Battlefield injuries are survivable, but it has left the system overtaxed and overburdened. Since 2001. Only 40 of veterans receive their full benefits entitled to at the v. A. With unemployment at its highest, marital discord, threatening social support, and other problems to read it and undetected, they are looking towards social Services Agencies like the red cross in providing help. So the Red Cross Services to the Armed Forces Provide services at every stage of a Service Members military life four, during, and after, so if we look military,vices after it consists of providing veterans with veterans claims for benefits as a vso as well to those who seek to appeal, and that is mostly through our andless outreach project case coordination. We have volunteers at v. A. Reintegration still building courses in the form of reconnection workshops. So our veteran claims have common characteristics. Support who to peer have been trained for the Veterans Service officers, and the red cross re
Assistance for rent, utilityities, and deposits. Assistance with lan lord landlord tenant issues and application and appeals process. They provide education, employment, and job search. Transportation assistance. Financial literacy and budgeting, and physical and Mental Health care refers federals. Referrals. Our West Virginia benefit Assistance Program began as a pilot serving 25 veterans. They provide outreach to veterans in the Community Using a peer model. These volunteer vets are certified as veteran Service Officers. They develop a trust realings relationship and educate veterans about what benefits they have to assist them. The program was so successful they tripled their funding base and expanded their services with the projection of serving four times the veterans they serve now. The veteran appeals support project is one area or one program that they are providing services to. The other is the veterans employment support project. And that is using mobile Technology Kits to v.
We start with the president who has just wrapped up an important speech in minneapolis on the urgent need to address gun violence across the country. And its important because it was his first gun policy speech delivered to americans from outside of the echo chamber of washington, d. C. In attendance for his remarks and round table discussion were local Law Enforcement and elect ed officials as well as the lone survivor to a shooting in the area. And his message was simple. Voters must tell their members of congress that they do not believe the nras deception on gun safety and their ridiculous suggestion that the president is coming to take your guns. Tell them theres no legislation to eliminate all guns. Theres no legislation being proposed to subvert the Second Amendment. Tell them specifically what were talking about. His speech echoed a super bowl commercial that pointed out the rank hypocrisy of men like the nras Wayne Lapierre who at one time was a vocal supporter of background c
We have multiple stabbings inside and out of the school. Charged as an adult in the attack a good student who is not a loaner and interacts well with others. Police say the sophomore dressed in black and armed with two kitchen knives both as long as 10 inches slashed 21 students as a School Security guard. It all happened in the signs ring. He had a blank expression on his face as he ran through hallways and classrooms choose can victims at random. Many students still at their lockers as they were attacked. My friend got cut across the face. There was blood every where. I just ran. I didnt know what else to do. He was he was ending the stag spree king confronted him and eventually tackled him with the help of a Security Guard and another student. Mr. King immobileized him, pinned him down and i jumped on top of him as well and held down his wrist keeping the knives stationary. A fire alarm believed to have been pulled by a student. Other students stayed by classmates styles using paper
Weapons. So far we have recovered 13 weapons. Out of those 13 weapons we currently have in custody, 6 were recovered at the school. 7 were recovered at the shooters residence. All 14 have been traced to a federal firearms dealer. They are all at different stages currently in the tracing process. We have full coverage for you at this hour now as we move you live to the Community College. Anna is in roseburg. I have Deborah Feyerick with me as well. So we will get to the victims and the survivors, of course, and the stories of heroism in a moment. Let me turn to you and ask, we are now learning a little bit as far as what happened yesterday in this shooter keeping one of these could be victims alive basically saying, you need to deliver this box. Thats exactly right. One of the victims, a young girl was speaking to her father before she entered surgery. She told him a number of things including he was the one who said that he was targeting the people in the room were christians. Another