choo? >> three women head to normandy to mark an anniversary with song. we begin with the sudden decision by the head of the veterans affairs department to resign. the pressure was intense from both parties and just a couple of days after the disturbing new revelations about the va, eric shinseki, retired general, quit. so now, how does the government make sure veterans get the health care they need? our white house correspond, mike viqueria, that is story. mike. >> picking up steam over the last are 48 hours. the problems at the veterans affairs department are decades old, they are systemic but today they cost president obama his one and only veterans affairs secretary, eric shinseki, his ten you a has come to an end. with growing evidence of malfeasance and deception at veterans affairs, president obama had accepted what now became inevitable. >> minutes ago deputy shinseki offered me his resignation. with considerable ro regre regri accepted. >> among the findings, in 64% of those facilities, records were falsified to make it look like veterans were receiving timely care. this after a wednesday report from the va inspector general documenting at least 1700 cases in the phoenix facility where veterans waiting to see a doctor were never scheduled for an appointment. by this morning shinseki was engulfed a full blown fire storm. both men the president agreed he could not be effective. >> with judgment, i think it is his belief that he would be a distraction from the task at hand. which is to make sure that what's broken gets fixed so that his fellow veterans are getting the services that they need. >> reporter: in the last 48 hours the chorus calling for shinseki's ouster became louder. even congresswoman team duckworth called for him to go. he was blind sided by problems at the va. >> the reporting problems inside the va did not surface to the level where rick was aware of i.t. or we were able to -- it our we were able to see it. >> despite that claim, wait -- times have been documented over the last 15 years. problems like those faced by air force veteran benjamin jones. >> including the are veterans health in danger because the longer they wait you never know when the lord could take them home. >> reporter: it was veterans like jones that motivated shinseki to step down. addressing a group earlier today he said he was deceived by a lack of integrity within his own department. before meeting the president shinseki spoke on an issue where he has had success, fighting homelessness by veterans. addressing what he calls the el fant in thelephant in the room,t defend it. >> i will not defend it because it is indefensible. >> confirmed him for a lower level position back in february, here is an individual like shinseki, a graduate of west point but a lot of:00 in the army as an per -- time in the army but heading up the uso before joining the va. a lot are speculating he could be the permanent replacement. but the congress has to confirm whoever president obama l nominates john. >> the white house still hasn't chosen a successor so how do they fix problems in the meantime? >> reporter: here's the problem, a lot of people, veterans administration and veterans on capitol hill, the problems being decades old even generations old at the va. many people believe it is going to require not only anew secretary from outside that culture but the management of the va is going to have to be pulled.by its roots. they believe it is rotten. they believe it's eve even ended there's a problem. >> his resignation many feel won't fix problem. randall pinkston has the story. >> john, there is rare bipartisan agreement on this one. be approving thing resignation of eric shinseki. house speaker john boehner used the resignation to criticize president obama. >> his resignation though does not absolve the president of his responsibility to step in and make things right for our veterans. business as usual cannot continue. >> reporter: in the senate a similar theme from minority leader mitch mcconnell. the leader said in part what's still needed is an agreement by the president and his allies in congress to help fix system. while many have called for shinseki's resignation, no one thinks getting rid of him alone will solve the va's many problems. another republican, vermont l senatoowner senators bernie saus says the va's problems are nothing new and extend farp beyond issues of -- far beyond issues of manipulating appointment schedules. kay hagan says, we should make is strides to make sure nothing like this happens again. of course politics are always at play in washington, especially for senators in a tough battle for reelection like senator haig hawaibeinghagan. many john. >> thank you many randall. is shinseki was a scapegoat he says the resignation could ship the spotlight away from the real problems. >> initially, i think it's going to have a negative effect. because now that heef he's gonee focus is going oprobably go away media-wise from the va. you know some people will say, oh, general shinseki