the va was saying that by the end of 2012, they would hit certain benchmarks -- [ overlapping speakers it's moving the opposite direction. in april here in northern california, it took about 300 days to have your disability claim resolved. now they are up to 500 days so we're going in the opposite direction. we need reform maybe we lead leadership, and maybe court supervision. >> jennifer: so it is bodies they need to throw on the system? it is -- it's management. >> it's everything -- everything needs to happen all at once, but i think what we have seen with the president is his well intention putting more money to support this problem in and of itself is not going to do the trick. >> jennifer: yeah. i really appreciate you coming in and updating on this really really important issue. up next, lots of other important stuff going on in the political world. unfortunately that's a of little interest to our brett ehrlich. he is next. ♪ >> jennifer: well the first week of the year is about to become old news but before it does brett ehrlich is here to offer his impressions -- first impress

tink got the nipple reconstructed for free at the va hospital. ng in korea. so, tinkerbell was in the army? jeffries: you know this doc's name? or tinkerbell's? but that old queen sure got beaten up a lot. someone at the va may know her real name. thanks for your time. vera should be finding true love right about now. back in '64, tinkerbell came forward voluntarily. wanted to talk about being assaulted. tinkerbell's not a joke. so far she's our most promising lead. i got another one-- from the law school alumni office. you found hank? oh, yeah. still lives in philly. henry phillips. that henry phillips? your honor, detective rush, homicide. i'm here on a personal matter. a personal matter of yours? of yours. i've reopened the daniel holtz case. you and he were both at penn in 1964. you remember him? he was murdered. i understand you were close friends. i'm not sure i can get into this. i have no interest in prying into your personal life. i'm just trying to solve a homicide. we're looking into the theory it was a hate crime. a gay bashing. who br

the va's inspector general is investigating whether the pittsburgh va took appropriate action to preventk. ciarola is still getting over the guilt she felt after pittsburgh va officials said her father might have caught the disease at her home. that must have been an incredible burden for you. >> that was an incredible burden for a year and a half. oh every once in a while, if we hadn't taken him out, he would be alive. >> last october the pittsburgh va called in officials from the centers for disease control to investigate the source of the outbreak. the cdc expects to issue a report to the va this month but it's up to the va to decide whether to make it public. charlie and norah? >> we're sitting here talking about this how do you get it and prevent it. >> when you breathe it in in water vapor and what happens often-times people turn on the shower head where the legionella bacteria has been growing because maybe that shower head hasn't been used for a while, like in a hotel room for instance so one expert recommended to me turn that shower head on for five minutes, let that steam clear

opportunity to participate in that equity even if they are not home own owners or building owns and that is the vas imagine of the customer and is so you get a progressive social impact they same time you have a high targeted complication and investment for an optimal performance and that is really the core concept here. >> all right we are 15 minutes into the presentation any other question? >>> mr. courtney? >>> i'm going to take the liberty and go into the presentation if i may can i get into one of the documents. >> whatever you want. >>> so i see here a document that is i believe fourth in a series of organizational charts. it's libel and i don't have my glasses but it's one 72 out of 442. it's the program that maximizes green jobs page and it has the three color coordinated references public over site and control, peck sector innovation and implementation and maximize local green -- would you speak belief on the maximized local green jobs as it relates to the

incredible story how he left the va ladies and gentlemen and his father booted him across the river and said don't come back until you get your education so he did this and he walked into this urban area and everybody was looking at him if you ask most men there in the back, what's the most proudest moment in your life, most of the men will say the birth of my first born son. not him, he will tell you the proudest moment in my life is to see my two daughters going to school here in the village. the woman on the extreme far right, she's the first girl to get an education in that valley of about 4 thousand people. she first wrote with sticks in the sand and now she's her second year of medical school scoring in the 90's. her father said you should not become a doctor it's really messy but she's determined to go back to her village and become a physician to help her community and it's an incredible story of how like her father she's persevered. this girl is from the afghan border valley of about 4,000 people. she was the first girl to get an education in our village. the communities there

