Theft and sale of drugs by agency workers. The House Veterans Affairs Committee Held this hearing late last month. Good afternoon. This hearing will come to order. I want to welcome everyone who has joined us today. Today we will address the lack of oversight in internal controls regarding controlled substances within the Veterans Health administration that leave facilities open to Drug Diversion and veteran harm. The diversion of drugs from v. A. Health care facilities is an incredible Patient Safety issue that puts veterans, v. A. Employees and the public at tremendous risk. Unfortunately the news has recently been filled with story after story of Drug Diversions within v. A. In little rock, arkansas, v. A. Pharmacy technician reportedly used his access to medical supplies, websites to order and divert 4,000 oxycodone pills over 3,000 hydrocodone pills and more than 14,000 viagra and cialis pills at the cost of the v. A. Of more than 70,000. This technician was allegedly selling thes
With a d. What are your infrastructure priorities . We have regional lines today, in the eastern and central time zones call 2027488000. Those in the mountain and pacific time zones call 2027488001. You can also reach us on social media on twitter at cspanwj. And on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Lets look at what the Washington Post said about this new report on the nations infrastructure. According to engineers, 1 trillion for infrastructure is not close to enough. It says the president promises to pop 1 trillion into improving the countrys crumbling infrastructure but a benchmark report says it will take almost 4. 6 trillion over the next eight years to bring the systems up to an acceptable standard. According to the assessment released thursday by the American Society of civil engineers, it gave u. S. Infrastructure and overall grade of d plus, the same great it got in 2013, suggesting only incremental progress was made over the last four years. Body president is onto something f
Experience and she survived. Reporter Sergeant Young departed from Penn Presbyterian Medical Center just four days after being ambush by suspect gunman Nicholas Glenn who began a friday evening rampage by firing 18 shots at the youngs police cruiser. Im hit. Im at hack mack at 51st street. Reporter commissioner richard ross say many shot hit youngs protect testify vet and her weapon if you still she was struck too and says physical, psychological recovery will take time. I just had my ninth surgery done. I truly want to go back to the job. It is something i want to do. Reporter officer Jesse Hartnett understands Sergeant Youngs experience because in january he lived it, am burn, shot numerous times and like young, survives. Turn tv own and see Something Like this going on again it is real traumatic. Reporter fridays violent tear injured five in total and killed an innocent bystander. Another officer eddie miller was spot by suspected gunman during the shootout that left the suspect dea
The good news is that these storms are not sitting around for an hour, theyre moving through quickly. We have some light spotty rain, except for this one area i have been talking about, with heavy rain and thunderstorms approaching maryland and approaching the delaware area, thats where were going to see precip rates going up even higher right around two to 2 1 2 inches potentially. With a closer look at the timing tonight into tomorrow morning. Glenn hurricane schwartz is standing by. We have some computer models that have been following that area in virginia and maryland very accurately up to this point. And if you can track it for the first couple of hours accurately, you have to assume thats going to continue to be pretty good. Now this is at 6 30, as we go through the afternoon, and into the evening hours, and that is going to allow this area to move up to the northeast, theres 6 30, dinner time, just getting up through dover, look at some of the heavier rain coming up through the