resigned, problem solved. nothing else to see here. modifmove on. but that's just the beginning. the whole system needs reformed, the culture needs changed. from. >> now problems at va hospital he began to increase with the innumber of vietnam, iraq and afghanistan war veterans. in february 2005 federal auditors found evidence that numbers were not being entered correctsly. in 2010 -- correctly. in 12 a va official told congress he wasn't sure how to force workers to enter the correct data. so we will have much more on the va scandal at the half hour including the stories of veterans who died waiting for treatment. plus why some vets really love the care they get at va hospitals. in india, twolg police officers have been fired for failing to investigate the disappearance of two teenage you girls. the two cousins were later found hanging from a tree, victims of gang rape. others have been arrested in connection with the rape crime, two suspects remain at large. faj jamil reports from india where anger is growing. >> the age of the victims is adding to the age ner thi angers case. refused to help search for girls and lately when the bodies were found, villagers got so angry they surrounded the bodies and refused to plow the police to take them. this crime comes about a year and a half after the brutal gang rape and killing of a paramedical student here in new dedelhi. issue of rapes have been underreported in the country before then. india's own crime statistics say a woman is being raped here in this country every 22 minutes. there have been stronger laws brought in to protect women since that infamous gang rape 18 months ago. but as this event shows, many of these crimes do still occur regardless of new laws. >> 13 men's in custody for rape of a 15-year-old girl, malaysia officials say it took place in a northern state last week, the woman wer was gang raped by 38 n for hours. economic community of west african states gathered at ah at acra, l capitol of ghana. military took control of the government last week. the general warned any protest would slow progress. now, the clash in ukraine. fighting in the eastern part of the country in intensified with reports of shelling in areas full of homes. thousands of civilians are fleeing the town of be slovyansk, they fear the army is l planning to be full attack the being separatists. >> the contingent of separatists fighters l against kyiv's assault. who brought down a military helicopter with a surface to air missile killing 14 soldiers including a senior general. within minutes of the al jazeera team arriving a salvo of seven mortar shells was fired on the town. above the barricades the flags of both russia and the self-declared republic. the fighters here are becoming battle-hardened. but they've built themselves bunkers. they at least can take shelter when the mortars start raining down. it's the families here who are most add risk. the russians have said that the ukrainian government and its latest military offensive is breaking the geneva convention. failing to protect the lives of civilians. evidence here that the mortar barrages are ran dam not aimed at mill -- random not aimed at military targets. this is a military hospital. the residents showed me the being mortar remnants blown through the walls that night. it was a miracle no one was killed. the barrage threw shards of l l.many -- debris everywhere. >> translator: of course they are afraid. especially when our own army is attacking us. they are surrounding us. >> reporter: several hundred children have already been evacuated. the streets are emptying. the sense of fear overwhelming. david chater, al jazeera, slovyansk. big changes in carbon emission rules. what it means for the energy industry and your electric bill. >> and flawed forensics. in this age of csi, why people are still going to prison for crimes they didn't commit. commit. >> it's expected to be the biggest move yet to try stop climate change. now monday president obama's expected to announce new regulations to cut carbon emissions from coal fired power plants by 20% or more. scientists say coal plants are linked the greenhouse gases which leads to climate change. in 1940s, the u.s. was still the global leader of emission of co2. ftc europe and russia began catching up. in the 1980s u.s. emissions almost 500 million tons per year. 2011 shows the world's top carbon producers are china, the u.s., india and russia. here to talk with us, andrew holland, enrolling foal at the american security project. andrew, welcome. >> john thanks, glad to be here. >> why these regulations and why these regulations now? >> well i think first of all we have to realize that they're moving forward with these regulations now, because we're beginning to see real clear costs of climate change. climate change is harming america's national security and it's harming communities around the country today. >> right i mean -- just let me stop through. because the administration has been here almost six years but why do they wait to do it until today? >> you