in desert storm and desert shield. he says that years after his service, he was overwhelmed by post-traumatic stress disorder. it is flashbacks and hypervej lens and dreams. reporter: haunted by the lives he could not save, williams says he fell apart and struggled to keep jobs. now, he has full time administrative work, but it is not earning enough to pay child support for four children and rent. the national coalition for the homeless estimates that 1 in every 5 of america s homeless has worn a uniform and it is an embarrassment that the v.a. has made a priority to end in five years. they have a more ambitious goal to house williams and all of the veterans within five months. they say it is do-able, because they only have 40 homeless vets
joe johns, have a great rest of the weekend and safe travels. you, too. on this memorial day, i want to begin on cordova, alabama. it hit on the morning of april 27th by a powerful ef-3 tornado, and then the very same day ef-4 tornado hits that same town that night. cordova, alabama, is not the town that you see here in some of the video, some of the aerial pictures here and satellite images. a lot of folks have certainly lost their homes, but as we told you on friday, the cordova mayor jack scott is invoking a ordinance that rejects any trailer which is being offered by the federal government to folks whose homes have been destroyed. and jack scott is saying emergency or not, the law is the law. and as we showed you on friday, none of the folks in cordova are none too thrilled about the 50-year-old ordinance. we will talk to some folks live in a moment, but first, listen to this. what i suggested is putting the fema trailers in my backyard, because of the mayor, we wan