the group is suing the v.a. for turning away suicidal vets. >> the very problem that we sued v.a. over in 2007 is still happening. >> the case is now before the ninth circuit court of appeals in san francisco. sullivan says williams case is a reminder that veteran suicide is a problem that is not going to go away. >> the message to v.a. is make sure you are ready when veterans show up so that cases like william hamilton do not happen again. >> there are resources out there. a veteran suicide prevention hotline is manned 24 hours a day at 1-800-273-talk. if you have a tip for our next investigation send us an e-mail through our website abc7.com or call 1-888-40-iteam. >> a national outrage. today a mortgage scandal forced a major bank to apologize for targeting, even threatening members of the u.s. military while they were on active duty. >> reporter: it was a rare apology from one of the big banks to service members targeted. rates hiked and in some cases foreclosed globe i would like to express to the men and women serving our country chase's deepest regrets over the mistakes mad

. -- members of the v.a. hospital. this was overwhelming. it was what i brought back and what i wanted to meet with and speak with my director at meet with people to be able to convey that level of commitment and compassion and work. that is one of the key components that i took away was that type of partnership where there is leadership from the resmae segments where i was meeting with leaders from the police department and mental- health and the advocates of himself. there was that leadership, partnership, and commitment. the other aspect that was unique and different was the way in which officers operate. in addition to going through training, they volunteered to be officers which means there's something unique about them that they believed that their best to do this kind of work. there are officers to choose to be a different kind of specialist. the officers i met were -- officers and i wish they were able to communicate. because they are selected, there was a process to insure that they were the best fit. there is a maturity level, a de

i started to befriend a person who is involved in the v.a. program, the criminal justice program connected with the v.a. they found some great programs. just going out, just me, last night, at a meeting that angela put together, we already had some of the agencies that should have been talking together years ago now working together. the v.a. and public defender's office sharing cases. no one can say it better than mr. "global connection" -- than mr. cochran. his understanding is interwoven within the framework of community partnerships. we hope that is coming to san francisco. fa you very much. -- thank you very much. commissioner chan: our next speaker. >> thank you. by way of transition, i'm here from the l.a. department of health. i'm here -- glad to hear about the s.m.a.r.t. teams. i want to build on what has been mentioned here. i think resources are a big issue. i'm very gratified, the mental health association of san francisco is grad identified this initiative has come forward in a way that it -- i'm gratified this initiative has com

>>catherine: justin, new details of the scare at the v.a. hospital in palo alto. a clerk in the business office, opened a letter, said he got sick and felt something gritty when he opened the letter. the fbi is telling the va hospital that that letter has been tested, they were not able to find anything dangerous. they took the precaution of getting the man into the hospital. again there singlet could find anything in the letter. the employee in question is ok. stay with us we'll be back after the break. >>catherine: is it ok to buy all apple shares? >> a lot of people worry about the stock market's been up and down. if you diversified over the last 10 years you have the upside of small caps and big cats. with apple, you show me something if he has six weeks to live or something. this is the crazy stuff that could cause her life's savings to go down. putting all your eggs in one basket, look what fallen become scrambled eggs. >>catherine: i agree not that allison cares what i say. she's listening to you. daniel said what is your opinion on financial engines? >> to

we sl v.a winter storm watch. this you can see in sierra nevada. for this santa cruz mountains from thursday evening throughout friday evening. one inch down to a thousand feet two to four inch as above 1500. could see a half foot or more. we're also going to see the possibility of snow down to sea level. i'll be back with a look at the forecast in just a few minutes. >> thank you very much. >> in new zealandand police say the death toll from the christchurch quake is now risen to 76. 238 people remain missing in the quake. and authorities have not found trapped survivors since this rescue yesterday afternoon. but they believe there might still be pockets of survivors. in thousands of smaller buildings that have yet to be searched. >> we just want them home. yes. we just are sending our prayers to people and let's just remember that. we hope for the best fearing for the worst. >> officials evacuated a two-block area around a hotel and believe it's in danger of collapse. there is a night time curfew to keep people away from the building asks and to

so the v.a. is currently putting them up. if we take a look back here live you can see the inside where all the damage is. you can see the ceiling here is completely burned. very, very heavy extensive damage. this is a very big home. this is about 6,000 square feet i'm told. now there are fire crews still here on the scene. and they tell me that they're actually on fire watch. they are making sure that there are no more flare ups. live in east palo alto, i'm tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> well, tonight the berkeley city council once again takes on a controversial issue. ktvu channel 2 reporter in berkeley with the invitation the council may vote to extend to two guantanamo bay detainees. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, pam. it is item number 18 on the berkeley city council agenda for tonight's meeting at 7:30. it's proposed by the city's peace and justice commission. their resolution asks the city of berkeley to invite one or two guantanamo bay detainees to come live here. and the resolution specifically lis

