Reporter youre telling me that our troops coming back from war, now separated from active service who should have priority for scheduling do not. Reporter who are coming to the phoenix va for followup care for war injuries correct. Reporter are being put on a waiting list and made to wait six to ten months . Yes, or longer. The phoenix va is 1 of 26 facilities now under investigation, accused of falsifying appointment records with sometimes deadly consequences. In seattle, a family is suing the va, saying scheduling delays were responsible for a veterans death because his cancer was able to spread. And in portland, oregon, va Officials Say schedulers made veterans wait more than 14 days for an appointment 30,000 times. The president says he is outraged at the allegations. He is promising punishment if those allegations are proven true. We are going to fix whatever is wrong, and so long as i have the privilege of serving as commander in chief, i am going to keep on fighting to deliver t
Scandal first broke with all the news from the phoenix system. Arizona senator john mccain, a noted veteran himself, he said the president has had years to take action . Where is the president s priorities . In 2008 as you mentioned in transition he said wait times were too long. On several other occasions he was aware of things still wrong in the va. He is in his second term now. Where was it on his priority list . It seems to me it couldnt have been real high because really nothing changed at the va. In fact things got worse. Martha steve hayes, Senior Writer for the Weekly Standard and fox news contributor. So, steve, this is the biggest, most recent revelation the specificity which the president was briefed, there were attempts to sort of mislead with these wait times. There were inaccurate reports that were being filed. Fraud really on the part of these agencies. Yeah. I think what is interesting about this he was briefed about this or his team was briefed about this in any case a
Started and rolled towards the southeast, up here towards the north of scranton, another big one through burkes county. Hit hard with the hail. All the storms are going in a curious direction, a direction we never see from the northeast to the southeast. Now theyre still moving to the southeast and a future of them towards hampton roads. There is the bridge tunnel there on the way up to the delmar, finally, things calmed down. I looked at the video. It is not that far from dover, delaware, to the southwest there almost near river view. We had a Helicopter Shot flown over during the hour with wolf blitzer. I could tell, the tops of the trees, there is the video there. The trees around it really indicate what happened. Some fell to the east, some to the north, some to the south. When that happens it is not a Straight Line wind. It is definitely some type of twisting and the tops of the trees were twisted off as well and the stump is still sticking there, even ten or 20 feet high. But all
Jim mcmann for one. He says he actually got addicted to thinks painkillers, even taking them in the offseason. Another player in the lawsuit here, mcmanns former Chicago Bears teammate richard dent. He is a hall of famer. So lets get more on this story, this developing story from ed laugh endra. Ed, tell me more about the lawsuit. Hello, brooke. Its an extensive lawsuit. About 85 pages long. Ive had a chance to go through all of it here this afternoon. And it is filed on behalf of eight players. Three of those players were part of that 1985 super bowl Chicago Bears team, richard dent, jim mcmann being two of those. Weve heard over the years a lot of different crazy stories that the lengths the Football Players would go to to stay on the football field. But this lawsuit is accusing the nfl and doctors of working together to ensure that in some cases, recklessly, and in some cases illegally, were prescribing pain medications to keep these players and these lawyers for these players sayin
Beating over Tea Party Challengers. It could mean problems for democrats in november. We are breaking down the breaking results live here on early start. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to early start. Im poppy harlow in for christine romans. Im john berman. Election results 5 00 a. M. In the east. We do begin with big political news breaking overnight. Voters in six states said no to Tea Party Challengers making their choice for who they want to run in fall we are talking from congress to their state capitols. By far the biggest race of the night was kentucky where Mitch Mcconnell was facing off against matt bevin. He was expected to map a strong challenge. Mcconnell ran hard. In the end, he held him off easily. Now the fiveterm senator faces a tougher fight in november against alison lungergan grimes. My opponent is in this race because barack obama and harry reid want her to be in this race. Theres a reason, my friends, a reason every hollywood liberal is sending her a check. Togeth