Makers in curbing heroin and opioid addiction. You can call in. Your numbers are on the screen. 2027370002 for mountain and pacific zones and special line for those impacted by opioids also 2026280205 is that number. You can catch up was on twitter and facebook its facebook. Com cspan. Host very good Tuesday Morning and well spend the first hour of our program talking about this topic and as you are calling in i want to show you a clip from the senate floor last thursday, indiana senator Joe Donnelley called more resources in combating the opioid christ is in awake of new centers for disease report found some 63,000 americans had died of a Drug Overdose in 2016. This is the time of year Many Americans reflect on the year that has passed and identify the priority in the years to come. In congress we need to do the same. More than 63,000 americans died last year. From opioid abuse. 63,000 moms and dads, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, sons and daughters who are not here with us
This morning, the new concerns about an i. V. Bag shortage. And simone biles breaks her silence saying, me too. The olympic Gold Medalists powerful message as that disgraced usa gymnastics doctor faces nearly 100 accusers in court this morning. And we do say good morning, america. Its another cold one out there. This is a live look at the roads in tennessee. Starting to snow right now. Nashville, memphis, millions facing a messy commute this morning. Get a sense of it by looking at this map. You see so many parts of the country under storm alerts as that system moves its way east. East but some schools are even closed in the south from texas to georgia. Were going to go right to ginger tracking the latest. Good morning, ginger. Good morning. Its a good thing they are closed. We just got news parts of i20 westbound near shreveport closed down thanks to the snow flying and all the way to kentucky and ohio. Windchill warnings from montana to oklahoma and advisories from Corpus Christi up
Dies in less than 48 hours, and this morning, the new concerns about an i. V. Bag shortage. And simone biles breaks her silence saying, me too. The olympic Gold Medalists powerful message as that disgraced usa gymnastics doctor faces nearly 100 accusers in court this morning. And we do say good morning, america. Its another cold one out there. This is a live look at the roads in tennessee. Its starting to snow right now. Nashville, memphis, millions facing a messy commute this morning. Get a sense of it by looking at this map. You see so many parts of the country under storm alerts as that system moves its way east. East but some schools are even closed in the south from texas to georgia. Were going to go right to ginger whos tracking the latest. Good morning, ginger. Good morning. Its a good thing they are closed. We just got news parts of i20 westbound near shreveport closed down thanks to the snow flying and all the way to kentucky and ohio. Windchill warnings from montana to oklaho
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Were in a film called chappaquiddick . I thought, a comedy about chappaquiddick . audience laughing oh, right its not a comedy. No, its not a comedy. Its the actual chappaquiddick. Its a look at the story that really kind of affected ted kennedys life completely arguably changed history, right . If you believe the idea absolutely that ted kennedy was going to be president at some point, and this might have been the thing that disabled it, right . Oh yeah, beyond a doubt. And its also interesting given our current political climate, like what ted kennedy got away with, the entitlement and stuff like that. Its a really fascinating look. You and i are the same age, were both 51. 51, but i look 50. audience laughing is that right . You dont look a day over 50 and a half. I barely look 50 and six months. So we were three years old when this happened. So i have no memory of it, i just know what ive read over the years. And i suspect that when you were contemplating taking this role, and you