Hi, I'm Carl Azuz. Happy to deliver your Thursday edition of CNN STUDENT NEWS. Thanks for watching. There are 26 Veterans Affairs hospitals currently being investigated by the U.S. government. Accusations recently came to life that some veterans nationwide have had to wait too long for treatment. Last month sources told CNN that 40 veterans had died waiting at a V.A. hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. Yesterday, President Obama made his first public comments about this. He called the idea dishonorable and disgraceful.

Our veterans deserve to know the facts, their families deserve to know the facts. Once we know the facts, I assure you, if there's misconduct, it will be punished.

But no one is being punished yet. Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki still has his job and President Obama says he needs more time to review what's happening at V.A. hospitals before punishing anyone.

Critics say that president's not doing enough to hold people accountable and to start cleaning things up at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Next story takes us to Chad, a nation in central Africa. The White House announced yesterday that 80 U.S. troops are headed there. Chad is right next to Nigeria where more than 200 schoolgirls were recently kidnapped by a terrorist group last month. Officials think the girls might have been taken to Chad or neighboring Cameroon. The U.S. Armed Forces will be operating a drone aircraft in the region, gathering intelligence that's hoped to lead to the girls rescue.

President Obama informed Congress of the deployment yesterday. U.S. war powers are divided between the government's executive and legislative branches. So, president has to tell Congress whenever he sends troops potentially in a harm's way.

Next up today, we are crossing land and see to get to Japan. There's an eerie sort of ghost town in the northern part of the country. It's a city named Fukushima. And its residents had to leave after an earthquake and tsunami in 2011. In addition to killing almost 16,000 people and destroying parts of the Japanese coast, the water damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, and the danger that will linger for decades is of a kind you can't see.

Lifeless, decaying, desolate-Fukushima is virtually untouched since that awful day three years ago when people living here had just hours to take what they could and go.

Fields once full of crops now full of black bags with contaminated soil.

Right now we are on the bus heading towards Fukushima Daiichi. We just passed the police checkpoint, which stops anybody from coming in, and what we are seeing along this road are so many empty homes, empty businesses.