it all starts with going to the va. there's a whole community of veterans that just want to help you out. it's for the guys who couldn't come back, you owe it to them to live well. because they're not here with their families. a couple of potential deals may be in the works. there's buzz brewing in the beer industry about an anheuser-busch in-bev buy out of mexico's grupo modelo. if the deal goes through, it would mean anheuser-busch, in-bev would control roughly 52% of the american beer market, and that number caught the eye of u.s. anti-trust regulators. on tap: a number of wall street analysts who are publicly wondering if the deal will go through at all. meanwhile, a major tech deal is said to be in the works. according to cnbc, microsft is in talks to invest $1 to $3 billion in dell. joining us via skype, rob enderle of the enderle group. good morning, and do you suspect a deal will happen here? > > i think it is certainly likely. microsoft has a tremendous amount of cash, that they often struggle with figuring out

helping them with $1,100 a month up to a married couple of veterans, getting $2,500 a month from the va. >> i would assume there is a way to ask for people if they in a moderate income situation, in other words, if the place looks expensive, don't discount it until you ask the question. is there any accommodation for this? >> it never hurts to ask. the other thing is that, again, certain properties when they were built had to enter into a partnership with the county to get some tax savings and tax subsidies. they had to open up a certain amount of their apartments to low-income housing or moderate housing. >> got it. >> never hurts to ask. >> all right. david, i wish we had more time. you will be back, i am sure. this is a problem that can persist. contact david at drake terrace and go to their website at lifeatdraketerrace.com. stay with us. more ahead. . >>> welcome back. a bit of housekeeping before we begin the segment. he can be reached at 4191935. we had that wrong on the screen. okay. >>> you heard the term mind over matter. it's turning out to be more than a proverb. new researc

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he's the acting chief of medicine at the va medical center in boise, idaho. he's a practicing general internist. he's the associate program director for the boise internal medicine residency program and the assistant directer of the boise va center of excellence in primary care education. thanks very much for being with us. >> thank you, chairman sanders, ranking member enzi, and members of the committee, a great honor to testify here today. i was asked by senator sanders about my insight, two insights specifically, one about the lack of health insurance in the united states and its effect on health and health care outcomes and share thinking on practical solutions to the primary physician care shortage we face. to start off, there's literature that is accrued over decades demonstrating a lack of health insurance is associated with decreased access to health care, and worse health outcomes. there's a six volume series earlier this century, and the conclusions were clear. subsequent work built on this evidence including my own that senator sanders mentioned in

it all starts with going to the va. e community of veterans that just want to help you out. it's for the guys who couldn't come back, you owe it to them to live well. because they're not here with their families. it's an action-packed movies & money today. our movie man, erik childress, is here with a lot of ground to cover, starting with the oscar nominations. it's oscar nomination day. > > just a few hours away. > let's have a little oscar party. > > all right, let's do it. > let's take a look at your predictions. you have your list of who you think will win. let's start with the ladies. here is your list right now: jessica chastain, marion cotillard, jennifer lawrence, emmanuelle riva, and naomi watts. who wins? > > i think the race is coming out to jessica chastain verses jennifer lawrence. zero dark thirty has a lot of momentum right now. i personally have been in the pocket for jennifer lawrence for a while, but i think this is a very tight race. > here is your list for best actor: bradley cooper, daniel day-lewis,

port team and various regulating agencies that helped us to do had a and of course, our thanks to the vais terrific news. in january, our good friend charles fan owner of slanted door is going to open a new restaurant restaurant at peer three going to be called hard water and after the hard water making whiskey and so hard water is going to be new orleans inspired and inspired in bourbon and whiskeys and the menu is going to be heavenly around whiskey's and sirred drinks seminal 1937 book famous new orleans drinks and how to mix them it's a 1300 square foot space and we are honored to have a second charles phan location on 23rd. so it's very good news as well. next, i gist wanted to point out that the desyl for the 2013 port commission meetings is attached to the agenda it looks like this, it follows all of our regular meeting dates pursuant to our by-laws with the exception of januariment january 8 meeting came up really fast on the holidays and so we have asked to push that back a little bit. this room and you commissioners are very busy and so our january meeting is january the 24th h

