Theft and sale of drugs by agency workers. The House Veterans Affairs Committee Held this hearing late last month. Good afternoon. This hearing will come to order. I want to welcome everyone who has joined us today. Today we will address the lack of oversight in internal controls regarding controlled substances within the Veterans Health administration that leave facilities open to Drug Diversion and veteran harm. The diversion of drugs from v. A. Health care facilities is an incredible Patient Safety issue that puts veterans, v. A. Employees and the public at tremendous risk. Unfortunately the news has recently been filled with story after story of Drug Diversions within v. A. In little rock, arkansas, v. A. Pharmacy technician reportedly used his access to medical supplies, websites to order and divert 4,000 oxycodone pills over 3,000 hydrocodone pills and more than 14,000 viagra and cialis pills at the cost of the v. A. Of more than 70,000. This technician was allegedly selling thes
Scene and i want to prep that a lot of the information is prirm. This is a smuggling ring involving about a dozen teenagers of african descent as well as a wire fraud element to this case. All coming out of this house right here behind me in this up scale neighborhood. Air 15 was over the scene earlier today as federal agents and local state officials started to raid this house. The Phoenix Police. The phoenix s. W. A. T. Team. The u. S. Attorney on the east coast is also involved. Weve reached out to them to try and get more information. But what it looks like now these teenagers of african descent were going around this neighborhood selling magazines and thats one of the ways this was discovered. Whether or not they were forced to sell these magazines we just dont know that yet. We also dont know about that this. Sitting down with saul macicio. Hes been in communication with some of the investigators. He says these organizations that do this are usually International Organizations an
Survivor in 2001. He punched the man so hard it left him brain dead at a hospital where he died days later. It all started with a fight in traffic. The victims friends spoke with news channel 8 what happened. It is hard to believe that something so senseless could happen. Reporter years later, another case of road rage drive on and mind your own business. Reporter the shooter in this case, Robert Padgett was on the scene administering cpr when paramedics arrived. He was trying to save the mans life. He was questioned and then anywhere from the victims wife from 2001 . Did she have anything to say . Reporter in addition to the shooter, we asked him what he thought about this situation. He tells us that it is difficult and he did not wa talk about it today. As for the wife of the victim from 2001, she tells us this is poetic justice. He spent years on the run. Now, a suspect in a deadly hit and run on i275 is in custody. The family of the victim finally has the been waiting for. Kandis m
From pneumonia. Rick leventhal has more on clintons stumbling into her van. Reporter this video Shows Hillary clinton standing on a sidewalk outside the World Trade Center site. She appears unsteady stepping off the curb with aides in her protective detail holding her by the arms. She simples as she gets close to the van with one of her shoes falling off before shes helped inside. A Law Enforcement source who was 15 feet away said they were caught off guard by her premature departure which is why mrs. Clinton had to wait for her motorcade pull up. He said he saw her knees buckle and watched as someone picked up her shoe and gave it to one of the agents in the two vehicles that followed the former first lady to her daughters apartment nearly 3 miles away. Mrs. Clinton left because she felt overheated and was feeling much better her statement said and just before noon she emerged from her daughters building smiling and making remarks. I feel great. Its a Beautiful Day in new york. Report
Coming in it is rather robust this morning. 24 wind gusts already at travis, east bay mid50s for about everybody. Brentwood, concord, 55, storm activity popping up a little bit south of tahoe in truckee, and that will ramp up tomorrow. This low settling in close around the bay area, sacramento valley, and the sierra. To date is the breeze in the cooler temperatures, 60s and 70s. Good morning. Looking at a commute right now that does not look bad. We will start in solano county, and if youre driving from vacaville or fairfield, the drive through vallejo is not a bad commute where traffic looking pretty good. No major problems, about 35 minutes now between vacaville in vallejo, a 20 may a 28 mile trip. It will take longer later in the morning but right now it looks pretty good through that area as you make the split toured the cordelia junction. Looking at the live pictures on highway 4 westbound, looks like a good start. We have clouds, and a lot of times we cannot see the pictures, but