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Veterans affairs, i extended an apology to the people whom i care most deeply about and that's the veterans of this great country. >> that was eric shinseki, just a few hours before he submitted his resignation to president obama. even with shinseki's departure, several senators are joining the call for the department of justice to investigate the scandal. in a letter today to attorney general eric holder, senators barbara mikulski and richard shelby say, these problems have dragged on long enough. we request that the department of justice immediately begin appropriate criminal and civil inves...

Is denying insurance for nearly 5 million people. now you've said refusing to expand medicaid is, i'm quoting you, almost awesome in its evilness. why? >> well, al, since we last spoke, actually, i have an even stronger reason to say that, a fantastic study came out looking what happened when we expanded health insurance in massachusetts. we saved lives. in fact, the numbers suggest that for every 820 people who got health insurance, one person's life was saved, so to put that in context, these states that are not expanding medicaid and not covering 5 million people are killing about 6,000 peo...

Rob neighbors, president obama's assigned point person is there investigating. >> we realized patients were dying because of it. that's the point where we said we can't take this anymore. >> reporter: the corps is calling for shinseki to step down, it's grown louder. >> i have not called for general shinseki to resign but i'm getting closer. here's the point. this isn't about one person. this isn't about the secretary. it's about the entire system underneath him. >> reporter: secretary shinseki has launched an audit of all 150 v.a. hospitals and 820 outpatient clinics. he said at least 200 sta...

Vacations and intend to come in and enjoy the park. we have 820 campsites in the park. that's a lot of people to make contact with. over the course of the next two weeks, we had 28 weddings scheduled. so there's also a lot of other special uses, all of our ranger led classroom programs were contacting teachers to cancel those programs. >> all those weddings. what a sad story for them. dana, i'm sorry that you have to go through this. best of luck to you in getting back to work. >> thank you. dana with the great smoky mountains national park. top stories coming up right after the break. a car...

Really trying to make sure that he has a childhood but yet, we're at the point where we need his help. >> he has 900? >> i thought we put put in six more? >> 949. >> he's getting big enough and strong enough he's just like our right hand man. >> there is 820. >> we don't want him to think that he is burdened with this place but we want him to go out and learn how to work and make his way in life. he will do well in whatever he does. >> tammy. you can get me three more of the biggest ones out of here. >> okay. did cane get off to school? >> i hope so. i told him to. >> there goes the first batc...