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 and 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 Va Health Care facilities is an incredible Patient Safety issue that puts veterans, va employees, and the public at tremendous risk. Unfortunately, the news has recently been filled with story after story of Drug Diversion within va. In little rock, arkansas, a va Pharmacy Technician reportedly used his access to medical suppliers websites to order and divert 4,000 oxycodone pills, over 3,000 hydrocodone pills, and more than 14,000 viagra and cialis pills at a cost to va of more than 70,000. This technician was allegedly selling these drugs on the street where they had a value of more than 160,000. At a va facility in florida, a registered nurse was apparentl
He stepped down. More information around his resignation will be made public at a News Conference this morning. It comes amid an investigation into an underage sex scandal involving several officers and allegations of assault by an offduty officer. The city is expected to launch a nationwide search for its next police chief. Heres a look at the former chiefs background. Sean whent joined opd in 1994 in the patrol division. He worked his way up the ranks. In 2012 deputy chief. May 2013 interim chief. A year later appointed chief. Crime has dropped under his tenure as chief. The city announced deputy chief ben fairow from the Bart Police Department will be interim chief for now. He has worked with the oakland Police Department in the past. Sean whents resignation comes three weeks after San Franciscos police chief stepped down. Greg suhr resigned hours after officers killed a woman in the bayview. He had been under pressure to make changes after criticism over Previous Police shootings a
Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 10 00. Breaking news out of the gate. Gas main still on fire in south jersey. The flames are shooting out of the ground just feet from the Garden State Parkway. That fire has been burning for hours, still not out. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im chris oconnell. Iain is off tonight. Hours later officials are still trying to figure out how to turn off the gas. Fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose has been on the scene since this afternoon. Sabina, what is the latest . Reporter well, chris, up until a few minutes ago you could see the flames shooting up behind me. Just before we went on it look like crews have finally gotten a handle on this thing. It looks like they finally figured out how to turn off this valve. I did call south jersey gas and they have not yet confirm the fire is completely out. This took about eight hours to get the fire down. 20 feet high and still blazing. Despite hours of work by gas and emergency crews. By dusk, fl
Them information in this case in the shooting last night of a sixyearold and the 13 days ago where another sixyearold was shot. Tonight the Mayors Office is offering up to a 10,000 reward. A little boy. Crying shame. Reporter shes lived on the block for 50 years and shes heard gunfire before. But never like thursday night. 11 shots. Right up in this area right here. Reporter she wouldnt give her name but when the bullets were flying on the corner of ashmead and clarkson she was sitting in her living room her home was struck repeatedly. They came through my second floor window there. Four or five shots. Reporter when the barrage of 50 shots ended, sixyearold mahaj brown seriously wounded inside a car being driven home when rival groups opened fire. The street was littered with shell casings. Some came from an ak47 style rifle its the second time a sixyearold has been caught in the crossfire in three days in germantown. This is reckless disregard for life and now you have a sixyearold fi
Utilities board has learned about the Bakken Pipeline proposal. Its a story weve been following for you. Nikki the pipeline would carry crude oil from northwest north dakota and end in illinois. So far, 87 percent of the groups that need to sign off on the pipeline have done so. The utility board will make the final decision that determines whether the project moves forward. Many local companies are already working under the assumption that the pipeline will be approved. Pipe is being stored near newton and some labor unions have already begun training for the project. Tomorrow, the discuss their findings from the months of hearings and other testimony about the pipleine. That starts at 1 p. M. Pipeline Officials Say a decision could be announced at these meetings, but it could also come much later. Nikki new tonight at 10. Nikki one person is dead after a Council Bluffs house fire saturday evening. Neighbors say that two men lived in the home but hadnt seen anyone leave the house for