>> kaufman: no. main mission, but it's about half my office. >> stahl: half your office is dealing with this? >> kaufman: absolutely. both offense and defense. >> stahl: one of their defensive inventions is this ambitious prototype that, when in operation, will be able to scan the military's global computer network and zero in on any machine that may have been hacked. >> kaufman: yellow nodes are the ones running our software, and the blue are the ones it's interrogating or asking. >> stahl: within seconds, the compromised computers pop up as red dots. and the idea is that these computers have been hacked. >> kaufman: yes. >> stahl: and someone has control of them and is taking secret information away from the military. >> kaufman: exactly right. and before, as you saw, it'd be completely invisible to us because you're hiding among tens of thousands of computers around the world. now, you and i can see this very quickly and we know exactly what's going on. >> stahl: stunning, and in just a couple of

crimes in kaufman.cially murders. so we just kind of naturally assumed it was someone from dallas. >> dallas, the big city less than 30 miles but seemingly a lifestyle away. remember, back in the 1980s, mark and fellow prosecutor marcus bush locked up some pretty tough customers there. >> i immediately started thinking about the organized crime cases. the murder cases that we'd prosecuted, many of those people received life sentences and were starting to parole out. >> someone just held his grudge, got out of prison and just wanted him. it was of just a personal vendetta against mark. >> even though investigators were convinced he was murdered because of his job as a prosecutor, they didn't stop there. >> you still have to interview friends, family members, associates. >> mark was a teetotaler. he wasn't married and didn't have children. those extensive checks into his background came up empty. >> there just wasn't anything there. he loved his mother who lived in dallas. spent a lot of time taking care

kaufman shows photos taken by the curiosity rover and talks about the evidence collected that suggeststhey're may have once been life on mars. this is about an hour and a half.

. >> attorney pete kaufman is representing two patients who are infected in ucla.is suing olympus saying it didn't provide effective cleaning protocols when it rolled out its latest device. >> we are very early in our investigation but what appears to happen is the tweak was made to the device, something that olympus has described it was a complete redesign without adjusting the cleaning protocol. if that happened, olympus was asleep at the wheel. >> did olympus get fda preeivel? did it approval?no answers. something called a 510k. >> so i think you have probably two things at work here. one, very generally, you want 510k approval because you want to get your new device on the market. >> you want to make money as soon as possible? >> absolutely. these are businesses. but you have something else that's at play. tweaking the device gives your about. so you're in a hotly quested and hotly contest ed arena. you say doc you need to buy two or four or six of these new devices immediately because we've made this excellent change. >> kaufman has named three sales reps in h

wall street analyst henry kaufman explains how a bank earns money. tended to earn money the same way as they do today in a general way by making loans and investments. there was, in those days, in hindsight a somewhat greater risk-taking than has tended to occur within the last 40 years or so in the united states or in banking in modern times. it was and had a stronger entrepreneurial drive in those days. and at the same time there was inadequate governmental supervision. charles barney the knickerbocker's president, was one of those entrepreneurs ambitious for his bank's success. apparently for charles barney the chance came to make a lot of money if he was willing to risk the bank's money. barney knew a speculator named charles morse. morse and a partner, frederick hines, schemed to manipulate copper's price on wall street. copper was a hot item many people speculated on. there is debate, historically over the extent of barney's involvement, but many believe he made the behind-the-scenes arrangements as the morse-hines combine began setting its tra

heather kaufman pleaded guilty today and faces sentencing in may. the fbi says kaufman promoted the terror group on facebook and wanted her ex-husband to fight with the group. when agents interviewed her last year she denied supporting isis. >>> a new beginning for hundreds of employees at the washington navy yard. today 400 people went back to work at building 197. that's the place where 12 of their colleagues were killed in a shooting rampage back in 2013. that building has been renamed and renovated to help ease the transition and the pain of that day. a memorial now stands where the first person was shot. that memorial honors those who were killed that day. the building will be staffed with more than 3,000 people by april. >>> a big boost in military spending. it could be one area where republicans and the president are able to reach an agreement on his $4 trillion budget proposal. the president is recommending an increase to the pentagon's budget of -- by $38 billion. also a surge in spending on roads and other infrastructure. increased taxes o

