Comfortably mild beginning to the morning. But, still jacket weather at it finest as i like to say, going throughout the day, also , going to start to notice specially eastern half of our area notice mount pocono winds speeds, winds starts to kick up little bit more. Because weve got that dry air mass in place, combined with the breeze, thats going to elevate the fire risk at least little bit. Be smart, but for now, just more of the same. Temperatures back to the low and mid 70s from the shore up to the city and fog but walltowall sun continuing all the way up to the mountains. 66 degrees, for you there. But nice fall day regardless. Now, as we move forward in the forecast, that stretch of sun will continue with temperatures trending around if not more than 10 degrees above average. Right through the weekends. But, this pattern as i mentioned, pat, comes to screaching halt, ill let you know when a little later. Just soak it in while we can. Got to love it. Goes down nice. I like. That
Good morning. Im rosemary. It gives us the things you cant do right now. Drug otherdoses killed nearly 64,000 people. It is up 22 from 2015. 1,900 reported in new jersey in 2016 and other sources estimate died in the state of delaware since last year. We are live where the Heroin Task Force is teaming up to educate people about this crisis, randy. Reporter good morning. The president will make his anoubsment at announcement at 2 00 today. The Opioid Crisis is an emergency. Reporter it will make clear once and for all it is a National Public health mench emergency. Those on the ground hope it will mean more federal money flowing into treatment and recovery. It is a limit amount of time. We are hoping Something Like this could extend their time in treatment. We are a program that teaches life skills. Law enforcement react to the news. District Attorney Says it could mean more federal funding for life saving doses of narcan but he says more needs to be done including going after pharmaceu
Commission. He calls todays action, quote, bold. Other examples of Public Health emergencies in the u. S. Include the h1n1 influenza outbreak and natural disasters. Drey clark, nbc 10 news. The president s action couldnt come soon enough for local families who have felt the impact firsthand. Ted greenberg spoke with a family whose made it their mission to stop the hoirn. Its getting worse. Reporter as the Opioid Epidemic deepens, so does her pain. She and her husband bill run stevens place, a sober living house named after their son. They lost him last year to a hoirn overdose at age 26. If my heart and mind, my son dies every day and i dont know if im ever going to be able to fully heal from losing him because its every day. They are dying every day. The couple founded a nonprofit called stop the heroin. Far more needs to be done. Were still seeing people fighting to get into treatment. People with no insurance or medicaid. Youre not alone. Help is within reach. Governor christie head
And a 38 caliber handgun along with two assault weapons, one of which was equipped with a bump stock similar to the one used by las vegas gunman Stephen Paddo paddock. The bump stock essentially makes a semiautomatic rival fire like an automatic weapon. 400 to 800 rounds per minute. Sources say the weapon inside the garage also had armor piercing bullets. Its an obvious heroin packaging manufacturing, distribution location. Report. One of the kids could have got into that instead of the police. Reporter police are still searching for conde they expect to charge several suspects in the heroin operation. They may be linked to pair of recent shooting shoot on hope ar loo streets. A drug turf war is now underway sources say. With the things going on now a days it shouldnt be like th that. Reporter now some of the drugs found in that garage were stamped with the word quote danger similar to drug seize over the week mend a car stop. All of this drug activity and some recent shootings in east
Order and for an opening statement. In the midst of a fierce battle against an epidemic by opioids. This crisis has touched every corner of american society. Whielt new england and the regions represent states hardest hit by the epidemic. Health officials from the south and reaching across the Mountain West all reported growing over dose deaths in those counties. The latest deaths is astounding. 91 americans died every day from an over dose. Now more than ever we must come together and strengthen our commitment to fight this malady. I expect todays member state will bring to the forefront key insights and solutions on this critical issue. The energy in Congress Committee led several bipartisan initiatives. And the comprehensive Addiction Recovery alct and the 21st century act are now law at the state and local levels. Much needed policy changes are being implemented. The inflicted passage of kara and cures. As a result, patients now have greater access to evidencebased treatment, adiks