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represent himself through all of this. through all of that nidal hasan continues to receive his military paycheck as casey mentioned. since the shooting he has been paid nearly $300,000. bill: got a fox news alert right now. the sunnies coming up in southern california and this is the image you see live. a wildfire near the city of banning. it has been raging out of control. the flames are tearing away at that hill overlooking the city. we re told three people have been injured, two of them are firefighters and some terrified people telling us about the scene and the chaos that followed there. it was so smokey, you couldn t see a whole lot. we did see flames that, it came down here so fast, so fast. and then the of course the wind picks up and that makes it even worse. how are you doing? how are you holding up? hearts pounding a mile a minute but like i said we ve been through this before so you kind of, you know what to do.
today he is still paralyzed from the waist down. physical hasan was charged with 13 counts of murder after the shooting rampage in november of 2009. now the following month attempted murder charges were tacked on. in april of 2010 hasan was released in from the military hospital in san antonio and transported to a prison in texas. he was finally arraigned in the summer of 2011. after a lot more legal manueverring it was finally decided that the court-martial would remain at fort hood on june 4th of this year the judge ruled that hasan can represent himself. through all of this, nidal hasan continued to receive his military paycheck. since the shooting he has been paid nearly $300,000. bill: that continues. this case hit a specific nerve too. in addition to those killed that day, the government refused to classify this as terrorism. instead they call it work place
shooting. he faces 13 counts of premeditated murder, 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder, reportedly continues to receive a military paycheck of $7,000 a month. current law allows official active service members who are suspects to be paid until conviction. the former army psychiatrist admits he fired on hundreds of soldiers, awaiting health checkups before deployment to afghanistan on november 5th, 2009, killing 13 and wounding more than 30. he says he committed the mass shooting in defense of taliban terrorists. yet the obama administration characterizes the attack as workplace violence, not an act of terrorism, shipping victims valuable benefits. manning was shot six times. fighting to have his actions that day considered an act of terrorism so that those that were killed and wounded can be recognized as somebody killed and wounded in combat. manning and victims cannot be