. >> yeah, this program is often called the v.a.'s best-kept secret. and for some low income veterans it can be a life saver. veterans and their spouses can qualify for help through veterans aid and attendance. it is there for those who need assistance with self-care and have a low income. it helped archie and doris when they needed it most. here is their daughter, debbie. >> it is a huge chunk of money to offset their cost. >> willard smith heard about the program and was referred to charles ania. >> it didn't mention money for the first half of this month's long deal. >> they say they worked on securing the benefit. even bringing in an attorney to serve up an you are revokable trust. smith and his wife received the benefit. >> when i asked him how he got reimbursed he said he was certified for 250 an hour. i thought, gee, 250 an hour is pretty low fee for nothing. >> he thought ania was a volunteer for a senior group and then he got the bill. >> just over 10,000. >> apparently it was $250 an hour. >> this is financial elder abuse which has happened t

the fbi and postal service investigating suspicious letter that may have set and a clerk in the v.a.tal in palo alto, results are expected today on tests on the envelop. he became nauseous and vomiting, he went to hospital. nobody else was injured but they were evacuated for the rest of the day. the hospital is operating normally. >> darya:san francisco mortuary director cheated at least seven families by preselling funerals to the living, then spending the money and leaving nothing for his customers' burials when they died.derek washington of oakland, who ran the funerals by washington mortuary on lasalle avenue in the bayview neighborhood until it closed in january 2009, swindled his customers out of at least $30,000.prosecutors filed felony grand-theft charges tuesday against washington, 38. >> mark: we will be back as a new continues after the break. --news--we will keep an eye on weather and traffic as we track the storm pushing through the bay. ñ it's really delicious, mom. it's not too well done? nope. but it is a job well done. what are you reading, sweetie? her diary. when y

and as the crisis in libya shows no sign of abating oil prices across the world continue to spike lee v.a. is the world's twelfth largest exporter of oil with investors fearing the anti-government uprising will disrupt global supplies as stocks fall sharply more analysis of the current situation in the markets as well as the prospects for the future in our business both and in less than ten minutes time. britain's prime minister has come under fire for men to a weapons campaign hours after it emerged that he took the fans firm's representatives with him on his middle east tour u.k. manufacturers' crowd control vehicles have apparently been filmed on the streets of libya being used against protesters all over sprague from amnesty international says britain's tough arms sales laws are be abused. the vehicles that we've identified that appear to have been identified from from the youtube footage should never have been sold in the first place and it was just amnesty saying that an influential u.k. parliamentary committee was very critical of that decision back in two thousand and eight it is

don't know some contract is probably down in virginia somewhere but i think the people who are on the v.a. are a last thing after the village people if you remember that. but disco group from a while ago the things like they have a a leather pettish at the da. looked like. and also you know part of this whole. sort of collapsing state cash strapped berg in new jersey to fight you know with pickle juice yes apparently bergen new jersey cannot afford salt to salt their roads so they're turning to pickle juice the brine costs just seven cents a gallon compared to sixty three dollars a tonne for salt so bergen county has already used up three million of its four million dollars new project well things you never let me warn you never eat green snow. ok and that's going to do it for this action portion edition i have first half of the kaiser report don't go away much more coming your way they write their . world. bringing you the latest in science and technology from the realms. we've got the future covered. welcome back to the kaiser a part imax guys are time now to go to sandy jaitley of bill

