wend the world off fossil fuels and provide clean, safe energy. take a look. depending on who you ask, this is either a monumental, clean power breakthrough, or it s all flash and no substance. a doctor who also studied at m.i.t. said he and his team of scientists have done something remarkable, inventing a small machine that can create light so brilliant that it s equal to 10,000 suns in the volume of a coffee cup. that s 1 million watts of power. it s incredibly compelling. just on inspection, you can tell it s making an enormous amount of power. reporter: this process is a result of two decades of research. cnn first featured mills in 2008 when the company was called black light power, and claiming it could make cheap power from water and a chemical reaction that halts hydrogen atoms.
problem. the perception of soldiers out there is that, at leaf in tst i past, we were relying too heavily on drugs. now we ve taken that on-board and are working alternative medicine very, very hard. we believe we re close to having a biomarker that s going to allow us to go up with a small machine, the same kind of thing you would use if you were checking somebody s blood sugar, and you re going to be able to take a quick blood sample and tell if somebody has had a concussion. we re working with different instruments to measure pounds per square inch, acceleration that occurs during blasts, to see if we can collect more information on individuals so they can be treated as we unlock the secrets of the brain. now i got to tell you, i worry watching the coverage of these tornado areas, the number of folks that are going to come out of those areas that have post traumatic stress. i m sure they re going to have cases of traumatic brain injury. but post traumatic stress in those areas seein
disability benefits and you are a young vet coming back from iraq-afghanistan, the average wait time is six months. that s unacceptable. so get any kind of veterans services? to get disabilities payments. they are living on what? if you appeal it resets to two years. so the system is broken. the most important thing that we need to focus on is customer service and customers satisfaction of those veterans of all generations coming home and customers are saying this isn t working. so we need the president to be much more aggressive, we need congress to come together and solve this problem once and for all. every va secretary comes in and says i m going to break the backlog. every va secretary leaves and says the next guy s got to break the backlog. it hasn t happened yet. i think people don t get it. it is the same story we heard 15 years ago, the same story we heard coming out of vietnam. general shinseki is, i think we can all agree, an incredible guy, a soldier s soldier. an
and if you look at the statement so you have what? more than half of these folks who killed themselves did reach out. have you looked at what went wrong here? is it because and again, i read this somewhere that because you lack the personnel in terms of psychiatrists or health, behavioral health folks who could help, you re too reliable on drugs or pharmaceuticals? i really think that s the problem. the perception of soldiers out there is, in fact, that, at least in the past, we were relying too heavily on drugs. now we ve taken that on board and are working alternative medicine very, very hard. we believe we re close to having a biomarker that s going to allow us to go up with a small machine, the same kind of thing you would use if you were checking somebody s blood sugar, and you re going to be able to take a quick blood sample and tell if somebody has had a concussion. we re working with different
today, serving those who serve with the vice chief of staff of the army peter kror relly. veterans advocates with tim tats and paul rykofp. chairman of the senate veterans commit patty murray. paying for veterans is a cost of war. and an iraq veteran i ve been told welcome home dozens of times. i met a vietnam vet who had never been told that once. i m candy crowley and this is state of the union. this afternoon president obama visits joplin, missouri, the town devastated by tornadoes. joining us this morning from joplin, governor jay mixon. give us an update, the number of confirmed dead, what s the situation with the morgue and how many do you still have missing? we ve got that unaccounted for number overnight down to 44 now. and throughout the night once again troopers were making that most difficult visit to families in this region notifying them of a loss of their family members. we a we ve still got a significant level of work to do to make sure because