oxnard, california. >> 911, what's your emergency? >> something over there -- >> reporter: a woman in full panic. >> there was shots. my husband is outside. >> reporter: the woman on the phone was jane laut, the wife of the hometown hero. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: dave was still outside, she said, where she heard shots fired. >> he told me to get back in with michael. i came back in and i heard the shots. >> how old is your son? okay. don't wake him up just yet. stay with me. i have officers that are there. i want you to stay inside the house. >> the officers had to lockdown and call in a homicide team to investigate further. it was a brutal scene. >> reporter: by the time first responders arrived, there was no sign of a prowler, but they did find dave laut. times. he was on the ground facedown with very obvious gunshot wounds to his back and to the back of his head. >> reporter: jane was a mess. she told investigators she had no idea who would do this. son michael, 10 at the time, slept through it all. and jane's brother took charg

. >> reporter: here is where that dna was planted, oxnard, california. they grow mostly strawberries here now. lima beans back then. >> when we grew up, you could ride your bike anywhere. everybody knew everybody. >> reporter: she knew the lauts growing up and the big ole farming family of her childhood best friend. >> our dads were both farming. old farming families we're both from. >> there was just lots of love around. they multipled. they were good catholics. >> reporter: and helen's friend jane grew up to be especially beautiful. featured in her high school yearbook as homecoming queen. >> she was not ever concerned with that. she's also very, very shy. >> reporter: how do you get to be a homecoming queen if you're shy? >> she's also just a very kind person, very gentle person. >> reporter: and as that yearbook picture shows, a star volleyball player too. >> she's not that tall, but she could jump. >> reporter: jane met that other gifted athlete, dave laut on his way to becoming one of the best shot putters in california. they began dating after hig

. >> reporter: oxnard stresses the liquid biopsy cannot initially diagnose cancer, and the hope is that someday it could be used in treating other cancers. now on a more e fecktive treatment, jeannie larsen is planning ahead, thanks to a blood test helping doctors and patients stave off one of the deadliest cancers. >>> still ahead tonight, dramatic weight loss. growing evidence that a type of diet once rejected by experts really works. how this woman dropped over 100 pounds while still eating pizza and doughnuts. >>> also a wild car chase caught on camera. suspects doing doughnuts in a convertible with police in hot pursuit. >>> in the world of weight loss, it goes by a variety of names, the every other day, 5-2, or the alternate-day diet. by any other name, it's fasting, a dieting technique once shunned. now the medical community is saying it can work. there could be benefits beyond losing weight. here's nbc's janet shamlian. >> reporter: it was a diet that allowed jennifer stewart to eat all her favorite foods. >> i love doughnuts. >> reporter: there was also cookies and pies, pizza

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who i believe is doing a very good job and is very aware of what is going on in oxnard. and clearly we have had trouble hiring and keeping teams there within the cbot. i think we have a contracted out facility that plays a role. the choice program is not really working too terribly much. that's not as large an option as we would like it to be. so we know these things are happening. i guess my question is if i wasn't watching this closely, my question is, is the va watching this closely, and would you have -- nobody brought it to my attention, i just bring it to your attention. so my concern is, is the va looking specifically at regional problems that is skewing your data perhaps to really address these pockets within the country that aren't doing very well at all? >> yes. we are tracking this. i think you have it correct which is that this is very different depending upon the geography of the country you're in. so that we have some vas that actually don't have backlogs at all. and others like in your district that have significant backlogs and primary care. so we are pay

i remember having been sponsored by a family in oxnard california, and we are forever grateful to those. maurice whoy coach drove me to every little league baseball pack -- practice for two years. those are the things i remember about the kindness of the americans who actually helped us, despite what happened in the aftermath of the vietnam war. to fast-forward, the second part of my life as i entered college ucla, angeles in 1983 at it was time to become an american citizen. let me tell you, when you carry a green card for nine years and everything you fill out, they ask if you are an american -- where you from? in the first couple years, vietnam was not on there. china, korea, philippines, and then pacific islanders. i remember in 1984 when i became an american citizen, it was great. not just because i can put an american sticker on my bumper , i was happyusa because every piece of paper i ,"lled out i could check "yes i am an american citizen, don't bother me. [laughter] reagan, time of ronald and something that, when i , youe an american citizen would support the constitution and jo

closely with ann brown who i believe is doing a very good job and is very aware what's going on in oxnard. nd clearly we have had trouble hiring and keeping teams there within the cboc. i think we have a contracted out facility. that plays a role. the choice program is not really working. too terribly much in our district. that's not as large an option we'd like it to be. so we know these things are happening. i guess, you know, my question is that if i wasn't watching this closely, my question is is v.a. watching this closely? and would you have -- nobody brought it to my attention. i just bring it to your attention then. so my concern is, is the v.a. looking specifically at regional problems that is skewing your data, perhaps, to really address these pockets within the country that aren't doing very well at all? >> and we will leave this hearing at this point to go live now to the floor of the u.s. house. members today considering debate rules for two bills. one dealing with hg

prison or county jail and take them to the processes center for few hours, by van take them down to oxnard or los angeles. so the center is there, but only open during the day and it is simply a processing center. >> that's it? >> yes, sir. >> and tell me a little bit, i know in some of your testimony, you know, there is a description of decriminalization of possession heroin? >> yes. >> meth, others. how has that played into your ability to do your job in this respect? >> all across california increased property crimes over 20%. so we're seeing increase there. we're seeing increase in homelessness. some of these people are illegal aliens living on the streets. so when they passed that law, prop 47, it really took our ability away to force them into a court or force them into even rehabilitation or probation. >> i see. all right. well, again, miss heart link, mr. root, any contact with i.c.e. or federal authorities or inability or unwillingness to do so? >> i had one gentleman from i.c.e., when we were dealing with the omaha fugitive task force, he was 100% great, trying to give me some in