Hospital officials hid those long delays on secret wait lists. The Administration Says thousands of doctors and nurses nurses have now been hired nationwide and those wait times are improving. But the president , who vowed nearly a year ago to fix the v. A. Acknowledged there is still a lot more to do. Heres Wyatt Andrews. Reporter brierk an iraq war veteran, said two months from now he will finally get to see a v. A. Surgeon in phoenix for a blood clot condition in his legs. You can get appointments now but it takes forever it never ends. The questions are never answered. Reporter almost a year after the secret wait lists were revealed the president came to phoenix, report card in hand. 4,000 veterans have been cakd for appointments, including everyone on those secret lists. 30,000 appointments have been arranged outside the v. A. And 94 of all appointments are made within the goal of 30 days. We brought in a new team that has been tackling these issues to make sure that wait times fo
Hospital officials hid those long delays on secret wait lists. The Administration Says thousands of doctors and nurses nurses have now been hired nationwide and those wait times are improving. But the president , who vowed nearly a year ago to fix the v. A. Acknowledged there is still a lot more to do. Heres Wyatt Andrews. Reporter brierk an iraq war veteran, said two months from now he will finally get to see a v. A. Surgeon in phoenix for a blood clot condition in his legs. You can get appointments now but it takes forever it never ends. The questions are never answered. Reporter almost a year after the secret wait lists were revealed the president came to phoenix, report card in hand. 4,000 veterans have been cakd for appointments, including everyone on those secret lists. 30,000 appointments have been arranged outside the v. A. And 94 of all appointments are made within the goal of 30 days. We brought in a new team that has been tackling these issues to make sure that wait times fo
Israelis have been told today to prepare for a Long Campaign against hamas in gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comments came hours after children were killed in a hospital and at a nearby park. United nations secretarygeneral ban kimoon made an appeal. Nick schifrin is live in gaza city. Given the Prime Ministers comments are you seeing any kind of an escalation in the Israeli Offensive . We are hearing and being told about an escalation, toinl. First otony. Those lights behind me are israel. Everything else between here and there is gaza. Its in a blackout, you hear drones, pounding, boom boom boom, artillery, tank strikes or f16 strikes. That is consistently been the place where a lot of rockets are launched. From here into israel and therefore, a lot of strikes are in that neighborhood. What we heard from Prime Minister netanyahu is a warning basically for his own people, for israel to be prepared and to be patient for while the Israeli Military continues his attacks
Enough to write a vast symphonic work, to inspire a magnificent novel and bring down a great emperor. On this day of battle more russians died than were killed or would die of illness in the whole of the war of 1812 on all sides. This really was a titanic clash of two emporers and two vast armies numbering close on 200,000 men each. The war of 1812 would not be fought by armies of 200,000 men. In fact, it wouldnt be fought by 200,000 men all told. As 1813 began James Madison knew that napoleon had lost. His army was in full retreat. Indeed, it was in complete collapse. He had taken his country to war on the premise the french would win. They had lost. Now what was going to happen . This also took the pressure off brittain and it released naval reinforcements from the british fleet in the baltic which had been keeping it open for trade the previous five years. Those ships and key personnel were moved across to the north american station. The british picked out the right ships and the ri
Dolly madison and the creation of the american nation. And most recently she annotated and edited and important memoir written by Dolly Madisons niece. Katherine is the director of education at Huntington Library art collections Botanical Gardens and professor of history at the university of california riverside. Today she will discuss the republican queens identity during the war. This time when Dolly Madison strong room and her events were known as squeezes, they were so popular. Ive also heard that she is going to mention maybe the role of snuff in the war of 1812. I would encourage all of you later on to go take a look at Dolly Madisons snuff box which is over at the decatur house. We just brought that up from mount pillier today. Please join me in welcoming dr. Katherine algore. Thank you so much for that lovely introduction. Im tempted to just say forget about my speech, lets go look at the snuff box. But, no, no, no. Im very happy and honored to be here with such a distinguished