To receive Mental Health care at a Outpatient Clinic in pennsylvania. He was told he would be unable to get an appointment for six months. When that employee left another va employee lean in to tell the veteran that if he told her he was thinking of killing himself she would be able to get him appointment much sooner in three months instead of six. Luckily that veteran wasnt considering suicide. But what about those veterans who are . How many of the tens of thousands veterans that va admitted have been left on waiting list for weeks, months and even year for care were seeking Mental Health care appointments . House education and Workforce Committee are suicidal or edgeing toward suicide as a result of not getting the care they earned . Despite the increase in budget, program and staff the suicide rate among veterans has remained more or less stable since 1999 with approximately 22 veterans committing suicide every day. The most recent data has shown over the last three years rates of
Invasion robbery that ended with gun fair. Happened at home on can i remember lane. The woman exchanged gunfire with the suspect hitting 2 of them. They sped away. Police caught up with the men and had to use tear gas to get them out of the truck. Neighbors said the whole thing caught them by surprise. I heard bang bang bang and i thought somebody was shooting fire crackers. You know. Scary. Definitely scary. 2 little kids. One suspect 22yearold martinez died from his injuries martinez died from his injuries. Second man critically injured 2 people open the home on drug charges. Animal control officers whoever threw 2 dog out of the car last week in watsonville. 6 week old puppy died of head trauma. The mother pictured here survived. Investigators believe she chewed her way out of a sand bag that was tossed from the car and then tried to revive the puppy. Officials are reminding everyone that if you have an animal you cant keep you can drop it off at local shelter at no charge. South ba
Obama is waking up in San Francisco this morning. Later he will lead a summit on Cyber Security at stanford. Dozens of ceos will take part. Privacy experts and Law Enforcement officials will also join in. They work on ways the government and private sector can Work Together to prevent cyber attacks. The president is going to be speaking with, um, a large number of ceos, um, of major american corporations who i believe are going to commit themselves to taking specific concrete action to improve the Cyber Security postures of their individual organizations. Today the president will sign an executive order to improve information sharing with Law Enforcement. This follows recent hacking attacks on several major companies. Several prominent figures in the Technology Field will not be taking part in todays conference. They include facebooks mark zuckerberg, yahoos Marissa Mayer and googles larry page. The snub reportedly is linked to the pressure from the government against those companies t
Sony pictures hacked. Massive breach compromise personal data of executives and employee. The government blamed north korea which depended being behind the hack. Another large scale cyberattack on Anthem Health insurer which affected millions of customers information including Social Security numbers. Before that the victim was retailer target. L 40 million customer records were stolen. Is. President obama says enough is enough. Heighten the country response to cyberattack. Earlier this week the president announced the creation of a new Government Center for cybersecurity to coordinate Threat Intelligence gathered from the fbi and other federal agency. Tomorrow mr. Obama will sign an executive order directing the government and the private sector to share more information about cybersecurity threats. Ray roth ceo of a Security Firm is at the president summit tomorrow. He says its a good defense against the breach. Best way to defeat is to share information as quickly as possible so tha
We begin tonight with records on wall street. Lots of them. And the woman who made them happen. Blue chip dow index, the s p 500, the small cap russell 2000 make new highs today. The nasdaq has its third highest close ever and it was all because of one person. The Federal Reserve chair janet yellin. In testimony today on capitol hill yellin didnt say too much about future rate hikes but didnt say too little. The markets interpreted as what she did say just enough to keep the door open for a later than mid Year Interest Rate ride. She made it clear the central bank will consider rate hikes on a meeting by meeting basis but she made no promises. With that the Dow Jones Industrial average closed in record territory with a gain of 92 points and 18,209. Nasdaq rose 7 points tenth straight gain there. Its strongest win streak since july 2009 and s p 500 up nearly 6. Yellins comments sent the yield on the tenyear bond back below 2 . Steve liesman with more on todays testimony. Reporter in tes