life-threatening. we know a lot of people were giving blood last time there was a shooting and it was a great benefit. are you calling for that today? we always call on our community to donate blood. that s a good thing for our community to do. but currently right now, the hospital is well resourced in terms of our blood product. all right. doctor, the chief medical officer there at scott and white where a number of the victims were taken yesterday with some good news. a number of them are being upgraded. thank you very much for being there. thank you, take care. 24 minutes before the top of the hour. some awkward explanations and pointed accusations for the first time publicly, mike morell faced a house intelligence committee and admitted he ignored key reports in the days after the benghazi terrorist attacks. elizabeth prann is live in washington, d.c. with the highlights. good morning.
in scholarship money. the teen who sued her parents for child support. now bragging about the scholarship on her facebook page. how much is that school? a lot. i think it s over 50,000 a year. meanwhile, do you like to gamble? gambling is popular and i say that s fine. but some say gambling is a game. just has negative consequences that begin to ripple through a society. my poker game with friends would be a crime in half the states. you re under arrest. but wait. why are people arrested for gambling when it s okay for states to sell lotteryies? john stossel, who apparently made bail, joins us live. this is just another example of government hypocrisy. how so? the state lottery is the worst odds of all the games. they took over the numbers racket. we have to protect you from those criminals, but i know,
they didn t learn a thing. gun free zones are death zones. it is time to stand up to the lunacy. the military made public statements about this. they should be leading the charge there and they should have done an elaborate investigation. i imagine they did that said this is how we stop it next time. this is what we do this time. now are is going to be a lot of scrutiny with that. the devastating irony is that those when are trained to properly defend for good are left defenseless in a case like this. this is for the second time. meanwhile, they protect themselves in afghanistan and iraq. they come home and living with their families and going to be some crazed shooter tomorrow, they can t even protect their own family on their base. you know what? they protect all of us, but they can t protect themselves. meanwhile, piers morgan, who used to have a show on cnn, he wrote this about what happened. he writes: if only there had been a good guy with a gun, such crap, this #forthood
and was mentioned earlier, he reported that he had a brain injury that had not been confirmed yet. keep in mind, it was five years ago at fort hood that what was then considered workplace violence, even though the guy, you know, nidal hasan came out and started shooting, screaming allah akbar, now we re faced with something very similar, but this looks a lot like workplace violence. as we ve heard so far this morning, it doesn t sound like it was terrorism. they don t have anything about that. but yet, five years later after a lot of promises that something would be done and this has happened again, somebody shot five years ago had this observation about an hour ago. right now in the military, we are over 150,000 mental health care professionals behind the curve for all the fighting force. i don t want it to be where if you have a service member that
who were in the hospital last night were here in 2009. it did open up some old wounds, but also a lot of pride. pride in our military for the men and women who we are indebt to do, who serve this country. a lot of pride in our hospital facility and for the medical teams that cared for these patients because we drill for this. we are prepared for this kind of event. and so it s a very unfortunate tragic events. you certainly have been.r you talk about how you drill for an event like this. after the 2009 attack there, you must have thought to yourself, you know, the odds of this happening here again, lightning never strikes twice in the same place, and yet it did. absolutely correct. while we said that, we actually took our experience with exceptional and highly