Tomorrow with showers and potentially heavy rain. Thereafter well start to see a big cooldown. Well talk about that cooldown in your forecast. Ill walk you through that in just a bit. Nbc 10 was there when one man made it home today just in time for christmas. He was greeted with lots of hug and kisses at Philadelphia International airport. Aundrea clinethomas is joining us live with that story. Reporter well, you know, it is stressful to travel during this time of year. If you stop and just watch, youll be reminded what this Holiday Season is all about. The Bowman Family made their way to terminal d early with flowers and a welcome home balloon. 8yearold nissa could hardly keep still. I missed him a lot. I feel like i havent seen him in a thousand years. Reporter shes talking about her big brother, tyler, who is returning home for the First Time Since enlisting in the navy. Not only is he serving our country, but hes following in my footsteps and thats pretty cool, too. Reporter each
Do in their states to address the Opioid Epidemics. This is just over an hour. Good afternoon, everybody. Those of you whore Still Standing who plan to set, set it and those of you who stand can stand. My name is charlie baker, governor of the commonwealth of massachusetts and im the chair of the nba health and Human Services committee and i want to welcome you all to this conversation about an issue the nga has been engaged in in a big way for the past several years and i think it is fair to say that every governor of every state has made dealing with this particular issue is significant and important priority in their work and thats certainly been true in the commonwealth of massachusetts. I did run for governor to work on this issue, but upon me because wherever i campaigned, i ran into people who talk to me about it in their stories frankly broke my heart. Over the course of the past several years, working on a bipartisan basis with our legislature and others, we have made some pro
Our time. Recogniziining texas. Mr. Chairman, thank you very much, i am pleased from this moment of history to join my colleagues who have come together with a similar and very important purpose and thats to save lives. The Ranking Members on the committee dealing with crimes. We see tl after math over the years of a wrong policy. Let me simply add to the record of startling facts. When an average day in United States, more than 650,000 opiate prescriptions are dispensed and 3900 people used nonprescription use of opiates. 78 people died from an opiate related deaths. 55 billion in health and social costs related to prescription opiate abuse each year and opiate poisoning. This Conference Committee is on the right direction. There are worthy bills. The problem is huge between 2014, almost half a Million People died from drug over doses based on the statistic that i just read. Also to fulfill our obligations for funding, i am glad to be a coresponsponsor of committee, comprehensive of o
Aye. Aye. Opposed . Unanimous. Item no. 2. Item 2, discussion item president s report. As you can see we have dr. Dodd back with us today. Im happy about that. [ applause ] and in the interest of time well move on to item no. 3. Item 3, discussion item, directors report. Lisa got pee. Directors office. We are very happy to see her today. We have some very good news on the personnel front, our well ness manager is starting on december 9th. Her name is now Stephanie Fisher because she was married last week. Shell be starting december 9th as our wellness manager. We are interviewing the compliance manager and our Service Manager position closes on monday and well start interviews on that as well. We have hired an 1844 to work on our contracting team. Actually for the first time in 3 years that i have been with Health Service system, we lost one of our 1210s to mta. One of our super star ben fits analyst. Well surely miss her. Moving on to operations for beginning of december has been dela
Lynn, ferrel, commissioner scott, fraser. Lane. Expected. We have a quorum. Action item no. 1. Action item approval of modifications of the minutes of the meeting setforth below 2013. Are there any corrections to the minutes . Second. Any Public Comment on this item . Okay. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Opposed . Unanimous. Item no. 2. Item 2, discussion item president s report. As you can see we have dr. Dodd back with us today. Im happy about that. [ applause ] and in the interest of time well move on to item no. 3. Item 3, discussion item, directors report. Lisa got pee. Directors office. We are very happy to see her today. We have some very good news on the personnel front, our well ness manager is starting on december 9th. Her name is now Stephanie Fisher because she was married last week. Shell be starting december 9th as our wellness manager. We are interviewing the compliance manager and our Service Manager position closes on monday and well start interviews on that as well. We h