in spending that we ve already cut from the budget, our plan makes additional spending cuts that need to happen if we re to solve this problem. we reform agriculture subsidies. subsidies that a lot of times pay large farms for crops that they don t grow. we make modest adjustments to federal retirement programs. we reduce by tens of billions of dollars the tax money that goes to fannie mae and freddie mac. we also ask the largest financial firms, companies saved by tax dollars during financial crisis, to repay the american people for every dime that we ve spent. and we save an additional $1 trillion as we end the wars in iraq and afghanistan. these savings are not only counted as part of our plan but as part of the budget plan that nearly every republican on the house voted for. finally, this plan includes structural reforms to reduce the costs of health care and programs like medicare and medicaid. keep in mind we ve already included a number of reforms in the health care la
the rest of the unit joins in, shooting wildly. they come under fire. [ gun fire ] an ambulance is hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. they and we are caught in the open. a pot shot. something in the distance. fightered opened up and there was some return fire. cnn producer was hit. i ve been shot. down, down. down. go, go, go! get down! right side. go to the right side of everything. go, go! that s it. good. other way. we start to check his injury. looks like there is a piece of shrapnel inside. you can feel it? i could feel it. when he was moving around, i could feel it inside. reporter: at a nearby field hospital, medics help ian. while dealing with their own grief. a colleague of these men was killed in the same attack just meters away from where the rpg, we think, hit the ambulance that was near us. what was his name? and how old was he? about 27, 28. reporter: tell me about him. about 9:00 he wake up me in my bed and we he came to tus and he s like
tied a woman in the basement along with her mother. when the father came home, the suspect put a gun to his head, ransacked the house and later threatened to kidnap a 3-year-old boy. it was brazen all right. to come here middle of the night raining with handguns. the victims are scared. hopefully we are going to find these guys. thank god the victims are okay. and they are still looking. it happened just 15 miles from the notorious 2007 home invasion at the petit family. in that crime two men raped and tortured daughter and killed them along with another daughter. only the father survived that attack. david lee miller here with more on this investigation. any arrests now? shepard, the search continues at this hour for all five intruders, the authorities have not released a great deal of information. they have said that all the men are black. they said that one of them was at least six foot tall and weighed 240 pounds and had some facial hair. the authorities have not released any c
going off in your home and 3 apparently reporter hes in the courtroom crying. but we also heard from steven hayes today. give us a bit of what steven hayes said in court. apparently he showed remorse. he said i m remorseful, i m sorry for having done this, but he also said this is not who i am. this was not steven hayes. he said he wanted to die. he killed a family, but he wanted to die. and he said he welcomes death. and he did apologize to the petit family. and then the judge says what? he said, and i ve got it, he said it is my sad duty to pronounce sentence on the capital felly count and in a very strong voice, he sentenced hayes to death. he said it s a terrible sentence, and i quote, but in truth, it is a sentence you wrote for yourself in flameses on july 23rd, 2007.
executed. investigators say hayes and an accomplice broke into the petit family home and beat the doctor until he was unconscious and raped his wife and sexually assaulted the 11-year-old daughter and tied everyone up. and set the house on fire. only the doctor survived and only barely. and now, outside the courtroom in connecticut. what is the defense saying to try to save this man s life as the only decision left, is whether he will live or die. reporter: they are trying to paint hairs hayes as a thief who never showed any signs of violence, as a career criminal but bad, who kept getting arrested time and time again. a sheriff who knew him from the numerous arrests said he was always remorseful and talked of getting help for the drug adifficulties and most crimes were for larceny but several