it is posttraumatic stress. it should not prevent you from getting help and help for your family to deal with the symptoms that you are having. that is the federal v.a. since you are in an area where you know the v.a., people do not know there are state governments. every state government has someone like me who is responsible to the citizens and the governor of the state for the care of their veterans. and this is kind of like a wonderful opportunity for us to work with the v.a. and with our own community to craft a continuum of care. i do not see myself as the commissioner as being in a contest with the v.a. my job is to dovetail with what they have, to be sure that the veterans in my state received all they need. that takes a lot of liaison and networking. but you go forth in the confidence that first of all, you are all in the business trying to do the same thing. you believe that the people that you are working with have the heart of the veteran at their heart. so i told you a bit about what i do. my marchi

, general odeon know, get up and say, "i had posttraumatic stress," it is ok .- general odierno as a naturalof it reaction to an abnormal -- va and shipper terry -- va and secretary shinseki are trying to get the end -- itat is posttraumatic stress. it should pave the way for you to get some help for the posttraumatic stress you are having. >> you can see all the remarks tonight beginning at 8:00 eastern here on c-span. at 9:00, your calls and comments on veterans' health care with of the "military times." right now, you can weigh in on facebook. we are asking veterans what their experience has been with health care access and quality. /cspan.k.com >> they had a very political marriage. of would lobby in the halls congress. she was always very careful to say, "my husband believes this," and "my husband advocates that," but she herself was doing the pitch. one of her husband's opponents said he hoped that if james were ever elected president, she would take up housekeeping like a normal woman, and she said, cassette and if james and i are ever elected, i will neither keep house nor ma

news continues right here on kpix 5 news. ,, ,,,,,, ,,,, from the middle east -- or they've >>> posttraumatic stress disorder is a silent war among veterans, whether they recently returned from the middle east or they served in wars decades a ago. a half million veterans were treated for ptsd at veteran's medical center nationwide last year. the v.a. in palo alto is using a creative new therapeutic approach for healing. >> i've blocked it for 41 years. >> reporter: ramon has buried inside the horrific images of vietnam. he's considered killing himself. but now he's learning to gain new perspective thrau camera lens. >> taking pictures to me is shouting out what i've dealt with. >> we'll call it a work of art. >> reporter: those suffering from ptsd and other challenges are processing their emotions in this photography class at the v.a.'s menlo park campus. veterans like ramon can explain their painful journey in poignant photos they snapped themselves. photography gives them a new focus in their recovery. the idea? that it can be easier to communicate with a camera than face to face with a the

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it is posttraumatic stress. it should not prevent you from getting help and help for your family to deal with the symptoms that you are having. that is the federal v.a. since you are in an area where you know the v.a., people do not know there are state governments. every state government has someone like me who is responsible to the citizens and the governor of the state for the care of their veterans. and this is kind of like a wonderful opportunity for us to work with the v.a. and with our own community to craft a continuum of care. i do not see myself as the commissioner as being in a contest with the v.a. my job is to dovetail with what they have, to be sure that the veterans in my state received all they need. that takes a lot of liaison and networking. but you go forth in the confidence that first of all, you are all in the business trying to do the same thing. thatelieve that the people you are working with have the heart of the veteran at their heart. so i told you a bit about what i do. my marching ord

bombings itself that happened on monday the doctors kept talking about their concerns for p.t.s.d., posttraumatic stress syndrome, but not just the victims, but the people who witnessed it, the people who helped at that time, and the family member member to endure. and i wonder. how people have been suffering through this whole week in this neighborhood and this city waiting for some kind of sign of safety that this person who was so willing to kill innocent people of captured. >> pelley: thank you very much. we're going to continue to watch that live picture of these events as they are breaking. a thereb number of fire vehicler to be leaving the scene. the boston police tweeted a message not long ago that said, "suspect in custody. police sweeping the area. stand by for more information." this is a look at that tweet that went out a short time ago. "stand by for further info." now, the question is, is that suspect indeed 19-year-old dzhokar tsarnaev, searching forl die long, the suspect in the boston marathon bombing? it would appear from everything that we're seeing and the police radio traffic

