Bills. The committee on health education, labor and pensions will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now, and she has asked me to proceed with a hearing because we have six excellent witnesses, and we want to make sure that we hear from each of you. And we want to senator tuesday have a chance to ask questions of each of you. And so patty should arrive about 10 00. When she comes while well interrupt and let her make her Opening Statement and then well resume the hearing. Morning, senator murphy. Nearly a year ago dr. Brent james from the National Academies testified before Senate Health committee with a startling statistic. Up to one half of what the American People spend on Health Care May be unnecessary. Let me repeat that. Up to half of the 3. 5 trillion the United States collectively spend on health care in 2017 was unnecessary according to dr. James, and many of the other witnesses at our hearings agreed with that. Thats 1. 8 trillion, three times as muc
The committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now and she has asked me to proceed with the hearing because we have six excellent witnesses and we want to make sure that we hear from each of you, and we want the senators to have a chance to ask questions of each of you. So patty should arrive about 10 00. When she comes, why, well interrupt and let her make her Opening Statement and then we will resume the hearing. Good morning, senator murphy. Nearly a year ago dr. Brent james from the National Academies testified before our Senate Health committee with a startling statistic. Up to onehalf of what the American People spend on Health Care May be unnecessary. Let me repeat that. Up to half of the 3. 5 trillion the United States collectively spent on health care in 2017 was unnecessary according to dr. James, and many of the other witnesses at our hearings agreed with that. Thats 1. 8 trillion, three times as much
And the s p 500 spell fresh peaks. And truce talks hanging in the balance as Vice President Kamala Harris calls for a sixweek halt to fighting among the humanitarian catastrophe in gaza. Given the immense scale of suffering in gaza, there member an immediate ceasefire. And delivery hero driving gains on the stoxx 600 after the food Company Announces a fresh Financing Deal to clean up its balance sheet. Welcome to your monday edition of street signs. As we kickoff what could be a very busy week indeed. Lets kick things off for you with chinas socalled two sessions today with the annual meeting. The spokesperson for the npc saying the government will make new laws to deepen economic re reform while focusing on technology advances. Saying there are no tech hurdles that cant be tackled. Sam baddas filed this report. Reporter chinas biggest session has gotten under way with the cppcc today. This is a largely ceremonial on body which advises the government on social issues. It is not typical
Hello everyone. Thank you for being here tonight at books books we have a very special evening planned and i just want to do a little housekeeping to remind you to please turn off your cell phone during the presentation and let you know immediately following the presentation we will have a reception and book signing in the room so go through the courtyard not to interrupt the flow of the cafe please do so. Tonight we have laura widesmunoz and the making of a dream her amazing book she will tell you more about but this is called a mustread to understand the new america. But introduced him into the americas correspondent covering latin america for 25 years with a mexico series 80. Chief 1996 and then through 1999 and then in miami where he also covered florida and the u. S. Southeast through 2013. Lets welcome tim and have a great evening. [applause] it is always a delight to come to books books and present these very important books such as the one we will hear so long that you from in
The Fremont Police department with how this sophisticated operation worked. Reporter they were definitely sophisticated. Their alleged crime activity spanned all the way to asia and more than 2,000 stolen goods recovered. It was sophisticated. It was organized. We estimate the loss to be around 2 million. Theyre described as a multimillion Dollar International burglary ring whose criminal activity spanned every bay area county with a final destination of vietnam. We had street level people actually breaking into vehicles. The groups demise began late last year after a dramatic spike into car break ins. It led them to several suspects at a Storage Facility filled with an estimated 1 million worth of stolen electronics. Thats what kicked off the investigation. Police uncovered what they now believed to be an international scheme. They would break into cars, steal Electronic Devices then sell them to a middle man between thieves. They would them then sell the stolen goods to people who wo