in the last several month, six months on your program, whistle-blowers have come forward and have told us and have told us they have talked to the inspector general reporting that due to delays in care deaths have occurred as a result. the v.a. has admitted 23 deaths due to delays. now, i just want to tell you, anderson, who this is harming, and why many believe the president s speech today was completely inadequate, last night here in phoenix i talked to a physician at the phoenix v.a. who runs the post deployment clinic, dr. katherine mitchell. and i had to ask her twice because i couldn t believe what she was telling me. she told me even recent war vets, vets coming home injured are waiting months to get care. doctor, i just want to make sure i understand what you are telling me. you re telling me that our troops coming back from war now separated from active service. who should have priority
trulia reports that nationwide, home prices are climbing at a faster rate in cities than suburbs. i was reading, though, we re reaching the tipping point where renting may make more sense than buying. in some places, yes, but rents in general have been going up, too, and that s something that especially young renters who don t want to be homeowners are frustrated because the rents are paying much faster than paychecks. i m waiting on what could be six months, nine months, or longer. brand new allegations against the va. a doctor telling cnn that recent war vets coming home injured are forced to wait months for care. three senior officials are being called before congress today. we have to do better for our veterans. who will step up through them? on the ground. the u.s. sending 80 troops into west africa to help find those hundreds of missing nigerian girls. who are being sent and what is
there. in the past six months whistle-blowers have come forward and have told us, they have talked to the inspector general, reporting that due to delays in care deaths have occurred as a result. the v.a. has admitted 23 deaths due to delays. now, i just want to tell you, anderson, who this is harming, and while many believe the president s speech today was completely inadequate. last night here in phoenix i talked to a physician at the phoenix v.a. who runs the post-deployment clinic. dr. katherine mitchell. and i had to ask her twice because i couldn t believe what she was telling me. she told me that even recent war vets coming home injured are waiting to get care. doctor, i just want to make sure you understand you. you re telling me that our troops coming back from war now separated from active service. who should have priority
are treated they storm on the memorial and take the wake house. take the white house. what does it take to open up barricades like this if you can t reach a political solution? one group of veterans figured out how simple the process will be. take a look at what they did. it was called the million veteran march. numbers were short of that. but they removed the barriers outside of the world war ii memorial which is one of several open air member yams the government choose to close down. this is for our honored war vets. we are not going to stand by and let it happen. who do they blame? some of them walked the barricades over pennsylvania avenue where they were deposited right outside of the white house. they were closed some say for political reasons.
what s the v.a. saying about this. in essence that they re chipping away at the backlog. v.a. officials note that all those returning iraq and afghan war vets have contributed to the doubling of the case load for va claims workers. and that those workers none the less have processed more than a million cases a year for the last three years. still, they said senior executives in the veterans benefits administration will not be receiving any performance awards for fiscal year 2012. those instead being invested to accelerator backlog, john jon. jon: the v.a. office longest claims gave bonuses averaging $1,100 each to 40% of its workforce. the feds joined in to save hundreds of dogs across the southeast in one of the largest dogfighting crackdowns this country has ever seen. take a look at just a few of the 367 pit bulls they seized dog fights.