We want to hear your story as well. [applause] mr. President , i will start with you. You have a lot going on. This is a significant commitment. You flew down here. Why this particular topic for user . It isent obama important. It is costing lives. It is devastating communities. I want to begin by thanking congressman rogers helping to put this together and to the leadership he has shown. We very much appreciate that. [applause] unite ano thank you N Organization that has been carrying this issue for a long time. Paneliststhank our especially hearing the stories and very personal terms of what this means to families and communities. Im looking forward to hearing from them. This is something that has been a top priority of ours for quite some time. Is to promote the safety and the health and the prosperity of the American People. That encompasses a whole range of things. E are down leaders of isil responding to natural disasters. Trying to promote a strong economy. At the staggering sta
Jerusalem. Theres no political will there in ramallah. For the last 5. 5 years, president abbas has refused to sit down and talk with me even for a minute. But that doesnt mean hes been silent. He has helped inculcate a new generation of young palestinians with murderous hatred for israel. And my friends, this incitement has deadly consequences. Palestinian children are taught to stab jews. They are taught that the goal of the Palestinian People is not to establish a state on the west bank, but in all of israel in akko, haifa, nazareth, jaffa. Now, what im about to show you is deeply disturbing. I think you have to see for yourselves what the palestinians are teaching their children. I want you to see the daily pledge of allegiance of palestinian children. Take a look. I am a palestinian child. Many more cities. The 48 lands are all ours. They preach to kill israelis just because they are jews and children emulate the murderous videos online. This comes directly from the palestinian le
Additional comments or statements. Without objection, so ordered. And when we complete the Opening Statements we will turn to our panel of witnesses. We have five distinguished Witnesses Today, three at the federal level, one at the state and one of the local level for our hearing. We will swear those witnesses in and then we will hear their testimony, and then we will proceed with questions. So that will be the order of business that we will follow. So again, welcomecome and i will start with my opening statement. Unfortunately, the United States is experiencing a historic epidemic of Drug Overdose deaths. Today, Drug Overdose, overdoses are the leading cause of accidental death in the United States. In 2014, i dont have the 2015 figures yet, but in 2014, listen to this, 47,055 deaths caused by Drug Overdose. That means that this hearing lasts for two hours. 10 people will die in the next two hours in the United States from Drug Overdose death. More americans this is a little chart sh
That map is going to be incredibly help lful. The activity started at the top yellow square Mondawmin Mall near the maryland zoo. We heard that students came out of Frederick Douglass high school a Public High School and started to flood into a 7eleven. They came they went they came back out and making the way down reisherstown road until they got to the mall. This looks like interviews happening right now with channel 11 sister station. This is the activity that was happening outside of the mall. You can see police would move forward. It looked to be mostly students at this point. This is right after school. They would run away. They never entered the mall itself. Most of the mall people had left. It was described as a mostly ghost town. That right there was an arrest. This was the action all throughout the afternoon. The folks would move across the street. And then start throwing bricks and stones at any vehicle that would pass by. Theres one right there. At buses. At police. At Poli
Previously taken by animal control officers. Good afternoon. Im don scott. Im jessica kartalija. People are expressing their shock over a disabled woman being attacked by her own pit bull inside her home. Wjz is live. Rochelle richie has more on what we learned today. Good afternoon, rochelle. Reporter good afternoon. Well, its just a horrific storl s with the Baltimore City Health Department said the dog attacked the owner an her grandson back in april. Neighbors of Terry Douglas killed after being mauled by her pit bull are left stunned. Ive seen the lady before. She was always really nice, pled neighbor. Douglas suffered and was boo a wheelchair raised the dog since it was a puppy. When you raise it from its young you never expect Something Like that to happen. Me having dogs of my own i never experienced nothing like that. Its just sad. Baltimore city police were call today this home Early Saturday Morning after douglas was killed. According to reports the woman had a significant w