the va didn't want to give him a pension hep must have been creating trouble because the sheriff shot him. it was his fault. he asked everybody to help him. all the government agencies. nobody would ask him. he asked the civil rights commission sent investigators to find out what was going on. they ended up being able to get him his pension. i met his family. the oldest crimes dissen dent. he never told them how this happened to him. and they were like, oh my goodness. it was a commission that did it. and so i think that what i was interested in -- what i'm still interested in is there has to be some way to have a voice for people where they can go somewhere and somebody will listen to what they have to say. >> have there been efforts over the years particularly by congress or maybe a particular phot disband the commission? >> yes, ronald reagan tried do that. he came in to office and it amazes me. reagan has become one of my most beloved presidents in the polls and everything. people forget some of the stuff that happened. and he wanted to change the direction of civil rights. he wan

we saw the dual use vehicle from the va that there was one in san francisco and there's one in palo alto and those can take litters of patients. we saw multiple helicopters and we saw the c130j all of those were introduced by very knowledgeable personnel that could take us through what the capabilities of each of them were. i also think that, you know, we saw that there were personnel that would come with those assets. so it wouldn't just be the assets for movement but also assets in terms of taking care of those patients: and that was really helpful in our planning because one of the things we worry about is how will we do handoffs, how will patients get taken care of if they are in critical states and how will they be main taepbed through deployments to other states. we also saw the mobile air medical facilities which was a big question in terms of if patients did have to get moved, where would they sit while we were trying to open up capacity in a hospital to take care of other type patients. it was the past planning for most 3 4 the hospitals has either been we will try to read it ou

one of the things not everybody knows is we only have one heilpad and that's in the va luckily our new mission bay hospital has another one. we have identified sites but it's something to think through. when we are going through our planning and evacuation planning, especially, thinking of all the different sites where patients can be evacuated will be an important planning consideration. but i would like to echo lan's thoughts that this was all exciting to think about and it was received very well. >> anything else, dan? >> as we did on the last panel, that elevator speech, what did you share, what was your big take away that you gave to your boss to say this was why this exercise was important and that take away. >> collaboration is key. jurisdictions need to work with one another, they need to understand who is in charge, what they've got, that goes from city to city, city to county, county to state, state to federal. everyone needs to be working together, understand who the partners are, what arrangement they are going to have for command and control, arrival of assets and things t

that's a good boy. >> back at the va hospital bruce helps them cope with daily life. >> they have been around and play with them. a day with bruce is like a day with sunshine. truly great dog. >> this is the living proof of what a dog can mean. >> to anybody. >> to anybody but especially to a veteran. >> he's an angel at this time. the wings, somebody hide them, i don't know where they put them. but he has wings somewhere. >> when somebody is suffering from ptsd, we have got thousands of them. they are afraid to leave that you are house. when they have the dog with them they are not afraid any more. their life changes. put medals on this guy. that's our insignificant nia. >> irwin's old service dog hash helps him with the ptsd he still living with from his time as a pow. he makes sure every returning soldier who needs a dog will be able to get one of their own. >> people wiare watching this a understand whatting we are trying to accomplish, help us. when you help us you are helping a veteran. he has earned it. >> you deserve it, too, irwin. thank you for everything that you do for our

critics say the proposal could undercut the va hospital which provides quality care. a member of the fa flying group will perform a feat today. >> they will be 100 feet in their air in sarasota. the man says the city gave him permission to perform the stand without -- stunt without a harness. we hope there will not be much wind. >> i wonder what kind of waiver you have to sign. how do you get medical insurance doing stuff like that? >> around here, patchy fog, not a big deal. later today, warming up. a big spread in temperatures. i have a map to let you know where it will be this afternoon. here's a look at temperatures right now. 52 in winchester, a mild start. 50 cent petersburg. 36 in frederick and gaithersburg. bwi marshall, 37. 42 at reagan national, 46 in fredericksburg. today's forecast, we will have more clouds and sunshine even this afternoon. the farther south you are of washington, the warmer you will be. and the farther west, you will be. already, 65 degrees. however, around the beltway low to mid '50's. rockville, 52. 53 in fairfax. frederick, 48, along wi

