the three va is the five attended.so, there's got to be -- i know we say certainly on active duty your sickness can't be any greater than mine, your health is no more important than mine, and as an officer we always withstand at the end of the line and just wait for it to come back before i went back in. but you don't have that opportunity enough of va hospitals. your clinicians say i need to see you in another two weeks you go out to get an appointment they are filled at the next four months because there's all these people that are in there that are probably classified six or seven and they are taking the same spaces all the spaces in chronological order. >> we only have a few minutes left so addressed does anyone have a question related to that? okay, go ahead. >> i'm from san diego and from to those in six to 2,009 we have a program for the wounded warrior is and -- >> explain to people with this is to it is committed to forms of hands-on healing that research shows improves healing 40 to 60%. it's very effective w

we send them to the va and what services are available. o that's something that's being looked at and it's extremely important as well. on the policy side, not on the east wing but the policy side. in january the president, psd, strengthening our military's families. and i think being an active duty air force member is a watershed moment because every single service cabinet member signed that document. every cabinet member that i was going to look going to look in his or her department and agencies and determine how are we doing this to go straight to what general adkins said. >> are we utilizing our resources effectively? so that was signed in january. and if you haven't read that, i think it's a document that's well worth the read on the policy side. so it's a part of government. it's a part of private industry as well. community. and it's definitely an education piece that goes with that. >> general, since you've got two stars on your shoulder, and you obviously know what it takes to have a successful career in the military, is someone w

do we send into the va? what services are available? that's something that is being looked at and it's extremely important as well. on the policy side. in january the president signed it psds strengthen our military families, meeting america's commitment. and for me i think being an active duty air force member is a watershed event because every single service cabinet member signed that document. every cabinet member that i was going to look into his or her department, agencies, determine how are we doing this to go straight to it the general said. are we utilizing our resources effectively? so that was signed in january, and if you haven't read that, i think it's a document that is well worth the read on the policy side. so it's a part of government, a part of private industry as well, the community, and is deathly an education piece that goes along with that. >> general, since you've got two stars on your shoulder, i want, and you know what it takes to a successful career in the military, is someone who comes even as active duty or for

>>reporter: with so many casualties in iraq and afghanistan, the va hospital is busy. >> on foot patrol we're moving up the hill. and i just stepped on it. >> that was in southern afghanistan january 5th. the explosion mangled part of his right arm and blew off his right leg. >> it was hard in the beginning. it was really hard. you have to come to terms with it. >> because his older brother daniel has been at his side since that day the marine woke up in the hospital with no legs. >> it's reassuring him he's in a safe place and he's going to be okay. >> to be close to his brother, daniel has stayed on the grounds in the hospital in a special place for families called the fisher house. built here by the generosity of viewers. it's a home away from home where families can stay long-term for free. >> it enables me to think about his care and taking care of him. >> but there's such a need, the 21 rooms here are always full. the wait list is long. >> it is extremely hard because i never want to tell someone no. >> the va has approved a second house. ground breaking won't be for another year.

but also because the va is working at changing its image to females. >> this sounds like they're not letal problems. >> which could be neck pain back pain, hip joint pain. and this relates to the fact that they're wearing heavy equipment. >> they may indicater to military people here it feels civilian here i come here i feel like i'm just another civilian gogt doctor. >> and the va is phoning female veterans making sure they know their eligibility for va benefits. they hope to reach every living female vet. eric thomas abc 7 news. >> and wow. >> and fall is here and weather is changing. >> yes. >> there is sandhya patel here. >> and that is going to be history into tomorrow. cooling off in all areas, you can see why looking at the satellite here, there is fog moving in and this is going to lead to a cooler day up to 20 degrees cooler at the coast tomorrow. inland areas five degrees and there is rain developing monday and continuing throughout wednesday. >> thank you. >> and there is image of the fire chief hangs on the wall of john's grill restaurant. and you know today's ceremony was

