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a new forecast on the veterans affairs scandal to tell you about. an internal audit released today shows that more than 121,000 are experiencing long wait times. more than 60,000 are waiting for their first appointments, the va is eliminating its 60 day goal for first appointments finding it s not attainable. mike viqueria is in washington for us. do these numbers show how by the problem is? well, tony, this is the first in a series of reports, when that report emanated in the phoenix facility, the problems run very deep that they re not going away and it s going to take quite some time to fix them. just look at this report, tony, among the findings, the system is just too overwhelmed to meet that 14 day threshold. that was an incentive for a lot of the folks to cook the books because there was no way in the world they were going to meet that 14 day threshold. also, you look at one of the other findings. the computer systems are antiquated within the va. it s almost ....
investors are taking note. a big test is next week when gdp comes out for the final three months of last yore and a january jobs report. that could change things around a tad. now at the new york stock exchange, there is the bell. thank you very much. that does it for us. i m victor blackwell for brooke baldwin. the situation room with wolf blitzer starts now. wolf? thanks very much. happening now, don t let today s pictures fool you. president obama is deciding to give top level white house jobs to women. we are also looking at how the pentagon is planning to respond to north korea s new round of threats including nuclear tests and the vice president s sneaky strategy to try to pressure gun owners to support the administrations. pushing for new gun control laws. you are in the situation room. . we begin with the reshuffling at the white house. a few hours ago, president obama announced he is moving the deputy security adviser do into the position of white hou ....
they are all boston strong and we salute them. i m anderson cooper. good night. i hope you were with us during the last hour and you were inspired as watching adrianne haslet-davis story. she is truly boston strong. one thing she wanted to get across to everyone watching is something her grandmother said to her as a kid it is okay to not be okay sometimes. but adrien is doing okay. and she has a long road ahead of her as do many of the survivors but we will root for her along the way. if you are just joining us, we expect a news conference any moment from australian authorities on the search for flight 370. it is 11:00 a.m. in the search area. the newly refined and somewhat smaller search area. you see it in the red near the top of the screen. the gray is former search areas. the question right now is will it change yet again when angus houston, who s coordinating the search effort, steps to the make phone in perth. will he make bigger news. we will find out shortly and we e ....
white house s counsel. he s a legal adviser to donald trump. he s the former chairman at fcc and the thing that you need to know is he s someone that s getting money out of politics and he s someone with limited national experience. one of the important things about serving in that role and you are called that that s going to be the real challenge for mr. mcgahn going forward. of course, there is been a lot of question of potential conflict of interest for the president-elect trump because of his vast business entanglement. the white house counsel is going to neat to spend a lot of time digesting the president-elect need to do when he gets into the white house, it is a rule that s going to be very important going for him. donald trump is coming into the white house with unprecedented business ties. there is going to be questions about the conflict of interest and don mcgahn will be the person will be giving donald trump of the advise of what he can and cannot do and how he s ....
israeli consulate, was an 18-year-old young woman who was here celebrating the new year with a couple of her friends. they survived but she did not. dozens were injured as well. we re not yet sure whether or not americans are among the wounded. we cannot definitively rule that out as of yet. many are still in the hospital, at least three people are in critical condition. so still trying to confirm whether or not any americans are among the wounded here. this is an awful start to the new year. thank you. on the heels of the turkey terror, a new report on isis and its aspirations to launch mass casualty chemical attacks. it comes from the british security minister in a newspaper interview published today. i want to bring in chris dicky and also an msnbc contributor. thanks for being with me once again. while we have no claim of responsibility for the attack in turkey at this point, i want to ask you about the new interview with the british security minister on chemical weapo ....