and it comes up sometimes when he has to do with the va and the fact is that navigating the bureaucracyand making his way through, especially in the national guard. you don't come home. you're not coming home to fort bragg. you're not coming home to large bases. to which underwent not. you're coming home on your own. so you have to work to make your community a bit. i think of that as well. he was not young, eager, appreciate 18-year-old who enlisted. he had been there before and still has a lot of adjusting to do. postcode is it easy to lose the moral clarity? >> guest: was has seen a disturbing and event, the video of the marine during nation over that taliban bodies. >> host: to set the you? >> guest: and commenting a bit on it. it didn't fully surprise me. as the enemy got dirtier and more precise, yet the enemy remains invisible. they dart in and out of the population. our rules of engagement in the decade of fighting with counterinsurgency operations have become tigers, much worchester did. so if soldiers, marines can do on the ground for in terms of bringing the airstrike as much

it all starts with going to the va. e's a whole community of veterans that just want to help you out. it's for the guys who couldn't come back, you owe it to them to live well. because they're not here with their families. >>> there are a lot of reports tonight suggesting britney spears has decided to leaf the x factor after just one season to concentrate on her music. x factor judge l.a. reed will also not be returning for season three. the future of judge demi lovato remains unknown. >>> now we're going to find out what happened to gonzaga. >> i think that i have nothing because i can't top that story. well, we'll go to gonzaga basketball. protecting their home court but just barely. a crummy start by the gails. bulonick 7-footer the rebound for him. matthew delavadoba with st. maries maries -- mary's is in the thick of it. clanking here. 6.9 seconds left that would have tied it. the ninth ranked zags 15-1. broncos losing by four to lmu. dons also four point shortage versus san diego. >>> and to the clippers, they go i

i think that intervention, while worthy, and we are working on it at the state level and with the va, is still, in my view, the experimental period -- is still experimental. >> thank you. one last thing. i really thought it was really off base for the ranking member to use your willingness to come here to testify to moan about his weekly commute. [laughter] >> let me introduce a man who has already spoken for -- reintroduce him. and that is dr. reinhardt. he is the james madison professor of political economy at princeton university, and contributing writer to "the new york times" economic bloc. thank you for being with us. -- economics blog. thank you for being with us. >> i am very honored by it. i should have added that i was delivered by a midwife, and of course my mother. i once told that to a member of the american medical association. he said, it shows. i am not sure what he meant. i/written statement into three parts. -- i divided my written statement into three parts. is our medical capability efficiently used? the answer is no. the second is, what public policy levers does c

it all starts with going to the va. ere's a whole community of veterans that just want to help you out. it's for the guys who couldn't come back, you owe it to them to live well. because they're not here with their families. >>> we have new information about a sewage spill in oakland. two state agencies are investigating. as alex savage explains clean up crews were working hard to make sure workerpatients don't face a health risk. >> reporter: a foul mess inside yesterday. photos provided to ktvu shows sewage dripping from the ceiling. >> the smell was terrible. >> reporter: staff members took precautions covering up tables full of instruments. >> a little drip from the ceiling and got to be like it was raining. >> we just kicked in, to crisis mode and our staff, our sterile processing staff did everything we could do to help contain the situation. >> reporter: the hospital issued what is called a code dry, meaning no one was allowed to use tap water for several hours. dr. o'bryan told me five elective surgeries had to b

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that would be if the va took over our healthcare system because in socialism the government owns the hospitals and the employees there. we have the single payer system that's medicare, i don't think we have a fascist system. we do have a corporatist system. >> john: but to be fair to mr. mackey, is there an argument that the affordable care act because it requires people to buy a private company's product can you make the argument in some ways that is fascist? >> no, i don't think so at all. consider the real history of fascism, what happens with fascism. when mussolini came to power he dissolved parliament and replaced it the chamber of fascist corporations. instead of the equivalent of a corporation district. they would sent their representative of that district and that was fascism. you could argue that america has been creeping towards fascism because you can identify increasingly, that senator is the guy from big oil and that senator is from big banking and that senator is from the gun lobby. people have their favorite industries and vice versa. that is taking us closer to fasci