know i think they wanted to get it moving through conscious. this is not necessarily best way -- to you through congress. congress could act on this and they tried to do this, in 2009, 2010 the house did pass a bill but the senate never passed anything and now nobody expects congress to do anything on it so the epa action is what that every fallen back on. >> who's going to be hurt by these new regulations? will consumers be charged more for electricity as a result? >> some studies say so. and some say not as much. i would say the evidence is always been that when industry says there will be costs, yes, there are costs, but they're always lower than predicted. you know when you look back on former epa regulations, they're always lower than industry expects. >> are coal companies fighting a losing battle nowadays? >> you know coal companies actually have been fighting a losing battle for about five or six years now. since the shale gas revolution caimed through which really -- came through which really dropped the price of natural gas coal has been on the losings end for a while. these new regulations will kind of confirm what economics in the market has really already decided. >> what practical effects could these regulations when they are implemented really have? >> i think it confirms that and it will ensure that america gets often a trajectory to go towards lower emissions. and that's an important thing. and it's an important thing internationally, too, because it shows, people around the world, shows the chinese, shows the indians, the russians that we are serious about reducing our emissions and so it's time for us to get serious with them as well. >> is there also a measurable impact on the health of americans? >> oh, absolutely. you know the impacts of climate change are really already being felt all across america. when we talk about extreme weather, we talk about heat waves, all of this sort of stuff, acting on climate change will help americans for sure. >> so we don't know exactly what's going to be announced on monday, but what do you suspect? >> well, you know, it is revolutionary to have existing -- rules on existing powerpoints. on car -- on power plants, on carbon. we'll see some sort of move towards a regime much like the new source rules, which kind of put in place be restrictions on coal -- place restriction on coal plants and i think it will confirm a restriction on natural gas. >> andrew holland, thank you very much. >> john good to be with you. >> an emotional room in the l white house briefing room. he says jay carney is stepping down. he called him one of his closest friends. he will stay in place until june and his next in command will take over. being evidence like fingerprints and tire tracks are solid proof of crime, but according to reality that is not true. jake ward has the story. >> sphren sick science is deeply flawed. in 2009, the u.s. department of science issued a kateing report. hair and other points had he never been sciervegly validated. l that hasn't happened. and even cuttings edge dna analysis hasn't been validated in the sort of rigorous open way that science otherwise demands. the fbi which oversees the national dna database called codus does not allow it to be used by defense researchers only by law enforcement and then only selectively. >> we wouldn't be able to send a dna profile from a crime scene, they would be able to access it to see if it manie manien many. >> evidence are incomplete. >> but they're not robust. they're what we call partial. which means that there's a lot of missing information. and conclusions are being drawn that someone matches. based on these really marginal samples. >> here's how incomplete dna can point to the wrong person. a frul unique dna parole -- a truly dna profile consists of at least 13 bles is locations on dna. in 2006, arizona revealed that out of 65,000 dna samples in its database, each remit being a convicted offender, a dna profile of nine locations brought back 122 matching people. this was one of the only studies of its kind and was compelled by a court order. any one of those 122 people could be incorrectly matched to incomplete crime scene dna. with ten base payers that number was still too high. 25 matches out of 65,000. incomplete dna is used as evidence all the time. and while arizona had only 65,000 people in its database, california's now holds 1.4 million convicted offenders. and even an exact dna match doesn't alls identify the guilty party. -- always identify the guilty party. a strange are dna's on the deceased running it through state's database they identified a former convict, lucas anderson. but on the night in question lucas anderson was here at valley medical center in san jose being treated for alcohol poisoning. how could his dna l have been able to go travel to the murder scene? >> the ambulance was the ambulance that responded to the homicide. the pulse ox ometer was put on the l victim's finger and it was transferred in that method. >> based on dna evidence that put