the hotel. this is a great collaboration between the city and va. they work very closely together to take this stanford hotel that had a really bad reputation. they have renovated it and opening it up for 125 veterans. in august approximately 100 volunteers combed the city looking for homeless veterans looking in the streets, shelters, transitional housing programs and they took with them what's called a vi -- vulnerability index service planning and assistance tool, a tool to assess vulnerability in any population, but we used it with veterans, we questioned them on mental health, age, incarceration, homelessness. over 200 veterans were assessed during this effort and to date over 600 have been assessed. this is a huge chunk of that 716. 125 of these veterans are going to be moving into kearney street, 250 kearney street facility. the va and city got together and collaborated to make this happen. so once it's full, we will be managing some of the work there will be providing the 24/7 coverage where we have monitors to make sure everybody is safe. th

the va and city got together and collaborated to make this happen. so once it's full, we will be managing some of the work there will be providing the 24/7 coverage where we have monitors to make sure everybody is safe. this is a really great thing and we are very appreciative of the people that have come together to make this work. i know i'm running out of time. i just want to close by saying that i think the collaboration is critical and that this is going to take everyone working together as partners. everyone has to work together, agencies, hud, the city, the va, it is going to take like hilary clinton said, "it's going to take a village" to get through this. i would like to quote -- "we need the vision of inter being, we belong together. we could not cut reality into pieces. the well being of this, is the well being of that. we have to do things together. veterans have experienced that make them the light at the tip of the candle and the war and the way to peace" in healing the wounds of war, we are ultimately healing ourselves. thank you so muc

the va medical record that iran to san diego and got. it is the state department in tijuana that flew in the doctor from the u.s. embassy in mexico city. dr. regal did a full evaluation that day. i witnessed it. i received the report from the state department approximately may 1, with the diagnosis of ptsd. it was translated and supposedly given to the judge, but it was never used, as it was never entered into court as evidence to substantiate ptsd. i don't know if it was not considered legitimate, a u.s. source. that is why, just two days ago, six months into this ordeal, a mexican psychiatrist has come into validate combat related ptsd, which i find ironic, because they do not send their military to combat. the mexican psychiatrists are considered legitimate but not dr. regal, who did a full evaluation from our u.s. embassy in mexico city on april 14. but those documentations have not seem to be effective or considered important. >> thank you. lieutenant commander williams, you mentioned in your testimony that him being imprisoned for six months is extremely counterproductive to his ptsd. could you elaborate on that a little bit? >>

the va medical record that iran to san diego and got. it is the state department in tijuana that flew in the doctor from the u.s. embassy in mexico city. dr. regal did a full evaluation that day. i witnessed it. i received the report from the state department approximately may 1, with the diagnosis of ptsd. it was translated and supposedly given to the judge, but it was never used, as it was never entered into court as evidence to substantiate ptsd. i don't know if it was not considered legitimate, a u.s. source. that is why, just two days ago, six months into this ordeal, a mexican psychiatrist has come into validate combat related ptsd, which i find ironic, because they do not send their military to combat. the mexican psychiatrists are considered legitimate but not dr. regal, who did a full evaluation from our u.s. embassy in mexico city on april 14. but those documentations have not seem to be effective or considered important. >> thank you. lieutenant commander williams, you mentioned in your testimony that him being imprisoned for six months is extremely counterproductive to his ptsd. could you elaborate on that a little bit? >>

and that is what we are seeing in frederick right now. the temperature is 41 degrees, but we are pretty cloudy in the city with pictures from fairfax, va, not looking nearly as nice in fairfax. here in bc we have mostly cloudy conditions, 45 degrees. even the areas to the south and west are getting some struggles right now. kind of a variety across the region, temperatures are near the same across the region. they will not move a lot for the rest of the day. if you take a look at the satellite radar, tracking south of interstate 61 across highway 50, that will be the area most likely to get a few sprinkles through the afternoon. the rain overnight, even yesterday afternoon, has not amounted to much. the chances of rain are going to be diminishing into the afternoon hours as low pressure tracks down to the south. high-pressure is trying to build in and mash this out of here overall. there is potential for a last hurrah overnight and into tomorrow morning, with a small chance that we could get a wintry mix south and west of d.c. early tomorrow morning, but i do not think it will be enough to cause problems on the roadways. and it will be shor

and sam adams. crews worked for hours to remove the vas fro box and they hope to open it next week. that's our time for this new hours. i'm tony harris from new york city. if you would like the latest on any of the stories from this news hour go to our website at www.aljazeera.com. "inside story" with ray suarez is next. . >> hey, they passed that big spending bill. thanksgiving allows the government to stay open, yay, right? but if it's such good news why do so many people in the house and senate seem so unhappy. it's inside story. >> hello, i'm ray suarez. these most

va record. department in tthat flew in a doctor from the u. s. embassy in mexico city. he did a full evaluation, and i received the report, with a diagnosis of ptsd. it was translated, and to the judge.ve it was never used -- never court as evidence. not considered -- i do not know if it wasn't considered legitimate. ago, six months into this ordeal, and mexican coming to st is validate combat related ptsd. that ironic -- the mexican psychiatrist is legitimate, but not the doctor u. s. embassy. >> thank you. lieutenant cmdr. williams, you your testimony that him being in prison for months is extremely counterproductive to his ptsd. elaborate on that? i was afforded an opportunity to speak with andrew three days ago. this is my first time speaking with them. i've tried to keep this off of montel, and onto andrew. we spoke for a few minutes in him, this i said to is an ignorant question, but as marine to marine, how are you doing? he paused and said, i have a hard time keeping the bad thoughts out. this was two days ago. this is a key statement from someone suffering right now. he was sending that mes

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and together, we put veterans first. search va careers to find out how. >>> residents of wichita, kansas, could be in for a tough commute this morning, a repeat of last evening's rush hour. the city an inch or two of snow, freezing rain, fog too. and the snow and icy rain will continue before it clears up. >> that makes driving slippery in much of kansas and missouri today. roads will be slippery along lake erie and northern new england. wet in parts of texas and louisiana. southern arizona and new mexico. and later today, the east coast. >>> and flight delays possible in houston and kansas city. >>> and more trouble for ray mcdonald who is no longer a member of the san francisco 49ers. he was let go by the team yesterday because he's the subject of a sexual assault investigation. >> san jose police are investigating after a woman claims she was possibly assaulted at his home. he was never charge when his pregnant fiancee accused him of sexual abuse. >>> and stephen collins said he did have inappropriate sexual contact with three girls over a 20 year period. but not in the past 20 year s. his then-wife secretly recorded the session during a marriage therapy session and made the r

city in mourning, sydney remembers victims of the attack. >>> military in addiction, how the va is trying to avoid drug overdose. >>> should companies be forced to reveal a pay gap between men and women? coming up after "consider this." >> sony pictures hacking scandal has been a nightmare for the studio and some of the show business's most famous names. this after countless leaked e-mails, salaries of stars and executives, leaked e-mail addresses, even racially charged e-mails about president obama. now the studio is fighting back, threatening news outlets if they keep reporting on the stolen material. eric garner joins us in the studio. famous lawyer david boyce is threatening the new york times, the journal and your employer. holding you responsible for any damages these elaboratio leaks e caused. is it a desperate attempt? >> to get into the heads of journalists, to give them pause before they reveal maybe the more sensitive secrets, not just the gossipy kinds of e-mails that slam stars by studio heads. there's a lot more interesting stuff that you find in the files that could be coming out soon. i think it's their attempt to get ahead of that. >> there is real fear they ma

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