this time in gainesville, florida. patients there were placed on a secret paper waiting list. that new report comes on a day when the deputy chief of staff sat down with representatives from well-known veterans organizations. my next two guests are here to tell us exactly what the administration is saying behind closed doors. guys, welcome to the program. thanks for being with us. >> thank you for having us. >> bring us inside this meeting today. obama said in 2008 he'd fix it. promised in 2009, 2012, 2013. he hasn't fixed anything. what are they saying behind closed doors? >> go ahead. >> i don't know if you'd call it behind closed doors. we were all meeting at the veterans service organizations with mr. neighbor. pretty much they gave us the plan on how they going to go out to different veterans administration hospitals, review what's going on, talk to patients. >> hang on a second. wait a second. where's the urgency? we have vets dying. inside, i would send an emergency team in. get a list of every vet that's in danger of dying that needs attention. did they bring that up?

three staff members at the gainesville, florida, facility have been placed on leave.histleblowers at other facilities have claimed they were ordered to doctor records to conceal long wait times. in arizona, some 40 veterans reportedly died while waiting for care. >>> touchdown dances not recommended right now at austin p. state in tennessee. a 40-foot-deep sinkhole just opened up. >> this is the end zone right there. work crews noticed the earth start to open up weeks ago but they couldn't stop the hole from growing. now look at that. that sinkhole is 50 feet wide. governor stadium was already undergoing renovations. probably a good idea. it is expected to be ready for the fall season. that will be where the visitors go. that's the visitors' end zone. >>> all right, behold now the humbling enormity and power of a supercell storm. this is really incredible. >> oh, my! >> time-lapse video shot by storm chasers near new castle, wyoming. the system produced torrential downpours, hail as big as baseballs. supercells are a special kind of single-cell thunderstorm that can l

allegations of neglect at yet another va hospital this time in gainesville, florida. according to an audit team, patients were placed on a secret paper waiting list instead of being entered into an official electronic computer system. that explosive new report comes on a day when the white house deputy chief of staff sat down with representatives from a number of well-known veterans organization. both of my next guests were in attendance for that high level sit down. here to tell us what the administration is saying behind closed doors. guys, welcome to the program. thanks for being with us. >> thank you for having us. >> mr. hickey bring us inside this meeting. mr. obama said in 2008 he would fix it. promised in 2009, 2012, 2013. he hasn't fixed anything. what do they say behind closed doors? >> well, i don't know if you call it behind closed doors. we were all meeting there, the veterans service organization with mr. nabor and they gave us the plan on how they are going to go out to different veterans administration hospitals, review what's going on, talk to patient

it is a brief story about the sudden death of a young woman in gainesville, florida, in 1977.ynn, mike's first wife. the article says a 25-year-old woman apparently choked to death friday on a threat lozenge. sharon and the rest of the thomas family say they find two things strange about that. first, an otherwise healthy 25-year-old woman chokes to death on a cough drop. second, they say michael had always told them, a different story. he told them his first wife didn't die suddenly, she died a slow, painful death, from cancer. >> michael told us the entire time he was married to mama that lynn had leukemia. >> it made me wonder, what else has he lied about? >> what else has he lied about? for the answer to that question we take you to florida and the suspicious fire in dr. mike's past. nearly 20 years ago. >> in the place of business, detected smoke. seen smoke. >> the lieutenant in plain clothes was a rookie patrolman back in the day. he says he found dr. mike standing outside his own office, just watching it burn. >> my first question was why didn't the doctor call the fire

three staff members at the gainesville, florida, facility have been placed on leave.s comes amid a widening scandal where whistleblowers say they were told to cook the books to conceal long wait lists. in phoenix, at least 40 veterans may have died waiting for care. >>> all right, if you've never experienced the sheer enormity and power of a supercell storm, check out this extraordinary time-lapse video. it was shot by storm chasers near new castle, wyoming. >> it's nuts. >> this system produced torrential downpours, baseball-sized hail. supercells are a special kind of single-cell thunderstorm. it can last for hours and spawn almost every significant tornado in the u.s. and you love that word. >> spawn. >> you love the word spawn. >> spawn. indra petersons has a look now at the forecast. good morning, indra. >> good morning, indra. >> can we go back to baseball-sized hail? i mean, this, literally, falling on your head? >> it spawned baseball-sized hail. >> it spawned baseball-sized hail, yeah. good news today, still looking at relief on the fire lines. let's talk abo