congressman kaufman is a veteran of both iraq wars.cerned veterans of america are calling on mcdonald to apologize to kaufman. >> in his job on that committee he, he is in charge of investigation of the oversight of the v and he is asking legitimate questions. are aer than taking on the criticism of a culture that doesn't demand excellence and hold people accountable, kind of says nah nah boo-boo, i ran proctor and gam pell. no response from mcdonald. >>> a diva moment by one of korea's richest women has brought her a taste of a different lifestyle, a year in prison. in december, cho juan ah daughter of korea's air chairman ordered her flight about to take off from jfk airport to return to the gate because she was angry that a flight attendant served her macadamia nuts in a bag rather than a bowl. cho ordered the attendant off the plane, a physical altercation insued a south korean court found cho guilty of forcing a men to change route and assaulting a crew member. >>> and finally, a lawmaker in maine wants to make sure bargoers get w

kaufman shows photos taken by the curiosity rover and talks about the evidence collected that suggests they're may have once been life on mars. this is about an hour and a half. i would like to ask that your cell phone be turned off and don't take any pictures during the presentation. fyi, tomorrow in the new york times it will be all about mars and features an article by this evening speaker. curiosity is a car sized robotic rover that has been exploring the crater on mars since lending they're august 2012. nasa wants to curiosity in november 2011 from cape canaveral and took a little over eight months to reach mars. the rover's goals are to investigate the martian climate and theology and determine whether it ever had environmental conditions favorable to life. this is treating for those interested in the exploration of faith. know matter what category you fall into this evening it is sure to fascinate. a journalist for more than 35 years worked at the sciences daytrader foreign correspondent and editor for the "washington post" for the past 12 years and has spoken extensively on ast

kaufman to ask the question since mr. kaufman is not here, i will ask a question on behalf of the secretary, have you seen a difference in the a? -- in the v.a.? >> i think we have all been impressed with what he and debit or he gives an have done in the short time they have been here. i would say that, yes, we appreciate what he's doing and what he's trying to do and hope that we will work with him to make sure that these changes happen. >> we see a difference in spots. there's going to be areas that are slower to change than other areas, but we are seeing pockets of improvement. just solving the problem in west l.a., land management issue, and a very short time, something that's been around for years. it is an indication that he is hands-on. he will get things done. it's people at all levels to do the same thing. >> my time is expired, but can i give yes or no. >> i will give a yes. yes. they are starting to own problems to come which is a big change. >> i agree with my politics -- colleagues. >> i agree there is a diff

heather kaufman pleaded guilty. yesterday. police arrested kaufman last year. they watched her for months due to suspicious facebook posts about her possible connections to isis. she will be sentenced in may. >>> for the first time in about a yeerks we're getting atw pictures of former cuban leader fidel castro. you can see him meeting with the students federation there. these pictures were published last night but were taken more than a week ago. he was celebrating his 70th anniversary of starting his studies at the university. he stepped down in 2008. >>> we're just about one hour away from a senate vote on a critical bill for veterans. the measure is aimed at reducing the suicide epidemic among military veterans. it's named for a veteran who killed himself in 2011. an estimated 22 military veterans commit suicide every day. more than 8,000 every year. the bill already cleared the house in a unanimous vote. it's expected to pass the senate as well. >>> today an elite group of soldiers from world war ii will receive the congressional medal of honor. the group

and then before senator chris coons was elected two years later, ted kaufman was our senator. great guy. used to be senator joe biden's chief of staff for i think 20 years or so. but ted used to come to the floor pretty regularly and talk about different federal employees who were doing exemplary work, people who had gone above and beyond to achieve the mission of solving problems and giving the u.s. taxpayers something to be proud of. when somebody has a good idea, i like to steal it, and i think ted kaufman had a great idea. we've not really stolen it but we've taken the idea and refocused it just a little bit to focus on some of the people that the presiding officer and i along with senator johnson met with on the u.s. border with mexico. i've decided to take the ted kaufman idea and focus it, put a spotlight on a number of employees within the department of homeland security. as many of us know, the department of homeland security which does important work, sometimes heroic work, they suffer from low morale but they're filled with men and women who deserve, i think, in man

