Lakes, nearly 40 million americans are under the threat of Severe Weather tonight. A massive storm system is dumping snow and hail, spawning powerful winds and possibly tornadoes. The fastmoving storm system unleashed torrential rains along the heartland today. A suspected tornado was spotted this evening in powersville, iowa. Another twister was spotted in the southern iowa town of avoca. An 18 wheeler was blown off the road there by 77mileperhour winds. That same severe storm system created blizzard conditions western plains. The blinding snow made driving dangerous near denver. Eric fisher is chief meteorologist at our cbs station in boston, wbz. Eric, how bad is it . Charlie, weve been watching these damaging storms move across iowa this afternoon and into this evening. Several reported tornadoes along the way. There are still more damage reports coming in as we speak surveying some of the damage some of those pictures showing certainly several tornadoes have touched down. We still
On this veterans day, president obama said he is still not satisfied with the department of veterans affairs. The president ordered a massive overhaul last year. After reports that many vets were forced to wait months for treatment. Now Margaret Brennan reports the va paid millions in bonuses some of it to doctors under investigation. Reporter dr. David houlihan former chief of staff at veteran center in tomah, washington was nicknamed the candyman, he allegedly dolled out high amount of pain medications to patients. Yet the va paid houlihan, a 400 4,000 performance bonus last year. Being fired earlier this week. The v. A. Paid out 143 million in performance bonuses to employees in 2014. Several under investigation or accused of mismanagement, the list compiled by the House Veterans Affairs committee and jeff miller who said it is evidence of the va disturbing trend of rewarding employees who preside over corruption and incompetence. In a statement the v. A. Said it needs to pay bonuse
Accused of mismanagement, the list compiled by the House Veterans Affairs committee and jeff miller who said it is evidence of the va disturbing trend of rewarding employees who preside over corruption and incompetence. In a statement the v. A. Said it needs to pay bonuses to attract and retain top talent and did suspend payouts last year to some senior executives, following revelations employees falsified wait lists to meet targets. V. A. Secretary bob mcdonald brought on the fix the wait list scandal said the agency has made progress but congress is in the way. My vision is being held hostage by politics. What i am trying to do is to work with the members of congress to leave politics at the door and focus on veterans. Reporter now, charlie, mcdonald Needs Congress to approve a more than 1 billion funding increase he requested to to serve the 23 million veterans in this country. Thank you, margaret. Two Fantasy Sports web sites said today they will fight to stay in business in new yo
The fastmoving storm system unleashed torrential rains along the heartland today. A suspected tornado was spotted this evening in powersville, iowa. Another twister was spotted in the southern iowa town of avoca. An 18 wheeler was blown off the road there by 77mileperhour winds. That same severe storm system created blizzard conditions across the Rocky Mountains and western plains. The blinding snow made driving dangerous near denver. Eric fisher is chief meteorologist at our cbs station in boston, wbz. Eric, how bad is it . Charlie, weve been watching these damaging storms move across iowa this afternoon and into this evening. Several reported tornadoes along the way. There are still more damage reports coming in as we speak and the Weather Service will be surveying some of the damage tonight and into the day tomorrow. Some of those pictures showing certainly several tornadoes have touched down. We still have tornado watches that extend farther off to the east this evening as the whol
On this veterans day, president obama said he is still not satisfied with the department of veterans affairs. The president ordered a massive overhaul last year. After reports that many vets were forced to wait months for treatment. Now Margaret Brennan reports the va paid millions in bonuses some of it to doctors under investigation. Reporer dr. David houlihan former chief of staff at veteran center in tomah, washington was nicknamed the candyman, he allegedly dolled out high amount of pain medications to patients. Yet the va paid houlihan a 400 bonus last year. Taxpayer money he kept after being fired earlier this week. The v. A. Paid out 143 million in performance bonuses to s toes to employees in 2014. Several under investigation or accused of mismanagement, the list compiled by the House Veterans Affairs committee and jeff miller who said it is evidence of the va disturbing trend of rewarding employees who preside over corruption and incompa tense. In a statement the v. A. Said it