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least 10 people are dead across three states some children after tornadoes ripped through the southern plains this memorial day weekend. the flattened homes, flipped arbys left hundreds of thousands of people without power. hello welcome to "fox news livei am rich edson. molly: i am molly line eric and arthel are off today. there are reports of a least 20 tornadoes in the region overnight. recovery efforts are now underway one te in texas the sheriff says it is not easy. corwe have a l...

If you are a veteran and believe you may have been exposed to dangerous conditions during your service, you may qualify for benefits through the VA.

Many U.S. service members, veterans and active-duty members who served in Afghanistan are having a hard time dealing with the chaos in that region following the Taliban take over.

Heres another one. a military vet, comes -- goes to his local va, comes home, goes to his or her local va, and tells the doctor theyre having trouble sleeping at night or anyone who shares nightmares, nightmares with a medical professional, they all become potential triggers that somebody, somewhere could define as a mental health barrier to owning a firearm. i even heard a television pundit recently suggesting that people seeking to buy a firearm should be interviewed first. i mean, interviewed...

Be is the focus will shift to congress in a sense and question get an idea of whether or not the house and the senate can work out some agreement on several different legislative proposals make it easy for the v.a. secretary whoever that person becomes, to get rid of people who are found to be involved in these accusations of mismanagement of poor care and delayed care. theres an understanding in the senate they will try to move very quickly on at least one bill that would make it easier for the...

Information to federal prosecutors when the folks at the v.a. think they may have something that could involve criminal conduct. the justice department is gathering this information and if the federal prosecutors decide there is evidence of potential criminal violations, then the justice department will launch a criminal investigation but senior officials tell us it hasnt happened yet. its certainly gathering information but merely because things were screwed up at the v.a. medical centers if th...

White house with us. we had eric shinseki giving the audit to the president before submitting his resignation yesterday. what more does this audit reveal and what happens next? >> good question, alex. >> reporter: one of the other troubling findings of that audit is that 78% of scheduling staffers used alternative methods than the electronic scheduling system and that occurred in about 64% of v.a. facilities nationwide so that just gives you a snapshot of how widespread this misconduct was. now ...

>> those bases are overwhelmed very often and not bases have a surge of doctors. >> easy. guess what? we do a search. he can call upon right now veterans who just came up active duty who are still in the reserves, he can bring them back on active duty in something called tem act. the budget is there for tem act. >> do you think that could work? tyreak, you first. >> its thinking outside the box and these are the things that we actually, you know, need and we need, you know, new people to come in...

Problem and it is part political and part managerial. one of the political steps was to deal with the secretary at the v.a. i was with eric shinseki in the morning when he was addressing homeless veterans. he had two standing ovations because on that particular issue, dealing with homeless veterans, he had a lot of support. on the bigger issue of what has been uncovered at the v.a., obviously, became political untenable. so we saw the resignation. that is one step. but so many lawmakers and vete...