police arrested this man, william kaufman, for allegedly robbing the u.s. bank branch inside a safeway store on hamilton avenue last month, but as officers investigated, they realized kaufman also hit two 7-eleven stores on the same day. investigators are looking into whether the san jose man may have robbed other businesses in the area as well. if he looks familiar san jose police want you to call them. >> palo alto police are looking for a man who groped a man inside a macy's bathroom. the man in the surveillance video peeked over the urinal partition and then grabbed his rear end yesterday thib macy's in stanford shopping center. investigators believe the same man could be linked to a case where someone took a picture of a woman in a rest room at cubberley community center. >>> new details in a bizarre hit and run investigation. police say this man is a person of interest in last week's deadly crash in milpitas. a car collided with a garbage truck. the driver of the truck kept going. officers found the car two blocks away on fire and the body of a 14-yea

she will be joined on stage by nancy kaufman ceo of the national council of jewish women. prior to joining the ncj w she served as the executive director of the jewish community relations council of boston. please join me in welcoming the stage. [applause] >> thank you, gabriel. thank you to the museum of jewish heritage for hosting this very important conversation and thanks to all of you who have come out in this cold and wet whether to be hear. this is exciting to me. someone i 1st met. the orthodox terminus alliance and we were partners in terms of some of the issues that we both cared about which you probably know is 120-year-old organization. we are a progressive jewish we are a progressive jewish woman's organization that organizes activists to take a stand on issues of universal concern both in the united states and israel it's a pleasure to be here with you. so let me begin at the beginning. it's not it's not exactly the beginning but the beginning of the modern state of israel and remind everybody of that very beautiful declaration in 1948 hours so happily and pr

i think there was the opportunity here for kaufman to snap back and say hey you're a liar. he didn't do that today. the white house didn't do that today. as we just saw, jeff miller didn't do it. while it's obvious he made something up and it's embarrassing and we're hearing from calls for accountability for the likes of the people in the american legion, you're not hearing it from the other elements of the veterans. they are not saying that. >> you mentioned the republican chairman of the house veterans affairs committee. it was a republican from florida. he was disappointed in whachs said. then another quote here. after a rough couple weeks that included inflated claims of accountability, i hope mcdonald will redouble his efforts to ensure his statements and those of va officials are completely accurate. it's the only way the department gains the trust of the veterans. unless there's a big potential for more. in terms of who has been fired, disciplined for the problems they have been having with wait time and service for veterans. the fact checker at "the washington post"

. >> stahl: dan kaufman has within monitoring the rise of cyber crime as the man in charge of inventing new ways for the department of defense the fight it. these computers have been hacked? >> yes. >> stahl: a former video game developer, he never served in the military. >> the number of attacks is increasing. the sophistication of attacks is increasing. >> whitaker: this is the man responsible for the largest and most damaging swiss bank heist in history. it doesn't involve stolen money, but stolen computer files, which

. >> stahl: dan kaufman has within monitoring the rise of cyber crime as the man in charge of inventinge department of defense the fight it. these computers have been hacked? >> yes. >> stahl: a former video game developer, he never served in the military. >> the number of attacks is increasing. the sophistication of attacks is increasing. >> whitaker: this is the man responsible for the largest and most damaging swiss bank heist in history. it doesn't involve stolen money but stolen computer files which are being used by governments all

heather kaufman pleaded guilty yesterday. police arrested her last year after following her to months due to suspicious facebook posts with possible connections to isis. she'll be sentenced in may. >>> 4:33 now. under ground emergency crews fixed another problem. montgomery fire crews found they could not communicate with one another between the ground and the platform. d.c. firefighters said they had similar communication problems at the l'enfant plaza station when a woman died after a smoke filled the tunnel. >>> a public meeting tonight will discuss highway plans. it happens at 6:30 in vienna. >> yonchts ku learn about the future plans for alexandra schools. you can be part of the discussion tonight as the city and the school board address the growing student population and improving facilities. that meeting starts at 7:00 at city hall. >>> we're expected to wlern whether joshua star will keep his job. in a few hours the board of education will vote in a closed session. his first term ends amid some controversy, too. the d

