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As anticipated, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published its final rule amending the overtime regulations of the federal wage and hour law, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)...
Crews found nothing in the end. the search was called off in january 2017 but now the malaysian government is telling families that it will continue the search. cnn aviation correspondent richard quest is following these developments. of course you were on top of this throughout the months following the disappearance five years ago. is there any hope that if they do keep the search they are going find anything? do they know where to search? >> they do and area of serging gets ever narrower. the only disappointing part is is that last year there was a private centusearch by a privat company and...
Surface. >> looking for small features. similar to something like this pix sell. alrea >> reporter: a year into the search. debris began washing up on the coast of africa. and islands in the indian ocean. the governments funding the $150 million operation decided it had gone on long enough. officially ending the search in january 2017. devastating families all over again. earlier this year a private u.s. company took up the search on a no find no fee basis. after five months it failed to produce any results and ending the operation. >> if the malaysia government decides to end the search i wil...
To the v.a., they can't even spend it all. this year they're going to turn back $450 million that they don't know how to spend. they've had billion-dollar surpluses in the recent past. you know, the v.a. -- excuse me, the veterans population in this country has tripled in the last 13 years even though with world war ii generation passing away we have now fewer veterans than we used to have in this country. >> what do you make of suggestions that it's time to privatize the v.a.? obviously one of the solutions we've heard from the v.a. over the last couple of weeks is they will permit service me...
He didn't do that. >> how would that, for someone who doesn't understand the va, the massive va system, how would that change the problem immediately? >> well, the va already has the opportunity to send veterans out on fee basis or into the private market but they have to go through several steps in order to do that. number one the va has to not be able to handle it, den a dod facility close by must not have the ability to handle it, and also if they have contracts with a teaching hospital or something like that, if they can't handle the veteran, then they can send them out into the private se...