him at the scene of a crime he was nowhere near. jacob ward, al jazeera, san francisco. >> and this week's episode of the system, looks at how one man's release from prison, the system, why airs 9 eastern, 6:00 pacific. >> knowledge roxanroxana saberi. >> europeans who want to be online, a being ruling bun by the european court of justice earlier this month. the court says people can ask search engines to rooive information abouremoveinformati. you put your name here your e-mail address here, down below you paste the links to the materials you want removed here and in the box below that you explain why you want those links removed and below here you need to upload a foad i.d., give your -- photo i.d., give your many electronic signature and push submit. >> in a statement google tells us the court ruling requires google to make difficult decisions about the public's right to know. supporters of the court's ruling argue google has the responsibility to protect people's being responsibilities. >> but the way it's set up right now is people are coming out of the woodwork these take down demands including a pedophile who wants news of his arrest removed, doctors who want poor reviews taken down. >> reporter: critics say the internet needs some being direction, roxana saberi, al jazeera. >> and coming up next escalating violence. a reporter in syria has exclusive access to the people there living in fear as two state's elections draw near. and how a road leading to brazil always world cup is rapidly becoming an urban art gallery. gallery. >> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. lot to cover this half hour. the other side of the veterans affairs scandal. the vets who are very pleased with the care they're getting. the lawn mower gang. unpaid but glad to give their time to make detroit a little nicer place to live. plus: ♪ over there ♪ >> three colorado women preparing for a trip to normandy to commemorate d-day.. glks confirmation tonight of the first american suicide attack in syria. the state department verified that a u.s. citizen carried identity a bombing on may 25th. officials did not release his identity or his home town. they were tipped off by posts on twitter and youtube that implied the man was fighting for al qaeda. one photo showed him loading trucks. already filled with suicide bombers. opposition fighters have surrounded the city of idlib prompting to disrupt the elections. zana hoder reports of a crossing on the turkish border. >> hundreds of syrians are on the are move. these families are from the city of idlib, pack everything they could take after the city advised them to do so. it seems opposition fight verse made it theirs last target. >> the committee in idlib province asked people in idli bfertiolibeb city to many move y 29. >> under its control. >> people are scrair scared aftl poilg station mapolling stays m. people fled. >> reporter: some of them are arrivings in dwrirk and many are too -- turkey and many are too scared to volt. >> many said they don't want to vote on election day. others say that a rebel advance, others explained many want to leave but they can't, they're employees in state institutions and if they want to keep getting their salaries they will have to vote. the rebels have made advances in idlib. days ago they captured a strategic region. areas that supplied the forces in the north. >> translator: the people are afraid they will be attacked if rebels start advancing against government forces. >> reporter: here in the north it is contested territory. the rebels may not be able to win the war here but now, preventing from voting. >> rasha has been doferg war. in tonight -- covering the war. since she's in the war zone she's in a shadow to protect her identity. >> i have yet to meet one person here, no matter how much of a loyalist, they are, who believe that this is a real election or in any way democratic. since president assad announced his candidacy, the streets of damascus have been extremely hectic with these loyalists, and the picture of assad on the windshield and the flags flying and loyalist music blaring from the car windows and speakers mounted on the rooftops of the hummers that are famous all around damascus. all these aside, damascus residents are afraid what might happen as we get closer to election on tuesday. people go on with life as best as they can. they do, there is a lot of coffee shop with shisha smoking. now it's warmer they sit outside. especially with young people who by the way most of them are unemployed and it seems like all they do is drink coffee and tea all day in coffee shops. there is a semblance ever normalcy. but at the same time there is a lot of everyday mundane things that are deteriorating, all the time. for example, water quality in damascus is now terrible. i mean you open the faucet, which just three years ago, you would have been able to drink straight out of the faucet. you know now you actually visibly see sand coming out. also a lot of college students are purposely failing their exams