heather kaufman will appear at u.s. district court in richmond this afternoon. the f.b.i. says it was tipped off about the 29-year-old after she posted facebook messages about arrangements for her and her husband to train and fight with that group in syria. coming up here on abc 7 news at noon stunning catches and performances. we've got reaction after the patriots' big super bowl win last night. and how it's impacting attendance today. new details in the greg anthony prostitution sting. what's happening today for the >> plus stranded out in the cold ocean for hours, dramatic rescue caught on camera. >> doug with back with a next chance of flurries in the seven day forecast. we'll be r >> new england patriots fans are celebrating their big win today. the pats ended seattle's comeback hopes with a goal line interception by malcolm butler. a circus catch put them up but it ended any thought of a repeat. brady battled back to get his fourth super bowl ring third super bowl m.v.p. trophy as well. >> i think we were playing great defense and they're a great team. took everythin

meeting minutes ago, i can tell you the latest conversation focuses on a proposal by board member phil kaufman who suggested going all in and points to a countless study that he says shows students need more sleep, do better in school and learn. he said they should go all in and have montgomery county high school start as late as 8:50 a.m. elementary school starting earlier at 7:45 a.m. and middle school students starting as late as 9:30 a.m. he got some support from some colleagues and showed support for this idea saying this would put the issue to bed after decades of debate. others expressing concern and opposition talking about this being an extreme transition especially for low income families have to find child care options and concerns for students that have to work after school athletics and after school activities. the teachers union has expressed opposition to this saying most teachers don't want the start times to change. parents say it would be worth the investment in their children. see it's very important for teenagers to help in getting up at 5:00 or 5:30 in the morning to catch

. >> reporter: attorney pete kaufman represents his family. >> we're talking about an infection on steroids. it's highly resistant to treatment. so you're gravely, gravely ill for a long period of time. >> reporter: officials at ucla wouldn't address specific claims citing patient privacy, but doctors have notified nearly 200 people about possible exposure to a bacteria called cre, after an investigation last month connected infections to instruments used in a special kind of endoscopy. the complex devices can be hard to decontaminate. >> ucla followed all of the recommended procedures for cleaning the scopes. >> reporter: now, though, the hospital goes above and beyond what's recommended, just like doctors at this suburban chicago facility which had an outbreak of the same superbug. >> when you have a process that's sufficiently complex like that, there are ample opportunities for the human element to step in and not have everything go exactly according to protocol. >> reporter: the maker of the endoscopes used at ucla says it's adding things like checklists to its decontamination guidelin

next we wanted to try a house key and enlisted the help of melissa kaufman but this time when moment of truth came. >> um-hmm. >> it is not working. >> i'm surprised, because the app scanned my exact house key. i don't know maybe i was expecting to it turn right away. i didn't expect it to encounter any difficulties. >> reporter: key me also lets you by a cue code for $9.99 store the code on your app. if you forget the key you can take to it any lock smith. we got the key code for our producer's house. it worked. now key me isn't the only game in town. is there keys duplicated and key icampaign while these may be convenient some security experts and traditional lock smiths have concerns. larry is owner of houdini lock and safe in abington. >> app is a cure threat. >> reporter: he says to keep your keys and home or business safe you should use a patented high security locking system. the those systems require multiple firms of id to get a copy key made and they cannot be made using these apps. >> they are done on special code machines and only the person that owns the the lock and key

the man is actually sheriff's deputy jim kaufman playing a vietnam vet with ptsd sleeping on a park bench. 2 officers are picked from the class to respond to the women 911 call. they wake the man then this. >> get back. back. back. back behind me. >> veteran hold up a tv remote thinking it's a gun and enemy behind the bushes. officer chosen for the role playing scenario have to neutral ilz the situation. using what they have learned here. >> i still see somebody out 30. sadly many of these real life confrontation end up with force when perhaps they could be resolved peacefully by calming the man. >> allow for some dialogue because when someone is talking they are not fighting. that's what we want to train the officers to do. >> for the past week 35 sheriff's deputy peninsula police officers have been enrolled in this crisis training program. role playing class were his only a part of the program. they have also heard from family of those with mental illness. brisbane police sergeant says the dialogue was in valuable. >> having the family hear was really important and things they want from

