Skyrocketing drug prices on American Families. I recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement. Today we are closing this work. The way we started our work with this congress. A hearing on Prescription Drug prices. This is a bipartisan issue. That focuses on the many years. The first witness at our hearing was a woman named antoinette. A mother whose daughter died at 22 years of age after rationing insulin because she could not afford it. It was the subject of our hearing on hiv prevention drugs in may. Today, five patients and a Family Member are here to share their stories. I urge all members who go back to your districts and to talk to your constituents about their experiences struggling to pay for lifesaving drugs. I fear you will discover that we are facing a drug crisis in america. We have seen time and time again Drug Companies, skyrocketing prices, forcing families to make gutwrenching choices every day. Many families and having to choose between caring for the
Changes the ministration would like to make to the 1973 law, we have to first time guest on washington journal to talk about it, Jonathan Wood have senior attorney. Good morning thank you for joining us and we also say hi to Jason Rylander at the defenders. Good morning to you as well. Remind us in the audience with the endangered species act is and how successful you think its been in the last 40 years. It is one of the worlds most successful wildlife conservations. It is been responsible for bringing back iconic species like the bald eagle, grizzly bear the manatee, humpback wha whale, her remarkable record of 1600 species on the list only 11 have been declared extinct since the listed track record we can be proud of. Host with that being said, do agree with the ministration its time for changes . How come . Guest the truth is, is partially successful, it is been good for preventing extension. 99 are actually understated because most of the species that are gone extinct will probably
Through San Francisco. All of this will clear out and open up to sunny skies and a lot of warm temperatures. Right now its mild out there. 55 degrees for San Francisco, 59 oakland, and 61 in san jose. This is what it will look like around lunchtime. Its cooler and it hit 100 degrees. Again, its still going to be warm. You wont feel that much of a difference. Fairfield today, expecting to be 98 degrees around lunchtime. 76 for oakland, 87 degrees for san jose and a nice comfortable 65 for San Francisco. Ill let you know how long this heat trend will last, back to you. A Oakland Police officer is recovering in the hospital after she was shot at last night following a car accident. The officer was responding to a call at 9 30 and she was involved in a vehicle accident on 73rd avenue. A man approached the officers car and fired a shot. The bullet hit the police car, but the officer was not hit by a gunfire. There were several shots fired at the officer. We know the person has a gun, took t
Jobay. Lets go over to karen rogers with accuweather and matt pellman has reporter good morning good e look at satellite and radar, we have clear skies and were looking good. If youre in Martins Creek its 58 degrees, temperatures below yesterday morning. 61 in snreet wood. 6 fleetwood, 72 water main break is giving us problems this morning, 206 blocked at princeton pike stay on route 1 no problems over there. So far so good along i95 at 295. Not complaining about that. We expect delays on the regional rails, well be watching them as this thursday morning progresses, tam. Thank you matt. Were following breaking news this morning a violent night in philadelphia as gunfire erupts across the city. Detectives are working on two homicide right now. The latest one a man was returning from a fast food run gunned down on the 2900 block of north master street in north philadelphia. Two gunmen ambushed a driver on wannamaker street 9 bullets hit the man inside killing him a third shooting was spa
The heat is on, nearrecord temperatures will dominate the delaware and lehigh valleys. David murphy keeping an eye on the very latest. He is right here, david murphy is here along with matt pellman filling in for karen. Reporter youve got this down, weve got sunshine and clouds, the cloud cover is sweeping down from the northwest, overall well have partly sunny skies, we have an air quality alert today, ground level ozone not great between the hours of noon and 6 is when the air quality will be at the worse. 74 in philadelphia. 72 in millville. 62 in allentown. 73 in cape may. The dewpoints are up so it feels more humid in most neighborhoods than the last several days, the upper 60s are frairl fairly humid, the 70s are oppressive. 76 degrees for the morning run, hydrate before and after. 85 degrees by 10 00 a. M. 94 by 3 00 p. M. , 95 around 4 00 p. M. We get and excessive heat watch that kicks in on saturday and extends through sunday and could be extended through monday, as well. Hea