Your other point was about really the Community Providers and the type of care they deliver. You might have practiced inside and outside the va. I am note going to paint everyone the same picture. It happens to us a lot. I think there are a ton of Community Providers that are delivering extra care. Hopefully strenten them so you dont need to provide. We can provide them in house, timely and state of the art. Thats what i mean for certain things like spinal cord injury we need to make sure they are there to support our patients. At the same time for things that we think are provided at high quality in the community and maybe dont require that expertise as much like a quick exam, a colonoscopy and how do we make sure they are in our network. I think its part of our job to educate and provide resources. We started pretty much a free training program. They can get free cme credits. We have a four Course Program on military cultural competency. They can go to a web site, get that certificat
Still, with evacuations zones expanding. We found some plan to stay. I have family up in boynton. I can go there. I cant, got to stay with the ship, right. Adding to urgency of eve evacuating the keys is that pway in or out. 1 is lthe only Governor Scott activated 100 National Guard troops to help with hurricane preparations. 7,000 more will report for duty on friday. Anthony. Manuel bojorquez, thank you. Manuel. In texas the death toll from hurricane harry rose to at least 63 today. More than 88,000 people are living in red cross shelters or hotel rooms provided by fema. Mayor of houston lifted a midnight to 5 00 a. M. Curfew. The latest sign the city is slowly recovering. The toll from harvey includes a 31yearold undocumented immigrant who could have faced deportation next year. Instead, he died a hero. Omar villafranca has the the story. Translator my son went to a place where there are no borders. God never places borders. This woman remembered her son alonzo as a caring person wit
Im brook silvabraga in for annemarie green. This morning the most powerful atlantic hurricane ever recorded is bearing down on islands in the northeast caribbean, and landfall in florida is looking more and more likely. Irma hit barbuda early this morning where it knocked down power lines. In the neighboring area of antigua, it send things flying through the air. Its packing sustained winds of nearly 185 miles an hour. Its expected to move over parts of the Virgin Islands today and passion near puerto rico by tonight. Puerto ricos governor said irma is like nothing weve ever seen. Evacuations have begun in the bahamas and begin this morning in florida keys. Irma could hit florida by this weekend. Seth lemon has been monitoring the details. Good morning, brook. Residents in hurricaneprone florida arent taking any chances after seeing the devastation by Hurricane Harvey. Theyre raiding store shelf, lining up at gas stations, and heading out of town as the mandatory evacuation begins. Thi
Tonight, some of the places weve been from all these years on the road. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im Anthony Mason. The Trump Administration denied today that political connections had anything to do with restoring electrical connections to puerto rico. A huge contract was awarded to a tiny company in whitefish, montana, home town of interior secretary ryan zinke. Swrimpgy today said he had nothing to do with the contract. Cbs news correspondent David Begnaud set out today to find the headquarters of the company somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Reporter nestled down this long driveway in whitefish, montana, is a onestory wooden house which is the home of Whitefish Energy, the tiny Energy Company with only two fulltime employees surprised many. doorbell theres mail for andy. When it received a 300 million nobid contract to rebuild puerto ricos electrical grid. Whitefish has never worked on a project of this size. I mean were kind of
House building on capitol hill where shortly agriculture secretary sonny perdue is set to testify. Hell update members on the state of the Rural Economy. Actually, governor perdue, seen on your screen right there, live coverage here expected to get underway momentarily on cspan 3. Many which we dont even know. On this occasion, we ask a special blessing on our agriculture industry, and that your blessings come upon our new secretary of agriculture, sonny perdue. Dear heavenly father, finally we thank you for your holy spirit. For oftentimes we know not what we should pray for as we ought, but your holy spirit intercedes for us with groanings that cannot be uttered. We thank you for that. And we ask your holy spirit to enter this room today. These and other blessings we ask in your son, christ jesus name, amen. David, thank you. Mr. Secretary, welcome. You and i have had several conversations before this morning. Let me officially congratulate you on becoming our nations 31st secretary