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sloan gibson will be at tonight's event. >>> the ashgz coyotes are more of a sure footing now as they struck a deal to tempe. a new arena proposed near lake mcclinic talk. the coyotes say they will chip the university in the city of tempe set to cover the rest. officials say they want to have a new arena ready for the 2019 season. >>> over parking around university phoenix stadium. it will cost taxpayers $14 million for the city not providing those parking spaces that they promised to get the team to come to glendale. >>> phoenix says it's losing millions of dollars because people aren't paying up. the city says one in five ignore the fine. even suspending driver's licenses doesn't get people's attention. city council is set to meet tomorrow. >>> flower shops and attorneys may be busy this morning because guess what the adult daily website adult friend finder has who thought they deleted their accounts and get this a dozen in there because the user data is being sold online for $4,000 a pop. oh, my goodness you better get the alibis lined up. >> you call that head shaking news. >>> yo

they found -- after calling -- finding what joining us is the department of veterans affairs, sloan gibson. thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> thank you for having me on this great veterans day. >> there has been a lot of talk of privatizing va healthcare after the commission on care report. privatization help or hurt veterans in your estimation? >> i think first of all if you ask the vast majority of veterans, they their health care at the va. they find the camaraderie, the quality of care, the treatment and the respect is what they are really looking for. you know, i think more fundamentally, when you look at va, there is no healthcare organization in the world that has the scope and scale to be able to provide the care and support for veterans that we do. take mental health care as a great example, between our substance abuse programs, the half-million outpatient appointment programs completed every month, the way we integrate mental health care into primary care, and then there are the nonclinical determinants of care. things like disability compensation, caregiver stipe

va deputy sloan gibson will be at tonight's event. >>> some more health news here that's going to have you thinking thanks to thanksgiving. there is a new concern about a bacterial disease. at a vermont farm. the owner of that farm thinks a fox carrying foul cholera snuck into the barn. experts say the infection is not transmissable to people. >>> there is new research out there from the american heart association that found poor sleep raises your risk for irregular heart beat. which can lead to strokes, heart failure and other heart related complications. >>> the fda issuing an alert for two products with possible listeria contamination. they're weight watchers smart ones chocolate chip cookie doug sundae. return those items to the store for a refund. >> winter is just around the corner. which means drivers need to be careful on the roads. we're going to show you how a-dot is taking action around the state. >> and we're not talking winter weather here today. >>> well we know you know it does not feel like it at all. winter is on its way. >> yeah, and a-dot is taking safe. showing us h

sloan gibson will be at tonight's event at the carlton va medical center. >>> in democracy 2016 our president elect is working with world leaders just hours ago russian president vladimir putin. and u.s. russian relations. putin was one of the first world leaders to congratulate trump. >>> hillary clinton just won four more electoral college votes. new hampshire officially calling for a win. she won by a small margin of 227 votes. >>> it is the beginning of the just a couple of hours ago he landed in athens greece for the start of his final foreign tour. he'll head to germany and then to peru to meet with a string of world leaders. >>> killed somebody and he didn't even spend a night in jail. >> 5 minutes after the hour. more questions than answers for the family of a command letter mom killed while out on a walk with her family. now at 35th avenue. pretty light right now. >> it is going to be very warm today but we've got some big changes coming. i'll take you through that day by day most accurate forecast. >>> look k at them and saying this is all i need . they were her life. >> remembering