kaufman to ask a question to the bso's. since mr. kaufman is no longer here in the room, i last the question on behalf of the secretary. have you seen a difference in the v.a.? >> the fact that the secretary and his leadership team is still here i think answers that question. i think we all have been impressed about what they have done in the short time they've been here. i would have to say that we appreciate what he is trying to do, and we hope that you work with him to make sure that changes happen. >> we see a difference in spots. they're going to be areas that are slower to change than other areas. we are seeing pockets of improvement. just solving the problems in west l.a., that the land management issue -- something that has been around for years is indication that he's hands-on, he's going to get things done. >> my time is expired, can i get a yes or no? >> i give a yes. >> a yes. they are starting to own problems too, which is a big change. >> i agree with my colleagues. >> i agree also, there's a difference. i would also sa

interesting about the audition tapes is they actually showed they had auditioned stephen colbert and andy kaufman doing that stuff now. >> absolutely. kevin hart could have been on the show. they could have had anybody, but the people they picked were incredible. thank you so much. as we head to break one last memorable moment from a night full of them. >> "snl" is known for its amazing catch phrase from its characters. >> sometimes i worry characters lean too heavily on catch phrases instead of original comedy. >> no way. >> way. >> no way. >> way. >> schwing and scene. >>> it's time for the "your business entrepreneur of the week." chip thompkins is owner of we think in ink. he allowed customers to place as small print orders as they like. for more, watch "your business" on sunday morning at 8:30. don't leave home without it! and someday, i may even use it on the moon. it's a marvelous thing! oh! haha! so you can replace plane tickets, traveler's cheques, a lost card. really? that worked? american express' timeless safety and security are now available on apple pay. the next evolution of member

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mike kaufman got a glimpse of what it's like to be a whistle-blower. they don't engage with you.ecretary attacked a two-tour veteran and he should apologize for it. >> unfortunately we're still talking about the same thing we thought we would be further along. a column yesterday in "wall street journal" about how the va is a system ripe for fraud and abuse. does that play into why you're doing the sum you the you're putting together? >> the government accountability office deemed the veteran healthcare system at risk because of lack of accountable and corrupt culture and that's why concerned vets for american is launching a summit in two weeks in washington, d.c. releasing over a 100-page report to bring accountability to the department of veteran affairs. it's not enough to say you care. you have to create a system that does care and concerned vets of america will do it. a lot of senators will come out to talk about how to fix the system. >> hopefully you walk out with some principles to move forward. we're tired of spinning our wheels here. major, thanks for joining us. >>> com

mike kaufman and others feel he fell off the horse. and, clearly, it was broken by the time he gets to dr. mudd's house. but i'll stay away from that issue since i'm telling the story of the others. >> thank you. >> hi. thank you for your research your book your lecture today. as you were doing your research was therein a an aha moment that tickled you? and something you didn't find that you wish you had? >> wonderful questions. the aha moment was at the harvard theater collection one of the wonderful archivists brought me something over and said i think you might find this interesting. it contained letters about alcohol treatment, letters from the gorlets. it was a treasure trove of letter that is nobody had ever asked to look at because nobody looked at these people because they weren't very significant. and the thing that i wished that i had found? there is, here in archives the receipts of payment to spies during the war by lafayette baker by the national detective police. i was convinced i was going to find a receipt proving that

