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Whats the v.a. saying about this. >> in essence that theyre chipping away at the backlog. v.a. officials note that all those returning iraq and afghan war vets have contributed to the doubling of the case load for va claims workers. and that those workers none the less have processed more than a million cases a year for the last three years. still, they said senior executives in the veterans benefits administration will not be receiving any performance awards for fiscal year 2012. those instead ...

Have on procedures and times actually allotted. youll see average hours needed is the longer bar. in most cases from felonies to misdemeanors to juvenile, average hours available often several hundred hours left, according to national advisory counsel on criminal justice standards and goals. we want to seed this with real numbers and jody i want to bring you in. >> its not just time but resources. theres salary differences in prosecutors and public defenders office that dictate our value system ...

And the other thing is the i.g. basically cast this as a bureaucrat snafu, a short cut they took to try to deal with a huge case load. but if youre trying to reduce the amount of work you have to do, why would you keep putting out these letters that generate hundreds, if not thousands, of pages in responses. it just doesnt quite add up. >> yeah. david ignatius, it doesnt seem to add up. a bureaucrat snafu it seems to be more than that. what are you looking for in the coming days and weeks and wh...

Medical error can happen particularly with medication. thats what this study found it was the handoff. if you you are just in charge of your patients case load, you dont makes a many mistakes. one of the big estherers they found that doctors are making you dont write the correct prescription. thats troubling it is troubling. right medication. it has to be spelled correctly. we have to have the correct dose, the correct number of times per day to prescribe it we have to be very careful to make ha...

Deployments. the supreme court is adding to its high-profile case load, announcing it will hear a challenge to arizonas immigration law. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams has more on that. >> reporter: having already agreed to rule on the obama health care law and on how texas and other states carve up districts for their seats in congress, the justices jumped into another controversial issue animating the presidential campaign. how much power states have to control illegal immigrat...

hes a fascinating guy. all right. >> thanks very much, kyra. all right. lets get you up to speed for this thursday, november 3rd. investors on wall street are watching whats happening in europe and were keeping a close watch on the markets and your money. stocks open higher after a decision by the european central bank to cut interest rates right now dow is up 94 points, but every little cent counts at the g-20 summit in france. president obama met with french president nicolas sarko...

ask cains former employer to lift that confidentiality agreement so she could break her silence. she wants to file a written statement contradicting his claims that he did nothing improper. the stress on the presidential candidate, as you can see, is showing. >> dont even bother asking me all of these other questions that you all are curious about. okay. dont even bother. excuse me. excuse me. >> cains not just snapping at reporters. now lashing out at rick perry. a perry campaign advi...

way again today. the protests began last month and have now spread to several other u.s. cities. >> folks, sit down, please. folks, everyone, step down. >> there was the scene yesterday. today the brooklyn bridge is open after the group shut down one side of the bridge in protest of what they call corporate greed. 700 people were arrested. the u.s. state department has issued a worldwide travel alert for americans living or traveling abroad. it warns that followers of al qaeda figure...

pat on the back to president barack obama. >> well, i think the decision that has been made with respect to allowing gays to serve openly in the military is a good one, the right thing to do. >> president obama signed the law repealing, dont ask, dont tell." it went into effect last month. the brooklyn bridge is open today after a group of occupy wall street protesters shut it down saturday. police arrested more than 700 of the protesters. the loosely organized demonstration began th...

Considered judicial emergencies. you add up the total, its about 101, 100 or so nominees that are open, vacancies in both the district courts and the circuit courts. its the district courts, the trial courts, where the trouble is especially severe. >> indeed. i ran into a judge here on the superior court in d.c., who i think we discussed this earlier, who told me that there are 15 judgeships and only ten are filled. that means that five are vacant. and in a city that has more than its share of c...