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Games. it looked like it worked. graduation rates are up 20% from five years ago. it turns out administrators are eligible for bonuses when their performance goals are met. the department of education is now investigating. how does tom cruise one up his stunts by strapping himself on to the side of the cargo plane for the next mission impossible. check it out. >> desperate times, desperate measures. you got your seatbelt on? >> oh, my god. >> you just saw that little clip where he's hanging on to the side. that's the first trailer for the new film. it keeps much of the plot hid want. you can...

Drone program, it's not measuring up? >> as we see it while it contributes to border security, they haven't put mez measure s in place as to if it is effective. the measurements with saw show it is not effective. >> reporter: the inspector general said his job is to point out where money is wasted and the drones he said are indeed a waste and yet they still fly and congress even debating whether to buy more. to tom barry it's a clear example of congress and the customs and board er patrol simply ignoring the facts. >> they refuse to set performance goals. it snubs its nose at these reports mad...

Israel tells jake tapper on "the lead," there needs to be a criminal investigation because there are simply too many questions right now about who did what at the va and why they might have been encouraged to manipulate the wait times for veterans. this is bureaucrats over veterans. he's now asked attorney general eric holder to look into it. >> i want to know if anybody, anybody at the va doctored papers, engaged in a cover-up, withheld health care for veterans. they need to be investigated. they need to be prosecuted. they need to be fired. >> the inspector general's report finds the va awar...

So long as the national outrage doesn't peter out as outrage sometimes tends to do. the thing is, these stories are not new. not even slightly new. wait times, delayed care, questionable record keeping, all of those things are part of the va sometimes inglorious past. even the present scandal about cooked books isn't particularly new. just last march a governmental official told the house veterans affairs committee that, quote, staff at some clinics told us they changed medical appointments' desired dates to show clinic wait times within the performance goals. in fact, back in 2007, the va's i...

Quote, on track to meet performance goals but warning glitches are still possible. >> number three, an infant was reportedly among people killed when a single engine plane crashed in southeastern alaska. this happened near the remote village of st. mary's. six people survived including the baby's mother. tv creature. paul crouch died. its programs are seen on thousands of tv, satellite and cable channels around the world. >> number five, a new survey says shoppers spent $12 billion at traditional mortar schools on black friday. that's a jump more than 2% compared to last year's sales. sales ...