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President obama's pick to start the rehabilitation of the veterans affairs department says the effort is already under way. co the man temporarily in charge says it won't be easy and it won't be cheap. >> reporter: on the job just over six weeks, acting va secretary sloan gibson says it will take time to earn back veterans' trust but he told the senate veterans affairs committee today that veterans on long waiting lists are already seeing progress. >> we reached out to over 160,000 veterans to get them off wait lists and into clinics and made over 543,000 referrals for veterans to receive care...

Roots. i will also be part of the festivities with members of the msnbc family. they can join the growing hope conversation and share your hope for change in our communities. joining me, the grio.com editor chris witherspoon who will be at the festival and also wrote about my natural hair on the grio. the essence festival. why is this so popular? >> it started out fairly small and now it's getting bigger and bigger. it's now the largest live event in the country. it's amazing. 543,000 attendees as you said. this year will be bigger than ever. 80 performers, 20 stages. you have prince coming he...

When in fact that's probably the two commodities that we use most. >> let's take a look at some of the other cautionary signs in this jobs report, too. you can dissect them, 543,000 fewer people seeking work. the no housing rebound. high school graduates school out, losing out, flat wages, all-around wage stagnation, 45,000 more men working two full-time jobs. dissect that if you want. >> part of the issue is we do not see employers hiring those people who have the skill sets required to get the jobs that are needed. you know, some jobs require skill sets, training, we don't have that kind of ...

Your apartment, that's called a personal organizer. if you're great at designing power point, i have personally hired people to help me do that 'cause i'm not good at it. or i've got the weirdist example of all, this is a student that i know of, she actually was great at training animals. but not just any kind of training. she trained cats to sit on toilet seats and actually pee from the toilet seat. she made thousands of dollars. >> gretchen: did she have another job at the same time? >> yeah h she did. >> gretchen: your final tip is that you make the leap when you're ready. what do you mean?...

Still about a third of the entire state of west virginia is without power. right around 543,000 people. this particular neighborhood where we're in, you can see they're working to get the power lines up. no power here and also there's been a water -- a water line breakage here so these folks not only do they not have power, but they don't have water. and one of the young women who lives here is shannon pauly. now, shannon, you've lived here all your life but you will say that friday night was one of the scariest storms you've ever lived through. >> yes, it was probably the worst storm i've eve...