All lanes of the boulevard are back open tonight after a water main break this morning shut it down for more than 12 hours. Hectic all the roads were packed. We were late getting to work. Serve turning off to get off the road. Reporter it happened just after 6 00 this morning. 18inch water main blue out forcing crews to shut down all 12 lanes between red lion and grant avenue. Ive never seen this road so pack before. Grant avenue. Reporter just aft 8 00 a. M. The outer lanes were reopened but the inner three remained closed while crews worked to get to the source and fix it. The Water Department cease our highest amount of water. Skyfox can herd this scene. Mainline for philly for northeast philly. You got people coming from like bensalem area. You got like woodhaven road. Reporter he runs a wholesale along the boulevard and the water main break slowed business. We sell stuff online. Customers come and pick up. Today we had little bit of little bit less so i guess maybe thats why rot.
Water main break flooded the road early this morning. Good evening im lucy noland. Im iain page. Shawnette wilson is live along roosevelt boulevard in northeast philadelphia tonight. Shawnette . Reporter iain and lucy, crews wrapped up repairs here tonight around 8 00 oclock this evening and drivers tell me they can rest easy tonight knowing tomorrow morning they wont be sitting still in traffic. I hope so, you know, everybody can get to work on time tomorrow. Reporter britney is getting her wish after a nightmare morning and evening commute. All lanes of the boulevard are back open tonight after a water main break this morning shut it down for more than 12 hours. Hectic all the roads were packed. We were late getting to work. Serve turning off to get off the road. Reporter it happened just after 6 00 this morning. 18inch water main blue out forcing crews to shut down all 12 lanes between red lion and grant avenue. Ive never seen this road so pack before. Grant avenue. Reporter just af
Actually participate and make the changes. A lot of work ahead. I really want to thank the cochairs from a team point of view. When they added this last panel im thinking another facility, work behind us, my team is going to kill me what are we doing. Quite frankly this was brilliance at its best to be able to wrap it up put a bow on it as we go into deliberations, as we close this public part for the community, as far as the hearing listening session i think theres no better way to start the next chapter. So thank you for your leadership. With that, i think were ready to close. Madam chair and mr. Chairman, i turn it back over to you. I think with that we again thank our panel and thank our listeners and thank our task force. Lets give them all a round of applause. We are officially adjourned. Thank you. Coming up live later today here on cspan 3, the president S National Security advisor, susan rice, and senator Robert Menendez will be speaking at apacks u. S. Israel policy Conferenc
Bush nixon, president , republican and democrat, president clinton the conversation about how we make this next step forward with regard to reducing uninsured is something that we struggled with as a nation. And this is the first time, and someone reflected on the anniversary of medicare, and that 50 year anniversary. This is the first time that we have seen that. So the land that we have in place, the implementation of the Affordable Care act has done that, but we have not seen any alternative. Let me talk about chip. I want to emphasize again that we have to act on this legislation immediately when we consider sgr which expires at the end of march. While funding may not expire until the end of september for chip more than half by june 1. So its clear the Congress Needs to act swiftly to ensure states can budget appropriately for chip and avoid any disrussian in childrens coverage. I see no reason why congress cant act very soon. Can you comment on the impact on states if the chip fun
Talking about what this is Precision Medicine or personalized medicine is getting the information so that we can do treatments that are to the individual. I was at nih recently had the opportunity to both see the tumors and meet the cancer patient of a Kidney Cancer patient where he had had a group of tumors removed. They came back. But then, using Precision Medicine, which meant looking specifically at the genetic makeup of his tumors, they could be treated in a different way. I met him. That happened months ago, and now he the patient was there, discussing with me and is in a very different place. So one that large database. Two, specifically focussing on the area of cancer because we already are seeing some progress there, and we believe that place is ripe for it. The other thing we need to do is fda, make sure that as we think about Precision Medicine we regulate and think about how to approve these things in ways of a different type of medicine. And then finally, we need the Healt