this is about 2.5 hours. bloomberg school of public health and baltimore. this is about two hours. andadies and gentlemen, online viewers around the world, good morning and welcome. i am alan mckenzie, dean of the johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health and i would like to stand by extending our special welcome to the president of clinton who you will hear from in just a few minutes. also joining us today are several policymakers. they include congressman cummings. they will be joining us in the program to rip an audience are maryland delegate antonio hayes and senator ben carson s office. finally, i would like to extend an especially warm welcome to senator murkowski who we are now proud to call [applause] who we are proud to call one of our own. thank you so much for being here. we are indeed honored to be working with the clinton foundation to bring you today s summit on one of our most important locales problems america s opioid epidemic. it is a national cr
health in baltimore. this is two and a half hours. this is about two hours. andadies and gentlemen, online viewers around the world, good morning and welcome. i am alan mckenzie, dean of the johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health and i would like to stand by extending our special welcome to the president of clinton who you will hear from in just a few minutes. also joining us today are several policymakers. they include congressman cummings. they will be joining us in the program to rip an audience are maryland delegate antonio hayes and senator ben carson s office. finally, i would like to extend an especially warm welcome to senator murkowski who we are now proud to call [applause] who we are proud to call one of our own. thank you so much for being here. we are indeed honored to be working with the clinton foundation to bring you today s summit on one of our most important locales problems america s opioid epidemic. it is a national crisis which demands invo