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In cspans sundays at eight. Now available at your favorite bookseller. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies 35 years ago and brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable or satellite provider. At noon on cspan, the only russian lawmaker to vote against russias annex sakes of crimea will be speaking at the Heritage Foundation in washington, d. C. About russia politics, the russia very you Russia Ukraine conflict and u. S. russian relations. You can watch that at 12 p. M. Eastern on cspan. The House Veterans Affairs subcommittee held a hearing addressing the benefits claims backlog and veterans making the transition to civilian life. This is about two hours and 20 minutes. Good afternoon and welcome, everyone. The oversight hearing of the subcommittee on disabilities and Memorial Affairs will now come to order. Todays hearing will focus upon vas role in the transition from Service Member to veteran with a particular focus on the integrated Disability Evaluation System com
And the crew on the plane success hailed for saving as many passengers as they did. One Flight Attendant put a frightened little boy on her back and slid down the evacuation slide. The National Transportation safety board said a significant portion of the planes tail piece ended up in San Francisco bay and the ntsb has wrapped up a News Conference within the hour. We go live now to San Francisco for the latest. Lets start with the First Responders that one of the 16yearold victims was hit by a fire truck. How was that shaking out . Reporter wendy, they have discussed this in two different News Conferences today the First Responders held a News Conference a few hours ago and said they acknowledge that they had heard about this and that it had gone up the chain of command, that they were investigating it but hadnt made any determinations as to what exactly happened out there on that chaotic runway. The other mention of that was from the ntsb who said the coroner has not been able to dete
NAPPANEE — The city of Nappanee is getting closer to choosing a design-build team for the new fire station as the cost proposals from the three final teams were opened