disabled and they had to remove three vertebra. the bear had his paw on that injury. i couldn t imagine it not doing serious damage. reporter: the family has seen bears before, but never expected to see it this early in the season. in the winter has been as bad as it s been, in april, never, never thought it would have been a bear. if it happened to me, it can happen to anyone. people need to be aware. martha: boy. thank goodness he went on his way. mother of five can continue to be with her family. unbelievable story. thank you to our affiliate for that report. so a big prediction about 2012 coming from one of the leading political writers. we ll find out the one thing that she says she believes will cost president obama a second term in the white house. the search for victims of a