For you and will have morning tristate. Now at 11. Action against two top officials at the va hospital here in cincinnati. Following a federal probe that began in response to a nine on your side iteam and scripps dc bureau investigation. Scripps National Investigative reporter Mark Greenblatt shows what that investigation revealed. The highest ranking va official in ohio, michigan and Indiana Jack Hetrick is out as Network Director after the va headquarters in washington announced it substantiated misconduct allegations against himthis following mounting pressure from congress this week. Week. Talking about nepotism, lack of cleanliness, mismanagement and just one day after president obamas press secretary weighed in. In. This is a situation that the white house is aware of. The agency also substantied misconduct by the cincinnati vas acting chief of staff, dr Barbara Temeck the Agency Suspended her medical privileges, and transferred potential further discipline. The va announced the
Out the window on the lap of nascars biggest race. That was the case today. Danica patrick and greg biffle all smiles and biffle caused her to crash. Ken griffey , jr. Waving the green flag and not a good start for chase eliott and gets loose in turn 4 and car turned and the worst by a pole sitter. Lap 170 still earnhardt , jr. Flagged out into the wall into the dirt in field and finished 36. Fans, gosh darn it. Not happy. Danica patrick crash and trying to hold off biffle. Biffle had a tire failure earlier in the race and not a great sunday for him. Matt kenseth in the lead and wins it by. 1 of a second. The closest finish in race history. Hamlins 11th daytona 500th race and 27th victory in 366 nascar cup starts and he doesnt even know how he won. I dont know. I dont know where that came from or what happened and cant figure out what i did. It just came together and got the push from the ford. This wouldnt be possible if this wasnt toyota sticking together. We were able to capture the
Above freezing. That should preclude accumulation. As temperatures begin to drop below midnight because right now were seat sitting were sitting at freezey, were going to see accumulations in the grassy area. That has pivoted its way up to lower michigan. You can see the uneven nature of the snow shower activity. While i certainly think there could be some in the grass. I dont anticipate significant travel problems. Ill let you know how much were expecting an d warmup for the weekend. Sheree th e other big story of the night, College Basketballs top team goes down at the sin tass center. Xavier pulling off one of the you know its win when chris mack getting the big win. Xavier taking the big dogs or i guess the cats as in the villanova wildcats. Mike elise jesse live at the Cintas Center. Elise. Elise xavier was not messing around today. They were all business from start to finish. They were welcoming in the Number One Team in the nation. They knew they had a tall task ahead of them fa
Cop were trying to manage the scene. Reporter emergency vehicles along the highway had their lights on. But state police say traffic was heavy and a 22yearold woman hit him. She did not flee the scene. Once the trooper was struck she stopped. Reporter state police say that driver is cooperating. Cullen however was badly hurt. He suffered significant head injuries and was rushed to Copper University hospital in camden. More than 100 state troopers and Police Officers from all around new jersey coming to the hospital to offer support. At one time during the course of the evening while sean was actually still alive, sean father came down with one of our chaplains a monsignor and actually prayed with the troopers and thanked them for being there. Reporter sean lost his fight at 12 30 this morning. He had been a state trooper just shy of two years working out of bellmawr barrack. Flags there lowered oh half staff in his honor as a stream of police and firefighters stopped by to offer condol
Stories were watching this morning starting with oil. Wti crude closing higher than brent yesterday. That was the first time of august 2010. Watch for Inventory Data. Well get that at 10 30 eastern time. And break in the last hour a new report coming up from opec predicting that oil will rise to 95 barrel but only in 24 years. Also on tap we get durables goods and personal income and spending and at 10 00 new home sales and Consumer Sentiment but some of the numbers came earlier when the Commerce Department released spend dag at a yesterday. We got november Consumer Spending rising. 3 last month. That came in line with forecasts. Also apple making it easier to nominate a director but there are restrictions. In a new filing that it put in with the sec the tech giant says its going to be eligible to make a nomination. A shareholder or a group of the 20 shareholders must hold 3 of shares continuously for three years. So also the good news there is it prevents some of the shorttermers. 204