it is posttraumatic stress. and it manifests itself in many ways, but it should not prevent you from getting help for yourself and for your family to deal with the symptoms that you are having. >> they had a very political marriage much like john and abigail, and so she would lobby in the halls of congress. now, she was always very careful to say my husband believes this, and my husband advocates that. but she herself was doing the pitch. and one of her husband's opponents said he hoped that if james were ever elected president, he would take up housekeeping like a normal woman. and she said if james and i are ever elected, i will neither keep house, nor make butter. >> monday night one of the most politically active and influential first ladies, sarah polk. we'll also look attar successorses, margaret taylor and abigail fillmore. first lady cans, live monday might at 9 eastern on c-span and c-span3. also on c-span radio and c-span.org. >> now a forum on editorial cartoons and health care hosted by the roosevelt

from everything to dolling out heavy drug prescriptions to his massive backlog in dealing with posttraumaticr. a full report was released on march 26th and it amounts to an indictment of the va and the department of defense. joining us how largely unreported-on study that says we are doing a pretty half-assed job taking care of our service men and women. jason is also an iraq-war veteran. jason welcome to the show. what is the overall finding here? >> i think the overall finding is that we can and should be doing better. we see in this report that the standard of care and quality of care is just not up to, i think america's standard in how we could be treating veterans coming back from afghanistan and iraq, and it is got to get better. and it will be some time before we see truly the issues that veterans will be coming home with long term. >> michael: what is the va's biggest problem? simply that they are a huge slow-moving agency? or does it go deeper? >> part of it is they are the second-largest bureaucracy and largest medical system in america. so that's part of the issue. you know it als

situation, it is posttraumatic stress. it manifests itself in many ways, but it should not prevent you from getting some help and help for your family to deal with the symptoms that you are having. >> you can see that program tonight at 8:00 eastern. after that at 9:00 we will be live with a writer from military times to talk about veterans' issues, national perspective. we welcome your calls, facebook comments, and tweets. >> president obama renewed his call for stricter gun control laws during a speech yesterday at the denver police academy in colorado. red state approved background checks of all gun buyers and has limited the size of magazines. president obama says congress should do the same. remarks are just under a half hour. approvedtate just background checks on all gun buyers. >> thank you. thank you so much. thank you, everybody. everybody have a seat. thank you. it is wonderful to be back in colorado and in denver. i want to thank chief white for that introduction. you have some outstanding officials here today.

if you think of posttraumatic stress as a natural reaction to an abnormal situation, a natural reaction to an abnormal situation, the va and secretary she sat here trying to get rid of that at the end. it is posttraumatic stress and manifests itself in any race, does not prevent you from getting help and help for your family to deal with symptoms you are having. >> they had a very political merits, much like john and abigail. so she would lobby in the halls of congress. she was always very careful to say, my husband believes that it advocates that. but she herself was doing a pitch and one of her husband's opponent said he hoped the changes were ever elected president, she would take up housekeeping like a normal woman. she said if james and i are ever elect it, i will never keep haussler make better. >> now, frank rose, deputy assistant secretary of state for space and defense policy discusses the need for an international code of conduct for outer space activity. he says the obama administration is working with the international community in such a measure, but any agreement would not

and they still have not had their wounds closed and the trauma surgeon is now trying to address posttraumatic stress disorder. authorities believed the bombs were put in two identical pressure cookers with shrapnel. they show the twisted metal are remnants of those pressure cookers that were packed with explosives and they show pictures of a battery and a small circuit board with wires and you can see it's on your screen and all of that evidence has been sent to an fbi lab. >> the range of suspects and motives remains wide open. we are asking anybody who heard somebody speak about the marathon on the date of april 15th in any way that indicated he or she may target the event to call us. somebody knows who did this. >> we learned the name of the chinese graduate student, they have identified her. this is a picture we first got and the 23-year-old was a graduate student at boston university and was reportedly with two friends at the finish line when the bombs exploded. claudine wong ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> last night several people gathered to pay tribute to the bombing victims. >> thi

stress as opposed to a veteran who does not have poststralmt dress -- posttraumatic stress. so i think we're seeing signs that this can build mental resiliency is in a soldier and i think save us some money in the long run. so thank you to secretary panetta who was very supportive, and i know general amos and there are whorse are supportive of that. i want to bring that to your attention and say thank you. . i represent youngstown and the department of defense is taking a lead with the national science foundation and nasa and i think this is going to be transformational for manufacturing in general, but also to drive down costs in the department of defense. so i want to thank you for that as well. one further comment and then a question. there was an article in "roll call" that highlighted an issue that hits close to home in the 13th congressional district. it talked about the us air force's decision to award to a brazilian company. i'm pretty sure you are familiar with this. chcraft is in kansas. the real party who benefits is the brazilian government and puts brazil in con

