That is it for this special report, fair, balanced and unafraid. Greta goes on the record right now. This is a fox news alert. Outofcontrol nine wildfires raging across southern california. Just a short time ago one fire roaring to life and threatening entire neighborhoods. Thousands forced to flee their homes. Reporter sharon shin is live with the latest. Sharon . Greta, we actually got out of that neighborhood and we are in a safe area now. We are in an area called Harmony Grove. You can see right there the sphir smoldering in that persons property. Now, this fire right now, this is the area the firefighters were trying to keep the fire out of this morning. Harmony grove. Earlier this morning we were in san marcos. And we were in that neighborhood where would
literally got there. Watched the Sheriff Deputies evacuate all the homes in the area. Blaring loud speakers please leave their homes. Within, i swear to you, 10 minutes that we saw that fire just come roaring over the ridge and that is what firefighters are dealing with today. This fire is so fast moving fanned by these winds that continue to kick up every now and then and, of course, the heat. The heat is definite factor in this fire fight today. And as you can see, some people are still trying to get their animals out of this Harmony Grove area which is a lot of horses in some of these homes, greta . Sharon, any idea on containment . I mean, when you look at the video from here, it looks awful. It looks dangerous. It looks like its just going to, you know, take over the entire area. Burn everything in sight. But is there any containment . I wish i could give you a better numbers than. This but, no. At this time the last report we had it was at 5
containment. And this, that was the san marcos fire. This cocoast fire right now is at 0 percent containment and its burned a thousand acres. In total between the two fires that i have been covering today that b. Four homes have been destroyed so, of course, our hearts go out to those families. Are people cooperating . Taking those evacuation orders seriously or are the firefighters having to contend with that problem . No. They are absolutely taking it seriously. A lot of these people, i have spoken with they have had their items packed long before today. They maybe had them packed on tuesday, when these fires were coming through this area knowing that this may be the case. And once they get that knock on the door, they are out. Sharon, thank you. And that looks absolutely dangerous and terrifying. Thank you, sharon. And in minutes you are going to hear from the fire team on the front lines plus a live report from the neighborhood in the fires deadly path. Right now on the record, a
story that is making me angry and it will make you angry her roars at v. A. Hospitals. Where does the buck stop . Would you explain to me after knowing all this information, why you should not resign . Also the New York Times waging a war on women. On the record investigates tonight. Then, give us our dad back. Casey kasem found. And why did the radio legend vanish. The administration has done or said that were not aware of . Dang if i know. Susan rice scoffing at serious questions. Get ready for a jampacked on the record. And right now Veterans Affair department eric shin seq. Y telling a senate panel is he mad as hell. I thought it was appropriate for him to come before congress. If he doesnt give a better answer, im not sure how he wouldnt have to do anything but resign. But, greta, whether he resigns or not is important. But if these allegations are true, people should be going to jail. Thats just resigning their positions. Thats why i asked if the attorney general should get in because the attorney general one who can convene a grand jury and get to the bottom of it to see if there is a crime. Absolutely. We have the inspector generate now working on it. Thats the slow walk. Congress does that for every problem in capitol hill. Lets get the Inspector General out to do it it these veterans have waited an awful long time, some to their death. If many of these allegations turn out to be true, and there is ample evidence that they probably are im not drew drawing any
firm conclusions just yet, everything i have seen is going to lead us to the Attorney Generals Office of the United States of america. Should the American People also be distressed at the committee that has oversight of the general shinseki and the Veterans Affairs . Because we hear about this after the fact. After something catastrophic has happened. Oversight to i thought you would be monitoring it as we go along. Both Veterans Affairs committees in the house and senate have been made aware of problems within the v. A. My office has. We have more people who come to us with problems with the v. A. Than all the others combined. And i have dedicated staffers that only do those issues. We knew about delays. We knew about problems with scheduling. We knew a number of other things we certainly did not hear up until an allegation that people actually died while awaiting treatment. Thats a step further. What is is the explanation for these waiting lists and sort of cooking the books . Are they saying that they dont have enough money and
