Roughed up va officials at a rare hearing on capitol hill last night. Lets bring in White House Correspondent my zell kosinski. Michelle, few things as angry as a lawmaker who is not responsible. Im sure they all had their hackles up last night. Wow, this hearing lasted four hours. It was just anger, frustration, at times emotion, these members of congress toward representatives of the va. They were asking these great relevant questions and for some reason the va just could not answer. In part, it was concerning this new official report on the phoenix va where the scandal broke. And now reaction to it is just exploding. How you can stand in a mirror and look at your in the mirror and shave in the morning and not throw up. Its unforgivable. Theres question about destruction of documents and you dont even know who did it or the motive. Reporter the anger from congress overflowed. This is nearly a decade of excuses. The house is on fire, and nobody is going to survive. All of you, i think
The grief and fear palpable on the faces of all the thousands of students and Community Members who attended a vigil on campus yesterday. Were covering all the angles here. First we go to kyung lah in isla vista. Reporter what were waiting to hear is what happened inside that apartment before the shooting spree began. There were three roommates, three people found inside. Were still waiting to hear the identities. Still waiting to hear how he was able to succumb all three of them with a knife. Thats still what were waiting to hear. Officers are also going over their history with rodger. There has been that recent Mental Health the recent welfare check that his parents asked officers to go check and he was able to convince them that he was fine. Theres also going to be a lot of investigation into his online history, his School History as well as his Mental Health history, but deb, the things that we normally ask questions about, the weapon, we know it was all legally purchased. How he g
Absolutely, candy. We care and you are not forgot on. Thats really the sweet talk to troops over the last 13 years all the time. They just want to know that they are not forgotten and their families here at home want to know that they are not forgotten. This action by the president , if we can just set politics, washington politics aside for a moment, the need to for the troops, for their families to hear that the president cares, that the country cares, really cannot be underestimated, just in afghanistan alone, some 2,000 troops killed in that war, 2,000 families this memorial day weekend still in mourning for their loved ones, some 20,000 u. S. Troops wounded over the years, that doesnt even begin to count the sacrifices that were made in iraq and other places around the world. So, this is a super big deal. Its saying that we care. And on this memorial day, also just taking a moment to remember, there is a military family in the United States with a very difficult challenge, the fam
Polite and courteous and determined he did not meet the criteria for an involuntary hold. I want to bring in now pam brown. Hey, pam. I understand that you have some breaking news here regarding the family . Reporter yeah, thats right. I spoke to a family friend by the name of simon astairer and basically walked me through a betailed account of the history of Elliott Rodger and those moments right before went on that shooting rampage when his parents were on a frantic chase to find him. This family friend, simon astaire, told me that as Elliott Rodger was carrying out his deadly rampage, his parents were frantically trying to get to Santa Barbara, trying to find him, because they had just received that chilling manifesto from their 22yearold son. We learned that rodger had sent this manifesto, 140 pages, to a couple of dozen people, including his family members, including his therapist, and others. And he had sent it right before he went on the shooting rampage, where he killed six peo
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