another process, like as if we live two and a half hours from the va. d five appointment in one week it had to go back and forth every day, five hours in the car with my husband who has ptsd spent let me tell you where you -- where we are on that. so this is one of the issues i care a lot about because i've heard a lot of this discussion, and so we have part of the we're done some of these new initiatives is to a thing called a design team. one of the new things i just put on the design teams played, working close with the vha, because, frankly, i went to my own exams. i kind of know what that is like. i asked the question, i said listen, for the exams i got, i'm a 50 plus year old woman, someone touched the only ones for those exams. do we really have to have people driving for an exam when, as the undersecretary for health will say, i'm already seeing 50% of those people for existing condition and providing them clinical services, so why can't i just write it up and send it back to you? to we have to do an exam? can we do a tele- exam, many can you jus

the va is in this fight with all of our capabilities. alk about homelessness as though it is a one-convector discussion. we are in it across the board. primary, medical, dental care, mental health, substance abuse education, case management, housing, as well as jobs counseling. we are also conducting justice out -- to support the creation of veterans courts which would demand veterans, those facing minor charges, petty crimes, substance abuse defenses -- the kind of thing you'd end up in jail for if you do often enough. remaned those to us for treatment in lieu of incarceration. [applause] we are working with state and that will prisons to afford veterans being released from prison and opportunity to break the cycle of incarceration, homelessness, incarceration, which plagues many of them. there are 1310 federal and state penitentiary's, and we are into 950 of them linking up with those veterans. we are committed to ending veteran homelessness by 2015 and we are after it, and ending veterans homelessness is not just rescuing the individua

the va budget.guest: most of them come from the dod budget. a portion of them come out of an alternative treasury fund. it is very complicated. it does not come out of the va. that is primarily health care and other benefits. this would be coming out of the pentagon's base budget. host: here is what is happening currently with military retirement pay. for those who became active duty before 1980, they get 50% base pay after 20 years. they get 75% base pay after 30 years. current liability is $1.3 trillion. the future liability will be $2.7 trillion by 2034. those are huge numbers. guest: that is why it has been put on the table. at the pentagon, there is a concern that these costs will eat into the funds they use for active duty troops, weapons programs, and training programs. under the most aggressive plans, the pentagon could almost meet a lot of its current budget- cutting targets solely through major reform to the retirement program. caller: i am going to retire from the navy on october 31. i ha

colleagues, if you have any questions, the chief is here, the va is here, and some of the criminal justice partners are here. >> thanks. are these employees going to be calpers employees or spur's employees? or is it and mix? like the adult probation folks will be calpers? >> it is a mix, but the majority of the folks in front of you would be calpers. supervisor chiu: any additional discussion? can we take these items same house, call? without objection, these ordinances are passed on the first reading. >> item 14, and in the resolution of the contracts between in the amount of approximately $419 million. >> same house, same call. the resolution is adopted. >> the 27th amendment to the waterfront between the treasure island development authority, to extend the term. item 16, approving the seventh amendment for the development of the authority of the u.s. navy. in 17 with the cooperative modification, the resolution approving the treasure island event, with the treasure island development authority. item 19 is a resolution approving the 35th amendment with the lease between the treasure isl

the doctor held my life in his hands. would you say i have a larger than average vas deferens?u have a great size vas deferens. >> thank you, doctor. >> you're welcome. >> and as he went to work, i thought of all the good times the three of us had had together. ♪ i will remember you >> at work. ♪ will you remember me and at play. we went through hard times, as well. oh, guys, you okay? all right. but i was there for them, and they were there for me. [laughter] >> all right, jason, you did great. we're done. >> really? i wasn't even done with my montage yet. and just like that i had my life back yet. but i just didn't realize how [bleeped] achy my nuts would be for the next three weeks. however, i'm adjusting and getting used to it. my children will never be cured, but at least i know it won't get worse. if you have children, get the help you need. you are not alone. >> daddy? >> yes? >> can i have another brother or sister? >> nope. cut my balls off. sucker. [cheering and applause] mom: superfan nation at old navy stores... dad: has football gear for your favorite team and more

the sweet the va has just approved a second house here for families to stay in while their loved ones are being treated in the v.a. hospital. the bitter, there are so many casualties in iraq and afghanistan, there is a great need for more. >> on a foot patrol, we were moving up the hill. and i just stepped on it. >> stepped on? >> an iud. >> reporter: that was in southern afghanistan january 5th. the explosion blew off part of his right leg. >> it was hard at the beginning. it was really hard. i had to come to terms with it. >> reporter: in part because he says his older brother daniel has been at his side since that day the marine woke up in the hospital with no legs. >> it's just showing him that he's in a safe place. and-- reassuring him he's in a safe place and he's going to be okay. >> reporter: to be close to his brother, daniel has stayed in a special place for families called the fisher house. built in part by the generosity of ktvu viewers. >> it allows me to focus on his care. >> reporter: but the rooms are always full, the wait list is long. >> it's extremely hard because i

