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As anticipated, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published its final rule amending the overtime regulations of the federal wage and hour law, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)...

Crews found nothing in the end. the search was called off in january 2017 but now the malaysian government is telling families that it will continue the search. cnn aviation correspondent richard quest is following these developments. of course you were on top of this throughout the months following the disappearance five years ago. is there any hope that if they do keep the search they are going find anything? do they know where to search? >> they do and area of serging gets ever narrower. the ...

Surface. >> looking for small features. similar to something like this pix sell. alrea >> reporter: a year into the search. debris began washing up on the coast of africa. and islands in the indian ocean. the governments funding the $150 million operation decided it had gone on long enough. officially ending the search in january 2017. devastating families all over again. earlier this year a private u.s. company took up the search on a no find no fee basis. after five months it failed to produce...

To the v.a., they cant even spend it all. this year theyre going to turn back $450 million that they dont know how to spend. theyve had billion-dollar surpluses in the recent past. you know, the v.a. -- excuse me, the veterans population in this country has tripled in the last 13 years even though with world war ii generation passing away we have now fewer veterans than we used to have in this country. >> what do you make of suggestions that its time to privatize the v.a.? obviously one of the s...

He didnt do that. >> how would that, for someone who doesnt understand the va, the massive va system, how would that change the problem immediately? >> well, the va already has the opportunity to send veterans out on fee basis or into the private market but they have to go through several steps in order to do that. number one the va has to not be able to handle it, den a dod facility close by must not have the ability to handle it, and also if they have contracts with a teaching hospital or some...

being able to stop it and also being able to evolve more tools to control it and where it cannot be controlled to be able to take additional actions. this obviously because of the timing will have to be done in the next month or so i would think. and so we will be working together in that direction. so i now would like to ask senator chambliss, my distinguish distinguished vice chairman, to make some comments. >> well, thanks, chairman feinstein. let me just say that thanks no the lead...

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Will go into effect in 2013 and that will put a big bite out of our defense budget. what did you think about what newt gingrich had to say thats correct he would be open to cutting defense because he thinks its reprehensible, thats my word, to sum up what he said, that it takes 15, 20 years to come up with some of these weapons and the whole process of building them. and he thinks its a wasteful process in some ways. do you think its a wasteful process? >> well, i think that we are now engaged i...

Will go into effect in 2013 and that will put a big bite out of our defense budget. what did you think about what newt gingrich had to say thats correct he would be open to cutting defense because he thinks its reprehensible, thats my word, to sum up what he said, that it takes 15, 20 years to come up with some of these weapons and the whole process of building them. and he thinks its a wasteful process in some ways. do you think its a wasteful process? >> well, i think that we are now engaged i...