Terrorists turned civilian aircraft into weapons, killing nearly 3,000 americans and injuring thousands more. Today we honor the memories of those who perished and those First Responders who ran into harms way to help their fellow citizens. The tragedy of 9 11 led to the creation of the Transportation Security Administration, tsa, within the new department of Homeland Security. Tsa is charged with protecting our nations Transportation Systems from attack and ensuring freedom of movement of people and commerce. Im pleased that acting deputy administrator Patricia Cogswell is here to update the committee on the progress toward achieving these goals. Americas Transportation Systems are designed for accessibility and efficiency. The enduring challenge remains how to respond to terrorist attacks without unduly burdening travel, the economy and civil liberties. Tsas workforce includes transportation security inspectors, federal air marshals and visible intermodal response teams. Congress has
Is erin bliss, he was with health and Human Services department and is the assistant Inspector General for evaluation and inspections, welcome to the program. Good morning. Remind people of the role ofthe Inspector General office is in comparison to hhs itself. Our mission is to protect the integrity of health and Human Services programs such as medicare and the healthand wellbeing of the people that they serve. So we do oversight and enforcement of the programs of the health and Human Services department. You turn your attention recently to the topic of hospice. Why is that, what are you looking to find out . The health and safety of Medicare Beneficiaries is one of our Top Priorities and help is a particularly vulnerable population so we looked at information about deficiencies being cited at Health Providers related to quality of care and patient harm. Expand on that, what doyou find looking into this . A report shed light on how common it is to have as providers to be sided with so
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Chasing after a car. Colin paterson, bbc news. Time for a look at the weather. Still pretty hot in the south but a large chunk of the uk is cloudy at the moment with some wet weather on the moment with some wet weather on the way. There is rain in the forecast today, overnight and tomorrow as well. We have a couple of weather systems coming our way, one on friday so a couple to get through by the end of the week. This is the forecast right now, a weather front moving into scotland and northern ireland. The heaviest of the rain in the north west of scotla nd the rain in the north west of scotland at the minute. We think it is just Clearing Northern scotland at the minute. We think it isjust Clearing Northern ireland right about now commit the heaviest of the rain. Elsewhere some bright weather and then overnight the cold front weather and then overnight the cold fro nt m oves weather and then overnight the cold front moves across the uk. I say cool because in the south of the country st