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jon stewart goes to the hill and sounds off on the gop. they haven t met a veteran they won t screw over. o donnell: families of 9/11 victims blast donald trump as the former president hosts a saudi backed liv tour at his new jersey golf club just 50 miles from ground zero, his controversial comments. nobody has gotten to the bottom of 9/11, unfortunately. o donnell: monkeypox crisis: the major american city tonight declaring a state of emergency as cases explode. jetblue buying spirit: what the $3.8 billion deal could many for your next strip trip and how an nfl superstar is helping kansas city teenagers give back to their community. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. good evening, to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this busy thursday night. tonight, for the second time this week, catastrophic flooding has forced americans to flee their homes in the middle of the night, th
taiwan. failing america s veterans, after burn pit legislation is blocked by senate republicans, jon stewart goes to the hill and sounds off on the gop. they haven t met a veteran they won t screw over. o donnell: families of 9/11 victims blast donald trump as the former president hosts a saudi back liv tour at his new jersey golf club just 50 miles from groind zero, his controversial comments. nobody has gotten to the bottom of nien niern, unfortunately. o donnell: monkeypox crisis, the major american city tonight declaring a state of emergency as cases explode. jetblue buying spirit what the 3.8 billion dollar deal could many for your next strip trip and how an nfl superstar is helping kansas city teenagers give back to their community. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell. reporting from the nation s capitol. good evening, thank you for joining us on this busy thursday night. tonight for the second time this week catastrophic flooding has forced
Pits and other sources. cbs s ed o keefe reports the deadline to qualify for retroactive benefits has been extended, but time is running out. in april of this year. reporter: marking the anniversary of a landmark law, today in utah, president biden recalled his son, beau, one of the veterans exposed to toxic fumes from burn pits at bases in iraq and afghanistan. and later died of brain cancer. it s personal for my family, but it s also personal for so many of you. reporter: army reservist le roy torres also served in iraq. ten years later, he was diagnosed with constrictive bronchitis. i was more concerned with either, you know, indirect fire or being shot, but never did i know that, you know, this invisible enemy was going to follow us home. reporter: the pact act is designed to assist up to 4.5 million veterans exposed to burn pits or to agent orange in vietnam. so far, there have been about 800,000 sign-ups. veterans like us are now eligible for a new va care and benefit
And vials and burnt rubber and exploded aerosol cans. and what was your concern about them. these are carcinogens and things that you should never be burning like this in an open pit. some of the bigger bases the u.s. eventually installed incinerators with stacks that carried the toxic fumes away from troops. but not in time for army reservist leroy torres. i lived approximately one mile from the burn pit. was 2 in constant use. it operated 24/7. after a year in iraq, torres returned to his civilian job as a texas state trooper. but the damage was done. ten years later i was diagnosed with a toxic brain injury. he needs supplemental oxygen and suffers from a respiratory condition called constrictive bronchitis which cost him both his military and civilian jobs. we almost lost our house, exhausted our life savings, put us in a very dark place. he keeps a gallery of service members who have already died