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don't know some contractor is probably down in virginia somewhere but i think the people who run the v.a. are a lot of thing after the village people if you remember that. the disco group from awhile ago the thing like they have a a leather fetish at the da has looked like. and also you know part of this whole. sort of collapsing state cash strapped burg in new jersey to fight you know with pickle juice yes apparently bergen new jersey cannot afford salt to salt their roads so they're turning to pickle juice the brine cost just seven cents a gallon compared to sixty three dollars a tonne for salt so bergen county has already used up three million of its four million dollars snoop legit well things you never let me warn you never eat grains no. oh ok that's going to do it for this action portion in addition to first half of the kaiser report don't go away much more coming your way they are right there. i wish it was the same much. more the rise of in the middle east with the spectacular changes occurring in egypt what will become of the israeli egyptian peace treaty negotiations. welcome

and i just think of the v.a. health care benefits that were increased by this -- by our members of congress working on a bipartisan basis, our former colleague chet edwards, we increased health care to take care of the problems associated with the veterans coming back and needing post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, needing all kinds of help. we have thousands of veterans today who are homeless. so taking these levels back to 2006, in my judgment, would do devastation to this part of the budget. so i urge a no vote on this amendment and i reserve my time. . the chair: the gentleman serve reserves his time. the gentleman from south carolina. mr. mulvaney: this amendment does not take homeland security or v.a. to 2008 levels, only nondefense discretionary spending. mr. dicks: will the gentleman yield? the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from washington. mr. dicks: i would yield to the gentleman just to say we have a different description of your amendment. i regret there we

while the military construction and v.a. portion of this bill is not cut as much as some other parts of the continuing resolution, the cumulative effect of this c.r. is really to hurt our veterans. $74.2 billion, 2.4 billion below the fiscal year 2010, $1.8 billion below the president's request. let's end the they at tricks and get to work. this continues the heated rhetoric. if this bill is signed into law will hurt our economic recovery and hurt our veterans. according to the bureau of labor statistics, 15% of iraq and afghanistan war veterans are unemployed, far higher than the national jobless rate. if we follow through with these cuts, we will see that rate go higher as the operations in iraq and afghanistan wind down and our troops come home. as the gentleman from north carolina pointed out, cutting aid that local governments use to hire police officers. many of our local police officers are veterans and they are hired with the community with policing grants. this will be eliminated. if we cut money for firefighters, t

it forced the evacuation of an office building at the v.a. medical center in palo alto.t will remain closed until authorities complete their investigation. paramedics took an employee after he reported feeling nauseous. >> it is 5:38. i guess that storm system is -- we're getting the back edge of it now? >> yeah. with power of the purses here. >> the steadier rain continues to move away from us but if you're heading, it's still snowing quite heavily there. storms moving more west to east. that is the next push of showers. this is the more showery nature. you can see more cellar than that, it could be a brief heavier rain colorado cause flash flooding, eastern hear lightning and mountain snow to 2500 feet. you can see it showing up right there as we go through 8:00 this morning, temperatures mid to upper 40s, even bolts of lightning showing up santa rosa at that time. by noon an increase in the showers and temperatures still holding in the upper 40s. it will become breezy this afternoon and more so around some of those showers. when they rain heavily, they bring winds wit

. >>> well, still no word on what made a clerk sick at the v.a. hospital in palo alto. fire crews were called to the hospital after an employee became nauseated after opening a letter with a suspicious substance inside. other workers on the same floor were evacuated by hazmat crews as the incident was investigated. no patients were affected. >>> the next batch of winter weather we are getting starting to pack a punch. s.f.o. is reporting hour-long delays because of high winds. dark clouds are forming. another wave of rain is on the way. wind advisory in effect now for the entire bay area. look at the camera moving around. it will last until tomorrow morning. gusts reported as high as 50 miles per hour. and the powerful wind gusts have been reeking havoc on trees already. this is one that came down in berkeley. work crews pretty quick to get throughout and chop it up so traffic could begin moving again smoothly. >>> we are in the cbs5 weather center monitoring our live high- def doppler radar and now the advisories you need to know about. we will nail them down with your

suspicious letter containing what was described as a grainy substance prompted an evacuation of the v.a. hospital in palo alto. you see the chopper above the scene in the last hour. 100 people were evac grated a business office on the grounds of the hospital. a longstanding facility on foothill express way near stanford campus. an employee old the letter addressed to the hospital. inside he found a strange and greaty substance with a musty smell. the employee said he immediately felt nauseous and then he threw up. they were evacuated. no one else reported sick and the man was treated and released. the substance is being analyzed tonight. the employees who worked in the area where the letter was opened will be allowed to return to work once it is determined that it is nontoxic. >>> as promised, brace yourself for a wet and windy night for a bay area. >> here's a live look at the golden gate bridge. it is pretty. that looks like the bay bridge to me. i'm thinking the bay bridge. that i know. i've lived here my whole life, for crying out loud. let check with jeff. you said it was coming an

