News conference with the fire commissioner is that right. Reporter yeah, nydia and gray that just happened and fire crews down here they have their handing full we are at third and chestnut. I will step out of the way and show you the scene we have right now. Like you said four alarms they are hosing this thing down right now, and i can tell you when i first showed you i have been in this business for almost a decade now and i have never seen flames, this big, they were shooting, clear into the sky, they were huge. Luckily you can see they have got things under control quite a bit at this point. You can see up top they are spraying down in the building right new but im told that is an Apartment Building several units in there and i have to be honest with you guys, it is torched. Flames were shooting clear up through the entire building and coming up out of the roof and windows. This is just 10 minutes ago. Very serious situation down here. There is a hotel im told by fire commissioner
Gavel in for the morning session, we will of course bring gavel to live for gavel coverage. Thanks for watching. Day. The rest of your the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , july 27, 2017. I hereby appoint the honorable matt gaetz to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, paul d. Ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr
Nomination of tom price to be the secretary of the department of health and Human Services. You know, the decisions made at h. H. S. Touch the lives of every family in america. The secretary who runs this agency makes decisions about everything from the safety of the food we eat to the drugs we take to the Health Insurance we buy and the quality of the Nursing Homes that we live in. This is an extremely important job, and we should not hand over the keys to this agency unless we are certain that the person will put the American People first every minute of every day. President trump has nominated congressman tom price to serve in this job. Unlike many of the president s other nominees who are stunningly inexperienced in areas whether they will be where they will be setting policy, congressman price has a lot of experience in health care policy. Yes, he has experience, but it is the kind of experience that should horrify you if you care about medicare, if you care about medicaid, or if
Juvenile Justice System. Were finding were being overwhelmed. It is getting harder and harder to get the cases than in a timely fashion. Reporter the influx seemingly happening overnight. 2015 is when the floodgates open. Says 2009 the Ohio Department ofs do that Children Services has seen a huge increase in services. 1000 of them were added in 2015 alone. Mcmill that spike on heroin. Their parents are addicts. They love their parents. Reporter caseworkers are seeing the biggest impact. It is recommended by the state caseworkers have no more than 12 cases at a time. This county averages 14. And Portage County workers averaged 17 cases. Our community has so many resources that were pulling forward to address the heroin more money. Hundreds of millions of dollars spent every year on child neglect cases in ohio. Many are tied to heroin. When children are neglected or abuse or left alone for a period of time, the impact is great. Reporter the solution, there is no easy answer. One option,
Members of the association of Southeast Asia nations have failed to issue a statement on the ruling of chinas claim to the South China Sea. The arbitration tribunal in the hague ruled on tuesday that theres no basis for the claims to most of the sea. The philippines filed in case in 2013. Sources say four administers tried to persuade asean members to issue a unified statement on the ruling but the current chair has informed each member a statement will not be released because an agreement could not be reached. Cambodia was going to release a statement and it was the ties on china and its the rules. Asean has a rule of anonymity. Indonesia is seeking a ruling. Theyll start their series of meeting in laos july 24th. Japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang have had discussed a on the issue. Abe expressed concerns of the beijing rejection of the decision reached on the South China Sea claims. The japanese Prime Minister said its important to settle disputes by th