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Leah: new details this morning in the scandal at the va and long top officials knew about the props there. "the new york times" is reporting top leaders in washington knew about massive patient backlogs at a va hospital in phoenix years before the scandal ever became public. doug mckelway is live in washington. why are we just learning about this now? >> reporter: it is all coming to light with documents released in the case of sharon hellman who is suing to get her job back after being fired in late november. "new york times" reports that sworn statements by susan bowers who oversaw facilitie...

from the shooting site. this is a tragedy that has sent shock waves through this entire community. officer ramos was a 14-year member of this church, he was an usher, he was well known, and he was loved. preparations now underway for the wake that will begin at 2:00. off in the distance out of camera frame, a large screen television monitor is being set up, and floral arrangements have already started to arrive. at 7:00 this evening a memorial service is slated to take place, and then tomorrow at this very same location there will be the funeral. yesterday a member of officer ramos' ...

he was beginning to talk about this is the beginning of the end of the war in afghanistan with the first lady at his side the crowd in the marine base in hawaii erupted >> we have been in continuous war now for 13 years, over 13 years and next week, we will be ending our combat mission in afghanistan. afghanistan has a chance to rebuild its own country. we are safer. it is not going to be a source of terrorist attacks again. >> reporter: but attacks are obviously still a big concern globally as isis continues kidnapping and beheading westerners and doing their best to inspire lone ...

there. and david, what is taking place today? >> reporter: in less than one hour's time, the wake for officer ramos is gts going to get underway and at 7 o'clock, a memorial service. just a short time ago an honor guard brought the casket into the church. it was a solemn and brief ceremony and lasted only about ten minutes. they brought inside of the church a great number of flowers and as you take a look live here in queens, you can get a sense of what is taking place. people are lining up to enter the church. you can see the hearse parked where it was when they removed the casket a...

Suggestion that maliki should resign. kerry arrived as more attacks are carried out by isis. they've taken four more towns and three border crossings into syria and jordan. kerry is expected to encourage the officials there to form a unity government and then back a plan to fight the militants. we'll keep you posted as we learn more. also happening today, the house committee on veterans affairs holding another hearing about the care given to our veterans in our v.a. hospitals. this as newly obtained records prove the v.a. administrators knew that employees across the southwest were manipulat...