. >> i think with veterans they have a multitude of issues dealing with a lot of posttraumatic stress, dealing with drug issues. >> reporter: the addition of a veterans court comes at a time when courts in general are struggling financially. their budgets have been slashed. but judge lee says she's been able to find the resources necessary to find this program work because it's a priority. vic lee, abc 7 news. >>> coming up at 8:00 on abc's this week, one of president obama's most trusted advisers goes one on one with george stephanopolous. north carolina, guns, immigration, nothing is off limits. don't miss abc's this week with george stephanopolous coming up at 8:00 here on abc 7. >>> right here right now, frances dinglasan in this morning and you've got a full bag going there for weather. >> oh, yeah, we've got everything, especially in the seven-day accu-weather forecast. right now we've got cloudy conditions and live doppler 7 hd still fairly quiet. you'll see little bits of green out there. we do have some possible showers on their way to the bay area this morning, but most of t

. >> i think with veterans they have a multitude of issues dealing with a lot of posttraumatic stress, dealing with drug issues. >> reporter: the addition of a veterans court comes at a time when courts in general are struggling financially. their budgets have been slashed. but judge lee says she's been able to find the resources necessary to make this program work because it's a priority. vic lee, abc 7 news. >>> this morning new concern over how north korea might respond has caused the u.s. to delay the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. the long-planned test from van denburg air force base is being delayed over concerns the launch could be misinterpreted and make the current korean crisis worse. abc news is also reporting the u.s. can't locate two north korean missiles that were spotted four days ago moving to the coast. >>> coming up at 8:00 on abc's this week, one of the president's most trusted advisers, dan fiver, goes one on one with george. north korea, guns, immigration, nothing is off limits. plus martha radich joins the roundtable. don't miss it coming up at

i learned about the impacts of serious brain injuries for our veterans and the consequences of posttraumatic epilepsy. david, you are right. we can learn to set aside differences and focus on the kinds of things that humanity is about. it is about helping people and curing disease. thank you for the commitment there. i have the honor to meet catherine and patty. when i was -- to the captain and patty. when i was talking to the captain, he said it was not abouhim. , he platoon leader sustained a gunshot wound to the head that left him with serious temple -- temp oral lobe damage. lobe damage. he has challenges of doing the basic things of writing, talking, walking. him and his family are courageously fighting for others with this condition. i am delighted to be here and to present to the captain that cure heroes epilepsy a war -- award. i'm honored to present this to you. cap applause] and >> can you hear me? it is kind of fun for me. i got hurt in 2007. it took me years to get better. havingst four months of a seizure, i do not know what it was. ptot, my vision and my speech, it is getting b

so, therefore, there must have been some posttraumatic stress of the experience.e don't know how long and if at all they were getting in chechnya. we know that they were in kyrgyzstan, we know that they were also in davistan. so you're still affected by the echoes of work and the politics in the region. so that could be the link that we have, that this is a psychological response to many years of war. it could also be a political ideological response. we don't know yet, if at all, that there are any links between the chechen radicals that still exist as part of the insurgency or, for that matter, for any of the networks that exist in other regions. now, you have to understand that this is a very unusual event if that were the case. because chechen separatists have not taken their struggle outside of the russian federation. so if they were to make this strategic movement by using young men instrumentally and politically, then we -- i would really be wondering why. >> right. >> because it hasn't happened in the past. >> well, what's your sense of a network of terror

when you have the chief of the army get up and say, i have posttraumatic stress, and is ok. if you think as posttraumatic stress as a natural reaction to andbnormal situation, va the secretary are trying to get end.f the d at the it should not prevent you from getting some help and getting help from your family to deal with the symptoms you are having. people do not know there are state governments. this is a wonderful opportunity to work with the va and our own community to craft continual care. as a race ormyself a contest with the va. i see my job as dovetailing with what they have to be sure the veterans of my state receive all they need, and that takes a lot butiaison and networking, you go fourth whiffs the idea that you are in the business trying to do the same thing. you believe the people you are working with have the heart of the veteran at their hearts. i told you a little bit about what i'd do. my marching orders come from the governor and the connecticut have youre, and you director. governor,nted by the and i am honored to say i am serving my third governor. re

