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Travelers will likely lead to long waits at americas airports. >> everybody understands that the first priority is to be safe. now, especially with the new security concerns youre really more than ever going to want to get to the airport early. >> and youre looking at whats projected to be the ten busiest airports this travel season. and the other factor that could impact wait times, tsas full-time airport security staffing levels have steadily decreased due to a smaller budget, jake. >> rene ma...

Pete and i were just talking, the number is not a firm one. how many vets died waiting for treatment at the va? >> depends on how you calculate it, but thousands of veterans have waited on wait lists and died, no doubt. >> pete, when you consider the million of veterans from september 11th to present day that have been trying to reintegrate into society, get a job, receive the medical care that they deserve and have earned, when we consider the 200,000 that are going to make that transition back...

Fire. imagine executive who doesnt want the ability to hold people accountable in realtime. because hes listening. >> let me ask you this because he did allude to the fact that more veterans are coming. theyre relocating and thats why were facing this backlog and in some areas thats why we have these wait times. what was your reaction to that? >> well, what it means is he sees it only through the lens of a single payer top-down government-run health care system. its got to be a facility and if w...

Comments on this show were misinterpreted. today senator john mccain with a conference call with reporters in which he tolder that senator sanders has a better record than secretary clinton does. that create add flurry of headlines like these, bernie sanders, not hillary clinton has report of advocacy. bernie is better than hillary on veterans. heres the thing, though. senator bernie sanders has essentially said basically the same thing as secretary clinton has said about the v.a., and he has al...

From a long tour of duty, with really critical needs. but the v.a. has not updated the sort of feedback loops, the linkages by way of technology so you dont have a separate database over in the department of defense and a brand-new database in the v.a. without the openness and transparency to actually tell the v.a..ed administrators and managers that hey, we have a growing back dog, especially for veterans who need help because they have a cancer diagnosis. we dont have enough doctors that can a...

Shinseki, the secretary of the v.a., and even after that, wait times in the v.a. facilities are growing longer and not shorter. right now, half a million veterans are on electronic wait lists waiting for more cases of more than 90 days to see a doctor. tonight, we sit down to find out what is going on and why the v.a. is not getting better. tonight, our correspondent drew griffin is keeping them honest. >> reporter: wait times are not getting better. listen to what this whistle ploeer say ploe -...

Space or product activity or care in the community, more veterans come for more care. >> reporter: youre saying youre a victim of your own success. >> i would say the challenge we have is a structural challenge. >> reporter: so when our sources are telling you the reality is the veterans are waiting months, you would say? >> i would say we work every single day trying to find ways to make it better. i know, as youve shown right there, we have veterans waiting too long for care. >> reporter: in l...

>> i dont have is a specific number of people that were specifically disciplined associated with the waitlist scandal. the criminal i.g. has gone and investigated and concluded there was no misconduct no malintent. this was just somebody who didnt understand their jobs. >> but the managers of those people obviously werent doing a good -- youre from private business. i dont have to tell you that. >> we had managers -- >> reporter: who had not done their jobs. >> we had managers who didnt understa...

Franchisees, and most recently, of course slumping sales. the company reported a 15% decline in profits last year, compared to 2013, the last five quarters weve seen declining sales, so there is a read issue about changing the conversation, and heres the thing. this is a big move by mcdonalds. not many people realize what it takes to pull this off in 14,000-plus restaurants across the country. every one of them has to get an extra griddle for the eggs to cook on, because they cant cook at the sa...

>> now just exited the block area and enter the pipe chase tunnels add jay sent to b-block and c-block. >> reporter: its a maize that even these investigators have trouble mastering. theres piping-hot steam. it times its hard to breathe. >> were basically southbound from that tunnel. >> reporter: about 17 minutes in, they reach the now legendary steam pipe used by the escapees. this is where it gets tricky. sweat had told investigators he spent nearly a month cutting holes in this steam pipe. al...