in order to postpone their mandatory military service. you know their life is suspended in time just waiting for this to end. >> we turn now to africa. the cariba dam is one of the biggest man made dams. located on a river between zambia and zimbabwe. millions are living down river an tanya reed has the story. >> one of the word always biggest for evere for more than a are century it's harnessed the zambeezi river. the wall is cracked and needs to be l fixed urgently. chief is among the three and a half million people who live down river. his people believe a river spirit called the yami yami is to blame. >> it is true yami yami is responsible for cracks in the dam because it doesn't want anyone to tamper with the rivers. when the zambezi is blocked it makes problems for all of us. >> but this man doesn't believe thathat. >> it is of great concern to us down here because we are on the receiving ends. we don't want the tsunami to come up here. we hope the government is doing everything possible to do it. >> they do need to raise $250 million before the complex repair work can begin. to get a sense of scale take a look at lake careba there, held back bib the many dam which is about 24 and a half meters thick. if we look down at the sheer drop, you get a sense of the volume of river held back by the dam and how catastrophic it would be if anything went wrong. zambia's mints of energy says the problem isn't imminent but he is treating it as if it were. >> we want to start as soon as possible. we don't want to delay. we know the issue and we are concerned. >> tens of millions of people have better than relocated away from the dam. the zambeeze provides in other ways. whether you believe the contraction in the dam are caused by an ancient river spirit or other reasons. arrest and hang of two teen aged girls in india. students in new delhi took to the streets. protesting the lack of action by the police. thrblg has been increased fighting near the russian border and residents in the town of slovyansk are fleeing after reports of shelling in residential areas. veterans affairs secretary eric shinseki is out, resigned today after new revelations about veterans were forced to wait for several months before getting the hearing they needed. his deputy sloane gibson will serve as interim until a new secretary is confirmed. on memorial day police shot and killed a veteran named sims and sheila macvicar takes a look on "america tonight." tell us about this story sheila. >> john, this is a story of sargtd isaac sims, a member of the 82nd airborne, an exemplary soldier. his life basically fell apart. he had stpt many ptsd he was owed to go tot va hospital to seek help. when he went the va said they had nothing they could give him. they had no bed for him and no treatment time for him. here's his mother, patricia. >> he was doing everything he is supposed to do and he's dead. and i don't know how else to say, i'm shocked i'm appalled. >> isaac sims died over the weekend after a five hour standoff with police that ended whether he walked out the door of his loam carrying a gun raised the rifle at officers and police shot him dead at the scene. john. >> it's tragic. this ordeal began in a special court system for veterans? >> there's a special court system set up in some cities in the country and kansas city is one of them. it's a court system that'sness is designed to deal with vette rans that commit, acts without criminalizing them. the, come about asfs dmpt and other things ahave hand during their service. so it's designed to appropriately punish the veteran but more important it's designed to try to help that veteran go straight. so in this case, he's up before a judge in the veterans court on a count of domestic violence, actually. and the court, the judge said okay i'm going to give you two yearsyears' probation. you have to show me you're not on drugs you're not drinking and you've got to go immediately to the va. you have got to get treatment at the va. he goes to the va and the va says we do not have a bed for you. come back in 30 days. within 30 days he's back in court, he's in trouble, the judge says, you must go to the va. he goes again to the va and the va says, we don't have a bed for pickup. >> and of course there are -- for you. >> there are many other problems that are mentioned in the inspector general's report right? >> there are fams waiting times -- false waiting times, follow up exams that aren't ordered. it is improper denial of things like psychiatric care benefits. it's a whole host of things that mean that for some veterans they can either be denied benefits they should be receiving or it can take them a very, very long time oget them. >> sheila's report on "america tonight" coming up right after this newscast, 9:00 eastern, 6:00 pacific time. despite the croiv controver, many veterans say they are happy with the care they are receiving. served as a medic in the military joins us from southfield administrative e-michigan right outside of detroit. bob welcome. >> welcome john, thank