staff sergeant tim chambers, to the right, of oregon, and bring corporal sean adams of gainesville, florida. 90-year-old veteran of the 1942 little rate came to accept a congressional gold medal on the raiders the half. that in there will "washington post" this morning. honoring the dead and the living shouldn't and when the day does. we americans don't memorialize the way we used to. we should, but i hope we never again have to this editorial from the "washington post" goes on to say this. today we are no longer so democratic and have not been since the last world conflict. so, that from the editorial this morning in the "washington post." as we heard from the first caller talking about the health care system at the veterans affairs department, that was the topic on the sunday talk shows this weekend. senator blumenthal of "faceticut was on cbs's the nation." here's what he had to say. i have urged secretary ly.nseki privately and public we're talking now about evidence, criminal -- credible and specific evidence of criminal wrongdoing across the country in more than 30 places. inspector g

university of florida finance professor jay ritter joining us from gainesville, florida, and asset management founder and chief investment officer here with us as well. everybody, thank you for joining us. michael, i will start with you. $5 billion for pinterest, $10 billion for uber. are those fair? are excited about those two in particular because they have enormous network effects. support and aical whole ecosystem. you are looking at the growth and that is why they are putting this type of valuations on there. >> i know you do a lot of research on these numbers, j. what do you think about these two particular companies and the valuation going up so much in such a short time? moe'sould echo michael opinion that some of these have network effects. the valuations are based upon optimistic assumptions, but google has demonstrated just how profitable targeted search advertising can be. pinterest has the potential to make a lot of money with that targeted search advertising. these venture capitalists want to put so much money into these companies at such a high valuation? starting to just make

at least 16 states are being investigated with the latest being a hospital in gainesville, florida.ore calls for president obama to respond to the scandal. so far he has remained vie et on issues. family members are outraged over his silence. >> why is our commander-in-chief awol on the allegations of the va. why is attorney general holder awol on the same thing? why is the fbi director tomorrow lee a wol on it. with when we were asked to serve our country we wouldn't go awol because we knew the consequences. >> he sends the chief of staff neighbors to the va to try to figure out what's going on. >> that brings us to "look whose talking." the director of the national legislative division for the american league gone. >> when robert petzel resigned they called it quote business as usual and called for a major overall of all va leadership. they praised his departure. something kelly says is wrong. >> for the white house to spin that and make it look like we agreed with it is disingenuous>> calling for resignation of someone who is leaving for retirement anyway it would have been bette

gainesville is reporting a lot of trees down.nd in florida reporting trees down and then these storms are moving up into georgia where we're getting hail reports which are quite impressive over an inch in size in the diameter of them. storm damage started really popping up in the afternoon with that daytime heating and line of converging winds coming in at the same time. if you look further to the right you could see, your left my right, you can see texas central, a lot of rain here, that rain coming down so quickly because it's so humid, all it needs is a little bit of lift to get good soaking rain. still have flash flood warnings in place and a severe storm warning will continue into tonight and tomorrow. san angelo, there's no wonder there's flash flood warnings in parts of the state. junction got two and a quarter of inches of rainfall. san antonio just 1/100ths of an inch. rolling also into the upper midwest, parts of iowa and dakotas. daytime heating comes in. western washington, soggy, seata crrveg airporseatac airport rep

they had an opportunity to produce items that are sold at the organization's store in gainesville. proceeds from those sale helps girls in india and serves an important function, they work with local organizations in georgia to help women break out a cycle of poverty through job coaching and more. i commend vicky and others who have been on the front lines of the battle and hope everyone in this body will continue to not only raise awarpse of sex trafficking but do something about it. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from hawaii seek recognition? ms. gabbard: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. gabbard: thank you, mr. speaker. i stand here disappointed and heart broken today as an american and soldier because congress has missed an opportunity to stand up and fight for our troops, especially those who have been victims and survivors of violent sexual crimes that have occurred within our ranks. these are the less than 1% o