there will be one in the sunny va le. they do an assessment of the out reach they need to target. what i mentioned was a mission related incident. some of the out reach that has taken place in the bay view western edition is working with those. there's out reach calendars. we produce as individual neighborhood based. >> crn program that needs to be expanded? is it? do you think, anybody does it? >> we have a hand over there. >> i am pretty sure, there's still people on the streets. obviously, you haven't done enough to focus on everybody. everybody isn't off the streets. where my mother lives. they started a program and everybody got involved in it. we have a garden. they have jobs. you got $100 a week. they got people off the street and every summer we do i basketball tournament. everybody likes sports. >> tyrer. who here. why can't we have more programs? jenay. >> you got it. you go girl. >> some people don't go to these programs. i am in up. i tell all my friends, you don't have to sing. you don't have to rap, and for leadership. we go out in the community and talk to people. i

. >>> with so many casualties in iraq and afghanistan, the va hospital in palo alto is busy. >> on a foot patrol, and we're moving up the hill. and i just stepped on it. >> reporter: stepped on? >> an iud. >> reporter: that was january 5th. the explosion mangled part of his right arm and blew up his leg. >> it was hard in the beginning. it was really hard. and i had to come to terms with it. >> reporter: in part he says because his older brother daniel has been at his side since that day the marine woke up in the hospital with no legs. >> it's just showing him that he's in a safe place. and that he's going to be okay. >> reporter: to be close to his brother, daniel has stayed on the grounds of the v.a. hospital in a special place for families called the fisher house. built here five years ago in part by the generosity of ktvu's viewers it's a home away from home where families can stay long term for free. >> it enables me to slowly think about his care and taking care of him. >> reporter: but there's such a need the 21 rooms here are always full. the wait list is long. >> it is extrem

and i think that the va has a lot of problems and i think it's hard to quantify the way fraud and abuse other too. by and large people don't think that there's enough fraud and abuse out there to resolve this as a financial and policy question. he also brings up a good point. his personal situation had to wait until he is 60 to receive his retirement pension. the other proposals for military retirement several years ago which didn't get much traction at the time was to make retirees wait until they were at a more traditional retirement age, like 60. as opposed to help when you can start at age 38 or 40 or whenever you leave. that may be the ultimate result of this business for proposal which is far more radical than that is it makes some of those other proposals we've seen over the past few years look more modest and make it new consideration in light of some of the discussions. >> host: another active duty military call. thomaston colorado. welcome. >> caller: good morning. i was a vietnam vet. i was in the reserves your my trade, i was in keeping and air-conditioning and plumbing what

. >>> with so many casualties in iraq and afghanistan, the va hospital in palo alto is busy. >> on a foot patrol, and we're moving up the hill. and i just stepped on it. >> reporter: stepped on? >> an iud. >> reporter: that was january 5th. the explosion mangled part of his right arm and blew up his leg. >> it was hard in the beginning. it was really hard. and i had to come to terms with it. >> reporter: in part he says because his older brother daniel has been at his side since that day the marine woke up in the hospital with no legs. >> it's just showing him that he's in a safe place. and that he's going to be okay. >> reporter: to be close to his brother, daniel has stayed on the grounds of the v.a. hospital in a special place for families called the fisher house. built here five years ago in part by the generosity of ktvu's viewers it's a home away from home where families can stay long term for free. >> it enables me to slowly think about his care and taking care of him. >> reporter: but there's such a need the 21 rooms here are always full. the wait list is long. >> it is extrem