kaufman has been working on this for five years with multiple research teams. >> do you want to hit thegosh. >> there we go. >> what's that? what's that? >> the windshield wiper fluids. >> so this is something that hacker -- >> that's right. obviously you didn't turn on the windshield wipers. >> i did not. >> reporter: using a laptop the hacker dialed the car's emergency communications system and transmitted a series of tones that flooded it with data. as the car's computer tried sorting it out the hacker inserted an attack that reprogrammed the software gaining total remote control. >> oh, my god. >> the horn. >> they can control the gas, the acceleration, they can control the braking? >> that's right. >> and they could do this from anywhere in the world. >> stop at the cones here. >> she thinks she's going to be able to stop at the cones. let's make sure he she can't. we'll have complete control of the brakes. >> no, no, no no. i cannot -- oh my god. oh, my god. i can't on rate the brakes at all. oh, my word. that is frightening. that is frightening. >> you can tune in to "60 minutes"

let's bring in daniel kaufman, director for information, innovation at darpa.g, to listen nobody is safe on the internet, which is basically what you have said. we've got delta airlines hacked less than an hour ago. now we have the cfo not only of its own company, twitter, but a publically traded one being hacked. reason i think companies are doing the best they can with fear walls and anti-virus. reimagine days in which, for instance -- imagine what if every single program was slightly different so that what it hacked would only work on one and never work anywhere else. it would change the roi of the attacker and vrlg would change. >> maybe crisis is too strong a word but i will say somebody hacks into delta and they post obscene content. they hack in anthony's twitter. it seems sort of harmless. but it doesn't have to be the next time. >> well i think that's right. the second thing we can do is we have -- we're wushtding whether we can build software that is so good that in real-time you can actually defeat these attacks as they come in. how far are we away f

. >> yes, tim kaufman with david johnson from the alzheimer's association. good to have have you here. >> good morning. >> so you are dealing with this very thing you have early on set alzheimer's disease and new are in your early 50's a. >> i have actually just turn 57 but i received my diagnosis when i turned 53 years of age. the experience, it took a long time to have the diagnosis come around from my doctors. it was challenging because they, my part inner, ron went with me to all of the doctor's appointments and we just struggled because i had a stroke in 2010 that caused my initial issues and then in 2012, my diagnosis was finally determined... >> does a stroke cause alzheimer's disease, does it trigger it. >> a a stroke can increase once risk for developing a type of dementia. quite a few, but it does increase ones risk. >> do you think it was because you were younger and a lot of people think when it comes to alzheimer's maybe later in life and that was reason it took so licensing to diagnosis this. >> yes, i do believe that because i believe a lot of

proper may be linked to another robbery that happened in the city last month. 27 year-old william kaufmanested on january 14, 2004 days after u.s. bank branch in the safeway store was robbed. here's this surveillance video and pictures that want to show the public. they aideed him as the suspected to arm our recess 7-eleven that happened the same day as the bank robbery and they think that he's involved in other robberies in that area. >>: reporter: and a 17 year- old is accused of kidnapping and raping a domino's pizza delivery woman is facing life in prison. he's being charged as an adult. he has a crime of rape kidnapper rica-- kidnapping and debris. they say he approached her with a gun vorster back into the car meter driver quarter mile away were she was a salted. the knocker from the real gun was involved but they say it does not he did not enter a plea yesterday. >>: reporter: there was a hit and run last week that had killed a 14 year-old girl. alice opals are is the registered owner of the cadillac eldorado that crashed into the garbage truck. his video from the scene last week t

blown away, and barber and her four children 6, 8, 9 and 10 mistakenly pulled over forofo felony in kaufmanty texas. pulled out at gunpoint. girly is shot and killed. we're pleased for the indictment but we would much prefer to have him alive. 12-year-old tamir rice is shot and killed. so on and so on. in the face of these flashpoints because certainly this is not exhaustive or representative of the depth of extra judicial killings we experience as black folk within the context of americas noting at least slave time to present but again with these flash points there seemed to be more than protest slogan. to respect the law, keeping in mind, of course this is a law and order that is killing us because we're black. i fashion the need for a different type of solidarity. some romantic sense of revolution that i'd spun in my mind's eye. i was vibing with the burning and the looting because i remember the release i felt being there in 1992 after rodney king's verdict. perhaps irresponsible. again, i said, we're going to be honest. also honest for me, was the result of looking through an academic,

