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A sheriffs deputy recovering a possible gunshot wound to the leg after a shooting at an ocala gas station. They were called out to a kangaroo gas station where a man was in the parking lot with multiple handguns. At one point he raised one of the handguns to his head and they tried to calm him down. Thats when the suspect began firing at deputies and they wounded the man. Again, he and the suspect both taken to the hospital. Weve got a crew headed to the scene in ocala. Stay tuned for fox 35 new...

At a time when we have dealt with a confused health system, high rates of suicide, homelessness, unemployment and lingering scars of more than a decade of war do our leaders seem more interested in feel good cheers than the serious 21 st century challenges. Its the inside story welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez and this is inside story. Service in this countrys armed forces moved from a mass experience to a rare one. The shift to an all volunteer military made uniform service a matter of pe...

St century challenges. Its the inside story welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez and this is inside story. Service in this countrys armed forces moved from a mass experience to a rare one. The shift to an all volunteer military made uniform service a matter of personal desire rather than the nations broad based needs. Every president from Harry Trueman to George Hw Bush served in the military. A big percentage of men elected to the house and senate for decades had some form of military experie...

Good cheers than the serious 21 st century challenges. Its the inside story welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez and this is inside story. Service in this countrys armed forces moved from a mass experience to a rare one. The shift to an all volunteer military made uniform service a matter of personal desire rather than the nations broad based needs. Every president from Harry Trueman to George Hw Bush served in the military. A big percentage of men elected to the house and senate for decades h...

It continues to be sluggish and i cannot give you a reason why that occurred. We are aware that mortgage credit is very tight for a wide range of borrowers and that maybe part of it. We hear about supply constraints builders are facing but i have to say i am surprised. What more do you think the fed can do to help stimulate recovery in the housing sector both for those homeowners who are upside down in the values and those to help new people qualify for homes. Housing prices are continuing to in...

Become central. The veteran needs to be seen today, we have failed that veteran. You are looking for different ways i think we will be looking at different ways to evaluate timeliness of care, a combination of patient satisfaction, veterans waiting too long and seeing that number coming down steadily. And then as we have the system could ability to do things like you see in the private sector, metrics like the third next available appointment which gives you some gauge of the capacity of the sys...

On the veterans we are here to serve. Fifth, the va has failed to hold people accountable. And last we lack physicians, space, staff, Information Technology and perchase care funding to meet the current demand for Timely Health care. Furthermore we dont have the capacity to quantify the staffing because we have not built resources from the bottom up. We have instead managed to a budget number. As a consequence of all of the failures the trust that is the foundation of all we do, the trust of the...

To va asserted reaching down the organization to get Additional Information. I think your sense is an accurate one. Historically they have operated in an insular organization. Part of what we have been doing is dismantling a lot of those barriers. Since my first day as acting secretary, every single morning at 9 00 a. M. We have something called access stand up. Senior leaders from across vha and the department up in our integrated Operations Center and bore into data are round access to care. T...

All right, senator burr suggests maybe we should make a wait a few minutes for other members to come back from recess. Lets take a quick recess here. Its create cal we continue to have these hearings to do everything we can to hold v. A. s feet to the fire and make sure that accountability is there. We know some things now that we did not know at the last hearing. We know for a fact that v. A. s wait list manipulation and access to care issues is, in fact, systemic. Report after report has confi...

But what could be more pressing than to make sure our veterans receive the care that they need and deserve . Thank you, mr. Chairman. Other members will be filtering back. But i would like to hear from the acting secretary now. And customarily, we give five minutes, but youll have more time. This is a serious discussion, and we want you to have the time you need to make your case, and we want the members here to have the time they need to ask you the questions. All right, senator burr suggested ...