the gentleman from gainesville, has a facility that is in fact at this point has sever people put on administrative leave. i'd like to yield him one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized for one minute. >> i thank my colleague, mr. miller. i rise today in support of h.r. 4031, the department of veterans' affairs management accountability act of 2040. mr. yoho: for far too long, problem patient neglect has persisted. these problems will continue to service until the employees there can be held accountable for their poor performance. in recent weeks, the incompetence has been made clear. serious allegations have risen that wait times and secret waiting lists at the phoenix v.a. medical centers led to the death of 40 of our nation's veterans. this is unacceptable. there are stories of secret waiting lists at v.a.'s all over the news. as these reports are investigated, it is necessary that we give the secretary of the v.a. the power to not only reprimand but remove the neglect employees if we do not the problem will persist. for these reasons and more,

. >> this is the latest in a string of accusations this time in gainesville, florida, where auditors va there and found that officials were using paper documents, paper wait lists instead of electronic ones. this is important because in phoenix they found that there were two separate lists. unofficial list that had veterans waiting for months for care and then an official electroniciconic list showing waiting no longer than 14 days. a paper list in florida. three officials are on administrative leave as auditors look at what that list was being used for. >> concerns about florida. we know that 40 veterans died waiting for appointments at the phoenix va health care system as chris was saying. you got to wonder and you can tell us best how much confidence do they have that the administration is going to get to the bottom of this and investigate it properly and then make sure it's not going to happen again? >> most veterans out there believe that the va is just waiting for them to die. there are 19 states now that have been exposed with either delaying care, hiding appointments or delet

we have a wrap around in gainesville. we have new cemeteries in florida. we serve almost 600,000 veterans a year in florida. so i can truly say i went and talked to various va groups in florida and not one single complaint because we are doing our job and that is what this committee supposed to do. make sure that the va is doing what we committed to the other veterans. and let's forget the grand standing because i have seen a lot of it. i was here. we have money for the veterans. but for years it was just the talk. it was just a talk for years. but under this president and when we had a democratic house and a democratic senate we got the largest va increase in the budget in the history of the united states. so we do have the money. but we got to know we are not just talking the talk we are walking the walk. now dr. lynch, is there any additional information you want to give me about the overall problems with the va around the country? because i know florida is not included. >> thank you. i want to chose my words wisely. let me begin by saying it is absolut

the latest albuquerque, new mexico and now gainesville, florida where cnn has confirmed three more healthfficials have been placed on administrative leave and inspector general investigation is under way. we had several whistle blowers worked in the va as clerks. they were told hide wait times. that may be why general shinseki thinks this is isolated but to a lot of people it's looking more and more systemic and the problem is yet to be fixed. >> appreciate the update. now another troubling first to a virus that looks like the common cold but kills rouflly one in three people. first american person to person transmission emerged or middle eastern respiratory syndrome. here's the good news the first american patient survived so did the second. he's out of the hospital. bad news. a third person has tested positive for the virus and how he got it that's raising serious concerns. here's with the fact, dr. sanjay gupta. this new case of mers was passed by just a hand shake. does that change everything we think we know about this virus? >> it could, anderson. there's a couple of important cavea

we've reported lately in gainesville, florida, in heinz v.a. center outside chicago, in san antonio, texas. currently ten different sites where investigations are going on. we've also reported there have been 23 deaths linked to delays in care in these nine states. so this is reported deaths confirmed by the v.a. due to delays in care. so you can see this is a widespread problem not only in delays and care but also as we move forward now, ten different sites are being investigated for what we've called cooking the books to try to hide these numbers from not only us and the veterans but also apparently from v.a. headquarters in washington. >> and as you know, the veterans affairs secretary, eric shinseki, he's promised to get to the bottom of all this. how are the veterans responding? i guess, in short, how much credibility does he have with these organizations? >> he's gotten a lot of leeway in the five years he's been in office because i think he is a respected war general. the groups are running out of patients. the american legion called for

