Got his heartbeating. He is okay. Cvs reportedly purchasing aetna, a 69 billion megamerger. If approved, cvs could use 10,000 pharmacies to provide Health Services to 22 million customers. Coming up. Living with hiv the therapy helping millions stay healthy. Later his books are out of the world. Bestselling author, andy weir tells jeff glor he is actually thousand rallied in Salt Lake City this weekend to protest a Trump Administration plan to shrink two National Monuments. Mireya villarreal tells us the disputed land includes a dinosaur graveyard. Thats a bone right there. The Grand Staircase National Monument in southern utah. Does it feel like, we struck gold. Oh, my, guess. Yeah. In the two decade since the 1. 9 million acre patch of land was designated a National Monument. New species of dinosaurs have been discovered. When created in 1996, it was envisioned it would be an outdoor laboratory. On this remarkable site, gods handy work is everywhere. But that designation by president
Author. Would you go to the moon . You wouldnt . No, no. I write about brave people. Im not one of them. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im aeelaine quijano. Hours before the rooster crowed sunday, President Trump was ruffling feathers on twitter. He railed about the russia investigation, defended his firing of National Security adviser Michael Flynn and unloaded on former fbi director james comey. The president also took aim at an fbi agent removed from the russia investigation for sending antitrump texts. But another weekend tweet is being intensely analyzed. There are even question as but who wrote it. Here is errol barnett. Mr. President , why did you fire general flynn . Ignoring questions as he returned to the white house yesterday. President trump just implied via twitter he knew general mike flynn lied to the fbi before making the decision to fire him. But that tweet sources tell cbs news was drafted by the president s lawyer, john dowd
We are live of the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia today. Our continuing coverage of the National Governors Association Annual summer meeting being held this year at greenbrier. The association is composed of executives from the states territories, and districts of the u. S. It is chaired by governor hickenlooper of colorado and the vice chair is governor herbert of utah. The form that is about to get started focuses on state efforts to combat drug use. Steve bashir is chairing the session. But Coverage Today on cspan. If i could have your attention, lets take our seats so we can get the joint session started. First of all, good morning, welcome. I am governor steve bashir from kentucky. I chaired the health and Human Services committee. We will call this meeting to order. Welcome all the governors who are here. This is a joint session of the health and Human Services committee and the Homeland Security and Public Safety committee. Joining me as vice chair of our committee is vice c
Today the subcommittee holds a hearing entitled combatting the opoid crisis, battles in the states. Make no mistake, the term combatting and battles are entirely appropriate. Our nation is in the midst of a tremendous fight against death affecting every corner of our nation. There were more than 52,000 deaths in overdose. A 20 increase in the prior year. It was almost seven time it is rate of death from the heroin epidemic of the 1970s. We learned we have lost roughly 60,0 0 people to Drug Overdoses. That is more in one year than all the names on the vietnam veteran memorial wall. That is likely underestimated because much of the data will not be in until the end of next year. For every fatale overdose there is 20 nonfatale overdoses and for 2016 that could be near one million. More than 130,000 lives have been lost between 1999 and 2015. Thats about 50,000 oh 500,000 will be lost over the next decade. The roots began in 1980 when a letter was misinterpreted as evidence it was unlikely
Good morning everyone. Today the subcommittee of oversight and investigation holds a hearing entitled combatting the Opioid Crisis battles in the states. Now, make no mistake the term combatting and battled are entirely appropriate. Our nation is in the midst of devastation around every corner of the nation. In 2015 there were more than in the u. S. , more than 33,000 deaths involved in opioid. 24 increase from the prior year. Overdose death rate in 2015 was almost seven times the rate of deaths from the heroin epidemic of the 1970s. For 2016 weve already announced from New York Times weve lost roughly 60,000 people to Drug Overdose and that is more in one year than all the names on the Vietnam Veterans memorial wall. And likely that number is underestimated because much of the data will not be in until the end of this year 2017. Its staggering. For every fatal overdose its estimated there are 20 nonfatal overdoses and for 2016 that could be near 1 million. More than 183,000 lives have