a form of posttraumatic stress disorder.very little thing that happens, i think causes people to want to run away from risk. if you look the last four years, it is really the equity markets that have outperformed. they are running from every event, but in the end, it is the profits that keep rising that keep pushing this market even higher. i think that will continue to happen in 2013. dagen: good to you, brian. it is good to see you. thank you so much. connell: the boston terror case, we will get into it and how the bombings are changing the way we defend our country. dagen: apple sending back millions of iphones because they were not to apples liking. take a look at how the stock is trading today. up almost 1.5% today. ♪ ♪ for about 15 minutes past the hour. connell: trip is here to make us a little bit of money. go ahead, charles. charles: checkpoint software. a little favorite of mine. they do security for companies. what i like is they have gotten into this whole data scenario. we talk about the cloud, but no one ever t

military and are used in the service as helping those who have returned, um, traumatized from posttraumatic stress disorder really work through some of what they are feeling and going through which i could be very valuable. and also i think it's fantastic that those of us who have not had access to your experience are really being brought in because it may help the nation be more thoughtful about entering wars in the too much. in the future. >> i'll go quick. um, my biggest worry when i wrote the book is what would my brothers in arms think about it. and, you know, i didn't want sweat "the new york times" book review too much or some of the others or which festival i'd be invited to, whatever else. but if that all went perfectly and if my bros said you shouldn't have written it, you did something wrong, you're taking advantage, whatever the case may be, if that's the reaction i got, i'd want to find every copy and burn it. fortunately, it has been the exact opposite. and the reaction that i've gotten is, um, other eo o d techs telling me they bought a copy -- actually, they don't tell me th

. >> the fear of the career, when you have that chief of the army stress,d posttraumatic it is ok. if you think a posttraumatic stress as a natural reaction to an abnormal situation, a natural reaction to an abnormal secretary v.a. and sinn secchi are trying to get notof the -- it should prevent you from getting help and getting some help for your family to deal with the symptoms that you are having. >> you can see the entire program tonight at 8:00 eastern, and after that at 9:00, we will be live and talk about military issues from a national perspective. we will take your calls. the conversation has already gotten underway on facebook. the question is, if you are a veteran, what has been your experience with health care access and quality? coverageeturn to live at about 2:00 p.m. eastern. there will be a discussion on the volatility of the stock market. collier today we talked with a reporter covering recent news from today's "washington journal." >> renewable energy is the subject of this documentary. they are third-prize winners. ♪ >> we are here to support renewable energy acr

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blows up and what posttraumatic stress sin dome actually is causing to happen in the brain and how that can be dealt with the future ushes that has clear impact on hundreds of thousands of soldiers who are returning and trying to resume a normal life. the faster we can accelerate this -- we know how to treat their limb injuries. we know what happens if they have to be stitched up. we don't know nearly enough to the t has happened brain and nerve system. and the faster we can get, the more help we can give. >> thank you. mr. griffin's recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, madam secretary for being here. , ppreciate your service appreciate you answering our questions today. i believe in health care reform. and i believe we need health care reform and what i am particularly concerned about is reform of medicare that my mother relies on. medicare, which is not in the committee jurisdiction. but i'm concerned about long-term permanent reforms. not tweaking at the edges. i believe we need to strengthen these reforms so they will be there for my generation. i know they will be the

could have assault weapons and high capacity magazines, but military couldn't because they had posttraumatic stress disorder. and then at the same time there was ex-police officer in california killing all kinds of people, yet he could have had an assault weapon. host: that's andy's comment from south carolina. from the "wall street journal." pentagon to boost presence in jordan. the u.s. will send an army command team to jordan to work with jordanian forces, increasing the number of american forces on the syrian border, defense officials said. defense secretary chuck hagel told senators wednesday he is ordering the deployment of an army headquarters operation to improve readiness there and prepare for a number of scenarios. u.s. defense officials said they weren't intending the operation, which would increase the u.s. military presence in jordan, to 250 people from a current 150, to serve as a possible command post for a military intervention. but it could be used to coordinate u.s. humanitarian aid or oversee efforts to secure chemical weapons sites, officials said. that's from the "wall s

