Against an epidemic brought to us by opioids. It does not matter where you live. This crisis has touched every corner of american society. While new england and the ohio valley regions represent states hardest hit by the epidemic, Health Officials from the south and reaching across the Mountain West all report a dwroeg number of Overdose Deaths in those counties. The latest figures from the cdc is astounding, 91 americans die every day from an overdose. Now more than ever we must come together and strengthen our commitment to fight this malady. I expected tos members will bring to the forefront key incites on this critical issue. In the Previous Congress the energy and Commerce Committee led several bipartisan initiatives to help address the epidemic. Theyre now law in providing resources at the state and local levels. Much needed policy changes are being implemented. The passage of both kara and cures. In fact, as a result of kara patients suffering from Substance Abuse now have great
Actually, just a question. Could you put it back up . Does this program is this program offered to p. U. C. Customers beyond San Francisco . This program is only offered within the jurisdictiontal boundaries of city and county of San Francisco. Any reason why we couldnt offer to all the customers . We could expand the program at the direction of the governing bodies. Yes. We have chosen we have chosen not to. Staying within our city, our city foot print so far. When you say government bodies yourselfs. Ok. [laughter] i didnt know if you meant well, if expansion we would pursue expansion if we were directed to by the board of supervisors to actually consummate an expansion. It would require other governing bodies to authorize that. To agree. For example, a Service Territory that were trying to expand into would need to agree and we would need to receive certification from the California Public Utilities Commission that that expansion is authorized. Are there any reasons why we shouldnt
Good morning everybody welcome to news4 midday im aaron gilchrist. This School Bus Crash happened in potomac. You can see it went off the road. One of many issues tracking today that made driving difficult. News4 justin finch is there live. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Bus towed away a little while ago. Somehow trying to make a turn, lost control, slipped, and fell into this wooded area here resting against a tree. We are told at the time this road here, this private road was not fully salted. Which goes to show how treacherous the roads can be. Vicariously placed but protected Montgomery County school bus tree. All a board luckily unhurt. He slowed down and given the ice and level of the ground the bus started sliding and ended p in a ditch. Montgomery county firefighters rescued them from the bus. Response shut down this portion of tu llip lane. We had plan ab and c. Walk the students off. Reporter slick roadways and patches of fog were over the parkway and other areas. And i
Dreamland the true tale of americas opiate epidemic. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then i will introduce the witness, then with her from mr. Quinones, and then senators will each have five minutes of questions. Since his are only witness i suggested to him that if he wants to take a little more than five minutes to say whatever he has to say, we would welcome that, but who will be plenty conversation back and forth from members of the committee. Mr. Quinones, it is unusual to have a single witness at our hearing but this is an unusual topic, one you quote Washington State Research Professor Gary Franklin is calling the worst manmade epidemic in history. The challenge this crisis present has captured the attention of a member of this committee. The research and writing has been acclaimed for the depth and breadth so this is what we call a bipartisan hearing, most of ours hour. One in which a a democrats and republicans agreed on the topic, its important, a
We are very happy to do that. As much as we love it we have been there for 15 years we look forward to our move and if you dont know next year the museum will not be 100 meters from here. Where across the mall in the plaza area in which case we actually will be able to have a new the new Museum Without having to go somewhere else. Its not going to happen for another year or so we used 2018 as our new museum and we will have the program before he do a grand opening around this time next year. Be on the lookout for that. You were given a program for this evening. Definitely take a look at it. Includes a communique for the offense we have at the museum. This is an example with the partnership of the news york times for the two events throughout the spring. Theres a lot of stuff going all the way through the end of march march. One of the highlights of the spring as a Development Event we are doing later this month with the former director of National Intelligence jim clapper who has been