Crisis and we would periodically would go back to my hometown of yam hill and we saw humanitarian crisis unfolding there, you know, a quarter of the kids who were on my old number 6 school bus are now gone from drugs and alcohol and suicide and sheryl and i tried to process that. The kids who got on the bus right after me were nathan, sister regina, smart talented kids. Farland died of drug and alcohol abuse, zeland died in house fire. Regina died from hepatitis of drug abuse. We wondered if this is about my bus, about yam hill and we realized this is a National Problem that we have despair, Life Expectancy is falling or was falling for 3 years in a row for america and that yamhill and my old was with pain across america. So you saw this through the lens of returning home and i think it almost could have been titled School Bus Number 6. So many stories drawn from the friends you had there and expanding from there and sheryl you grew up in manhattan, upper west side, i believe, its a wh
Come from a small rural town in oregon. I just ponder how, in your professional career is your traveling the world you are living in a different environment completely and you have reported on World Affairs from all kinds of Different Directions and some of the worst tragedies on the planet but you chose to really focus on a small town in oregon, why . Well, we were running around covering a humanitarian crisis and then we would periodically go back to my beloved hometown of yamhill where my mom is still on the family farm. And we saw humanitarian hope all the better. A quarter of the kids that were on my number six schoolbus are now gone from drugs, alcohol and suicide and sheryl and i tried to process that. The kids who got on the bus right after me were and then sister regina, smart, talented kids died of drug and alcohol of, died in a house fire when he was passed out death, regina tynan from hepatitis from injectable drug use. Keeling survived only because 13 years and so for a wh
Committee will come to order. Let me think our witness for your patience. We are now ready to proceed under the five minute rule and i will give myself five minutes to begin the question phase of the hearing. Over the last year, has taken a number of actions to reduce the ability of fha borrowers to utilize down payment assistance programs from governments and cities. To purchase a home and has indicated that it intends to issue a proposed rule affecting down payment assistance in january. Secretary carson testified before this committee in june that he was not familiar with the hud data that identifies which Government Entity is providing down payment assistance and it appears that hud cannot determine which Government Programs are providing down payment assistance for any fha loan. Which is critical before attempting to issue new regulations of government down payment assistance programs. Will you commit to not moving forward any rulemaking or other Administrative Changes related to
Well see you then, lauren, thank you. Now to breaking news in Montgomery County. Seven people were hurt in a crash near georgetown prep. This all unfolded about an hour ago. Take a look at these images from c pper 4. Police say a pickup truck hauling a trailer crashed into several vehicles at georgetown preps entrance. You can see here a utility pole was also damaged. Right now Montgomery County police have closed southbound rockville pike, northbound still has some lanes getting by. Also breaking right now, police in dallasnre working o an active shooter situation. According to our nbc stion there, the suspected shooter is in custody. No word on injuries right now. Is is a fluid situation near the federal courthouse in downtown dallas. Were also hearing that police are searching for a possible device. You can see a bomb robot there in this video, and we will update you on the situation as soon as we learn more information. Also developing this morning, the u. S. Supreme court sent a w
At target. I know. You know they were buying all the fathers day cards and that good stuff. Happy fathers day. Thank you very much, molette. Thank you for being here on this fathers day. Happy fathers day to the dads out there. Im adam tuss. Im molette green in for Meagan Fitzgerald this morning. I lauryn, brought him his mic and his ifb box as a gift for fathers day. How nice is that . A you so sweet. You know what lauryn got for me . A bad joke, bm sure. Ng it on. I do have a couple of jokes. I did tell a joke to aaron yesterday. You werent here, adam, you issed it. That will be a teaser for later on in the show. Exactly right. Other tease for today, we have some sunshine out there as that sun is coming up at 5 42. So not too long ago. About 20 minutes ago. But now we arelooking at some rain headed our way. Its a little on the humid side out there. That humidity is going to increa through the day. Lets take a look outside right now. So looks can be deceiving. We have got some sunshin