The United States Public Health service as it exists today is a product of experience extending over a period of nearly 150 years. It was originally created as a Marine Hospital service for the purpose of providing medical care to american seamen. It was established by an act of congress signed by the second president of the United States, john adams, on july 16, 1798. This service was originally supported by a tax on american merchant seamen. This was later abolished. It was collected by the collector of the customs of the treasury department. And the Marine Hospital service came under the jurisdiction of that department where it remains today. The first Marine Hospital located at norfolk, virginia. The second was built in boston, massachusetts. Some of the medical personnel were used by the union and the confederacy for the care of the sick and wounded of the military forces. It frequently happened the medical officers of the early Marine Hospital were the first position to diagnose
For treatment. I dont think any center across the country is going to have any trouble generous people. That was dr. Jon lapook census. Chip reid has the story. Reporter this is took sook bay, alaska, on the behring sea about as far as you can get away from the united states. This is the director of the Census Bureau who flew in on a frigid january day to count the first person in our nations 2020 census. The constitutionally mandated once a decade count of every Single Person within our borders. 2020 census has begun. Reporter it was very emotional to me. The entire village had gathered. They were playing native music. They were celebrating the 2020 census. An rte that across the nation. Reporter it seems steven dilling ham is not alone in his passion for the census. What do you know about the census . Not much. Reporter in february we traveled to houston, texas, where activists went door to door to make sure t itill f counted. Some people are very happy to see us. Some people dont ev
it is noon eastern, 9:00 pacific. i m sarah sider in in for the lab tpous fredricka. we begin this hour with bad news. it is blanketing the united states. at least 15 people have been killed due to the icy weather across multiple states. you re looking at a crash there. new york state police are warning people to stay off the roads amid white-out were conditions. they say search and rescue obviously hard to move about is moving extra slow due to the blizzards. new york governor kathy hochul said first responders may not be able to reach you if you need help. it is absolutely dangerous for anyone to be on the roads. and that includes our emergency vehicles. so our national guard, our first responders, our ambulances, our fire trucks are all getting stuck in the snow as well. in fact,, almost every fire truck in the city of buffalo is stranded. it is stuck in snow. right now more than 100 million people are under wind chill alerts. the arctic blast extending from montana do
Laura anthony is with Christian Spencer and well look at the forecast. Ama, as you pointed out, its wet and its going to get wetter in the season. We have a ring around San Francisco right now. We have south of San Francisco, moving on to the peninsula across the Santa Cruz Mountains over to san mateo, east bay, fremont and livermore and byron we have rain. Its a little misty around San Francisco but a steadier rain hasnt hit the city. Heres our forecast animation starting at 4 00 p. M. We see the rain become much more widespread and heavy downpours. Overnight, the entire area will be blanketed by rain. This storm for tonight and tomorrow ranks as a roads are wet as the storms move through the bay area. Laura anthony is live in san rafael where people are concerned about a different danger. Laura . Reporter here in marin county, it started raining light knee. As we heard from spencer, this is where there was a fatal tree failure last weekend in san rafael. A 77yearold man was killed wh
35, bridge port. 27 around poughkeepsie. They warm up nicely. Looking at 58 by 4 00. Maybe hitting 60 degrees and it only gets warmer into record breaking 70degree temperatures by wednesday. Weather and traffic together every seven minutes. The trains are doing just great. No major problems. Ive been checking them. Metro north running on or close to schedule and then the Subway Service is running on or close to schedule. We do have this on going problem as you travel onto the Southern State parkway. Westbound near exit 17. We do have the vehicle fire still being extinguished and cleared. You have a lot of activity on the side of the roadway and this near exit 17. This is an over turned tractor trailer as a result of a fuel spill. Neptune avenue to avenue u. On going water main brake. Parking rules in effect for today. 6 01, the suspect behind a deadly rampage in a queens neighborhood remains in the hospital. James Patrick Dylan slashed appeared stabbed two victims and set fire to a hom