after this investigation has been going on for so long, why the irs didn t tell congress about it. it took two months for them to tell congress. especially in this day and age where everything can be saved and recorded and documented. thank you very much. we ll get back to you as we get new developments. also happening on capitol hill right now, the house veterans affair committee tries to peel back another layer of the v.a. scandal. why were executives were given hefty bonuses while stone walling treatment? a new audit shows the problem is worse than first believed. v.a. s own accounting more than 400,000 receipt vans waited longer than three months for an appointment. summer driving season,
light up. if she sees it, if the bus tour is well received she may enter the race. she s looking to remain politically relevant, she is a tremendous political talent, 47 years old and has a political future ahead of it. today is rolling thunder in washington, d.c., she is in town and apparently participating in the rally, there you see some of the motorcycle riders, some receipt vans and controversy about whether she ought to be doing that. number one is this the kind of thing she might do to get involved with the motorcycle rally from your experience in the previous campaign? from my experience with sarah is the bottom line she s pro-veteran and very sort of pro-frontier mentality and i think that makes the motorcycle rally and the veterans a perfect fit for her. does she ride to your knowledge a motorcycle? we may find out today. i m not sure.
passengers aboard a delta flight. we ll tell you twhapd. and take a close look at the circle on your screen. sometimes baseball fans will do whatever it takes to catch a ball, including dropping their kid just to make a catch, come on. it s sunday, may 29th, 6:00 a.m. in atlanta, 5:00 a.m. in joplin, missouri. the nation s chief executive offering a shoulder to cry on this morning, headed to tornado damaged joplin, missouri. president obama is expected in joplin shortly after 1:00 eastern. te will meet with tornado victims and deliver brief remarks at a 3:00 eastern memorial service at missouri southern state university. his visit comes as the death toll rises to 142 this morning. more than 90 people remain missing, more than 1,000 have been injured. later this afternoon, at 5:41 central, the city is observing a moment of silence, that is the exact time one week ago the tornado plowed a half-mile swathe through joplin. we take you live to joplin. paul brickhaven is there. p
the inspector general report found that 1,700 veterans were at risk of being forgotten or lost on secret waiting list while the hospital falsely reported minimal waiting times of 24 days when it was over 150. at the white house, press secretary jay carney says president obama was briefed on the findings of the v.a. report and found them extremely troubling. shinseki issued a statement saying i reviewed the interim report, the findings are reprehensible to me, to this department, and to receipt vans. they were try to get to bottom of allegations of veterans dying while they waited for treatment. the scandal first broke in phoenix last month and now spread to more than two dozen v.a. facilities. ours is oversight. it has been pulling teeth