Psychology of the vaping wars, its very easy to get confused about why there is such controversy. So my first tipoff that this arena, where the controversy went well beyond the data, is the inconsistency in the Public Health communitys attitude towards Harm Reduction. You mentioned before the classic is Needle Exchange and methadone happen to also work with heroin addicts part time. And right now in the midst of this heroin epidemic, were considering what id say are more radical forms of Harm Reduction from europe, actual heroin distribution. This is just being contemplated but i know ithaca and a few other cities were actually thinking about that. And these are classic responses to again, classic harmreduction responses and agencies like the cdc granted, i dont know if theyve approved of heroin distribution but theyre in favor, rightly so, of Needle Exchange and methadone and condoms and all this. Yet so this kind of Harm Reduction for heroin addicts is warmly embraced by the Public H
Michelle griego. This is all happening near pacific avenue and powell street in San Francisco. Gets get to jackie ward live at the scene lets get right to jackie ward live at the scene. Jackie . Reporter anne, as you can see, were just kind of waiting to see what happens next. Behind me you can see that the area of pacific and powell is blonde to traffic as Police Continue to negotiate with the suspect. He is in a flat on the 900 block of pacific. Police know exactly where the suspect is and are trying to get him to come out without incident. Police say the suspect fired a single shot and officers did not fire back. The safety of everyone in this area is polices main concern right now. The primary concern in this case is that when officers arude at the scene and attempted arrived at the scene and attempted to take the person into custody. A shot was fired by the suspect. Now were dealing with burglary with a suspect with a gun. Reporter a breakin call came in at 9 20. They believe the
Epipens, used by those who suffer from severe allergies. Does Congress Need to weigh in . Should there be more oversight . That is our topic. Join in on the conversation. 202 the area code. 7488001 for republicans. For democrats. 202 7488002 for independents. Join us on social media. Facebook. Com cspan or send a tweet at cspanwj. Lets begin with comments on our facebook. We posted the question on whether or not there should be more oversight in light with what happened with the epipen. The followingsays perhaps the solution should begin with not allowing pharmaceutical companies to embed their lobbyists among our politicians. Another view pharmaceutical companies charge more for drugs in the u. S. Than they do in other countries like canada, because theres no price regulation. Rafael says make drugs more affordable. Garry says the democrats just one more control. And this tweet says the price of seemn makes old prices reasonable, which they are not. Should be affordable to all who nee
And they passed a bill extending Technical Education programs, and a resolution calling for a new agreement with israel about u. S. Military assistance. Also today, the house began debate on a bill to make it easier for the department of Veterans Affairs to fire and promote its employees. Debate on the bill will continue tomorrow and we are expecting a final passage vote. Earlier this afternoon, Republican Congress and john fleming offered a resolution to impeach irs commissioner john costin and. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to clause 2a1, i rise to give notice of my intent to raise a question of the privileges of the house. The form of the resolution is as follows. House resolution 828, impeaching john Andrew Kosten and, mmissio Revenue Service for high crimes and misdemeanors. Resolved, that john andrew costky anyone, commissioner of the internal Revenue Service is impeached for high crimes and zpheerns and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the senate. Articles of i
The ceremony observed a moment of silence. Local news, 24 hours a day, powered by our 2400 journalists in more than 150 news bureaus around the world. Bloomberg west is next. Emily this is bloomberg west. Coming up, apple pushing hard against a court order asking the company to unlock another iphone. We will bring you all the details. Plus, is the future of Net Neutrality under threat . We look at a new bill making its way through congress and what the new rules could mean. And japan rocked by the second powerful quake in 24 hours. We will check out what the rest of the world is doing to catch up. First, to our lead. Another tug in the tugofwar between apple and the fbi over encryption. The Cupertino Company refusing once again to help investigators hack into a phone, reiterating its court case. The governments need to substantiate its need for apples assistance alone provides more than sufficient grounds to deny the governments application. The judge sided with apple. What does this m