brain injury is as serious as any battlefield injury the memory loss dizziness nightmares thankfully, the vae important advancements in tbi so if you think you or a veteran you know has sustained a brain injury get screened >>> today we got our first snapshot of the sierra snowpack and what it holds for the future of our water supply. the warning that came along with those positive numbers. >> reporter: there is no doubt for the ski resorts, this winter is working out just fine so far. sierra tahoe has large crowds. and a healthy basin of snow. >> over halfway to our annual season snowfall total, which is 480 inches. >> reporter: there is a difference between what's good for the resort in terms of snow, and what's good for our water supply. >>> here the snow is 4 feet deep with about a foot of water content. >> that is almost right on its long term average. that's 110% of its historic average. >> reporter: frank calls the readings very encouraging, and promising for water supplies. >> off we go. another 50. >> reporter: last year in january, this field was devoid of snow. he warns that we've

it all starts with going to the va. a whole community of veterans that just want to help you out. it's for the guys who couldn't come back, you owe it to them to live well. because they're not here with their families. >>> an american eagle airlines pilot is on suspension tonight after failing a breathalyzer test. christianson was preparing to fly when a tsa agent reported smelling alcohol. airport police gave him a breathalyzer, they say he failed so he was arrested. >>> lance armstrong may come clean about using performance enhancing substances. armstrong has been stripped of his seven tour de france titles and barred from olympic competition. but the new york times is reporting that armstrong is considering publicly admitting to doping in the hopes that anti doping officials would allow him to resume his career. armstrong's attorney says he knows nothing about the story. >>> in news of the world tonight, in mexico authorities destroyed 7,000 fake guns in an effort to fight real crime. at least one out of every 10 crim

we are planning on doing some what the va and i want to continue to work with the military, to reallymake sure this film can have an impact. c-span: for those who like documentary filmmaking, what is the big lesson you learned in doing this particular film that will never do again? >> guest: boy, i don't know if i'm ever going to take on such a big topic like this. i think one of the biggest hurdles for us was twofold. one, health care, health care when you scratch beneath the surface is a pretty boring, wonky subject. so we really from day one high to figure out how to make it interesting. it's also such a complex topic. president since teddy roosevelt had to fix this problem. so to make it digestible for audiences come it took us three and a half years to make the film. so i think what i find personally for myself and for my next film, i want to match driven, following one person or institution and have it not say a larger truth. c-span: just a rapper, born in d.c., grew up in connecticut, went to dartmouth, did a whole project traveling across the country. the name of the island is

to the va so that when they leave the military they know where they're going. they don't just go home and sit in their house. they know i'm going to go to school or go into a job training program or they have a job lined up and maybe they're going to serve in some other way. but we need to do a better job of providing that. what happens is if that's not there they can spiral into homelessness, they can't find a job, they're unemployed, they've run out of money and it just adds up. >> congresswoman, thank you to much for your time. it is great to see you. of course you are an inspiration for many of us looking to do something, to volunteer. thanks again. congratulations. >> thank you. >> back to you. >> thanks so much, suzanne. we'll check in with you throughout the day. today the national day of service . let's talk more about the inauguration and the second term for president obama. for that i want to bring in my colleague, white house correspondent dan lothian. dan, let's talk about priorities for the president's second term but first it's an interesting litt

but the va wanted not to give in retention because they messed up and creating trouble otherwise the sheriff would not shot in. he shouldn't get a pension and he asked everybody to help at all the government agencies. nobody would help him. finally the civil rights commission sent investigators to find out what was going on that ended up giving him his pension. i met his family, and told him the story. they said they knew he was paralyzed course, but he never told them how this happened to him. and they like my goodness. it was the commission that day. so i think what i was interested in, but i'm still interested in is there has to be someway to have a voice for people where they can go somewhere and somebody will listen to what they have to say. >> host: have they been asked first us, particularly by congress for a particular president to disband the commission? >> guest: ronald reagan tried to do that. it always amazes me. you know, reagan is one of our most beloved president in the polls and everything else and people forget some of the stuff that happened. he wanted to change the