. >> the doctor from san francisco's v.a. medical center flew a shuttle in 1991. the shuttles represent early 1970s technology. >> like your car. if you were in your car for 30 years and you don't have parts for it, you might look for a new car. >> this will be the first humannoid crew member but just the upper torso. the goal would be to have machines repeat heavy tasks but by using human-type dexterity which would humannize it. >> gotta fix that problem. >> yep. >> the full-time liftoff of discovery. >> the real star remains discovery. when she lands she will have spent four days short of one year in space. she has traveled 143 million miles, an old-fashioned workhorse but out of this world space age accomplishments. wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >> it's 4:47 now. a new report links craigslist to crimes including murder. they say the allegations are totally bogus. >> what to do with libya and what libya has to do with you. i'm emily schmidt in washington. that's coming up. >> swearing in ceremonies usual quiet but not the case [ female announcer ] most women in am

. >> and the troubling letter that has a part of the v.a.tal in the palo alto closed and the friday investigating. >> i'm terry mcsweeney live at the bay bridge toll plaza where the worst of the storm may be gone but it left behind some standing water causing interesting pictures out here this morning. we'll tell you about the downed trees and power automatic tongues, too, after the break. >> a look at our airlines. charlotte might [ mom ] can a little bowl of cereal change your life? i think it can. one of the challenges for kayla being gluten-free is actually finding choices the whole family will love. five flavors of chex are gluten-free, including the honey nut flavor, and that's amazing to a mom like me. as a parent you dot want to have to tell your kids "no" all the time. it's nice for me to be able to say "yes" to something th they want to eat. [ male announcer ] chex cereal. five flavors. gluten free. >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >> you know, the bell's rung on wall street so the trading day is underway.

are inspected a suspicious or whether that may have sickened a clerk at the business office of the v.aiting to hear from the test results for the hospital. yesterday's accord " of the gritty, when to the e.r. as a precaution, he became nauseous, vomited. 150 other people working in a building they were evacuated no one else was sickened. >> darya: we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. as our team a coverage continues of the weather and the traffic. the rain has back up we still have clouds, traffic on the approach to the bay bridge. [ female announcer ] here are some great reasons to switch to at&t. [ spokesman ] we make it easy for you to compare at&t to cable. so what's the difference? at&t's just a better bundle. see for yourself. [ female announcer ] call to get u-verse tv and internet plus choose home phone or wireless voice service starting at $99 a month. and get a 30-day money-back guarantee -- plus dvr. with u-verse tv, you can record up to four shows at once from any room on a single dvr... and play them back... on any

they are all safe but homeless and the v.a. is currently putting them up. there are firefighters here on scene right now. they are on fire watch. and they will be making sure there are no more flare ups here. live in east palo alto, tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> time now 6:06. an effort to clean up sidewalks starts today in san francisco's bay view hunters point. the city says illegal dumping on the streets is a major problem in the area. a team of city workers are going door to door. they'll do that this afternoon, telling business owners and residents it's against the law to dump couches, mattresses and construction materials on the sidewalk. that illegal dumping actually costs taxpayers millions of dollars to clean up. >>> a critical hearing is set for tomorrow in oakland's controversial plan to crack down on violent street gangs. a judge will begin hearing evidence on the plan to impose restrictions on dozens of suspected gang members in the city's fruit vale neighborhood. the city attorney says the existing injunction in the northern part of

salla did a year's tour in iraq, and is now being treated with virtual reality therapy at the manhattan v.ae of over 40 centers around the country piloting the program. >> that kind of pushed my stress level, recently, just with that last one, to six. >> rushkoff: it's still in clinical trials, but early results are encouraging. >> under certain circumstances, their whole posture will change. they're leaning forward and they've got that gun, and you can see something's happening to them emotionally at that point. >> that person on the bridge who's firing, we're firing back at them. and ambush fire came around, and we... we basically continued through it. >> anxiety rating? >> it's a five. >> over time, their brain is able to say, okay, this is uncomfortable, this is unpleasant, but it's not a life-threatening situation. i can tone down the level of anxiety and stress. anxiety rating? >> it's good. one. >> good work today, jerry. >> dretzin: the military relies on digital technology in nearly every phase of its operations, from recruitment to training to actual fighting. ( gunfire ) >> die!

