jamie: when our troops overseas are granted leave they re not always given a plane ride to the u.s. one charity group is helping to bring them home for the holidays. heather childers is live in the new york newsroom and we love they re doing this. tell us more. reporter: this is a great story. thousands of service men and women serving the country overseas and most won ted be able to come home for the holidays. oscar cruz and his son live just outside philadelphia. a tight-knit family. one of his sons, he isn t here right now, he s in the air force and serving in japan. brendan cruz enlisted two years ago. if it hadn t been for a non-profit called let s bring them home, he wouldn t be coming home for christmas. it would have been close to $5,000 for getting a thicket time of year round trip from
what did the building cost originally. 50 million. and had to spend $30 million to repear it? to put it in regular operating condition, yeah. when did go wrong there? the people did not operate on a budget and used local engineers to manage a problem that required a lot more expertise than was here. some of the sewers green lighted were not even included in the consent decree. how did that happen? jefferson county won ted to bore are a super sewer underneath to get to area that would be developed. when they got to the point the outcry from environmental or rate payer groups was so loud they killed the project outright, leaving jefferson county with the tunnel to no where. when it became clear the county wouldn t be able to make the payments on its bonds officials went back to wall street looking to refinance.