It is1 31am in it is 1 31am in the morning in london. Now on bbc news click. This week a crisis sweeping america, a Public Health emergency. Can Technology Help prevent drug overdoses and fight the Opioid Epidemic . Theme music a request for an ambulance at manchester. We have a patient in the bathroom, he has overdosed. He is not breathing, overdose. America is facing the worst Public Health crisis in its history. It is a horseman of the apocalypse, and it is the one named debt. 70,000 of its citizens are dying every year from drug overdoses named death. Citizens are dying every year from drug overdoses named death. Im not doing nothing except sticking a needle in my arm, every day, all day long. Its a waste of everything. Around three quarters of those are the results of an opioid addiction. It is the number one killer of americans under 50 and it has reduced the average life expectancy. We go out on these types of patrols over and over and over again, all day long. Can you get up .
1619, ship over arrived carrying stolen African People taken from angola. Here, they were sold and sold again. The first enslaved African People who were not granted the same freedoms that would be given to white landowning they joined the thousands of virginias first people, the members of the Virginian Indian tribes who would also wait centuries to have the same freedoms. These commemorations of the First Representative Assembly in the free world, we have to remember who it included and who did not. Virginia,e paradox of of america, of our representative democracy. A full accounting demands that we confront and discuss those aspects of our history. It demands that we look not just in time for hundred years in the past, but at how our commonwealth and country of all dover the course of those four centuries. Over they evolved course of those four centuries. Joining us now is cassandra newbyalexander. She teaches at norfolk state university. We appreciate you being with us here on cspan
Present. The committee a quorum is present. The committee is meeting to hear testimony on the importance of trauma and practices in education to assist students impacted by gun violence and other adversities. Miss beth of georgia, of minnesota, miss the of wilde ofiss pennsylvania, and mr. Pastor of texas, are permitted to participate in todays hearings with the understanding that their questions will come on the after all members of the subcommittee have had an opportunity to question the witness. ,ursuant to committee will 7c Opening Statements are limited to the chair and the Ranking Member. This allows us to hear from or witnesses sooner and provides all members with time to ask questions. Can you hear me all right . All right. I recognize myself now for the purpose of making an opening statement. I want to begin by acknowledging that this morning marks 18 years since the terrorist attacks that struck new york, pennsylvania, and the pentagon on september 11, 2001. Let us please tak
Good evening and welcome. We are delighted to have Jacqueline Jackson and Jesse Jackson junior. First it is my pleasure to introduce to you april smith a classmate of congressman jackson and agent for their book loving you, speaking of view and dont forget to pray and is a family friend as well. To introduce these lovely people, here is april smith. [applause] thank you. Good evening and welcome. Welcome to Raleigh North Carolina we appreciate you coming in. Thank you for joining us. We would like to thank quail ridge books, cspan, the ceo and founder of healthcare and our friends from North Carolina that have joined us. [applause] also, we would like to thank our educators in the area for joining us tonight as well as friends and family thank you for coming out. We appreciate you. For those of you who do not know, ms. Jackson is the life of reverend Jesse Jackson, from the civil rights movement. She has marched, she has been jailed and she participated in the initial me to march in wa
Classmate of congressman jackson and agent for their book loving you, speaking of view and dont forget to pray and is a family friend as well. To introduce these lovely people, here is april smith. [applause] thank you. Good evening and welcome. Welcome to Raleigh North Carolina we appreciate you coming in. Thank you for joining us. We would like to thank quail ridge books, cspan, the ceo and founder of healthcare and our friends from North Carolina that have joined us. [applause] also, we would like to thank our educators in the area for joining us tonight as well as friends and family thank you for coming out. We appreciate you. For those of you who do not know, ms. Jackson is the life of reverend Jesse Jackson, from the civil rights movement. She has marched, she has been jailed and she participated in the initial me to march in washington. Ms. Jackson comes from a bout of strength with her family. Strong women keep on coming and in the midst of her sons pain she decided to put pen