they are trying to sort of juggle it in order to provide services . Whats the explanation . They were given guidelines that they had to meet. In other words, certain number of days before certain things were done. An appointment, treatment, et cetera. And obviously they were not meeting those criteria. So, we have evidence already of a person who was has been suspended who said, basically, they were cooking the books. In other words, so that they would meet these criteria and time lines that were laid down came from the v. A. Here in washington. Thats what this was all about. You know, i think of these members, men and women in our military, when we need them, they go. They dont say hold off. Wait a little bit. Were going to cook the books. They go. This is the this is what we give them. This is shameful under any circumstances. It is ten times more shameful because its being done to the men and women who have put their lives on the line for us. So why do does anyone have to wait, americans wait for the attorney general to get on this right now . If the Inspector General wants to do a report. Can he do one too or she can do one too. But why not demand the attorney general do it right now. Get on this. I would like to wait until the house armed services, house Veterans Affairs Committee Hearing which is going to be very soon, i think next week that they are going to have that hearing. And then i think we should make a decision. I think its appropriate to have the hearing here today which, by the way, there was nothing presented today that would successfully rebut the allegations that have been made. Then thats even more reason not to wait. Even if you have another hearing, there is is not much you can do here in the senate. We dont have quite the muscle that the attorney general has of the United States. Thats why i dont get the hearings are informative. He they are interesting. I like to cover them. I find them interesting. But they dont have the muscle that the attorney general has. We are looking at a matter of days here. And in somerespects, it may be more impactful to have
general shinseki testify as the head of the v. A. , the one who is totally responsible. That may be appropriate. But we are talking about a matter of days here. Again, like any of these scandals, afternoon even more so i think there is a lot of layers to this onion. Already there are number of allegations all over the country. Started as a v. A. Scandal and obviously spread. If i were the u. S. Attorney in phoenix even though my boss eric holder and you United States senator holding all the hearings. I would open my own investigation and wait for the senate to yell at me and the attorney general to yell at me. Thats in his jurisdiction, the u. S. Attorney there should be doing something, investigating. One thing about you, yet, have you never minded people yelling at you. I get yelled at a lot. On that note, thank you, senator. Thank you. Version of the interview will be posted on gretawire. While the v. A. Secretary was taking heat on the Hill White House under fire. Ed henry joins us live. Good to see you, greta, you are right. The House Majority leader eric cantor put out a blistering statement there is a pattern at the white house when a scandal pops up or allegations of wrongdoing the cabinet secretary takes the heated like Kathleen Sebelius did on healthcare that now this is happening with eric shinseki. The white house pushed back on that today by telling me put one of the top aides neighbors overseeing the review at the v. A. To show they have some skin in the game and they are going to get on top of this. As you were just saying a moment ago in terms of the president s involvement, and what did he know, look, he has not spoken out publicly on this other than one time last month at a News Conference in manila. Traveling in asia. Do you have any reaction to this outrageous situation in
phoenix . That was the beginning of the story. The president to his credit stood up and said, look, we are not going to let this happen. We have put a lot of money, you know, to help veterans, et cetera, et cetera. The problem for him, of course, politically, as you say there may be criminal wrongdoing that others will deal with as commander and chief, when the president stands up and says im going to make sure there is money there im going to make sure the veterans are taken care of. If they are not, that puts a lot of pressure on him. This is a lot different than say the benghazi investigation which has become partisan lines drawn out there. Easy for the white house to say this is just republicans going after him. In the case of the Veterans Affairs story here. You have democrats at this hearing today expressing about as much outrage as you just heard from john mccain, greta. You know though, ed, and i know you dont want to argue with me. I think they are all up to their eyeballs in. This they all have a job to monitor. This to make sure that they have got oversight. Not after site. Democrats, republicans. I dont know what whats worse for the president to say that he didnt know or that he did know and Nothing Happened and they did nothing . I dont know which is worse. Let me ask you a fact
question. Tomorrow, i assume this is going to be something thats going to be discussed at the press briefing . There is no doubt about it, jay carney is going to get a lot of questions about it, as you said. What did the president know . In fairness, the president doesnt run the Phoenix Office of v. A. He has a lot of other things to deal with. But, when he he makes these dramatic statements, when jay carney goes to the podium and says our commitment to veterans is strong. They have to make sure they live up to it they know that and thats why this thing has legs right now. Indeed. Comment offtherecord, nobody in washington ever knows anything about anything. Nobody ever has responsibility. He does the hands on running but apparently nobody does. At least not he very well at all. Ed, thank you. Good to see you, greta. Records show the agency has spent almost 500 million on Office Furniture under the obama administration. Thats right. President obama increasing the v. A. Budget each year since he took office and 489 million is spent to
