We begin with the mystery of Malaysian Airlines flight 370. The authorities are now convinced that the yet is not in the section of the indian ocean where the pings were detected last month. The exhaustive search off of the coast of australia turns up nothing, and after the search is over, an already tough job is about to get tougher. For the past months, the search for 370 has been off of the coast of australia. In early april, search crews heard sonic pins they believed might be coming from the black box data recorders, and then a u. S. Navy sonar recorder, blue fin one, was sent 7 how meters down to try to pinpoint the sounds. At the time, the searchers were confident they were looking in the right place, but now a setback. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has now advised that the search in the vicinity can be considered complete. And in his professional judgment, the area can now be discounted as the final resting place for flight 37 0. Which means that officials must now wid
It is clear the v. A. Has ill serve our veterans for some time, and that poor treatment became more tragic lately. Accountability for this starts a t the very top. He and other v. A. Leaders have been facing tough questions about allegation of treatment delays and the cover up by v. A. Staff members. Lisa stark joins us now, walk us through the report that seems to be confirming a lot of those original allegations in. Tony, it is a very troubling report, it was issued by the Inspector General of the veterans administration, it is just the preliminary report, but the Inspector General found, in fact, systemic delays in treatment for veterans, and at the phoenix hospital, which has been the center of this, in fact, 1700 veterans who needed care, were not even on the official waiting list after they had asked for appointments. Now, sha shinski has said today, he wants the department to modally reach out to these veterans. He also said we at the department of veterans apairs are redoubling
Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. Many youths make their way to the bay area. Today president obama met with the president s of guatemala, honduras and el salvador to talk about a humanitarian crisis. Since october, nearly 60,000 miners from that region have entered the u. S. Some were seeking refuge from violence and poverty. Scott shafer spoke with state Senate Darrell steinberg and justrg returned this week. Senator steinberg, good to have you with us, welcome. Good to be with you, scott. You spent nine days with colleagues. What did you learn that you didnt already know . I think i learned a great deal, but mostly reenforced what i already believed which is that there are really two issues here. One is how do we help the kids who have made this paraous journey who are seeking asylum because of gangs and risk of violence, how do we make sure we protect the children . Thats one. Number two, the trip reinforced my belief that the longterm solution to this crisis i
Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. Many youths make their way to the bay area. Today president obama met with the president s of guatemala, honduras and el salvador to talk about a humanitarian crisis. Since october, nearly 60,000 miners from that region have entered the u. S. Some were seeking refuge from violence and poverty. Scott shafer spoke with state Senate Darrell steinberg and just returned this week. Senator steinberg, good to have you with us, welcome. Good to be with you, scott. You spent nine days with colleagues. What did you learn that you didnt already know . I think i learned a great deal, but mostly reenforced what i already believed which is that there are really two issues here. One is how do we help the kids who have made this paraous journey who are seeking asylum because of gangs and risk of violence, how do we make sure we protect the children . Thats one. Number two, the trip reinforced my belief that the longterm solution to this crisis is
Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. Many youths make their way to the bay area. Today president obama met with the president s of guatemala, honduras and el salvador to talk about a humanitarian crisis. Since october, nearly 60,000 miners from that region have entered the u. S. Some were seeking refuge from violence and poverty. Scott shafer spoke with state Senate Darrell steinberg and just returned this week. Senator steinberg, good to have you with us, welcome. Good to be with you, scott. You spent nine days with colleagues. What did you learn that you didnt already know . I think i learned a great deal, but mostly reenforced what i already believed which is that there are really two issues here. One is how do we help the kids who have made this paraous journey who are seeking asylum because of gangs and risk of violence, how do we make sure we protect the children . Thats one. Number two, the trip reinforced my belief that the longterm solution to this crisis is