We re nearly 800,000 disabled veterans and surviving military spouses and they may not be able to pay the bills for things like rent, medical costs, school tuition. joining me is needra brantley, a disabled veteran who served two tours in iraq and relies on disability checks to pay for her and her son caleb. she is joined by paul reichoff. thank you both for joining us and of course for your service. needra, i want to start with you. you rely on these checks to survive. you and your son caleb. what happens if after november 1st the government is still partially shut down and it doesn t arrive? what do you do? we pray and pray hard. this is definitely a big thing for us. we depend on those checks, not just me and my son, my fiance as well, we re both veterans so if we don t have this disability come in, we are pretty much out in the cold. that s something we definite do not want to happen. what do you mean by out in the cold? literally out in the cold. if we don t have the money t