Good morning everyone. Today the subcommittee of oversight and investigation holds a hearing entitled combatting the Opioid Crisis battles in the states. Now, make no mistake the term combatting and battled are entirely appropriate. Our nation is in the midst of devastation around every corner of the nation. In 2015 there were more than in the u. S. , more than 33,000 deaths involved in opioid. 24 increase from the prior year. Overdose death rate in 2015 was almost seven times the rate of deaths from the heroin epidemic of the 1970s. For 2016 weve already announced from New York Times weve lost roughly 60,000 people to Drug Overdose and that is more in one year than all the names on the Vietnam Veterans memorial wall. And likely that number is underestimated because much of the data will not be in until the end of this year 2017. Its staggering. For every fatal overdose its estimated there are 20 nonfatal overdoses and for 2016 that could be near 1 million. More than 183,000 lives have
Membership of the Single Market. May outlined her government strategy, setting out 12 negotiating objectives in her much anticipated brexit speech. She said she will pursue a bold and anticipated Free Trade Agreement with the eu and she emphasized wanting to regain control of migration. The message before and during the Referendum Campaign was clear, brexit must mean control of the number of people who come to brittain from europe and that is what we will deliver. She had suggested she might seek to maintain access to the Single Market while restricting immigrants but e. U. Leaders have said britain wont be allowed to cherry pick parts of the e. U. It wants to keep. May plans to start a twoyear negotiation by the end of march. It puts the country on course to leave the e. U. In 2019. Political and Business Leaders have gathered in davos, switzerland, for the annual World Economic forum. Xi jinping spoke out about protectionism. Translator china is clearly opposed to protectionism. No w
Membership of the Single Market. May outlined her government strategy, setting out 12 negotiating objectives in her much anticipated brexit speech. She said she will pursue a bold and anticipated Free Trade Agreement with the eu and she emphasized wanting to regain control of migration. The message before and during the Referendum Campaign was clear, brexit must mean control of the number of people who come to brittain from europe and that is what we will deliver. She had suggested she might seek to maintain access to the Single Market while restricting immigrants but e. U. Leaders have said britain wont be allowed to cherry pick parts of the e. U. It wants to keep. May plans to start a twoyear negotiation by the end of march. It puts the country on course to leave the e. U. In 2019. Political and Business Leaders have gathered in davos, switzerland, for the annual World Economic forum. Xi jinping spoke out about protectionism. Translator china is clearly opposed to protectionism. No w
Was taking three womenall in their thirties to the Kimpton Journeyman hotel. The women live in chicago and all once worked together at an ad agency. One of the victims has family in menomonee falls. Thats when police say a lexus ran a red light and crashed into the uber ford fusion at a high rate of speed. The hit and run driver got out of the lexus, left it at the scene and took off. Seen before in my life. The vehicles was all damaged. I mean completely damaged weve learned the hit and run driver has a history of drunk driving and driving with a revoked license. The uber driver is injured and still hospitalized. Live in milwaukee Myra Sanchick fox6 news mary thanks myra. Examiner responds to two suspected homicides this afternoon. The first was at a bar at 35th and Silver Spring. According to the medical examiner one man was found dead, an autopsy is scheduled for tomorrow. Police also on the scene at 24th and auer. An adult male was shot during some sort of altercation that happened
Pumped into the city of las vegas. Pasquel rottella ceo and founder of insomniac events who puts on the electric Daisy Carnival. Says it feels great to put money back into his city. And bring people to the event. I never imagined it to be as big of a number as 1. 3 at least in five years the three Night Dance Party held at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway draws more than 300 thousand people to sin city every year. Festival goers generated more than 350million dollars just in 2015. The crowds ar some of the most well behaved Beautiful People in the world and im very proud of what we do while the economic boost from edc cannot be denied. Neither can its association with drug use. Specifically ecstasy and molly otherwise known as mdma. The electric Daisy Carnival moved to the city from los angeles after a 16 year old overdosed. Rodg with edc there is always that cloud hanging over it that it draws negative publicity because of the clientelle or the music that they promote rod when we talk abo