yesterday now we hear that three other people have put on leave in gainesville at the va hospital down waiting list in the mental health area. >> what i don't understand, we had john on, there seemed to be quite a few people, jeff, who are circling the wagons for a system that is just indefensible. for a secretary whose record over the past couple years is indefensible as well. we've been talking about this, you and i privately now for a year or two. you've been talking about the terrible challenges that veterans are facing and what you're doing to try to help out. but things aren't getting better fast enough. isn't it time for a change at the top? >> well, i've said that i'm not ready to call for the secretary's resignation, but yesterday it's very clear that one of two things are happening. either the secretary is not being told the truth by his subordinates and i think that is probably more so the case than anything else. or he just isn't able to move the bureaucracy of 330,000 employees in a direction that is much more acceptable for veterans that they're supposed to be serving. >>

the latest facility is in gainesville, florida.ere the scandal first erupted. there is mounting outrage over president obama's silence. former navy seal and author of the best selling book "lone survivor," marcus luttrell was here earlier and he says that he has an idea for fixing the problem. listen. >> if you had to put the people, senators -- if they had to go to the v.a. for their care, it would probably get fixed. >> in the meantime a new bill heads to the house today. it would give eric shinseki, the head of the v.a., more authority to get rid of underperforming executives. we'll watch this story throughout the day. >>> new information coming in overnight. the operator of japan's destroyed nuclear power plant is now dumping radioactive water into the pacific ocean. the operator at fukushima says the radioactive ground water that he is now releasing is within legal safety limits. he says he has to do this in order to manage the huge amounts of radioactive water that has built up inside that site since it was wrecked by massive

we have a wrapper around in gainesville. we have new cemeteries in florida. veteransalmost 600,000 a year in florida. went and i say i talked to various groups and not one single complaint. we are doing our job. that is what this committee is supposed to do. make sure that the va is doing what we commit to veterans. let's forget the grandstanding. i see a lot of it. we do have money for the veterans. for years, it was just talk. it was just talk. -- when wepresident have a democratic house and senate, we got the largest va increase in the budget in the history of the united states. we do have the money. we have got to know we're not just talking the talk, but walking the walk. is there any additional information that you want to give me about the overall problems with the va around the country? i know florida is not included. congresswoman. i want to make sure that i choose my words carefully. i have thought about this for a long time. let me begin by saying that i think it is absolutely critical that the va maintains its focus on its mission to serve veteran

we just had an issue down in the gainesville va hospital. but there's others across the nation that are coming forward. and i think it's just horrendous that -- it's not a lack of money, it's a lack of accountability and a lack of direction by the va to make sure that they're there for guys like you. and that is my heart-felt thoughts on the issue. mr. chairman, i yield back. >> i want to thank the gentleman. mr. chairman, as you know, the gentleman, mr. nugent, has accepted the assignment to come to your committee. we felt like, i did, the speaker did, that we would be better served. and of course, you see the kind of service that he's given to be a part of your committee. i appreciate the gentleman's comments very much. i need to notify the committee, the gentleman, mr. smith, left, as excused. he received notice that he needed to go to the white house. he was going to vote and leave. so i gave him permission to do that. i normally do not do that. and i did not have a chance to effectively communicate it. but we did communicate. so he has

the gentleman from gainesville, has a facility that is in fact at this point has sever people put on administrative leave. i'd like to yield him one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized for one minute. >> i thank my colleague, mr. miller. i rise today in support of h.r. 4031, the department of veterans' affairs management accountability act of 2040. mr. yoho: for far too long, problem patient neglect has persisted. these problems will continue to service until the employees there can be held accountable for their poor performance. in recent weeks, the incompetence has been made clear. serious allegations have risen that wait times and secret waiting lists at the phoenix v.a. medical centers led to the death of 40 of our nation's veterans. this is unacceptable. there are stories of secret waiting lists at v.a.'s all over the news. as these reports are investigated, it is necessary that we give the secretary of the v.a. the power to not only reprimand but remove the neglect employees if we do not the problem will persist. for these reasons and more,

