edgar gleason says it was just patientssive inside his room at the dc va medical inter. >> i w my room. it was that hot in there. >> reporter: air conditioning failed inside the giant medical center whicherves 100,000 patients a year including in a major auditorium andon sec of the third floor. >> you have 90 degrees weather with 90% humidity in the middle auof july and st, that can lead to a real, a terrible f situatio the patients in these rooms. it can run into refrigerator isr:es. >> repornd it has. the news4 i-team found refrigerator failures in octobeu ined flu vaccines costing a quarter of a million dollars and an fda inspection in marjorie vealed room temperature problems in the blood bank. during the inspectionfi an al acknowledged blad banke temperaturoncerns have been brought up since 2004. but they have not been successfully addressed. and records obtained under the freedom of information act show about $20 million of air conditioning, heat and refrigeratiodates are needed at the d.c. medical center. they say spot clers and fans are being used where air conditioning mag fun

and edgar gleason said he walked out of the center on hiswn after being treated for multiple sclerosis was no air conditioning. >> no fans? >> no fans. i couldn't sleep at night. >> reporter: tonight, our investigation on news4 at 5:00 and 11:00, just how long it was that air inside existedoo including a bank. what the agency plans to do and why it will take until 2022 to make all of the fixes. for now in d.c., scott mcfarland, i-team. >>> good thursday morning, nice and dry on the radar. oocouple of isolated showers possible this afn. it's going to be a pretty nice day. i'll show you the forecast and what to expect throughout your thursday. that's coming up next. >>> plus highway expansion. it may speed u your commute but it's forcing families out of their homes. still ahead, hear from the owner who is getting the boot. >>> and we'll tell you about the >>> "news4 today" starts now. >>> your tim 5:28. thanks for joining us on " aws4 today" o thursday morning. here's a live look outside. really pretty, right? and it's feeling betr outside after the hot weather. good morning, everyone, i

back at his home edgar gleason says that's not good enough and someone needs to take ownership of theseroblems for the sake of america'san vet >> i thought about other veterans, veterans who don't have the option and have to go to the v.a. and that's when i said i'm going to speak up this time. >> reporterlkeeping the dership at this medical center has been difficult. the man who oversaw the medical center for much of this year and during msny of the probl was reassigned in april. a temporary director has days left in his term and a fifth director in the past 14wi month likely be named in a matter ur weeks. that's a lot ofver >> this is just unbelievable. i'm thinking if some of these people in the culture of complacency had relatives or family members in these hospitals would they feel any odifferent, you know,d there not be that culture? >> reporter: what the inspector general has said as he did a long review of this center says a lot is preventable because a lot of it was cultural, just placency, problems that could have been avoided. >> you're saying if the air conditiong has been a

patient edgar gleason is barely able to walk when he was admitted for complications from ms and nevertheless walked out when he said his patient room becameessively hot in july. >> i can't stay another night. i couldn't sleep. i was in my roo without a top on it was that hot in there. >> reporter: the v.a. declined multiple requests for an interview with ne 4 saying air conditioning repairs are underway and tenses of millinns more improvements are expected between now and 2022. wendy and doreen, we will keep watching. >> for so many years, we hear our leader talking about how important it is to take care of our veterans, but there's alot of talk and not enough action. >> a lot of leader. they have had five leaders at that facility in 14 months. >> we've been hearing about the problems for years and years. thanks, scott >> thank you scott. >> ifou do have a tip about the v.a. that the i-team should be looking into, visit our nbc news washington app and click on investigations. >>> all police officers in fairfax county will carry new tools in the fight against opioid overdoses. they will carry