must show good cause to make the change. the court previously had entered a standard not guilty plea on holmes behalf. colorado criminal defense attorney dan racht believes the new plea will likely be accepted, though, at the end of the day and once that happens he says holmes will undergo an evaluation by a state psychiatrist, which could be problematic for the defense since the state is prosecuting him. if convicted holmes faces the death penalty. it has been 642 days since the united states lost its top credit rating. what are we doing to get it back? well, today for the first time in nearly three years a monthly survey shows the majority of americans believe home prices will rise over the next year. that s half the battle. although, well, we ll see if it really comes true. home sales, though, are up 10% from a year ago. and now back to our top story tonight. the fbi searched the cleveland home where three women who were missing for years were discovered yesterday. a cadaver dog
being allowed to claim illnesses caused by agent orange. this is a paperwork problem. you know, they have so much paperwork ha they just simply can t put it through. as you mentioned, the documents that we obtained, showed that even though they had spent half a billion dollars trying to computer eyes this thing over the last four years, 97% of these claims are still on paper. there s a complete dysfunction at, there s a bad management at most of their regional offices and at the end of the day, what this meant is if you come home from iraq or afghanistan and file your first claim in new york city, you re going to be wait withing an average of 642 days for your benefits. so you got blown up by an ied in iraq or afghanistan and now you re trying to get a new life together in new york. you lost your job, your job was being a soldier. you got a monthly paycheck for
segment happens to reflect directly the level of the importance of the topic we discussed with those vets. the group of veterans you met on the show last week are among the many veterans and their families demanding a solution from president obama himself if necessary, to fixing the frustrating backlog of claims at the veterans administration. the annual amount of time for claims to be processed is nine months. for some vets, try 642 days, try 1,099 days. tonight, i am claesed to announce finally somebody from the v.a. has agreed to talk about this. v.a. assistant secretary tommy sauers joins to us talk about how his department plans to fix this mess. [ male announcer ] when you re at the corner of multivitamin
more than ever, the real costs of the war. not just in dollars, but in lives and in injuries and in things like ptsd, which we ll quite frankly be dealing with for a lifetime. rachel i want to talk about the veterans angle on this and we speak about the cost of war. we often forget about those still living if you re look at what s happening to veterans, there are 600,000 of veterans who have backlog claims waiting for benefits. the average waiting time is 273 days. if you re in a big city in a veteran, it s 642 days in new york. you ve written in your book, in drift you talk about how the whole country doesn t fight wars any more. we don t pay war taxes and the battle is effectively outsourced to a very small group of americans who are willing to go over. how do we change that? sort of reinstituting a draft, what do we need to do to treat our veterans bet centre these concerns should be first and foremost when we talk about the costs of war and what it means
much better deal than you would if you were an actual legal citizen. brian: ucla worked out something where they ll announce, offer illegal alien, people here without any i.d., an opportunity to get an education. about a third of the price of people that actually belong here. for example, if you take an 18 credits and illegal and qualify for this program, it will cost you $2,400. if you made the foolish mistake of becoming a resident and belong here, then you ll get punished and be paying $6,642. steve: that s crazy. ucla teamed up with the national labor college which is the academic arm of organized labor and they ve created this dream university. what is it? here is how it s defined. national labor college designed to offer immigrant youth and young student leaders the opportunity to access higher education through an on-line learning program. you know, you see great program?