we just had an issue down in the gainesville the hospital, ma but there's others across the nation thatare coming forward and i think it's just horrendous that it's not a lack of money. it's a lack of accountability and a lack of direction by the va to make sure they are there for guys like you. and that's, is my heartfelt thoughts on the issue, mr. chairman. i yield back. >> want to thank the gentleman. mr. chairman, as you know the gentleman accepted the assignment to come to your committee. we felt like, i did, the speaker did, we would be better served, and, of course, you see the service is given. to be a part of your committee. i appreciate the gentleman's comments very much. i need to notify the committee. the gentleman, mr. smith, left as excused. he received notice that he needed to go to the white house. is going to vote and leave so i gave him permission to do that. i normally do not do that, and i did not have a chance to effectively communicate it but we did communicate. so he has headed off, and i want everyone to know that he was not leaving for any other reason. i believ

it's long and skinny from jacksonville and grab people from gainesville and orlando.who represents the district. guest: i don't know the name but they are all represented by democrats. host: all drawn by republicans? maryland which has a democratic government for the most part, here's the third district of maryland. i believe this is chris van hollen's district. it used to be -- i won't even try. guest: they change so much. host: you can see here, this is just wildly everywhere. have there been suits on the other side filed? guest: yes in maryland there were a number of lawsuits filed. after the districts were drawn in 2010 and 2011, republicans filed suit, they wanted to put the redistricting on the ballot. they did. they succeeded in putting it before the voters on a ballot measure. but the interesting thing -- it was a good example of how asking the voters to have a referendum on it. it doesn't necessarily change anything because the way the ballot question was worded, it was simple and straightforward. who's going to vote against the constitution. they're in a def

>> they have an audit team, in gainesville, they say they found a list of over 200 patients who neededlow-up appointments that were not even in the computer system. instead they kept their names on a paper. guess what, it wouldn't be logged in, wouldn't hurt your bonus structure. >> we've seen secretary hagel say he's going to start looking for military facilities making sure something similar doesn't happen to them. >> we've been telling you highlights from commencement speeches. the best one is admiral mccraven. they will be talking about a message that former new york city mayor mike bloomberg gave to the ivy leagues. he finally told truth to ivy. >> here he is yesterday at harvard, his alma mater. he says folks, you are biased. listen. >> it has been disturbing to see a number of college commencement speakers withdraw or have their invitations rescinded after protests from students and to me, shockingly, from senior faculty and administrators who should know better. in each of these cases, liberals silenced the voice, and they denied an honorary degree to individuals that they deem

we have been waiting since march to have my husband's very painful gallbladder removed at the gainesvilleiles away from them. when we made the other two trips down, they said it would be may. he is in extreme pain. he can't eat. can't sleep. he's lost 20 pounds in three months. he's out of pain pills and they will not even return our phone calls or answer the phone. >> we're about solutions and we're about action and i would like to know and steve doocy would like to know and all of us here at "fox & friends" want to know what do you think are the solutions? is it enough to take out secretary shinseki? what are the solutions to save our veterans? e-mail me here, write to us at the fox news channel. we will be talking about what your solutions are and we will be in washington next week to follow up with the chairs of the house and senate committees and the office of the inspector general to get some results for what you sent to me and steve doocy and everyone here at "fox & friends." this is vital to america's future. especially on this memorial day. >> absolutely. >> do we take care bette

we know the scandal has been growing seemingly by the day and now includes an investigation in gainesvilleg lists that were not even entered into the computer. they were just written down on paper. and there was additional reporting this week that showed that the obama administration transition team, as president obama was taking office, was actually told by the va that these kinds of problems existed, with delays and waiting lists. and we don't know the extent exactly of what all was told but this does two things. it gives a whole problem a sort of who knew what and when and what all was done about it aspect. and it highlights the fact that these problems actually existed years before obama took office. he even mentioned them in a campaign speech back in 2007. so the administration has repeatedly defended its own record on this, saying a couple of things were going on. first, a large number of vets were entering the system through two long wars. and that this administration actually expanded this services and funding available to them which they say was the right thing to do. kate? >> a c