Later today discussion on the nsa trevelyans programs. The meeting will focus on privacy issues and that gets underway live at noon eastern here on cspan. More from the road to the white house 2016 with ted cruz. Hes speaking at the annual Iowa Republican party reagan dinner. You can watch a live at 8 00 p. M. Tonight. A pair of profile interviews. We spoke with joe manchin and Cathy Mcmorris rodgers. Those conversations will air starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. , the yesterdays hearing ministration released figures claiming about 700,000 people have signed up so far. Officials did not write down those numbers per state. Will testifyer before the house ways and Means Committee on tuesday. Check www. Cspan. Org for our coverage plans. Tragediesirsthand the that children face this week when they are not care for by loving parents. It was in the sheriffss office where i first witnessed the horrors of child sex trafficking and it convinced me that we needed to do more to protect o
Gaithersburg 67. And same in cambridge. 65 on the bay at the naval academy. Its just about 6 01. Another check of timesaver traffic excuse me. Lets go back to andrea and mike. Thank you, howard. Heres whats in the news right now. Quarantine, an american nurse who treated ebola patients is creating controversy. Per a new policy, kaci hickox is under a mandatory quarantine after returning from west africa, even though shes tested negative for the virus. More communities in Washington State are in mourning after a second teenager died early today after being shot by a classmate friday. Police still arent saying if they know why the freshman gunman opened tire in the school cafeteria. Selfkorean prosecutors are reportedly demanding the Death Penalty for the captain of a ferry that sank in april. More than 300 people, many of them high school students, died in this accident. Prosecutors also want life sentences for three of the crew members. U. S. And british troops have officially ended co
267 people dying. And in the meantime, as the global number of cases crosses 20 million, russian president Vladimir Putin says his country has approved the worlds first vaccine and named it sputnik v, a hat tip to the first satellite launched during the space race. There are many questions about the safety and the quality of that russian investigation. Health and Human Services secretary alex azar says being first is not the goal. The point is it is not to be first with the vaccine, the point is to have a vaccine that is safe and effective for the American People and the people of the world. We need transparent data, and it has got to be phase three data, that shows that a vaccine is safe and effective. The u. S. Timeline for a safe and effective vaccine is still the end of this year. But lets get back to that alarming rise that were seeing in cases among children. The school year is already under way in many parts of the country. Senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen is with us
Yesterday . Will what are you doing . You want this to go today . I dont understand what were doing. Pete a showdown or shoot out all morning long. This game was four over times. Unfor the senately texas did not come out on top, will. Will it was unfather gnat. I saw a tweet from will. I think it was yesterday your wife had written you something. You tweeted it out asking if you were okay. Was that after questioneds game . Will i was. I married the sweetest woman in the world. Are you mad. Remember okay, remember a few months ago we didnt think we would have College Football. She is always goodlooking at bigger picture. Jedediah good for her. Sorry for your lows, will. Will it was a great game. I took 2 1 2 hour nap. It was in the second quarter. It was still going. We wont talk about College Football all morning long. There are bigger stakes we learned in our country as we learned amid covid19. The president talked about holding a peaceful protest. That is exactly what he did. His doc
They are worried, and i see the fear in their eyes. We need to continue to find ways to make these programs more efficient. I believe when you give it to the private sector, there is a profit incentive there. How can they be as competitive . You did not believe in a profit incentive . Not for Small Businesses, but when it comes to medicare, they deserve the best treatment, not somebody spinning off a profit incentive and salaries. When you compare medicare to private insurance companies, their costs are way lower. What we have is working, but we need to make it more efficient. A brief follow, who can make it more efficient, private . That is part of free markets. That is what made this country what it is. When you talk about seniors been afraid, one of the main reasons they are afraid is because of their doctors dropping them off of Medicare Coverage because reimbursable rates are getting cut and cut and cut. That is a big concern for our seniors. It is about beneficiaries, those waiti