they attempted to contact the v.a. but were told they do not start transfers this late in the day. >> if that isn't that kind of need of care 24-7 we've got to get it to them. >> this veterans right advocate says that not acceptable. >> the idea after 4:20 in the afternoon you will not accept transfers of soldiers who have been deployed repeatedly? it's absurd. it's absurd. >> staff attempted to admit in three hospitals and found him a bed in david grant medical center at travis air force base. his parents say they asked the hospital to extend his stay to two weeks as the palo alto v.a.had done four times before. but the hospital discharged him after just three days. >> the last time i saw him. >> that night william stepped in front of a train. the coroner's report says he died instantly. >> he was hit by the train. officials and the palo alto v.a.refused to talk to us. diane says the man in charge at david grant called her after the death. >> i don't know if you know this, he said but your son tried to commit suicide

it is confusing to look at the v.a. budget. this is the first year that this has been necessary, we have shored up the funding so that v.a. is the money it needs, not to continue benefits, but it include benefits -- reforms. >> i have to state get back to you, because this weekend i did not have time to look at each of this this the proposals that was on the table. >> thanks. the president talked during the state of the union that this was a sputnik moment, and beyond the $148 billion, if you had to add up everything that you think is budget spending, if the republicans do not get it, what is your recourse? >> i cannot give you a number. that amount is certainly the core of it. education is part of it as well. i just came from a school in maryland where the president announced the release of this budget, and it was exciting to look at hundreds of students whose favorite subject is science, math, engineering. they're getting the ending education they need to get the jobs of the pitcher can be able to build the economy of the fut

the patients weren't seeing a civilian doctor in another state or in kentucky and then going to the v.a. to get a double or triple doseage of the same pain medications like coxy codone and getting it on the streets or using it to some degree trfment the doctors said i want to make sure they obtain the best health care. however, i spoke with the head of the national drug policy at the white house personally about this and he said his hands were tied and he's looking into that. finally, i'll give an example -- all this impacts jobs ultimately. finally, i'll give a context of a small business owner who gets trapped in this before fully closing. we have lots of great innovative small business owners who go out and see an opportunity and take a risk, usually with their life savings which wasn't much. we only had a few thousand dollars that started our business that became successful and i supported a number of families for many years before i came to congress. my friend nick bell who started braxton's cleaners was an entrepreneur who wanted to take a chance and build a dream with that. his c

[laughter] from a technical university in mull dove v.a., right?but they might know beijing university. so often what we, what happens is that there is, there is an ad hoc evaluation that is happening just based on the knowledge that they already have without a proper system that would quantify and properly evaluate the credentials that were born, that were earned abroad and that would transfer them properly in the, properly in the education systems in the united states. >> very briefly. >> okay. well, some of what i said before was relevant, but i'll say also some people who are in favor of admitting very highly-educated immigrants to the u.s. say somewhat cynically that it can't be bad for the u.s. to have some foreign country pay for the education and have the u.s. reap the reward. but there is actually a cost to this apparent free gift which is that the older a person is when they arrive in the u.s., the lower their wage is. again, not so much for the innovative size, but for the overall positivity and wage, it has a big impact. the more a pers

furthermore, in light of recent judicial decisions in v.a. and florida -- in virginia and florida it appears the law may not be upheld in the courts. i applaud the judges that congress does not have the authority to force americans to either purchase health insurance or pay a penalty for not doing so. that provision of law obviously is ultimately going to be decided by the united states supreme court. i plan to vote on repealing this law and working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to start the process over and to make sure that next time we do it in the open and not behind closed doors, and that we get it right. with that, mr. president, i would yield the floor and suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from arkansas is recognized. a senator: mr. president, are we in a quorum call right now? the presiding officer: we are. mr. pryor: i would ask that be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. m

[laughter] from a technical university in mull dove v.a., right? but they might know beijing university. so often what we, what happens is that there is, there is an ad hoc evaluation that is happening just based on the knowledge that they already have without a proper system that would quantify and properly evaluate the credentials that were born, that were earned abroad and that would transfer them properly in the, properly in the education systems in the united states. >> very briefly. >> okay. well, some of what i said before was relevant, but i'll say also some people who are in favor of admitting very highly-educated immigrants to the u.s. say somewhat cynically that it can't be bad for the u.s. to have some foreign country pay for the education and have the u.s. reap the reward. but there is actually a cost to this apparent free gift which is that the older a person is when they arrive in the u.s., the lower their wage is. again, not so much for the innovative size, but for the overall positivity and wage, it has a big impact. the more a per