. >> he was taken by ambulance to the va center in palo alto accompanied by veterans. >> and there is a new proposal that would let children ride muni free of charge. this before the supervisor david campos troin dused legislation. would it let kids between five-17 ride city buses and light rail without paying the youth fare. the supervisor says there are ways to makeup the six to $13 million that menu would lose on the deal. >> we've identified potential sources of funding and resources we think there would be money to fund for this. >> there is a cost of a pass more than doubled in the past two years, other cities let kids ride their buses for free. >> some people go their lives without taking an airplane flight. but a baby in a hospital now started his life on a plane traveling in the philippines to san francisco. >> anita and her hours-old son are just fine nouchl the child arrived in the usual way, but not on the due date of september 28th, not in a usual place. seven miles over the ocean, labor began. >> i feel like it's so painful. and cramping. >>> a flight attendant helped he

way is give the medicare administration the authority to negotiate prescription drug prices the way the va does. save maybe 150 billion dollars over 10 years doing that. >> greta: why isn't that being done? >> because the drug companies don't like it. >> greta: there's plenty of time to change it. we first heard about this in the bush administration. since that time the democrats have had the house, senate and white house. you had a lot of chance. considered was an ill considered deal in the health care bill. >> greta: which white house? >> the obama white house. they said to the drug industry if you support the health care bill we won't go to the prescription drug negotiation. i think they were wrong. >> greta: the president said until a week from monday to layout his deficit plan to pay for this, right? >> he did. >> greta: then he says later on in the speech, americans are tired of waiting they can't wait any longer. i thought that is dumb you just told us a second ago you going to make us wait for 11 days or whatever. why are we waiting? because he doesn't have it figured out yet? >> i

a small study was done at the va puget sound health center in washington state. lin boosts declining metabolism in key areas of the brain. more research needs to be done. more than 5 million americans suffer from alzheimer's disease. >>> is new fathers experiencing a significant drop if their body's testosterone when caring for their newborn babies. that's the results of a new study at northwestern university. it may be mother nature's way of making men a little less aggressive. it suggests that men are wired to meet the demands of fatherhood. >> blogers and parents, well, they blast withed another t- shirt for young girls. forever 21 yanked this shirt. it says allergic to algebra. somebody added a sticky note to a shirt that says smart girls. don't buy this shirt. >>> well, some things people just can't live without, apparently. >> a var to learn what those things are. sunshine top pick. followed by the internet clean drinking water and the fridge. facebook made the top five. it put it ahead of things like flushing the toilet, taking a shower, having a smartphone

way is give the medicare administration the authority to negotiate prescription drug prices the way the va does. save maybe 150 billion dollars over 10 years doing that. >> greta: why isn't that being done? >> because the drug companies don't like it. >> greta: there's plenty of time to change it. we first heard about this in the bush administration. since that time the democrats have had the house, senate and white house. you had a lot of chance. considered was an ill considered deal in the health care bill. >> greta: which white house? >> the obama white house. they said to the drug industry if you support the health care bill we won't go to the prescription drug negotiation. i think they were wrong. >> greta: the president said until a week from monday to layout his deficit plan to pay for this, right? >> he did. >> greta: then he says later on in the speech, americans are tired of waiting they can't wait any longer. i thought that is dumb you just told us a second ago you going to make us wait for 11 days or whatever. why are we waiting? because he doesn't have it figured out yet? >> i

now, that's the president obama and va, and, frankly, members of congress have been about for the last half years. and i can speak firsthand about the two members that i recognized. three members that i recognized. president obama handed me to priorities when he offered me disappointment two and half years ago. pretty strategic, pretty straightforward. first, make things better for veterans, and then transform this great department of george, the department of veterans affairs, so that it better serves veterans throughout the 21st century. he provided not just strategic guidance. he also provided his personal, time and again, if you a thing about the budget process, time and again in the fork in the trailer we could've gone left or right, the president sided with va and veterans, and provided us resources. and so he has not just provide personal support, he's assure the availability of much-needed and scarce resources to address some long-standing issues. and then he allowed me as secretary, the freedom to make decisions and to act on behalf of veterans. with congressional support, pre

being a veteran, they told me it would be a good idea to go to third street, the downtown va clinic, and connect with them, which i did. and i was granted to admittance into the program at treasure island, where i stayed at 18 months, graduated from there. in the process of being in that program, i participated in computer one and computer two at the park presidio facility, and completed that. i went to city college and took a course in community mental health so that i could better addressed ptsd and find what it was that kept me stock and -- stuck in that bad behavior for such a long time. i completed that, caught my certificate in community mental health, and was told about the position that became available with the city and county of san francisco pretrial diversion project. and i got hired by my then- supervisor as a peer navigator, assisting inmates coming out of county jail as well as state prison who were hiv-positive in finding -- what i did, i assisted them in finding primary-care providers, social services, social security, making sure they made it to court on time, and ju

