Roughly 100,000 veterans and their dependents. The Committee Also touched on modernization efforts and improved website access for the blind and visually impaired. This is one hour. Good afternoon. Subcommittee will come to order. Thank you so much for your patience. As you all are where we all have many tasks that we have to take care through the course of the day so many times they double schedule. We are here today to examine pattern problems with v. A. Gov affecting veteransby benefit claims. V. A. Aggressively build out v. A. Gov over the past five years. Today it is more than a website. The selfservice platform for veterans to access the care and benefits that they have earned. I absolutely agree that veteran should be able to manage their health care and benefits online rather than waiting on hold with the call center to do everything. But to perform all those functions va. Gov now interfaces with most of the systems we have discussed in previous hearings. Those systems and inte
Get things done. Alisa global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im alisa parenti. This is bloomberg. Bloomberg technology is next. Johnson, in for emily chang. This is bloomberg technology. More problems for over including for uber, including a criminal investigation. Plus, amazon and microsoft taking the lead. We will hear from top executives at each firm. And a japanese billionaire and the founder of softbank, his first break and how he closed the investment of a lifetime with jack ma. First, our lede, the continuing saga of ubers legal troubles. The Company Facing two additional criminal investigations. Eric newcomer uncovered the scope. He joins us now. When i saw the notes this morning, im like, really, havent we done this already . Ive got to think the Legal Department at uber is feeling the same way. Eric it takes a long time for things to wind their way through. We knew about three criminal probes before. We are
Of a new round of nafta talks. President trump has threatened to withdraw from the accord unless the u. S. Gets a better deal. House Speaker Paul Ryan is taking a handsoff approach in the escalating feud between President Trump and Tennessee Republican senator bob corker. Ryan was questioned today about the war of words between the two in recent days. Speaker ryan i think its just talk it out amongst yourselves. My advice is for these two gentlemen to sit down and talk through their issues. I think thats the best way to get things done. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. This is bloomberg. Im alisa parenti. Bloomberg technology is next. Cory im cory johnson, in for emily chang. This is bloomberg technology. More legal problems at uber, including a criminal to previouslyand undisclosed probes by the Justice Department. Plus, amazon and microsoft taking the lead. We will hear from top executives at each firm. Japanese
Earnings from fedex, lennar, 2014 guidance as well. And then europe responding to the strongest german Business Confidence in 20 months. The biggest decline in u. K. Unemployment in 13 years. Our road map begins with anticipation waiting to see if todays fed announcement will include the t word, taper. Quarterly results from fedex missed estimates but the company boosting fullyear guidance. Analyd going public, amc. After the fed wraps up its twoday meeting this afternoon, investors will learn whether policy makers will wind down on the Economic Data. Complete coverage of the fed announcement and the chairmans News Conference on cnbc this afternoon, begins at 2 00 p. M. Eastern time. Jim, are you ready . Yeah. There is if youre the fed, you got to tough job. I am getting so many people sending me, jim, tell the fed i mean, tell the fed. Okay, fed. What do you want me to tell them . Its the holiday time, dont ruin our year . That is not exactly what bernanke is focused on or yellen. The
Many of us heading to the airport for this holiday season, and abc news has learned tonight about a Record Number of guns confiscated in the security lines. 37 in just one week. So what kind of guns and why the surge . Abcs Senior National correspondent jim avila starts us off. Reporter this guy is clearly not going to make his plane because just like a Record Number of travelers this year, he brought a gun to the airport, this one. Thats right, nearly 1,750 times, tsa screeners have pulled luggage from the Security Belt because it carried a gun, often loaded, carried by some otherwise smart people. There is bill russell, nba legend. This is his confiscated weapon. Or the wife of noted gunadvocate ted nugent, she was carrying this piece through dallas. What are people thinking . Virtually everybody says i forgot or i got a different bag than i usually have. Reporter the number of guns confiscated by the tsa has skyrocketed from 660 in 2005 to double that in 2011, and nearly triple in 2