The committee will come to order. Id like to welcome everyone to this morning steering and today were going to consider the nomination of seema verma to serve as administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid services. Welcome, ms. Verma, to the we are so happy to have you here and your family as well. I appreciate your willingness to lead this key agency at this critical time. I see that your family has joined you here today to lend support. I extend a warm welcome to all of them and to you as well. Cms is the Worlds Largest health insurer, covering over onethird of the u. S. Population through medicare and medicaid alone. It has a budget of over one trillion dollars and it processes over 1. 2 billion claims a year for Services Provided to some of our nations most vulnerable citizens. Ms. Verma, having dealt with cms extensively in your capacity as a consultant to numerous state Medicaid Programs, you know full well the challenges the agency deals with on daily basis. I suspec
Termination of 6 million juice largely through the use of gas chambers during a 30s and 40s bart of part of his final solution. Sean spicers ignorance of that history during passover no less landed spice kerr on a contrite apology tour duce night into wednesday. I have to say especially during this week regret using that term and apologize. This was mine to own, mine to apologize for and mine to ask for forgiveness for. Reporter but outside the National Museum of the American Jewish history, mile la champ was not having it. Well, being a russian polish jew, myself,. Spicers comment and later apology left ham in that tears. Sorry is not good enough. Sounds like this is painful and personal to you. Yeah. Yeah. Its beyond denying history. Its hard to even comprehend that. Reporter at 16th and Benjamin Franklin parkway stands americas first ever monument to the holocaust a1964 sculpture titled monument to 6 million jewish martyrs. Its ignored by many who pass by. It was in this place that
Temperatures have attempted a little bit thisa morning with some beautiful sunrise this morning at temperatures will be in the high 50s to near 60 by noon with a High Temperature today 68. A better shape than the family dollar. R. No other instance as you head wayne and natalie back to you. Jessica dill has highlights fror last nights game that has all celebrating this morning. Were making our way to the were working on after yesterdaysw the boston rd sox keeps Getting Better these we b have Home Field Advantage from here on out. E on to the world series he was ta get Home Field Advantage. Theyd game in boston the sacrifice fly. Indians lead 42. Cody allen he picked up interest the eighth. Cody allen with the popup to write that ended are headed to the asc us. H the way they embrace limited tickets. This is theinene bestofseven series the rest of the times are not released yet. Twitter have been four points encouraging people to yout registered to vote for the elect do the online if yo
Girlfriend last night. Officers were responding to a report. That a woman had been shot. Near cactus and jones. When they arrived. They say. They found. Ivan cotton. Standing outside of a car. Inside. The drivers seat. The 27yearold is now facing murder charges. Tonight on 13 action news. The family of tracy donahue. The woman shot and the 15 yesterday. Is speaking out 13 action News Reporter marti glaser. Just sat down with the Family Moments ago and joins us with more. Marti . Mahsa. How do you explain to grandchildren . That their grandmother was killed in a random shooting while she s on her way to lunch with your grandfather that is one of many hardships Tracey Donahues step daughter amber now that her step mother 49 year old Tracey Donahue will no longer be around to see her kids grow up. Yesterday while driving on i 15 she says the suspect this man. Opened fire on her dads vehicle believing that he and his wife were cops. Making the situation even worse garcia says no one pulled
Clown costumes just with thee incidents that have been happening throughout the unitedg states, but i knowho that the md has raised some concern about clown costumes. Own they did not directly reach outr toec us. This was our understanding of what they want and just kind of making sure that everybody does it. Last week target cleared their shelves and online creepy crown masks after disguises of clownsf througut if people want to dress like clowns you dont see anything wrong itont with. No. Even if it could be hiding a potential criminal. Crim yes. Going to tell who iswho the criminal and who is not . B . Very mindful of everything thatr is going to, be careful of your surrenderrings, but i dont think necessarily they have to pull all clown costumes. C the bulletin alsol adds the information d. C. Police is directed apet officers. Outside mpd headquarters, marin, maracco, fox5 local news. 59degrees right now, give you a live look outside at the washington moon uhuh. N uh a Beautiful Da