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Medical information that they need to have to file a fully developed claim. and that's a big part of what's taking so long for these claims to get processed. >> jesse: it seems like the back log, at least we've been hearing p it until just recently, has this been going on for a long time? >> there has been a backlog of varying degrees for quite a few years. it's only been in the past four or five years where the backlog has increased almost to the tune of 100, 125%. right now there are roughly 650,000 claims from disabled veterans that have been baglogged for more than 125 days. that means tha...

Agencies to apply for services. once all of that paperwork is submitted it takes federal employees more than 43 million hours a year to process it all. in march 70% of claims have been pending for more than 125 days. the v.a. says it has been making progress on reducing the back log. flying high above the u.s. capitol, an american flag made of hemp. congressman of colorado spear headed efforts to raise this particular flag. industrial hemp is classified by the fda in the same category as heroin and ecstasy. it is illegal to grow in the u.s. sponsored a bill to allow colleges to grow hemp for...

Head. plus, southwest airlines now working through a back log of flights. the airlines was forced to ground hundreds of planes due to a system wide computer failure yesterday. >> arthel: turning to the irs scandal, new rasmussen polls show 70% of americans believe the calls to target conservative came from washington and of that 70%, 41% believe the call came straight from the white house. this as the house ways and means committee prepare to hold another hearing on restoring confidence in the tax agency. but can it be done? is that really the goal? joining us now for a fair and balanced debat...

Sort of getting a toe hold on the middle class life in this country. it's just going to be very difficult. i think you get 2 million newcomers to the job market every graduation season and what we have i think is already a back log of young people who feel like i've never had a meaningful job. i've been working at a coffee shop or some other place and living in my mom's basement and i would like to get a real job. so it's a tremendous source of frustration, especially if you look at minority kids. i think it's there 20 plus percent in terms of unemployment. these are not good numbers. this is ...

Next couple of days tough. but if you can't get out from that back log of it on friday, or friday into saturday, then saturday night and sunday morning. so really big problems for so many people. >> clayton: fun times. thanks. >> gretchen: let's go from weather to some tech help. luckily clayton is on the couch today. he'll answer some of your tech tweets that you've sent in. >> clayton: you can twitter them or via e-mail. here is one from lorraine. she writes, a tricky one. i'm a senior trying to find my photos on my brand-new ipad. my kids told me they were in a cloud somewhere. give me a br...