We will begin with a panel of witnesses who will serve share their personal experiences with the organ transplant system in america. Now i will introduce to you our witnesses. Our first witness todays tanya ingraham. Tanya is currently waiting for an oregon. Then we will hear from doctor katz, who is uniquely acquainted with Organ Transplants and she is the mother of a transplant recipient, and she was a living organ donor to her child, and she is an emergency medical doctor. Then we will hear from look quiet gold rimmed. She is also waiting for a transplant. The witnesses will be unmuted so we can swear them at. So swear them in. Very good. Please raise your right hands. Do you swear that the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god . Yes, i do. Very good thank you let the record show that the witnesses all answered in the affirmative. Thank you. Without objection, theyre written statements will be made part of the record
To more votes after that. [speaking french] right and i havent. So since mcdonald and what hes gonna say since everetts testimony you read every word . A big rate. They call this va hearing to order. Good afternoon, i want to welcome you all for being here today. A special welcome to the secretary of the va, thank you for being here, secretary madonna. Nearly nine months ago the va rolled out its new Electronic Health records, at the va Medical Center. At the time va officials described the rollout as flawless. Former secretary said of his revolutionary. Those that said we pulled off the most expensive itp graham in government history. He said we only heard crickets because the critics from the critics because it had gone so well. Well guess what . Since a lot of those statements were made, a lot of staff who were frustrated demoralized by new system that is making their jobs far more difficult. We are hearing from just a whole prior to the launch last october which i might point out w
plane blown out of the sky. stories that seem to show the russian government is skirming as new evidence points directly their way. all of this happening tonight as the remains of those on board that plane are finally beginning the long journey home. so that s where we start with abc s chief foreign correspondent terry moran at the crash site in ukraine and the latest from investigators right now. reporter: finally after four days, the professionals showed up today. a three-man forensics team from the netherlands, joined by international monitors still surrounded by armed and masked rebels but bringing a bit of order to the chaos here. the air crash investigators have just arrived at one of the major impact sites scattered through these fields. they re taking pictures, walking around, just getting a sense of what they can learn here. ahead, a daunting task searching for signs of shrapnel or explosive residue or tell-tale damage, scattered across a 13-square-mile site that
that s a controversial topic in sacramento, but it s looking like a real possibility. we are also having our congressmen join us. he s just back from afghanistan and from town hall meeting in his district in the east bay where the hot topic listeria. first, developing news this morning out of antioch where sheriffs are investigating a possible deadly shooting. it happened around 1:40 this morning. the gunman opened fire on people inside the paradise roller skating rink. several people were shot. investigators are still on the scene and not releasing much information on victims this hour. and now to the heat everybody is talking about. he gives people a great excuse to get out and about. we are two weeks away from fall, believe it or not, but it really doesn t feel that way. boy, it s been warned. it s the time of year when things get warm in the bay area. we are now close to record highs. because of high-pressure over nevada, the perfect conditions for an onshore flow.
has been said, and notwithstanding the videotape. he said there s not evidence to make a conclusive judgment. he would not say, even though i read him the lead paragraph of the new york times today, and the store betheir chemical weapons supply. he said i can t confirm or deny we have chemical weapons. he did say, if we do in fact have them, and i m not saying yes or no. they re in centralized control, so no one else has access to them. he suggested as he has before that perhaps the rebels had something to do with it. he made references to aleppo. the most important thing as he says is that there s no evidence that i used chemical weapons against my own people. and if, in fact the evidence has evidence, then they should show that evidence and make their case. i then obviously repeated the fact that secretary ker sein the process of making the case and that, in fact, that information is being shown to members of congress, as they begin to come back to washington and consider a