you so ty much for having me on the program. >> tell me what the va means to veterans. >> what the va means to veterans, the mission statements of the va health care system is to honor all american veterans, all american veterans and serve them with extraordinary care that improves their health and well-being. that statement is in stone. that statement isn't going to be changed one iota. and what we have found and my own personal experience has been quite the contrary to what, i mean i've really heard some tough interviews to follow. and after that one to come up with the positive, but you have to look at what happened to me. and the information that i'm about to give all you folks. right now, the va health care system is patient-centered. it does have patient orientation. and it all begins with the model that is managed care, it doesn't -- what it does is put everything into focus, into perspective. so that the veteran does get the appropriate care. and it all starts on their visit with the primary care physician. they are the captain of the team. they are the one that do the referrals. and i want to say to all you veterans out there. when you come to va, firm you're with other veterans. that makes pooh big difference. you're sitting in the waiting room, you see the badges you see the hate hath you see the uniform, you get conversation. coming to the va it's veteran centered. secondly, there are numbers of the service people that service the veterans at the va systems, are veterans themselves. veterans helping veterans. i once staffed a paratrooper, said it's 0130 hours, what were you thinking about? i didn't want to let my bud yeah down. that's way it is -- buddy down. i know there are situations, i'm not making excuses but it's out there. i went through system. okay, go ahead. >> no no no and i want to hear about but just characters the ce care you get at the va. >> by the way i happen to be in the health care business i just retired recently so i know a little bit about this. and the delivery was as far as the va was that they could also go outside the va system as far as the physicians go. and been the te been the tertiay care. i had something that only effects 500,000 people out of a country of 300 million. there isn't a whole lot of surgeons that can do the surgery. i had tremendous pain. i knew i had a chance to not just have the medication but to have the surgery. i went to the va. i went to my primary care physician. they made the referral, right there in front of me. where can you do that outside the va, come on you folks in the civilian world, boy i'd like to see that specialist who saw my brother, it's a six month wait. those things are inherent, those things of being secondary and tertiary care. he referred me on the spot. to the neurology department, the cat scans all the prep work and they i had the surgery. the point i want to make folks is that it wasn't at the va but the va coordinated everything. i am living proof, it worked. i was sent to the university of michigan. had the top trigeminal neurologist surgeon who did the work. i was able to have him complete recovery all from the va and it didn't cost me anything. it's all part of the care that we all earned as veterans. and i encourage you veterans to go out there and do the system. and if there is a problem which you don't have in the outside world, is patient advocacy. that's right, you have somebody to go to. go to your doctor that's outside the va and you can't go anywhere. go ahead john. >> it is an important point and bob, you make it well, bob gould, it's's good to see you. many we'll see you next time. >> thank you very much, god bless. >> in bankrupt droid detroit maintaining parks and green spaces is not a priority. but droits neglecte detroit's n. bisi onile-ere has the story. >> they call themselves the detroit mower gang. it's a group of volunteer landscapers who spend one night every other week mowing and trimming some of the droift dets neglected parks. >> kids will come out and play on the swings and that sort of thing. that's very satisfying. before you got there they had no place to play and after you left they did. >> the bankrupt city has more than 300 parks but can only afford to maintain about half them. the result, parks overwhelmed by overgrown grass and trash. parks have become places to avoid. >> that watt pretty bad and it -- was pretty bad and wasn't well kept at all. >> rhonda smith said her neighborhood park began to deteriorate whether the budget strapped city began to be l are neglect it. the mower gang swept in and the residents were thankful. >> there is someone there to be able to step up and make things happen and we don't have to step up and wait for city to provide services that we can take. >> volunteers will spend hours working on this one project. they are droifn take on grass -- driven to take on grass and weeds. in some of detroit's worse neighborhoods and some of them don't even live here. >> jim travels over an hour and a half just to help out. >> i see the