Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki has been called to testify before congress. It stems from allegations of mistreatment at va hospital in phoenix where as many as 40 veterans reportedly died while waiting for medical treatment. And now a House Committee has vetted to subpoena all email and correspondents related to that va hospital and a possible coverup. Lets bring in tracie potts from washington. Good morning to you. What happens if the subpoenas come up empty . Reporter theyre probably going to dig deeper. Lawmakers believe the answer is in there somewhere. What may be thousands of pages of documents they want to look through every democrat, every republican voted in favor of this subpoena. They want to get to the bottom of who made it difficult for these vets to see a doctor quickly. Im now going to sign a subpoena for production of reporter lawmakers are giving the va until may 19th to turn over emails and documents about who destroyed a secret waiting list at the phoeni
Cleanup is underway. Thank you for joining us, im ama daetz. This was the 103rd running of the baytobreakers race. The city did make changes to the rules and route to contain the races wilder participants. Heres more. Reporter you know, extra police and a notolerance policy about alcohol helped keep baytobreakers a safer event. 24 people were arrested for being drunk in public, but this chain link fence around historic alamo square was a big success, it helped keep rowdy spectators out. Dwight alexander is sweeping up the front of his house after 40,000 runners runners and ton f spectators left their mark. It was better this year, less pock intoxication, less urinating, but still its a challenge. Reporter extra police along the route enforced the nokole policy. Many had their booze taken away and dumped out. A lot of dumping. At least the cops have been doing a good job, controlling. Reporter city crews went to work sweeping up a mountain of trash. The cleanup here will take a very lon
Berkeley campus discovered by a woman walking near a popular hiking spot. Good evening. Im ama dates. A hiker discovered a deceased man in the woods near grizzly peak boulevard. Thats where abc7 News Reporter lilian kim is live with the details. Lilian . Ama, the body was found down this steep hill at the base of the large rock. It is almost the same spot where a man died a year and a half ago. Uc Berkeley Police officers searched this white honda civic looking for clues. They believe it belongs to the man found at the base of the rock below grizzly peak boulevard. A hiker who discovered him started firstaid, but then realized he was dead. We dont know what happened. We are treating it like a crime scene. We had the crime scene investigators come in and process the scene. This is the same spot where a man fell to his death in 2012. Around the same age as the man discovered today. In this case it is unclear if he actually fell. Although if he had police say the large rock where his body
Many had their booze taken away and dumped out. A lot of dumping. At least the cops have been doing a good job, controlling. Reporter city crews went to work sweeping up a mountain of trash. The cleanup here will take a very long time. Beer bottles, as far as the eye can see. Then theres a lot of stuff like this. What used to be somebodys we should either cult it off or get everyone to clean up after themselves. Alamo square was a different story. Half the park was fenced off. Police on duty after complaints from neighbors about too many drunken spectators. With the closure of alamo square it became a big advantage for us. We were able to ensure that the public was safe and there was no Public Safety issues inside the square. Able to limit the intoxication and alcohol drinking. Neighbors say it worked. The park was untouched. In San Francisco, cornell bernard, abc7 news. The race started in 1912 as a way to boast morale after the devastating 1906 earthquake and bake one of the largest
The problem werent enough. Theres no doubt that weve lost some time, but the websites Getting Better each week. By the end of this month, it will be functioning for the majority of people who are using it. And so i think that were going to have time to catch up. There were several congressional hearings yesterday on the issue. Nancy cordes has more on the investigation and the report that warned of big problems with the site. Reporter with startling fore site the Consulting Firm predicted more than six months ago that the rollout would be involved with evolving requirements, insufficient end time, end to end testing and significant deficiencies. This report lays out the chaos that was going on, but these all of this information was known within the white house recommend mckinsey was hired by the administration to do the review and interviewed 40 people involved with the website including henry chow, a key manager for medicare and medicaid. Chow testified he never saw the 14page present