Pending health applications. Nearly 40,000 unprocessed applications discovered in january of 2013. These were primarily applications from returning Service Members from iraq and afghanist afghanistan. The ewrath that ive experience include my whistleblower complaint to White House Deputy chief of staff was leaked to my manager Sherry Williams who stated in writing that she was contacting me on behalf of acting sent gibson and mr. Rob neighbors. Neither mr. Gibson nor mr. Neighbors have responded to this fact. My employment records were illegally altered by cbo manager joyce deet terse. I was illegally placed on a permanent work detail by phillip mccofsky. I was placed on involuntary administrative leave curiously at the same time the oig investigation was taking place in atlanta by acting hec director greg becker. Unfortunately, my experience is not unique at va. Darren and irene owens who work at the Atlanta Va Medical Center have experienced the same retaliation for reporting medical
The earth by some 17,000 miles. Now in space terms Scientists Say that was a close call. And there you see it. This streak of life is the asteroid, half the length of a football field and hurtling past earth at 17,400 miles per hour. Its a remarkable moment that passes by and then it will be headed out. Reporter scientists expect thad close call but they didnt expect what happened less than 24 hours earlier in a small russian town about 900 miles east of moscow. A meteorite shot through the skies in rough shah was about the size of a bus, weighed ten tons, and when it hit the earth, it exploded like an atomic bomb shattering glass and sending people into a panic. More than 1,000 people were hurt, most by flying glachls canadian mark canadian hockey player lives in russia. It was terrifying. I fell back to sleep and all of a sudden i hear this loud bang. I live in a 24level building and i was on floor 23. It was just incredible. Reporter scientists never saw the meteor right coming. The
Oscar pistorius sits in jail as prosecutors accuse him of the premeditated murder of his supermodel girlfriend. The blade runner could spend life in prison. And from devastation to creation. Superstorm sandy becomes an inspiration from artists around the string p region. That and much more on cbs this morning saturday, february 16th, 2013. Captioning funded by cbs and good morning. Welcome to the weekend. Good morning. Nice to see you too, anthony. Also ahead, dr. Drew orden from the popular syndicated show doctors is here with the results of an investigation on fast foods which is alarming. This report came as a big surprise to me. Also this morning we have a special appearance by a fine actress whos also a wonderful singer, emmy rosrossun. Last night for one brief shining moment a meteor streaked across the sky of the San Francisco bay area. It was nothing like the passage of a huge asteroid just a few miles from earth on the same day that a streaking meteor exploded over russia inju
Up for a second draft. Here is majority leader mitch mechanic contin mcconnell on the floor. We are continuing to work to bring legislation to the floor for a debate and a vote. We know we cannot afford to delay on this issue. We have to get this done for the American People. Word of these new efforts comes just a day after mcconnell abruptly canceled this weeks vote. Still President Trump is voiting optimism that the plan can be revived over the forty of july break. I think were going to get at least very close and well get over the line. A great feeling in that room yesterday. This health care would be so good, and it would be far better than obama care, and much less expensive for the people and less expensive for the country. Were monitoring an off camera briefing happening at the white house, well bring that to you as soon as any news happens. First, our word of the day is participat bipartisan. A lot of lawmakers are invoking that word but cay that work together. If we cant reach
Well look at all the angles and implications tonight starting with cnns phil mattingly. Reporter nine oneonone interactions with President Trump. Three in person and six on the phone details former fbi director james comey, describing one meeting with the president and other counterterrorism officials in the oval office where all but comey were asked to leave the room. I want to talk about mike flynn, comey quotes the president as saying. Referring to his recently fired National Security adviser. I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go, comey says trump told him. Hes a good guy. I hope you can let this go. Comey goes on to say he prepared an unclassified memo of that conversation, understanding that the president was requesting he drop any probe into flynn. He shared that assessment with his fbi Leadership Team but declined to share it with attorney general Jeff Sessions on the assumption sessions would soon be recused. While those details were kept cl