shepard: just about eight minutes before the hour now. a few seconds away and we are style there s some degree of concern what is happening in yemen. americans have been told evacuate from the country. there are indications of a specific terror plot according to authorities, and indications that americans don t need to be there. so, what do we have here? captain glen is with us, a law professor at the u.s. coast guard academy and a homeland and national security law fellow at the center for national policy in d.c. great to have you. anytime we have a warning go up and they evacuate a country of americans, usually that s a time when everything will be fine it s later we need to worry. i think this is a great step on behalf of the government protecting u.s. citizens around the world and here at home. you can see this is kind of a perfect storm of intelligence
for merely mountainous to astronomical. the number of veterans waiting more than a year for benefit, 11,000. but as of december, it was 245,000. joining me live in san francisco is the reporter who brought the facts to light, the center for investigative reporting. also at the table, patrick murphy, the first iraq veteran to serve in the u.s. congress and kayla williams, fellow with the truman national security project and center for national policy. also, the author of love my rifle more than you. young and female in the u.s. army. i want to start with you, aaron. since your reporting largely brought the issue back to light of the reporting. what is the central problem facing the va? the central problem is that they re not able to deal with this flood of iraq and afghanistan veterans coming home at the same time that a lot of vietnam veterans are finally
water. if another low-lying neighborhoods now under mandatory evacuation orders, mayor bloomberg tonight saying the city transportation system will shut down at noon tomorrow. all five local airports in danger of flooding. they re being closed arriving flights starting at noon. now this is what they re concerned about. pictures here of irene hitting the bahamas. new yorkers are used to seeing this on tv, not up close, though. but they might see a version of it in about 36 hours from now. all day today irene was making its way north. and as it did. emergency plans started kicking. in warnings went up. people boarded up, stocked up and either hunkered down or took off. in a moment we ll check in with anderson and our entire team on irene. first chad myers and that late bulletin from the national hurricane center. chad what s the latest? not much change in the forecast and not much change in the track, isha. we re still at 100 miles per hour. we re still forecast to get slight
troubling new assessment. they are expecting the storm surge from irene to flood the area which includes the ground zero construction site with anywhere from 6 to 12 feet of water. it and other low-lying neighborhood on a mandatory evacuation order. mayor bloomberg saying the city transit system will shut down at noon tomorrow. all five local airports also in danger of flooding. they are being closed right starting at noon care this is what they are concerned about. pictures here of irene hitting the bahamas, new yorkers i used to seeing this on tv, but up close. they might see a version of that and about 36 hours from now. all day today irene was making its way north. and as it did. emergency plans started kicking. in warnings went up. people boarded up, stocked up and either hunkered down or took off. in a moment we ll check in with anderson and our entire team on irene. first chad myers and that late bulletin from the national hurricane center. chad what s the latest? no
anybody walking around through the streets. there will are areas where there won t be much wind at all but areas where the wind is twice as strong because it s being funneled through the building. just because it s the best case does not mean we will be void of issues here. we got issues in maryland, jersey shore, all the way up through mungnew england. it s going to be a big deal that wou could be actually washing over jim in the days ahead. new york isn t the only northeast city prepping for irene. an unprecedented event. new york has seen five hurricanes wth with 75 mimes since 1851. how tr present themselves and their families in a major hurricane and whether the city is adequately repaired. our specialist, a disaster expert and former coast guard, center for national policy. welcome, dr. flinn.