reform medicare by allowing medicare part d to negotiate for drug prices, which is something that the vadoes now. perhaps there are some savings there. >> what did you hear that really impressed you, congressman cleaver, when it comes to putting americans back to work? the word infrastructure was not in the speech tonight. but there was a lot of talk about redoing schools, 35,000 schools, making sure veterans had an opportunity to get a job when they came home, what about all of that? what did you hear? what was most appealing when it came to creating jobs. >> the president was very targeted in his method of addressing unemployment. he targeted veterans coming home from iraq and afghanistan, saying in this bill there would be tax breaks for corporations that hired them. he targeted young people. summer jobs. he targeted the long term unemployed. he targeted small businesses and people who are in desperate need for a little more money. >> do you think he felt pressure from your caucus, congressman cleaver? i mean, do you think he felt i got to step up, say something strong tonight to the

reform medicare by allowing medicare part d to negotiate for drug prices, which is something that the vanow. perhaps there are some savings there. >> what did you hear that really impressed you, congressman cleaver, when it comes to putting americans back to work? the word infrastructure was not in the speech tonight. but there was a lot of talk about redoing schools, 35,000 schools, making sure veterans had an opportunity to get a job when they came home, what about all of that? what did you hear? what was most appealing when it came to creating jobs. >> the president was very targeted in his method of addressing unemployment. he targeted veterans coming home from iraq and afghanistan, saying in this bill there would be tax breaks for corporations that hired them. he targeted young people. summer jobs. he targeted the long term unemployed. he targeted small businesses and people who are in desperate need for a little more money. >> do you think he felt pressure from your caucus, congressman cleaver? i mean, do you think he felt i got to step up, say something strong tonight to the afric

this is the group that is willing and has asked for every bit of the way -- as i tell my friends in the vast supporters, but because of that, we will also be the harshest critics. if there is waste in the va, we will find it. if there are inefficiencies, you will find it. if there are better ways to serve our veterans, we will find it. this idea of false choices, coming and lay in and talking about -- we need to increase copays for veterans health care and try care -- the thing i say about that is that at copay was made at the reservoir, the jungles of southeast asia, paid in iraq and afghanistan. [applause] before you come in front of this group or send your member to congress, you had better have closed every tax loophole on mortgage interest deduction on yachts and cut every redounded, a useless program before you asked those same people who paid and made sacrifices to make it again. [applause] as the greatest nation the world has ever seen, to tell our veterans we don't have the financial stability to help them with their health care, or to tell our veterans who are going to have to as

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somebody in the va will study department isn't necessarily going to be able to save the credentials of. scientists are not of the same. scientists do not all know everything, in fact science has become increasingly diverse and lobsters. it's about speciality. so why don't really think that they are not in a position to make announcements of what is happening in the field of climate science, which let me say is one of the more dotted of the sciences anywhere. it's more of a social science and hard science. thank you for that. >> i think we are running up against the deadline. please join me in thinking james for his presentation and congratulating him on his new book. [applause] >> for more on the james delingpole and his work, visit jamesdelingpole.com. >> what are you reading this summer? book tv wants to know. >>> your book is titled strangers. what inspired you to write this book? >> when i began working for the historical study it was probably one of the topics that i got the most interesting and questions about and even installed today i can just kind of tell what it meant to peop

the epicenter was 4 mi. southeast of mineral, va.. mineral was the epicenter of last tuesday's 5.8 magnitude earthquake. there have been more than 20 aftershocks from 4.5 all the way down to 1.8. the 5.8 that originally hit cause a lot of shaky and damage. look at this a new video from last week's earthquake. this is a high school in louisiana county, va. concede the tiles on the roof came down and watch in the distance, and the back of the hall you concede the students and staff rushing off to safety. >> floodwaters are still slowly receded from hurricane irene. we're tracking another hurricane, hurricane katia in the it is a category one but expected to become a major hurricane by the weekend. there is the track from hurricane center. it gets close to united states by the weekend. some models show that the storm turns to the board avoided the united states. every one of the eastern seaboard is keeping a close watch. we are still dealing with her can i read. i will show you some of the latest video. repair estimates are starting to po