upgrade conference rooms, buy drapes and buy new furniture. Joining us our Political Panel rick klein, david and Washington Examiner chief Political Correspondent byron york. Rick, im sure he didnt increase this budget because he wanted to make sure that the veterans got, you know, got the they got more furniture. Im sure thats not why the president did it it no one minding the shop. Looks bad in the context of what we are talking about right now. Veterans dying when waiting for the service is. See internal improvements be where the resources are being directed it does not look good for anyone involved. The reason the budget has been going up is because we have more veterans returning from the wars. This is not a surprise. We need more people to stand in line and not get services . We didnt have enough. Im being sarcastic. We have known about this for more than a decade since 9 11 we have had a big increase in the number of men and women who are serving. Have more people come back with more issues. Thats why the budgets are going up. When the president puts in budget requests. He thinks is he is getting the resources he needs. Clearly its not going the right places. David . I still think it has to do with personnel issues. I know you were talking to ed about if the president directly responsible . I know. But the buck stops some place. The buck stops some place. You know these are huge. He is going to know whats going on in phoenix or north carolina. But, you know, with what just went on with siebe and the healthcare rollout. Now you have got this going on in the v. A. With shinseki. There is a question you could ask about personal decisions. Is he putting smart people around him in the room to direct these cabinet make sure hands on i think this goes off the outrage scale. San wham new Office Furniture. V. A. In los angeles spent
108 million. And shoveling. Secretary shinseki appears again. In the context of terrible suffering in the v. A. Scandal. Asking him about this. He is not doing his job. I dont care if its a tough job. I dont care if its a big place. Dont take the job. I mean, let all these veterans die standing in line and spending all that money on curtains. I mean, its ridiculous. National security susan rice is talking about benghazi again. This time she seems to brush off a question about whether the select committee will find any new evidence. Since you brought up benghazi. [ laughter ] you are too smart for that. [ laughter ] go on. What more is there that the administration has done or said that we are not aware of right now . Dang if i know. So is the white house taking the benghazi investigation seriously . It sure doesnt sound like it and of course those women were laugh not guilty room too. Remember what former National Security spokesperson tommy veiter told bret baier will the talking points controversy. Did you also change attacks to demonstrations in the talking points . Maybe. I dont really remember. You dont remember . Dude, this is like two years ago. We are still talking about the most mundane process. Dude, we are talking. We are talking about the process of editing talking points. Byron, you have got him saying dude, this is the guy sitting in the situation that night dude two years ago. Susan rice saying dang if i know. You have got women in the room laughing. Meanwhile we have four dead at benghazi. The susan rice thing was just jawdropping. Incredibly dismissive. You have to remember this investigation is about a lot more than talking points. Even though the talking points are a part of it there are serious questions
about the terrible state. Terrible lack of preparation. State department and the pentagon for any sort of attack generally in libya and certainly on the anniversary of the september 11th attacks. The members of the committee do not believe they know everything about this. They believe that the state Department Report kind of built a fire wall around secretary of state hillary clinton. And they want to know more. This kind of dismissive answer from susan rice is not going to sit well with them. It seesmtion so insensitive and dude two years ago and dang if i know. I mean four people are dead. Have a little more seriousness and purpose. I would think so im scandalized by it. It has a lot to do with tone veiter may not remember. He may not know. See from the white house and democrats. Toe dont want to legitimize the investigation. It is a fact tens of thousands of records out there. 25,000 documents she said but the problem she has to it compete with is they may have released. We used to do in law all the time. Dump everything in the world on the other side. Try to drown them. The one email they didnt get was ben rhodes. Reasonable to be suspicious and a lot more. The lawyers have not served the white house aides well in this fight by trickling this stuff out. Two clips you just said are going to be compiled into a nice tidy 20162016. Dude part and susan rice laughing interesting to note. Cia director john brennan today was asked in an interview about whether it was, he thought it was a terrorist attack. And he still he was very careful in his wording and said it was an assault. We didnt know. So even today, white house is very careful on how they characterize those events. At least while he is doing that, is he doing it seriously and not making a dang and a dude. Anyway, panel, stay with us. Straight ahead, casey kasem is found. So where in the world was the famous dj and what is next for him . All the latest coming up . First, we are following breaking news outofcontrol wildfires scorching thousands of akers in california. Thousands of people forced to run from their homes. A live update from california next. When it comes to good nutrition. Im no expert. That would be my daughter hi dad. Shes a dietitian. And back when i wasnt eating right, she got me drinking boost. Its got a great taste, and it helps give me the nutrition i was missing. Helping me stay more like me. [ female announcer ] boost complete nutritional drink has 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d to support strong bones and 10 grams of protein to help maintain muscle. All with a delicious taste. Grandpa [ female announcer ] stay strong, stay active with boost. Wbecame your business. Passion. Grandpa at t can help simplify how you manage it. So you can focus on what you love most. When everyone and everything works together, business just sings. This is a fox news alert. Final wildfires raging in southern california. Flames and winds putting entire neighborhoods at risk. Firefighters battling the flames from the ground. Dan