Allows them to allocate a certain amount of money to the candidates running for office and the candidates can take those vouchers would say a 50dollar voucher here if they agree to limit the contribution that they take to the vouchers in a small competition, lets say 100 frankly. 50 dollars would be about 7 billion in 2014 the total amount spent by Congress Shall candidates was 1. 5 billion. Which means that this is real money to point his the voucher system would mean that money comes from many people and not just the. 04 were not just a. 024 . So it filters perhaps because it is not everybody that is going to participate, but it isnt biased in the way that the Current System is biased by allocating the funding to the tiny tiny fraction of the 1 . Democrats have been pushing this idea of matching funds John Sarbanes from maryland, the governor by the the peoples act that basically takes the small contributions and multiplies them up to 91 to make them much more valuable. As a 100 beco
Chorus of calls for parents to get the measles vaccine. Officials encourage vaccinations but some question the safety of vaccines and opt out. Ktvus allie rasmus is live where one group of doctors is telling patients to get the vaccine or go somewhere else. They put that policy into place two years ago but they stay is important to have. There are now 92 confirmed cases of measles in california. Do you want go first with the shot . No. He didnt have a choice. They came in for their booster. They got their first shots, this is their second dose. All done. Yea reporter they are going to disneyland in a couple weeks. The epicenter of the Measles Outbreak that started in december. Super scary. There is nothing you can do because it is air born. It is on surfaces. You want your kids to be protected. The doctors wanted all of their patients to be as protected as possible from the measles. A couple years ago they instituted a policy. Children should have the mmr vaccine by age 2. And if not w
Introduce our panel of witnesses. After that, senators will each have five minutes of questions. We have two panelists today. In two hours for the hearing we will end about noon. We will have an hour for each panel and i will and the first panel at 11 00. From smallpox to polio, we have learned that vaccines save lives. Yet, a troubling number of parents are not vaccinating their children. Last september, this Committee Held a hearing about the ebola virus. Our witnesses included a brave and physician who worked in liberia and contracted people a and contracted ebola. There was and is no cure. There was and is no vaccine. This produced a near panic in the United States. It changed procedures in nearly every hospital and clinic. I remember one chattanooga Public Health officer saying it is ebola all the time, every day. In response, congress appropriated more than 5 billion to fight the spread of the virus. The impact of efforts is that the number of people a cases are declining. At the
Going to change pretty rapidly while youre asleep tonight. That rain changing to snow and in many cases heavy snow. It is going to be snowing for the morning rush across much of the area. And possibly heavy snow during that period, leading to the biggest snowfall of the season. Most likely 4. 8 inches is the biggest in philadelphia so far and we have a very good chance of exceeding that. There is a winter storm warning for virtually the entire area except for the Lehigh Valley and poconos, which actually is going to get less snow than just about any other part of the area. There is the path now. Just patchy light rain and there isnt a whole lot more coming. So it is not going to be a real wet few hours here. But look what is back to the west. Not only heavier rain but this is the snow area. Thats going to arrive right along that and come in tonight. Were up to 39 degrees at philadelphia, hasnt been that warm in a while. Were at 37 allentown, reading. Above freezing everywhere. Even in
Washington, but her reporting live the white house. Are you drowned yet, kristin . Just a little bit wet, but we are going to get there, dana. Tonights official team is the land of promise, but Vice President mike pence just used another phrase that may be equally fitting. He said make America Great again again, so that is going to be a big part of what President Trump has already presided over one of the strongest economies in u. S. History, therefore he is a man to build the economy back in a postcoronavirus world. The president assad all of that just moments ago at the rnc in charlotte just after he had been formally renominated, but saying that the democrats are trying to steal the election with universal mailin voting. Because they were doing some really bad things in 2016. Lets see what happens. We got them doing some really bad things. We have to be careful because theyre trying it again with this whole 80 million mailin ballots that they are working on. Some of the speakers ton