shepard: the only survivor that horrible fire in yarnell, arizona is speaking out now. he did an interview with good morning america. he said he wept numb after he learned the men he considered his brothers were dead. i asked a million times why am i sitting here? and why isn t someone else why aren t they sitting here with me? shepard: remember that out-of-control wildfire trapped and killed 19 elite firefighters back on june the 30th. mcdonough said his times with that crew were both the best and worst memories of his life. meantime, the widow of one of those deceased firefighters say she is fighting back after the city of press cot, arizona, reportedly denied her lifetime health and pension benefits because they said her husband was not a full time employee. the families of 13 part-time firefighters were reportedly receive a one-time payment of $328,000. the nation s military suicide rate has spiked in recent years from 18 to 22
least surgery on june the 30th, and you know, i ll continue to teach and be involved in research and things of that nature, so it we ll with will free he me up a little bit, although i have 10 international trips on the document already and multiple other things. are you interested in getting into politics? i don t have an inherent interest in doing it, but you know, i will go where god wants me to go. so where tell us, give us some context for this. your views are powerful, well articulated. where do they come from? well, i m not a democrat and i m not a republican. i m an independent. if there was a party called the logic party, i would be a member of that because there s so many things that are i idealogically driven, the fact that we ve now started a fourth branch of government known as special interest, basically anything that doesn t make sense is
all right. america thanks you. we re going to do sports. let s do a little sports. june the 30th, i want to take you back to june the 30th. the a s were 13 games behind the rangers in the a.l. west. yesterday the a s and rangers found themselves, after 161 games, tied atop the standings. so one game for the division title. it was in oakland. here s what happened. let s go to the highlights. tied at 5-5 in the fourth, two on, two out for rookie phenom jonas. what just happened there? looks like a routine fly ball. josh hamilton, i don t know what happened there. off his glove. two runs come home to score. rangers led by as much as four runs, now down. ninth inning, comfortable lead. grant balfour gets the final out of the game. time to celebrate. the a s win 12-5 taking the division title. they join the 2006 minnesota twins, the 1951 new york giants as the only teams whose lone day
june 30th on the floor of the senate. well, but if their meanness comes through, margaret, it s because we re not doing our job getting the message out that on june the 30th mitch mcconnell stood on the floor and said, we support it, but let s get the money from the stimulus. well, i ve seen jim de menthe and others who have been fighting it without that caveat? yeah. and that s the picture that s in people s minds. pat, it is a pr problem. if the picture is in the mind, the republicans have to figure out a way to say we support it, but we re going to support it only if you get the stimulus spending attached to it. i ve heard the stimulus spending thing. so we knew about it. and it is right and responsible, but i do agree what you re seeing out here and obama is driving the message home that these guys won t send out money for the unemployed who have been there, long-term unemployed, that s outrageous. and there s been a bipartisan tradition of extending unemployment