these are our people who have been wounded, lost their arms and legs, suffering posttraumatic stressa year, gretchen? not you and me, as the taxpayers. but our veterans themselves. our disabled veterans. so under george w. bush, they have cut the waiting time by about a third. president obama, as senator obama in 2008 made this tremendous promise that he was going to cure this, that he was going to help our veterans and now they're laying at home sick, sore, lame, disabled and paying out of their own pocket. >> gretchen: what's the problem? >> the problem is that the federal government spent about a half billion dollars on the computer system that doesn't work. 97% of the stuff is still under paperwork. now to pour salt in the wound, gretchen, the federal government is saying, we want to change the way we calculate inflation in terms of disability benefits. we want to take it and make it something called the chained cpi, the chain consumer price index by which they would pay less, almost $400 billion less over the next ten years to our disabled veterans. now they have to wait a year

we know that there has been a tremendous toll in posttraumatic stress disorder.s have traumatic brain injury of some kind. the cumulative effect of the years of war have taken a significant toll. we see it in the pentagon, these very high costs for the health- care system, for active duty troops were serving their families, the children, and those who were discharged, veterans, as well as a high social cost for the of parents and families of those who have served. this has been very different from previous wars, where there is a larger percentage of the population involved. host: jimmy is our first caller from indiana, democratic line, for linda bilmes. caller: good morning. i guess my thoughts are the same old, same old. the u.s. military presence of this a symptomis of the disease rather than the disease itself? there are already rumblings every day of people needing to clean house in north korea, going to iran, turn it into a glass factory. what you think about the quote from eisenhower when he warned that the military-industrial complex will bankrupt america?

today she is a consultant for the navy and the marines ptsd, posttraumatic stress disorder treatmentrogram. please welcome dr. heidi kraft. [applause] >> well, good morning. so, i have been doing a fair amount of speaking of the last few years. i have to say that i am quite certain this is my first talk in which the vice-president warm up the audience for me. it may not be the last, but is the first. i wish she was here to hear me say that and then very respectfully say? thank-you, sir, for such a good job. it is an honor to be with you. before i begin to have many veterans do we have in the audience today? thank you very much for your service. [applause] i was sharing with my traffic sponsors last night that during this many speeches sort of becomes a little desensitized, but sometimes it still is emotional and the reasons for that emotion sometimes are obvious like memorial they. other times it can be things that are upcoming that take me by surprise. baseball season started. does everyone know that? we get -- the players have arrived in spring training. we will see whether as a bi

military and are used in the service as helping those who have returned, um, traumatized from posttraumatictress disorder really work through some of what they are feeling and going through which i could be very valuable. and also i think it's fantastic that those of us who have not had access to your experience are really being brought in because it may help the nation be more thoughtful about entering wars in the too much. in the future. >> i'll go quick. um, my biggest worry when i wrote the book is what would my brothers in arms think about it. and, you know, i didn't want sweat "the new york times" book review too much or some of the others or which festival i'd be invited to, whatever else. but if that all went perfectly and if my bros said you shouldn't have written it, you did something wrong, you're taking advantage, whatever the case may be, if that's the reaction i got, i'd want to find every copy and burn it. fortunately, it has been the exact opposite. and the reaction that i've gotten is, um, other eo o d techs telling me they bought a copy -- actually, they don't tell me they

you had to have symptoms to be eligible for posttraumatic stress. a great deal of this came from our understanding of what goes on for those in the military. war is not for the faint of heart. 86% knew someone who was injured or killed. 65% saw a dead or seriously injured americans. and 48% admitted they had been responsible for killing somebody else. you would not find that ratio in other wars. this is in your face war. so i as the commissioner had many questions about all of this. and there were no answers on google. we found the money to do the connecticut veterans and needs assessment. we looked at, we asked people who had just returned to fill out a questionnaire. and i want to show, because i think it is a sample -- it is connecticut, but at the same time it gave me -- what i did with this information in the needs assessment, i went to my legislature and i said i see these needs and we need to do something about it. being in combat is life altering. the importance of camaraderie. let me tell you that that is one of the most important character

she suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder. she couldn't sleep. she self-medicated. she ended up homeless. she ended up in trouble with law enforcement. but when she got the help she needed at a community mental health center, it transformed her life. she met the man who would become her husband. she is now going to have a baby. now she works with give an hour, which is a wonderful organization that helps veterans get the mental health services that they need, and they are strongly supporting what we are doing as well. jennifer could have ended up a statistic, but she got the help she needed. we need to give every one of our heroes coming home from war the same opportunity. that's why the excellence in mental health act is so important as a part of all this. we have come a long way in a bipartisan way to recognize the need for mental health treatment, and as i mentioned before, the wonderful partnership of senator domenici and senator wellstone, senator kennedy paved the way for us to more fully understand that when we talk about comprehensive health services, that w