Host our guest is Veterans Affairs secretary robert mcdonald. Secretary mcdonald came to this job almost three years ago and his background includes the military academy at west point and he is an army veteran himself. He came from private industry and served as ceo at Procter Gamble. Let me introduce the reporters leo shane of military times and david wood is the senior military correspondent for the huffington post. Reporter i want to start with the wait times issue. We had a new report over what constitutes wait time and where we stand now. Can you talk about this and what confidence veterans should have that the v. A. Is addressing the problem . There still seems to be discrepancies over how the time is calculated and frustration over how it is being handled. Sec. Mcdonald if you ask me, the ultimate measure for any veteran and how we deal at that veteran is how they are satisfied with what we do. We have put together a Transformation Program where the first strategy is to improve
Constitutes wait time and where we stand now. And whatalk about this confidence veterans should have that the v. A. Is addressing the problem . There still seems to be discrepancies over how the time is calculated and frustration over how it is being handled. If you ask me, the ultimate measure for any at thatand how we deal veteran is how they are satisfied with what we do. We have put together a Transformation Program where the first strategy is to improve the veteran experience. We have used some of the best companies in the world like disney, starbucks, and Procter Gamble to teach how to progress how to process experiences and build light into those experiences. Takeneight time thing has over control of what should be the real measure. In terms of weight times, we isieve the data we are using good data and we believe wait are, on average, three to six days, depending on the specialty that you want at which location. Ut we have admitted to things if you go to the end of the bell cur
They got here at some point, shots were fired from those suspects. Its not clear whether they were trying to the fire at police. But police drew their weapon, returning fire and it appears at least one suspect was shot. One suspect was arrested soon after. And police followed a blood trail, eventually catching up with another suspect. Here is what investigators said earlier here at the scene. Police officers responded here to 4th avenue and 11th street. Doing routine patrol. They did come up with individuals, right now two weapons are recovered and individuals apprehended. Reporter we have seen several Emergency Service vehicles leave so its not clear if they are still looking for anybody additionally who may have been connected to the who may have been connected to the incident overnight. And yesterday president barack obama was here in newark talk thing about prisoner rehabilitation programs and crime as well. And police still here onscene and still an active investigation. Janelle b
And Lindsey Graham and former Texas Governor rick perry. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [applause] lets make sure we win and america wins this primary season. Will you and South Carolina join us in New Hampshire and iowa and make sure that happens. . [applause] thank you. And god bless you. What a great lineup of speakers so far. I can tell you backstage the energy is incredible. The next person i want to introduce as a colleague of mine from washington, someone who probably needs no introduction someone who hosted the iowa Freedom Summit. Someone who is rocksolid in his belief in the constitution of the United States and in his belief or america. Please welcome, my good friend from america, congressman steve king. Rep. King thank you. Thank you all so very much for the South Carolina welcome. [applause] im so pleased when t
Encourage transit pedestrian and bike use also as i said it requires one parking for is ocii affordable units affordable units ill next ask bill to come up and introduce the architect jason ironic from o m a to give their presentation. Thank you madam chair rosales im pleased to be here today weve made a lot of progress and feel optimistic about the project before i introduce the architects just a few general comments for those of you who are not familiar with us first of all what makes this different is that my partner t n d c and others have been colleagues for 20 plus years we come into this with a certainly mature respect and commonality although were is largest developer of mixed use howards in california and routinely involved that partnerships with nonprofit including u including two projects in mixed use e mixing is redevelopment of the sunnyvale site this is the first time where a nonprofit is not only our partner in the podium building but the inclusionary unit in the tower s