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>> we have seen bizarre stuff but that rescue was on the dash cam. they got a call the woman was just sitting there. she is going to the hospital for a mental evaluation and we hope she is okay. it can be the toughest training in the military. the armys underwater combat schools. more than 2/3rds of people wash out and we go there as the facility marks their 50th anniversary. >> you want to be royalty? you have perks and enemies. one of perks is a trip to the set of game of thrones where the

Without treatment. one of them was there for eight years after he was admitted before he got his first psychiatric evaluation. citing a troubling pattern, the letter from the office of special counsel to president obama says veterans health and safety has been unnecessarily put at risk because the va refuses to admit that problems reported by whistle blowers could impact the health of patients. that is something cnn learned firsthand from whistleblowers across the country, like brian turner. as ...

Dozen of whistleblowers working inside these facilities. our senior investigative correspondent drew griffin has been bringing national attention to the scandal for montz now and joins me from atlanta. this is according to a letter from the office of the special counsel to the white house. some of the allegations here are shocking. what have you learned from this report? >> this is the group of prosecutors that work for the government protecting whistleblowers and investigating their complaints....

>> one week after what staff described as a suicide attempt, maricopa county inmate manuel martinez has undergone a psychological evaluation and has been transferred from a padded safe cell back to his own cell in the high-security unit. >> you were having a rough day that day, right? >> real rough. >> what was going on, your girl? >> yeah, just family problems. i was trying to get a call in and they werent hearing me and i was just trying to basically let them know i was going through some thin...

No inclination whatsoever that he had problems. it was just like that, he was down. >> it wasnt so much hanging as strangulation. its hard for them to hang because theres no place for them to swing from. more or less they strangle themselves. >> martinez will be placed on suicide watch and moved to a padded safe cell where he will be held pending an evaluation from the jails psychiatric staff. >> all the way up. face the far door. relax, all right. >> i cant breathe. i cant breathe. >> just rela...

>> during one of our routine security walks, officers noticed he was attempting to hang himself. so the next step in the process, move to psych, stay there for evaluation and probably end up coming back. >> sometimes it can be a setup. they want you to come in and theyre ready to take an officer out. >> come here. step out. to your left. left foot up, right foot up, either one. he was down here on all fours with a noose around his neck saying, you know, he was crying, crying, crying for his girl...

Protect government whistle blowers, so if you are inside the v.a., you want to come forward something with you know is harming patients. this is the agency you go to. this agency just wrote a letter to the president, we dont believe the v.a. is investigating our cases, we dont believe the v.a. is investigating or coming to the right conclusions when it comes to patient arms -- harms. they detailed ten different cases where obvious patient harm took place but there was no follow through. in addit...

Not believe the va. we do not believe the va is investigating. we do not believe that they can get to the bottom of these issues. >> why dont they believe that? >> in ten different cases across the country, specific examples where they believe a whistle-blower came forward, veterans were harmed, nothing happened. zippo, nothing. its been going on for a couple years. they have 50 cent allegations by whistle blowers of safety threats and harm to veterans under investigation. 29 of which have been ...

Government in iraq is a failure. and it has drin sunnis in iraq into the arms of the radical lastly. there is a worse case scenario. potentially if the iraqi government starts to fall apart we evacuate the embassy. and having you know, an increased number of troops to be able to secure and prepare an evaluation is what they are thinking of. >> and the rub here the united states is not fond of the malco government. but we have to prop the malco government up to put a lid on it, i guess. >> you ne...

Performance appraisal system. to have opm, you must have evaluation of the senior executives and distribution of awards. >> reporter: those criteria resulted in a $63,000 bonus to the director of the pittsburgh, p.a p.a., at the time that six patients died there of legionnaires disease. and the construction chief received a bonus of $55,000 while dayton ohio director received a bonus while hepatitis c and b were going on of $12, 0 $12,000. and then this was fired broadside. >> based on the backg...