there is no substance, and -- >> i'm highly offended by your comments, senator kaufman. >> receipt me finish first because i fundamental believe that, as unfortunate as it is that at the end of the day, at the end of this president's term, that you will not have made a difference in changing the culture of this organization, by virtue of the fact you continue to gloss over its problems. [ gavel pounding ] >> i'm offended by your comment. actually i've been here six months. you've been here longer than i have. if there's a problem in denver i think you own it more than i do. i found it ironic that when i went out to l.a. to solve a 4-year-old lawsuit you were busy calling for a hearing to discover what happened five years ago. i'm working on the future, sir and i'm going to correct the past, but i'm working on the future because that's what our veterans want. >> for you to say that you're going to the army corps of engineers to advise you as to how to correct the extraordinary problems let me tell you, i think what you need to do is focus on providing the health care benefits and other

heather elizabeth kaufman faces up to eight years in prison for making false statements involving terrorism after a major f.b.i. sting operation revealed she was trying to help isis recruit new members. her sentencing is now set for may 11. >>> fighting for her life and surrounded by family. whitney houston's daughter, bobbi kristina is reportedly showing some signs of improvement, but it's still not clear if she has brain damage. bobbi kristina brown was found face down in a bathtub over the weekend. sources say her brain swelling has gone down. this morning, tmz reports that police found drugs in her home. >>> sunday's super bowl was the most watched tv event in history. a record 114.4 million people tuning in. patriots fans have to wait to see their celebration. hundreds of fans braving that brutally cold weather as they welcomed back the team. take a look. but they are not going to get a victory parade until 11:00 a.m. tomorrow. it was postponed because they've had a whole lot of snow and icy roads there. so many of us are experiencing in the northeast. those are your headlines. >> than

senator kaufman would cop to -- come to this floor from time to time to celebrate members of the federal work force who exemplified excellence in public service. in that tradition mr. president, i want to -- wish to honor a great federal employee anthony rigabotto. he is a constituent of mine from burke, virginia. he currently serves as the chief of the u.s. coast guard's office of international and domestic port security but in fact, he has spent his entire adult life in service to the coast guard. 31 years on active duty and worked more than 12 years as a civilian. a total of 43 years of service. in this role, he has been responsible for addressing the security weaknesses facing our nation's ports. he has also assisted other countries with improving the safety of their own ports. more than 90% of the united states imported goods go through our ports. the security risks facing the ports are many, and workers like anthony help ensure that they remain safe and secure from threats. for our nation's ports to remain safe we must ensure that our foreign shipping partners follow established in

according to the fbi an fbi affidavit, heather elizabeth kaufman used several facebook accounts to promotesend a man believed to be her husband to syria to train with the islamic militants. one post included images of the islamic state flag and ak-47s with the text quote, i love isis. >> that's not a bumper sticker you want to put on the back of your car. >> 29-year-old, mother of a 7-year-old, is scheduled to be sentenced. >> she was busted by fbi who, they -- she said she could help send another person over to syria by using her contacts with isis. >>> "american sniper" is the highest grossing war movie of all time. the film has made almost $250 million after playing for just three weeks nationwide surpassing steven spielberg's" saving private ryan." the total is over $300 million worldwide. a new record belongs to super bowl xlix. sunday's game was the most watched television show in history. like overall everything. >> ever. >> ever. >> ever. >> ever. >> ever. >> not just the sports show. pulling in over 114 million viewers. the previous record was held by last year's big game which dr

kaufman to ask a question and since mr.is no longer here in the room, i will ask the question on behalf of the secretary. have you seen a difference in the va? >> mr. chairman to the fact the secretary and his leadership team is still here i think answers that question. i think that we all have been impressed with what he and the deputy secretary have done in this short time that they've been here so i would have to say that yes we appreciate what he's doing and we hope you will work with them to make sure that these changes have been. >> we see a difference in spots. it's -- there are going to be areas that are slower to change than others but we are seeing pockets of improvement. it just solving just solving the problem in west la in the land management issue in a very short time is something that's been around for years and is an indication that he is going to get things done and expects people at all levels to do the same thing and if i could, my time has expired but could i just get a yes or no? >> i will give a yes. >