And are not recorded. Your office found that Social Security had no death data for 6. 5 Million People over the age of 111. Do you really believe that there are 6. 5 Million People over the age of 111 in this country . No. In fact, thats why we did the audit on it. What we were finding is that people that were over 112 years of age were opening up Bank Accounts and we got suspicious. We found that 6. 5 million was not recorded as being deceased. Reporter how many people are countrisome im thinking ten. Reporter most federal agencies depend on the death master file. So if a death isnt listed, payments keep coming. We wondered what that would add up to in the course of a year, but no one in the government is keeping count. The best we could come up with for example, the department of agriculture paid farm subsidies and Disaster Assistance to more than 170,000 dead people over six years. That came to 1. 1 billion. The office of Personnel Management paid dead federal retires a little over
Captioning sponsored by cbs n this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley the man who carried the baton for the republicans four years ago is not passing it to donald trump. Hes hitting him over the head with it. It today, mitt romney became the Party Establishments unofficial spokesman for the dump trump movement. Then, the 2008 nominee, john mccain, double teamed, saying that he shares romneys concerns and called Trumps National security ideas uninformed and dangerous. In any other election, this would have been unimaginable, the two most recent nominees denouncing the g. O. P. Frontrunner. Dean reynolds is in salt lake city. Heres what i know. Donald trump is a phony, a fraud. Hes playing the members of the American Public for suckers. He gets a free ride to the white house, and all we get is a lousy hat. Reporter the man who lost a race many republicans thought was winnable said trump is a s election. A person so untrustworthy and dishonest as Hillary Clinton must not be
Interviewed by f remarkable reporting from inside syria where a partial ceasefire appears to be holding. Next week will mark five years since the uprising that led to the civil war that has killed a quarter of a Million People and forced 11 million from their homes. Elizabeth palmer has reached aleppo, and Holly Williams is in northern syria. Well begin with holly. Reporter Masorat Al Rashid village was liberated from isis just three days ago. We saw the body of an isis fighter lying in the rubble of a house hit by an air strike. Joza khalaf and her cousin khatar told us the extremists held guns to their heads, forcing their way into the womens homes to hide. They said the isis fighters also dressed up as women to avoid capture. The nearby town of al shaddadi was liberated last week. The isis slogans are still the control of the Syrian Democratic forces, an arabkurdish alliance that is supported by the u. S. So this was an american air strike . Commander media kobane told us that u. S.
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Clintons email may wrap up soon. As secretary of state, clinton used an unsecured private email server in her home for official business. None of the emails on the system was marked classified at the time, but recently thousands have been reevaluated and some marked top secret. Its a crime to mishandle classified documents. Tonight, nancy cordes tells us a former clinton staffer has been given immunity and is talking to the fbi. Reporter Bryan Pagliano is an i. T. Specialist who set up the private email server at clintons new york home. He took the fifth when he was called before Congress Last year, but is cooperating with the fbi, an indication of the breadth of the investigation into whether anyone intentionally mishandled classified information. The Clinton Campaign said today it is pleased that pagliano is helping with a case the fbi director, james comey, acknowledges is uniquely sensitive. I am very close personally to that its done the way the fbi tries to do all of its work ind