To be outdoors, stay under that airconditioner and avoid heat stroke at any cost. If you dont have air conditioning, if youre going to be at home, take a cool bath, take a cool shower, lower your body temperature. Reporter but in the dog days of summer theres no staying inside for these little ones. Scorching hot, so humid. Just have grandkids out in the water. Stay under the shade. Reporter a shady spot while the kids have all the fun. Is that water cold . Uhhuh. Really, really, really cold. Reporter which, of course, i had to find out for myself. Lots of liquid, extra shade, thats the case. Reporter back out here live with my friend mohammad who has been doing this for the last 17 years, mohammad, any advice . Yeah. Snow cone, this is my job only. Reporter drink lots and lots of water . Yes. Reporter you heard it. Drink lots and lots of water. Reporting live in downtown brooklyn, shirleen allicot, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you, shirleen. The water was refreshing, 74 degrees to
The hearing today, what does it deal with . Guest something called the commission on care. Something that was part of the choice act. When Congress Asked the robert to carve out six 2 60 of our budget million of our budget. Time, they came up with 18 recommendations. Of the 18, we said we agree with 15 of the 18. 12 of the 15 are already underway or already completed. For us, the commission and their findings reinforces but we are trying to do with our my v. A. Transformation in transforming the work of the v. A. To better care for veterans. Host although care delivered by the v. A. Is comparable or better than clinical quality generally available to the private sector, it is inconsistent from facility to facility. How would you respond to that . The Biggest Issue was inconsistency. Some were leaders and Lean Technology as a way to provide care. There are some who had never heard of lean. We tried to defuse best practices across. I came from the private sector, i was 33 years of procte
Familiar faces are enough to win. I will let you follow up on that. , we have very different characteristics. We have gone through a phase last election where republicans had many more seats that they could challenge. And a date addition to the in addition to the number of seats, republicans did very well last election picking up extremely red states that had democratic senators. There were six states that were rock red republican states and they had open seats. Republicans picked up all of them, plus North Carolina and if you swing states as well. Those of the prompt those are the prime targets than a world that is well aligned for the republicans are Holding Republican seats and democrats are Holding Democrat seats. What does this election look like . 24 big numbers are, republicans of four election, while there are only 10 democrats of your seats. And they just looking ahead, if in thek at 2018, and is opposite direction with only eight republicans and 23 or if 25 count the independ
Economies bloom. That is not in lieu of a percent of of a political settlement, but it helps that people in the west bank and people in gaza see that they are not living at the edge of a precipice, that they ave the wherewithal to have real life and businesses. That is easier to do in the west bank. The west bank has been reasonably quiet. Lets work to ensure that that continues. Say, do weround and and to be like aleppo syria, do we want to be like yemen, like libya . Or do we want to have a real life and potential for Real Solutions down the line . Can solve thef we political problem right now. I think president obama has his own thoughts as well. There are three components here. There is the political component, the political solution, there is security, and there is prosperity. Least, we should work on prosperity and security and if we can, include a political solution. For that, we will have to sit down and talk. Unilateralism, i suppose that is it would have but to meet Israeli S
The Unemployment Rate fell to 5 . This congress should pass a serious infrastructure plan and keep those jobs coming. That would make a difference. The pipeline would not have made a serious impact on those numbers and on the American Peoples prospects for the future. The pipeline would not lower gas prices for american consumers. In fact, gas prices have already been falling steadily. The National Average gas price is down to about . 77 over a year ago. It is down one dollar over two years ago. It is down one dollars twice seven cents over three years ago 1. 27 over three years ago. A gas stationnd selling gas for less than two dollars a gallon. Politics has been consumed over a debate on whether this pipeline would create jobs and lower gas prices, we have gone ahead and created jobs and lower gas prices. Third, shipping dirtier crude oil into our country would not increase Americas Energy security. Increased Americas Energy security is our strategy over the past several years to red