big, important numbers and understanding them. what is the difference between a debt and deficit. when you spend more money than you make you run a deficit. you borrow to cover the difference. uncle sam does the same thing. all those deficits year after year add to a huge pile of national debt. how big, 14,000 billion. deficits are spending more money than you make and debt is something owed. how much money you owe. the u.s. currently has $14.296 trillion of debt. if we continue to spend money at our current rate our debt will top $25 trillion in ten years. under president obama s plan, that s $20.8 trillion and under the paul ryan republican plan it would be $19 trillion in ten years. think of that. even under these reduction plans, trimming it, it s just slowing the rate of increase. the increase is still going up. budget experts like to analyze this pile of debt by what the size is to the overall economy, right. today the national debt is 62%
hudson river in upstate new york, killing herself and taking three of her four children with her. details of their final horrifying moments coming from the sole survivor. the boy you see there, 10-year-old leshaun. a good samaritan stopped to help him as he stood at the side of the road shivering crying to call for help. deb feyerick joins us with the latest. it s such a tragedy but this amazing aspect of it that this boy was able to save his own life and actually tried to save his siblings. he was courageous and really brave and apparently able to stay calm under this extraordinary pressure that he was facing. this young mom, leshanda armstrong, so vulnerable, thought the only way out of her pain was taking her life and the lives of her children. facebook posting about 30 minutes before she drove into the frigid waters shows her asking for mercy. it says, i m sorry, everyone. forgive me, please, for what i m going to do. this is it. she bundled her young kids ages
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she went crazy, just speeded up and went into the water. it just sounded like it was on purpose and, you know, it was just he was terrified. terrified. how does a 10-year-old boy recover from this? does he? we re looking at maeve, how she s traumatized by it. imagine this little boy in the car, the mother even saying, according to him, i made a mistake. he s communicating with the mother while this is going on. how does he recover? he does recover. but he ll never be the same. this is a child who will need therapy for many, many years to come because he s going to have survivor guilt, post-traumatic stress. we know he s in shock. a lot is expected of him. i have a feeling he was the little man in the family and now carrying a lot of this kind of responsibility. and there he is and in tse pictures walking investigators through what happened. he was telling you some other things that were quite telling about the situation. he said, i wish i had taught
reporter: finding evidence here, a challenge. the brush too thick even for police dogs. but coffee says more leads may develop by learning how the four identified victims got there. all were known prostitutes. interview cab drivers, not leslie as the perpetrator but as witnesses because these women had to have transportation to get to and from their johns. do you think the person or persons responsible for what s happening out here, wants to be caught? no. that s a fallacy. is it? no. they say that all the time. he wants to be caught. bologna. what do you have to say? reporter: coffee is reminded of another serial killer, joel riff kin. he targeted prostitutes and convicted of killing nine but confessed to murdering 17. whoever is doing this knows this area. whether he was born and raised here, or whether he still lives here. you couldn t do what this person is doing without knowing this area. why not just leave the area and go quiet for a period of