good morning and welcome, everyone. this is joint hearing of the subcommittee on disability assistance and memorial affairs an oversight and investigation will come to order. i first want to take a moment to thank my colleagues, chambering man. ranging member esty who should be along this morning and ranking member kuster holding the hearing on important issue we re facing helping gulf war veterans get benefits they earned. it should go without saying we have a duty to take care of the men and women who have been wounded while serving in our military. unfortunately too many injured gulf war veterans are not being taken care of. va estimates 44% of gull war veterans develop gulf war illness, yet 26% of those veterans are receiving benefits. something doesn t add up. on march 15th, 2016 during a similar joint hearing on gwi claims va, va testified that it was taking steps to improve service for gulf war veterans. yet one year later, gao found va is still only approving 17% of
was gone. that was the first time. it s not like kelsey jensen is driving a fancy car, but her 2012 kia optima is apparently in demand, stolen twice in a matter of days. it was horrible, absolutely horrible. it was heartbreaking. the second time it was stolen, she figured it was the same guy who still had the keys. so, she did some sluething of her own and with her boyfriend , went looking where it was recovered the first time near 7th and mitchell at 3:00 a.m. and i was driving, he was clicking away, and the lights just went off, and we were like, no way. there it is, right in front of our face. she called police, but when they didn t come quickly, she took action. i got impatient because i was not sure someone was going to wake up and take off with it, because then what do you do? so after calling police back hopped-in and took her car back. i walked up to it, got into it, started it, and rove off. joyce: and drove off. joyce: that was nick bohr reporting.
orlo is screen. tia: a tree landed on a house and power is out to thousands in that area. in cleveland heights more than 1,000 are without power from tuesday night s storms. tia: there s pour possibly. severe weather is coming into our area again today. sam roberts is tracking another yellow alert day. sam. samantha: we are looking at e thunderstorms, so as tia and brian mentioned today is a yellow alert day. i don t think the severe weather will be we d widespread. the potential of scattered thunderstorms 1:00 p.m. to midnight. the main threat is gusty wind and heavy rain. i m concerned about the heavy rain threat for the weekend, but more your morning commute, there may be big puddles in your yard for yesterday s rain, but no actual rain is falling this morning. it is hot, though. i mean, it s 81 in euclid. it s gross outside. it s so steamy you could like cut it with a knife, right? 80 in lakewoods. strongsville, one of the, quote, cole, end quote spots at about 74
we are working to get more information. details as we get them. the search for a suspect after a young woman is shot in the middle of the street. police tell us someone inside the car with out of state plates fired three shots striking the woman. the mayor admitting tonight this part of his city has turned violent recently. it s not that this happens everywhere but it has happened here in this times. we want to make sure that they know that we know that there s a problem here we will get right it on. reporter: more officers will be posted on hancock street while the investigation unfolds. a suspected terrorist shot dead in a c.v.s. parking lot. on fox 25 news at 4:00 we learned that the officers involved would not face charges for the 2015 shooting. fox 25 s john monahan is standing by live with new reaction from the suspect s family. john? reporter: mark, the family met with the d.a. for 90 minutes today but still situation that led to the death. the d.a. though sayi
response to a deepwater horizon spill back in 2010. the measure requires oil companies to develop plans for close watch on deepwater drilling operations with real-time monitoring that pushes data to officials on land. it requires companies to boost the frequency of inspections of critical emergency equipment and requires offshore operators to centralized type inside pipe wells. officials investigated the 2010 wellre of bp s mocando in the gulf of mexico. david: julie has the latest. about two hours to the close of trading. julie: i want to see if there is any reaction in oil prices to this. it does not appear there is. in part because any of the parties involved have discussed these changes with the u.s. government in advance. they had an idea of what could potentially be coming. oil a little changed right now. it s taking a very small leg down after these headlines came out on the new regulations. what is at issue is the talks and the comments out from the international en