To order and thank everyone for their forbearance. We have concluded with member Opening Statements. The chair reminds members that all member Opening Statements will be made part of the record. We do want to thank our witnesses for being here today , taking time to testify before the subcommittee on this important issue. Each witness will have the opportunity to give an Opening Statement followed by questions from members. Again, as previously mentioned , we will hear from mr. Michael holmes, jamie schneider, associate commissioner for s Chip Services, health and Human Services from the state of texas and ms. Cindy man. We appreciate you being here today. Mr. Holmes you are recognized for five minutes for an Opening Statement. Thank you chairman. Ranking member greene, members of the subcommittee, my name is mike holmes. I am the ceo of Cook Area Health Services. We provide medical, dental, and Behavioral Healthcare in nine locations more than 12000 patients of rule northern minnesota
To order and thank everyone for their forbearance. We have concluded with member Opening Statements. The chair reminds members that all member Opening Statements will be made part of the record. We do want to thank our witnesses for being here today , taking time to testify before the subcommittee on this important issue. Each witness will have the opportunity to give an Opening Statement followed by questions from members. Again, as previously mentioned , we will hear from mr. Michael holmes, jamie schneider, associate commissioner for s Chip Services, health and Human Services from the state of texas and ms. Cindy man. We appreciate you being here today. Mr. Holmes you are recognized for five minutes for an Opening Statement. Thank you chairman. Ranking member greene, members of the subcommittee, my name is mike holmes. I am the ceo of Cook Area Health Services. We provide medical, dental, and Behavioral Healthcare in nine locations more than 12000 patients of rule northern minnesota
To order and thank everyone for their forbearance. We have concluded with member Opening Statements. The chair reminds members that all member Opening Statements will be made part of the record. We do want to thank our witnesses for being here today , taking time to testify before the subcommittee on this important issue. Each witness will have the opportunity to give an Opening Statement followed by questions from members. Again, as previously mentioned , we will hear from mr. Michael holmes, jamie schneider, associate commissioner for s Chip Services, health and Human Services from the state of texas and ms. Cindy man. We appreciate you being here today. Mr. Holmes you are recognized for five minutes for an Opening Statement. Thank you chairman. Ranking member greene, members of the subcommittee, my name is mike holmes. I am the ceo of Cook Area Health Services. We provide medical, dental, and Behavioral Healthcare in nine locations more than 12000 patients of rule northern minnesota
You divert them to the new incident. Reporter further east on 140, the sign reads, all three evacuated. Unfortunately, at least one home on the property is no longer there. Only stone work and a water heat remember still standing. Theres a lot of homes in and around small roads tucked into the mountains, and so the challenge is protecting those. And the challenge is getting in there and starting to build line around the fire. Reporter and in the town of mariposa, this should be high season with parking lots and hotels packed with tourists headed for yosemite. Instead, the old gold rush town looks more like a ghost town. Theres a fire that started on sunday on the ridge. And then we got evacuated from that ranch and ended up staying at the best western and went to yosemite, went hiking, came back and that evening, we got evacuated from here. We couldnt come back to our hotel so we had to be taken down to fresno to get a hotel room. Reporter tonight the concern once again is keeping the
Jihaddist, perhaps they, work on stabilizing other parts of syria under the opposition control and that might be a good thing. Last but not least, i think that russias intervention on behalf hoff Bashar Alassad means that syria will be partitions for the foreseeable future if not permanently. Iranian and russian logic is to prop up the assad regime in the west but either i dont think i aggrieve with jeff i dont think theyre able to commit the kind of soreses that would retake all of syrian territory. In discussions about isis, i often ask the question, what force is going to go goo into the euphrates valley and run out the isis forces of the question is can we all find a force that can do that i think were years away from that and unfortunately i see many black days ahead in the syrian war. Thank you very much. Thank you, andrew. Some good news . Good news in syria . Okay. So, we are technical problem. So, [inaudible] we can imagine what we have been explaining that they are in syria t