bankruptcy, the awareness that that has caused as an opportunity for us, the people that live here, to turn this thing around. >> in 2013, detroit maintained just 25 parks. that number has since jumped to 150. last april the city launched an adopt-a-park program. commitments to maintain over 60 detroit parks. >> there is a certain satisfaction in a job well done and sometimes you have to pay to make that happen. >> and for the detroit mower gang there's still a lot more grown tground to cover. being bisbisi onile-ere, al jaz, detroit. what's to say about the upcoming world cup. plus: ♪ over there >> 60 years later, the music that brought the world together. ether. >> plenty of showers and thunderstorms across the midwest. stretching from montana to the southeast. in fact it is the southeast that we have heard reports of tornadoes, heavy showers, lots of rain embedded within them. bringing in a lot of rainfall to places that don't necessarily need it. in the last 24 hours, shreveport over an inch of rain for you. we've got a lot of flash flood warnings in places like new orleans and pensacola. now over the weekend more rain on the way. we're going to continue with showers and thunderstorms but they have a lot of rainfall packed in. totals two to four inches in the heaviest showers. forecast for saturday, when it comes to thunderstorms, will be in some of the spots experiencing heavy rainfall. severe weather looks to be montana, dakotas, kansas and nebraska as well. these storms are the strongest potential of producing a tornado on sunday. place he like rapid city to sioux falls. places to be watched. al jazeera america continues. es. >> soccer marches won't be the only treat for thousands of tourists at the world cup next month. a road leading up to one of sao paulo's stadiums has become an art gallery. daniel sand li sandler has more. >> the opening match between brazil and croatia. long long road, four kilometers of it, very, very dull that needed to be livened up. every single element of the game of football that they can think about. the passion, the emotion, the tragedy and the ultimate victory. >> translator: this event here is a four kilometers graffiti wall. the longest one in latin america and involves 70 artists. my proposal, fun watching the game. sort of an animation story of the games. i show fun during the game. starting with the beginning and included the moments of tension and suddenness until we reach the celebration of the goal. the idea is that those driving down this road will have the sensensation of watching an animation frame by frame. >> nobody expresses themselves better than the brazilians. brazil artists to express themselves too. >> daniel bl be schweindler reporting. >> what is now doing to protect your privacy. and the new york times calls him the standout male vocalist of all time. my conversation with grammy award winning jazz musicia musit elling . >> among them, three singers from colorado with a sound that brings back some memories. jim hig high hoolie has the sto. >> aiamy. >> christy. >> marnie. >> over there, over there over there send the word over there ♪ >> their murveg is a journey back in -- music is a journey back in time. when the andrews sisters cheered on the men in uniform. ♪ sit down under the apple tree >> then when the andrews sisters songs dominated, eask her africd europe and here at home. revellie 3. >> before their shows the women painstakingly primp. making sure they have the andrews sisters down pat. >> it used to take me an hour. now i've got it down to 40, 45 minutes. >> do you everybody worry that what do you up on stage might be considered just a little geeky? >> yeah. i go out in my pirn curls and you would not -- pin curls and would you not believe the look. >> not just the look, they're also about the letters. >> i hope you think of me as often as i think of you. >> letters home to the gis from their loved ones. some all too real. >> my great uncle died in the battle of the bulge. we have his letters and pictures and things he sent home and i pulled out one of his license from his letters -- lines from his letters that i read. >> we are very honored to be able to represent the united states around the allied informs and it is overwhelming. and i think waterproof mascara is going to have to be in order. >> 73 years later, the place of reville 3, jim hoolie, al jazeera, denver. >> an image, workers replaced a layer of protective coating on the floor of that building's famous glass bottom ledges. yesterday, a family got the fright of their lives when the coating suddenly cracked. the coating doesn't affect the integrity of the ledge. that's good news. news. >> on "america tonightmentful" force"america tonight": leavingr care. any change comes too late for the fallen soldiers who just couldn't wait for help. >> we've been told we need treatment and they said we don't really have any space for you or time for you. >> the system that led america's veterans down and why change at the top may not be enough to stave next generation of