there's job training benefits for them through the va, through a lot of veterans organizations. t still a lot of these young veterans coming back say right now, especially when they go back to maybe the small towns they have come from, the job market just isn't there. there aren't good-paying jobs for them to have. so it is going to be a long haul for a lot of these young people coming home, t.j. >> great to bring attention to this. barbara starr, always good to have you with us. >> thank you. >> thanks so much. >>> well, stick around, folks. i want you to see want you to hear a hip-hop serenade to hope solo. yes, the u.s. soccer goalie. stick around for that in sports. it it aeit's 46 minutes past th hour. gas and bloating. with three strains of good bacteria to help balance your colon. you had me at "probiotic." [ female announcer ] phillips' colon health. ♪ [ male announcer ] what is the future of fuel? the debate is over. ♪ lexus hybrid drive technology is designed to optimize any fuel source on the planet. even those we don't use yet. because when you pursue perfection, you

him with advocacy efforts or step in, because since he was kicked out of school, he has to repay the vahimself. is that typical of how veterans are treated? >> well, i don't think this is typical. i think this is a very unique incident and, i think that metro state was really ill-prepared to support him, and, i don't think that they thought something like this would happen and i don't think it would... they thought it was going to gain the kind of attention it already gained, but, the issue is now, they are going to say that he requires an aide, and they tell him that he needs to provide that support himself. i mean, here's brandon, a student, who is working... or doing this full-time and is trying to get his degree, so he can get a job. and, now he has to face his issue of whether he can actually continue school, and i'm sure he's probably receiving benefits and support provided by the education benefits he's provided from the va. >> alisyn: sure. >> is what supports him and how does he do it if he's kicked out. >> alisyn: and we want our viewers to know we reached out to metro state c

the is your vie va asked voters what they expect most. from the noda administration. almost one-third want him to focus on rebuilding the disaster region and solving the nuclear crisis at the fukushima daiichi power plant. 15% say he should strengthen social programs. including pensions and health care. 13% want noda to cut wasteful tax spending, and 12% say he should concentrate on fiscal reform. respondents are split on the question of whether noda will be able to implement his policies. 47% say, yes, and 48% say, no. our survey asks about the timing of the election. 10% want the national vote to be held right away. 13% say it should happen before the end of this year. and 26% say by the end of next year, and 42% say they don't want a general election until 2013, when the government is supposed to schedule one. >>> former chief cabinet secretary alexander edler yukio edano has been appointed as the country's new economy, trade and industry minister, just ten days after the appointment of his predecessor. edano aged 47 is currently serving his sixth term in the lower

watching c-span, in fact, i can't remember but that -- even the veterans of the administration or the va hospital had bought counterfeit medication and they say it's like as much as 50% of the drugs that are on the market today are, you know, counter fit -- 50% of them are counterfeit. can he comment on that, please? >> host: thanks, jerry. >> guest: jerry that's a very important point. until now we've been talking mostly about the manufacturing and the upstream supply chain with the risk of contamination but there's also clearly the risk that somebody will make a deliberate counterfeit of a product and sell it into the distribution system. in some country the level of counterfeiting is very high, 20%-30%. luckily it's not nearly that high in the u.s. and it's certainly not 50% but there has beenó is not that high in the u.s., certainly not 50%. but there have been incidents of people selling counterfeit products into the drug supply and ending up in pharmacies and so on. rare, but it has happened. in some cases they are originate outside the country in some cases domestically. we don't

"keeping the republic." springfield, va., you are on with governor daniels. caller: good morning. governor daniels, i have to tell you i was so tickled when i heard that you were on because i had the chance in 2008 to visit the indianapolis area. i am a budding artist. one of the things i noticed about the downtown area was a beautiful fountain memorial. you have some real gems in that city. when i went inside the fountain gift shop, you have no gift cards or post cards of all of the great sights in indianapolis or anything around 8. i wanted to know why there is not a bigger push to market to people who come to that area. guest: thank you. that is a great tip and i will pass it along to the mayor of the city and to our tourism people to try to make certain that we are sharing the good news. there is a lot of beautiful architecture and nature all over the state. i am not convinced that we have done as expert of a job in getting the word out. i appreciate the tip, and we will act on it. host: next call. caller: is not just the crushing economy. we have one in seven americans in pris