Congress. President trumps date of the Union Address, tuesday at five on cspan. Live on the free cspan radio and alive on your tablet at cspan. Org. The Senate Permanent subcommittee on investigation held a hearing yesterday on how drug traffickers get opioid and other drugs through the us postal system. Witnesses at the hearing from work from the state department and Border Protection, Drug Enforcement administration and immigration and Customs Enforcement. This hearing will come to order. Thank you all for being here. Todays hearing continues the permit subcommittee on investigations work to combat the Opioid Epidemic that is ripping our communities across the country. The last congress subcommittee issued a bipartisan report on opioid related fraud and abuse in the Medicare Part b program. This Congress Committee held a hearing on the growing problem of individuals by illicit opioids over the internet and shipping them to the United States through the mail. The Opioid Crisis sadly c
Involved in the shooting has died from injuries he was taken to the hospitalwe do not know the general of the also was taken to the hospital by ambulance that officer has died ulcer the gender is not being released nor the officers named i can tell you all sources have also told us that the suspect was injured in a gunbattle the officer checked herself into hey what hospital to of course any time someone checks himself and to the hospital they have to let the authorities in made the arrest in the suspect appeared to be alive at this point we do not know the status of the suspect as well so much of on the scene when i receive often are here mccann to leave the sources told me that they knew this in very bad early on because use the in my sources but the chp. Will tran use it because it is very closeknit Community Using the get updates on an office as condition but when all went down theyre asking the Commanding Officer howe was this officer doing in a Commanding Officer would not tell t
Brother calls him sick and depraved. Plus, nasas highspeed project to fly you across the country in just three hours only on cbs this morning jeff glor takes off on a jet designed to break the sound barrier without a windowbreaking sonic boom. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. She heard the house shaking. There was a loud explosion. Flames are being seen in the sky. Rescue workers are under way after an oil rig explodes. Clearly visible for miles across the huge lake. Were ingauging this thing, were taking it by the horns. Were going to be here until the job is done. Fire fishlts say theyre finally getting an upper hand on the wildfires that devastated northern california. Were not out of the woods yet but were making tremendous progress out there. Its the singest largest attack in somalian history. They sit down for lunch along with Vice President pence today. A former d. A. Official says the agencys effort to crack down on the Opioid Epidemic
Slide. The hang seng was up by 3 4 of a percentage point shanghai stocks closed down by 1 3 of a percentage point in japan, the nikkei higher once again. Another 100 points gain of half a percentage point. Trading at 21,255. In europe there is early trading taking place there are modest advances. It looks like the dax is the biggest gainer well continue to keep an eye on that. Were watching a developing story in the oil market. Crude and brent, they are moving higher on news that iraqi troops have seized parts of oil rich kurdistan. Theyre moving into parts of the city of kirkuk the u. S. Has supplied and trained Iraqi Federal forces and Kurdish Forces both have been fighting the Islamist State Group they are to if he cuss on the war with isis. One is missing, another five missing. Theyre trying to get to they were trying to get to a valve to cut off the flow of oil. Right now they are not ruling out the possibility that the oil is leaking into the lake the cause of the blast is unknow
The city of berkeley has did denied a permit to the organizers of an antimarki s m rally planned for sunday after next to berkeley high. Sunday afternoon next to berkeley high. The decision was based on several factors including lack of security and a first aid plan. Authorities say they continue to keep planning as if the event is going to happen. A bay area man just learned he will be let out of jail in time to see his baby being born. 27yearold man had been in jail for six months on the immigration charge. His baby is part of the reason a judge agreed to set him free on 3,500 bond following a rally supporting him in san francisco. President trump lashd out at lashed out at republican colleagues on twitter today, criticizing Mitch Mcconnell and how republicans are handling the deadline to raise the debt ceiling. The president is now threatening a government shut down if there is not enough money allocated toward building the border wall. Tonight, more from our in depth effort to exam