Prince Harry in U.S. to Promote Invictus Games; Man Saves Half Million Pennies.
CHURCH: Word just coming in of the stabbing of an Israeli soldier. The Israel Defense Forces says a Palestinian stabbed a soldier in Hebron near the Tomb of the Patriarch. The attacker was shot. A police spokesman said the area has been closed off and the soldier is receiving medical treatment. Britain's Prince Harry spent the day in Washington meeting with President Barack Obama and promoting the Invictus Games. The prince started the games for injured and sick military personnel last year in London. And he joined First Lady Michelle Obama at a wheelchair basketball game to underscore the need for programs to help soldiers' recovery. Diane Sherp (ph) has more.</s>CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's not often you have the first lady, Prince Harry and Dr. Jill Biden cheering on your team. But today, wounded servicemembers had a chance to show off their skills on the court in wheelchairs.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is really good and it helps with recovery and rehabilitation.</s>SHERP (ph): It's in an effort to promote the Invictus Games next year here in the U.S. He started the games after seeing a similar event in Colorado two years ago and wanted to make it an international competition.</s>PRINCE HARRY: The Invictus Games seek to change perceptions of physical and mental injury.</s>SHERP (ph): Specialist Stephanie Morris was injured in 2013 in Afghanistan.</s>STEPHANIE MORRIS, WOUNDED VETERAN: We got indirect fire. Two rocket- propelled grenades came in back to back, so I had a left femur fracture and right foot fracture.</s>SHERP (ph): She says that out of the five people she was with, she was the only one who survived.</s>MORRIS: I had a hard time dealing with it.</s>SHERP (ph): Morris says being around others helped her in the road to recovery. She said it took nearly a year before she gave sports a chance.</s>MORRIS: It was hard to cope are finding a new normal and I played sports before injury and I'm like, well, how do you do this?</s>SHERP (ph): But since she gave it a shot, she hasn't looked back, helping her turn her life around and building lifelong relationships through the love of the game.</s>CHURCH: And the Invictus Games will be held in Orlando, Florida, next year. You've probably heard "a penny saved, a penny earned," and one man saved more than a half million pennies, which comes out to a little bit more than $5,000. 73 year old Otha Anders, from Louisiana, cashed in his penny savings to help pay a dental bill after saving up for more than 40 years.</s>ANDERS: I started this probably in the late 60s, early 70s. Started putting them in these jugs to the point that now I have acquired 15 water jugs. It just seemed like it was initiated by the fact that if I would see a penny on the ground or the hall way or anywhere, I would say a prayer of thanks and say this is got a way of reminding me that I should always be thankful and I fail to pray, I would see a penny and it would remind me to pray. I became fascinated with the pennies. The children who knew I was saving pennies would bring their pennies to me. I would never let anyone give me a penny. Not even my children or my wife. I wanted the satisfaction deep inside that God and I together did this. I have not spent a penny in 40-plus years. I would break a dollar before I would spend a penny. Back in the late 60s or early 70s, the government was giving $25 extra for every $100 of pennies you would turn in. Even then, I refused to turn them in to earn the extra $25 per 100.</s>CHURCH: It shows you every penny does count. Thanks to Christa Bordeaux (ph) from CNN's affiliate, KTEV, for that report. I'm Rosemary Church. Remember to keep in touch on Twitter. I'll be back with another hour of CNN NEWSROOM after this very short break. Don't go anywhere.