Hearings. Catch washington today. Listen to cspan anytime. Tell your smart speaker, play cspan radio. Cspan, powered by cable. Pharmaceutical majors for being here. Onto think eli lilly i want to thank eli lilly announcing ac stencil reduction in list prices for some of their prices. Announcing a substantial reduction in list prices for some of their products. All over this country, people are saying enough is enough. They are sick and tired of paying outrageously high prices not only for insulin before other products as well. They want action and this committee will do what it can to respond to their needs. We need the help of the people on the panel to do that. As we gather today, i know we have some advocates fighting, we thank them for what they do. It is important to acknowledge the too Many Americans who died because they rationed their insulin. Alex smith was 24 years old and he dreamed of opening a sports bar. He is dead because he could not afford insulin. A 22yearold worked t
That has been many years and i think a great labor of love for all of the organizations or all of the organizations that have been involved. I always say about projects like this it is the ones that are the hardest that you end up liking in the end. This will be one of those truly special buildings that people look back on and say, boy, it was really hard but, boy, is it worth the effort. Were here to celebrate the opening of arc mercy at page. This has gone through many twists and turns and started in one direction and come back to the use today. There will be a group of speakers. Well try and move through this relatively quickly. The first among them is the number one house in chief. He doesnt need an introduction. Hes done a lot of these. For those of you who dont know who has done a lot more than most mayors in the country and that is mayor lee. Yeah, yeah. Very good. Yeah. If i would have had a role in this i would have said ice cream for everyone this. Is how i celebrate another
The windchill gets wednesday morning. Also some chances for snow coming up. Authorities are putting together the background of a suspected terrorist arrested for setting off a pipe bomb in the subway in new york city. He is 27yearold akayed ullah from bangladesh. Law enforcement says he was inspired by isis but had no direct contact with the terrorist group. He came to the us on a visa and recently traveled to bangladesh and to the united arab emirates. Surveillance shows the suspect detonating the pipe bomb strapped to his body in a subway walkway near times square. He suffered burns on his hands and stomach. Four other people were slightly wounded. The attempted attack shutdown several streets and train lines around the Port Authority terminal. You did not really hear it too much but you could feel it shake. I was actually sleeping and it woke me pipe bomb that was fixed to his person with a combination of velcro and zip ties. Thank god the perpetrator did not achieve his ultimate go
Schools all across the country given what happened in florida in week. Tell us what youre finding out there. Reporter a tough morning for parents here, some of them getting text message frss their children inside the school ion. As you can see, a heavy Police Presence stillout outside Wagner Middle School. Parents arriving in mass waiting for their children to come out. What we can tell you is the good news, nobody injured. Police are still looking for that gun and suspect that according to police a student saw in the hallway. Let me show you some video from right outside Wagner Middle School. Is police k9 and other units doing an active search on the perimeter of the school. Other police and k9 units are inside the classrooms and hallways searching the school looking for any indication of a man with a gun. Thats what a student inside the school told the principal, that she saw somebody inside with a gun in the halls of that milled school we just talked with police, ta a student had co
And we are live, people later well be with David Remnick with the state of the Union Address. Just a few minutes ago, the president made a grand entrance, he shook hands to people he pretended to recognize, look at him there, white purr, yeah. I love that, you know, about paul rhine and mike pence are in like. Read the words. The state of the union is an annual speech where the president gives the congress ideas for what he wants to do in the coming year. Then, of course ted cruz was watching from his usual seats seat, far away from humans who will never love him and a special appearance from ben carson who was watching there from the sunk l place. But, this year, there were a number of empty seats. Some democrats now saying that they dont want to, quote, honor the president by attending the state of the Union Address. Flash, there is a lengthy list now including maxine waters, a democrat, who says the president doesnt deserve her attention. Frederica wilson, another rep, says that it