Before we began this morning and want to recognize some participants that are in the audience with us from the American Legion boys nation of joined us here today. All will you address to fund the debt of gratitude and stepping up as my Ranking Member has said during the very trying times for the department, and we appreciate you being here. He is accompanied by mr. Denny pommel, direct deputy undersecretary for benefits of the department of veterans affairs. Assistant director undersecretary for health and administrative operations at the department of veterans affairs. As always, your complete written so it statement, mr. Secretary, will be made a part of the hearing record. With that, you are recognized for your Opening Statements. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I will get straight to business. Concerning health care we have serious issues. Here is how i see the problems. First of veterans are waiting to long for care. Second, scheduling and improprieties were widespread, including delibe
Mr. Emerson what was the world like in 1913 . I know thats a really generic question. I think the short answer to that question is the world was a lot more like today than we tend to think. It was very highly globalized, very modern in many respects. We tend to think of the world certainly in europe to look at the prison prism of the war or a look at in blackandwhite. So what im trying to do with the book is very much bring back the color if you would like and look at it as it appeared to the people alive at that time. Host how do you approach 1913 in your book lacks. Guest well the way i do it is essentially a traveling around the world which is what people could do if horse in 1913 so i look at 23 different cities around the world starting in london which was very much the capital of the world, the center of lovell finance and then traveling first around europe and then more widely to the United States to mexico and into places which were a little bit more off the beaten track, winni
From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, lester holt. Good evening. Starting with the disappearance of his wife over 30 years ago, eccentric Millionaire Robert Durst has confounded prosecutors and detectives from coast to coast as the murder suspect they could never quite make a solid case against until maybe now. Tonight durst is behind bars in new orleans awaiting extradition to los angeles where he faces charges in one of those cases, the murder of a friend back in 2000. Its a case that may have been solved in part with millions of tv viewers watching. An hbo documentary provided a stunning twist to a long and sordid tale. Our Stephanie Gosk was in the courtroom for his first appearance today. Stephanie. Reporter good evening, lester. Robert durst was escorted into the courtroom. He was handcuffed shackled in an orange jumpsuit. The 71yearold is waiving his right to an extradition hearing, but prosecutors here in new orleans are thre
Last week Mory Ortman & Jordan Ortman returned to their alma mater to present a piano concert as a fundraiser for Freeman Academy’s Cultivate 120 campaign, and in the process raised the roof with top-shelf music inside an old gymnasium. It may have sounded like something you would hear in Carnegie Hall, but Saturday night’s concert featuring Freeman Academy alumni Dr. Mory Ortman (class of 1989) and Jordan Ortman (class.